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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 0, "body": "\n\nIn the series _Ronin Warriors_ (or, _Yoroiden Samurai Troopers_ ), the main\ncharacter and red ~~Power Ranger~~ armored team lead, Ryo, eventually gets an\narmor upgrade.\n\nIn similar Sentai team shows like Sailor Moon, the supporting teammates also\nget \"power ups\" during the course of the show's run. Does this happen in any\ncontinuity of the Ronin Warriors franchise at all?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-13T16:53:27.400", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "342", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-14T12:08:59.170", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-14T12:08:59.170", "last_editor_user_id": "18431", "owner_user_id": null, "post_type": "question", "score": 11, "tags": [ "ronin-warriors" ], "title": "Do the other Ronin Warriors receive power upgrades?", "view_count": 306 }

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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nI can kind of handwave or fanwank the origin of things like the exasperated\nfaceplant or the vein popping out when a character is comedic-angry, and even\nthe trope of Japanese flag fans coming out when people want to cheer on their\ncomrades, but how did the sweatdrop come to characterize the feeling of sort\nof embarrassed contrition?\n\n\n\nI can't come up with anything logical just based on speculation. Is this an\noutgrowth of the [_manzai_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzai) tradition,\nwith the\n[_tsukkomi_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_owarai_terms#tsukkomi)\nand [_boke_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_owarai_terms#boke)\ncharacters?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-13T16:57:26.517", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "343", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-18T01:01:09.370", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-13T19:30:56.243", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": null, "post_type": "question", "score": 36, "tags": [ "tropes", "anime-history" ], "title": "How did the sweatdrop originate?", "view_count": 5715 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThere doesn't seem to be any \"official\" announcement for that, but I think\nit's safe to say that since Manga and Anime make heavy use of symbols to re-\ncreate a concept or a situation, the sweatdrop functions the same way. In\nother words **sweatdrop** (see image below) is a reference to the fact that\nwhen people feel uneasy or feel similar emotions, they usually get sweaty. You\ndon't get _that_ sweaty in real life, but again, they're symbols.\n\nMore symbols that might prove this point:\n\n * The **cruciform popping veins** are a clear reference to the veins that pop out and can be seen pulsating when you're _nervous_ or you're about to lose it.\n\n\n[Source](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Anirage-\nalternate.svg/200px-Anirage-alternate.svg.png)\n\n * The **red cheeks** when you're embarrassed (blood flowing), the **red nose** when you're drunk (yes, nose has that tendency sometimes when you get drunk).\n\n * The **saliva drop** when you're hungry. Your mouth does get watery in that situation, because it anticipates the food you're about to eat. Mastication is the first stage of digestion.\n\n * The eyes shaped like **>. <** that indicate nervousness or excitement. (I bet everybody can picture this face expression).\n\nAnd so on. There is more (as a start) on the Wikipedia page for [Manga\nIconography](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga_iconography).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-13T18:17:40.267", "id": "360", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-13T18:17:40.267", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15", "parent_id": "343", "post_type": "answer", "score": 30 }, { "body": "\n\nI always like to know WHEN and WHERE something originated before answering\nhow.\n\nThat said, I asked this very same question in the late 90's and was told that\nit came from older video games with characters that were so small in size that\nthey couldn't do any facial expressions with them.\n\nIt sounded reasonable to me, because I can't think of any animes in the 80's\nusing this trope, but doing a little bit of backtracking I can't find any\nearly video games using sweat drops either.\n\nI do know the September 1995 Sailormoon RPG has it, but that's too now\ncompared to manga and anime examples.\n\nThe oldest anime example I now know of is (yet again) Sailormoon, right off\nthe bat from the first episode, March 1992.\n\nThe oldest manga example is Sailor V, right from the start again, thus making\nthis trope start back at at least August 1991.\n\nHowever, the vein popping trope, also present in Sailor V 2nd volume is older,\nbeing at least as old as Super Mario World which was released in November\n1990.\n\nSo there might be even older examples than this. If anyone can state older\nexamples, please do so.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-01-17T15:49:27.217", "id": "29043", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-18T01:01:09.370", "last_edit_date": "2016-01-18T01:01:09.370", "last_editor_user_id": "20499", "owner_user_id": "20498", "parent_id": "343", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "359", "answer_count": 4, "body": "\n\nIn the second season of _Darker than Black_ ( _Darker than Black: Ryuusei no\nGemini_ ), Hei mysteriously...\n\n> ...loses his contractor powers somewhere in the middle of the season.\n\nIn the beginning of the anime we can clearly see that...\n\n> ...Hei still has his contractor powers, since he uses them in a fight in\n> episode 2.\n\nHowever, in later episodes it is revealed by some of the characters that...\n\n> ...Hei's powers are completely lost, and he is but an ordinary human (well,\n> a well-trained human, at least).\n\nSo what was the reason for...\n\n> ...Hei losing all of his contractor power out of sudden, and without being\n> noticed?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-13T17:55:28.053", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "355", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-28T03:16:41.840", "last_edit_date": "2018-02-28T03:15:34.553", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "111", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "darker-than-black" ], "title": "In \"Darker than Black: Ryuusei no Gemini\", what happens to Hei's powers?", "view_count": 19800 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIf you notice that at the beginning of \"Gemini of the Meteor\" season BK-201's\nstar vanishes, and he loses his powers. At the end of the season,\n\n> BK-201's star lighting up in the sky.\n\nEach \"False Star\" has a corresponding Contractor, and they resonate when their\nContractor's power is being used. As such I think it's safe to conclude the he\nhas his powers back.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-13T18:12:54.133", "id": "359", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-13T18:12:54.133", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "355", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to [Yahoo!\nAnswers](http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111015120036AAoyI2T),\nHei lost his powers because of the trap that ensnared Hei in episode two. From\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Darker_than_Black_episodes):\n\n> Hei and Suō are caught in a trap after Hei seemingly kills August 7 by\n> electrocuting the British Contractor. Later on, Misaki Kirihara is shown\n> looking through a telescope which is directed towards the star of BK-201.\n> The star fades away.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T11:42:23.593", "id": "416", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-28T03:16:41.840", "last_edit_date": "2018-02-28T03:16:41.840", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "97", "parent_id": "355", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nYes, he will regain his powers. It's possible.\n\nIn the Hell's Gate you can find what you lost, so he can get his powers back.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-10-29T20:05:54.290", "id": "37092", "last_activity_date": "2016-10-29T21:06:57.613", "last_edit_date": "2016-10-29T21:06:57.613", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "28989", "parent_id": "355", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI think BK-201's star in the end of 2nd season means someone with Hei's power\nappeared. I think a new Contractor which is Hei's copies appeared. In the end,\nthere is a new syndicate, a new Yin, new Contractors... why not a new Hei?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-02-28T01:38:04.040", "id": "44882", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-28T03:09:20.520", "last_edit_date": "2018-02-28T03:09:20.520", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "38354", "parent_id": "355", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nEven though I haven't read the end of the manga very carefully, I did notice\nthat a lot of the details were changed, or even omitted completely, in the end\nof the anime.\n\nI don't understand why the end was changed in the anime. What is the reason\nbehind the rather drastic differences?\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-13T17:56:35.480", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "356", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-06T06:12:44.593", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-06T06:12:44.593", "last_editor_user_id": "16253", "owner_user_id": "85", "post_type": "question", "score": 12, "tags": [ "death-note" ], "title": "Why is the ending of Death Note in the anime so different from the manga?", "view_count": 8336 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAs a few people said in the comments, it appears to be artistic license.\n\nI'll mention first that, like [@Deidara-\nsenpai](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/99/deidara-senpai) pointed out,\nthere are some [general reasons](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/2643/274)\nwhy an anime can differ from the manga. However, in the case of _Death Note_ ,\nthere appear to be some unique specifics to their changes as well.\n\nThe anime director of _Death Note_ partook in an interview in November 2007\nfor an issue of _Newtype USA_. (I don't have a link to an online version of\nthis, I'm afraid.) He speaks a bit on why he made the creative decisions he\ndid. [From\nWikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Note#Anime_adaptation):\n\n> Tetsuro Araki, the director, said that he wished to convey aspects that\n> \"made the series interesting\" instead of simply \"focusing on morals or the\n> concept of justice.\" Toshiki Inoue, the series organizer, agreed with Araki\n> and added that, in anime adaptations, there is a lot of importance in\n> highlighting the aspects that are \"interesting in the original.\"\n\nThey go on to speak about a few specifics, such as Light's presence in the\nanime versus in the manga, but in general they also speak about the logistics\nof converting the manga into an anime, which is a challenge itself:\n\n> Inoue noted that, to best incorporate the manga's plot into the anime, he\n> \"tweak[ed] the chronology a bit\" and incorporated flashbacks that appear\n> after the openings of the episodes; he said this revealed the desired\n> tensions. Araki said that, because in an anime the viewer cannot \"turn back\n> pages\" in the manner that a manga reader can, the anime staff ensured that\n> the show clarified details. Inoue added that the staff did not want to get\n> involved with every single detail, so the staff selected elements to\n> emphasize. Due to the complexity of the original manga, he described the\n> process as \"definitely delicate and a great challenge.\" Inoue admitted that\n> he placed more instructions and notes in the script than usual. Araki added\n> that because of the importance of otherwise trivial details, the notes\n> became crucial to the development of the series.\n\nAs you can see, the director and organizer of the series seemed to agree that\na slightly different feel was needed in the anime, so artistic license was\ntaken. Unfortunately, they don't go into huge detail over the specific changes\n(except for Light's own characteristics), and particularly not over the\nending. I can only surmise that it was altered to achieve the feel they were\ngenerally looking for in the anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-04T22:12:44.617", "id": "2788", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-04T22:12:44.617", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "356", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "365", "answer_count": 5, "body": "\n\nI always had this doubt about whether Dragon Ball GT was an official,\ncanonical sequel of Dragon Ball Z or not. I know that Akira Toriyama helped in\nthe development, but did he write any of it?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-13T20:07:42.303", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "361", "last_activity_date": "2018-06-05T17:33:28.247", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-29T05:55:14.690", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "8", "post_type": "question", "score": 11, "tags": [ "anime-production", "dragon-ball-gt" ], "title": "How involved was Akira Toriyama in the production of Dragon Ball GT?", "view_count": 31936 }

[ { "body": "\n\nDragon Ball GT was produced by [Toei\nAnimation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toei_Animation), one of the anime\ncompanies used to produce Dragon Ball Z.\n\nAkira Toriyama did not write any of the episodes though, that's true. They're\nall fillers.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-13T20:16:46.737", "id": "363", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-13T20:20:56.403", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-13T20:20:56.403", "last_editor_user_id": "104", "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "361", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nDragon Ball GT was produced by the same companies as Dragon Ball Z, so\ntechnically it can be considered a sequel.\n\nHowever, there is one 'but': this is more of an OVA than an adaption of the\nmanga; in fact, Dragon Ball GT was never a manga. So in anime terms: yes,\nDragon Ball GT is the official sequel, but not in manga terms.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-13T20:17:17.377", "id": "364", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-13T20:17:17.377", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "134", "parent_id": "361", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nDragonball GT was not made by fans. It was made by Toei Animation with\ninvolvement from Akira Toriyama. According to\n[this](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_GT) wiki, his involvement\nis outlined as:\n\n> Akira Toriyama is credited as author in the ending credits of Dragon Ball\n> GT; he oversaw the series' production, this was the same process that was\n> used during the production of the anime series Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball\n> Z. He drew a rough design for the GT logo, he designed the GT appearance of\n> the series main cast, and he designed the appearances of Giru and the GT\n> spaceship used in the Black Star Dragon Ball Saga. He also drew at least\n> three color pictures of Goku, Pan, and Trunks adventuring on various planets\n> (Monmaasu, Rudeeze, and an area in Hell).\n>\n> Toriyama seems to have positive feelings towards his works' continuation, as\n> he drew his own version of Super Saiyan 4 Goku (which was originally\n> designed by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru) exclusively for the Dragon Box GT.\n> Characters and events from GT have also been included in more recent Dragon\n> Ball video games.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-13T20:18:38.717", "id": "365", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-13T20:18:38.717", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "25", "parent_id": "361", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nDragon Ball GT was done by Toei Animation and Akira Toriyama was involved with\nthe drawings of the main characters (Goku, Trunks, Pan, Vegeta, Bulma, Gohan,\nChi Chi, etc), the planets (Monmaasu, Rudeeze, Planet M2), and even the\nspaceship. Even though the GT series was non canon, and its not in the manga.\nI still think the GT series did okay (even though it has some flaws here and\nthere), and of course its a sequel to Dragon Ball Z. Now we are on Dragon Ball\nSuper, and I just have to wonder if the DBS series is going to go pass the end\nof DBZ (age 784), and go straight to the GT timeline (age 785-790).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-08-04T05:22:15.580", "id": "35569", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-04T05:22:15.580", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27524", "parent_id": "361", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAkira toriyama never said dbgt was non cannon remember besides with all the\nuniverses and timelines dbgt could be considered as a path the z fighters\ncould end up on by making certain choices therefore creating an alternate\ntimeline and a new universe the same with db super it is a result of another\ntimeline created by the choices of the z fighters. The choices they make\neffect the timeline like when trunks came back in time and made an alternate\ntimeline his still exists as does theirs so there are 3 alternate futures\ntrunk's future,the dbgt future,as well as the db super furure. Besides will\nall these movies and television series and manga and comics idk who can tell\nwhat the heck is cannon anyway just say it's an alternate future that exists\nin an alternate timeline\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-18T02:25:28.567", "id": "37913", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-18T02:25:28.567", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29816", "parent_id": "361", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "369", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nWhat actually happened in the last episode of the _Neon Genesis Evangelion_ TV\nseries? It is episode 26, entitled [\"Take care of\nyourself\"](http://evangelion.wikia.com/wiki/Episode:26)?\n\nI have read different wikis about the plot of the episode, but I still don't\nunderstand it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-13T20:42:48.240", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "366", "last_activity_date": "2018-11-27T13:41:16.840", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-06T05:25:20.893", "last_editor_user_id": "293", "owner_user_id": "8", "post_type": "question", "score": 14, "tags": [ "neon-genesis-evangelion" ], "title": "What happened in the final episode of the Evangelion TV series, titled \"Take care of yourself\"?", "view_count": 5122 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's a little disguised, but the overall meaning is not too complicated.\n\n> Thought the whole series, Shinji was struggling, because he has made a shell\n> to cover himself, not to expose his feelings and fears. Shinji had (as we\n> all do, probably) a lot of things that were bothering him inside: the\n> relationship with his father, the desire to find a place in this world, and\n> so on and so forth, questions like \"who am I?\", \"what am I supposed to be?\",\n> \"what do I want to become?\", \"how other people see me?\". Finally, Shinji\n> views the world, and himself, in thge comedic high school setting with other\n> characters talking to him, trying to help him answer all those questions.\n> It's something like a visit to a psychotherapist, where the role of the\n> psychotherapist is taken by all the people he knew. Finally, they help him\n> to destroy his shell. He realizes his self-worth. He realizes that he _can_\n> live the life without Eva, and make it worth living. He manages to acquire\n> the will to live, which he was lacking before.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-13T21:41:11.457", "id": "369", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-13T21:41:11.457", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "366", "post_type": "answer", "score": 16 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Human Instrumentality Project was occurring. As evidenced by the tel-op in\nEpisode 25 stating \"And then...The instrumentality of mankind begins\" after\nGendo fetches Rei and other lines. Another example is an Episode 26 tel-op\nthat reads \"In other words, the instrumentality of souls was still ongoing\".\n\nThere's a lot of existentialism presented in the final two episodes.\n\nBecause of similar \"real world\" scenes in both (Misato and Ritsuko dead in\nEpisode 25, Eva-02 under the lake), some fans take the final 2 episodes as\nbeing a variation of what's occurring (e.g. metaphysical events vs in the real\nworld) during the The End of Evangelion.\n\nRegardless of your opinions on how both endings fit, what's happening in the\nfinal episode is Shinji's personal experiences of Instrumentality and how he\nviews himself (and how the cast views him) as an individual; Shinji struggling\nto find his own self worth and reasons for living. The alternate reality\nsequence near the ending is an example of another possible reality, something\nto help Shinji realize he can find self-worth in the real world without\nclinging onto Eva/his identity as an Eva pilot.\n\nIf you have a copy of the Platinum (Renewal in Japan) release of NGE, the\ntranslations should be pretty clear on what exactly is happening.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-23T21:12:45.633", "id": "8865", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-23T21:12:45.633", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4628", "parent_id": "366", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "852", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI have read the manga and I know that the Baskervilles are the supporters of\nGlen Baskerville, but what is their real job? Is it to protect the abyss or to\nmake the abyss come to the earth and destroy it so they can find the core of\nthe abyss?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-13T20:55:33.650", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "367", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-04T05:09:55.933", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-04T05:09:55.933", "last_editor_user_id": "88", "owner_user_id": "8", "post_type": "question", "score": 2, "tags": [ "pandora-hearts" ], "title": "What's the job or purpose of the family of The BaskerVilles in Pandora Hearts?", "view_count": 107 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe Baskervilles hold chains and one of the doors to the Abyss. According to\nthe Pandora Hearts wikia:\n\n> It is implied that the Abyss surrounds the world, as if the chains holding\n> the world together are destroyed, the world will fall into the Abyss.\n\nAdditionally:\n\n> Chains can leave the Abyss by contracting with humans and Baskervilles\n\nLastly:\n\n> [Levi] continued to explain that among the Baskervilles' many duties to\n> maintain a harmony within the Abyss, was protecting the Chains to prevent\n> their destruction.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-31T05:04:20.703", "id": "852", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-31T05:04:20.703", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "367", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "402", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI've seen the second season so let's start from there. That's when it gets\ncomplicated.\n\nWhich episode came before which, and when?\n\nI know there is a OVA called _xxxHolic Shunmuki_ but it didn't interest me in\nparticular. I also saw that there is a season called _xxxHolic ROU_ but I did\nnot understand what episodes it has (at the moment) or how many seasons are\nthere in general.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-13T21:01:51.670", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "368", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-06T16:10:48.960", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-06T16:10:48.960", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "85", "post_type": "question", "score": 2, "tags": [ "xxxholic" ], "title": "What is the chronological order of the episodes of xxxHolic?", "view_count": 39311 }

[ { "body": "\n\n 1. 1st Season, 24 episodes\n 2. 2nd Season (Kei), 13 episodes \n * Movie \"A Midsummer Night's Dream\", This probably takes place somewhere during the 2nd season (60 minutes, essentially a long episode)\n 3. OVA Shunmuki, 2 episodes, also crossover with Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE\n 4. OVA Ro, 2 episodes, occurs a significant amount of time after Shunmuki.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T04:29:45.837", "id": "402", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-14T04:29:45.837", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "368", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "371", "answer_count": 4, "body": "\n\nWhen I watched The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya on DVD, the episodes were\nshown out of order. It was somewhat funny, since in the previews, Haruhi and\nKyon argue about which episode number comes next, but other than that, I\ndidn't see the point of it. It didn't have interwoven plot threads, or any in-\nuniverse reason to be shown out of order. It looks like in other releases, the\nepisodes were arranged in chronological order, so it must not have been\nessential to the viewing of the series.\n\nPut simply: **Why did The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya have a version that\nwas not in chronological order?**\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-13T21:44:29.967", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "370", "last_activity_date": "2019-10-28T08:26:01.317", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-13T22:08:49.620", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "61", "post_type": "question", "score": 34, "tags": [ "haruhi-suzumiya" ], "title": "Why was The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya broadcast out of sequence?", "view_count": 19899 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAs far as I can tell (and admittedly this is a bit speculative), the reason\nwas to spread out the plot to avoid having the second half be entirely\nepisodic. The creators knew that the main plot (episodes 1-6 in chronological\norder) would not take a full season (14 episodes), but the next major\nstoryline was not for a while, so they had to insert some episodic content.\nHowever, these 6 episodes don't leave much room for breaks, and equally\nimportantly they would rather use canon content from the light novels than\nmake up their own.\n\nSo the creators used content from future light novels. This let them\nintersperse the plot with the episodic material. The 6 plot-related episodes\nare all in order among themselves, and the others are placed in whatever order\nthe director thought was best (e.g. in terms of character development).\n\nI'm looking for something official to confirm this, but I've had no luck so\nfar. Barring that, this seems to be at least the prevailing opinion of most\npeople on the internet.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-13T22:05:40.350", "id": "371", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-13T22:05:40.350", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "370", "post_type": "answer", "score": 19 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to\n[asosbrigade.com](http://web.archive.org/web/20080107085851/http://asosbrigade.com/oplet01/),\nthe [ASOS Brigade site\nrun](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-12-25/bandai-entertainment-\nupdates-haruhi-suzumiya-site) by Bandai:\n\n> The Regular Edition DVDs contain the exact same episode order as released in\n> Japan on the R2 DVDs. [...] Due to pre-existing contractual obligations, the\n> regular edition MUST contain the R2 DVD ordering of episodes. This was set\n> in stone, there were no exceptions. [...] After deeply intense negotiations\n> to try and please the existing fan-base, we are able to release a Special\n> Bonus DVD in the TV Broadcast order as an extra.\n\nAccording to a [DVD 1 review](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/the-\nmelancholy-of-haruhi-suzumiya/dvd-1) by ANN (May 31st, 2007):\n\n> Another oddity came in the fourth broadcast episode, which originally jumped\n> ahead to episode 7. This DVD release does not do this, however, instead\n> opting to release the episodes in chronological rather than the scrambled\n> broadcast order\n\nAccording to the [episodes list on\nANN](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6430&page=25),\nthe broadcast order against chronological order is:\n\n[code]\n\n Broadcast 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14\n Chronological 11 1 2 7 3 9 8 10 14 4 13 12 5 6\n \n[/code]\n\nThis order is reported in the [episodes list on\nWikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Melancholy_of_Haruhi_Suzumiya_episodes)\nas well, with DVD release following the chronological order with the only\nexception being the first episode.\n\nasosbrigade.com reports the chronological order (C) as Haruhi's order, and the\nbroadcast, \"scrambled\" order as Kyon's order (B). The Regular Edition DVD\norder is Haruhi's order, with the exception of the first episode.\n\nRegular edition was and _ever_ was in the right order because of \"contractual\nobligation\": [Region 2](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code) DVD\n(Japan) must apparently have the same content of [Region\n1](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code) DVD (USA). Bandai was\npressured by fans to release the \"scrambled\" version.\n\nWhy did they have to, back in 2006-2007? From here on, speculations: because\nfanbase watched the fansubbed version from the broadcast (2006-04-02 ~\n2006-07-02) and ask for that order. I cannot find evidence of requests by fans\nto do so, so we have to trust Bandai's words in the meanwhile.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-13T23:04:35.887", "id": "387", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-25T05:16:40.760", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-25T05:16:40.760", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "98", "parent_id": "370", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nGood question!\n\nAs far as I can tell, the broadcast was released in that order to improve the\nflow of the season's episodes, best establish the relationship between Haruhi\nand Kyon, and to best appeal to Haruhi's existing fanbase. This ties in with\nLogan M's entirely correct point about spreading out the plot.\n\nThe broadcast begins with _The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina_ , which I believe\nwas a fan-favorite storyline, to both satisfy fans and establish the weirdness\nof the Haruhi universe. The broadcast then leaps backwards in time to begin\nthe story proper.\n\nThe rest of the episodes build the relationship between Haruhi and Kyon,\nculminating in Kyon's realization about Haruhi's first act of selflessness,\njust after the school festival.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T06:23:06.293", "id": "461", "last_activity_date": "2018-04-02T15:21:09.650", "last_edit_date": "2018-04-02T15:21:09.650", "last_editor_user_id": "172", "owner_user_id": "172", "parent_id": "370", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom a writer's standpoint, showing the episodes in the order in which they\noriginally aired was almost certainly a move to improve the flow of the story.\nIf you read the books, although the idea behind Vol. 1 is fascinating, it's\nmostly the protagonist talking to various characters who explain the situation\nto him, and there's only one real action scene (or possibly two). Vol. 2 has\nlots of action, since it's made up of short stories, but no real overarching\nplot. By breaking up both volumes and scrambling them, they made the\noverarching plot of Vol. 1 cover the whole season, while using the short\nstories in Vol. 2 to provide the \"action\" episodes that Vol. 1 was lacking,\nand the discrepancies between the volumes (Why does that one character wear\nglasses in Vol. 1 but not in Vol. 2? Where did that other character go? etc.)\nhelped to keep audiences interested and guessing.\n\nIn my opinion, putting the movie first was a genius move: It actually tells\nyou a whole lot about the main story and the principal characters, but there's\nno way to know that or understand how deeply ironic it is until Yuki starts\nexplaining the actual world a few episodes later. If the writers had put it\nnear the end of the anime, the brilliant penny-drop moment when you realize\nthat all the crazy stuff that you snorted at in the movie is actually\nhappening in real life (well, sort of) wouldn't have existed.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-10-28T08:26:01.317", "id": "55709", "last_activity_date": "2019-10-28T08:26:01.317", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "50539", "parent_id": "370", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "396", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nThe title really says it all. The basset hound is almost always there in\nOshii's signature long musical interludes (Ghost in the Shell I & II, Patlabor\nII ... etc). Does the basset hound have a special meaning to Oshii?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-13T23:38:25.877", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "392", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-14T01:54:33.430", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "66", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "mamoru-oshii" ], "title": "Why does Mamoru Oshii include a basset hound in his movies?", "view_count": 2873 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIn a [\"Japanorama\" interview with Jonathan\nRoss](http://www.animeuknews.net/news/832/jonathan-ross-tv-interview-with-\nmamoru-oshii) he mentions that he thinks that he's a reincarnated basset\nhound. He's got an affinity for that particular breed of dog so he uses it a\nlot in his movies.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T01:54:33.430", "id": "396", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-14T01:54:33.430", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "392", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2531", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn the final episode of _Nadia of the Blue Water_ , Captain Nemo reveals to\nGargoyle that there are no more Atlanteans, and that he (Nemo) is the last\none. But Nemo has a daughter; Nadia, and he may or may not have made Electra\npregnant. So how can he be the last of the Atlanteans?\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-13T23:47:03.630", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "393", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-13T22:25:15.507", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-14T17:44:39.357", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "66", "post_type": "question", "score": 10, "tags": [ "nadia-the-secret-of-blue-water" ], "title": "Why does Nemo call himself the last of the Atlanteans?", "view_count": 274 }

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom what I can tell, you are correct in saying that Nemo is technically not\nthe last of the Atlantians. The most logical reason that I can think of for\nhim saying it is that he was the last person to grow up and experience the\nAtlantian traditions and society. Because Nadia grew up as an orphan who\ndidn't know her background, she didn't have experience with that society. The\nsociety was gone, so Nemo was the last person who would experience that\nsociety.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-16T05:29:20.070", "id": "2531", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-16T05:29:20.070", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "393", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nI think Nemo said that because all the people of Tartessos had become humans\nfor centuries (mix). The last \"pure\" Atlanteans were Elisis and his wife (and\nthus their two children). So everyone else in the city (including Gargoyle and\nElectra) were 99% human. Even if he had been raised AS an Atlantean (as he\nsaid), Gargoyle couldn't get another DNA than his... He didn't know (who did,\nexcept Nemo ???)... Poor one...\n\n\"Proof\" : Nadia and Jean' son, Nemo and Electra's son.\n\nRegards !\n\nNemesis.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-13T22:25:15.507", "id": "14440", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-13T22:25:15.507", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "393", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "408", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nWell, the question says it all. I'm really interested in the idea of cross-\novers in anime. I want to know which particular company or manga group artists\nstarted the idea of cross-overs and what particular anime(s) showed cross-\novers (in anime history) and the characters involved in it.\n\nAs I have searched from Wikipedia:\n\n> A fictional crossover (short: crossover) is the placement of two or more\n> otherwise discrete fictional characters, settings, or universes into the\n> context of a single story. They can arise from legal agreements between the\n> relevant copyright holders, unauthorized efforts by fans, or even amid\n> common corporate ownership.\n\nI think that defines cross-overs in anime as well 'cause anime and manga\nstories are mostly fictional, hence, may work the same way in the anime\nindustry. Correct me if I'm wrong but the general idea I have about it is that\nthey can only do cross-overs if they (anime characters and anime) are in the\nsame company or copyright (e.g. Clamp).\n\nSo far, most of Clamp animes did cross-overs like the cross-over of the\ncharacters of Cardcaptor Sakura, Chobits, Clamp School Detectives (same names\nand faces but with different roles) to Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle. Another is\nthe popular cross-over of characters and even story of Tsubasa Reservoir\nChronicle, XXXHolic, Kobato and several Clamp-made animes (that I might have\nforgot to mention). Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle focuses in the cross-over\nideas since they travel different worlds and meet the same people they met\nfrom the previous world they've been yet with different attitude and roles.\n\nAnother example I know is the cross-over of Lupin III (along Fujiko and\nothers) in a Detective Conan movie, Lupin III VS Detective Conan. And Conan\nEdogawa's appearance in an episode of Yakitate! Japan (I'm not sure which\nepisode it is). I don't know if Detective Conan, Lupin III and Yakitate! Japan\nare animes from the same company or copyright. Are they?\n\nP.S. I hope this question won't be closed since this will really be\neducational for anime fans out there.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T03:09:30.127", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "399", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-18T07:48:43.587", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-18T07:48:43.587", "last_editor_user_id": "111", "owner_user_id": "88", "post_type": "question", "score": 11, "tags": [ "anime-history", "crossovers" ], "title": "What particular anime first showcased crossovers?", "view_count": 944 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's probably as early as those old Go Nagai shows. There's a couple of movies\nwhere several of his franchises were together. To name a few:\n\n * Mazinger Z Vs. Devilman (1973)\n * Great Mazinger tai Getter Robo (1975)\n * Great Mazinger tai Getter Robo G (1975)\n * Grendizer - Getter Robo G - Great Mazinger Kessen! Daikaijuu (1976)\n * UFO Robo Grendizer tai Great Mazinger (1976)\n\nCrossovers consisting of Devilman, Mazinger Z, Great Mazinger, Getter Robo,\nGetter Robo G, Grendizer, and UFO Robo Grendizer.\n\nAlso, Lupin III is by Monkey Punch and Detective Conan is by Gosho Aoyama. It\nwas a planned collaboration. Both shows are produced by Tokyo Movie.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T08:52:57.307", "id": "408", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-14T08:52:57.307", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "399", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "401", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nThe _Rebuild of Evangelion_ series of films (3 of which have been released\nhere in the USA) are a sort of reboot/retelling of the _Neon Genesis\nEvangelion_ story. As films, they have less time to tell the story and a\nhigher budget, so the style of storytelling is decidedly different from the\noriginal TV series.\n\nThe original _Evangelion_ has been discussed and analyzed in the many years\nsince its release, and I'm curious whether the new films shed any new light on\nthe original work.\n\nHave the _Rebuild_ films revealed new things about the original _Evangelion_\nseries?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T03:54:21.057", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "400", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-06T06:18:37.897", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-06T06:18:37.897", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": null, "post_type": "question", "score": 11, "tags": [ "neon-genesis-evangelion" ], "title": "Have the Rebuild of Evangelion films revealed anything new about the original Evangelion TV series?", "view_count": 1185 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe 3rd movie is so radically different than the original series that there's\nprobably nothing from it that can be applied to the original series. There are\na lot of in-world mechanics that seemed to have changed, for example:\n\n * Angels all explode into blood\n * Souls of the pilot's mothers in their Evas (Eva-05, Eva-02)\n * Impact mechanics are different, the (near) 3rd Impact being generated by Eva-01 and Rei\n\n> \\- 4th Impact initiated by 2 spears and a double Eva-13 \n> \\- There's a new set of Angels called the \"Nemesis series\"\n\nAdditionally, aside from Misato and Shinji's backstories which seem to be\nsimilar enough to the TV series, it's either unclear or outright different\n(Asuka) for the histories of the other characters.\n\nThere could be small arguments made that can be applied to the original TV\nseries. For example, Bardiel is clearly inside the entry plug in the 2nd\nmovie, so one can argue that this can be applied to Bardiel in the TV series\nwhich leaves things more vague. Or in the new movies it's revealed that the\nS-DAT player once belonged to Gendo and Shinji values it because it was his\nfather's. But for the most part, I don't think there's going to be that many\nnew things revealed about the original series thanks to the new movies.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T04:21:39.517", "id": "401", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-14T04:21:39.517", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "400", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "639", "answer_count": 8, "body": "\n\nWith regards to the rest of the anime series, when does Badlands Rumble take\nplace? Does it happen before the show? After? In the middle some time?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T06:25:43.390", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "404", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-07T07:12:15.343", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "118", "post_type": "question", "score": 10, "tags": [ "trigun" ], "title": "When does Badlands Rumble take place?", "view_count": 40854 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's probably in the middle somewhere, because in the anime Vash doesn't meet\nWolfwood for the first time until episode 9.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T06:48:00.197", "id": "405", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-14T06:48:00.197", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "404", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to [this Anime News Network\nreview](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/trigun/badlands-rumble-dub),\nBadlands Rumble is canon and occurs \"between episodes 9 and 11 (after Vash has\nmet Wolfwood, but before Legato closes in)\". See the second paragraph of the\n\"Review\" section. However, as they point out, the movie's style doesn't quite\nmatch that of the anime at that time, given the higher budget, so it may be\nbetter not to worry about when it occurs.\n\nEdit: as atlantiza points out below, the author of this review doesn't cite a\nsource. Until I can find a better source, you should take that with a grain of\nsalt.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-18T00:58:05.887", "id": "639", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-18T01:13:04.363", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-18T01:13:04.363", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "404", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nI'm sure that the movie is a \"Stand-Alone\" film. However if the movie HAD to\nbe watched during the anime, it would probably be sometime after episode 17,\nif you notice Wolfwood calls out to Vash in his nickname \"Needle-noggin\" which\nWolfwood didn't even call Vash that until episode 17 when they were traveling\ntogether.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-15T18:17:30.737", "id": "4377", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-15T18:17:30.737", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2026", "parent_id": "404", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\n@Konami, I think the use of Needle Noggin can either be a chicken or the egg\nsituation, or a nod to the fans of the original series. If someone could fact\ncheck me (or I'll edit once I check myself), I don't recall seeing a hole in\nthe 5th moon during the opening of Badlands Rumble. Also, no one seems to\nmention it, even after finding out who Vash is. Considering that the 16th\nepisode is when he puts it there, it's hard to imagine that Badlands Rumble\ntakes place after the 17th episode.\n\nFor my own use, I decided to say that it takes place immediately following the\n11th episode, which is the last time you see Wolfwood for a bit (fits in with\nGasback finding him in the middle of the desert), and right before the 12th\nepisode, in which Legato sets the main plot in motion. Note; immediately after\nthe 9th episode could also work, as you see Wolfwood hop onto his motorcycle\nand drive off. Either way, I definitely think Badlands Rumble takes place\nprior to the 12th episode.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-09-24T15:24:10.373", "id": "5298", "last_activity_date": "2013-09-24T15:24:10.373", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2438", "parent_id": "404", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nSomewhere in the middle.\n\nPrecise placement of Badlands Rumble in connection to Trigun Anime / Manga is\nchallenging. It seems to slip between a few mile posts in different ways.\n\n_spoilers for anime, manga & the movie follow_\n\nMilepost 1:\n\n> Nicholas D. Wolfwood is there, and he knows everybody, but he's not\n> traveling with Vash. That only happens early on, with the exception of\n> Vash's complete isolation of himself immediately following the 5th moon\n> incident. Wolfwood sticks pretty close to Vash in the later\n> episodes/chapters prior to his death. On the other hand, Wolfwood already\n> considers Vash a friend. He is already making efforts to avoid killing.\n> These behaviors suggest a later date. Especially the tribute he does, of\n> wearing Vash's sunglasses when he thinks Vash is dead.\n\nMilepost 2:\n\n> The insurance girls are present, and they both know Vash. So aside from the\n> flashback, it can't predate the anime or manga. They are not traveling with\n> Vash, though. In fact, they're doing a different assignment for their job.\n> In anime & manga, that pretty much only happens after the 5th moon acquires\n> a huge crater. They are released from following him immediately after the\n> 5th moon incident, though they are again assigned to follow him around after\n> he reappears. They continue pursuing him... in Anime, until the end of the\n> series... in manga, until after Meryl is captured by Gung-ho guns and Vash\n> rescues her. She freaks out though, when she sees his wings the second time,\n> and stays behind with Milly when Vash and Nicholas leave town.\n\nMilepost 3:\n\n> Meryl and Milly say that it's been a long time since they've seen Vash, and\n> express an expectation that he will again become their job in the near\n> future.\n\nMilepost 4:\n\n> There does not appear to be any oversized crater in the 5th moon... which,\n> combined with the aforementioned details, makes placing the chronology of\n> \"Badlands Rumble\" all the more puzzling.\n\nMilepost 5:\n\n> Vash has his body armor and a (unique) red coat on, suggesting he's been in\n> touch with Seeds village (who supply him with those).\n\nSo roughly where in the Trigun chronology would \"Badlands Rumble\" fall?\n\nAll other details considered, my best guess is that the lack of a hole in the\n5th moon might be an oversight. The story almost has to fall after that, from\nthe behavior of Wolfwood and the insurance girls. They seem to know Vash too\nwell for it to come sooner.\n\nMy best guess is almost immediately after Vash leaves Lina would be the most\nlikely placement. If Vash had a back-up coat stashed somewhere, that could\nexplain just about everything.\n\n> From a manga perspective, probably also before Knives' hair started turning\n> black. The things Knives did after that change largely compelled Vash and\n> Nicholas to watch each other's backs constantly, so they'd not be separated\n> leaving Wolfwood available to be hired as someone else's bodyguard. The coat\n> and armor he wears in Badlands Rumble (both movie and manga) is not bullet-\n> proof. The coat and armor he gets from Seeds after the 5th moon incident is,\n> or is nearly so.\n\nIn the manga, I'd imagine the window of opportunity would fall between Trigun\nMaximum Volume 1 chapters 3 & 4.\n\nI'm not sure how much help that is, but there's my few coppers added to the\npile. :)\n\nPS - in an interview with Mr. Nightow, it seems he said it was to go between\nthe 10th and 12th episodes, which is earlier than I had speculated. I found\nthe interview at the following link:\n<http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=110449>\n\nIt's slightly possible they changed their minds on precise placement in\nprocess, though, since the insurance girls were never parted from Vash for a\nlong time prior to the 5th moon incident. _shrugs unknowingly_\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-10-08T06:03:36.263", "id": "5425", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-23T06:42:16.160", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-23T06:42:16.160", "last_editor_user_id": "2513", "owner_user_id": "2513", "parent_id": "404", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nBadlands rumble is an alternate world episode of what the original series may\nhave been its after the main plot in this case BUT the opening where we first\nmeet gas back would be before Vash gives up the red coat if that ever happened\nin this alternate world he may have taken knives to live with the S.E.E.D\nvillagers as well and had an updated coat and arm made for himself and as\nobviously wolf wood is there he never died in this version of Gunsmoke he also\nhas an alternate cross which is actually seen in the manga same with vash's\ngun he gave up the angel arm but may have had our old gunsmith friend Frank\nMarlin make him a new very similar gun for his new life\n\n......end\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-27T23:28:00.737", "id": "6060", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-27T23:28:00.737", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2811", "parent_id": "404", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nHonestly I do not believe this could fit into the chronology of the series\nsimply due to how the characters in the anime change throughout. I watched the\nmovie and the series within 24 hours to try and figure out how they could fit\ntogether and simply could not see it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-27T05:22:35.790", "id": "6590", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-27T06:09:08.543", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-27T06:09:08.543", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "3128", "parent_id": "404", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's always seemed a bit more like an alternate reality to me (spoilers to\nfollow).\n\n> In the anime, Vash can't even seem to bring himself to hurt people until at\n> the very end where he finally decides that injuring Knives is okay\n> considering the alternative but in the movie seems to have no worries\n> shooting Gasback in the leg and shoulder, yet Wolfwood is still alive in\n> this movie, but in the anime dies before Vash is really willing to actually\n> hurt anyone else.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-30T16:34:38.833", "id": "8377", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-07T07:12:15.343", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-07T07:12:15.343", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "4333", "parent_id": "404", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "436", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nMy all time favorite anime is without doubt [Rahxephon](http://anidb.net/perl-\nbin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=14). I've watched both the series and the movie.\nAs I recall correctly the movie can be considered a summary of the series\nexcept for the end. I had a **lot** of trouble understanding the end of the\noriginal series, but on the other hand the movie's ending seemed to be\n'dumbed' down.\n\nIs this an incorrect impression of me, due to the summarizing? Or are there\nindeed differences between both story lines?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T08:52:39.817", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "407", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-06T12:12:50.563", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-06T12:12:50.563", "last_editor_user_id": "2663", "owner_user_id": "123", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "rahxephon" ], "title": "Are there really differences between the story lines of the Rahxephon movie and series?", "view_count": 1417 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe storylines are different.\n\nFrom [Nirai Kanai Online](http://www.kenoki.com/nko/about.html)'s\n[FAQ](http://www.kenoki.com/nko/faq3.html#37):\n\n> the movie is an alternate re-telling of the story. ... In other words, the\n> movie and TV series are not in the same timeline, each one tells its own\n> different version of the story. ... It is _not_ a good idea to use the movie\n> to find answeres _(sic)_ raised in the TV series. They're two different\n> universes.\n\nAs a concrete example:\n\n> In 1998 the twins Ayato and Itsuki were born, they were brought together by\n> Quon's and Shirow's DNA --in essence, Ayato is Maya's nephew.\n\n(in the anime; from [NKO's page on Maya](http://www.kenoki.com/nko/maya.html))\n\n> in the movie Ayato was her (Maya's) real son\n\n(from [the FAQ](http://www.kenoki.com/nko/faq3.html#36) again)\n\nA note about the source: The site is by far the most exhaustive reference for\nRahXephon I've found, but it doesn't cite any sources. It could,\ntheoretically, be nothing more than an elaborate fan wank.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T15:28:28.407", "id": "436", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-14T15:50:47.970", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-14T15:50:47.970", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "407", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "410", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\n_Durarara!!_ Episode 2 tells us about a girl named Kamichika. Near the end of\nthe episode, after...\n\n> ...Celty brings her to the roof to meet Izaya, he lets Kamichika to the roof\n> edge. He tells her that a lot of people have jumped there, trying to\n> persuade her that she's not a special case. After that he leaves, and\n> Kimichika, after some hesitation, decides to jump. However, Celty saves her.\n\nIzaya's motivations here are a little confusing. Even if we forget that he\nhas...\n\n> ...ordered the kidnapping and rescue of a girl just for the fun of it,\n\nhe is being somewhat inconsistent by telling her about all the people who\njumped from the roof. At first, it seems like he's helping Kimichika by\nshowing her that her case is neither special nor too bad, and it is not worth\njumping. It even seems to work at first, when the girl hesitates. However,\nwhen Izaya leaves,\n\n> she still decides to jump off the roof!\n\nWhen Izaya sees Celty helping her, he doesn't act surprised at all, much as if\nhe were expecting this scenario. However, he could neither be sure that\n\n> Kimichika would jump nor that Celty would save her (I think he didn't even\n> know that Celty hadn't left).\n\nSo does this portray him as a person who _knew_ that Celty would save her, and\nbecause of that the girl would once again understand that life's worth living?\n\nBecause otherwise he's portrayed as a man who encourages another person to\ncommit suicide just for the fun of observing it!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T09:36:42.937", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "409", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-23T19:13:07.213", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-12T13:00:25.900", "last_editor_user_id": "16253", "owner_user_id": "111", "post_type": "question", "score": 8, "tags": [ "durarara" ], "title": "What's the meaning and motivation of Izaya's behavior in Episode 2: \"Highly Unpredictable\"?", "view_count": 2270 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI think you're over-thinking this.\n\nIzaya, for lack of a better word, is a troll. Period.\n\n> One who posts a deliberately provocative message to a newsgroup or message\n> board with the intention of causing maximum disruption and argument. (taken\n> from [Urban\n> Dictionary](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=troll))\n\nBut for real-life personal interaction instead of on the internet.\n\nIn fact, he is an amazing troll - as evidenced by his ability to read people's\nminds and predict their actions. Which in turn gives him a great ability to\n\"toy\" with people how ever he pleases.\n\nFor pretty much the entire show his actions are always to provoke responses in\nother people without regard to their well-being (or rather to intentionally\nhurt them in specific ways).\n\n* * *\n\n> he is being somewhat inconsistent when telling her about all the people who\n> jumped from the roof. At first, it seems that his actions are directed\n> toward helping Kimichika by showing her that her case is neither special nor\n> too bad, and it is not worth to jump.\n\nSince he admits to trying with people to see their responses, this type of\ninconsistency could very well be intentional to provoke a reaction from\nKamichika.\n\n> When Izaya sees Celty helping the girl, he doesn't act surprised at all,\n> much as if he was expecting this scenario.\n\nThat's most likely because he knows Celty pretty well and it's common for her\nstick around and save people.\n\n> Kimichika will jump nor that Celty will save her (I think he didn't even\n> know that Celty didn't leave)\n\nAs a troll, it probably doesn't matter to him. But it's very possible that he\nknew Celty will save her and he wanted to see Kimichika's reaction after\nthinking she would die only to be saved.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T10:26:01.587", "id": "410", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-14T10:32:41.140", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-14T10:32:41.140", "last_editor_user_id": "17", "owner_user_id": "17", "parent_id": "409", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nWhat was brought up above is part of it. However, Izaya is a really complex\ncharacter to fully understand, especially in the anime and manga, so if you're\nreally wanting to understand it as best as possible, you ought to read the\nlight novels. The only two people I think you could say he actually 'hates'\nare Heiwajima Shizuo, and a boy by the name of Nakura (or well, rather, he\ndoes in fact for that guy) who went to the same middle school as him. Izaya's\nobservation of humans eventually became an obsession over time, and it's not\nas though he has any actual dislike or need to hurt any person (other than\nthose two), but he never got too close or stayed too far, because he was\ncontent with seeing people in every situation possible.\n\nWhether it be students casually horse-playing or joking around, fighting,\nplaying card games, fondling over animals, obsessing over fandoms, people\ncommitting suicide, or anything, even someone killing another person. He views\nevery human being, and every situation they could possibly be in of equal\nvalue to him. What he said was true, though after you read more into the light\nnovels especially volume 9, he's not some evil villain or anything, but he's\nalso not really the type of guy to save someone who wants to die, because he\ndoesn't want to build any kind of relationship, even though he and Shinra are\nactually friends by a \"human's standard\", rather than Izaya's standard.\n\nThe problem in my opinion with both the anime and manga is that they don't\nreally explain much of Izaya's point of view ('personal' thoughts and\nfeelings) at all on the matters, and cut out quite a bit of important details\nabout the characters and storyline, and more than you might think. At first he\nmay sound like a jerk, but he's really only being brutally honest in regards\nto how he's observed countless people to act judge stuff.\n\nAgain, it's more of an obsession and even out of an extreme habit which became\na part of him. It's not like he himself would go out of his way to actually\nphysically harm someone (except for most assuredly Shizuo, until volume 13 or\nabove I think), nor would he actually pay or order someone to hurt another\nperson, as he just sells the information that they want to them. They do with\nit what they please.\n\nWhenever he said he set up her kidnapping, I believe he was speaking in a more\nfigurative way of speak. In other words he was saying the pieces on the chess\nwould have led to it, because he knows how humans work. He _does_ probably\nhave some serious underlying issues regarding identity and acceptance of his\nown humanity, whether he wants to except it or not. Anyway... I hope I cleared\nthis question up...? By the way, Izaya is one of my favorite characters in the\nNarita!verse and anime/manga/fandom world. He may be a troll, but he can\nreally be interesting (and so cute to me x3) at times.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-11-19T14:22:47.700", "id": "27430", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-31T03:16:09.403", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-31T03:16:09.403", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "19178", "parent_id": "409", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "417", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nOn Afro Samurai, who is Ninja Ninja?\n\nPeople in the series sometimes refer to him as \"Afro's imaginary friend\",\nhowever, I remember times where people other than Afro could see him! (Via a\nscoped rifle, or binoculars).\n\nAlso, there are times where he can interact with physical objects in the real\nworld.\n\nSo who is he? Is he really imaginary? What is the explanation for his\nseemingly \"real\" behavior?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T10:33:27.843", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "411", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-14T09:11:13.553", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "afro-samurai" ], "title": "Who is Ninja Ninja?", "view_count": 12512 }

