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[ { "body": "\n\nAs stated on his [MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/character/6752/Calcifer)\npage:\n\n> Calcifer is a fallen star who was caught by Howl. He didn't want to die, so\n> he struck a deal with the wizard. Calcifer got Howl's heart and a prolonged\n> life, and Howl received full access to all of Calcifer's considerable\n> powers.\n>\n> As it turns out, neither of them liked it after a while, but it couldn't be\n> broken by people who were part of the contract. When Sophie Hatter comes to\n> Howl's moving castle, Calcifer recognizes that she is under a curse thanks\n> to the Witch of Waste and that Sophie has considerable powers of her own of\n> which she is unaware. To break his own curse, Calcifer offers to lift the\n> curse placed on Sophie once she manages to break Calcifer's contract with\n> Howl.\n\nClacifer is also bound to the hearth, and cannot leave it because of the\ncontract. He also can not explicitly talk about the contract, so he instead\ngives Sophie hints about it when she agrees to help him break the contract.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-27T13:07:08.023", "id": "3063", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-27T13:07:08.023", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "3060", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nParadise seems to be largely related to many religions' interpretation of\nParadise, _a place in which existence is positive, harmonious and\ntimeless_.[[Wikipedia]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise)\n\nThe wolves' Paradise is a place which, to them, is a final goal they wish to\nreach, and appears to be very closely linked to them. As one prophecy reads,\n_\"When the world ends, Paradise will open, but only the wolves know how to\nfind it.\"_[[ _Wolf's Rain_ Wiki]](http://wolfsrain.wikia.com/wiki/Paradise)\nHowever, it is speculated that Paradise is a place which cannot be found, but\nmust be built.\n\n> The goal of opening Paradise is achieved at the end of the series. \n> \n> _Cheza is the one who will lead the wolves to paradise, but in the final\n> episode her death opens it, as the seeds that created her spill out and\n> sprout when rain falls. In the same episode, Paradise is seen as a beautiful\n> meadow filled with Lunar Flowers. However, after a short time, Lord Darcia's\n> cursed wolf eye poisons Paradise, seen as a dark fluid leaking out of the\n> eye and the white centre of the flowers darkening. The wolves never enter\n> this paradise, instead being seen as true humans at a modern city. What can\n> be concluded is that Paradise cannot be found, but it can be built._[[\n> _Wolf's Rain_ Wiki]](http://wolfsrain.wikia.com/wiki/Paradise) \n> \n> \n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-27T17:29:03.457", "id": "3067", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-27T17:29:03.457", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "3062", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI've only seen the first season of the anime, but based on that I can point\nout that the manga didn't flesh out Mashiro & Moritaka's works. When they\ncreated a new manga the anime would usually show you most of its story,\nwhereas the manga generally only went for a vague overview. I'm not sure how\nthat worked out after they became serialized though.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-29T18:41:52.037", "id": "3099", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-29T18:43:57.253", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-29T18:43:57.253", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "1576", "parent_id": "3064", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTaken from the [wiki](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Tien_Shinhan).\n\nIt's just above the \"Biography\" part. There is also a more descriptive part\nabout it in the \"Biography\" part.\n\n> During Dragon Ball Z, he is seen striving to become a powerful warrior, and\n> still hopes to surpass Goku one day. He valiantly fights and defeats a\n> Saibaman when the Saiyans arrive, and does battle with Nappa, during which\n> Chiaotzu sacrifices himself in vain, causing Tien to put all his effort into\n> one final attack, which fails. Tien dies a hero's death, but is revived\n> later by Porunga. When the conflict with the Androids comes into full swing,\n> Tien puts his life on the line numerous times when assisting his friends\n> against the mechanical demons, most notably when using his life-force to\n> hold Semi-Perfect Cell at bay, nearly sacrificing his own life to allow\n> Android 16 and Android 18 to escape, thus saving the Earth from certain\n> destruction. After the defeat of Cell, Tien goes off to continue his\n> training. When Super Buu threatens Earth's existence seven years later, he\n> arrives just in time to save Gohan from certain death. However, he is\n> knocked out when Buu's severed legs reanimate and kick him, and later\n> perishes when the Earth is destroyed.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-27T13:38:19.757", "id": "3066", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-27T13:45:32.240", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-27T13:45:32.240", "last_editor_user_id": "1588", "owner_user_id": "1588", "parent_id": "3065", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nProbably no.\n\nNothing in the movie tells us that the people knew but decided to say nothing.\nIf this was the case, I think there would be more details in the movie telling\nit.\n\nFurthermore, if you imagine normal people, thinking that someone can transform\ninto a wolf is not the first idea you will get. So even if you see a dog with\nsome cloth just after seeing a little girl with similar clothes, you are not\ngoing to think \"hey, the girl transformed into a dog/wolf !\" or if you\nthink/say it, it's only to make a joke, because you cannot imagine it to be\ntrue.\n\nThe goal of this scene is to give the spectator this feeling of \"it was so\nclose, the townsfolk nearly discovered the truth\" which makes it a funny\nscene. Also, it explains that being the mother of such children is no easy,\nbecause there are probably many times when someone was nearly about to\ndiscover the truth.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-28T14:45:53.143", "id": "3074", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-28T14:45:53.143", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1609", "parent_id": "3068", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs far as I know, it wasn't mentioned either in the anime or manga. But having\nhim raised by his adoptive father Kei Hiwatari instead by the Hikari family\nthemselves probably was the main reason. He probably lacked training from his\nancestors so he can only create a copy of an artwork, and cannot create an\nartwork of his own.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-10T00:21:36.790", "id": "3312", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-10T00:21:36.790", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "3069", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI think that is more like he does not want to. They never directly talk about\nit, but both in the manga and in the anime (with more depth on the former)\nDark comments about Daisuke wanting to paint to defy his heritage and mentions\na similarity with Satoshi. Also, he can make artwkork and reproductions, but\nhe does not like to ( that would mean being like his family which he outright\nsays hates) also he does not hold his family artwork in high regard\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-03-23T03:20:22.943", "id": "30757", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-23T03:20:22.943", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22914", "parent_id": "3069", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**In most cases, yes.**\n\nA popular example of this is the anime\n[K-On!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-On!). All the openings, endings and\ninsert songs are written for the anime itself. They use the anime to advertise\nit and to sell more. Here is the\n[list](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_K-On!_albums) of the anime's\nalbums which if you observe, are really dedicated for the anime itself. It\neven had two live concerts, [Let's\nGo!](http://k-on.wikia.com/wiki/K-ON!_Live_Concert%3a_Let%27s_Go!) and [Come\nWith Me](http://k-on.wikia.com/wiki/K-ON!!_Live_Concert%3a_Come_With_Me!!)\nwhere the seiyuu of each character actually played their character's\ninstrument. Well K-On! has a plot that revolves around band members so it\nwould be just appropriate to focus more on creating songs specifically for the\nanime's plot.\n\nTo prove that most anime theme songs (opening, ending, insert songs) are\nwritten for the anime itself is the existence of [Image\nSong](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImageSong) or[Character\nSong](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_song).\n\n> An image song or character song is a song on a tie-in single or album (often\n> called an image album or character album) for an anime, game, dorama, manga,\n> or commercial product that is usually sung by the voice actor or actor of a\n> character, _in character_. It is meant to give a sense of the personality of\n> the character.\n\nSo it would be more appropriate to write character song depending on the anime\ncharacter's personalities and his/her situation on the anime he/she belongs\nto.\n\nThis [article](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnimeThemeSong)\nexplains further about it and it also sites more detailed examples.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-02T09:07:13.920", "id": "3203", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-02T09:07:13.920", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "3070", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to various sources, Dorami's dislike of roaches is more along the\nlines of ordinary people's disgust of the insect species, mostly due to their\nnature. The original manga never established canon for this and her dislike\nwas retconned into the anime and _Doraemon Encyclopedia_ ( _ドラえもん百科_ ) after\nthe manga had already been published.\n\nThe first appearance of her actually exclaiming her dislike seems to be in the\n_Dorami MiniDora SOS!!!_ ( _ドラミちゃん ミニドラSOS!!!_ ) short, which premiered with\nthe _Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan_ ( _ドラえもん: のび太の日本誕生_ ) movie in\nJapan back in March of 1989.\n\nThe first appearance of Dorami reacting to a cockroach is in vol. 9, chapter 9\nof the original manga, \"Urashima Candy.\" Dorami never states that she hates\nroaches and only reacts to being surprised by them.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-28T22:22:22.097", "id": "4492", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-28T22:22:22.097", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3072", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt appears the Mary is in a state of constant denial. She wants to be a real\nperson and refuses to accept the fact that she is a painting. We know that she\nwants to be real because of how her one wish is to leave the gallery and\nexperience the fun things of the real world. That is why the words are\nconsidered unreadable, she really does not want to read them.