[ { "body": "\n\nNinja Ninja is the result of conscience and the subconscious of AFRO. \nWhen other people saw him together with AFRO it does not necessarily mean that\nthey actually saw **him** and it was not only AFRO (and you) have seen it. \nAnd of course there is Justice, When he mentioned his imaginary friend they\nmet in Chapter 5. \nMy best guess is that he had just supernatural powers...(let's not forget\nthat). \nProof of this can be seen in Chapter 5, while it is cut is not bleeding to\ndeath like a normal human being, but he dissipated, and at the same time the\nlast of the weakness of his mercy towards his old friend/anyone else\n\n> \"Alright dog, you on your own from here\"\n\nthat's my opinion of course, But I think that it is uncertain for sure.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T11:54:24.050", "id": "417", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-14T11:54:24.050", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "85", "parent_id": "411", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nFirst of all : **Ninja Ninja is the imaginary friend** of Afro.\n[Wiki](http://afrosamurai.wikia.com/wiki/Ninja_Ninja) quotted:\n\n> Ninja Ninja (ニンジャニンジャ, Ninja Ninja) is likely to be a figment of Afro's\n> imagination to cope with severe psychiatric trauma from unbearable sights\n> and actions of death. Being that Afro is an emotionless murderer, his mind\n> may well have created Ninja Ninja to hold his other emotions excluding Anger\n> and hatred ; He often hangs with Afro as his self-appointed \"Road Dog\".\n> Another possible understanding of Ninja-Ninja that would also be relevant to\n> his regular Buddhist inspired spiritual practices is that Ninja Ninja\n> represents Afro's \"Mind\", which tries to affect Afro through voicing doubts\n> and fears. Contrasting Ninja Ninja against Afro's actions in this context\n> gives Afro a different set of characteristics. As to say, he has fears,\n> doubts and anxieties yet continues onward in spite of them.\n\nA canonical reference which you yourself can verify is in **Episode 5** ,\nprecisely at **14m 05s** ,\n[Justice](http://afrosamurai.wikia.com/wiki/Justice) quotted :\n\n> I almost chuckled when you killed that imaginary friend of yours!\n\nReferring to the act where Afro killed Ninja Ninja but no blood splattered.\n\n \nNow to add to the wiki, notice the contradictions in the two characters:\n\n * **Afro** : Calm, composed, risk-taker, lives life on the edge\n * **Ninja Ninja** : Afraid of all combats, high levels of anxiety, unconfident, slacky, always after them booties\n\nNoticing these two character differences, it's safe to say that Ninja Ninja is\nthe **alter ego** of the Afro's real self. He's a part of Afro that he himself\nrefuses to acknowledge as a part of himself and treats it as somebody else.\nWhy? Because of the [Bushido or the Samurai\nCode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushido). He can't allow himself (a\nsamurai) to be unconfident, slacky, pervy or have a loose attitude. Therefore,\nhe is tempted and warned and mocked by Ninja Ninja time and again, here and\nthere.\n\n \nAnother reason I thought of, and which is mentioned in the wiki, is that all\nthe burden of killing and slaughtering mercilessly could drive a person\ninsane! He has to keep his mind off any such distractions. That's another\nreason of existence of Ninja Ninja.\n\n \nNow to answer your question as to why he could interact with real world\nobjects, he interacted with the same objects that Afro touched. Here are some\ninstances :\n\n 1. In Resurrection he commented how awful the steak was! At the same time Afro was having the steak, but he (being a samurai after all) shouldn't be complaining about such things, but his alter ego did it for him to keep Afro calm!\n\n 2. He killed or discarded his alter ego in Resurrection by dodging a poisoned needle in such a way it hit Ninja Ninja, and also in the first season he killed it when he was about to face formidable enemies to prevent any second thoughts or distractions! And I don't remember if he was ever noticed by any other character in the anime. (Tell me on which episode at what time if I'm mistaken.)\n\nHope this seems reasonable!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-12-13T13:39:37.873", "id": "27982", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-16T13:16:51.853", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-16T13:16:51.853", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "14105", "parent_id": "411", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "418", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn Pokémon, we have two main characters:\n\n * Red, who is the main protagonist on the manga and the first Pokémon games (Red, Blue and Yellow)\n * Ash, who is the main protagonist on the anime.\n\nWhat are the differences between the two?\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T10:37:24.960", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "412", "last_activity_date": "2018-08-07T23:49:43.767", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "post_type": "question", "score": 29, "tags": [ "pokemon" ], "title": "What are the differences between Ash and Red?", "view_count": 20213 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are **lots**!\n\n\n\nFor starters, Red is character who just starred in manga/games, and manga\ncreated only after a TV series aired.\n\nAs a result, they decided to release two types of manga, one based on the show\nand one based on the games:\n\n * The manga based on games R/B/G/Y, called Pokémon Adventures, which continues the story until the third generation stages. \n * And manga based on the series, called Pokémon The Electric Of Pikachu!\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T12:14:53.510", "id": "418", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-10T19:34:26.450", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-10T19:34:26.450", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "85", "parent_id": "412", "post_type": "answer", "score": 35 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "415", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nThe Philosopher's Stone is said to be an alchemical amplifier, allowing an\nalchemist to perform perfect transmutations, bypassing the laws of equivalent\nexchange.\n\nHow does that work? Isn't the point of alchemy that you can only get as much\nas you give?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T10:39:32.310", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "413", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-20T05:17:04.977", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-15T16:40:00.220", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "27", "post_type": "question", "score": 14, "tags": [ "fullmetal-alchemist-series" ], "title": "How does a Philosopher's Stone work?", "view_count": 6685 }

[ { "body": "\n\n> Isn't the point of alchemy is that you can only get as much as you give?\n\nYes it is. The law of Equivalent Exchange states something like: **\"In order\nto obtain or create something, something of equal value must be lost or\ndestroyed.\"** \nAccording to the [FMA wiki](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page):\n\n> In standard practice, Equivalent Exchange is separated into two parts:\n>\n> * The **Law of Conservation of Mass** , which states that energy and\n> matter can neither be created from nothing nor destroyed to the point of\n> elemental nonexistence. In other words, to create an object weighing one\n> kilogram, at least one kilogram of material is necessary and destroying an\n> object weighing one kilogram would reduce it to a set of parts, the sum of\n> which would weigh one kilogram.\n>\n> * The **Law of Natural Providence** , which states that an object or\n> material made of a particular substance or element can only be transmuted\n> into another object with the same basic makeup and properties of that\n> initial material. In other words, an object or material made mostly of water\n> can only be transmuted into another object with the attributes of water.\n>\n>\n\n[Source - Alchemy - Equivalent_Exchange\n](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Alchemy#Equivalent_Exchange)\n\nThis can be better understood when\n\n> Ed repairs Al. Al has a huge hole and Ed cannot create 'new armor', so he\n> has to stretch the 'available' armor in order to cover the hole. However, as\n> it stretches, it becomes thinner, since he cannot create new material. He\n> also uses some pieces they were able to retrieve, and those he can fuse\n> together into the armor again, using the same mass. However, as explained\n> above, missing pieces cannot be created out of nothing, thus the need of the\n> stretching part.\n\nAlthough I am not quite sure about the last paragraph (concerning the Law of\nNatural Providence), for it makes me think about how the philosopher's stone\nreally works...\n\n> How does that work?\n\nThe [philosopher's stone](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Philosopher%27s_Stone)\n\n> is a concentration of human souls. Thus, it uses those human souls as the\n> 'giving' part, so it appears that you are 'getting' something without having\n> to pay for it. However, it was already payed for. So it creates the illusion\n> that you are bypassing the Law of Equivalent Exchange. \n> It should be taken in consideration that this means the philosopher's stone\n> is not unlimited, since the human souls contained in it will eventually be\n> consumed. \n> ~~However, I have some doubts as to how it works exactly, considering the\n> Law of Natural Providence explained above, because you may use human souls\n> to transmute... just about anything.~~ As discussed with Madara in the chat,\n> the human soul is so invaluable that it actually makes it possible for this\n> 'trans-material' transmutation, that somewhat defies the Law of Natural\n> Providence.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T10:42:47.773", "id": "414", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-20T05:17:04.977", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-20T05:17:04.977", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "413", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nThe first thing you need to understand is that the stone does **not** let you\nbypass the law of equivalent exchange, it is only an illusion. The stone\nitself simply acts as an amplifier. Note that when the stone is used, it\neventually shrinks and loses his power. If it was able to bypass the\nequivalent exchange law, why would it?\n\nWhat really happens when one uses the stone? As we know, the stone\n\n> is made of living souls.\n\nEach time the stone is used, it lets the user to perform better than he/she\nnormally would. Doing so, however, uses the power of the\n\n> souls that were used to create the stone. Basically, each time you use it,\n> you use a soul (well, maybe it's not exactly 1 usage-1 soul relationship,\n> but you get the idea). When all the souls are used, the stone ceases to\n> exist. Note that since one needs **a lot** of souls to create the stone, it\n> usually lasts long enough.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T10:49:26.810", "id": "415", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-15T08:53:15.730", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-15T08:53:15.730", "last_editor_user_id": "18431", "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "413", "post_type": "answer", "score": 19 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "431", "answer_count": 6, "body": "\n\nMost Saiyan (Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, etc.) who evolved into Super Saiyan had\ntrouble fulfilling one of the requirements to evolve: Their rage or other\nemotions had to be extreme.\n\nHowever, there are two exceptions: Goten and Trunks (not the Trunks from the\nfuture). How did they achieve it? They hadn't seen or done anything that could\ndrive them to such a level of rage/intense emotion to allow them to turn into\nSuper Saiyan.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T14:11:30.580", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "422", "last_activity_date": "2018-09-24T20:15:20.787", "last_edit_date": "2016-01-13T06:10:12.823", "last_editor_user_id": "18431", "owner_user_id": "47", "post_type": "question", "score": 33, "tags": [ "dragon-ball-z" ], "title": "How did Goten and Trunks become Super Saiyan so easily?", "view_count": 35899 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThere doesn't seem to be an official reference, but I suppose there are three\npossible explanations (well, except the \"the author wanted it this way\" one):\n\n 1. **Heritage** : When they had them, their fathers already had managed to reach the SSJ stage. So they sort of passed the ability on and made it easier. This is true for Goku > Gohan > Goten and also for Vegeta > Trunks. This might mean that the base power level of their sons is higher than their.\n\n 2. **Generations** : The more you go on, the stronger they are. Gohan is stronger than Goku and Vegeta. He gets weak only because he doesn't train enough. Goten and Trunks are even stronger.\n\n 3. **Blood purity** : It is unclear, but it seems that hybrids are stronger than pure-blood Saiyans. Apparently, hybrids lack the will of combat these have, though. And indeed, Gohan doesn't train as much in peace time. \n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T14:32:30.473", "id": "429", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-14T14:32:30.473", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15", "parent_id": "422", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to this [Yahoo\nanswer](http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080108185420AA1OhiQ):\n\n> Because by the time they were born Goku and Vegeta had already been Super\n> Saiyan and with the higher power level thus when trunks and goten where born\n> their levels were also higher.\n>\n> Think about it this way Vegeta (Fut Trunks timeline) was weaker at SSj Level\n> so Future Trunks took longer to become ssj (i think he was 13) while Vegeta\n> (regular DBz timeline) had trained harder by knowing the androids arrival 3\n> yrs prior to chibi trunks being born thus more powerful ssj1 vegeta. And\n> Goten being born around some time near end of the Cell Games saga Goku had\n> became already full power ssj.\n>\n> Thus as children their power levels were already exponentially higher than\n> the latter of gohan who was born back when goku was weaker in power level.\n\nBasically Chi-Chi gave birth to a Demigod.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T14:39:05.280", "id": "431", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-14T14:40:39.263", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "85", "parent_id": "422", "post_type": "answer", "score": 25 }, { "body": "\n\nGenetically speaking, Saiyans aren't human. So it's hard to say that by\nbecoming Super Saiyans, Goku and Vegeta have altered the DNA in their sperm to\nbe able to pass along those traits. I think the traits have been their all\nalong, or maybe they are just traits that lay dormant in every Saiyan\nultimately but most just never realize the potential. Even though supposedly\nlegend spoke of their being only one true Super Saiyan, every culture has it's\nlore.\n\nThat being said, children are definitely more susceptible to believing\nanything is possible. Goten and Trunks are brought into a universe different\nfrom the one their fathers grew up in. For them, Super Saiyans are no longer\nthese \"mythical beings\" legends had everyone believe. Psychologically,\nachieving Super Sayian status was completely plausible in their young minds,\nand mentality did seem to carry a lot of weight in pushing Sayians to that\nsuper status. While it could be caused by anger or any other strong powerful\nemotion, for them it was just youthful passion for strength and an absence of\ndoubt.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-23T20:00:17.053", "id": "4439", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-23T22:24:30.957", "last_edit_date": "2013-07-23T22:24:30.957", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "2068", "parent_id": "422", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nA different view from what was already posted: because Saiyans get stronger\nthe stronger their opponents are.\n\nGoku, Vegeta and Gohan didn't fight Super Saiyan level opponents in their\nchildhood. Gohan became a Super Saiyan while training with his father in the\ntime chamber, and both Goten and Trunks trained with Gohan and Vegeta, who\nwere already on Super Saiyan level at the time, so that could have made the\nkids gain more experience than their parents could.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-01T17:40:28.813", "id": "4588", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-01T17:57:18.513", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-01T17:57:18.513", "last_editor_user_id": "2138", "owner_user_id": "2138", "parent_id": "422", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThey were born with there parents blood and got to train with there parents\nTrunks with Vegeta with the gravity ship and Goten with Gohan training\ntogether while he was also learning how to fly.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-14T22:27:11.240", "id": "8061", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-24T04:20:41.783", "last_edit_date": "2017-09-24T04:20:41.783", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "3760", "parent_id": "422", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThis has been directly addressed by Akira Toriyama in an interview. Links to\nthe translated interview can be found in [this Kotaku\narticle](https://kotaku.com/akira-toriyama-reveals-the-secret-behind-dragon-\nballs-s-1820910864).\n\nHe addresses the case of Goten and Trunks here:\n\n> It's not like anyone can become a Super Saiyan through training and anger.\n> In order to become a Super Saiyan, one's body must contain something called\n> \"S-Cells\". Once these S-Cells reach a certain amount, a trigger such as\n> anger will explosively increase the S-Cells and cause a change in the body:\n> that's Super Saiyan. Most Saiyans have some S-Cells, although not a great\n> quantity. The reason why Goku and Vegeta's children can become Super Saiyan\n> relatively easily is probably because to a certain extent they inherited a\n> lot of S-Cells, and also because Earth's environment is gentler and easier\n> to live in than Planet Vegeta.\n\nHe goes on to say:\n\n> Having a gentle spirit is the best way to increase one's S-Cells, but most\n> Saiyans have trouble with this, which I think is why no Super Saiyans\n> appeared for such a long time and they became the stuff of legend. However,\n> one can't reach the quantity necessary for becoming a Super Saiyan simply by\n> having a gentle spirit, so a certain amount of battle power is indeed\n> necessary. Looked at in this light, it's easy to see why becoming a Super\n> Saiyan came easy for Goku.\n\nSo, it seems that having a gentle spirit along with a high power level\nincreases the \"S-Cells\" in a Saiyan's body, and allows their children to\nbecome Super Saiyan more easily. This also explains why Goten was able to\nbecome a Super Saiyan even more easily than Gohan - when Goten was conceived,\nGoku's power level was far higher and he had already become a Super Saiyan. In\nthe case of Gohan, Goku was far weaker at the time of conception.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-09-24T20:15:20.787", "id": "48901", "last_activity_date": "2018-09-24T20:15:20.787", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "41474", "parent_id": "422", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "432", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nDuring the story arc with Raditz they make it out as though it's the first\ntime Piccolo and Goku team up. With Goku dying in the Raditz fight and not\nshowing up again until Vegeta, it couldn't have happened after that fight.\nWhere does it fit into the storyline before the Raditz fight?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T14:36:49.387", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "430", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-04T21:46:09.583", "last_edit_date": "2016-08-20T03:25:52.050", "last_editor_user_id": "3028", "owner_user_id": "29", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "dragon-ball-z", "dragon-ball-series", "dragon-ball" ], "title": "When does the Deadzone movie take place in the DBZ storyline?", "view_count": 7105 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThis [Wiki](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_Z%3a_Dead_Zone)\nexplains it pretty well:\n\n> Dead Zone is the only film that takes place after the end of Dragon Ball and\n> before the beginning of Dragon Ball Z. The events of this movie can be\n> placed into the series timeline between episodes \"The End, The Beginning\" of\n> the Piccolo Jr. Saga and \"The New Threat\" of the Vegeta Saga.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T14:45:39.313", "id": "432", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-14T14:45:39.313", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15", "parent_id": "430", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nAll of the Dragon ball Z films Were fillers. \nExcept these movies:\n\n * Bardock: The Father of Goku\n\n * The History of Trunks\n\n * wrath of the dragon (Very questionable)\n\n* * *\n\nEdit: In most cases it does not really matter, because the information is not\nsynchronized with the series itself.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T14:54:56.863", "id": "433", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-14T19:31:47.967", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-14T19:31:47.967", "last_editor_user_id": "85", "owner_user_id": "85", "parent_id": "430", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "437", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nThe Pokémon Special manga series, the \"main\" Pokémon manga adaptation, has\nabout 40 volumes and take place along all the Pokémon \"generations\" but how\nare they related to each other?\n\nI mean, the main characters in each saga changes, so I don't understand how or\nif they are related to each other or are some kind of \"different series\" under\nthe same title.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T15:07:25.467", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "434", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-03T12:30:07.693", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-03T12:30:07.693", "last_editor_user_id": "6166", "owner_user_id": "31", "post_type": "question", "score": 10, "tags": [ "pokemon" ], "title": "Are there any relations between the different \"sagas\" in Pokémon Special/Pokémon Adventures manga?", "view_count": 2275 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThey're set in the same universe. Stories sometimes span chapters\n(Bulbapedia's name for \"sagas\"), and main characters from earlier chapters\nmake appearances in later ones.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T15:42:47.400", "id": "437", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-14T15:42:47.400", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "434", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\n[_Pokemon\n**Adventures_**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Adventures) is\n**divided into several distinct parts** , or adventures. There are twelve\nmajor divisions at present. Namely\n\n 1. Pokémon Adventures: Red, Blue & Green\n 2. Pokémon Adventures: Yellow\n 3. Pokémon Adventures: Gold, Silver & Crystal\n 4. Pokémon Adventures: Ruby & Sapphire\n 5. Pokémon Adventures: FireRed & LeafGreen\n 6. Pokémon Adventures: Emerald\n 7. Pokémon Adventures: Diamond & Pearl\n 8. Pokémon Adventures: Platinum\n 9. Pokémon Adventures: HeartGold & SoulSilver\n 10. Pokémon Adventures: Black & White\n 11. Pokémon Adventures: Black 2 & White 2\n 12. Pokémon Adventures: X & Y\n\nBasically all adventures **take place in the same Pokemon world** (see map\nbelow), but at different locations. Since the manga is based on the video\ngames it makes sense that the protagonists change from adventure to adventure,\nbut they remain in the same timeline and world. They remain at different\nlocations, but their stories intertwine at many occasions. It is therefore not\nsurprising that **protagonists from earlier adventures reoccur** in later\nchapters. This can, for example, be seen when in the third adventure all gym\nleaders from Kanto have to compete with those of Johto at the 10th Pokemon\nleague. It can also be seen in the third adventure that all seven\naforementioned protagonists have to work together to defeat the main villain\nin the _Last Battle_ from chapter 167 to 180.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/u6M4Q.jpg)\n\nI guess you could say that the adventures are seen **from professor Oak's\npoint of view** , since in that same chapter 180 we can see how Crystal\nfinished the pokedex. She completed the Pokedex with data on the remaining\nPokemon of the original 251 known Pokemon at the time. At this point we can\nsee Professor Oak say\n\n> The truth is, about 100 new Pokemon have appeared and I'd thought of asking\n> her to help...\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kaz14.jpg)\n\nI doubt those 100 Pokemon just _appeared_. The people of the Hoenn region are\nprobably well aware of the existence of these Pokemon, but professor Oak,\nmight just recently have heard about them. So in that sense, we see the world\nevolve from the point of view of those from Kanto and especially professor Oak\nas the most frequent recurring character in the series.\n\n**Map of the Pokemon world**\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vBZlT.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-29T20:43:53.627", "id": "13147", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-29T20:43:53.627", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "434", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI really loved the live-action version of _Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi na Henge!_\n(or, _Perfect Girl Evolution!_ / _The Wallflower_ ) and I'm considering\npicking up the manga or anime because of how much I liked it. However, I'm\ncurious: **what are the major changes that the live-action made?**\n\nI know one of these changes is aging up the characters; the cast is about\ncollege-aged in the live-action, but they're in high school (they attend a\n_gakuen_ ) in the manga. I also know that the landlady's son is a live-action\nonly character. Are there other big differences between the two?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T15:12:41.577", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "435", "last_activity_date": "2022-07-22T13:00:15.053", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-28T23:28:47.070", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": null, "post_type": "question", "score": 9, "tags": [ "the-wallflower" ], "title": "What are the major differences between the anime/manga and the live action version of Perfect Girl Evolution?", "view_count": 1296 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the [Japanese\nWikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A4%E3%83%9E%E3%83%88%E3%83%8A%E3%83%87%E3%82%B7%E3%82%B3%E4%B8%83%E5%A4%89%E5%8C%96_\\(%E6%BC%AB%E7%94%BB\\)),\nthe main differences are:\n\n> * Kyouhei becomes the main character. Sunako is listed as the 3rd cast in\n> the credit.\n> * Kyouhei, Takenaga, Yukinojou, Ranmaru, and Noi are high school students\n> in the original work, but they are undergraduate students in the TV drama.\n> * Mine (Sunako's aunt; the landlady) doesn't have children in the original\n> work. However, in the TV drama, Takeru is introduced as an original\n> character playing the role of her son. He self-proclaims to be the keeper of\n> the mansion while she is away.\n> * Shinichi, the master of the coffee shop ( _Meykuu Iri_ , \"Unsolved\")\n> that Kyouhei and his friends like to go, appears as a regular cast in the TV\n> drama.\n> * Compared to the original work, Sunako's personality is sharply changed.\n> Even with the usually timid and negative personality, when Kyouhei calls her\n> _Busunako_ (Extremely ugly Sunako, from _busu_ \\+ _Sunako_ ), she will\n> display her paranormal-thingy and high fighting power and also her\n> personality becomes stronger.\n>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-08-16T16:40:04.460", "id": "41870", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-15T22:04:44.437", "last_edit_date": "2017-09-15T22:04:44.437", "last_editor_user_id": "14229", "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "435", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "448", "answer_count": 4, "body": "\n\nI've seen almost all of the _Bleach_ anime (at least what's been released\ndubbed), and I'm now interested in reading the manga. However, when the manga\nclosely follows the anime I've already seen, I tend to get bored quickly.\nThus, I'd want to pick up the manga at a point right before the anime began to\ndiverge.\n\nAt what point in the manga is this?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T17:57:08.237", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "440", "last_activity_date": "2020-07-21T21:00:00.423", "last_edit_date": "2017-10-21T07:14:42.863", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "40", "post_type": "question", "score": 8, "tags": [ "bleach" ], "title": "Where and how does the Bleach anime diverge from the manga?", "view_count": 115725 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI only watched the anime, but I know it stopped in March 2012, when they\ncaught up with the manga. It was the 'Lost Agent arc'.\n\nSo I suppose you best bet is to start reading the manga that was written from\naround that time. Volume 49 of the manga is also called 'The Lost Agent', so\nthat seems where they left off.\n\nBut again, I did not read the manga, so this is only a guess. I also cannot\ntell you how much the anime diverged from the manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T19:06:11.300", "id": "443", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-14T19:06:11.300", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "51", "parent_id": "440", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nBleach anime ended in March 2012, with the episode 366. It ends after (spoiler\nif you haven't finished the anime yet)\n\n> Ginjo dies in his battle vs Ichigo\n\nIn manga, that arc ends with chapter 479, _\"Goodbye to our Xcution!!\"_. The\nanime is not airing now, but the manga goes on, with the new arc starting with\nchapter 480 called _\"Final Arc - The Thousand Year Blood War\"_.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T21:15:00.320", "id": "448", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-14T21:15:00.320", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "440", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nI've read all of the manga and am currently watching the anime. It has been\npretty dang accurate up until the episodes in the 60's where they kind of went\noff and created these whole other bad guys and this big plot that wasn't in\nthe manga (the soul sucking vampire things... I can't remember their name).\nBut apparently by episode 110 the anime starts back up and continues with the\nmanga plot line and everything. But besides that I think that the manga and\nthe anime are pretty similar :)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-30T01:26:31.510", "id": "10012", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-30T01:26:31.510", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "5066", "parent_id": "440", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe answer best showing where the anime and manga differ, while also answering\nwhere to start reading (manga chapter 480 BTW) is the answer by Logan M to\nthis question : [Which episodes of Bleach are\nfiller?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3018/which-episodes-of-\nbleach-are-filler)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-07-21T21:00:00.423", "id": "58187", "last_activity_date": "2020-07-21T21:00:00.423", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "54097", "parent_id": "440", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "446", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nAlthough I have not watched the _Fate/Zero_ TV series, I have watched the\n_Fate/stay night_ series and the _Fate/Stay Night - Unlimited Blade Works_\nmovie. At the end of the movie I found out that:\n\n> Archer is actually Shirō. Even before the ending, Archer told him he has\n> already experienced what Shirō goes through. So I did not know if he is\n> actually Shirō from the future or if he is a completely different character\n> than the one in the TV series.\n\n", "comment_count": 8, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T20:13:10.250", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "444", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-31T02:14:32.007", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-31T02:14:32.007", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "85", "post_type": "question", "score": 8, "tags": [ "fate-stay-night" ], "title": "Who exactly is Archer from the Unlimited Blade Works movie?", "view_count": 10263 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe Archer-class Servant in the fifth Fuyuki Grail War is:\n\n> Shirou Emiya from an alternate timeline than that of the _Fate/stay night_\n> timeline. The Shirou from the alternate timeline made a contract with [the\n> world](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Gaia#Alaya) and became the Heroic\n> Spirit EMIYA.\n>\n> He is not a proper [Heroic\n> Spirit](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Heroic_Spirit) in the sense of other\n> heroes (e.g. Saber, Lancer, Berserker). He acts as a [Counter\n> Guardian](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Counter_Guardian#Counter_Guardian)\n> for the world as payment for the contract.\n>\n> He is summoned because he still has the jewel pendant that Rin used to save\n> his life after Lancer stabbed his heart. The jewel he owns is the actual\n> catalyst used for his summoning rather than the one that Rin still has at\n> the time of his summoning.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T20:30:47.147", "id": "446", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-15T04:23:21.420", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-15T04:23:21.420", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "444", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "447", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI sometimes watch this anime called [Crayon Shin-\nchan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crayon_Shin-chan) in Portuguese (in which\nit is simply called Shin-chan). Flirty as he is, Shinnosuke (its main\ncharacter) is often inconveniently messing around with women. Sometimes he\nwalks up to them and, as if to break the ice, asks them **\"Do you like\npeppers?\"**. After this either the women get very embarrassed or his mother\nknocks him in the head (or both). \nAlso, in one opening theme he sings that \"pepper tastes so bad\".\n\nIs this something specific to the Portuguese version of the anime? \n**Is its only significance related to his childishness (him being a five-year-\nold child)? \nOr is it supposed to mean anything other than that (and makes more sense in\nJapanese)?**\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T20:29:34.610", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "445", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-11T19:14:45.123", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-11T19:14:45.123", "last_editor_user_id": "191", "owner_user_id": "49", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "symbolism", "crayon-shin-chan" ], "title": "Why does Shinnosuke ask people if they like peppers?", "view_count": 2874 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe progression of the phrase goes like this:\n\n> ピーマン好き (Do you like [green] peppers)？ ニンジン食べれる (Do you like to eat carrots)？\n> 納豆にはネギ入れる方？ ( ~~The method of sticking negi [spring onion] into natto\n> [fermented soybeans]~~ \"Are you the type who puts spring onions in their\n> natto?\")?\n\nThis phrase doesn't translate very well, but it's an equivalent to South Park\n\"fish sticks\" gag:\n\n> Do you like to put fish sticks in your mouth?\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T20:54:00.133", "id": "447", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-17T15:40:10.983", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-17T15:40:10.983", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "445", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "463", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nI know the title probably needs to be changed, but I wasn't sure how to put it\nspoiler-free. \nThe question follows as a block, for its 'spoilery' nature for anyone who\nhasn't seen Naruto Shippuden up to episode 290.\n\n> In this episode Kabuto summons several shinobi using [Edo\n> Tensei](http://www.leafninja.com/ninjutsu-03.php#Edo). For this jutsu we\n> know that a living body to act as receptacle and a piece of DNA from the one\n> being revived are needed. The summoner will then use a tag to control the\n> summoned soul's personality. \n> Kabuto explains to Naruto and Sakura that the water in the \"Hole\" is so\n> rich that he was able to create life with those weird snakes embedded with\n> Orochimaru's chakra. I assume this means that the body that comes out of the\n> water is the living body that serves as sacrifice. I assume this because\n> Hidan's eyes look like those of the ones summoned by Edo Tensei. And\n> afterwards Kabuto inserts a tag in this Hidan, to control his personality. \n> Considering that Hidan was really summoned by Edo Tensei, however, there is\n> the fact that his body does not look 'complete'. But then again, I don't\n> think we've ever seen a naked Edo Tensei summoned body, so we cannot be sure\n> if this is normal or not. \n> \n> So basically: \n> **Is this some weird jutsu that really _looks like_ Edo Tensei?** \n> **Or should we assume that Hidan as died and this was _really_ Edo\n> Tensei?** (It _is_ possible that Hidan is dead, if you take into\n> consideration what is explained in\n> [this](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/209/what-is-hidans-source-\n> of-power/211#211) answer)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T23:20:05.230", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "451", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-15T15:52:18.407", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "49", "post_type": "question", "score": 1, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Is that jutsu really the Edo Tensei?", "view_count": 785 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe episode you cite is the first one of a saga filler, which means it's\noriginal material, present in the Anime only. So there's no Manga canon to\nanswer it, because it doesn't come from there.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T23:42:53.877", "id": "453", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-15T00:35:32.520", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-15T00:35:32.520", "last_editor_user_id": "15", "owner_user_id": "15", "parent_id": "451", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI don't think it's Edo Tensei. I have yet to have seen a coffin, even in later\nepisodes.\n\nTechnically, Hidan never died. He's was still buried (in pieces) in the hole\nShikamaru put him in. Kabuto took those pieces, and using the water and his\nsnakes, he managed to revive him completely. Somewhat like a clone.\n\n> (Much like he did with Dark Naruto in the following episodes)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T07:48:50.873", "id": "463", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-15T15:26:04.923", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-15T15:26:04.923", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "451", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "457", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nThe Human Instrumentality Project is one of the main plotlines in the Neon\nGenesis Evangelion original series. However, other than a few speculative\nmentions, there isn't concrete information as to what purpose it serves.\n\nWhat purpose does the Human Instrumentality Project serve, why is it\nnecessary, and what part does it plays against the Angels (if any)?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T04:13:37.330", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "454", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-25T10:26:54.160", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-15T04:19:35.723", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "167", "post_type": "question", "score": 33, "tags": [ "neon-genesis-evangelion" ], "title": "What is the purpose of the Human Instrumentality Project?", "view_count": 26260 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe ultimate goal is to unite all the individual souls of mankind into one\nsingular being.\n\nThis would create an existence where nobody existed individually, but as part\nof a whole.\n\nThis way, the flaws in every living being would be complemented by the\nstrengths in others, thus erasing the insecurities in people's hearts.\nCreating the ultimate, god-like being.\n\nTo achieve Instrumentality, the merging of Adam and Lilith, resulting in the\nThird Impact, is required.\n\nBoth [Seele](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Third_Impact#Seele.27s_version) and\n[Gendo](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Third_Impact#Gendo_Ikari.27s_version) had\ntheir own idea of instrumentality. Neither was\n[realized](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Third_Impact#Actual_Third_Impact).\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T04:54:22.460", "id": "457", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-15T04:54:22.460", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "454", "post_type": "answer", "score": 27 }, { "body": "\n\nAngels are trying to merge with Adam to restore their power on earth. The\nAncestral race sent Adam to colony planet Earth with his seeds (the Angels).\nIt was due to the First Impact that Lilith got in Adam's way. She was on her\nway to another planet and crashed on Earth, stopping Adam. Now, Adam and his\ndescendants just try to reclaim earth from mankind - the seed of Lilith.\n\nSeele accepted that the humans do actually not have the right to live on earth\ndue to the information they got out of the Second Impact (Reawakening of Adam)\nand the Dead Sea Scrolls. But they do not want to kill all humans either. So\nthey try to bring together Lilith and Adam in order to develop a new entity\nthat absorbs all humans into one godlike entity (similar to the Angels -\nHumans are viewed as the final Angel Lilin). In this form humans have actually\nthe right to live on Earth because they are created by the unity of Lilith and\nAdam. In order to achieve this Seele wanted to merge Kaworu, an Angel and the\ncarrier of Adam's soul, with Lilith. This would be the Third Impact. The whole\nplan is called the Human Instrumentality Project. Gendo just wants to reunite\nwith his dead wife, Shinji's mother, which is \"his\" idea of the Human\nInstrumentality Project. He injects himself the embryo of Adam in order to\nmerge with Lilith. Some years ago, his wife tried to merge with Lilith in\norder to revive her and disappeared in the process (but she still exists\ninside Lilith's body). Gendo is later killed by Rei (a humanlike clone of\nLilith/Gendo's wife). He sacrified and abandoned his son Shinji to the Angels\nin order to achieve his goals which was not the will of his dead wife who\npunished him through the hands of Rei (her \"daughter\" if you want to put it\nlike that).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-25T10:26:54.160", "id": "14161", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-25T10:26:54.160", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8473", "parent_id": "454", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "460", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn the series, a number of different styles are shown among the different\ncharacters. Some fight using their Zanpakutō, others use Kidō. Do all of these\nderived from a similar source? Are there other fighting styles? Can they be\ncombine?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T04:49:22.270", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "455", "last_activity_date": "2022-01-26T11:47:40.777", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "167", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "bleach" ], "title": "What are the techniques/fighting styles displayed in Bleach?", "view_count": 14780 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are four fighting styles a Shinigami uses are:\n\n 1. [Zanjutsu](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Zanjutsu) (Weapon arts) -- The art of using their weapon to it's full potential.\n\n 2. [Hakuda](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Hakuda) (Martial arts) -- The art of physical power and melee fighting skills.\n\n 3. [Hohou](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Hoh%C5%8D) (Movement arts) -- The art of moving, dodging, and countering.\n\n 4. [Kidou](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Kid%C5%8D) (Magic arts) -- The art of using spells and magic.\n\nThey are often used in combination with one another in battle.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T05:07:48.437", "id": "460", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-15T05:07:48.437", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "455", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\n 1. Zanjutsu: Sword Arts\n 2. Kido: Magic Arts\n 3. Hakudo: Martial Arts\n 4. Hoho Movement Arts\n\nEach of these is an aspect of shinigami combat, Zanpakuto, Magic, Martial Arts\n& Movement.\n\nKido is also divided into 3 parts: Hado (way of destruction), Kaido (way of\nhealing), and Bakudo (way of binding).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-04-01T17:14:43.983", "id": "57133", "last_activity_date": "2022-01-26T11:47:40.777", "last_edit_date": "2022-01-26T11:47:40.777", "last_editor_user_id": "35679", "owner_user_id": "52550", "parent_id": "455", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "5861", "answer_count": 6, "body": "\n\nI'm pretty sure that people have [tried](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qt23R.jpg)\n[every](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jfUyh.png)\n[way](https://i.stack.imgur.com/u9hPn.png)\n[possible](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jfUyh.png)\n[to](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4El0B.png)\n[try](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4El0B.png)\n[it](https://i.stack.imgur.com/u9hPn.png), but still he remained alive and\nkicking.\n\nIn _Hellsing Ultimate: Episode 2_ , when Luke Valentine says he will prove\nthat Alucard's immortality is a myth, Alucard\n[replies](https://i.stack.imgur.com/07Z5v.png) that there is no such thing as\nimmortality.\n\nI did not really understand whether there are any limits to his so-called\nimmortality, or maybe nobody knew whether there were any? Is there a way to\npermanently 'kill' Alucard?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T04:52:46.960", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "456", "last_activity_date": "2023-05-01T21:06:06.780", "last_edit_date": "2023-05-01T21:06:06.780", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "85", "post_type": "question", "score": 20, "tags": [ "hellsing" ], "title": "Is there any way to kill Alucard?", "view_count": 52891 }