\n\nWhen she tries to leave the Fabricated World she is unable, because inside of\nher room she wrote a small journal. Inside that journal in says that she\ncannot leave on her own. The only way for to leave his to take the place of\nanother, which is why she is able to leave in the \"Together Forever\" ending.\nShe took the place of Garry. Because she did not take the place of anyone she\ncould not escape.\n\nThe person who \"killed\" her at the end of \"A Paintings Demise\" is probably her\nfather or some other piece of art like \"Mistake\".\n\nIt might have been her father because of the last things she says. While Mary\nis pleadingly choking out for help she ends with the word Father. It is\npossible that she was asking for help from her her father Guertena, or it\ncould be that she realized at the very end that Guertena was the one who was\ngoing to punish her. This is further supported by the messages that appear as\nthe lights slowly dim. They talk about how Mary has been a bad girl and they\nsound like something a father says to a disobedient daughter. These were\nprobably Guertena's way of scolding Mary because she disobeyed and tried to\nleave the gallery.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-12T09:42:40.050", "id": "4353", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-12T09:42:40.050", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1996", "parent_id": "3073", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe two are intrinsically linked. Every creature supposedly has a threshold\nthat they \"can't surpass.\" Super Saiyan allows the Saiyan to break the\nthreshold completely and become something more than they ever could have been\nwithout it. It pretty much only happens when a truly desperate circumstance\nhas forced it out of them, but not just any Saiyan can become a Super Saiyan\neither.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-28T16:14:04.467", "id": "3076", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-28T16:14:04.467", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1616", "parent_id": "3075", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the Manga they said, that they need to have a \"pure\" heart. \nAt Goku it was pure good and at Vegeta it was pure evil. And than they\nadditionally need a catalyst. \nFor Goku it was the anger about his killed friends and for Vegeta it was for\nnot becoming a Super Sayan. \nIn the Manga is not mentioned that they need a minimum or maximum power level.\nSo I think in normal form they might be much stronger than a Super Sayan and\ncan't transform to super Sayan until they have this pure heart or catalyst. \nIf you continue reading your wiki source you will notice that there written\nthat there are no more known conditions to become a Super Sayan. \n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-28T16:16:41.450", "id": "3077", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-28T16:16:41.450", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1493", "parent_id": "3075", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt really is confusing, and there is conflict as to what is really happens. I\nthink our best guide is the story itself. For this answer I will be using the\nanime as a guide. Lastly, please note that this discussion pertains only to\nSuper Saiyan itself, and not Ascended Saiyan, or SS3/4.\n\nNow, Goku himself says, when training Gohan, that it does indeed come from a\n_need_ , and if needed you can create that _need_. Though, I'll have to check\nwith the original Japanese, because perhaps this wasn't the best word to use\nin translation? Considering that he also notes that _the pain of loss_ as an\nimportant factor, this leads me to believe that perhaps it is more of an\n_emotional thrust_ than a direct _need_ per se.\n\nEither way, in my humble opinion you need a mixture of the two ( _need_ and\n_power-level_.) If I'm not mistaken, no one is shown doing it without both\nfactors.\n\n### Examples:\n\n * **Goku**\n\n * Spent much time training in 100x gravity, which undoubtedly boosted his power-level way up.\n * He was pushed over the edge by an emotional trust. ( _The ruthless death of his friend._ )\n * **Vegeta**\n\n * Out of pride he spends his time in training trying to become a Super Saiyan, just like Goku, including some time in 450x gravity.\n * Out of anger, jealousy, and pride he is pushed over the edge.\n * **Gohan**\n\n * Spent much time training with his father in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.\n * He is pushed over the edge by the distraught he feels at the idea of failing his friends.\n\nNow, this is only valid in the act of _becoming_ a Super Saiyan. Later on,\nonce a Saiyan has learned how to control it better, the emotional thrust is\nlessened (if not removed altogether.) In addition, when higher forms of Super\nSaiyan are considered, the emotional barrier is lessened even more so, and the\nemphasis is placed more on _power-level_ , and perhaps skills.\n\nAs for other Super Saiyans whose original transformations are not explicitly\nshown, I leave that up to pure speculation. At least we have three good cases\nto base our claims on; perhaps the rest just belongs in the imagination.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-28T16:18:01.640", "id": "3078", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-28T19:23:50.423", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-28T19:23:50.423", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "1600", "parent_id": "3075", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nBoth the factors are equally important. Without one the other is incomplete..\nA saiyan needs both a great amount of energy and an emotional turmoil as the\ncatalyst.