[ { "body": "\n\n[This wiki ](http://hellsing.wikia.com/wiki/Alucard#Powers_and_abilities)has\nthe following note about Alucard's immortality (may contain some spoilers):\n\n> Immortality: This ability is rather ambiguous, as Alucard, himself has\n> stated that immortality is a myth. However, what it most likely refers to is\n> the human souls inside Alucard; it has been speculated that, when damaged by\n> blow that would have killed or incapacitated him such as exceedingly holy\n> weapons, the damage is instead directed to his reservoir of souls. Because\n> this ability does not really grant him true immortality, it can be\n> considered as pseudo-immortality. However, after \"Monster of God\" Anderson\n> destroyed the rest of Level 0, Alucard was still able to regenerate on par\n> with him. (This was on par with Alucard before releasing Level 0). However,\n> the \"soul count\" theory is just a fan theory, and has never been\n> definitively proven. It was also specualted by Anderson that this was the\n> reason for him not being able to kill Alucard. Alucard may have kept at\n> least a few souls in his body to use for regeneration after releasing level\n> 0.\n\nSince there is no official answer to this, I would describe ALucard, as the\nwikipedia page does: Alucard is the closest thing to immortal. This is a\nperfect description that suits him well, until it is revealed is he really\nimmortal, or not.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T09:16:48.173", "id": "465", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-15T09:16:48.173", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "456", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nWhile people believe that Alucard is immortal, he says that he isn't, and we\nare later shown that this is because the only reason he is back from the dead\nis because he uses the enormous supply of souls he has absorbed throughout his\nunlife. However, at the end, [he may have gained the ability to revive freely\nthanks to Schrodinger's\npowers](http://hellsing.wikia.com/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger#History).\n\nBy saying that he is not immortal, he may have meant that a being that is\nimmortal doesn't mean it would be capable of handling such a fate and would\nwish to be killed. This side is greatly shown in the series where even Alucard\nhimself wishes to be killed though by a person he sees as worthy.\n\nBased on the current information, the only time Alucard was said to be mortal\nwas when he released every soul inside him as an army, which made it\nimpossible for him to use them to revive himself. However, this happened\nbefore he gained Schrodinger's powers. So unless more information is shown,\nthe best guess is that Alucard can revive without limit now (like how\nSchrodinger did when he was shot 2 times but didn't die and reappeared fully\nhealed, only to die when he willingly sacrificed himself in an effort to kill\nAlucard).\n\nTo know more please check the wiki. I am assuming all of this based on the\ninformation given and my own ideas. However, I believe this is the best\ndescription of Alucard's immortality as of yet.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-09-24T22:43:28.253", "id": "5301", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-09T14:33:16.233", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-09T14:33:16.233", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2439", "parent_id": "456", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nAfter the final episode, when Alucard returns after consuming Schrodinger and\nkilling every other soul in his consciousness, he is, as described by\nSchrodinger, everywhere and nowhere, both alive and dead but at the same time\nneither. He can exist wherever he wishes, and thus theoretically speaking, he\ncould exist inter-dimensionally, as well physically and consciously, implying\nthat no, he cannot ever be killed. He will exist forever.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-14T02:54:31.333", "id": "5861", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-06T13:44:32.717", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-06T13:44:32.717", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2727", "parent_id": "456", "post_type": "answer", "score": 16 }, { "body": "\n\nAlucard sounds semi-immortal, unlike true immortals, who will never ever die,\nAlucard can indeed die, so long as he wishes it, or if he is killed by some\nkind of immortal slaying weapon (for example, supernatural weapons\nspecifically designed to kill semi-immortal beings). The best way to defeat an\nimmortal is by sealing them, basically separating them from the physical\nworld, either by magic, or by placing in a burial chamber which they cannot\nescape from. However, while Alucard, an omnipresence being, can be sealed, it\nwould require extensive planning.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-05T15:04:59.177", "id": "14865", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-09T14:27:43.817", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-09T14:27:43.817", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "9020", "parent_id": "456", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nBased on my knowledge of watching Hellsing Ultimate remember so many people\ntry to kill him like Luke Valentine, polices, Walter and many other but the\nonly one exceeded was the Major. Anyways he returned 30 years later. Just\nbecause Alucard is immortal doesn't mean these no way to kill him and he said\n\" Only a human can kill me.\" I believe the only person can kill Alucard is his\nown master Sir Integra, this is my opinion but everyone has different opinions\nabout is there ways to kill Alucard.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-31T07:14:51.780", "id": "17209", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-31T07:14:51.780", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10902", "parent_id": "456", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nExcept he already lost his identity when he first consumed schrodinger? He\nwasn't aware that he existed yet he still came back. Which leads me to believe\nAlucard is definitely immortal as long as he wishes to be. He can not be\nkilled. On the higher being part when Anderson absorbed the helena nail that's\nalmost like the power of God yet he won still. This leads me to believe\nAlucard is immortal.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-09T07:23:53.517", "id": "19927", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-09T07:23:53.517", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13138", "parent_id": "456", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "459", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn Bleach, Soul Society represents this sort of Heaven where souls are sent by\nShinigamis (mostly from Earth?). However, once in Soul Society, is a soul\nimmortal? Can they die? And if so, what happens? Is one sent to... _Hueco\nMundo_?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T04:58:26.657", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "458", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-28T21:06:07.093", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "167", "post_type": "question", "score": 18, "tags": [ "bleach" ], "title": "What happens if one dies in Soul Society?", "view_count": 43205 }

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom the [Bleach Wiki](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Soul_Society):\n\n> The Human World and Soul Society are parallel to each other and are two\n> sides of the same coin. Families separated by death are rarely reunited in\n> the Soul Society unless they arrive in Soul Society together. People live\n> nestled together like a family of strangers. One never gets hungry (if she\n> or he doesn't have spiritual powers) and aging is slowed to a great extent,\n> with lifespans of 2000 or more years not being unheard of, though such ages\n> are limited to Shinigami or other Soul Society dwellers with high spiritual\n> power.\n\nand to answer your question,\n\n> A soul that dies in Soul Society is reincarnated on Earth as a new Human\n> with no past memories.\n\n**Edit** : However, given the huge difference in lifespan, Soul Society should\naccumulate souls and the Human World should run out of souls...\n\nsouls can \"escape\" this cycle by turning into hollows and entering Hueco Mundo\n(or god knows which new worlds Bleach will come up with). Souls can be\nexterminated permanently by [Quincy](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Quincy):\n\n> Quincy completely extinguish Hollows. Thus the souls that come to the Human\n> World do not return to Soul Society and therefore the souls would increase\n> only on the side of the Human World. Meaning, the Human World becomes heavy\n> in souls causing Soul Society to spill over into it; mixing life and death.\n> The ultimate result would be the end of the world.\n\n", "comment_count": 10, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T05:06:25.033", "id": "459", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-15T07:49:37.543", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-15T07:49:37.543", "last_editor_user_id": "97", "owner_user_id": "97", "parent_id": "458", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "466", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nIf someone had seen it before you'd think it would have been eaten.\n\nAnd I also thought I remember a segment about no one knowing their fruit\nbefore they ate it. (I think it was with the CP9 arc)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T08:13:58.937", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "464", "last_activity_date": "2019-01-29T01:23:43.517", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-15T15:42:44.333", "last_editor_user_id": "85", "owner_user_id": "173", "post_type": "question", "score": 23, "tags": [ "one-piece" ], "title": "If there's only one of each fruit, how could Blackbeard recognize the \"Dark Dark\" fruit?", "view_count": 11884 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI can't recall exactly when this was said during the series, but as the\n[WIKI](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Devil_Fruit) says here, when the user\ndies, the fruit he ate simply regenerates inside the closest appropriate fruit\nthe same place where the user died and their ability is reborn into another\nfruit of the same kind instead of growing from a plant.\n\nIt's only my assumption but maybe CP9 did not know what the capabilities of\ntheir new fruit were because they were not so rare.\n\nI think Blackbeard followed the progress of the user of Dark Fruit, so he knew\nwhen and where it is.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T09:19:06.407", "id": "466", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-26T04:43:14.643", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-26T04:43:14.643", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "85", "parent_id": "464", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nAs Hashirama Senju said, Devil Fruits regenerate when its user dies (it's\nshown for the first time during the Punk Hazard arc), so more than one person\ncan have the same Devil Fruit ability (not at the same time, of course). In\nthe One Piece world there are some books that give details into some Devil\nFruits, so that's how Blackbeard knew just by looking at it that the fruit\nThatch found was the Dark-Dark fruit, and also about its powers; that's why he\nwanted it so much. During the Thriller Bark arc, Sanji also mentions reading\nin a book about the Suke-Suke (Clear-Clear) fruit.\n\nAs for why the CP9 didn't know what the fruits Kaku and Kalifa ate were,\nthat's because even though some fruits are known from previous users, not all\nof them are.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-22T20:55:28.543", "id": "776", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-22T20:55:28.543", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "246", "parent_id": "464", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nIt has been established by now that [Devil Fruits\nrespawn](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/2979/). Therefore when a Devil\nFruit is eaten, **their shapes and powers are recorded and passed on mouth-to-\nmouth** as mentioned at [this\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/5919/). Seeing humanity has been\naround for a while, it would make sense that the shape and powers of most\nfruits are recorded by now.\n\nTo come back to your question how Blackbeard in particular knew about the\nshape and the power of the Dark Fruit, it was mentioned in chapter 440, during\nhis fight with Ace, that **Blackbeard had memorized the shape of the Dark\nFruit. He memorized its every curve and point.** He must have read or heard\nabout its powers and shape, wanting the power for himself.\n\nHe did **not** follow the progress of the Dark Fruit as mentioned [in the\nanswer by Hashirama Senju](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/466/). Instead,\nhe joined the Whitebeard crew and spent decades on his ship, because\nBlackbeard thought his chances of finding the Dark Fruit would be the best. In\nthe end, he was correct in thinking so and despite giving up, the fruit\nappeared.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-25T12:50:29.467", "id": "21834", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-26T03:33:08.763", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "464", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nSky Island is a myth or a legend to many people including the pirates form\nJaya, who laugh at Luffy because he thinks that Sky Island exists.\n\nDoes the World Government know about Sky Island or is it just a myth to them?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T09:59:19.990", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "467", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-17T16:11:27.390", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-15T13:32:58.070", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "175", "post_type": "question", "score": 9, "tags": [ "one-piece" ], "title": "Is the World Government aware of the existence of the Sky Island?", "view_count": 2087 }

[ { "body": "\n\n**Edit:** It's just my assumption but Enel pursued by the government and he\ncame to this island after it was thrown out to the sky. \nHis bounty was at that time\n500,000,000 and of course before\nthat, \nGol D. Roger was there. \nSo it seems like too many coincidences have occurred there.\n\nApparently the government (the HQ at least) knew of the existence of this\nisland. \n~~But they do not want to reveal it to the public because it is so difficult\nand dangerous to get there, so~~ \nI guess they just chose to deny its existence.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T10:46:32.107", "id": "473", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-17T16:11:27.390", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-17T16:11:27.390", "last_editor_user_id": "85", "owner_user_id": "85", "parent_id": "467", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nI believe that the world government does not know of the Sky Islands, because\nwhen the Straw Hats land in Navarone, the officials do not believe Zoro,\nLuffy, or any of them when they say they came from the sky. Considering\nNavarone was a huge Marine Base, if the World government knew of the Sky\nIsland, they would have let them know.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-07T18:40:47.110", "id": "875", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-07T22:23:53.553", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-07T22:23:53.553", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "313", "parent_id": "467", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "472", "answer_count": 5, "body": "\n\nAs the title states, why can't Pan go to Super Saiyan Mode?\n\nWe see in the last episode of Pan's grandson turning Super Saiyan while he\nfights a descendant of Vegeta. Are female Saiyans not able to turn Super\nSaiyan?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T10:04:10.523", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "468", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-13T06:10:34.323", "last_edit_date": "2016-01-13T06:10:34.323", "last_editor_user_id": "18431", "owner_user_id": "175", "post_type": "question", "score": 25, "tags": [ "dragon-ball-gt" ], "title": "Why can't Pan go Super Saiyan?", "view_count": 53544 }

[ { "body": "\n\nWell, according to this [Pan's trivia\nsection](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Pan#Trivia), the **in-real-world\nreason** seems to be that Akira Toriyama couldn't figure out how to draw a\nfemale SSJ.\n\nOne of the possible reasons, **in the DB universe** , is that Pan never really\ntrained to become a more powerful warrior. The other kids, through the\ngenerations, managed to reach that level quite quickly yes, but they trained a\nlot too. Pan simply didn't feel that need that much.\n\nThe female SSJ appear in the videogames only.\n\nJust for completeness, I discovered that according to an italian collection on\nthe DB franchise, one of the fundamental requirements to become SSJ is to be a\nmale. That would explain why Goku Jr and Vegeta Jr can still become SSJ\nregardless of the blood being diluted. This has been said across the internet,\nbut there's nothing official about this.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T10:39:52.473", "id": "471", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-15T10:39:52.473", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15", "parent_id": "468", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to this\n[wiki](http://anime.answers.wikia.com/wiki/Why_can%27t_pan_go_super_saiyan)\npan never did have to go super saiyan mode.\n\n> [...] basically it's because the creator of Dragonball, Akira Toriyama\n> claims that Pan never had a reason or situation to turn super saiyan. Her\n> debut is at the end of dragonball z, as a little kid, and since Dragonball\n> GT is not based off actual manga, Toriyama only envisioned Pan as a little\n> girl in a time of peace, so there would be no reason for her to become super\n> saiyan. Toriyama has also said that he doesnt exactly know how he would draw\n> a female super-saiyan [...]\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T10:40:02.240", "id": "472", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-18T20:39:14.237", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-18T20:39:14.237", "last_editor_user_id": "65", "owner_user_id": "85", "parent_id": "468", "post_type": "answer", "score": 21 }, { "body": "\n\nPan has never done any hard training in the Dragon Ball series. Pan may have\nher father's (Gohan) saiyan blood in her body, but she is not a full blooded\nsaiyan like her grandfather (Goku). In Dragon Ball MMO (Online) the DB online\ngame (created by Akira Toriyama), states that female saiyans are able to\ntransform into a super saiyan.\n\nIn Dragon Ball GT Perfect Files, states that Pan would have a great potential\nto become a super saiyan. In the first ever canon Dragon Ball movie, Battle of\nGods (that came out earlier this year in theaters in Japan), Shenron said,\n\"there are 6 pure saiyans that were able to let Goku to transform into a Super\nSaiyan God form.\" These 6 saiyans are: Goku, Gohan, Vegeta, Trunks, Goten, and\nlast but not least Pan (which of course Pan wasn't even born yet, and she\nstill inside her mother's (Videl) stomach).\n\nWith the success of the brand new Dragon Ball movie, it's very unclear that\nthere is a rumor about the new Dragon Ball series that was spreading across\nthe internet this year. I don't know if that's true or not, but I hope will\ndefinitely see Pan turn into a super saiyan, a female super saiyan for the\nfirst time ever in Dragon Ball history.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-09-03T20:38:36.517", "id": "5093", "last_activity_date": "2013-09-08T16:54:58.297", "last_edit_date": "2013-09-08T16:54:58.297", "last_editor_user_id": "2335", "owner_user_id": "2335", "parent_id": "468", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nAs stated above, the main reason is Toriyama not knowing how to portray a\nfemale Super Saiyan, which might also be the reason while the entire offspring\nof both Goku and Vegeta until the very end of DBZ are exclusively male - and\nshown capable of transforming into Super Saiyans. Since the potential seems to\nbe passed down to the children, Bra and Pan both should be able to pull it\noff. Again, the question of design gets in the way, and the fact that until\nsome point in GT when things began to go south rapidly, starting with Baby's\nusing of the Ultimate Dragonballs, they lived fairly peaceful lives.\n\nAlso, bear in mind that all Saiyan-blooded children shown are halfbreeds or,\nin Pan's case, only 1/4th Saiyan. Taking Gohan as an example, the human blood\ninside him significantly dampened his drive to fight and the urge to train,\nwhich is why he preferred pursuing an education unlike his father and Vegeta\nwho remain obsessed with improving their physical capabilities even in times\nof peace as if driven by instinct.\n\nSince from the end of DBZ to the end of the first third of GT the Earth has\nbeen peaceful, halfblooded Trunks, Goten and Bra have had no reason whatsoever\nto train and lacked the drive to do so because circumstances allowed them to\nlive peaceful lives. Pan only trained because of Goku and Mr. Satan's\ninfluence but seemed to take it more as a hobby.\n\nIn conclusion, given the right circumstances female Saiyans are all but\nimpossible, except for the fact the species is nearly extinct.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-02T18:07:18.690", "id": "5683", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-02T18:07:18.690", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2657", "parent_id": "468", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI think it is because Pan, being female, was always in control of her\nemotions? Like most woman their emotions area what they can control. Unlike\nmen who have a tendency to lose control and become angry as if it were a\ninstinct. Take Goku, he transformed because of the fact that his best friend\nwas killed therefore losing control of his anger. Vegeta transformed because\nhe was angry that he couldn't surpass Goku and in the end just didn't care if\nhe did. Goten transformed because his Mother (Chichi) kept picking on him\nthrough constant sparring sessions. Trunks transformed because of his Daddy\nissues, but whatever happened with Pan, she never got angry. She got upset but\nnever ever lost control of what she was doing. Well that is my theory anyway.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-17T05:45:22.443", "id": "8090", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-17T07:12:41.113", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-17T07:12:41.113", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "4148", "parent_id": "468", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nWhy were many stages and levels skipped in Sword Art Online. You see that they\nstart at level one in the first episode but then later they skip to higher\nlevels.\n\nWhy did the makers skip levels? Was it because it would take too long?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T10:15:50.007", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "469", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-11T19:16:03.767", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-11T19:16:03.767", "last_editor_user_id": "191", "owner_user_id": "175", "post_type": "question", "score": 0, "tags": [ "sword-art-online" ], "title": "Boss Battles in Sword Art Online", "view_count": 652 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt has many reasons. First, in the original novels they are a little more\nexplained, but not much, so even in that original script it was skipped.\nPerhaps in first place all that happens in-between was less interesting.\n\nHowever, starting this year Reki Kawahara (the novel's author) has begun to\nwrite the spin-off: **Sword Art Online: Progressive** , that explains\nprecisely all that happens in-between during the Aincrad storyarc.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T15:19:23.730", "id": "480", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-15T15:19:23.730", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "31", "parent_id": "469", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nSAO first started as story for writing competition. But it was too long, so\nauthor didn't enter the competition and instead published it on the web. After\nthat, it gained lot of popularity so author continued. This implies he never\nplanned to write more. Also, it is said he was quite young and it was his\nfirst work. It was later on turned into light novels.\n\nIt began with SAO part with first chapter being introduction and how they got\nstuck in game. Then next chapter skips 2 year forward and how Kirito clears\nthe game.\n\nThe next chapters are side stories, that happen chronologically somewhere in\nthose 2 years.\n\nAfter that comes ALO and the rest.\n\nSo it is obvious there wont be any continuity, because author never wanted to\nwrite such a story. And like Ikzer said, he is rewriting/retconing the story\nwith SAO:Progressive\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T15:44:20.853", "id": "482", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-15T15:44:20.853", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "115", "parent_id": "469", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "548", "answer_count": 4, "body": "\n\nAsuna died near the end of Sword Art Online. However, judging by the rules,\nwhy didn't she die in real life? Did Kayaba Akihiko lie about dying in the\ngame?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T10:20:38.433", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "470", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-20T05:25:54.783", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-04T07:11:40.213", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "175", "post_type": "question", "score": 15, "tags": [ "sword-art-online" ], "title": "Why didn't Asuna die in real life when she died in the game?", "view_count": 102904 }

[ { "body": "\n\nNot quite.\n\n> It's an issue of timing. She died _before_ the game was cleared, but her\n> death timer didn't expire beforehand. So, she was eligible to be logged out\n> of the game, much like Kazuto would be. Her mind was taken to a compatible\n> server in ALFOnline, which is where she's trapped for that arc.\n\nEDIT: The source for this is Episode 14.\n\n> Both Kirito and Asuna have died, but neither of their death timers have\n> expired. It stands to reason that, if Kirito is eligible to be logged out\n> despite having died, then so would Asuna.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T13:17:15.867", "id": "475", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-16T05:10:07.130", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-16T05:10:07.130", "last_editor_user_id": "102", "owner_user_id": "102", "parent_id": "470", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nIf you read the light novel, after the battle teleported them to another place\njust to have a talk with them:\n\n> I firmly closed my eyes and allowed my tears to flow before asking:\n>\n> \"...What about those who died? Both of us are already dead, yet we continue\n> to exist here. Doesn't that mean you can return the other four thousand dead\n> to the original world as well?\"\n>\n> Kayaba's expression didn't change. He closed the window, put his hands into\n> his pockets, and then said:\n>\n> \"Life can't be recovered so easily. Their consciousness will never return.\n> The dead will disappear— this fact remains true in every world. I created\n> this place only because I wanted to talk with you two— one last time.\"\n\nSo everyone who died remains dead. Kirito and Asuna didn't die, simply because\nKayaba intentionally teleported them somewhere else instead of letting them\ndie.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T18:59:38.867", "id": "548", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-20T05:25:54.783", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "470", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 }, { "body": "\n\nKirito asked Heathcliff (Kayaba) to promise to prevent Asuna from commiting\nsuicide if Kirito were to lose. But when Kirito was about to lose, she jumped\nin front of him, using her body to shield Kirito from the incoming strike and\n\"killing\" herself in the process.\n\nBecause Kirito lost after that, technically they are both dead. However,\nKirito won after that, and Kayaba agreed to make sure Asuna didn't kill\nherself, but she did. The only resolution therefore was to keep her alive. As\nfor Kirito, it seems to be that Kayaba wanted him alive to talk.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-01T11:31:25.427", "id": "14258", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-04T07:20:16.110", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-04T07:20:16.110", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "8550", "parent_id": "470", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nAsuna didn't die because Kayaba made it so that if Asuna die in game, she\nwouldn't die in real life, as promised to Kirito before the duel. Just like in\nepisode one, where he made it so that people couldn't log out, and if they\ndied in game they died in real life, he probably disabled this setting for\nAsuna in the GM console.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-17T21:14:22.373", "id": "16825", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-04T07:33:07.193", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-04T07:33:07.193", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "10717", "parent_id": "470", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "477", "answer_count": 5, "body": "\n\nThe rich background of Holo: being a minor deity of harvest, her forms,\nshapeshifting, powers and limitations, likes and dislikes, traits character\netc - how is it grounded in Japanese beliefs, myths, traditions, and legends?\n\nIs her lore entirely made-up for the needs of the show; did the authors take\nstrong artistic license on some more or less common legends; or is she shaped\nclosely after a character well known in Japanese culture?\n\nIf it's one of the latter, could you give some sources or summaries of the\noriginal upon which she is based?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T12:28:35.607", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "474", "last_activity_date": "2020-01-09T17:57:02.280", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-18T07:03:49.200", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "126", "post_type": "question", "score": 11, "tags": [ "culture", "spice-and-wolf" ], "title": "What are Holo's roots in Japanese tradition?", "view_count": 2345 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI wasn't able to find any references that state that _the exact_ background\nthat Horo has originates from some _exact_ legend or myth. However, it is\ndefinitely not entirely made-up. Animals play a significant role in Japanese\nfolktales. Two of them are also widely known to be able to transform into\nhumans, and other objects: _kitsune_ (狐) - fox, and _tanuki_ (狸) - raccoon\ndog.\n\nAlso, the Wikipedia article [\"Japanese\nfolklore\"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_folklore#Folktales) has this\ninteresting fact:\n\n> Marriages between humans and non-humans ( _irui konin tan_\n> ([異類婚姻譚](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%95%B0%E9%A1%9E%E5%A9%9A%E5%A7%BB%E8%AD%9A)\n> _\"tales of heterotype marriages\"_ )) comprise a major category or motif in\n> Japanese folklore. Japanese heterotype examples such as the crane story\n> describes a sustained period of married life between the interspecies\n> couple, in contrast to Western examples like [Frog\n> Prince](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Frog_Prince_%28story%29) or the\n> [Leda](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leda_%28mythology%29) myth where the\n> supernatural encounter is brief.\n\nI believe we can say that all these definitely have some resemblance with\nHoro's background.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T13:54:03.873", "id": "477", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-18T07:22:57.893", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-18T07:22:57.893", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "474", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nOkami written one way in Japan means 'wolf', but written another way means\n'great god'. If you look up Okami, Honshu wolf, and Hokkaido wolf you find\nreferences to wolves as being venerated in the Shinto beliefs and by the Ainu.\n\nOne reason they were venerated was for keeping the wild boar and deer\npopulations down, which was great for farming societies. They were revered in\na respectable and down-to-earth manner. While they did protect crops, they\nalso ate horses, and possibly people who were out too late at night.\n\nJapanese folklore referred to the Honshu wolves as Okami, Yama-inu (mountain\ndog), and Okuri-inu (escorting dog). If a person walking alone after dark felt\nthey were being watched, they were considered as protected. If you tripped\nthough, it was said Okami would attack you. They started dying from rabies in\nthe 1700s, and were hunted by people trying to bring in cattle in the 1800s.\nNowadays, in some parts of Japan, it is said some survived and studies are\noften done as to whether or not they are still out there.\n\nThe wolf as god is worshiped under the name of Ooguchi no Magami, or \"Large-\nMouthed Pure God\". The people who followed the Shinto beliefs had rites in\nsmall farming villages to honor it. It is still worshiped at some shrines,\nlike at the Mitsumine mountains. The shrine guardians there are wolves, not\nfoxes. The Ainu felt that a white wolf came and mated with a human woman to\ncreate their people, similar to some of the British Columbia and Alaska native\npeoples who believe that the ancestors of men had been wolves.\n\nThe Ooguchi Magami Matsuri, or Wolf Deity Festival, takes place at the Musashi\nMitake Jinja every January.\n\nThere is also a Japanese myth of how a wolf deity, a white wolf, appeared to\nYamato Takeru, son of Emperor Keikko. Takaru and his group got lost near\nMitakesan when a demon shape-shifted into a white deer and obstructed the\nroad. The white wolf showed him the way and led his group to the correct path\nto where they were going.\n\nYou can find all of this information and more in library books, or on internet\nwebsites if you run searches.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-20T07:20:39.093", "id": "38508", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-26T09:59:42.913", "last_edit_date": "2017-01-26T09:59:42.913", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "30427", "parent_id": "474", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nPretty sure her origin is rather primarily the Germanic \"Frau Holle\", probably\nespecially Holle's connections with the Greek/Roman \"Diana/Artemis\" and \"Frau\nGauden\" and the wild hunt.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-01-08T16:50:18.977", "id": "56399", "last_activity_date": "2020-01-08T16:50:18.977", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "51496", "parent_id": "474", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nFor the most part, there is not much.\n\nThe author Isuna Hasekura herself\n[mentioned](https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/shrewd-deals-\nsad-girls-interview-spice-wolf-creator-isuna-hasekura/) in an interview that\nHolo is based off folklore from France, Germany, and Slavonic countries.\n\nOne particular story worth noting is that of the [\"corn-\nwolf\"](https://www.bartleby.com/196/pages/page448.html) from the story of the\nGolden Bough. That and a particular mention of a [corn\nritual](http://www.bartleby.com/196/96.html#22) parallels particular Pasloe\nrituals regarding the wheat harvest.\n\nNote that while the word \"corn\" is mentioned, it does not refer to the maize\ncrop of modern times, as it did not exist in the pre-Christian, medevial\nsetting that the series is based on, since it was a New World crop. During\n[those\ntimes](https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/soc.history.medieval/BOETzbJGEXw)\n(even in Britian now), any staple cereal crop was referred to as 'corn.'\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-01-08T19:10:21.063", "id": "56400", "last_activity_date": "2020-01-09T01:25:44.873", "last_edit_date": "2020-01-09T01:25:44.873", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "474", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nHorokew (Kamuy) is the Ainu word for wolf. And probably where Horo's name\ncomes from. The r is important because unlike the Japanese language the Ainu\nlanguage actually has the R-sound. Inserting it this way will help you find\nmore background on Ainu tradition and wolf deities that in part inspired the\nHoro you know and love from Spice & Wolf.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-01-09T17:57:02.280", "id": "56413", "last_activity_date": "2020-01-09T17:57:02.280", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "51514", "parent_id": "474", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "526", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI still don't understand why Harry killed Brandon. He was Harry's best friend\nand the most loyal member he had.\n\nIs it because he was jealous of him because he was Maria's boyfriend, or was\nit for another reason?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T15:25:49.657", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "481", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-10T21:43:15.383", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-10T21:43:15.383", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "85", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "gungrave" ], "title": "Why did Harry want to kill Brandon?", "view_count": 812 }

[ { "body": "\n\nHarry wanted to take leadership of the syndicate, and the only way to do that\nwas to assassinate Big Daddy, a way that Brandon does not approve with as he\nwas still very loyal to Millennion's founder and leader. Brandon even left\nMaria when her dad, Big Daddy, disagreed with their relationship. So Harry\nbetrayed both Brandon and Big Daddy, killing them both, in order to take\ncontrol of Millennion.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T02:29:25.790", "id": "526", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-31T11:21:01.737", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-31T11:21:01.737", "last_editor_user_id": "218", "owner_user_id": "66", "parent_id": "481", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2697", "answer_count": 7, "body": "\n\nWhen revived by Orochimaru, the First and Second were sent to fight the Third,\nhowever, we know today that:\n\n> The First beat one of the most powerful ninjas in history (me), could heal\n> himself without activating any special jutsu, could summon a freaking chakra\n> sucking tree dragon.\n\nMoreover!\n\n> The Second had known (invented!!) Edo Tensei (meaning he could have broken\n> free of Orochimaru's control), he also knew space-time ninjutsu.\n\nWith those abilities, plus immortality, they couldn't have _possibly_ lost\nagainst the Third at their full power.\n\nSo in that case, why didn't they use their full power against the Third? Their\nemotions should have been completely erased, and made into a strict killing\nmachine, and nothing more.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T15:49:50.353", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "483", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-24T17:06:25.370", "last_edit_date": "2013-04-10T16:39:16.590", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "27", "post_type": "question", "score": 13, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Why didn't the First and Second Hokage's fight with full power against the Third?", "view_count": 29720 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI think they didn't fight at their full powers because Orochimaru controlled\nthem.\n\n> Other than Kabuto, who lets the ninjas fight themselves (more or less).\n\nBecause he really controls them, they can't fight better than Orochimaru\nallowed them to do.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T15:59:02.033", "id": "486", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-21T09:52:31.233", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-21T09:52:31.233", "last_editor_user_id": "13539", "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "483", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nRevived or not, they're still not the real deal. The Third was not fighting\nagainst the real Shodai and Nidaime. That would have been perhaps a completely\ndifferent fight.\n\nBesides, the fact that Orochimaru's Edo Tensei might not have been that\nperfect and powerful (perhaps less perfect than Kabuto's), makes me (and not\njust me) think he used it for the sentimental effect it would have had on the\nThird, i.e. fighting against your predecessors, rather than actual relying on\ntheir (weakened) power only.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T16:06:57.767", "id": "487", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-15T16:06:57.767", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15", "parent_id": "483", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the later part of the manga, the Second Hokage (Nidaime) thanked Orochimaru\nfor making his jutsu **more perfect** because they were revived at their peak\npowers. \nDuring the first time, Orochimaru's Edo Tensei was not perfect, due to which\nSarutobi was able to seal them inside the Shinigami's belly.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-28T02:32:52.680", "id": "2697", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-21T10:39:15.633", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-21T10:39:15.633", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "1508", "parent_id": "483", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nI can think of two (2) theories about that:\n\n 1. They could've kept some \"free will\" to avoid using full force against a friendly, even though they were being controlled into. Perhaps their strength was enough to counter Orochimaru's control somewhat (but not enough to properly \"release\" themselves from his control). You see that, when summoned, one of the first things they did was \"ask for forgiveness\" from Sarutobi, because they had to fight.\n\n 2. It might be linked to the \"sacrificial bodies\" Orochimaru used to summon them: By law of conservation, the \"package\" cannot be forced to contain something that goes beyond their capacity, and thus limited the strength of First and Second. It was not a hard limit (the ninjas used were _far inferior_ ), but Orochimaru might be using THEIR full strength (but still be constraining First and Second's strength altogether).\n\nSuspension of Disbelief aside, it might be the reason \"why\" they fought below\ntheir grade. That, or Sarutobi could manage both of them at once, but that's\neven more farfetched.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-28T20:56:53.743", "id": "2735", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-28T21:07:29.590", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-28T21:07:29.590", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "327", "parent_id": "483", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\n<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muriFb2rmeU>\n\nInfinite chakra needs to be put into context ... Like the first and second\nHokage had infinite chakra when they fought the third Hokage but still lost\nand the reason for that was simple .\n\nHaving an infinite amount of chakra does not mean necessarily having an\nability to raise your chakra levels indefinitely as in going from a particular\nenergy capacity to raising it infinitely but like a battery which has a set\npower capacity being able to recharge or maintain that set power or chakra\ncapacity to full indefinitely (my same argument on superman as he is dependent\non the suns power and since the suns output and life span including the amount\nof suns that exist are limited therefore his power to become stronger and\nstronger coincides with that limit like a rechargeable battery with a limited\nrecharger)\n\nSO AN EDO-TENSEI CHAKRA DOES NOT GO ABOVE ITS NATURAL LEVEL FROM WHEN THE\nPERSON WAS ALIVE (UNLESS CHAKRA CAPACITY WAS IMPROVED BY CASTER) BUT RATHER\nREGENERATES THE SAME WAY A DAMAGE BODY DOES WHICH MEANS BECOMING A ZOMBIE\nSIMPLY PUTS YOU INTO A CONSTANT STAGNANT STATE OF FIXED EXISTENCE SO IF YOU'RE\nA LEVEL 9 THEN YOU CONSTANTLY REGENERATE AND RECUPERATE BACK TO LEVEL 9\nREGARDLESS OF WHAT YOUR OPPONENT DOES TO YOU OR HOW MUCH CHAKRA YOU USE UP PER\nJUTSU .\n\nTHE PROBLEM IS WHETHER MADARA WAS RESURRECTED AT FULL STRENGTH BECAUSE IT\nSEEMED AS IF HE WAS AND IMPROVED TO BOOT AND EVEN IF HE WAS NOT , DOES HE HAVE\nJUTSUS WHICH REQUIRE GREATER CHAKRA CAPACITY LEVELS THAN HIS EDO BODY AND IS\nTHAT REALLY BETTER THAN HAVING THE ABILITY TO RECHARGE HIS CHAKRA AND USE\nKAMIKAZE MANEUVERS ?\n\nFrom what I remember the first and second Hokage are only at 70% of their\npower in ZOMBIE form currently. while I do suspect it may be a good trade off\nfor the second Hokage as his techniques seem to be based on talent for\nexecution rather than power level, the first is like Gaara and Kisame in that\ntheir abilities become bigger and more powerful like a DBZ character by just\nusing higher amounts of chakra pumped into it although you would think they\ncan just add more and more chakra to an already executed jutsu as time goes on\nbut whatever .\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-29T18:10:21.797", "id": "6078", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-29T18:10:21.797", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2823", "parent_id": "483", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's actually because the author (Kishimoto) did not plan out the entire story\nat that point. They used to describe the Third as the strongest Hokage, but\nthis all changed when we got to Shippuuden. Don't bother trying to explain it\nwithin the Naruto universe - it's simply an inconsistency in the story, even\nif Kishimoto writes in some details to patch this error up later on. It's not\na knock on the Naruto series though, as this show has been going on for over a\ndecade.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-30T03:27:35.843", "id": "6632", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-24T16:50:34.307", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-24T16:50:34.307", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "3157", "parent_id": "483", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nTowards the end of the manga, when Orochimaru summons all four dead Hokage\nwith Edo Tensei after releasing their souls from the Death Reaper's stomach,\nit is stated that the first time around, all those years ago, when Orochimaru\nattacked the Hidden Leaf Village (Konohagakure) and failed, Orochimaru had\npurposely summoned the first and second Hokage without their full power,\nknowing full well that if he did so, he would not be able to control them.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-03T02:20:10.760", "id": "15434", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-24T17:06:25.370", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-24T17:06:25.370", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "9451", "parent_id": "483", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "490", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nAs we know, the Naruto \"Table of the elements\" consists of more than just the\nbasic 5.\n\nIn addition to all of the combination elements, (Wood, Ice, etc), we also have\nthe three rather bizarre Yin, Yang, and YinYang elements.\n\nWhat are they? What can they do? Tobi explained that mastery over these\nelements allows one to basically become God, completely erasing the boundary\nbetween dream and reality. However, is that all there is to it?\n\nThe Second Mizukage states that genjutsu is basically Yin element, what does\nthat make the Yang element?\n\nAlso, what is the YinYang element? Is \"God\" the only jutsu there?\n\nWhat about elementless jutsus like Shadow Clone, do they constitute as either\nof the three?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T15:55:26.293", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "485", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-11T19:18:00.830", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-11T19:18:00.830", "last_editor_user_id": "191", "owner_user_id": "27", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "What constitutes as an Yin/Yang/Yinyang element technique?", "view_count": 9103 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThis will only partly answer your question, but according to naruto wikia\n[1](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1oEFg.png),\n\n> Yin relates to one's spiritual energy and Yang relates to one's physical\n> energy and it's necessary to utilise both of these in order to mould chakra\n> for ninjutsu.\n\nI thing that the phrase \"become God\" is used as a metaphor. According to the\nsame wiki, the Sage of the Six Paths had absolute control over Yin and Yang,\nand was able to \"make his fantasies come to life\". This is described as\n[2](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Yin%E2%80%93Yang_Release)\n\n> The process he used is explained to have initially involved the\n> administration of imagination, and the spiritual energy which forms the\n> basis of Yin chakra to create shape and form from nothingness. Then, through\n> the application of vitality, and the physical energy which forms the basis\n> of Yang chakra, he would breathe life into the prior form.\n\n_The Second Mizukage states that genjutsu is basically Yin element, what does\nthat make the Yang element?_\n\nYes, genjitsu is basically a subset of Yin release ( _Inton_ , 陰遁). Based on\nthe fact that Yin relates to spirit energy, and Yang relates to physical\nenergy, that makes perfect sense, because genjitsu techniques are basically\nillusions. According to the wiki again, the Yang release ( _Yōton_ , 陽遁) is\n\"based on the physical energy that governs vitality\" and\n[3](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Creation_of_All_Things)\n\n> can be used to breathe life into form.\n\nIt's also the Yang part of the Nine-Tailed Fox's chakra that was sealed within\nNaruto. This causes the Yang chakra to have impact on other techniques when\nNaruto is in Nine-Tails Chakra Mode - namely, the Wood Release technique.\n\nIt is also implied that the elemental-less techniques, have their source in\nYin and Yang (this is from chapter 316):\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n * [1](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1oEFg.png)[Yin-Yang Release](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Yin%E2%80%93Yang_Release)\n * [2](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Yin%E2%80%93Yang_Release)[Creation of All Things](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Creation_of_All_Things)\n * [3](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Creation_of_All_Things)[Yang Release](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Yang_Release)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T16:46:37.753", "id": "490", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-15T16:53:56.703", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-15T16:53:56.703", "last_editor_user_id": "111", "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "485", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nYin is spiritual energy and Yang is physical energy. You need to manipulate\nboth spiritual and physical energy to mold jutsus.\n\nIn [page 11 of chapter 510](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kirrq.jpg), Tobi\nexplains that by administering imagination, and the spiritual energy which\nforms the basis of 'yin' power... he would create shape and form from\nnothingness. By administering vitality, and the physical energy which forms\nthe basis of 'yang' power... he would breathe life into that form.\n\n**Chakra**\n\nAs you are probably aware, a [ninja's\nchakra](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Chakra#Normal_Chakra) is composed of a\nbalanced mix of his spiritual and physical energy. These two components are\nYin and Yang, respectively.\n\n**On Jutsus**\n\nThe Yin and Yang nature seem to be the basis for most jutsus that do use\nnature alteration, but are non-elemental (e.g. genjitsu). It seems that Chakra\nis formed when [combining](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TkI1g.jpg) spiritual and\nphysical energy. Some people are more suited with one over the other, which\nmight determine whether their balance of Yin and Yang naturally leans towards\neither side. Therefore not all jutsus require an _exact_ balance of these two\nYin and Yang. Instead varied proportions of the combined forces by different\nmeans based on the intent of the user determine the jitsu.\n\n**Inton (Yin Release)**\n\nJutsu like genjutsu and the Yamanaka Clan's psychic jutsu are spiritual and\nwhich focus on the mind. So they must use Yin and Yang nature alteration,\nemphasizing the Yin. These all seem to be jutsu which focus on extending your\nown chakra to your opponent and connecting your mind (e.g., implanting an\nillusion) to theirs. Whether it’s to implant an illusion, read their mind, or\nproject thoughts etc. This basically uses spiritual chakra as a manifestation\nof your mind.\n\n**Youton (Yang Release)**\n\nJutsu like Shadow Clones, medical jutsu, and the Akimichi Clan's size jutsu\nare physical. They focus on manipulating physical substances or creating them\nfrom chakra. They must use Yin and Yang nature alteration, emphasizing the\nYang.\n\n**Summary**\n\nYoton (Yang Release) creates life force. Inton (Yin Release) materializes\nimagination. Onmyoton/In'youton (Yin-Yang Release) is a combination of both\nYinton and Yangton (you could say the [Sage of the Six\nPath](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sage_of_the_Six_Paths)'s unique application\nof this is a bloodline ability). It allows one to imagine something and\nmaterialize it without giving up anything but chakra. In other words, giving\nform to one's imagination.\n\nYin + Yang = Chakra\n\nYin = Spiritual Energy\n\nYang = Physical Energy\n\nYin Release = Uses spiritual energy extending the mind\n\nYang Release = Uses physical energy extend the body\n\nYin-Yang Release = Yin Release + Yang Release\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T16:54:45.767", "id": "495", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-24T06:12:33.930", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-24T06:12:33.930", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "485", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\n * **Yin element** : \nThe yin element techniques, the basis of imagination and spiritual energy, can\nbe used to create form out of nothingness. \nDuring the Kyuubi attack on Konoha Minato used the Shiki Fuujin to seal the\nYin half of the Kyuubi's chakra within the Shinigami. \nIt is, as you (and the Second Mizukage) say, the basis of genjutsu.\n\n * **Yang element:** \nThe yang element techniques, the basis of vitality and physical energy, can be\nused to breathe life into form. \nDuring the Kyuubi attack on Konoha Minato sealed the Yang half of the Kyuubi's\nchakra within Naruto. \nWhenever Naruto is in _Kyuubi chakra mode_ , nearby Mokuton technique created\ntrees react to the Yang element's live-giving properties and develop into\nfull-grown mature trees in an instant.\n\n * **The Yin-Yang element:** \nThese are a combination of the use of both elements described above. As Yin is\nrelated to the user's spiritual energy and Yang to the user's physical energy,\nit is necessary to use both of them in order to mold chakra to create\nNinjutsu. \nYamato explains in chapter 316 (page 9) that the manipulation of Yin and Yang\nis the source of non-elemental techniques such as the Kagemane no Jutsu, Baika\nno Jutsu, medical ninjutsu, genjutsu, etc. \nThe Rikudou Sennin had such a mastery over these that he could use Yin to make\nhis dreams take form and Yang to make his fantasies real.\n\n> Tobi explained that mastery over these elements allows one to basically\n> become God, completely erasing the boundary between dream and reality.\n\nThe Rikudou Sennin's possessed an ability called Banbutsu Souzou (Creation of\nAll Things), with which he created the nine Bijuu, out of the Juubi's chakra.\nQuoting from the [Naruto Wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Narutopedia):\n\n> The process he used is explained to have initially involved the\n> administration of imagination, and the spiritual energy which forms the\n> basis of Yin chakra to create shape and form from nothingness. Then, through\n> the application of vitality, and the physical energy which forms the basis\n> of Yang chakra, he would breathe life into the prior form. Thus the Sage\n> used this to split the Ten-Tails into nine separate beings.\n\nThe jutsu Izanagi is also derived from this ability. \nAlso,\n\n> Madara has implied that Yin–Yang element was involved in the creation of\n> White Zetsu and his clones.\n\nSo basically, by mastering these one can become God, since he will be able to\nput anything that he imagines into life.\n\nAnd to answer your question regarding Kagebunshin no Jutsu and the like, I'd\nsay that they do come from the mastery of the Yin-Yang element, since they are\nnot produced by any of the basic chakra elements, and they are indeed a\nproduct of your imagination come to life.\n\n * **EDIT:** \nUnlike SingerOfTheFall, I do not think that the \"become God\" phrase is just a\nmetaphor. As far as we know, the world they live in may be the creation of\nsomeone who mastered Yin-Yang elements, thus being able to put the world they\nhave imagined into life (somewhat like what Tobi wants to do with is Tsuki no\nMe plan (although I believe he needs to do his plan like so because he does\nnot fully master Yin-Yang elements)). I believe that is the kind of power Tobi\nspeaks of when he says \"become God\".\n\n_References:_ \n[Elements](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Nature_Transformation#Yin_and_Yang),\n[Yin](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Yin_Release),\n[Yang](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Yang_Release), [Yin-\nYang](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Yin%E2%80%93Yang_Release#cite_note-c510-0)\nand [Banbutsu Souzou](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Creation_of_All_Things)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T17:19:11.817", "id": "497", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-14T17:06:14.557", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-14T17:06:14.557", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "485", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "496", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIt was said that a Hollow killed with a Zanpakuto is cleansed of all of his\npost-mortem sins, and is sent to soul society (unless he had committed sins in\nhis lifetime, then he goes to Hell).\n\nWhat would then when a Menos, which easily contains hundreds if not thousands\nof souls, is killed with a Zanpakuto?\n\nWould all of the souls be released? Or perhaps the souls fused into one? If\nso, does that mean that Ulqiorra is somewhere in Soul Society right now?\n\nIs such a thing explained anywhere?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T16:29:51.143", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "488", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-15T16:58:22.980", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "post_type": "question", "score": 4, "tags": [ "bleach" ], "title": "What would happen to a Menos or an Arrancar killed with a Zanpakuto?", "view_count": 813 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't think it is mentioned anywhere, but what I think would be logical (but\ndoes not happen in the anime/manga) is that the myriad of hollows suppressed\nwithin a Menos are released (since the dominant personality has been\ndestroyed) while those that were damaged in the process of the attack (e.g.\nthose that constitute the wounded flesh) would be purified. So a large-scale\nattack that can obliterate a Menos might purify all of the souls.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T16:58:22.980", "id": "496", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-15T16:58:22.980", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "97", "parent_id": "488", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "492", "answer_count": 5, "body": "\n\nThis question actually originated from the games, but it applies to the\nanime/manga as well.\n\nWater is strong against fire because water can extinguish fire. Electricity is\nweak against Grass because grass is grounded, which nullifies electricity.\n\nWhat is the reasoning for Bug to be effective against Dark type?\n\n> And I've already heard about the Malaria in Africa joke, it's not funny!\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T16:41:20.247", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "489", "last_activity_date": "2019-10-04T09:24:05.843", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "post_type": "question", "score": 13, "tags": [ "pokemon" ], "title": "Why are Bug type attacks effective against Dark type Pokemon?", "view_count": 25673 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIf I had to guess, it was because of game balance more than logic.\n\nThere are only two types that are super-effective against Dark.\n\n * Fighting\n * Bug\n\nNeither of which make much logical sense. But it would be fairly safe to say\nthat Dark would be overpowered if it only had one or no weaknesses.\n\nAnother argument to support the game-balance motivation is that bug types\nwould otherwise be considered weak since they are super-effective against few\nother types.\n\nSo in short, they probably needed to keep Dark in check and make Bug more\ncompetitive.\n\n* * *\n\nThis sort of balancing isn't particularly new. Psychic is a good example.\n\nIn the first generation of games, Psychic had only one weakness - Bug. Despite\nghost also being super-effective against Psychic, there weren't any \"real\"\nghost attacks in generation 1 (and only a couple of bug attacks).\n\nSo generation 2 added Dark types to keep Psychics in check.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T16:53:03.480", "id": "492", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-15T16:53:03.480", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "17", "parent_id": "489", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nDark types are weak to (and resisted by) fighting because most types of\nfighting emphasize discipline; many of them put themselves in painful\nsituations to strengthen themselves.\n\nHowever, the dark type doesn't train much, and tend not to do well in fair\ncombat because they are physically weaker than a given fighting type, and not\ntough enough to withstand them, either.\n\nNow, as for bugs, one of their attributes is that they tend to be cooperative,\nand their attacks are nothing but direct to the goals they instinctually show.\nDark types are super effective on psychic types because psychic types have the\nsame indirect tricks, but the intimidation of dark types put fear into psychic\ntypes, and you can't really reason with a psychopath using psychology tricks\nor casting uncertainty or confusion into their minds because of their strong\nwill. For bugs on dark, it's the same thing as fighting on dark. The dexterity\nand organization bugs naturally develop overpower the dark type's battle\ncoordination, because their specialty is fighting unfair, but if a group of\ninsects attack you, there's no backup plan one can use to get them off of you,\nshort of maybe jumping into water, setting yourself on fire, or otherwise\ncloak yourself in something which keeps the bugs from continuing to attack\nyou.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-10-21T21:39:42.210", "id": "36978", "last_activity_date": "2016-10-21T21:39:42.210", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "28853", "parent_id": "489", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nDark was 100% a balance to Psychic in Gen II, Psychic dominated the typing\ntree and what little multiplayer competition there was during Gen 1 (this was\nalso due to the fact that there was no separate \"Special Attack\" and \"Special\nDefense\" in Gen 1, only \"Special\" which covered both and made Psychics who\nnormally excelled in the stat both powerful AND bulky).\n\nBUT one can see reasoning behind the chosen typing beyond convenience of\nbalancing the types.\n\nA key thing to note is that the Japanese name for the \"Dark\" type is more\nclosely translated to \"Evil\" or \"Sinister.\" This is why dark types have many\nunderhanded or villainous move names like \"Quash,\" \"Sucker Punch,\" \"Fake\nTears,\" \"Torment,\" and \"Nasty Plot.\" Also why the Fairy type, which embodies\ngoodness or purity, has a type advantage.\n\nAlternatively, Fighting type embodies heroism or, as Beetle said, discipline.\nIf you consider the culture of classic Japanese action films, the heroes who\ntake down EVIL are usually adept and disciplined in martial arts.\n\nOn the Bug side, insects obviously aren't know to be the undoing of evil, but\nif you consider what people associate with bugs, things become more clear:\n\n * From one angle, we can again refer to Japanese culture. To quote TvTropes.org: \"Japan loves bugs, and they're everywhere. Not only is Bug Catching one of the oldest pastimes in the country, but much of their pop culture includes or is influenced by them.\" Beetles and bugs are regularly the costume theme designs of fictional heroes or mechs in Japanese series. In Gen II, they introduced Heracross a Bug/FIGHTING hercules beetle, a wildly popular beetle, alongside the Dark type to perfectly counter the new type. This is the \"Hero\" angle cropping up again.\n * The second angle to consider is on the other end of the spectrum of how Evil is vanquished. Bugs are known to swarm or cooperate in numbers that overwhelm the target (think endless mosquitos on a camping trip or a synchronized colony of ants). Similarly, if one wants to overthrow a great evil, an army or a cooperative society can collaborate to take it down with sheer numbers. Evil may strike one or a handful down, but the movement will overwhelm eventually.\n\nSo ultimately, Evil (Dark) is framed as being bested by discipline/heroism\n(Fighting), the collective effort of the masses (Bug), or pure goodness\n(Fairy).\n\nNow if only somebody could explain why exactly it is that Ghost type is weak\nagainst Dark type...\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-11-26T08:55:21.597", "id": "37521", "last_activity_date": "2016-11-26T08:55:21.597", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29457", "parent_id": "489", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe answer is simple: Kamen Rider.\n\nKamen Rider was (and probably still is) an insanely popular Power-Rangers\nstyle action show in Japan where the hero is insect-themed. An insect themed\nhero (as \"Goosh\" mentioned vaguely) who fights against the forces of EVIL\n(Dark Types).\n\nSo you can bet Bug > Dark is purely the result of Kamen Rider.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-11T06:54:30.390", "id": "37806", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-11T06:54:30.390", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29708", "parent_id": "489", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Dark type is an embodiment of dirty tactics. The original Japanese\ntranslation is 'Evil' type, and this is shown as giving the Pokemon of this\ntype underhanded or sneaky ways of fighting. Examples of this are shown in\nvarious Dark type moves:\n\nPursuit : Dealing more damage on an enemy trying to retreat\n\nSucker Punch : Attacking before the enemy is ready\n\nFake Tears: Pretending to cry to put an enemy off guard\n\nBeat up: Attacking with the whole team in an unfair 6v1 fight\n\nCulturally in Japan, the villainous dark character must be beaten by the\nvirtuous hero character. That is why Fighting types are super effective. They\nembody this heroism trait.\n\nSo why also Bugs? This is probably a reference to the series Kamen Rider, a\nshow that has existed continuously from the 1970s to the present day and is a\ncultural phenomenon large enough that every child in Japan would know it. In\nthis series, the usual premise is a Masked Hero riding a motorcycle fights the\nforces of evil with the Main character always using an Insect themed costume.\n\nIn fact, the Bug type move Signal Beam(シグナルビーム) is pronounced as English in\nthe original Japanese versions, reminiscent of many Kamen Rider 'special\nmoves'.\n\nThis insect association with heroism actually goes back further, with stag\nbeetles representing the honourable samurai and becoming the basis for many\nreal samurai helmet designs.\n\nAnother hint towards this connection exists before the Dark type was ever\nintroduced. In generation 1, the villains often used Poison types. This is the\nonly Generation where Bug types were super effective against poison!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-09-27T17:58:30.357", "id": "42507", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-27T17:58:30.357", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "35116", "parent_id": "489", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "504", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nWhat are the names of the main Four Families that live in Soul Society?\n\nIs there any information on how they came to be? Or how they became such? And\ndo each of these clans commonly exceeds at a particular area (like the\n_Shihōin_ clan were usually the heads of the Correction Corps, and experts at\nKidō and Shunpo)?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T16:49:37.667", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "491", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-25T17:23:46.873", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-15T18:11:16.937", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "167", "post_type": "question", "score": 10, "tags": [ "bleach" ], "title": "What are the Four Noble Families of Soul Society?", "view_count": 17094 }

[ { "body": "\n\nBased on **[this wiki page](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Noble_Houses)**\n\n> The Noble Houses of Soul Society have an unclear role in the culture, social\n> and governmental aspects of that dimensions existence. The Four Noble\n> Families carry the most weight and appear to have some influence over the\n> governmental institutions (i.e. Central 46 Chambers) and even institutions\n> outside of the government (i.e. Shin'ō Academy). The military (i.e. Gotei\n> 13, Kidō Corps & Onmitsukidō) have no authority to act against a noble\n> family without evidence that their actions are treasonous to Soul Society.\n\nOnly two clans were revealed thus fur:\n\n> ## Shihōin Clan\n>\n> By tradition, the head of the Shihōin family leads the Onmitsukidō. Also\n> known as the Tenshiheisōban (天賜兵装番, House of Godly Gears), they are the\n> Caretakers of the Hōgu (宝具, lit. \"Treasure Tool\") and Bugu (武具, lit. \"War\n> Tool\") said to have been bestowed on them by the gods.\n>\n> ## Kuchiki Clan\n>\n> There is reason to believe that the captaincy of the 6th Division runs in\n> the Kuchiki family, as at least two members, both of them were family heads,\n> have held the title captain and two other known members have been lieutenant\n> and 3rd seat respectively. Members of the Kuchiki family have been known to\n> wear Kenseikan (牽星箝, lit. \"Star-Pulling Insert\") in their hair, which\n> symbolizes their nobility as one of Four Noble Families. The Kuchiki family\n> also has a white scarf made by the master weaver, Tsujishirō Kuroemon III.\n> The scarf is made from the Ginpaku Kazahana no Uzuginu (銀白風花の紗, Silks of the\n> Silverwhite Wildflower), a silver-white, windflower light silk, and is a\n> family heirloom that is handed down from generation to generation and is\n> given to each Kuchiki family head. The scarf alone is worth enough to buy\n> ten mansions in the Seireitei. By tradition, the family has been charged\n> with compiling and protecting the history of Soul Society. The family\n> resides in the Kuchiki Family Manor.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T17:54:08.053", "id": "500", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-15T18:07:02.457", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-15T18:07:02.457", "last_editor_user_id": "85", "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "491", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nHere is a compiled list of the noble families compiled from the [Bleach\nWiki](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Noble_Houses)\n\nThey are currently 4 greater noble families, but only 2 have been revealed:\n\n * The [Shihouin](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Shih%C5%8Din_Clan) Clan are tasked with taking care of various treasures and weapons. [Yoruichi](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Yoruichi_Shih%C5%8Din) was formerly the head of this family. The head of this family typically served as the head of the [Onmitsukidou](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Onmitsukid%C5%8D).\n * The [Kuchiki](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Kuchiki_Clan) Clan are charged with protecting the history of the Soul Society. [Byakuya Kuchiki](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Byakuya_Kuchiki), Captain of the 6th Division is the head of this family. The Shihouin Shield is used by Juushiro Ukitake (13th Division Captain) and Shunsui Kyouraku (8th Division Captain) to destroy the [Soukyoku](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/S%C5%8Dkyoku).\n\nThere used to be a fifth, the [Shiba\nClan](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Shiba_Clan), equaling in prestige to the\ntwo know greater noble families, but after the death of its most prominent\nmember, the former lieutenant of the 13th Division, [Kaien\nShiba](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Kaien_Shiba), the family's prestige seems\nto have fallen. They seemed to have specialized in fireworks. In Chapter 529,\nit is revealed that Ichigo's father, Isshin, is from a branch family of the\nShiba Clan and former 10th Division Captain.\n\nThe [Ryoudoji](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Ry%C5%8Ddoji_Family) were also\nonce a noble family, but they were exiled over 1000 years ago from the current\nseries timeline.\n\nThere are also various [lesser noble\nfamilies](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Noble_Houses#Lower_Noble_Houses) that\nserve the greater noble families, here are the known ones:\n\n * Feng Clan, served as assassins and executioners for the Shihouin Clan. [Sui Feng](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Su%C3%AC-F%C4%93ng), Captain of the 2nd Division & General Administrator Commander of the Onmitsukido Special Forces, is the head of this Clan.\n * Kyouraku Clan, not much is know about this family but the fact the it is quite old and prestigious. [Shunsui Kyouraku](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Shunsui_Ky%C5%8Draku), the captain of the 8th Division is the second son from this family.\n * Ukitake Family, is another lower noble family. [Juushirou Ukitake](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/J%C5%ABshir%C5%8D_Ukitake), the captain of the 13th Division is the eldest son of this family.\n * Oumaeda Family is a family in service of the Shihou Clan and the [Onmitsukidou](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Onmitsukid%C5%8D) special forces. The current Lieutenant of the 2nd Division and Corps Commander of the Patrol Corps of the Onmitsukidou, [Marechiyo Oumaeda](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Marechiyo_%C5%8Cmaeda) is the eldest son of this Family.\n * Kira Family is another lesser noble family, [Izuru Kira](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Izuru_Kira), Lieutenant of the 3rd Division, the a member of this family. His status within the family has not been mentioned.\n * [Kasumioji](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Kasumi%C5%8Dji_Clan) Family, they are famous weapon-smiths in Soul society. The members are predominately female. \n * Kannogi Family, the appear in to be connected to the Kasumiouji in the anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T18:30:05.297", "id": "504", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-06T16:59:29.567", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-06T16:59:29.567", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "491", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "494", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nTobi has displayed the ability to be able to accurately locate and teleport to\nany other character (He displayed it with Naruto, Sasuke, the sealed Gold and\nSilver brothers, and more).\n\nHow does that work? I don't recall the Sharingan having such a wide range.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T16:53:11.360", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "493", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-15T10:12:20.703", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "post_type": "question", "score": 2, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "What is the secret behind Tobi's GPS-like technique?", "view_count": 278 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThat ability is explained in later episodes, so it will be enclosed in spoiler\ntags.\n\n> When Obito crashed onto Madara's cave, he saved him by attaching a white\n> Zetsu (who is a clone saturated with Hashirama Senju's cells). There are\n> many white Zetsu clones spread across the land, and they can communicate\n> with each other via the roots of trees in the earth. ( _Avatar: the Last\n> airbender_ style). The Zetsu attached to Obito is no different. That way he\n> can get immediate intelligence from practically anywhere, including the\n> location of other people.\n\nThe teleportation is made using his normal space-time techniques.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T16:53:11.360", "id": "494", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-15T10:12:20.703", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-15T10:12:20.703", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "493", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "499", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIs there any clear description as to how Aang survived for 100 years inside of\nthe iceberg?\n\nCan Avatars do that? If they can, then why didn't the other Avatars stay alive\nfor long time periods? And whatever was the case, how did Aapa stay alive too?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T17:43:36.740", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "498", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-19T05:40:16.973", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-18T17:53:16.623", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "157", "post_type": "question", "score": 13, "tags": [ "avatar" ], "title": "How could Aang stay alive for 100 years?", "view_count": 3754 }

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom [**Avatar Wiki**](http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Aang):\n\n> However, Aang later discovered that he would be sent to the Eastern Air\n> Temple in order to complete his airbending training far away from Monk\n> Gyatso, whom the other monks thought was too soft on him. Afraid and\n> confused, the young airbender ran away with his flying bison, Appa, though\n> they became caught in a storm shortly after, which caused them to crash into\n> the water. Aang saved himself and Appa from drowning by semi-consciously\n> entering the Avatar State and freezing them both in a sphere of ice through\n> a combination of airbending and waterbending. The Avatar State kept him\n> alive, albeit not fully conscious, in the iceberg for about a hundred years\n> while the war raged on.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T17:52:41.397", "id": "499", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-28T18:27:39.840", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-28T18:27:39.840", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "85", "parent_id": "498", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the Avatar universe, much like in the _Futurama_ , _Frozen_ or _Once Upon a\nTime_ universes, some people who are frozen under certain conditions have\ntheir metabolisms pause.\n\nIn _A:TLA_ , Aang, after freezing himself and Appa, is sustained through the\nAvatar State according to this [currently unsourced portion of Aang's page in\nAvatar Wikia](http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Aang):\n\n> The Avatar State kept him alive, albeit not fully conscious, in the iceberg\n> for about a hundred years while the war raged on.\n\nI am guessing the Avatar State also sustains Appa.\n\nThis does not really happen in real life except for things like\n[Cryptobiosis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptobiosis) but is seen in much\nfantasy and scifi.\n\n### Further reading\n\n * [Wikipedia - Suspended animation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspended_animation)\n * [TvTropes - Human Popsicle](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HumanPopsicle)\n * [Zidbits - Can A Human Be Frozen And Brought Back To Life?](http://zidbits.com/2011/02/can-a-human-be-frozen-and-brought-back-to-life/)\n * [Wikipedia - Cryonics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-24T19:38:17.607", "id": "21802", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-19T05:40:16.973", "last_edit_date": "2021-06-19T05:40:16.973", "last_editor_user_id": "4484", "owner_user_id": "4484", "parent_id": "498", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "502", "answer_count": 6, "body": "\n\nIt may be because I'm Jewish (yes, Madara is Jewish), but I couldn't help but\nnoticing the similarities between Fullmetal Alchemist to the German Nazi\nregime.\n\n * German names (Edward, Alphonse, Olivier, Bradley)\n * A Fuhrer\n * \"Dogs of the Army\"\n * Very militarized\n * Blond hair and blue eyes\n * Extermination (Ishvals)\n * War on multiple fronts\n * Human experimentation\n * An obsession with the occult among high ranking officials\n\nIs it just me? Or is there a connection? Is there some written reference to\nthat? Has the mangaka said anything about it?\n\n", "comment_count": 11, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T18:06:45.450", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "501", "last_activity_date": "2020-03-05T18:02:22.173", "last_edit_date": "2020-03-05T06:59:37.740", "last_editor_user_id": "52167", "owner_user_id": "27", "post_type": "question", "score": 59, "tags": [ "fullmetal-alchemist-series" ], "title": "Is Fullmetal Alchemist based on Nazi Germany?", "view_count": 92848 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe [FMA\nWiki](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Fullmetal_Alchemist_%28franchise%29#Production)\nstates that:\n\n> When creating the fictional world of Fullmetal Alchemist, Arakawa was\n> inspired after reading about Europe during the Industrial Revolution period;\n> she was amazed by how different the people from different countries were, in\n> terms of their culture, architecture and clothes. She was especially\n> interested in England during this period and \"added to it her own original\n> flavor to turn it into a fantasy world\".\n\n[\"Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of\nShamballa\"](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Fullmetal_Alchemist_the_Movie:_Conqueror_of_Shamballa)\n— the movie that follows the first anime series — is set in 1923 Germany, and\ndepicts the beginning of the Nazi Party within German politics, being only an\nextremist group at that point.\n\nOther than that, I know of no such inspirations. But it may well be that\nArakawa has said something more concrete about that.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T18:25:06.120", "id": "502", "last_activity_date": "2016-07-01T11:25:44.017", "last_edit_date": "2016-07-01T11:25:44.017", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "501", "post_type": "answer", "score": 48 }, { "body": "\n\nPeople on the internet have noticed the same thing you have, and have come to\nthe same conclusion.\n\nBut beyond that, there's little to go on (at least for the manga):\n\n**Manga/2009 anime**\n\nJNat's [answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/502/153) says Amestris was\ninspired by England, pointing to the FMA wiki.\n\nThere's a more nuanced explanation on [another\npage](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Amestris#Manga) of the wiki:\n\n> Arakawa has stated she didn't use any specific countries or cultures to\n> create Amestris, but rather a combination of several European countries from\n> several different periods between the 17th and 19th centuries and, more\n> specifically, the changes that occurred in the Western Europe during the\n> Industrial Revolution (with a greater inspiration in England). According to\n> her, however, there's no implied relation or comparison to any specific\n> country, time, or government.\n\nDo note that the wiki cites no source for either of these quotes from Arakawa\n(this one and the one cited by JNat).\n\n**2003 anime**\n\nIn this continuity, the Elrics' world is an alternate history of our own world\n(Christianity is mentioned as a dead religion), so regions of our world\ncorrespond with regions of theirs -- and here, Amestris _is_ the parallel-\nworld counterpart of Germany. We know this because\n\n> in _Conqueror of Shamballa_ , we see that the parallel-world counterparts of\n> several characters (Edward, Alphonse, King Bradley, Lust, Scar, Hughes and\n> his wife) are residents of Germany.\n\n**Extra Note**\n\nWhile Amestris is roughly the correct shape to be the Weimar Republic, the\nrest of the continent is out of shape. Drachma, which seems to be basically\nRussia, is along the wrong part of the border with Amestris to be Russia.\nAlso, there is no massive desert east of Germany. Additionally, Xing, the\ncountry past the desert, has the culture of feudal Japan but is closer to the\nsize of China. So no, the geography (at least politically) doesn't match up.\nFurthermore, Conqueror of Shamballa isn't cannon to the manga, and it's the\nmanga that counts when it comes to what is or is not part of the universe.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T03:09:46.957", "id": "527", "last_activity_date": "2020-03-05T18:02:22.173", "last_edit_date": "2020-03-05T18:02:22.173", "last_editor_user_id": "36222", "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "501", "post_type": "answer", "score": 26 }, { "body": "\n\nYes, it is Germany, \"fuhrer\" is German... Look at the military trench coats,\nbuilding styles, names and even loosely geographical location. Look up\nHitler's religious view and his theory of the \"perfect human\".\n\nXing is China and not Japan... Almost everything Japanese comes from China\n(even sushi). References here are that the emperor of Xing is looking for an\nelixir for immortality, so did the real emperor of China, and China also\nbelieved in alchemy (Yin Yang, Taoism, etc.). The emperor of China ingested\nmercury (for those interested in world history) and died.\n\nIshval are the Arabs. Alchemy was part of Islam too... People in the desert...\nAnd there were wars between Europe and the Arab world.\n\nThere are many other references.... Notice that many stories are based on real\nlife historical events, places and religion. Nothing is truly original,\nalthough very entertaining nonetheless.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-22T05:40:18.110", "id": "12988", "last_activity_date": "2020-03-05T14:01:29.890", "last_edit_date": "2020-03-05T14:01:29.890", "last_editor_user_id": "35679", "owner_user_id": "7690", "parent_id": "501", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is a lot of Dutch in there as well though, this makes the \"based on\ndifferent cultures\" more plausible than the \"it's Nazi Germany\".\n\nEdward (or Ed), Roy and Alphonse are typical dutch names.\n\n * Riza is equivalent to Lisa, a Dutch name\n\n * Breda is a Dutch city\n\n * Maes is the medieval Dutch spelling of \"Maas\" a dutch river witch was a common name at the time.\n\n * Winry is equivalent to Wendy, a Dutch name\n\nVan Hohenheim is a mix of Dutch and German. 'Van' means 'of' or 'of the'\n(depending on the context) with 'von' being its German counterpart, and\nHohenheim translates to high-house.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-09T00:08:58.787", "id": "14350", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-09T02:43:14.910", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-09T02:43:14.910", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "8626", "parent_id": "501", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThe ishvalans are gypsies.. Obviously.. If FMA is connected to nazi Germany\nand you knew anything about the extermination of people in nazi germany. It\nwas estimated that 750,000-1,000,000 Romanis(gypsies) were killed during the\nwar. At the start of nazi Germany they were stripped of citizenship and\nslaughtered.. I mean hell.. They even look like gypsies.. Also if we recall,\nEd and Alphonse ran into a few at the little carnival.. Dunno where the hell\nthat guy got the Arab idea from..\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-11T07:56:15.613", "id": "15011", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-11T07:56:15.613", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9118", "parent_id": "501", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe governmental organization, architecture, and names suggest the setting is\nGerman-esque. Likewise, the culture, architecture, minarets and desert suggest\nthat the Ishvalans are an Arab-esque influence.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-28T23:47:43.483", "id": "21215", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-28T23:47:43.483", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "14180", "parent_id": "501", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "506", "answer_count": 7, "body": "\n\nIn Naruto, Haku is a rogue Ninja that fights along Zabuza. He has a sad\nhistory of death and mistreatment that I won't treat here.\n\nIn any case, the Haku's peculiarity is that although he looks/behaves/dresses\nlike a woman, he is a man. But not all sources agree with this, so... Is Haku\na man or a woman?\n\nIs there a reason for the first part in my spoiler? Or is it just a plot\ndevice?\n\nIf your answer contains something that appears or is explained after the\nBridge battle with Team 7 (as far as Haku is concerned), please use a spoiler.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T18:26:27.080", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "503", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-20T05:31:12.690", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-18T01:39:17.997", "last_editor_user_id": "65", "owner_user_id": "15", "post_type": "question", "score": 17, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Is Haku a man or a woman?", "view_count": 142961 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI think Haku is actually a woman. \nHowever, she tells Naruto she is a man (I think in chapter 21).\n\nWhichever may be the case, _I believe_ **she does not care**. What she **cares\nmost about** is being able to serve Zabuza (if she can serve him, she is\nwanted in this world). For this, she sees herself as a tool, her only purpose\nbeing to see that Zabuza accomplishes his objectives (I believe it is in\nchapter 29 that she explains this to Naruto). She also tells Naruto that if\nshe fails Zabuza she'd rather be dead, because she's lost her purpose.\n\nTo sum up, I believe that whichever may be the case, it is ultimately\nirrelevant to her/him, since: \n**Tools do not have genders. \nAs such, Haku does not have a gender.**\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T18:35:38.557", "id": "505", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-10T17:52:50.523", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-10T17:52:50.523", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "503", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI do not think that Haku was considered as a woman is considered a spoiler.\n\nAfter all, they discover that only 1 episode after Team 7 met him. I can\nguarantee for sure that Haku is a man. Despite what other sources probably\nsay, there are plenty of men in real life who look like women (Justin Bieber\nis good example). What I cannot tell you is what was the perspective of Zabuza\nfor him (if he was just a Friend or something \" **Else** \").\n\nI say this only because the one who told Naruto that significant detail was\nHaku himself, so there isn't a lot of room for mistakes.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T18:46:24.060", "id": "506", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-10T17:54:57.247", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-10T17:54:57.247", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "85", "parent_id": "503", "post_type": "answer", "score": 19 }, { "body": "\n\nHaku is a boy. It's stated in the First Databook, page 91.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T22:02:53.353", "id": "519", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-15T22:02:53.353", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "503", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 }, { "body": "\n\nHaku is a man.\n\nThere are lot of manga that have in-common like that. One good example is [the\nZoldyck Family](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Zoldyck_Family) in Hunter\nX Hunter.\n\nAll of Killua's siblings are boys. Yet you can see them wearing Kimono's with\nmake up and long hair. Attractable beauty but stated as boys.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-11T09:05:56.747", "id": "908", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-20T05:31:12.690", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-20T05:31:12.690", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "323", "parent_id": "503", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI agree that there are few characters in Naruto/Shippuden who look male in the\nmanga but female in the anime.\n\nexample: [Katsuyu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Katsuyu)\n\nBut [Haku](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Haku) is a guy in both the anime and\nthe manga. No doubt about it. Though just based on looks, Naruto (and even\nviewers) mistake him for a girl, he clarifies he is a guy! :)\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-14T10:36:25.130", "id": "1939", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-19T05:01:18.027", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-19T05:01:18.027", "last_editor_user_id": "107", "owner_user_id": "338", "parent_id": "503", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n_I agree with[JNat's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/505/1528) based\non the premise that I thought that Haku was a girl from day one._\n\nFirstly, Haku portrays the physical and emotional traits of a female even\nthough she tries hard to be a male _(Zabuza's tool)_. Secondly, Naruto called\nher sir, keep in mind that they also call Tsunade **_sir_** so that does not\nreally indicate gender. My third reason is that as JNat also says, she does\nnot care, when Zabuza found her, she was weak, being referred to as a boy or\nbehaving like one no doubt made her seem stronger in his eyes.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-19T15:01:53.890", "id": "2955", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-26T13:58:09.873", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1528", "parent_id": "503", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nHaku is a girl. She sees her self as a guy or boy but she is a girl. At\nepisode 17 in the anime haku's mother says \"sorry my daughter\". After slapping\nher around for ussing her powers.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-09-19T10:33:08.553", "id": "36421", "last_activity_date": "2016-09-19T10:33:08.553", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "28330", "parent_id": "503", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "520", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nShingetsutan Tsukihime is a pretty expansive work - a main visual novel, the\nKagetsu Tohya supplement, and the Melty Blood games. The last bit, Melty\nBlood, is especially jarring to a Type-Moon fan who is late to the party -\nthere are many versions, and the format itself is very different from what is\nnormal for Nasu works: a fighting game.\n\nWhat are the different versions, and how do they differ? What should be played\nand what skipped, and in what order, if one is playing for the story aspect?\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T19:20:46.617", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "507", "last_activity_date": "2018-11-18T03:43:05.597", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-03T21:33:58.257", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "180", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "tsukihime", "melty-blood" ], "title": "Which Melty Blood games are relevant, plotwise?", "view_count": 8342 }

[ { "body": "\n\n**Melty Blood** is the original game. The story supposedly follows\n[Satsuki's](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Satsuki_Yumizuka) route, which was\nnever released with any of TM's games, which takes place one year after\n_Tsukihime_. The story and plot doesn't change with the subsequent expansion,\nbut a lot of side stories are added (more Neco Arcs!). In the original Melty\nBlood, only six of 14 characters were available to be played, the other 8 had\nto be unlocked through playing Story Mode. This was later changed in an update\nfor the game (aka the \"Nero\" patch), which unlocked all the characters from\nthe start.\n\n[Sion](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Sion_Eltnam_Atlasia) is the main\ncharacter of Melty Blood. She originally came to Shiki's town in order to find\nthe cure for vampireism and defeat the [Night of\nWalachia](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Night_of_Wallachia) once and for all.\n\n> In Actress Again, she is responsible for the reenactment of Walachia.\n\nAlthough this is supposedly Satsuki's route...\n\n> She never appears. She is only mentioned a total of three times in the full\n> story, until ReACT. However, if you read into the game's story, her\n> appearance could might as well been a fake created by Wallachia or White\n> Len...\n\n**Melty Blood ReACT** is an expansion for the original game (like Burning\nCrusade was to World of Warcraft). This expansion added 2 playable characters\nand 4 non-playable ones. I believe ReACT also adds an Arcade mode, which is a\ncontinuation of sorts of what happens in the Story Mode played out in fighting\ngame style instead of visual novel style. Start with this game if you are just\nstarting out with Melty Blood series and want the whole story (original Story\nMode + Arcade Mode).\n\n**Melty Blood Act Cadenza** is a further expansion of ReACT. This added 4\nadditional playable characters and various graphical and gameplay changes.\nNote that this version does NOT have a Story Mode.\n\n**Melty Blood Actress Again** is a sequel to the previous game. It features\nmany drasticly new mechanics, two new characters, and 3 different fighting\nstyles for all known characters. Several secondary characters have had their\nstorylines expanded upon to include what happened to them after the main\nstoryline.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T23:53:45.783", "id": "520", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-16T19:10:39.897", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-16T19:10:39.897", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "507", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nto answer the question in the comments: melty blood react final tuned ->\nactress again is the full storyline (of melty blood, melty blood itself being\na sequel to tsukihime) melty blood original and react/react final tuned have\nthe exact same story.\n\ni believe more people may be looking for this question due to recent\ndevelopments so heres the answer.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-07-27T21:22:42.393", "id": "48083", "last_activity_date": "2018-07-27T21:22:42.393", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "41754", "parent_id": "507", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "518", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn 2003, there was an anime called Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto. In 2008,\nthere another anime called Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto: Natsu no Sora.\n\nI only saw the 2008 one, so I don't really know much about the 2003 one. They\nboth seem to be about young girls who are learning magic, but is there any\nactual relation between the two series? For example, are there any subtle\nhints indicating that the 2008 series takes place X years after the original\nseries? Or are there any characters that appear in both series? Or is the only\nrelation that they have similar stories?\n\n(I had to use the English title for the tags since the Japanese title is too\nlong...)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T20:02:56.490", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "516", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-15T20:22:31.303", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "107", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "somedays-dreamers" ], "title": "Is there any relation between the two Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto series?", "view_count": 307 }

[ { "body": "\n\n_Someday's Dreamers: Summer Skies_ is basically the second season of Someday's\ndreamers made by another studio (Hal Film Maker) with a different staff. All\nit shares with the original is the fictional Tokyo backdrop, as as all\ncharacters and most of the setting have changed.\n\nYou don't need to watch the first one in order to enjoy the second one.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T20:22:31.303", "id": "518", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-15T20:22:31.303", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "516", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nAt the beginning of the _Mobile Suit Gundam SEED_ , Orb is shown to be hiding\nthe Gundam development program. They are also later shown to be developing the\nmass production model's OS and training the first pilots for the frame.\n\nWhy is a neutral nation producing the Federation's main weapon and only trump\ncard in the war?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-15T20:03:27.737", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "517", "last_activity_date": "2016-04-11T21:32:11.807", "last_edit_date": "2016-03-12T21:11:45.270", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "180", "post_type": "question", "score": 11, "tags": [ "gundam-seed" ], "title": "Why did Orb, a neutral nation, develop the Gundams?", "view_count": 475 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI would think it would be similar to any \"neutral nation\". In the sense that\nneutrality is only an illusion. A country like Switzerland was neutral because\nof their impossible terrain and their trained militia, they held a distinct\nadvantage that made their conquest, 1)nearly impossible 2) requiring immense\nsacrifice and pain on the part of the aggressor and thus 3) not worth the\neffort. The simple honest answer is so they can continue to remain neutral.\nGundams are super-weapons, the nuclear bombs of their day. If Orb were to not\nbuild them and remain \"neutral\" there would come a point where if an when one\nof the other two superpower's fell to the other, that they would be helpless\nagainst the winner - assuming the world wasn't destroyed by the conflict which\nI will address in a second. Mutually Assured Destruction, if you attack me I\nwill retaliate to the full extent of my ability, causing you immense damage\nand equal pain to my own suffering. If I perish I shall mortally wound you\nwith my last breath. Further the looming possibility total annihilation of\nboth superpowers by each other hand's and the rest of the world along with it\nwas a threat to everyone including Orb. It would be a threat that would be\ndiminished by a further third party, with equivalent weapons, who could enter\non either side giving a distinct advantage and tipping the balance of power.\nThus Orb would act as an anchor, making sure that neither side went off the\ndeep end. In the end it's all about self preservation.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-16T06:39:23.217", "id": "23294", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-16T06:39:23.217", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15697", "parent_id": "517", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "522", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nEvery one of Kakashi's ninja dogs has a symbol on its back that looks like a\nface:\n\n\n\n**What is this symbol and what is its meaning?**\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T00:01:58.727", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "521", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-01T00:22:22.433", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-08T20:31:41.123", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "49", "post_type": "question", "score": 11, "tags": [ "naruto", "symbolism" ], "title": "What is the symbol on Kakashi's ninja dogs' backs?", "view_count": 15135 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's a pretty interesting explanation... In this wiki for\n[Ninken](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Ninken) (Ninja dogs):\n\n> They all have a face-shaped design on their backs called **Henohenomoheji**\n> (へのへのもへじ) — which is the sound made when all the characters in the face are\n> put together. Appropriately enough, children use this design as the face for\n> their scarecrows, which is _\"kakashi\"_ in Japanese.\n\nBasically, if you consider the picture you included:\n\n * The **eyebrows** are the Hiragana へ (he);\n * The **eyes** are the Hiragana の (no);\n * The **nose** is the Hiragana も (mo);\n * The **mouth** is another へ (he);\n * The **head shape** (kind of distorted) is the Hiragana じ (ji).\n\nSo, へのへのもへじ (henohenomoheji). The first \"heno\" is repeated because you have a\npair of eyes and eyebrows.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T00:14:19.950", "id": "522", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-16T10:35:52.443", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-16T10:35:52.443", "last_editor_user_id": "15", "owner_user_id": "15", "parent_id": "521", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nIn episode 22 of Naruto, when Lee fights Sasuke, we have seen Lee open the\nfirst Gate, after which he claims to have supreme speed to launch his attack.\n\nBut (not far away) in episode 66, Sasuke obtains that speed, within only a\nmonth of training, while it took Lee many years of extremely hard work.\n\nAlthough he had Sharingan, it doesn't mean that he can copy the speed of his\nopponent. How was it possible?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T00:27:42.230", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "523", "last_activity_date": "2020-07-20T11:33:56.960", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-08T20:30:53.033", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "85", "post_type": "question", "score": 10, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "How could Sasuke match Lee's speed?", "view_count": 7724 }

[ { "body": "\n\n * **Sasuke:** \nis a \"genius\" (possesses innate talent). \nis a Uchiha (somewhat the reason why he is a \"genius\").\n\n * **Lee:** \nis a hard worker (his main motivation being to surpass Neji, the \"genius\" in\nhis team).\n\nBasically, Lee has no innate talent to ninjutsu or genjutsu. Thus he had to\nmaster taijutsu in order to surpass the \"geniuses\", and become a great ninja.\nThis is a process that takes a lot of time. \nSasuke on the other hand does not need to work so hard in order to accomplish\nwhat Lee needs to work on for several years. Remember that he was able to\nmaster the Goukakyuu no Jutsu at a very early age.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T00:40:25.800", "id": "525", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-16T00:40:25.800", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "523", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is much like the situation Lee had with Neji, really. Neji is a true\ngenius, the process of learning and training is fast and easy for him.\nRemember Neji's thoughts about geniuses and that they are unreachable bu\npeople without talent?\n\nLee is a perfect example of hard-worker. He had absolutely no talent neither\nfor ninjutsu nor for genjutsu. He trained extremely hard for _years_ , and his\nwillpower and stubbornness (and Guy-sensei) helped him to finally become what\nhe was.\n\nSasuke, much like many others inUchiha clan, was a genius too. While in their\nfirst encounter his speed wasn't enough to match Lee's, in the second one, he\nwas already able to reach the same speed. Of course, the Sharingan also\nhelped. No, it can not \"copy the speed\", I think it's portrayed nicely in the\nanime (though I dont remember the episode), when Sasuke can see Lee's\nmovements with Sharingan, but cannot react fast enough with his body. However,\nSharingan also helps in practicing Taijutsu, because it lets it's owner learn\ntechniques faster. Of course, it helps in battle as well, allowing to see\nenemy movements absolutely clear and precise, and possible copying them\n(Sasuke showed that in the first part on exam, when he used Sharingan to copy\nthe answers to the test from the guy in front of him by copying his arm\nmovements).\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T09:23:50.677", "id": "528", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-16T09:23:50.677", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "523", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nLee only trained for a year to get that speed. Sasuke was already faster than\nLee had been when he started training. Combined with his inate talent, ability\nto use chakra properly and intense training, it's not that unbelievable.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-07-20T11:33:56.960", "id": "58176", "last_activity_date": "2020-07-20T11:33:56.960", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "54411", "parent_id": "523", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "532", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nAfter seeing the _Akira_ [movie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094625/)\n(directed by Otomo Katsuhiro) I later found out about the existence of the\nmanga series on which it had been based.\n\nIs the movie adaptation faithful to the manga, with only minor variations? Or\nwill I get a lot more detail from the story by reading the manga (and if so,\njust how much more)?\n\nBasically, **how different are the manga and movie versions of _Akira_?**\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T11:29:31.683", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "531", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-02T01:16:27.650", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-12T13:01:40.540", "last_editor_user_id": "16253", "owner_user_id": "49", "post_type": "question", "score": 15, "tags": [ "akira" ], "title": "How different are the manga and movie versions of Akira?", "view_count": 22908 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe manga is totally more extensive. The movie is generally based on the\nmanga, and follows the same characters and themes, but severely shortens it\n(the end of the manga has \"suffered\" most). The film's makers didn't have much\nchoice though: the manga is over 2000 pages long, so of course the movie lost\nsome background.\n\nThere is a discussion on this matter on\n[myanimelist](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=4829). It is mentioned\nthere that the movie covers the beginning and the very end of the manga,\nleaving behind some background and side-stories. The manga has a vaster range\nof characters, side-plots, and covers a larger timespan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T12:23:51.993", "id": "532", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-16T12:23:51.993", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "531", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nThere are many differences, but the most important one I believe it's Akira is\nalive and not a bunch of cryogenized body parts\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-31T17:29:39.100", "id": "38190", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-31T17:29:39.100", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3028", "parent_id": "531", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nQuite a lot of differences - Characters, events, motivations. The two biggest\ncharacter differences (of characters still included in the film) are Akira is\nalive and a big part of the story, and Number 19 is actually important to the\nplot unlike in the movie.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-02T01:16:27.650", "id": "38209", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-02T01:16:27.650", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30084", "parent_id": "531", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "547", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex series, the _modular delayed action\nvirus_ is mentioned quite often. Is there any explanation for what it actually\nis or does?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T13:08:49.240", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "533", "last_activity_date": "2016-09-25T02:13:33.933", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-16T18:35:20.843", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "186", "post_type": "question", "score": 11, "tags": [ "ghost-in-the-shell-sac" ], "title": "What is a modular delayed action virus?", "view_count": 942 }

[ { "body": "\n\nA _modular delayed action virus_ is nothing particular. It's a virus, that is\nuploaded and takes action later, with a modular design, which means, that it's\nkind of generic, so it can be modified easily.\n\nThe term is used quite often, because different characters use such viruses\nvery often - So there's nothing someone could say about \"what it does\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T18:22:08.857", "id": "547", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-16T18:22:08.857", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "533", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nI know this question was asked long ago, but I feel that the answer given is\nnot what the asker was looking for.\n\nI pulled this information from a rulebook online for a D20 pen and paper\nadaptation of Ghost in the Shell to the Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying\nsystem.\n\nHere is the website: <http://www.serenadawn.com/GITS-InformationAge.htm>\n\nModular virus: Similar to Toy Bombs, They are disguised in e-mails or picture\nfile header data, and when certain conditions are met, they compile into a\nsingle program. In the 'Laughing Man' attack on the Superintendent-General,\none of these was slipped into the security detail and stored inside their\ncyberbrains. The Modular virus finishes its attack profile and then transmits\nitself to another target, usually the same type. The programmer uses up one\nslot in the portfolio, detailing the target and the range from the previous\none. A modular virus can, for example, target all robots in a factory but only\nthose. It will continually attack the target and not move onto the next one\nuntil the first one is finished.\n\nI hope this is what the original asker was looking for.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-09-25T02:13:33.933", "id": "36514", "last_activity_date": "2016-09-25T02:13:33.933", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "28416", "parent_id": "533", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nCaution, contains spoilers.\n\n> In episode 108 when Kurama fought Shigure, he decided to remain human even\n> though his powers are far more limited. He said he does not want his friends\n> and mother to treat him differently. But when Yomi asked him at the end of\n> the fight if he decided to abandon the form of Yoko for eternity, he said he\n> never abandons anything.\n\n * Does this mean that he decided to never to transform into Yoko? \n * And if so, why does he have conflicting identities in the first place?\n * Yoko is Kurama's original form.\n\nDoes he deny his past?\n\nI know this is a bit of a complex question, but if possible, I want\nclarifications on everything I asked.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T14:55:17.630", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "536", "last_activity_date": "2019-01-18T21:12:04.180", "last_edit_date": "2016-10-19T02:25:33.017", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "85", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "yu-yu-hakusho" ], "title": "Why did Kurama choose to remain Human?", "view_count": 2005 }

[ { "body": "\n\nVery simple, he didn't want his friends/family to be affected by his change,\nbut he wanted to still be able to tap into that power when he needed it.\n\nMuch like a super-hero's need to disguise himself so that people won't\nrecognize him, they'd treat Peter Parker differently if everyone knew he was\nSpiderman.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T15:54:10.533", "id": "538", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-16T15:54:10.533", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "536", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's because Kurama wanted to forget his past mistakes and continue living a\nnew life as Shuuichi. He never abandoned his original form because he just\nwanted to change his life, and he met most of his loved ones as Shuuichi, so\nhe also decided to live on that form. He won't abandon his original form. He\nstarted living as Youko Kurama and is known for it. He didn't enter in\nconflicting identities in the first place. It was needed for him to combine\nhis spirit with a human so he could regain his powers. That's his sole purpose\nwhy he'd put his spirit into that of Shuuichi. But everything changed because\nof what his human mother did for him. He realized that his life changed and\nbecame better as he grew up as Shuuichi. And for the last question, he's still\nusing his demon form but it's situational. It doesn't mean that if he only\nrarely uses his demon form that he's denying his past. He accepts all that he\nhad done in the past but he really wants to forget his past mistakes because\nthe Kurama that most of the people in his life knew is not the Kurama in the\npast, but it's the Kurama who seeks his true self, the one he had when he\nbegan living as a human.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-10-18T16:30:32.570", "id": "36925", "last_activity_date": "2016-10-19T02:30:13.310", "last_edit_date": "2016-10-19T02:30:13.310", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "536", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI have given this a lot a thought because well - he is my favorite character\nand the insinuation of his complexity and intellect attracts me and - at least\nin the anime- I believe they do a good job of telling you only enough about\nhis “true self” and past to leave you wanting more. Starting from the top: 1.)\nyes - at least that is his intention. Never to take that form or borrow Yokos\npower again- he wants his current self (Kurama - half human) to be strong\nenough - maybe even stronger- to protect the ones he loves. \n“I don’t need an operation; I just need greater discipline” - paraphrasing\nwhat he said. 2\\. I believe this was REALLY triggered after the demon\ntournament and the potion usage. Never before does Yōko speak to “Suichi” in\nhis umm... head. The box reversed time on him so that these two identities\ncould speak to one another. Since this doesn’t happen after it leads me to\nbelieve that whatever his “current” mind is it’s a merging of souls and so\nonly one voice in his head and that is just Kurama with the knowledge\n(complete) of his past but a greater attachment to his current life and body\nAND limitations. As he increases power after the use of the potion - he is\nshown to have the ability to take on his past phisical form and use those\ngreater “Yōko” powers but his mind is still “Kurama”. 3.) he does not deny or\nabandon his past- he just wants to let his current state be his true identity\nwithout the guilt or shame of his past and his past strength. Before he wanted\npower for power and for himself. Now he wants power to protect- and he wants\nto become just as powerful in his own way (Current state Kurama way)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-01-18T21:12:04.180", "id": "50491", "last_activity_date": "2019-01-18T21:12:04.180", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "44474", "parent_id": "536", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "542", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI've noticed from time to time, references to psychology and psychoanalysis,\nfor example the ironic [Hedgehog's\nDilemma](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog%27s_dilemma), as well as the\n[Human Instrumentality\nProject](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/454/what-is-the-purpose-of-\nthe-human-instrumentality-project), which seems just a solution to a\nfundamental psychological human flaw. Even the last two episodes are a\ncomplete psychological de-construction of the main characters.\n\nWhat another references, maybe even implied ones, exist in the Series? Why the\nfocus, especially on psychoanalysis?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T15:36:22.933", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "537", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-16T20:46:08.697", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "167", "post_type": "question", "score": 14, "tags": [ "neon-genesis-evangelion" ], "title": "What references to psychology exist in Evangelion?", "view_count": 3220 }

[ { "body": "\n\n_**What another references, maybe even implied ones, exist in the Series?_** \n[Wikipedia's page on the\nseries](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_%28anime%29#Psychoanalysis)\ncovers this pretty well. It states that its references range from episodes'\ntitles (\"Mother Is the First Other\", as a reference to the [Oedipus\ncomplex](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_complex)) to the characters'\ndeep psychological traumas towards their parents (see the Wikipedia page for\ndetails on each character's traumas). \nIt also states that the ultimate goal of the Human Instrumentality Project and\nthe connection between the Evas and their pilots strongly resemble\n[Freud](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud)'s theories on internal\nconflict and interpersonal communication. \nThe subtitle in episode 4 ([the hedgehog's\ndilemma](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog%27s_dilemma), as you\nreferenced) is a concept described by philosopher [Arthur\nSchopenhauer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer) and is\nmentioned in that episode by Misato as descriptive of her relationship with\nShinji. \nWikipedia goes on to say that besides the references to Freudian\nPsychoanalysis there are also some minor references to the theories behind\n[Gestalt therapy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_therapy).\n\n> In episode 15 there is a reference to Gestalt's theory of change (...).\n> Episode 19 is entitled 'Introjection', a psychoanalytical term used by many\n> Gestalt Therapists to indicate a neurotic mechanism used for the mental\n> processing of experiences.\n\n* * *\n\n_**Why the focus, especially on psychoanalysis?_** \nThe series has been said to be a deeply personal expression of [Hideaki\nAnno](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideaki_Anno#Neon_Genesis_Evangelion) (the\nauthor)'s personal struggles, since it followed a four-year period of\ndepression, which may have been the main source for many of the psychological\nelements of the series, as well as its characters. \nWikipedia states that the author became disappointed with the Japanese otaku\nlifestyle during the show's production. For this reason (among others),\ndespite the fact that it was broadcast in the children's timeslot, the series'\nplot gets darker and more psychological as it progresses.\n\n> Anno felt that people should be exposed to the realities of life at as young\n> an age as possible, and by the end of the series all attempts at traditional\n> narrative logic were abandoned, with the final two episodes taking place\n> within the main character's mind.\n\nIn [the author's page on Neon Genesis Evangelion\nWiki](http://evangelion.wikia.com/wiki/Hideaki_Anno), there is also this\nquote:\n\n> I tried to include everything of myself in Neon Genesis Evangelion—myself, a\n> broken man who could do nothing for four years. A man who ran away for four\n> years, one who was simply not dead. Then one thought. \"You can't run away,\"\n> came to me, and I restarted this production. It is a production where my\n> only thought was to burn my feelings into film.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T17:43:35.700", "id": "542", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-16T20:46:08.697", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-16T20:46:08.697", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "537", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "546", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nWhat is the difference between Tachikoma and Fuchikoma? The Tachikoma's design\nwas inspired by the Fuchikoma ([stated\nhere](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Ghost_in_the_Shell#Think_tanks)),\nbut what are the differences between them? How is a Tachikoma different from a\nFuchikoma?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T16:23:58.480", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "539", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-16T18:09:56.427", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-16T18:09:56.427", "last_editor_user_id": "122", "owner_user_id": "186", "post_type": "question", "score": 12, "tags": [ "ghost-in-the-shell" ], "title": "What is the difference between Tachikoma and Fuchikoma?", "view_count": 14432 }

[ { "body": "\n\nActually, the Tachikoma was introduced because of license-issues - the\nFuchikoma couldn't be used in the SAC.\n\nThe main difference is the design: While the Fuchikomas had only one lense,\nthe Tachikomas have 4 independent \"eyes\". Also, the Tachikomas are a little\nbit taller than the Fuchikomas.\n\n\n\n\nAlso, the AI is a little bit improved, which leads to the fact, that\nTachikomas are more human-like and also defend their human partners more. In\nSAC, it can be seen, that the Tachikomas don't mind risk and are happy most of\nthe time, while the Fuchikomas were more serious.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T18:09:25.820", "id": "546", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-16T18:09:25.820", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "539", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "11591", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nNear the end of _Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing_ , we see our former\nprotagonist Claus...\n\n> ...in a wheelchair.\n\nIs there any official explanation as to why? He's never featured in _Fam the\nSilver Wing_ , so we don't know how this happened from that series alone.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T16:46:07.870", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "540", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-31T17:05:35.280", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-27T14:22:12.767", "last_editor_user_id": "281", "owner_user_id": "102", "post_type": "question", "score": 8, "tags": [ "last-exile", "fam-the-silver-wing" ], "title": "What happened to Claus in Last Exile?", "view_count": 6485 }

[ { "body": "\n\nLast Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing - Aerial Log, documents Claus in the time\nbetween Travelers from the Hourglass, and Fam, the Silver Wing. Claus\nsustained serious injuries in a one on one confrontation with an amnesiac Dio,\nwhen the latter arrived on Earth tracing his faint memories. While his\nresulting injuries have confined him to a wheelchair, Claus has forgiven the\nrecovered, and deeply remorseful Dio. Claus' confident promise to heal and\nfind his way back to the skies has comforted Dio. In return, this allowed Dio\nto find a renewed purpose to make sure the skies will be there to welcome\nClaus back\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-01T16:34:22.537", "id": "11591", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-01T16:34:22.537", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6450", "parent_id": "540", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "543", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI've been told that Kenshin, at least partially, is based on a real life\nassassin. Who was he based on, and what pieces of his story are inspired by\nthis person?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T17:08:16.833", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "541", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-26T14:53:53.600", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-04T22:18:19.370", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "118", "post_type": "question", "score": 22, "tags": [ "rurouni-kenshin" ], "title": "Who is Kenshin based on?", "view_count": 2166 }

[ { "body": "\n\n[According to the\nauthor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himura_Kenshin#Creation_and_conception)1,\nhe is based on [Kawakami\nGensai](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawakami_Gensai), a Japanese samurai of\nthe late Edo period, who was executed by the Meiji Government.\n\nNot having seen the series nor being familiarized with the Gensai's story, I\ncannot tell you how much of it is based on samurai's story and how much of it\nis fiction.\n\n* * *\n\n1: *Watsuki, Nobuhiro (2003). \"The Secret Life of Characters (1) Himura\nKenshin\". _Rurouni Kenshin, Volume 1_. Viz Media. p. 56. ISBN 1-59116-220-3.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T17:59:52.900", "id": "543", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-26T14:53:53.600", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-26T14:53:53.600", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "541", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2024", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\n### This question contains spoilers for anime viewers and early manga viewers.\n\n> When Nagato was revived with Edo Tensei, he had Madara's eyes. When Madara\n> was revived, he had his original eyes too (Rinnegan, much like Nagato).\n\nIs this exploitable? Can I repeat this cycle of transplant and revive to\nduplicate strong eyes? How does that work really?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T19:30:20.937", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "553", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-04T15:27:08.407", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-16T16:21:13.807", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "27", "post_type": "question", "score": 14, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Is it possible to duplicate eyes?", "view_count": 1369 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI've found some information on\n[this](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Madara_Uchiha) site why Madara got his\neyes and his young body.\n\n> Due to the manner of his revival and the experiments done by Kabuto, Madara\n> retained access to abilities he obtained late in life (like his Wood Release\n> and Rinnegan), while at the same time retaining the youthful body of his\n> prime.\n\nSo he hasn't been revived \"normally\"\n\nSince Nagato never lost his eyes he's revived with them too. So Madara\nactually did duplicate his eyes with the help of Kabuto. Since we don't know\nwhat would have happened if he would have been revived \"normally\" (at least\nnot yet) we can't say whether it is that easy to duplicate the eyes or it was\na coincidence that the eyes are now duplicated.\n\nLong answer short: It is possible to duplicate the eyes.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T14:45:20.430", "id": "611", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-04T15:26:27.923", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-04T15:26:27.923", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "47", "parent_id": "553", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nAlthough never explicitly stated (till now), it seems Kabuto's upgraded Edo\nTensei allows him to revive a shinobi with a mix of attributes from different\nportions of their lifetime. Shortly after showing the last coffin to Tobi,\nKabuto exclaims that he had surpassed the Second Hokage and Orochimaru. It is\nvery likely this is what he was referring to.\n\nIt is possible to have multiple copies, and this has already been exploited\nwith Itachi's Sharingan and Madara's Rinnegan.\n\nBoth Itachi and Sasuke had Itachi's Sharingan at the same time. The revived\nNagato **and Tobi** both have Madara's Rinnegan. If Itachi had not sealed\nNagato, there would indeed be _three_ copies of Madara's Rinnegan active at\nthe same time.\n\nThe Madara's Rinnegan case shows how it could be exploited multiple times. If\nObito dies and is revived, while his Rinnegan is transplanted to someone else,\nyou could then have _four_ Rinnegan, which are all really Madara's Rinnegan.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-16T18:01:08.420", "id": "2024", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-04T15:25:51.447", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-04T15:25:51.447", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "553", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nAs far as I understand it, let's say you reanimated Itachi. Sasuke, for\narguments sake, doesn't have an eternal mangekyou, so he needs to switch eyes\nwith someone. If he switched with Itachi, Sasuke would have good eyes, and\nItachi, the worse ones.\n\nI'm almost certain you can't reanimate a person twice at the same time,\notherwise we'd have seen a lot more Kages in the fourth shinobi war. This\nmeans because you can only revive someone once at a time, and upon\ndeath/revival the reanimated body's eyes flake off and diminish, only four of\na certain set of eyes can exist at a time because the eyes destroy themselves\nwhen the reanimation is destroyed.\n\nThis means, at a time, you can only have 4 eyes in existence (Two in the\nreanimation, and two in the reanimated persons original body in a coffin, if\nthey haven't rotted away already) .\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-04T15:17:53.003", "id": "17303", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-04T15:27:08.407", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-04T15:27:08.407", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "11017", "parent_id": "553", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "569", "answer_count": 4, "body": "\n\n### This question contains spoilers for anime viewers and early manga readers.\n\nWe've seen Nagato use his Rinnegan to the fullest, using the Rikudo technique\n(to control 6 bodies)\n\n> As well as by fighting alone, as a reincarnated zombie.\n\nHe utilized all 6 paths of the Rinnegan.\n\n* * *\n\n> So why don't Obito and Madara? Madara only used the Preta Path, to absorb\n> incoming ninjutsu. Obito only _tried_ to use the Human Path, to try and kill\n> Naruto.\n\nWhy don't they use any other realms? Their Rinnegan is supposedly perfect. I\ncan't imagine they're holding back on purpose, the Rinnegan has some pretty\nscary abilities.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T19:36:27.517", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "554", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-27T12:17:24.110", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "post_type": "question", "score": 11, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Why don't people utilize the Rinnegan to its fullest?", "view_count": 4204 }

[ { "body": "\n\nUnfortunately, There is no sure way to answer this question.\n\n> At this moment, The manga in chapter 613 and they still did not revealed\n> enough information exposed to enough information to establish the claim that\n> shown in any way that you and Obito can not use these Abilities, So we can\n> only guess. \n> We can assume that they did not have need to use them, Because they are\n> (Obviously) still at advantage.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T20:49:12.993", "id": "556", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-16T20:55:48.153", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-16T20:55:48.153", "last_editor_user_id": "85", "owner_user_id": "85", "parent_id": "554", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nWe can be fairly certain Madara is just too strong without using the Rinnegan\n_at all_. Although Madara's strength has never been explicitly discussed, we\ncan infer it indirectly through other plot points. Madara fought on par with\nthe Senju Hashirama, who used to have the 9 bijuu as his \"pets\". Other badass\ncharacters have had a lot of trouble dealing with just one.\n\n> It is heavily implied that the battle happened _before_ Madara activated his\n> Rinnegan. During the fourth ninja world war, Madara effortlessly mopped the\n> floor with the five Kages. If Madara did use the Rinnegan, Kishimoto-sensei\n> may have chosen to skip it to retain suspense over its powers. \n> \n> Obito has only implanted the Rinnegan (and not \"earned\" it, like Madara).\n> Maybe overusing Rinnegan drains his chakra rapidly (just like overusing\n> Sharingan does to Kakashi), and hence he chose to not use it fully.\n> Alternately, Kishimoto-sensei wants to save it for the climax.\n\nNagato being able to use it could be because:\n\n> Being from the Uzumaki clan, he naturally has a huge amount of chakra.\n> Madara likely chose him to receive the Rinnegan for that reason. Madara's\n> plan involved getting himself revived through Rinne Tensei. He had to pick\n> someone who could reliably use the Outer Path without passing out.\n\nAnother key difference between the three:\n\n> Nagato received his Rinnegan when he was a child, and must have learnt to\n> use the full powers of Rinnegan through years of practice. Madara awakened\n> the Rinnegan shortly before he died, and Obito has had it for only a few\n> weeks at most.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T07:19:39.580", "id": "569", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-25T09:23:34.763", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-25T09:23:34.763", "last_editor_user_id": "122", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "554", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nMadara is like Akuma from street fighter. He _loves_ to fight, but he knows\nhis power is too much for just about everyone. So, in order to enjoy his\nfight, Madara holds back when going against the five kage. When he does use\nhis final susanoo to finish them, and it turns out that the five kage\nsurvived- he flat out says it is a matter of pride.\n\nIf he spams the Rinnegan, he'd be disgracing himself in his own eyes.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-13T13:29:47.813", "id": "5851", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-13T13:29:47.813", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2721", "parent_id": "554", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThey didnt have both Rinnegan eyes. Madara had the left Rinnegan and Obito had\nthe right Rinnegan. Thus they could not use all paths since I guess some\nreside on the left, some on the right and some are awakened when both eyes are\nused\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-27T12:17:24.110", "id": "11512", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-27T12:17:24.110", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6403", "parent_id": "554", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nWhen Meroko and Takuto first appear to Mitsuki, they're extremely surprised\nthat Mitsuki can see them since humans aren't supposed to be able to see\nShinigami.\n\nIs it ever explained why Mitsuki can see them?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T21:44:23.547", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "559", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-14T07:13:56.020", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-14T07:13:56.020", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "107", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "full-moon-wo-sagashite" ], "title": "Why can Mitsuki see Shinigami?", "view_count": 435 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's because:\n\n> The soul of Eichi has been watching over her since he died. When Sheldan\n> tries to take Mitsuki's soul, it's explained why Eichi is the reason why\n> Mitsuki can see Shinigami. This is what saved Mitsuki and Takuto after they\n> get pierced by the Mystere's scythe at the end of the series. At the end of\n> the manga it's revealed that Eichi refused to allow Takuto to take his soul\n> (this was Takuto's first assignment as a Shinigami) because he wanted to\n> meet Mitsuki again (because of the promise they made to meet again when they\n> achieved their dreams) and stays with her for 6 years until the end of the\n> series, when he see that she is now happy and wants to live.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T21:51:43.407", "id": "560", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-16T23:44:08.450", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-16T23:44:08.450", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "559", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 5, "body": "\n\nEvery villager in Konoha is aware that Naruto has the Kyuubi sealed inside of\nhim.\n\nIs anyone in the village or elsewhere (other than Kakashi and Jiraiya, that I\nremember knew) aware that he is the son of Minato and Kushina? \nMy main doubt being: **do they know that he is the son of the Fourth Hokage**?\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T22:42:04.337", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "561", "last_activity_date": "2019-10-22T19:13:53.140", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-17T23:45:01.143", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "49", "post_type": "question", "score": 11, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Are people aware of who Naruto's parents are?", "view_count": 154861 }

[ { "body": "\n\n> You forgot the third Hokage (and some other Anbu's).\n\nIMO they aren't. \nAfter all you can see how everyone who knew that info treated him entirely\ndifferent from the rest.\n\n**Edit:** As Madara said, \nIt really was TABOO not to talk about it in the village (About the demon\ninside Naruto etc). \nNevertheless, I do not think it was so complicated inform those who need to\nknow that.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T22:54:38.750", "id": "563", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-16T23:08:51.100", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-16T23:08:51.100", "last_editor_user_id": "85", "owner_user_id": "85", "parent_id": "561", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nYes. After their names were revealed, it seems as if \"suddenly\" everyone knew\nabout it. Even Gai, and even the Raikage mentioned his parents without them\nbeing mentioned earlier.\n\nThat leads me to believe that people knew, and it was part of the taboo not to\nspeak of it (or Kishimoto still hadn't thought about it then :D)\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T22:56:54.183", "id": "564", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-16T22:56:54.183", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "561", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nMost of them didn't know. It was a secret to protect Naruto. Just a few people\nknew it. I found proof on\n[this](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_Uzumaki#cite_note-10) site:\n\n> Suddenly orphaned, Naruto was left to grow up knowing nothing of his\n> parents, receiving only his mother's last name because the Third Hokage\n> thought that it was best that nobody knew that he was related to the Fourth\n> Hokage.\n\nThey found it here: Naruto chapter 440, page 5\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T08:47:01.290", "id": "574", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-17T23:54:22.563", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-17T23:54:22.563", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "47", "parent_id": "561", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nObviously they don't. He was celebrated after defeating Pain, not because he's\nthe Fourth's son, but rather because he became the hero of the village. Btw, I\nthink Naruto is happier to be acknowledged as a hero because of his acts and\nnot because he's the son of a former Hokage. The only persons that knew about\nthe truth were: Jiraiya, Sarutobi, maybe Kakashi (we saw a lot of time that\nKakashi imagines he's teacher and mentor in Naruto, maybe he realized the\nrelationship, but he didn't know that from the beginning), and a few ANBU\nmembers who were at that place when Naruto was born.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-06T09:56:16.943", "id": "7365", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-06T12:43:39.147", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-06T12:43:39.147", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3187", "parent_id": "561", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nKakashi would have been one of the few who knew because one of his assignments\nas ANBU was to be a secret body guard for Minato's wife while she was\npregnant. As for why people who knew who Minato married didnt put two and two\ntogether when suddenly this boy who looks oddly similar to the fourth ended up\nbeing born in their village and happend to be the one cursed to carry the\nburden of the price that was paid to save the village.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-12-28T04:51:33.313", "id": "50242", "last_activity_date": "2018-12-28T04:51:33.313", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "44089", "parent_id": "561", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "591", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nCaution: contains spoilers.\n\n> In episode 23, when Black☆Star approach to Eruka he was under an illusion.\n> When it comes to the sixth sense (soul wavelengths), Black☆Star admitted he\n> immune to the effects of the Madness. So why when he use the Enchanted Sword\n> he was affected by the madness illusions?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T22:43:42.170", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "562", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-11T19:29:06.553", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-11T19:29:06.553", "last_editor_user_id": "191", "owner_user_id": "85", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "soul-eater" ], "title": "How Black Star was influenced by the Kishin's hallucinations?", "view_count": 651 }

[ { "body": "\n\nOk, it took me some time to find it. You are referring to this:\n\n> \n\nKnowing what kind of person Black☆Star is, I wouldn't take his statement\nneither too seriously nor too literally.\n\nIt is known that it is possible to overcome madness if one has bravity and a\nstrong heart. Black☆Star definitely has those. In fact, it is shown in the\n_Baba Yaga's Castle_ mini-arc (if you excuse me for calling it a \"mini-arc\"),\nthat Black☆Start indeed is capable of overcoming Madness, at least to some\npoint. Note that in that mini-arc, after Black☆Star encourages the other\ncharacters, they are able to overcome Madness as well after hardening their\nminds.\n\nWe also know that later Black☆Star\n\n> gets the ability to use Madness Release (Hakkyou, 発狂) changing his\n> Wavelength to one of Madness.\n\nHowever, according to the same\n[wiki](http://souleater.wikia.com/wiki/Black%E2%98%86Star) that you\nreferenced, even he has a possibility of slipping into Madness if he uses this\nability for too long. It is also stated\n[here](http://souleater.wikia.com/wiki/Madness) that the stronger the Madness\nWavelength, the harder it is to overcome Madness.\n\nConsidering the above, another important note is that in Baba Yaga's Castle\nmini-arc, Black☆Star was rather far away from the source of Madness, while in\nthe episode you mention he was _right near_ it; more than that, the source was\nkishin himself.\n\nSo I think that while Black☆Star indeed has some sort of resistance to\nMadness, his statement in that episode was partly bragging, partly\noverestimating himself and underestimating the enemy, which eventually let him\nsusceptible to the (quite powerfull themselves) illusions.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T11:05:03.090", "id": "591", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-17T12:44:02.090", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-17T12:44:02.090", "last_editor_user_id": "111", "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "562", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "566", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn Puella Magi Madoka Magica, there is some strange rune writing that is used\na lot. I've heard that it references Goethe's Faust, at least in the first few\nepisodes, and it's used in displaying the names of the witches as well. Is\nthere any comprehensive guide for what each symbol means, or a list of quotes\ntogether with translations?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T23:18:46.667", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "565", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-11T09:00:21.440", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "post_type": "question", "score": 20, "tags": [ "madoka-magica" ], "title": "What do the Runes say in Madoka?", "view_count": 6791 }

[ { "body": "\n\nDeciphering the runes was by no means a simple task. And as such there was\nquite a bit of history behind it as different people attempted various ways to\ndecrypt it. In the end, the runes were found to be a substitution cipher for\nGerman.\n\nA full guide to deciphering the runes in Madoka as well as a complete\ntranslated list of all their appearances throughout the Puella Magi series can\nbe found [here](http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Deciphering_the_runes).\n\n* * *\n\nIf you want to take a shot at decrypting them yourself, use the chart below.\nThis will transliterate the runes into German - after that you're on your own.\n:)\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T23:21:46.903", "id": "566", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-11T09:00:21.440", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-11T09:00:21.440", "last_editor_user_id": "1450", "owner_user_id": "17", "parent_id": "565", "post_type": "answer", "score": 21 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "617", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn the anime [Samurai\nChamploo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai_Champloo), there is a character\ncalled\n[Jin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Samurai_Champloo_characters#Jin)\nwho is defined in the [Samurai Champloo\nWiki](http://champloo.wikia.com/wiki/Jin) as:\n\n> (..) a spectacled man with messy black hair tied in a loose ponytail with\n> two strands that frame his face. His attire consists of a simple blue kimono\n> adorned with **multiple symbols that are four squares in a diamond\n> formation** on the right pec, sleeves, and back of his kimono. Also wears a\n> brown beaded bracelet on his right wrist.\n\nThese symbols are called [mon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_%28crest%29),\nand his looks like this\n\n\n\nWikipedia's page on the character says that this mon resembles that of [the\nTakeda clan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeda_clan), and provides a link to\nthe story of [Takeda\nShingen](http://www.zenstoriesofthesamurai.com/Characters/Shingen%20Takeda.htm),\nas well as a [broken link](http://www.scottshaw.com/daitoryu/).\n\n**Is this really the Takeda mon?** (has the author every stated this, or is\nthere any official reference) \n**Or is it all just speculation and the pointing out of similarities?** (which\nmay just have been inspirations) \nOr could it be some other less-known clan's mon?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T12:02:13.447", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "592", "last_activity_date": "2023-02-24T04:41:30.787", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-11T19:29:49.030", "last_editor_user_id": "191", "owner_user_id": "49", "post_type": "question", "score": 9, "tags": [ "samurai-champloo" ], "title": "What is the mon in Jin's kimono?", "view_count": 3741 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is no way to know for sure, as it is not explicitly mentioned. While\nseveral other clans did use this design, the Takeda are by far the most well\nknown. The four diamonds in this _mon_ is said to stand for Takeda Shingen's\nfamous, inspirational motto: \"Swift as the wind. Silent as the forest. Fierce\nas the fire. Steadfast as the mountain,\" which was drawn from the writings of\nthe Chinese strategist Sun Tzu (of \"The Art of War\" fame).\n\nIt should be noted that Yukimura bears the\n[Houjou](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C5%8Dj%C5%8D_clan) _mon_ (looks like a\nTriforce), who were neighbors of the Takeda and over time have been both\nallies and adversaries to them. Perhaps Jin and Yukimura's relationship in the\nshow is a symbolic microcosm of the parallels between the real-life families?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T16:37:00.153", "id": "617", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-17T16:37:00.153", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "592", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nThe matsumae clan of Hokkaido who claimed descent from the Takeda as a cadet\nbranch used the same mon as well\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-02-24T04:41:30.787", "id": "67798", "last_activity_date": "2023-02-24T04:41:30.787", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "71453", "parent_id": "592", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "598", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn Chapter 594, Tobi says, \"There lies truth in a single consciousness that\nhas abandoned all individuality.\"\n\nWhat is the context of this statement? Is there something specific he is\nreferring to?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T12:45:56.503", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "595", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-25T01:50:40.713", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-25T01:50:40.713", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "99", "post_type": "question", "score": 4, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "What does Tobi mean by \"There lies truth in a single consciousness that has abandoned all individuality\"?", "view_count": 230 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI think he is referring to the Eye of The Moon Plan to unite the world under\nInfinite Tsukuyomi, thus being able to control every living creature, and to\ncease conflicts by removing any free will.\n\nSo looks like that with this line he is just supporting/justifying his idea\nagain.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T13:32:18.463", "id": "598", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-17T13:32:18.463", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "595", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "624", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn the intro chapter 000-1 of Soul Eater, it's stated that Maka has fed 99\nhuman souls to Soul (the character), that's why they have gone after Blair (a\nseems-to-be witch) to collect the final soul for Soul (the character).\n\nIn chapter 1 on page 20, they were forced to take extra lessons with\nBlack☆Star because both of them didn't collect a single soul. Additionally,\nyou can see Blair from the intro in the first few pages.\n\nSo my question is, why are Soul and Maka punished for not collecting a soul,\nwhen in the intro it's stated that they have collected all their 99 souls\nalready?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T13:59:57.110", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "599", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-20T05:42:51.917", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-14T12:48:49.120", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "47", "post_type": "question", "score": 8, "tags": [ "soul-eater" ], "title": "Why have Soul and Maka got 0 souls in chapter 001a?", "view_count": 1922 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe goal is \"exactly 99 human and a last witch soul\". After soul ate Blair's\nsoul,\n\n> which was a cat's soul, because Blair's a cat, not a Witch,\n\nthey lost all human souls and needed to restart from the beginning.\n\n> Blair makes notes that when Maka and Soul defeated her, Soul only ate one of\n> her souls (in the anime, she mentions she has nine). This likely to be a\n> reference to the saying of cats having 'nine lives.'\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T14:14:25.213", "id": "600", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-01T21:24:05.200", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-01T21:24:05.200", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "599", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nThere are quite certain conditions that need to be met in order for a weapon\nto become the Death Scythe. As looper mentioned in [his\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/600/1587), they need to collect\nexactly 99 souls + one witch soul. However, \"human souls\" is not a quite\ncorrect definition for those 99 souls. They are, of course, never encouraged\nto take innocent humans' souls, but rather 99 souls \" _that are on Shinigami-\nsama's list_ \" (in manga), or 99 souls that are \" _on the way to becoming the\nKishin_ \" (in anime). So basically, those have to be \"bad\" souls.\n\nAfter that, just one soul of a witch is needed to complete the transformation.\nUsually the witch's soul is collected last, but if it's collected before the\n99 other souls, it's kept within Shibusen until the 99 souls are gathered, and\nthen gets taken out and consumed.\n\nNow, if _any_ other soul _other than a witch's soul_ is eaten last, then\n**all** the souls that were eaten before it are **lost** , and the quests\nstarts over again. In this case it doesn't matter at all that Blair\n\n> was a cat, or anything else. The only thing that matters is that she was\n> _not a witch_.\n\nThat's why the 99 souls are reset.\n\nSource: [Death Scythe\n(Weapon)](http://souleater.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Scythe_%28Weapon%29)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T18:41:22.690", "id": "624", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-20T05:42:51.917", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "599", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "615", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nThe question is easy: At which age are people, when they are revived using\nEdo-Tensei? Are they exactly of that age they died? Or can the user of Edo-\nTensei decide, how old the ninjas are?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T15:13:45.507", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "612", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-21T10:24:38.283", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "122", "post_type": "question", "score": 8, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "At which age are ninjas revived with Edo-Tensei?", "view_count": 1519 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAs far as I know there haven't been cases of the revived being younger or\nolder. They're just the age they were at the moment of death.\n\nFor example;\n\n> when Asuma ([see here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FAjVO.jpg)) is revived by\n> Kabuto, he looks exactly the same as when he died. It might even be they\n> still wear the same clothes, but I haven't checked for every revived.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T15:26:09.537", "id": "613", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-17T15:26:09.537", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15", "parent_id": "612", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nNormally they were revived at the age of their dead. But the summoner can\nmodify this part. As found on\n[this](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Summoning%3a_Impure_World_Reincarnation)\nsite:\n\n> Kabuto can also modify his summoned fighters, as he did with Madara Uchiha.\n> While the technique usually reincarnates the deceased at the exact state\n> they were in at the time of their deaths, Kabuto noted that he brought\n> Madara back in a state that was \"beyond his prime\" and was reincarnated much\n> younger than when he died an old man as well as instilling him with\n> abilities he had acquired in his old age.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T15:33:26.380", "id": "614", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-17T15:38:35.667", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-17T15:38:35.667", "last_editor_user_id": "47", "owner_user_id": "47", "parent_id": "612", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to the Naruto Wiki page on Edo Tensei, when\n[summoning](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Summoning%3a_Impure_World_Reincarnation#Summoning)\n\n> the reincarnated seem to retain any permanent body damage and physical\n> limitations they received during their lifetime.1\n\nI think this means that normally they would be resurrected with the age they\nhad upon their time of death, as well as physical conditions.\n\nHowever, as we know, and the page describes in the\n[enhancements](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Summoning%3a_Impure_World_Reincarnation#Enhancements)\npart, (quote follows, as is on the site)\n\n> Kabuto can also modify his summoned fighters, as he did with Madara Uchiha.\n> While the technique usually reincarnates the deceased at the exact state\n> they were in at the time of their deaths, Kabuto noted that he brought\n> Madara back in a state that was \"beyond his prime\"2 and was reincarnated\n> much younger than when he died an old man as well as instilling him with\n> abilities he had acquired in his old age.\n\nSo, basically, I think that the user may perfect the Jutsu in order to obtain\nthe results he wants, provided that he has enough skill and knowledge on the\nJutsu to do it.\n\n> Or maybe only Kabuto can do it like that.\n\n* * *\n\n1 This piece of data is stated in the\n[Wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Summoning%3a_Impure_World_Reincarnation#Summoning),\nbut I do not recall if it was referenced in any manga chapter, so bear that in\nmind. \n2 _Naruto_ chapter 560, page 3.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T15:33:44.217", "id": "615", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-21T10:24:38.283", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-21T10:24:38.283", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "612", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "619", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nI didn't understand the scenario where Yagami Light relinquishes ownership of\nhis Death Note for the first time.\n\nHe trusted Rem to give it to such a person who would have traits like that of\nKyosuke Higuchi.\n\nWhat if that plan had not worked? Didn't the entire plan hinge on Rem's choice\nof the person?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T17:45:11.353", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "618", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-11T19:35:48.253", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-11T19:35:48.253", "last_editor_user_id": "191", "owner_user_id": "157", "post_type": "question", "score": 14, "tags": [ "death-note" ], "title": "Did Yagami Light take a risk while handing over the Death Note to Rem?", "view_count": 834 }

[ { "body": "\n\nPeople are predictable. Especially if you know one's personality in advance,\nyou can almost accurately predict what one might do with great power, such as\nthe Death Note.\n\nLight is far from stupid, he knew exactly what would happen. He knew he'd use\nthe Death Note to achieve a higher status, and that his and L's team would\ncome and investigate. All a part of clearing their own name.\n\nBasically, Light knew exactly what he was doing. Very little was left to\nchance in his plan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T17:58:55.143", "id": "619", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-17T17:58:55.143", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "618", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nYes. He did take a risk. But he knew his plan will all work, and it did. He\nknew how people will react and what he'll do next just basing with a person's\npersonality because he is genius and smart (but he used it for bad acts,\nthough). Think about it, he even knew what he'll do himself if he loses all of\nhis memories about the Death Note and I guess knowing oneself is the most\ndifficult thing to do, so judging and knowing what other people will do in a\nparticular situation would be easier for him.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T23:53:18.343", "id": "635", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-17T23:53:18.343", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "618", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "625", "answer_count": 4, "body": "\n\n[Anime music videos](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime_music_video) have\npublic screenings in [several\nconventions](http://www.animemusicvideos.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=5),\nespecially in the USA. How do they solve the problem of copyright?\n\nSome contests [forbid the use of dubbed (localized)\nanime](http://www.anotheranimecon.com/?page_id=99) in competitions because of\ncopyright issues. Are there different rules for content in Japanese (usually\nripped from airing)? Is there an explicit or implicit agreement between\norganizers and copyright holders of Japanese works, or it is permitted by the\ncopyright laws?\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T17:59:17.480", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "620", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-22T07:14:13.650", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-22T04:25:38.433", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "98", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "amv", "copyright", "conventions" ], "title": "Why are anime music videos admitted in anime conventions?", "view_count": 1363 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThat depends on the country, the convention and the concrete copyright\nholders, I believe. For example, in USA (and some other countries), there is\nso-called \"fair use\". It takes different form from country to country, but in\nUSA, as an example, it works like this (from [this wikipedia\narticle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use)):\n\n> Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 17 U.S.C. § 106 and 17 U.S.C. §\n> 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction\n> in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section,\n> for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including\n> multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an\n> infringement of copyright.\n\nSo in some cases one may actually use copyrighted work without causing an\ninfringement (I think AMVs may fall under \"scolarship or research\" in some\ncases, though I'm not a lawyer). I would like to note again, that in different\ncountries this works in different ways. For example in Russia, where I live,\nsuch usage of copyrighted material would most likely be forbidden. Also\nsometimes the organizers of a convention (or contest) may take care of the\ncopyrighted issues for their contestants.\n\nAnother important thing is the reaction of those who hold the rights. Some\npublishers may be strict about the copyrights, and may take some actions to\nforbid you using copyrighted material. Other are more loyal and will allow you\nto use the material as long as you are not trying to make profit of it.\n\nA good example for this are youtube videos. Some of them get deleted, some are\nblocked in particular countries, and some stay there, but have adverts placed\non them. I think it is a good example of how different companies take\ndifferent actions when the material on which they hold rights, is used.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T18:32:40.123", "id": "623", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-17T18:32:40.123", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "620", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThis is actually a legal gray area. Typically, since nobody's making money of\nof them, the copyright holders don't usually pursue the claim. But it is\nultimately at the whim of the copyright holder. The conventions typically get\npermission from their sponsors to do AMV screenings, the content show is\nusually owned by at least one of the sponsors. As they see it, it's free\npublicity for them at the convention.\n\nTypically AMVs don't qualify as fair use. Though it is highly debated, you\nwill most likely risk getting into legal trouble with copyright infringement\nif you attempt to use a fair-use defense.\n\nFair use allows someone to use copyrighted material for certain purposes where\nits use cannot practically be avoided. For example, if you review a movie,\nincluding a few very brief clips of the movie can generally be fair use,\nbecause it's difficult to review something without giving the readers a frame\nof reference. Here the copyrighted material is used to illustrate a concept or\nidea. This concept can also be applied to content used for educational\npurposes such as a supplement to lessons being taught in a class.\nAdditionally, protected forms of free speech might unavoidably use or make\nreference to copyrighted materials, as when a political action group wants to\nmake a point about an undesirable candidate and prepares a parody of his own\ncampaign commercials. Note that most parodies recreate material and don't copy\nit wholesale.\n\nUltimately the decision is up to the copyright holders according to the\n[Digital Millennial Copyright\nAct](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act).\n\nHere's Funimation take on this, from their copyright specialist [Evan\nFlournay](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/chicks-on-anime/2009-05-05):\n\n> \"For elements of media that are owned by more than one party, such as the\n> underlying animation, enforcement usually falls upon the party with rights\n> for that territory where such use takes place. Regarding AMV's and fan\n> videos, we don't mind most fan videos, including AMVs. The main reasons for\n> this are that they can often serve a promotional purpose, and legally, they\n> can sometimes constitute Fair Use. The basic thinking going into fan videos\n> is thus: if it whets the audience's appetite, we'll leave it alone. But if\n> it sates the audience's appetite, it needs to come down. Does that make\n> sense?\"\n\nEvan Flournay's personal belief is that AMVs should be considered fair use,\nbut that's his legal opinion; and if he decides that a video that includes his\nintellectual property is not worth taking down, it's within his legal right as\nthe content owner to do so.\n\nEach copyright holder might have their own right view of their legal right,\nsome might turn the other way, others may encourage it (because they are),\nwhile some just [don't like it at\nall](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenz_v._Universal_Music_Corp.).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T19:03:10.033", "id": "625", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-22T07:14:13.650", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-22T07:14:13.650", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "620", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nNo matter what license standing of a copyrighted work, all copyright\nviolations are persecuted only on demand of the affected entity (or entity\nacting on their behalf and request, e.g. BSA acting on behalf of software\nmanufacturers.)\n\nThat means: no complaint = no lawsuit. The copyright holders are fully within\ntheir right to sue the fans for statutory damage. But (unlike with trademarks)\nthey are completely free to ignore the violation, acknowledge it or even\nexpress approval without issuing actual license - they may choose not to sue,\nand they usually do.\n\nThere are many reasons, not the least of them being suing your own fan base is\na really terrible marketing move.\n\nBesides that, these videos are not damaging for the brand (so no way to find\nproportional damages as none happened) and are not released for profit (so no\nroyalties to sue for.) They can be only sued for statutory damages and even if\nthat provides actual profit outweighing the hassle, the damages to reputation\nfor alienating the fan base will be far worse than the financial profit.\n\nAnd in the end, these videos are frequently a free marketing of their\nfranchise. They actually bring profit by attracting new fans, new customers.\nSo why fight something profitable?\n\nIn essence, **the authors and studios _choose_ to let the fans get away with\nthe copyright violations**.\n\nThe case is somewhat different in case of trademarks. A trademark that is not\nactively defended is at risk of being lost. Studios sometimes \"regretfully\"\nsend Cease&Desist letters to fans who, say, produce games that feature\ntrademarked titles. Studios with more competent lawyers choose a different\navenue, issuing a limited license allowing these fans to proceed with an\nofficial blessing. They can't afford to let the issue \"pass under the radar\"\nas is the standard in case of copyright. They must act one way or another,\npermit or decline, they can't ignore it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T19:54:12.690", "id": "626", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-17T19:54:12.690", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "126", "parent_id": "620", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nAs unpopular as this is likely to be... AMVs at US-based anime conventions are\nfairly flagrant copyright violations. They are clearly derivative works, using\nthe artwork of an anime to either summarize the story or create a different\nstory from the original work.\n\nThe American copyright law\n[summarizes](http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/101) this fairly\nclearly:\n\n> A “derivative work” is a work based upon one or more preexisting works, such\n> as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization,\n> motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment,\n> condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed,\n> or adapted. A work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations,\n> elaborations, or other modifications which, as a whole, represent an\n> original work of authorship, is a “derivative work”.\n\n(On a side note... yes... this is the reason fansubs are violations as well)\n\nUnlike what several people here have said, copyright is **NOT** limited to\ncivil law (the type of law where the copyright holder is the one who has to\nbring a case against the offender). Both the Copyright Act and the DMCA have\nestablished criminal penalties for cases of 'willful copyright infringement'.\nThis does mean that it is possible for law enforcement to investigate, arrest\nand prosecute copyright violators without the involvement of the copyright\nowners. From a practical perspective, this would be very difficult, since law\nenforcement needs to know if some type of permission has been given. (and this\ntype of investigation is usually limited to mass importers of bootleg\nDVDs/CDs)\n\nRealistically speaking, however, anime music videos are fantastic advertising\nfor the copyright owners property. We are unlikely to see any type of hostile\naction against them at any time.\n\n* * *\n\nA more realistic problem is the other media being flagrantly infringed upon in\nan AMV. Unlike the anime, which is typically sliced into small \"beat-sized\"\nfragments and rearranged at the whims of the creator, the MUSIC part of the\nAMV is typically a straight copy of a recording. This violates the musicians\nsong copyright, the recording company's media copyright, AND the public\nproduction copyright (owned by who-knows).\n\nOnce again, if the song is from the anime, any prosecution is unlikely. For\npopular American pop songs, however, anime conventions would be well advised\nto look into obtaining blanket licenses from the major clearing houses. (the\nsame operations that sell permission to bars/nightclubs for 'public\nperformance')\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T20:16:14.900", "id": "628", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-19T21:21:07.283", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-19T21:21:07.283", "last_editor_user_id": "71", "owner_user_id": "71", "parent_id": "620", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "622", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nWas it ever explained why Jiraiya wasn't brought back via Edo Tensei when just\nabout every other powerful ninja in history was?\n\nFrom my understanding, the summoner only needs a good bit of genetic material\nto bring someone back and Jiraiya's body was intact when he died.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T17:59:44.307", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "621", "last_activity_date": "2016-02-22T19:11:59.153", "last_edit_date": "2016-02-22T19:11:59.153", "last_editor_user_id": "29", "owner_user_id": "29", "post_type": "question", "score": 15, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Why wasn't Jiraiya brought back with Edo Tensei?", "view_count": 28434 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe point is quite simple.\n\n> In order to perform Edo Tensei you need a sample of DNA of the deceased. If\n> you remember how Jiraiya died, he's been in the depth of the water and it's\n> not feasible to recover him.\n\nAnd indeed in this Wiki on [Edo\nTensei](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Summoning%3a_Impure_World_Reincarnation),\nit is stated that\n\n> Kabuto wanted to reincarnate him, but his _\"body lies at the bottom of the\n> ocean where the water pressure is too great to reach. However, he claimed\n> that the bloodstains on the Six Paths of Pain's weapons may provide enough\n> DNA.\"_ \n> \n> He wanted to reincarnate Shisui Uchiha too, but he _\"could not find his\n> body, though he suggested that Shisui's crushed eye, which is in Tobi's\n> possession, may be sufficient. Later, after learning that Shisui's other eye\n> was on the battlefield, he seemed excited at the prospect of obtaining it.\n> However, Itachi incinerated it.\"_\n\nIf you're reading the Manga, the fact about Jiraiya is stated in the Volume\n55, Chapter 520, page 14, so you can read if you got there:\n\n> Kabuto: Unfortunately, I had no luck finding Uchiha Shisui's corpse, and\n> Jiraiya's body rests deep in the ocean, below unfathomable depths. Though\n> Danzou's right eye and the Six Paths of Pain's weapons should still carry\n> their DNA...\n\nSo, that's a pretty simple but fundamental requirement.\n\n", "comment_count": 9, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T18:08:52.003", "id": "622", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-17T18:35:56.987", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-17T18:35:56.987", "last_editor_user_id": "15", "owner_user_id": "15", "parent_id": "621", "post_type": "answer", "score": 31 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "655", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn Inuyasha, there seems to be a higher class of Yokai, where Inuyasha's\nfather belonged, called \"Dai-Yokai\" (or \"Great Yokai\").\n\nWhat qualifies you (the average Yokai) to be a Dai-Yokai? Are you born like\nit? Do you earn the status somehow?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T21:10:18.983", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "629", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-18T10:48:12.017", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "inuyasha" ], "title": "What qualifies one as a Dai-Yokai?", "view_count": 1096 }

[ { "body": "\n\n[Inuyasha wiki](http://inuyasha.wikia.com/wiki/Daiy%C5%8Dkai) says the\nfollowing about daiyōkai:\n\n> Most daiyōkai have long lifespans, possibly even longer than those of normal\n> yōkai. They tend to remain calm in battle even if the situation is dire or\n> their life is threatened. Daiyōkai vary in shape and size, just like normal\n> yōkai. Some have, or are able to transform into, human-like forms, such as\n> the Inu no Taishō and Sesshōmaru. Others, like Ryūkotsusei, are very large\n> in size and don't at all resemble humans. Though it is not clear whether\n> this applies to all Daiyōkai, it seems that some became feudal rulers over\n> vast territories, commanding lesser demons. They sometimes wage war against\n> other yōkai and humans alike.\n\nAbout what qualifies one as such, is more controversial. It may be possible\nthat it's both possible to be born like one, and to _become_ one.\n\nFor example, Inu no Taishō's son from an unnamed demoness, Sesshōmaru, is a\ndaiyōkai, and even Inuyasha, while being half-human, possesses power beyond\nthose of an ordinary yōkai, so \"being born with it\" is plausible.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-18T10:48:12.017", "id": "655", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-18T10:48:12.017", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "629", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "633", "answer_count": 5, "body": "\n\nIn Dragonball Z, when Gohan changed into an Ozoro, Piccolo found an\nappropriate solution, destroy the moon. Easy-peasy.\n\nThe real question is, when Goku used his Genki Dama (on two occasions, by the\nway), it never resulted in anything more than a relatively small crater. With\nall the power stored inside that sphere (easy above a _billion_ , and over\n9000), shouldn't it have caused a _bit_ more damage? Piccolo managed to\n_destroy the moon_ , easily, with power level of less than 1000.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T21:49:01.723", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "630", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-13T10:59:42.163", "last_edit_date": "2016-01-13T10:59:42.163", "last_editor_user_id": "18431", "owner_user_id": "27", "post_type": "question", "score": 14, "tags": [ "dragon-ball-z" ], "title": "How could Piccolo blow up the moon, while Goku barely managed to leave a small crater?", "view_count": 44974 }

[ { "body": "\n\nWell, there is no physical evidence to that, \nBut Namek was approximately the size of Earth and the Moon probably was much\nmore smaller. \nso basically it was easier for Piccolo to do so.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T21:55:47.280", "id": "631", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-17T22:17:42.723", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-17T22:17:42.723", "last_editor_user_id": "85", "owner_user_id": "85", "parent_id": "630", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThe **Genki Dama** (元気玉, _Spiritual Energy Sphere_ ) cannot be created by\nsomeone with an impure heart and mind. This implies that you use it against\nevil. It's positive energy that you use to get rid of the evil that is\npoisoning your world.\n\nStill, this does not mean the Genki Dama is not powerful enough to destroy a\nplanet. After all, King Kai says:\n\n> [...] If you can draw so much destructive power from a ball made on this\n> small planet... ...Imagine what you can do with a Spirit Ball formed on\n> Earth! If you can also learn to tap into the astounding powers of the Sun...\n> Well. Just be careful. Or you may destroy the very planet you're trying to\n> protect!\"\n\nSo I suppose this means that Goku gets _just_ the energy necessary to kill\nFrieza (or whoever was there) and not the planet itself. He's Goku after all,\nhe supposedly can control his energy.\n\nPiccolo doesn't have such a limit. He intentionally destroys the Moon with\npure, mindless power.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T21:55:57.373", "id": "632", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-17T22:03:58.573", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-17T22:03:58.573", "last_editor_user_id": "15", "owner_user_id": "15", "parent_id": "630", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nPiccolo isn't the only character to blow up the moon in Dragon Ball. Master\nRoshi (disguised as Jackie Chun) destroys the moon at the end of the 21st\nWorld Martial Arts Tournament using the [MAX Power\nKamehameha](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/MAX_Power_Kamehameha), which\ntakes considerably more effort than for Piccolo. In the meantime, Kami\nrecreated the moon, so this isn't a plot hole.\n\nHowever, it's a good question as to why the moon is so easy to destroy, while\nthe earth is so much harder. Part of this can be explained since the moon is\nmuch less massive, but even then the numbers don't quite add up if we assume\nthe Earth and Moon are the same as ours. Let's assume that physics in the DB\nuniverse is at least somewhat similar to our own, modulo spirit attacks and\nwhatever else. Of course, this assumption might be wrong, but if you start\nchanging how physics works, there's no reason why the moon can't be filled\nwith TNT so that it explodes whenever anyone so much as looks at it.\n\nI've made some approximations in the following calculations. I calculated the\ngravitational binding energy of the moon to be 1.2 * 10^29 J. That's the\nminimum amount of energy to blow up the moon so that it won't reform by its\nown gravity, so we can assume that the characters were using at least that\nmuch energy. That amount would be enough to knock 3.4 * 10^20 kg of matter off\nof the surface of the earth, which is roughly 0.006% of the mass of the earth.\nThat doesn't seem like a lot, but if we assume a uniform density of the earth,\nthat's about 1.6 * 10^7 cubic miles of matter, which corresponds to a cube\nwhere each side has length 250 miles. That's a pretty huge crater. So just\nsaying that the moon is easier to blow up than the earth isn't going to cut\nit.\n\nThere are 3 ways to resolve this. First, the earth and moon in the DB universe\ncould be very different from what they are here. Specifically, the moon could\nbe larger and less massive, and the earth smaller and more massive than in\nreal life. However, it takes quite a bit of stretching to get believable\nvalues, and that's ignoring the vast power difference between DBZ Goku and DB\nRoshi. If you push things that far, I wouldn't expect it to be consistent with\neverything else in the series. The second possibility is that the moon is\nsomehow more vulnerable than the Earth to attacks. This is roughly what\nAlenanno's answer says. It's entirely possible, but as far as I can tell\nthere's little indication of this in the series apart from the Genki Dama, so\nI don't know why other attacks directed at planets would not destroy them.\n\nThis leaves the third possibility, which is my personal choice: the producers\nweren't really thinking about it when they did this, and were more concerned\nwith making things dramatic than making them consistent. As such, I'd call\nthis a plot hole, but it's a pretty minor one in the grand scheme of things.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T23:28:49.640", "id": "633", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-17T23:28:49.640", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "630", "post_type": "answer", "score": 18 }, { "body": "\n\nSimple answer, Piccolo WANTED to destroy the moon. It has been demonstrated on\nnumerous occasions that the characters in DBZ have a very exact control over\ntheir energy. The best option for how to look at it is that Goku when using\nthe Spirit Bomb on Frieza didn't want to destroy Namek because it would kill\nhim and his friends, the best explanation is that he concentrated the energy\nof the explosion almost entirely on Frieza. As for when it was used on Buu, at\nthat point the bomb was not only concentrated on Buu but was also being fired\nat an angle (as evidenced by it pushing Buu backwards) so it can be assumed\nthat the reason it only left a crater that time was because very little of the\nbomb's energy was focused on the planet. This is just my own speculation but\nif you wanted a reason then this would be your best one as trying to explain\nit in other ways leads towards more questions and even more speculation as to\nthe powers of the characters.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-13T03:25:51.070", "id": "4117", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-13T03:25:51.070", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1896", "parent_id": "630", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nThe simplest explanation I can think of is density.\n\nEarth has an average density of 5.52 g/cm. The moon has an average density of\n3.34 g/cm.\n\nSo, it's possible that the difference is exponential - the difference may be\nonly 2.18 g/cm, but the force needed to blow something up may increase from a\n(arbitrary numbers here) threshold of 100 (moon) to a threshold of 1000,\ninstead of a threshold from 100 to, say, 300.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-10T10:04:00.460", "id": "4334", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-10T10:04:00.460", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2007", "parent_id": "630", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "636", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI'm talking about the notebook seen in the episode 21 of Amagami SS. She said\nit contained something that could make her leave the school (maybe being\nexpelled?).\n\nIf it's that serious, could it be a crime? Did I miss an important plot detail\nthat explains it? Do the contents even get explained in another adaptation of\nAmagami like the manga or the VN, or are they completely unknown?\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-17T23:48:13.607", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "634", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-18T00:11:06.103", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-18T00:11:06.103", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "190", "post_type": "question", "score": 9, "tags": [ "amagami" ], "title": "What's written in Ayatsuji Tsukasa's notebook?", "view_count": 9930 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is no mention of the exact contents of the notebook in the original VN\nor the anime. There are a couple of short sequel games which I have not gone\nthrough, so in principle there could be some explanation there, but given how\nimportant this is I doubt they'd want to relegate it to a side-game. Hence,\nthe authors have definitely and deliberately hidden what is in her notebook.\n\nHowever, there are some good theories. The most common viewpoint is that she\nwas using the notebook as a diary to vent her frustration with everyone else,\nparticularly her sister. Despite the fact that Tsukasa is harder-working, her\nsister always seems to be more popular. Of course, she has more to vent about\nthan that, and it's pretty safe to guess that the diary contained all sorts of\nthings about everyone. That's why, if it ever went public, she wouldn't be\nable to go to school any more.\n\n[This forum\npost](http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p=3385022&postcount=39)\nprovides a pretty complete and fairly consistent picture of Ayatsuji from a\npsychological standpoint. The segment about her notebook is quoted below:\n\n> **The Birth and the Function of her Diary**\n>\n> We believe that [having someone/something to listen to her] was the function\n> of her diary, which she so desperately guarded. Here, the Inner Tsukasa was\n> writing down her life, her frustrations, and her thoughts which she couldn't\n> share with anybody. In a way, it was her way to deal with whatever gave her\n> a hard time. Some kind of offline-blog, talking to herself. It also explains\n> why the contents would be damaging enough that she \"couldn't come to school\n> anymore\" if they'd ever come out.\n>\n> We could see in episode 3 how much she was annoyed at the laziness and\n> pettiness of the three bitches. Her Facade would have never allowed to show\n> her anger - instead, it rather demanded that she would go through a\n> humiliating insincere teary apology, sacrificing her (absolutely justified)\n> anger and pride for the sake of ultimate success. In the past, she probably\n> would have made an entry in the diary - this time, she did it in person,\n> with disastrous results.\n>\n> This is how Junichi uncovered the \"Inner\" Tsukasa - when he picked up the\n> diary. Tsukasa believed that he had actually read it, and that there was no\n> need to maintain the Facade towards him anymore. It also proves that\n> Ayatsuji has no split or bipolar personality: The Inner Tsukasa is always in\n> control - she was able to drop the Facade in a second.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-18T00:10:10.363", "id": "636", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-18T00:10:10.363", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "634", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "644", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nConsidering that Clow Reed and Fei Wong Reed have the same surnames and that\nthey both have magical powers, how are they related? It was not clearly stated\non the anime series or manga how they are related (unless I overlooked it).\nAre they brothers or relatives? Or do they just coincidentally have the same\nsurnames? (Though Yuko said there is no such thing as coincidence, there is\nonly inevitability.)\n\nI'll appreciate any details. Thanks a lot.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-18T02:34:36.153", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "643", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-14T02:20:05.830", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-14T02:20:05.830", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "88", "post_type": "question", "score": 4, "tags": [ "tsubasa-chronicle" ], "title": "How are Clow Reed and Fei Wong Reed related in Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle?", "view_count": 1017 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the [Tsubasa Wikia](http://tsubasa.wikia.com/):\n\n> Fei Wong Reed also mentions Clow quite frequently, and he's also a\n> descendant of Clow.\n\nThis is shown in chapter 64, which appears in Volume 9 of the manga. He is\ndescribed as somewhat of a distant relative of Clow Reed.\n\nInformation for this can be found on: [Fei Wang Reed's Wikia\npage](http://tsubasa.wikia.com/wiki/Fei_Wang_Reed) and Fei Wang Reed's section\non\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tsubasa:_Reservoir_Chronicle_characters#Fei-\nWang_Reed). The citing is provided on the Wikipedia page.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-18T03:36:22.097", "id": "644", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-21T01:45:47.723", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-21T01:45:47.723", "last_editor_user_id": "6481", "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "643", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nFei-Wang Reed was born from the wish Clow Reed made to revive Yuko. I think\nthis goes far beyond being heavily implied, as it is pretty much confirmed by\nhis actions, his motivations, and his dialogue. For instance, when he dies in\nchapter 231, he says,\n\n> The witch must be revived... That's the whole reason for my existence... And\n> the message I must deliver to her... That is my reason... I am to...\n\nAdditionally, he shatters to pieces, his body falling apart after death as\nwith all the clones in the series who died. I believe he is a clone of Clow\nReed, in the same way Watanuki is a clone of Syaoran. Since Clow Reed was\nunable to revive Yuko, part of Fei-Wang Reed's motivations is to prove he is\nsuperior to Clow, by accomplishing what Clow could not do. It's possible that\nFei-Wang was born from Clow Reed's regrets at having had to give up, and thus\nwhy he is so determined to carry out the wish.\n\nBut regardless of my little speculation spree, considering Watanuki was born\nfrom stopping Sakura's time, it isn't so far-fetched to think Fei-Wang was\nborn from stopping Yuko's.\n\nHere's what Fai has to say when Kurogane asks why Fei-Wang broke into pieces:\n\n> I don't know. But it may be that Fei-Wang... he himself was an image of\n> somebody else. Or perhaps less a person... and more a very strong will. It\n> could be the personification of a wish left behind by someone with enormous\n> magical power.\n\nAs far as the story goes, the only known characters who fit the bill of having\nsuch powerful magical power are Clow Reed and Sakura. We also happen to know\nClow Reed made a wish to save Yuko, so it seems like it's a mystery solved.\n\nWe could get into speculation and say there's simply some unknown character.\nThere is simply no information to support such a theory, however, and I\nbelieve if that was the conclusion the authors wanted us to reach, they would\nhave laid the groundwork.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-07T18:03:48.410", "id": "67609", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-07T18:15:18.933", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-07T18:15:18.933", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "643", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nA Saiyajin can multiply his power if he takes great damage or is near death\nand is able to heal himself afterwards.\n\nWith that ability alone, they could rinse and repeat countless times before\nthe first encounter with the Androids (you can't be too safe).\n\nGoku and Vegeta have their pride and all, I get that. But Trunks and Gohan are\nmuch more rational (especially Future Trunks). So why didn't they do what\nVegeta did on Namek with Dende for example?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-18T04:22:47.713", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "645", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-20T05:48:09.460", "last_edit_date": "2016-01-13T06:16:13.147", "last_editor_user_id": "18431", "owner_user_id": "85", "post_type": "question", "score": 17, "tags": [ "dragon-ball-series" ], "title": "Why didn't the Saiyajins raise up their power energy?", "view_count": 766 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are multiple things against this.\n\n 1. It needs a close death experience to gain power and they need to be healed afterwards, as Dende wasn't on earth at this time and they surely don't want to eat all the beans. It would take a lot of time to regain their full strength and they could die trying of course.\n 2. Vegeta and Goku would never use something like that to gain power because of their pride. \n 3. They might have underestimated the cyborgs\n 4. Future Trunks was not in this timeline on that time\n 5. Gohan was a kid at this time and he \"had to study\". His mother would have never allowed him to be beaten half dead and recovered just to increase power.\n\n> 6\\. Future Trunks might not be aware of this fact, since when he lived Goku\n> and Vegeta were already dead and Gohan might never told him that.\n\nAs Exception from 2:\n\n> Vegeta did this on Namek cause he hated Frieza, he destroyed the planet\n> Vegeta and killed nearly all the Sajyans. (As exception of 2.)\n\nThose are the reasons against, it in my opinion. There might be more, and some\nmight not be right, but I hope you can use this answer.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-18T07:53:06.043", "id": "649", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-21T15:57:42.757", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-21T15:57:42.757", "last_editor_user_id": "222", "owner_user_id": "47", "parent_id": "645", "post_type": "answer", "score": 16 }, { "body": "\n\n## First things first\n\n * Goku use in the spaceship, while going to Namek. (Seeds)\n * Vegeta ask Dende to help him with it in Namek. (Heal)\n * Gohan get power up thanks to the [Old Kai](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Old_Kai). (Without getting damage, only releasing the hidden power)\n * Trunks and Goten never needed the power up (they used only the SSJ 3 form to do this)\n\n* * *\n\n## The Androids appearance\n\n> Three years have passed since the visit by the mysterious Future Trunks.\n> Goku, Piccolo and Gohan leave to go and face their destiny against enemies\n> they have only heard about, but not seen. They are as prepared as they could\n> be, though Piccolo wishes they had more time to become stronger.\n\nSource: [The Androids Appear - Summary (1st\nParagraph)](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/The_Androids_Appear)\n\nThe point that need to be considerate here is: **You need to train your\ntechnique not only your power (check out how boxers or others professional\nfighters train before a fight)**\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-21T18:21:22.123", "id": "755", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-20T05:48:09.460", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-20T05:48:09.460", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "222", "parent_id": "645", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThere was also the possibility they could have died while trying this, so it's\nnot such a good strategy.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-02T15:26:31.120", "id": "4600", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-02T15:26:31.120", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2138", "parent_id": "645", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "647", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn chapter 420, Kakashi summoned the wall of dogs (Doton: Doryūheki).\n\n> \n\nIt looks just like an ordinary earth element wall, except that it has bulldog\nsculptures on it. \nIt's already known that Kakashi was familiar with the earth element very well.\n\nSo why did he summon this wall?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-18T04:47:32.350", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "646", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-09T14:20:02.990", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-09T14:20:02.990", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "85", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "What is the difference between a regular wall and the wall Kakashi summoned?", "view_count": 2249 }

[ { "body": "\n\nLet's see what was Kakashi trying to do. First of all, he summoned the wall\n_behind_ Pain. So his intention was not to make a barrier to protect himself,\nbut rather to limit Pain's movement, probably to make it harder for him to\nevade Kakashi's attacks. Right after that he tries to hit Pain with Raikiri,\nbut because of Rinnegan he misses and hits the wall instead. Note that Pain is\nalready pushed to the wall, so he can not evade backwards.\n\nSo basically he has just two ways to move to left: forward, from where Kakashi\nis attacking, or upward, trying to jump over the wall. Considering this, I\nwould assume that the dog heads are there to prevent the enemy from doing so,\nand possible catch and hold him at the wall if he is reckless enough.\n\nNote that it is not the only technique which combines Earth element and\nKakashi's dogs. He also uses Kuchiyose: Doton: Tsuiga no Jutsu (literally\n\"Summoning: Earth Release: Tracking Fang\") in his battle against Zabuza. In\nthis technique, tha dogs travel underground, track their target and then\nassault it with their fangs _to hold it still and let Kakashi hit it with\nRaikiri_.\n\nSo yes, I think the wall had roughly the same purpose.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-18T05:37:33.933", "id": "647", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-18T05:37:33.933", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "646", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "662", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nWhen Nagato used the [Outer\nPath](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Outer_Path%3a_Samsara_of_Heavenly_Life_Technique)\ntechnique to revive the citizens of Konoha killed in the attack, why wasn't\nJiraiya revived as well?\n\nIt was revealed that the original plan was for Madara to be revived with the\ntechnique, so it's not like there was a time limit or anything.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-18T18:26:44.827", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "661", "last_activity_date": "2019-08-13T14:14:04.527", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-18T20:25:28.037", "last_editor_user_id": "15", "owner_user_id": "22", "post_type": "question", "score": 15, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Why wasn't Jiraiya brought back by Nagato?", "view_count": 40047 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are several reasons.\n\n> Jiraiya's body is buried beneath the ocean depth, so even if he would be\n> revived there, well... it wouldn't really help him.\n\nOuter Path probably is limited by either distance or time which has passed\nsince death. Otherwise, the technique would have revived people from the whole\nworld.\n\n> the wiki says that \"the individual souls are then able to leave even the\n> crossroad between life and the afterlife\". Jiraiya should probably be in the\n> afterlife already. \n> \n> On the contrary, Kakashi was still in the path between life and afterlife\n> when the technique brought him back.\n\nThe wiki also says that it happens because \"their rejuvenated bodies [are]\nacting as an anchor\", so looks like the body _is_ required.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-18T18:39:29.403", "id": "662", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-18T19:00:47.127", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-18T19:00:47.127", "last_editor_user_id": "15", "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "661", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nThat's because Gedo: Rinne Tensei requires a body.\n\nRinne Tensei is practically a Yang-element technique. It breathes life, into a\ndead body, healing any damage or injury done to it. However, it is not Yin. It\ncannot create form. You need an actual body for it to work.\n\nSince Jiraiya died and his body sank to the bottom of the ocean, he wasn't\nanywhere near the village when Nagato used Rinne Tensei.\n\n> That is also the same reason why Kabuto couldn't revive him. Even though\n> only DNA is enough, Kabuto couldn't get any.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-18T19:53:29.090", "id": "663", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-18T19:53:29.090", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "661", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nAlso even if Jiraiya was revived he would have been a the bottom of the ocean\nby now and I doubt he can breathe underwater so even if he was revived he\nwould die instantly anyways because of the lack of oxygen and the water\npressure.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-23T00:00:24.980", "id": "24281", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-23T02:39:51.873", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-23T02:39:51.873", "last_editor_user_id": "293", "owner_user_id": "16471", "parent_id": "661", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "666", "answer_count": 4, "body": "\n\nWhen Naruto is talking to the Kyuubi is his mind or his spirit inside the\nKyuubi?\n\nWhat happens while he is running? Does he have something like an autopilot?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-18T20:39:49.277", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "664", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-04T17:23:06.693", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-06T09:18:32.650", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "6", "post_type": "question", "score": 55, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "What happens when Naruto is talking to the Kyuubi?", "view_count": 4109 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's like thinking while running, or making a phone call.\n\nHis mind is there, but he's also aware of his surroundings, he's not gazing\ninto space.\n\nAlso, it's very likely that these interactions happen much faster than we see\nthem (in the real world), just like thoughts and dreams are experienced by the\nbrain in a flash, while to us it _seems_ as if it took minutes (in reality it\ntook less then a second).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-18T20:46:46.783", "id": "666", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-18T20:46:46.783", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "664", "post_type": "answer", "score": 45 }, { "body": "\n\nIts more like when we talk to our Inner selves when we are hitting on a girl.\n\n[code]\n\n Is she looking at Me ?\n \n Why is she looking ?\n \n[/code]\n\nWhen you first learn to ride bicycle you have to think a lot and then after\nsometime it becomes automatic.\n\nNaruto does not have to make conscious effort to talk to Kyuubi, he can\nsimultaneously talk to Kyuubi and do other stuff, because its automatic now.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-02T04:50:04.730", "id": "5678", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-02T04:50:04.730", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2587", "parent_id": "664", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nSometimes Naruto is able to talk to the Kyuubi (Kurama) while not having to go\ninside his mind. He usually goes inside his mind when he really has to, wants\nto, or just needs power. But if hes not falling or standing still but he's\nactually running he wont really go into hi mind to see the Kyuubi or he will\nhit something. He would have to stop if he wants to actaully see the fox.\nThat's why he can talk to the the Kyuubi or the Kyuubi talks to him without\nNaruto having to go inside his mind.\n\np.s: The nine tailed fox's name is Kurama.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-05T00:02:48.357", "id": "5732", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-05T01:55:44.063", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-05T01:55:44.063", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "2671", "parent_id": "664", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt may be like shadow clones. One of his shadow clone conscience talk to\nkuruma while other runs. When talk is done he simply undo jutsu and know his\nlittle conversation with kuruma.\n\nDuring strong moments he cannot run and talk , since he had to concentrate all\nhis chakra at one place.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-08-04T17:23:06.693", "id": "35581", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-04T17:23:06.693", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "26084", "parent_id": "664", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "673", "answer_count": 4, "body": "\n\nAlthough [this question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/356/why-\nare-there-ending-of-the-series-death-note-so-different-in-manga-and-anime) was\nclosed, it was actually through it that I came to realize that the anime and\nmanga versions of Death Note are different, having only seen the anime\nversion.\n\nJust how different are the two versions? \nDoes the anime simply omit some details, shortening the story? \nOr do they take completely different directions at some point? (much like the\nFMA manga and its first anime series) If this is the case, at which point do\nthey part?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-18T20:41:01.003", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "665", "last_activity_date": "2019-05-12T08:09:35.443", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "49", "post_type": "question", "score": 25, "tags": [ "death-note" ], "title": "How different are the anime and manga versions of Death Note?", "view_count": 244008 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are some minor differences.\n\nFor example, when L loses his life in the Anime, he doesn't say anything. But\nin the Manga he says something like \"I knew I was right\".\n\nBut the main difference is the ending.\n\nIn the **Anime**\n\n> Yagami Light, Near, Matsuda and all the squad are in a sort of warehouse.\n> When Light tries to get the piece of paper of his Death Note from the watch,\n> he gets shot by Matsuda in non-fatal points, both times. While the other guy\n> kills himself, Light runs away, and ends up in another building of what\n> looks like an industrial area. Ryuk is on top of a chimney and speaking to\n> himself, he \"reminds\" Light about his first promise, i.e. that he would be\n> the one to write Light's name on the Death Note. And that's what he does.\n\nIn the **Manga**\n\n> Light is still in the warehouse and he sees Ryuk (Near sees him too since he\n> has the Note as well) and he begs the Shinigami to write their names. Ryuk\n> says \"Ok Light, I'll write...\" and while everybody tries to shoot him, he\n> adds \"...your name, Light.\" Light doens't want to believe it but when Ryuk\n> shows the Note, his name is written there. Light sees his entire life and\n> remembers the same sentence Ryuk told him when they met (i.e. that he would\n> be the one to write Light's name on the Death Note). Ryuk adds \"it would be\n> hard to see you in prison and your life is over anyways\" or something\n> similar. After 40 seconds, Light dies in front of the two detective teams.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-18T22:11:15.847", "id": "673", "last_activity_date": "2019-05-12T08:09:35.443", "last_edit_date": "2019-05-12T08:09:35.443", "last_editor_user_id": "30386", "owner_user_id": "15", "parent_id": "665", "post_type": "answer", "score": 33 }, { "body": "\n\n**Summary**\n\nThere are a lot of differences between the Death Note Manga and it’s Anime\nadaptation, but they’re mostly minor differences, with the overall story being\nthe same. Compared to the Manga, the Anime has had some scenes removed, new\nones added, and some included scenes have been altered. I’ll go over some of\nthe more notable changes, but this won’t be a complete list.\n\n**L/Light Arc**\n\nThe conversation between L and Light that happens in the coffee shop was\naltered significantly, with the Manga scene being a lot longer and containing\nmore dialogue between Light and L. In the Anime the only question L asks Light\nis the one where L gives Light pictures of the “L, do you know that Gods of\nDeath love apples?” messages. In the anime L also asks Light what he can\nconclude by L revealing himself, and also asks him a question about the\nvarious FBI detectives that were killed by Kira.\n\nThe following scene, with Light, L, and Soichiro, had alterations as well.In\nthe manga L asks Light what he thinks Kiras personality is like, which leads L\nto state that the most likely person to be Kira based on Lights description\nwould be Lights sister, Sayu. This causes Light to be outraged, and Soichiro\nto state that he doesn’t believe it’s possible for Sayu to be Kira (but\ndoesn’t make the same statement about Light, which is something Ryuk makes\nnote of).\n\nIn the Manga the first meeting between Misa and Light contains an explanation\nfrom Misa about how much of a persons face she needs to see in order to know\ntheir name, which was omitted from the Anime.\n\n**Business Arc**\n\nThe anime also excludes a few scenes between Rem and Higuchi, likely to\nprevent the watcher from discovering who the new Kira is too long before it’s\nrevealed (due to recognizing the voice). The most notable exclusion is a scene\nwhere Rem tells Higuchi he can stop killing criminals now, but Higuchi\nrefuses, stating he still needs criminals to die, since it’s good for\nbusiness.\n\nThe manga also shows that Rem is disgusted by Higuchi and the other members of\nthe “Kira board”. Rem tells Misa during their bathroom scene that her disgust\nat the actions of the “Kira Board” have made her come to the conclusion that\nLight may actually be a good person, and wishes for him to succeed (and, for\nthis reason, is no longer able to kill people in order to help Light succeed,\nsince it would cause Rem to die).\n\nWhen Light gets the notebook back, and Misa resumes her duties as the second\nKira, there’s a scene in the Anime which shows Misa walking in the city\nsinging. This scene isn’t present in the Manga, and was added to the Anime.\n\nThe death of L is handled differently as well. In the Anime there’s a scene\nwhich takes place on the roof of the task forces HQ, after which L gives Light\na foot massage. Immediately after this scene L and Watari are killed by Rem.\nIn the Manga the rooftop scene and foot massage are completely omitted. The\nscene before and after this, showing that Rem is considering killing L to save\nMisa, is all just one scene. It’s not broken up by anything in the middle.\nWhen L does die, he’s complete silent in the Anime, but in the Manga he says\n“I wasn’t wrong”. Finally, there’s a few scenes between L and Watari in the\nanime (flashback to L at the orphanage and L coming to Wataris computer room\nat HQ) which aren't present in the Manga.\n\n**Near/Mello Arc**\n\nThe second half of Death Note, featuring Near and Mello, contains a lot of\nalterations as well, with quite a few scenes being removed. It also adds a few\nadditional scenes between Misa and Light, giving a bit more of a glimpse into\ntheir relationship, and expanding some more on Misas character (you really get\nto see how much she cares for Light, and how concerned she gets when Light is\nupset).\n\nIn the Manga Near brings Soichiro in for questioning after Near sends a\nchopper to pick up Soichiro in the desert. The SPK also gets the USA president\nto send in a squad of soldiers to retrieve the Death Note from Mello, but the\nassault fails due to Sidoh taking off everyones helmets so Mellos group can\nkill them with the Death Note.\n\nIn the Manga Mello and Halle Lidner are shown to have met prior to the scene\nwhere Mello puts a gun to her head, and almost immediately after the meeting\nbetween Mello and Near, Mello contacts Mogi and sends him to meet near. Near\nasks him a few questions and shares some information with him, with Mello and\nthe task force listening in (although Mogi doesn’t say anything). Mogi is\nactually still with the SPK when Demegawa storms their headquarters, and\nsafely escapes with them. Mogi is still with the SPK up until Aizawa goes to\nmeet up with Near, at which point Mogi and Aizawa leave together. In the Anime\nMello never contacts Mogi, and Mello and Halle weren’t shown to be in contact\nprior to Mello putting a gun to her head. When Aizawa gets in touch with Near\nregarding his doubts about Light he does it over the phone, and not in person.\nInterestingly enough, though, the Anime scene where Aizawa does first meet\nNear in person was actually over the phone in the Manga, so they (sort of)\nswapped those two scenes.\n\nThe anime removes a lot of scenes between Misa giving up the Death Note and\nLight making contact with Mikami as well. In the Manga we actually see Light\nlooking for someone to replace Misa, and notices Mikami during a broadcast of\nKiras Kingdom, which results in Light sending Mikami the Death Note. Mikami\nalso tries to reach out to Kira (Light) during an episode of Kiras kingdom,\nstating that if Kira can’t get in touch with him he’ll begin acting on his\nown. Mikami also doesn’t get in touch with Light until the second meeting\nbetween Takada and Light. In their first meeting Light gets Takada to make\nsome statements during the broadcast in an attempt to have Mikami contact her,\nand then Mikami contacts her during the second meeting between Light and\nTakada.\n\nIn the manga we see a few more scenes of Mello and Matt (the one who helped\nMello kidnapped takada) observing Misa and Light, but nothing really notable\nhappens in these scenes.\n\n**Ending**\n\nAs the other answer already made note of, the ending is changed as well, and\nis definitely the biggest change. In the anime Light escapes from the\nwarehouse after Mikami kills himself, and dies when Ryuk writes Lights name in\nthe Death Note.\n\nIn the Manga Mikami doesn’t kill himself in the warehouse, and Light doesn’t\nescape. Instead, after Matsuda uses Light for target practice, Light crawls on\nover to Ryuk and begs him to write everyone’s name down in his Death Note.\nInstead Ryuk writes Lights name in the Death Note, resulting in Lights Death.\nThe story then cuts ahead a few years, and there’s an epilogue. In the\nepilogue we learned that Mikami killed himself in prison, and that Aiziwa has\ntaken over as head of the Japanese Police. Near has taken over the position as\nL, and still works with the police. The final shot of the Manga shows that\npeople still worship Kira, and pray for him to return one day.\n\n**Misc**\n\nThe Anime also contains a lot more imagery than the Manga does. In the anime\nthere are several scenes which often don’t show what’s actually happening when\nsome characters are talking. For example, during the “I am in Japan”\nconversation between Near and Light it shows the two of them going up a\nconstruction elevator, whereas in the Manga it just shows them talking over\nthe phone. These changes were likely made to make the long dialogue scenes of\nthe show more visually interesting.\n\n**In Closing**\n\nSo that should cover the majority of the changes between the Manga and Anime,\nalthough I may have overlooked something. As you can see, the overall story\nremains the same, but there’s definitely enough differences between the two\nmake reading the Manga worthwhile if you’ve already seen the anime (and vica\nversa).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-17T01:05:46.477", "id": "24144", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-17T09:58:43.137", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-17T09:58:43.137", "last_editor_user_id": "62", "owner_user_id": "62", "parent_id": "665", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nMost of the major ones have already been brought up, but there are several\nsmall ones that make things change in ways you wouldn't expect. The easiest to\nsee example is that Mello (in the manga) had a cross, both on a necklace\n(potentially a rosary or a fifteen-decade rosary) and hanging off his gun, in\nthe anime the gun has nothing hanging off of it and there is no horizontal bar\non the necklace. To most, these are minor, **but** the connotations are huge.\nDeath Note had, over and over again, shown that there is no afterlife, that\neveryone returns to nothingness. We, as viewers, accept that that is the way\nit is in Death Note, but to the other characters, they would have no way of\nknowing. To me, such little things made a big impact from a lore and world\nbuilding perspective.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-09-07T05:10:57.337", "id": "42203", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-07T05:10:57.337", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "35517", "parent_id": "665", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nFor an interesting subtle difference, see the essay [Two boys, one post? Or\nwhy anime Light is not the same as manga\nLight](https://casuistor.tumblr.com/post/148774472866/two-boys-one-post-or-\nwhy-anime-light-is-not-the) by [casuistor](https://casuistor.tumblr.com),\nwhich goes in detail about how anime-Light and manga-Light actually differ in\ncharacterization.\n\nSome highlights:\n\n> So before reading any of this, you may be thinking that manga-Light and\n> anime-Light are fairly similar and they are at least superficially.\n> Otherwise, their respective characterizations are quite different. This,\n> unsurprisingly, gets established right from the beginning of both the anime\n> and manga when you look at Pre-Kira Light.\n>\n> ...\n>\n> Manga-Light, for all intents and purposes, comes off like a relatively\n> ordinary guy who jokes around with friends. Anime-Light IS the stereotypical\n> loner character who shuns the company of other people. The anime even gives\n> us a montage in Episode 3 to demonstrate exactly this point.\n>\n> Here’s Light walking to school alone.\n>\n> Here’s Light eating lunch at school by himself.\n>\n> Here’s Light being too good to be a team player in a team sport.\n>\n> Anime-Light well and truly physically distances himself from other people.\n> It isn’t just emotional distance. None of these shots above are consistent\n> with the friendly social mask manga-Light clearly puts on for the public.\n>\n> ...\n>\n> Another interesting difference to note is the way manga-Light is actually\n> talking out loud when he’s chattering about the death note. It isn’t part of\n> his internal monologue because it isn’t a secret. Anime-Light on the other\n> hand examines the note and his thoughts stay internalized.\n>\n> Anime-Light’s first sign of finding the note genuinely amusing happens when\n> he picks up on this potential application of the note.\n>\n> Taking into context anime-Light’s misanthropy, already eyebrow raising humor\n> like this becomes even more alarming. Think back to all those classmates\n> anime-Light is disgusted with. You can very easily picture a list of people\n> anime-Light would consider toying with.\n>\n> But if that weren’t weird enough, anime-Light has this inexplicable need to\n> say this particular thought out loud. He’s within the privacy of his own\n> room, of course, but it strikes me as unusual that he reads all of the rules\n> in silence, and then feels the need to physically announce that he could\n> theoretically make someone suffer.\n>\n> Contrast this with manga-Light.\n>\n> You’ll note that manga-Light keeps the same thought to himself. His dark\n> humor (because that’s what it is) is for his own amusement alone and stays\n> private and separated from the casual sense of humor that he would verbalize\n> and share with the world. This is a distinction that isn’t present with\n> anime-Light.\n>\n> ...\n>\n> In short then, the two iterations of Light Yagami are fundamentally\n> different in their psychological make up. To use a glass analogy, at the\n> start of canon, manga-Light is a perfect sheet of glass that shatters into\n> pieces once he finds the death note. Anime-Light however, is characterized\n> as broken fragments at the start of canon that are put back together when he\n> finds the death note. This difference is even highlighted by the titles. The\n> manga’s first chapter is entitled “Boredom,” Boredom is what compels Light\n> to write in the note initially and boredom is what destroys Light’s personal\n> mythos.\n>\n> In contrast the first episode of the anime is called “Rebirth.” From the\n> chaos that the death note introduces into Light’s life, we have a\n> metaphorical rebirth. The glass fragments stitch back together to re-create\n> an imperfect but unbroken sheet of glass as Light discovers his true purpose\n> and embarks on his destiny.\n>\n> Subtle, as I said, but fascinating.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-05-12T06:47:04.463", "id": "52916", "last_activity_date": "2019-05-12T06:47:04.463", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "18352", "parent_id": "665", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "675", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nWhy/how is Yoruichi Shihōin able to transform into a cat? Was she always able\nto or did she learn it somehow? Does she have some object that allows here to?\n\nAs far as I can remember she seems the only one to be able to transform (into\nan animal).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-18T20:54:19.200", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "667", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-29T09:10:52.637", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "51", "post_type": "question", "score": 8, "tags": [ "bleach" ], "title": "Why is Yoruichi able to transform?", "view_count": 1071 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the [Bleach Wiki's page on the\ncharacter](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Yoruichi_Shih%C5%8Din#Powers_.26_Abilities):\n\n> Yoruichi possess the unique ability to shape-shift into a black cat at will.\n> How she alone, out of all Shinigami, is capable of this is currently\n> unknown. She has possessed the ability for well over 100 years, and it's\n> known to others she knew from that time. She apparently has no set time\n> limit on the transformation, as she had been in this form for over 100\n> years.\n\nBasically, it is unknown.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-18T22:25:32.843", "id": "675", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-29T09:10:52.637", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-29T09:10:52.637", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "667", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "674", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIchigo (obviously) has them, like his father. But it does not seem something\nthat someone just inherits from their parent(s)? One of Ichigos his sisters\nhas little and the other none.\n\nDoes one need to (accidentally) come into contact in order to obtain spiritual\npowers? Although Ichigo always seem to have had them.\n\nOr is it just (dumb) 'luck' and one has them or not?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-18T21:03:32.870", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "668", "last_activity_date": "2016-04-21T11:48:23.243", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "51", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "bleach" ], "title": "How does someone obtain spiritual powers?", "view_count": 3554 }

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, it seems to be a born trait.\n\nWe can see that on the flashbacks from Rukia, about their time in Rukungai.\nWhen they somehow gotten hungry, while other souls did not. That means they\nhad innate potential from the start.\n\nIt is possible that through training, one can achieve higher spiritual power.\nBut I think the seed is a born trait.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-18T22:03:59.033", "id": "672", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-18T22:03:59.033", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "668", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nEverybody has Reiyoku, or spiritual energy. According to bleach.wikia.com:\n\n> Every spiritual being and every Human has a certain amount of Reiryoku. If\n> this amount is higher than a certain degree, it grants the person superhuman\n> abilities. Those with such an above-average level of Spiritual Energy are\n> very rare among living humans. It seems to be that the most basic ability\n> that humans with a higher level of Reiryoku have is the ability to see\n> ghosts: Pluses, Shinigami and Hollow alike. Shinigami are essentially\n> departed souls in Soul Society with very high levels of Reiryoku who receive\n> special training to utilize their powers.\n\nFor the Quincies, it appears to be hereditary, as shown by the fact that both\nUryu and his father have strong powers.\n\nFor Yasutora Sado (Chad) according to bleach.wikia.com:\n\n> Originally it was thought that by encountering the spiritual form of Ichigo\n> Kurosaki constantly, Sado's natural spiritual powers were pulled from the\n> depths of his soul. This power is actually a product of Fullbring.\n\nFor Fullbringers according to bleach.wikia.com:\n\n> they each have a parent who survived a Hollow attack before they were born.\n> As a result, traces of the Hollows’ power remained in their mothers’ bodies,\n> which were then passed onto them at the moment of their birth.\n\nFor other characters, it sometimes isn't completely clear or explained why\nthey have their abilities, other than that they intrinsically have a high\nlevel of Reiyoku.\n\nTo summarize, there are a number of different ways that humans become able to\nsee ghosts and Hollows and interact with them (as Chad, Orihime, etc. do).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-18T22:19:31.107", "id": "674", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-18T22:19:31.107", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "668", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "678", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI've watched _Lupin III: Mine Fujiko to Iu Onna_ (\"A Woman Named Mine Fujiko\")\nand some scattered episodes of the original _Lupin III_ TV series. One thing\nthat isn't clear to me is how the two series are related.\n\nDepending on who I ask, some say that the new series is a prequel which\ndescribes how Lupin's gang got together, while others say that it is a reboot\nwith a different continuity. I haven't seen enough of the original series to\njudge this either way.\n\nIs there any authoritative source which confirms the relationship between the\ntwo series, one way or the other?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-18T21:09:02.430", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "669", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-07T02:37:28.540", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-07T02:37:28.540", "last_editor_user_id": "16253", "owner_user_id": "24", "post_type": "question", "score": 4, "tags": [ "lupin-the-third" ], "title": "Is Lupin III: A Woman Named Mine Fujiko a prequel or a reboot of the Lupin series?", "view_count": 1040 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI think as far as the timeline goes, it's obviously _before_ the events of all\n3 Lupin III TV series. Because of the lack of overall plot, it's hard to say\nwhether or not events from \"A woman named Fujiko Mine\" match up with all the\nevents in the TV series without any ret-conning, maybe with the exception that\nFujiko has memory loss.\n\nThere's never been any official announcement as it being a prequel and it's\nnot consistent with the source material where the first meeting(s) between\nLupin and Fujiko in the manga differ from this series (not that there's much\nconsistency between the manga and any of the TV series to begin with).\n\nLikewise, because of inconsistencies within the TV series itself (different\ncharacterizations of Lupin between the red and green jackets, different\ncharacterizations of his sidekicks and Fujiko) you could say the Fujiko series\nwas a reboot just as likely as Lupin III, part 2 and part 3, the manga, were\nall reboots. But if you want to consider them all within the same continuity,\nI don't see any reason not to include Fujiko's series as a prequel, even if\nthere would need to be some ret-conning (can easily just say Fujiko lost her\nmemory _again_ ).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-18T23:12:24.660", "id": "678", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-18T23:29:57.533", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-18T23:29:57.533", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "669", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "684", "answer_count": 5, "body": "\n\nThe wiki says that Hashirama died shortly after the creation of Konohagakure.\nDo we know how he died? I mean, he was powerful enough to stand up to Madara,\nso I feels like it would be no small thing that could kill him.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-18T22:36:19.030", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "676", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-11T19:39:49.027", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-11T19:39:49.027", "last_editor_user_id": "191", "owner_user_id": "22", "post_type": "question", "score": 27, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Do we know how Senju Hashirama died?", "view_count": 169810 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's unknown exactly how did he die, but here's what we can find. His wiki\npage says:\n\n> Hashirama died shortly after the founding of Konoha in one of the many wars\n> that were raging during this revolutionary era, but not before passing on\n> the title of Hokage to Tobirama. **1**\n\nHowever, if we head to the\n[Konohagakure](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Konohagakure) wiki page, we will\nfind a more specific note:\n\n> Hashirama died during the First Shinobi World War, necessitating his brother\n> Tobirama Senju replace him as Second Hokage.1 Tobirama would also die during\n> the war, appointing his pupil Hiruzen Sarutobi as his successor before\n> sacrificing himself to ensure his pupils' escape from Kumogakure's ninja.\n> **2**\n\nNow, here's what we know about the First Shinobi War (emphasis mine):\n\n> The First Shinobi War was the first of the great wars that involved the\n> majority of shinobi villages and countries. The war started not long after\n> the system of one shinobi village per country was established by the\n> founding of Konohagakure. To try and maintain a balance of power, **the\n> First Hokage divided the tailed beasts among the other five villages** **3**\n> when he began his peace talks with them.\n\nSo it indeed looks like he died in the First Shinobi War, which is not too\nsurprising, considering that\n\n> his brother - the Second Hokage Tobirama Senju - died in the same war **2**\n> , in which other Kages and Tailed Beasts were involved.\n\n* * *\n\n * 1 Character Databook 1, page 116 \n * 2 chapter 481 pages 4-10\n * 3 chapter 404 page 14\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-19T05:46:35.803", "id": "684", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-19T08:41:13.337", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-19T08:41:13.337", "last_editor_user_id": "111", "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "676", "post_type": "answer", "score": 24 }, { "body": "\n\nIn my opinion, the First Hokage is meant to be a more mystical aspect\nthroughout the series.\n\nThey start off at a very early point in the original Naruto series explaining\nhow powerful he was, and they reference that continuously more and more\nthroughout the series. The same can be said for the Sharingan. Orochimaru is\nobsessed with research concerning both if them, and we see plot developments\nall throughout the series with both of them.\n\nMy theory is that Hashirama was killed off in order for these plot\ndevelopments to occur. Unfortunately we don't have much information on this,\nbut I think that the reason why it's so gray in that area is to allow for\nfuture plot developments to happen.\n\nObviously the First Hokage was incredibly powerful. Madara even goes so far as\nto say that even with his Rinnegan/Eternal Mangekyo/Mokuton jutsu, he still\nwouldn't be a match for Senju Hashirama. It's kind of hard to believe that he\ndied in a random shinobi battle.\n\nLets not forget that Hashirama's Mokuton-infused cells granted Madara an\nenhanced life span, but they also grant insane chakra-reinforced strength and\nchakra-enhanced abilities. With Mokuton cells, Danzo was able to use Shisui's\nKotoamatsukami once every four days, rather than once every 10 years.\n\nWe know that he is dead during to Orochi and the Third's battle. So maybe he\nwas killed by a random group of vague assassins that never get mentioned again\nin the series. If that's the case then that is one big gray splotch on an\notherwise colorful canvas. Because if there is one thing I've come to respect\nout of Naruto, it's the writers attention to detail and the complexities of\nthe series... Not some half-assed plot tie up where the most powerful ninja in\nthe known world gets vaguely killed in the first shinobi world war.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-26T02:56:00.810", "id": "808", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-26T09:26:17.927", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-26T09:26:17.927", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "268", "parent_id": "676", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nIt says that he died sometime before or at the early stages of the first\nshinobi war, Tobirama also died during that war and Hiruzen became Hokage then\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-14T16:33:16.410", "id": "3371", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-14T17:12:33.530", "last_edit_date": "2013-04-14T17:12:33.530", "last_editor_user_id": "93", "owner_user_id": "1675", "parent_id": "676", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nDuring Orochimaru's reanimation of the 1st hokage, based on the reanimation\nhe's still wearing a combat armor which means he's in a middle of fighting,\nneither assassinated, sacrificed for something or died because of some\nreasons. \nOr maybe since he's also one of Orochimaru's primary subject's for\nexperimentation, Orochimaru might have done something on the 1st's body, he\nmight have poisoned it or something. \nNo one really knows this is just only my theory. \nBut if our theories isn't still right the death of the 1st hokage still\nremains a mystery\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-08T12:35:26.807", "id": "6206", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-09T02:52:20.640", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-09T02:52:20.640", "last_editor_user_id": "2416", "owner_user_id": "2905", "parent_id": "676", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI believe that Hashirama's story is a lot colder, different and more true to\nhis character, then what people presume. Hashiramas life was an extremely\ndifficult hardship to bear and not anyone could just be, what he was. When I\nsay this, I don't just mean physically but emotionally and mentally, as well.\nHe spent his life, trying to juggle peace, family, friendship and justice for\neveryone. He was constantly being tugged by opposing opinions of what peace\ntruly was, or what kind of consequences would come of his actions as a\nhokage....who would it benefit? who would it hurt? Would peace truly come of\nall this, between the Senju and Uchicha clans....or any clans!? I believe that\nHashirama became tired of it all. He coudlnt balance all this - and no matter\nwhat he did, true peace would never come of all his goals. When Madara read\nthe Naka Shrine; he found out that true peace just wasn't possible; for it was\nall an endless cycle of death and hatred between clans. After much time and\nmany years of Hashirama fighting, fighting and more fighting - he started to\nunderstand what Madara was trying to say but could never get to that extreme\nof an solution. He probably couldn't convince himself of what was right and\nwrong anymore. True peace was a catch-22. There was no way to really reach it.\nThis could've had a big part to do with Hashiramas standards of peace, since\nthey were so high. He couldn't bear the fact that he failed(at least by his\nstandards), and like he always says \"conflict, no matter what the era\". Even\nthe most powerful people in the world have a limit. His heart could only take\nso much killing and blood spilling. Think about this: A man who speaks of\nnothing but peace and love....seeing nothing but war and hate. The Hashirama\nthat we all know, was a genuine human being with a soft heart and eventually\nthat heart cant take anymore pain. Yeah, im saying it, because this is what I\nbelieve his character truly reflects: I think he let himself die in war -or-\nkilled himself. He was just tired of it all and saw no more purpose or\nmeaning, so he hands the title to his brother and goes off to war with the\nintention of dying without people knowing it was premeditated. Maybe he wanted\npeople to learn a lesson from his death, if they could figure him out. A great\nand extremely significant character like Hashirama, has to have a very\nsignificant death, not just by dying in battle. He was either truly depressed\nof this fate that could not be altered by his leadership and\nskills.....or......he wanted his death to be something that people could learn\nfrom. He figured, he goes out with a mark on the world. His death maybe would\nbe another component of people in the future finding something more close to\ntrue peace. All his successors would learn from him.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-10T05:12:30.840", "id": "14985", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-10T05:12:30.840", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9090", "parent_id": "676", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "688", "answer_count": 5, "body": "\n\nThis contains spoilers up to chapter 112 (not much of a spoiler, but still).\n\n> White Ichigo (a.k.a. Hollow Ichigo) appeared in the Hollowfication process,\n> when Urahara had cruelly thrown Ichigo into a pit, and he is the Hollow part\n> of Ichigo's soul (and power).\n\nNow, take a look at this (this is from chapter 112, right after\n\n> White Ichigo first appears and gets beaten by Ichigo):\n\nIt shows not only that Zangetsu is acquainted with White Ichigo, but also is\nin apparently well relations with him (\"sorry to have bothered you\"), and is\nalso apparently able to summon and unsummon him (\"send me back already\").\n\nHow and _why_ is Zangetsu (a Zanpakutō!) able to summon the Hollow inside of\nIchigo? Shouldn't a Zanpakutō spirit and a Hollow Spirit be natural enemies?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-19T08:04:52.460", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "685", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-15T03:34:00.277", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-20T06:37:33.960", "last_editor_user_id": "65", "owner_user_id": "111", "post_type": "question", "score": 9, "tags": [ "bleach" ], "title": "What's the connection between Zangetsu and White Ichigo?", "view_count": 12824 }

[ { "body": "\n\nBoth White Ichigo and Zangetsu are a part of Ichigo's being or soul. Hence,\nthey can freely communicate with each other. The most important thing about\n_Bleach_ power-ups is that they follow the basic principle of \"know thyself\"\nand thus, Ichigo himself is unaware of their true capabilities until he pays\nattention to them by training.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-19T08:36:43.900", "id": "688", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-15T10:11:15.943", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-15T10:11:15.943", "last_editor_user_id": "32", "owner_user_id": "32", "parent_id": "685", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nA Zanpakutō is born with a shinigami and is a part of its soul. That's why a\nzanpakutō's personality and abilities differ among shinigamis as they are\nreflections of their inner being.\n\nHowever the hollow, white ichigo, is not a natural part of ichigo or any\nshinigami, although it becomes a part of its soul, the hollowfication process\nis not a natural occurrence like the zanpakutō.\n\nTheir is a constant battle between these forces, as they each try to get the\nupper hand especially white ichigo who wants to control his body. You can see\nthat the inner world of ichigo changes when one or the other has dominance,\nfor example when the hollow has dominance zangetsu has a white kimono and the\ninner world also changes accordingly.\n\nWhen zangetsu is in control he is able to summon white ichigo to some extent,\nhowever in this specific case white ichigo is also willingly helpful because\nthe inner battle happens at a crucial moment where ichigo is in a life and\ndeath battle with kenpachi, and neither of them can afford that ichigo dies as\nthey are a part of him, hence white ichigo saying; \"it would be problematic if\nhe didn't win.\"\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-19T22:19:54.490", "id": "703", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-19T22:19:54.490", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "28", "parent_id": "685", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\n**SPOILER ALERT!!**\n\n> He is actually the real Zangetsu. The old guy in black is the manifested\n> version of the king of the Quincy. They are basically like Zabimaru: they\n> are two parts of the same soul. They also fuse together in the anime, but at\n> the time Ichigo was in his inner world and not fighting against an opponent\n> so he could not use their combined power.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-04-23T20:44:08.040", "id": "31636", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-14T09:29:35.810", "last_edit_date": "2016-08-14T09:29:35.810", "last_editor_user_id": "4559", "owner_user_id": "23643", "parent_id": "685", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nWell if you look at it, in the beginning Ichigo was saved by Rukia and when\nZangetsu came in, the spirits didn't know each other. He felt the hollow was a\nperson who might just have ended up as a hollow and who needed help out. Who\nknows why he did it? I hope it was for the good or for the bad. We don't know.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-04-24T05:04:06.227", "id": "31638", "last_activity_date": "2016-04-24T05:23:31.857", "last_edit_date": "2016-04-24T05:23:31.857", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "23648", "parent_id": "685", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nWhite Ichigo is Zangetsu. He was originally known as White. He was one of the\nvery first attempted Vasto Lorde Arrancars by Aizen. When he was shot in the\nhead by Ichigo's mother, who was a Quincy, he self-destructed and infected her\nsoul. This caused her to go into a state called Soul Suicide. She was\neventually stabilized with the help of Kisuke. And when Ichigo was born, White\nwas genetically transferred over to Ichigo and took the form of his Zanpakutō\nspirit. His appearance changed to that of Ichigo, but with inverted colors.\nWhenever Ichigo turns into a hollow it is not actually a hollow form. It is\nactually Zangetsu taking over to save his life and Ichigo's. And White\nIchigo's sole purpose isn't to devour Ichigo's body. The author just didn't\nwant to give his backstory away just yet.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-08-06T22:59:57.290", "id": "35636", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-15T03:34:00.277", "last_edit_date": "2016-08-15T03:34:00.277", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "27573", "parent_id": "685", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "694", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn addition to his bankai, Byakuya is observed using three techniques:\n\n * Gokei \n\n> I think it was in battle with Hitsugaya's Reigai, though I'm not sure\n\n * Senkei \n\n> while fighting Ichigo at Rukia's execution\n\n * Shūkei \n\n> in the same fight as above\n\nNot only is this the largest number of Zanpakutō abilities that we have seen\nin one sword (I think), but each one of them seems more powerful than the last\n(and more powerful than his bankai!).\n\nSo what exactly are those three techniques? Why is Byakuya the only one in\n_Bleach_ to have so many different techniques contained in his Zanpakutō?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-19T08:22:40.943", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "686", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-07T00:35:19.437", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-07T00:35:19.437", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "111", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "bleach" ], "title": "What are Byakuya's Gokei, Senkei and Shuukei?", "view_count": 1579 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThey are various forms of his bankai, achieved by arranging the blades in\ndifferent patterns. His bankai is versatile by nature (being composed of\ncountless tiny blade fragments), and affords him several forms, with varying\ncombination of attack and defense.\n\nWhether a bankai can have multiple forms depends on its nature. Hitsugaya\nToshiro and Abarai Renji _could_ also achieve multiple bankai forms with\npractice/training. The former could mold Hyorinmaru's ice into various forms\n(like [fairy-tail](/questions/tagged/fairy-tail \"show questions tagged 'fairy-\ntail'\")'s Gray), while the latter could rearrange Zabimaru's segments.\nShinigami such as Komamura, Tousen, or Soifon would likely not have multiple\nbankai forms due to the nature of their bankai.\n\nBy the way, Byakuya is no longer the only known shinigami with multiple bankai\nforms\n\n> as Yamamoto Shigekuni's bankai has been revealed.\n\nAlso, Byakuya's sister, Rukia, has _shikai_ with multiple forms:\n\n> Tsukishiro, Hakuren, Shirafune, and Juhaku\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-19T13:17:16.177", "id": "694", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-20T07:25:49.650", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-20T07:25:49.650", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "686", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nByakuya is not the only one with multiple techniques for his Zanpakutō. All\nmain characters seem to have multiple techniques and probably the others as\nwell but we have not seen it (yet).\n\nI suppose this is due to (heavy) training, as goes with everything: When you\ntrain a lot you gain more experience, increase your skills and gain more\ninsight how to you your skills. This all results in new ideas how to use a\nweapon and thus in multiple techniques.\n\nCharacters climb in class rank when they show enough skill (and there is a\n'free spot'), so when looking at the other way around: the high(er) ranked\ncharacters are likely to have a high(er) skill set and thus multiple\ntechniques.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-20T09:42:11.467", "id": "716", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-20T09:42:11.467", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "51", "parent_id": "686", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "691", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nCensorship is usually seen as an act against the author's will. Talking with\nan editor in my country (Italy) working for a publishing house in the erotic\nmanga market, he tells me that censorship for erotic manga is done in two\nverses: removing [censor bars](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censor_bars) and\nobfuscation necessary in Japan (decensorship) and removing elements not suited\nto Western audience or in a gray legal area, e.g. child nudity. Both of those\ncensorship and decensorship are done with the author consent, becoming a\n[self-censorship](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-censorship) and generating\na new derivative work featuring important changes.\n\nShortly: is censorship of manga _always_ done with author consent both in\nerotic and mainstream publications during localization? Is there a common\npractice around the world on this topic about manga localization? Are there\nany cases of censorship of manga publications done without author consent in\nWestern countries?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-19T09:06:58.133", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "690", "last_activity_date": "2016-11-12T09:32:17.557", "last_edit_date": "2016-11-12T09:32:17.557", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "98", "post_type": "question", "score": 13, "tags": [ "manga-production", "censorship" ], "title": "Is manga censorship in Western countries always done with author consent?", "view_count": 1137 }

[ { "body": "\n\nYou are over-thinking it. I guess we only talk about official localizations\nhere, since in non-official ones, anything can be done.\n\nWhen an official localization is made, some kind of contract is being signed\nbetween the possessor of rights for the manga (the author, a publishing house,\ndoesn't matter), and the company that is going to make the localization.\n\nSince this contract is an legal document, it covers, among other things, the\nlimitations (if any) that will be set for the localizer. Obviously, since\ndifferent countries have different laws regarding nudity in press (as in your\nexample), the contract should probably have clauses that regulate such\npossible changes (censorship or decensorship).\n\nWhether or not the author _himself_ is aware of this, depends. Sometimes the\nholder of the rights will inform him, sometimes it will not. For example, when\nofficial localization of Spice and Wolf into Russian was being made, the\nauthor himself didn't know about it, since it was the publishing house who was\nholding the rights on the manga, hence it was regulating all the localization\naspects.\n\nAnd after all, if the laws of some country forbid, for example, nudity in\npress, then there is _no choice_. You either change the manga to meet the\nlaws, or it is not going to be published.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-19T09:20:24.320", "id": "691", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-19T09:20:24.320", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "690", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "697", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\n> Kabuto summoned Deidara during the fourth world war, but only used him to\n> keep the Tsuchikage busy while he (Kabuto) kidnapped Yamato. He then\n> unsummoned Deidara and has never summoned him since then. \n> \n> Edo Tensei makes Deidara immortal, which allows Deidara to use the C0, a\n> giant explosion that covers an area of 10 km diameter, several times. Kabuto\n> could have used this to eliminate the enemy units more effectively, but why\n> did he not do so?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-19T12:22:17.867", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "692", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-05T18:07:26.520", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-05T18:07:26.520", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "99", "post_type": "question", "score": -2, "tags": [ "naruto", "retag" ], "title": "Why didn't Kabuto use Deidara more effectively?", "view_count": 794 }

[ { "body": "\n\nYou got your facts a bit wrong actually:\n\n> He was actually summoned later, as a part of the Special Ops Batallion (or\n> whatever the name may be), along with Sasori and Shin. They fought against\n> Kankurou and Sai. \n> In that battle, he was sealed (along with Sasori) inside Kankurou's\n> Kuroari. This, along with the fact that Kabuto was still testing the\n> summoned ninja (since he still allowed them to retain their personalities\n> and fighting style), is probably the reason why he was not used more\n> effectively.\n\nSee [here](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Deidara#Shinobi_World_War_Arc) for\nmore details.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-19T14:13:04.923", "id": "697", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-19T14:13:04.923", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "692", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nKabuto _did_ use him effectively. He just got captured very early into the\nwar.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-19T16:53:47.950", "id": "700", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-19T16:53:47.950", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "692", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "695", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nIn the Fate universe, is there a reason why the Servants summoned in each Holy\nGrail War belong to different classes?\n\nUsing relics and additional incantations during the summoning ritual, Masters\nhave some degree of control over the Class (e.g. Matou Kariya's additional\nincantations to choose the Berserker Class) and exact identity of the Servant.\n\nWhat would happen if two Masters both tried the same Class using an\nincantation (e.g., Berserker), or even used (part of) the same relic to summon\nthe same Servant? For example:\n\n> What would happen if Waver Velvet had only stolen part of Rider's (Iskandar)\n> cloak, unbeknownst to Kayneth Archibald, and both Masters tried to summon\n> Rider?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-19T13:07:09.440", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "693", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-05T23:16:13.243", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-19T15:19:31.377", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "97", "post_type": "question", "score": 11, "tags": [ "fate-zero", "fate-stay-night" ], "title": "Why do the summoned Servants all belong to different classes?", "view_count": 6587 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI think you answered this yourself:\n\n> Using relics and additional incantations during the summoning ritual,\n> Masters have some degree of control over the Class\n\nThe keyword here is \"some\". The Servants are summoned by the Grail, even\nthough the Masters have some sort of control of what they are trying to\nsummon. [This wiki](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Servant#Classification)\nstates (it has a reference too, but the reference is in Japanese):\n\n> The Three Knight classes are the only Servants who will definitely be\n> summoned according to the framework of the Holy Grail War, allowing for\n> variation in the rest of the classes. More than one version of the same\n> class cannot be summoned, even if all the Masters were to use the variation\n> in the summoning chant to get a Berserker-class Servant.\n\nSo apparently in this case, the Grail will summon a Servant based on it's\ncompatibility with the concrete Master, much as it has happened with\n\n> Caster's master Ryuunosuke Uryuu\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-19T13:48:21.413", "id": "695", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-19T13:48:21.413", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "693", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nWhoever summoned a class first will get it for certain. If two Masters tried\nto get Saber, whoever summoned it first would get it and the other would get\nthe hero their catalyst would summon in another role. To give an in-universe\nexample: Gilles de Rail (Caster) was summoned as his weakest possible class in\nhis weakest state: after the death of Jeanne D´arc where he was a deranged\nserial killer who delved into magic. Had Ryounosuke summoned Gilles earlier,\nhe would´ve most likely gotten him as a Saber or Rider, the two classes he\nbelongs to the best.\n\nThere´s never really a reason given as to why classes exist. The best answer I\ncan give you is variety in combatants. If all 7 masters summoned a Hassan\nSabbah (Assassin), the show would honestly suck.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-10T21:04:24.910", "id": "2433", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-04T07:23:24.293", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-04T07:23:24.293", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "1446", "parent_id": "693", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Servant System is a ritual with the purpose of summonning 7 [Grand\nServants](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Servant#Grand) in order to protect\nmankind from being wiped out, these are the 7 greatest heroes belonging into\neach of the classes and they are summoned in their strongest form, in their\nprime, as recorded in the Throne of Heroes. This is a ritual done by the\ncollective unconciousness of humanity, Alaya, and draws power from the Root\nitself, beyond human comprehension. Then the Makiri (Matou) family designed\nthe Servant summoning ritual for their Holy Grail War in imitation of this\nGrand Servant ritual, but the summoned Heroic Spirits are sort of shackled by\nthe Classes in which they are materialized, so they are not the full forms of\nthe Servants. For example, Artoria when summoned to the Saber class has no\naccess to her Holy Lance Rhongomyniad, and if she's summoned as Lancer she\ndoesn't have Excalibur. So the Class restrictions as are seen in Fate/stay\nnight are completely due to it being an imitation of another higher ritual.\n\nOn the other hand there are instances of 2 Servants of the same class being\nsummoned. In the 3rd HGW, The Edelfelt sisters summoned 2 aspects of a single\nSaber Servant, so there were 2 Sabers during that war, but it had more to do\nwith their family Magic Trait, Ore Scales, so it was a very unusual situation.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-03T23:36:42.783", "id": "41168", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-05T23:16:13.243", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-05T23:16:13.243", "last_editor_user_id": "33307", "owner_user_id": "33307", "parent_id": "693", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "698", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI read somewhere that the mangaka made footnotes at the end of each volume\nexplaining what inspired each story. I've only seen the anime so I would like\nto know which mythologies or folktales, if any, inspired the stories in\nMushishi.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-19T13:58:13.120", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "696", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-20T23:06:42.450", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "28", "post_type": "question", "score": 9, "tags": [ "mushishi" ], "title": "Which mythologies or folktales inspired the stories in Mushishi?", "view_count": 7353 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe author, Yuki Urushibara, does include authors notes at the end of each\nvolume of the manga, explaining what inspired each story.\n\nAbout \"Heaven's Thread\" she wrote:\n\n> \"This is a story I thought of when reflecting on old folk tales my\n> grandmother told me.Tales about how missing people were left upon a huge\n> rock. There are similar folk tales all over, but most of them involve\n> finding people in trees or on rooftops. They were usually blamed on Tengu or\n> other spirits who abduct people.\"\n\nAbout \"A Banquet in the Farthest Field\" she wrote:\n\n> \"I lived in an apartment which looked out over an older brewery, and that\n> became the model for this story. It had a nice atmosphere, but I had to move\n> away, so now whenever I taste sake that's been strained through cloth, I get\n> a very nostalgic feeling.\"\n\nIt was believed that in past times, it was [common\nbelief](http://www.snopes.com/language/phrases/blessyou.asp) that spirits or\ndemons caused sickness. This is even still true Western civilization, they say\n\"bless you,\" because it was believed that in the a sneeze meant something evil\nwas invading your body, so they would give a blessing to ward them off.\n\nSome of the stories in Mushishi are based on old folklore, myths, and legends\nthat the author heard growing up. Others, like the second story, were based on\nplaces she's seen or just a thought she had at the time and not really based\non anything in particular. An example of this is the concept Second Eyelid the\nthat appears throughout the story. I recommend purchasing the manga volumes\nwhen you have the chance, to enjoy these little snippets from the author and\nother stories not covered by the anime.\n\nThis\n[essay](http://books.google.com/books?id=5d0Q9fdinQUC&lpg=PA341&ots=owt50F3IzN&dq=The%20Space%20between%20Worlds%3A%20Mushishi%20and%20Japanese%20Folklore&pg=PA341#v=onepage&q&f=false)\nprovides a very good overview of concepts and themes of Shinto myths that\ninspired the manga:\n\n> In Shinto myth, the mysterious beings Blacker refers to are known as kami.\n> Like mushi, they can be hard to define. Some people, quite specifically,\n> believe kami to be beings from the other realm, while others, more\n> generally, use the term to refer to anything beyond the ordinary...\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-19T14:57:27.697", "id": "698", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-20T23:06:42.450", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-20T23:06:42.450", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "696", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "4272", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nMadhouse's recent OVA, \"Arata Naru Sekai\" is a one-shot 30 minute OVA without\nmuch background. I can gather that:\n\n * time-travel is prevalent in this world\n * the 4 girls seemed to have traveled far into the future\n * there was perhaps some kind of imminent disaster in the past\n * the disaster perhaps happened very soon after their jump into the future\n * the past that they lived in was already starting to fall apart\n\nSo what happened after the cell phone was destroyed? Was it all a dream? Or\ndid it transport them back to the past or some alternate reality?\n\nEDIT: I found the [synopsis at\nMAL](http://myanimelist.net/anime/14373/Arata_naru_Sekai%3a_Mirai-hen) which\nsort of confirms some of the premise (though I don't really see any evidence\nfor some of the claims in the MAL synopsis), but it doesn't shed any light on\nthe ending.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-20T08:28:31.497", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "710", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-29T19:46:22.067", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-31T03:36:58.887", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "91", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "arata-naru-sekai" ], "title": "Arata Naru Sekai OVA, premise and explanation of the ending?", "view_count": 2044 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe anime is a part of what is called a multiple multimedia experience. The\nanime is the third part of the story, whereas the light novel and the manga\nfill in the stories of the people who went to the past and those who stayed in\nthe present. You have to read all of the parts to really understand the anime\nand its ending.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-01T19:32:19.460", "id": "4272", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-29T19:46:22.067", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-29T19:46:22.067", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1974", "parent_id": "710", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "715", "answer_count": 5, "body": "\n\nAs we know, Sasori has\n\n> turned his body into a puppet, with a small \"core of living flesh\" being the\n> only living part of it: \n\n[This question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/612/at-which-age-\nare-ninjas-revived-with-edo-tensei) also states that when summoned by Edo\nTensei,\n\n> the reincarnated seem to retain any permanent body damage and physical\n> limitations they received during their lifetime.\n\nObviously, Sasori would fall under someone who had suffered some\nphysical...limitations. We know that\n\n> after being brought back by Edo Tensei, Sasori eventually was released, and\n> vanished like any other summoned shinobi (of flesh and bones), so it clearly\n> wasn't another puppet: \n\nSo how was Kabuto able to summon Sasori? If the reincarnation retains body\ndamage, wouldn't he only be able to reincarnate Sasori's \"Living Core\"? I\ndoubt that the process of \"enchanting\", which Kabuto can perform, involves re-\nmaking the whole body.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-20T09:19:24.890", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "712", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-12T09:38:40.757", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "111", "post_type": "question", "score": 12, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "How was it possible to summon Sasori with Edo Tensei?", "view_count": 9078 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI can't find good answers but it is possible that Sasori infused his chakra\ninto his puppet body, and continuous usage of the body as his own, coupled\nwith his own memories of the human body, might have imprinted this body into\nhis consciousness. Well this is \"mystical speculation\" but it's better than a\ncertain funny answer I found: \"Plot no Jutsu\".\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-20T09:32:02.403", "id": "713", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-20T09:32:02.403", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "97", "parent_id": "712", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nKabuto only needs small parts of a person's body to perform this jutsu, just\nenough DNA to transfer the soul to a new body. You can see that Sasori's core\nhas some blood veins which will give kabuto the chance to obtain his DNA and\nperform the jutsu. More info from the wiki on the Impure World Reincarnation\njutsu:\n\n> To perform this technique, the user must first acquire some of the DNA of\n> the person they intend to reincarnate. Kabuto remarks that this basically\n> amounts to grave-robbing, although blood stains or organs salvaged after the\n> target's death also work.\n\nI also think that that wiki reference is incorrect as I haven't seen proof of\nany of the resurrected ninjas displaying any of their injuries which they had\nwhile they were alive. However this can also be because when they are under\nthis jutsu they are essentially immortal, regenerate quickly, have near-\nunlimited chakra and regrow limbs.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-20T09:35:22.977", "id": "714", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-20T09:44:02.043", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-20T09:44:02.043", "last_editor_user_id": "28", "owner_user_id": "28", "parent_id": "712", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nAlthough the Wiki does says that\n\n> the reincarnated seem to retain any permanent body damage and physical\n> limitations they received during their lifetime1\n\nit also says that\n\n> Kabuto can also **modify his summoned fighters** (...). While the technique\n> usually reincarnates the deceased at the exact state they were in at the\n> time of their deaths, Kabuto noted that he brought Madara back in a state\n> that was \"beyond his prime\" and was **reincarnated much younger than when he\n> died** an old man as well as **instilling him with abilities he had acquired\n> in his old age**.\n\nThe best explanation (I can come up with) for this is that he was reincarnated\ninto an earlier body, maintaining the abilities and memories acquired until\nthe time of his death, much like Madara's reincarnation 2. Although I don't\nthink he needs to re-make the bodies of the summoned, if it meant that, it was\nalready proven that he could do it (it was made with Madara), so it would also\nbe possible to make it with Sasori.\n\n* * *\n\n1 This piece of data is stated in the\n[Wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Summoning%3a_Impure_World_Reincarnation),\nbut I do not recall if it was referenced in any manga chapter, so bear that in\nmind. \n2 _Naruto_ chapter 560, page 3. Kabuto explains Madara that he brought him\n_beyond his prime_.\n\n", "comment_count": 10, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-20T09:36:06.710", "id": "715", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-21T10:21:57.363", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-21T10:21:57.363", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "712", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nEdo tensei uses corpses and puts the soul of the dead person in. In the fight\nbetween Kankuro's team and Edo Tensei Sasori and Edo Tensei Deidara, Kankuro\nhas Sasori's puppet body and Sasori's soul is hosted in another body. The\ncorpse which Sasori's soul is in can be seen when he crumbles away.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-02T15:44:15.877", "id": "6699", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-02T15:44:15.877", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3194", "parent_id": "712", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI'm pretty sure Sasori's soul was still inactive, hence making him practically\ndead, allowing edo-tensei to take place. A question however could arise such\nas 'How can Sasori be resurrected if Kabuto didn't have his DNA?' Maybe he got\nhis hands on Lady Chiyo's DNA and ... Well, Sasori's Grandma so yeah!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-12T09:38:40.757", "id": "12806", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-12T09:38:40.757", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7572", "parent_id": "712", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "722", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nWas there ever a reason given for the name change? I thought at first that it\nwas possibly a mistranslation in the initial episodes. However, in LogueTown\nLuffy visits a bar named \"Gold Roger\" and considering the owner knew Gold\nRoger you'd think they'd get the name right.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-20T21:41:48.730", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "721", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-03T16:34:52.833", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-21T20:50:45.847", "last_editor_user_id": "255", "owner_user_id": "173", "post_type": "question", "score": 9, "tags": [ "one-piece" ], "title": "Change from Gold Roger to Gol D. Roger", "view_count": 5353 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThere hasn't been any change, I think.\n\nThe real and first name is ゴール・D・ ロジャー (Gōru D. Rojā, _Gol D. Roger_ ), but he\nis also known by the name of Gold Roger. I think it's just an in-universe\nthing.\n\nThat said, his real name carries the D. which in the story is being described\nas \"more than a simple initial\", often mentioned when talking about [The Will\nof the D](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Will_of_the_D.):\n\n> In the series, few characters have the middle initial \"D.\". This mysterious\n> middle initial has been called \"the Will of D\" (Dの意志 - _D no Ishi_ ) or \"D's\n> will\" by several characters in One Piece. [...]\n\nBy the way, the [ meaning for the D. has not been revealed\nyet](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/725/15), but it certainly holds great\nimportance and is likely to be a major point in the development of the One\nPiece story.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-20T21:59:10.437", "id": "722", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-21T20:50:52.060", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "15", "parent_id": "721", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nOne reason of the change of Gol. D. Roger's name to Gold Roger was due to\nslang. People would rather just connect the name making it Gold Roger than\nhaving to say more syllables.\n\nAnother reason would be that the treasure One Piece is thought (One Piece\nisn't confirmed to exist) to contain gold. Since his name's spelling is close\nto gold, people then just start saying Gold Roger.\n\nIn my opinion, his name change would be due to the laziness of the later\ngenerations.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-21T08:46:36.030", "id": "736", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-03T16:34:52.833", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-03T16:34:52.833", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "175", "parent_id": "721", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is a flash back around the time of the Whitebeard war where Gol. D.\nRoger is talking to either Whitebeard of the villain form the strong world\nfilm.\n\nHere Gol remarks that people have begun calling him gold instead of Gol. D.\nand laughs about it asking the other person if he wants to know why the \"D\" is\nimportant.\n\nThis scene is set 10 years in the past so the name change began around then\nand slowly spread around the world the way words do. The purpose for the name\nchange appears to be a sign that knowledge of the will of \"D\" is fading form\nthe world.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-21T12:53:52.683", "id": "747", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-26T18:42:54.843", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-26T18:42:54.843", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "250", "parent_id": "721", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "725", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nThere are a lot of characters with the middle initial \"D\". Is this an\nindication of something, or do they really all just have middle initials of\nthe letter D? If they are initials, do we know what they stand for?\n\nExamples of names:\n\n> Monkey D. Luffy \n> Monkey D. Dragon \n> Portgas D. Ace \n> Monkey D. Garp \n> Gol D. Roger\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-20T22:28:38.463", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "724", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-03T13:02:28.233", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-24T14:31:47.097", "last_editor_user_id": "173", "owner_user_id": "22", "post_type": "question", "score": 52, "tags": [ "one-piece" ], "title": "What does the 'D' stand for in all the names?", "view_count": 64157 }

[ { "body": "\n\n## Update\n\nWe start to see the meaning behind the D. In the episode 703 of the Anime...\n\n> ...Corazon talks to Trafalgar D. Law, telling him how young kids in Marie\n> Jois are instructed to see D. as a sort of boogeyman: \n> \n> _\"Badly behaving children will be eaten by the D.\"_ \n> He continues saying that in some parts of the world, the Family of D. is\n> known as 神の天敵 (kami no ten teki), translated \"God's natural enemy\". \n> \n> He also states that \"God\" in this instance is used to refer to the\n> Celestial Dragons.\n\n* * *\n\nIt hasn't been revealed yet I think.\n\n> The initial was first pointed out in Oda's\n> [SBS](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS) questions and answers corner, he\n> was also asked what the D in Luffy's name stood for. Oda just replied to\n> read it as a D for now and that he would reveal the truth behind it in time.\n\nYou can read more in the [Will of the\nD.](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Will_of_the_D.) wiki.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-20T22:34:20.127", "id": "725", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-03T13:02:28.233", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-03T13:02:28.233", "last_editor_user_id": "15", "owner_user_id": "15", "parent_id": "724", "post_type": "answer", "score": 40 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "729", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nI know that the actual characters who are the homunculi differ between the FMA\nmanga and original anime. For instance, Sloth is a different person between\nthe manga and the anime. However, do they differ in how they are created? If\nso, how do they differ?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-21T03:30:57.267", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "726", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-18T10:57:00.973", "last_edit_date": "2016-01-18T10:57:00.973", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "93", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "fullmetal-alchemist-series", "fullmetal-alchemist-brotherhood", "fullmetal-alchemist-manga" ], "title": "How do the Homunculi differ between the FMA manga and anime?", "view_count": 1677 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe following contains **heavy spoilers** for both anime watchers (up to\nroughly episode ~48 in the 2003 anime, and roughly episode ~40 in 2009 anime)\nand manga readers (up to chapter ~75), telling about who, how and when created\nthe Homunculi. I mean it.\n\nIn manga and 2009 anime, the Homunculi are\n\n> spawned by Father, who himself was the earliest Homunculus that is known.\n> After he consumed half of population of Xerxes, he became some sort of a\n> philosopher stone, and was able to create his so-called \"children\". He made\n> each of them from one of his vices, and named accordingly. Each Homulculus\n> is powered by a Philosopher's stone, which gives them the energy to live.\n> (1)\n\nIn the original anime (2003),\n\n> Homunculi have different origin. They appear each time an alchemist performs\n> Human Transmutation. Usually, the result of Human Transmutation will be a\n> failure - a monstrous corrupted agonizing creature that dies soon after it\n> was created. However, if a Homunulus is able to contact with a Red Stone,\n> they can consume it's power to reshape their bodies. (2)\n\nThe difference of Sloth in manga/2009 anime and 2003 anime is caused exactly\nby the reasons above, because in 2003 anime\n\n> Sloth was created as a result of a failed attempt to revive Trisha - Ed's\n> and Al's mother. She was fed Red Stones by Dante until she regained her\n> original form.\n\n* * *\n\n(1) chapters 31, chapters 74-75\n\n(2) 2003 anime, episodes ~45-48\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-21T06:31:39.113", "id": "729", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-21T06:31:39.113", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "726", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nLust, Gluttony, Envy, Pride, and Greed are the same in both. The only\ndifferences are Wrath and Sloth:\n\n> In the Manga, Bradley is Wrath. However in the Anime, Izumi Curtis' son is\n> Wrath. In the Manga, Sloth is the huge and ugly guy, whereas in the Anime it\n> is the beautiful lady (sorry, I haven't finished the anime so I can't give\n> more details).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-07T18:59:26.777", "id": "876", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-07T19:35:58.180", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-07T19:35:58.180", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "313", "parent_id": "726", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nJuuni Kokuki / The Twelve Kingdoms is based on a series of light novels by Ono\nFuyumi. Considering the rather abrupt end to the anime, I'm wondering how\ncomplete it is when compared to the novels. Also, if it isn't in keeping with\nthem, why was it axed?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-21T06:15:43.013", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "728", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-26T16:50:52.253", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-21T09:33:03.283", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "247", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "the-twelve-kingdoms" ], "title": "How complete is Juuni Kokuki?", "view_count": 3656 }

[ { "body": "\n\n_**I'm wondering how complete it is when compared to the novels_**\n\nYouko Nakajima is the main character in the anime, while in the manga she is\nonly one of many main characters and her story is focused upon in only two\nnovels. \nMost of the main characters are the same, although some were added as\nsupporting characters, their role being to externalize some of Youko's\nproblems that were internal in the novels.\n\n> Several events and existing characters in the series were expanded in the\n> anime series, though the series general maintains the overall plot and\n> themes introduced in the novels. Notably, the anime introduces the events of\n> the fourth novel, The Twelve Kingdoms: Skies of Dawn, before the third\n> novel, The Twelve Kingdoms: The Vast Spread of the Seas.\n\n* * *\n\n_**Also, if it isn't in keeping with them, why was it axed?_**\n\n> The original scope of the series included adapting the sixth novel, Tasogare\n> no Kishi, Akatsuki no Sora (featuring Youko leading the Twelve Kingdoms to\n> find Taiki); elements of the sixth novel had already been alluded to\n> throughout the second arc of the series. However, the series was cancelled\n> after the completion of the arc featuring Shoryu and Enki's past.\n\nIt does not state the reason for the cancellation though.\n\n* * *\n\nSource: [The Twelve Kingdoms Wiki page on the\nanime](http://12kingdoms.wikia.com/wiki/Anime)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-21T09:20:31.130", "id": "742", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-26T16:50:52.253", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-26T16:50:52.253", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "728", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "737", "answer_count": 5, "body": "\n\nThere are many transliterations of the currency: Berry, Beli, Berri. Which one\nis the official one?\n\nThe Navy just give large bounties for pirates, Buggy has a 15 million bounty\nand Luffy has a 30 million. Would Luffy's bounty be an equivalent to 30\nmillion Yen?\n\nWhat would be the real world value of the currency used in One Piece?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-21T08:28:41.347", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "734", "last_activity_date": "2019-03-19T15:18:42.427", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-23T05:39:13.663", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "175", "post_type": "question", "score": 48, "tags": [ "one-piece" ], "title": "How much is One Piece's currency worth?", "view_count": 203255 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIn the original, it's called _Beli_ in English. However, if the Japanese word\nis translated correctly, it's _Beri_ \\- it's a feature of the Japanese\nlanguage (look at [SingerOfTheFalls\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/740/51)). However, it differs in\ndifferent languages: for example in Germany, it's Berry.\n\nTo compare the prices:\n\n * One cabbage loaf: 150 Beli\n * A Bon Chari: 500 Beli for renting, 10,000 Beli for buying\n * A Doskoi Panda brand shirt: 10,000 Beli\n * Nami's Jacket: 28,800 Beli\n\n* * *\n\nRegarding Luffy's bounty would be an equivalent to 30 million Yen,\n\n> 30 million Beli on Luffy's head is a little bit old; his current bounty is\n> 400 million Beli.\n\nQuote:\n\n> Fourth Bounty: Defeating yet another Shichibukai (Gekko Moriah), attacking a\n> World Noble, causing an unprecedented breakout from Impel Down,\n> participating in the Whitebeard War, and by intruding Marine Headquarters a\n> second time and ringing the Ox Bell 16 times (which was taken as a\n> declaration of war), Luffy's bounty has gone up 100,000,000 more to make a\n> total of  400,000,000\n> making it the third highest active bounty known. The public revelation of\n> his relation to Monkey D. Dragon may also have influenced it.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-21T08:55:32.193", "id": "737", "last_activity_date": "2018-06-29T04:21:09.080", "last_edit_date": "2018-06-29T04:21:09.080", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "734", "post_type": "answer", "score": 24 }, { "body": "\n\nIn One Piece, the currency is called **ベリ**.\n\n * **ベ** Is kana for \"be\", no mistake can be made here.\n * **リ** Is kana for \"ri\".\n\nHowever, in Japanese, there is no \"real\" 'l' or 'r' sounds, so it would sound\nlike something between 'r' in 'rock' and 'l' in 'lock'. Native speakers can\npronounce it in different ways, with 'l', with 'r' or with a mix of both, it\nstill stays the same kana.\n\nIt's pretty much the same as with \"Horo\"/\"Holo\". So the correct romanization\nwould be either \" **Beri** \" or \" **Beli** \". \"Berry\" probably appeared\nbecause \"beri\" sounds similar to \"berry\", and \"berry\" is an actual English\nworld, or maybe there was another reason.\n\n* * *\n\nAs for the prices, [looper's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/737/222) already mentions some of\nthem .\n\n> To compare the prices:\n>\n> * One cabbage loaf: 150 Beli\n> * A Bon Chari: 500 Beli for renting, 10,000 Beli for buying\n> * A Doskoi Panda brand shirt: 10,000 Beli\n> * Namis Jacket: 28,800 Beli\n>\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-21T09:16:18.557", "id": "740", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-21T11:39:06.963", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "734", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 }, { "body": "\n\nPeople seem to read past your second question, but yes Luffy's bounty was an\nequivalent to 30 million **Yen**. As said in the trivia section of the [wiki\npage on Beli](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Beli), both the appearance and\ndenomination of the beri closely resembles the Japanese Yen...\n\n> In appearance and denomination, the belly closely resembles the Japanese Yen\n> (日本円 Nihon En). The characters Yukichi Skull, Ichiro Kumaguchi, and Hideo\n> Usaguchi portrayed on the belly banknotes are a pun on Hideyo Noguchi,\n> Ichiyō Higuchi and Fukuzawa Yukichi portrayed on the corresponding yen\n> banknotes. \"Kuma\" and \"usa\" mean bear and rabbit.\n\n...and so does its value.\n\nSome Images for comparison:\n\n\n\n_One Piece Beli bills and coins_\n\n \n\n_Real Japanese Yen bills and coins_\n\nFor reference I put a few prices below gotten from the wiki page. Comparing\nthem to contemporary [slave\nprices](http://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/japan/4-profiles.htm) or [terrorist\nbounties](http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/the-rewards-for-\njustice-program-offers-bounties-to-try-and-stop-terrorism/story-\nfnpjxnlk-1227364950539), it seems that we put more value on human life than in\nthe One Piece universe and have somewhat higher prices going on, but when\ncomparing everyday objects like a cabbage loaf, jacket or brand shirt, it\nseems that the prices pretty much resemble current Japan prices. **Therefore\nit is safe to say that Oda based the One Piece currency on the currency of his\nhome country Japan.** [A reference of Oda confirming this would be nice, but I\ncould not seem to find any]\n\n> * One cabbage loaf: 150\n> * Doskoi Panda brand shirt:\n> 10,000\n> * Nami's jacket: 28,800\n> * Human slaves: 500,000+\n> * Portgas D. Ace's now inactive\n> 550,000,000 bounty\n>\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-23T10:43:23.247", "id": "21752", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-26T16:29:20.373", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-26T16:29:20.373", "last_editor_user_id": "2479", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "734", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nThe author have clarified it in S.B.S corner (a Q&A corner, may not be\navailable for non-Japanese, or non-Korean readers), that one \"BELI\" worth 1\nyen.\n\nNow it's about 80 cents for 100 yen, but it is more appropriate to see it as 1\ndollar for 100 yen, so 30M Beli would equal to 300K USD.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-01T09:49:32.903", "id": "22918", "last_activity_date": "2018-06-29T04:21:13.473", "last_edit_date": "2018-06-29T04:21:13.473", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "15389", "parent_id": "734", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI find in Skypia ark when the crew don't pay for entrance, Guards say they\nneed to pay 10 billions xtals for each one and all will be 70 billions and\nrate of xtals per belly is 10000 xtals for 1 belly, that means they need to\npay 7 millons belley for all crew. Sanji say that for this price he can buy 1\nton of rice, at the moment rate for 1 ton of rice is around 408 USD on\n19/03/2019 from that we can calculate that 1$ ~ 17156 Belly. At the last in\nthis ark Luffys reward is 100 millions belly in USD will be ~582$ dead or\nalive.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-03-19T15:18:42.427", "id": "51212", "last_activity_date": "2019-03-19T15:18:42.427", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "45498", "parent_id": "734", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "795", "answer_count": 4, "body": "\n\nI know that the nine-tails exists in many anime series (The notables are\nNaruto and Pokemon), as well as\n\n> His name, Kurama, relating to fox demons across different animes, such as Yu\n> Yu Hakusho.\n\nI also know that the two-tails is adapted from Japanese mythology (The\nNekomata, a cat with a split tail).\n\nDoes this convention apply to all/most other Bijuu?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-21T13:35:13.090", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "748", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-06T11:39:29.240", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "post_type": "question", "score": 22, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "How are the bijuu adapted from real mythology?", "view_count": 36720 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe one-tail is based on a [Tanuki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanuki) \\-\nHowever, I don't know anything about a background in mythology.\n\nAs you said, the two-tails is based on\n[Nekomata](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nekomata).\n\nThe three-tails is based on [Isonade](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isonade).\n\nThe four-tails is based on [Sun\nWukong](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Wukong)... and maybe a little bit on\n[this one](http://www.dragonballencyclopedia.com/qdb/Great_Ape) ;).\n\nKishimoto said that _the five-tails_ s appeareance is based on a horse and a\ndolphin...\n\nThe six-tails is based on Saiken... That's a chinese Yokai.\n\nThe seven-tails - don't know.\n\nThe eight-tails is based on [Ushi-Oni.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushi-\noni)\n\nThe nine-tails is based on [Kitsune](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsune).\n\nJūbi (ten-tails) is another name for\n[Daidarabotchi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daidarabotchi).\n\nSource is the German Narutopedia.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-21T14:04:51.257", "id": "750", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-21T14:10:42.113", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-21T14:10:42.113", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "748", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nThe only other one I know of is that the Four-Tails' name is Son Goku, coming\nfrom the Chinese classical novel [Journey to the\nWest](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West). The same name is used\nin Dragonball and its sequel series for the main protagonist.\n\nThe One-Tail may also have some connection, as tanuki (raccoon) are common is\nJapanese culture/mythology.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-21T14:07:52.030", "id": "751", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-21T14:07:52.030", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "251", "parent_id": "748", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThe concept of the [Nine\nBijuu](http://www.narutoforums.com/showthread.php?t=57918) is based off\nJapanese mythology, although there are some parallels Kishimoto does not\nfollow though completely with the myths.\n\nIt seems like Kishimoto is purposely using names with different kanji, but the\nsame pronunciation, such as Kokuou in _Naruto_ is 穆王 (majestic/respectful\nking), while Kokuou from _Hokuto no Ken_ is 黒王 (black king). For Kurama, the\nNine-tails, in Naruto it is 九喇嘛 (9 lamas/high priests), the real life Mount\n[Kurama](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Kurama) is 鞍馬 (saddle horse), and\nin _Yu Yu Hakusho_ 蔵馬 (hiding/ownership/storehouse horse).\n\n## The Bijuu (尾獣)\n\n * **Juubi** , the Ten-tails, is a reference to [Ame-no-hitotsu-no-kami](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A9%E7%9B%AE%E4%B8%80%E7%AE%87%E7%A5%9E), the Shinto god of iron-working and blacksmiths, [Datara](http://eirikrjs.tumblr.com/post/118250389962/whats-the-deal-with-ippon-datara-in-japanese), and/or [Daidarabotchi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daidarabotchi). The former for it's ability to forge living thing out of metal and the latter for giant size.\n\n\n\n * **Kyuubi** : 九喇嘛 (クラマ; Kurama), the Nine-tails, is a reference to the [kitsune](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsune) in Japanese mythology. The name Kurama probably named after the mountain in Japan. It is said to be home of the Tengu God Sojobo and, more importantly, the location where the technique Reiki was first learned. Reiki is the art of using chakra (universal energy) to heal other people. This ties into Naruto's life-giving energy ability he gains after tapping into the nine-tails chakra.\n\nHere is the Wikipedia breakdown of\n[Reiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiki):\n\n> \"Reiki is commonly written as 霊気 in shinjitai kanji or as レイキ in katakana\n> syllabary. It compounds the words rei (霊: \"spirit, miraculous, divine\") and\n> ki (気 \"gas, vital energy, breath of life, consciousness\"). The ki (better\n> known as Chinese qi or ch'i) in reiki is understood as meaning \"spiritual\n> energy; vital energy; life force; energy of life\"\n\n * **Hachibi** : 牛鬼 (ぎゆうき; Gyuuki), the Eight-tails, is based off the [Ushi-Oni](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushi-oni), a sea creature commonly seen with an ox head and the body of another multi-limbed creature. The name Gyuuki (cow demon) is another pronunciation of Ushi-Oni. \n\n * **Nanabi/Shichibi** : 重明 (ちようめい; Choumei), the Seven-tails, is probably based off the rhinoceros beetle which are said to be amongst the strongest creatures on the planet in relation to their own size. The name most likely is a reference to [Kamo no Choumei](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamo_no_Ch%C5%8Dmei), a 12th century poet who secluded himself on society, took Buddhist vows, and became a hermit living outside the capital. Choumei is most famous for his writings that were mostly about nature and natural events. If you recall from the manga, two of the previously unseen captured Jinchuuriki's were outcasts that were abandoned by their village when Akatsuki came to capture them.\n\n * **Rokubi** : 犀犬 (さいけん; Saiken), the Six-tails, Saiken is based off the turban-shell snail demon, [Sazae Oni](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sazae-oni). The name comes from a compilation of Chinese legends called [\"In Search of the Supernatural\"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_the_Supernatural). The Saiken (犀犬) in one of the stories (地中犀犬) is a type of dog-like creature with closed eyes, the size of small dogs, that like underground in pairs (male and female).\n\n * **Gobi** : 穆王 (こくおう; Kokuou), the Five-tails, is a reference to the the hanging horse head demon, [Sagari](http://yokai.com/sagari/), and the ghost whale demon, [Bakekujira](http://yokai.com/bakekujira/). Typically Kokuou translates to \"king\" (国王) in Japanese, referring to a \"lesser king,\" one below the emperor. The name probably is a reference to the Chinese legend of [King Mu of Zhou](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Mu_of_Zhou) (周穆王).\n\n * **Yonbi** : 孫悟空 (そんごくう; Son Gokuu), the Four-tails, is a reference to the [Satori](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satori_\\(folklore\\)), an ape-like creature that can read minds. The name Son Gokuu is obviously a reference to the [Monkey King](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Wukong) in Journey to the West.\n\n * **Sanbi** : 磯撫 (いそぶ; Isobu), the Three tails, is probably based of a combination of the spirit of eaten-turtles that haunt those that harmed it, [Suppon no Yurei](http://hyakumonogatari.com/2013/11/24/suppon-no-yurei-the-turtle-ghost/) and/or the amorphous sea monster, [Umibozu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umib%C5%8Dzu). Isopu is probably a reference to the shark-like demon sea monster with a barbed tail fin, [Isonade](http://yokai.com/isonade/). \n\n * **Nibi** : 又旅 (またたび; Matatabi), the Two-tails, is a referenced to the forked cat demon, [Netomata](http://yokai.com/nekomata/). Matatabi is named after the [Silver Vine or Cat Powder](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinidia_polygama) a plant herb similar to a [hardy kiwi vine](http://landscaping.about.com/od/vineplants1/p/kiwis.htm). Used as a healing herb for cats and affects them in a similar way as catnip. When ground up, it is used in herbal teas and bath salts.\n\n * **Ichibi** : 守鶴 (しゆかく; Shukaku), the One-tail, is a reference to the shapeshifting racoon demon, [Tanuki](http://yokai.com/tanuki/). The Naruto One-tail bijuu shares several tanuki archetypes. One is from the [Bunbuku Chagama](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunbuku_Chagama) tale, where a tanuki transforms into a tea kettle. In the series, the One-tail is said to have been sealed within one. Other versions of the taunki tale tell of the shrine priest being a tanuki in disguise, which ties into how the One-tail was supposedly corrupted a Hidden Sand priest. The name \"Shukaku\" probably refers to the priest of this tale.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-24T04:18:36.303", "id": "795", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-30T05:50:16.603", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-30T05:50:16.603", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "748", "post_type": "answer", "score": 30 }, { "body": "\n\nThe [Nine-Tails](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_spirit) may be a mixture of\nKitsune, but I also know that it is also a mixture of [Tamamo-no-\nMae](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamamo-no-Mae), which is a malevolent being\nthrough many Asian cultures that has been the downfall of many dynasties and\nit also eats flesh.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-01T09:37:06.480", "id": "7255", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-06T11:39:29.240", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-06T11:39:29.240", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3559", "parent_id": "748", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 0, "body": "\n\nHow popular are Korean _manhwa_ and Chinese _manhua_ in Japan?\n\nIs there a market for them as localized manga?\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-21T14:04:28.163", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "749", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-25T01:46:40.617", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-25T01:46:40.617", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "247", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "culture" ], "title": "How are manhwa and manhua received in Japan?", "view_count": 673 }

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