\n\nAs per the [link](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Saiyan)\n\n> Goku achieves the form out of anger over the murder of his best-friend\n> Krillin\n\nand\n\n> Bardock achieves the form out of anger after Chilled attacked a Plant child\n> called Berry,\n\n> while Vegeta achieves the form through sheer frustration at his original\n> inability to achieve it, especially over Goku.\n\n> While training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, Goku tells Gohan that\n> becoming a Super Saiyan is powered by rage and told him to imagine Cell and\n> then Frieza when Gohan said he had never seen Cell, killing all his friends\n> to transform into a Super Saiyan.\n\nThis shows that everyone required a catalyst to turn to the super saiyan\nmode.. It was just made easier that Goku had a high power level which was\ninherited by both Gohan and Gotan in case of Goku; and Trunks in case of\nVegeta.. It is not shown how and when they learnt t transform, so its\ndifficult to define the conditions for the same. But it was easier for them\nsince they possessed a very high level of power.\n\nAs further stated on the same\n[page](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Saiyan) :\n\n> The power increases of subsequent Super Saiyan forms are so high that by the\n> Buu Saga, the original transformation has been literally reduced to that of\n> a \"child's play thing\" (as stated by Vegeta; as both Goten and Trunks can\n> transform and harness the power adeptly at such a young age).\n\nThis was mainly done to undermine the first level of Super Saiyan level so\nthat the greater levels could be defined to be more powerful and special in\ncomparison to the first.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-28T16:40:32.897", "id": "3080", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-29T06:39:45.583", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-29T06:39:45.583", "last_editor_user_id": "1579", "owner_user_id": "1579", "parent_id": "3075", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nIt basically happens when the Saiyan is strong enough, and there is a surge of\nstrong emotions.\n\n# For example:\n\n * Vegeta achieved because he was frustrated with himself. He had just given up and decided that he would never catch up to Goku. He was also in a life threatening situation. Combine those two and you have SSJ Vegeta.\n\n * Goku goes SSJ after Krillin, his most precious friend, is murdered in front of him. Goku's anger explodes and he goes SSJ.\n\n * Gohan goes SSJ when training with Goku, but then uses anger to ascend.\n\n * Goten goes SSJ when Chi-Chi slaps him. I suppose he was angered and that triggered the transformation.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-02T00:59:34.963", "id": "3200", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-02T02:13:23.457", "last_edit_date": "2013-04-02T02:13:23.457", "last_editor_user_id": "1528", "owner_user_id": "1642", "parent_id": "3075", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nVegata was ultimately push to the brink and cross over as super being in\njeporady of losing his only way off the planet he training on due to asteroids\nand too many of them getting ready to crush his ship and trap him there and he\nalready been training and exhausted himself when the huge amount of asteriods\nstarted coming for him and his ship quickly over whelm off how many their was\nand exhausted he quickly became in fear of being trap and dying on some\nworthless planet he quickly try to amp up his energy and fearing he was\ndepleted and needed a energy boost to some up a large amount of energy\npowerful enough to destroy every asteroid all together instead one by one so\nhis need was met when he needed to boost his enegry the most and excerte\nextreme amount of power to blow away every asteriod all at once to save\nhimself and ship from being crushed and trap, that's when his need for being\nsuper came into effect and quickly boosted him over the brink of exhaustion\nand gave him the energy to produce attack big and powerful enough to clear\nevery asteroid and save his ship at that point a super saiyan knows what\nenergy level needs to be rechead and what strength is required to cross over\nand transform super, yes when training you need to acquire that need helps the\nsaiyan push his level above exhaustion that he didn't know he could do that,\nneed keeps the sayian going and powering up instead of stopping and thinking\nthat he can't go no higher with his power level simply trying to power up to\ncross over will not work a sayian must teach his body in training that super\nneeds to be acquired for the fight he training for in order to win thus\neverybody reaching insane power levels unknown thinking they are ready for\ncomplete cell but cell was designed to be better and the ultimate fighter\nforced of sayian genetics they did not know and every saiyan studied over the\nyears cell was hatch and created and was a forsure Victor ofform he too just n\nlike frieaze uses the planet to their advantage to distract the sayian from\nthe fight so we never really know if a new born super sayian could beat frieza\nor cell both killed by their own attacks and downfall the sayians in complete\nform also explaining his need and the sayain always fight n win attitude is\nwhat ultimately gets them to that point saying ultimate desire is to be the\nbest goku just doesn't admit that he too kind but always secretly trains to be\nthe best that and his pure heart and strength and ability to easily acquire\ntechniques destined him to become the dragon ultimately explaining the story\nline surrounded around goku. , pretty much the same as goku in his first\nfought with vegeta and his kio-ken times 10! Once a saiyan acquires how to get\nto super level this ultimately their natural high power level form is mere\nnothing on the scanners and and just like always they can mask their evergy\nlevel at natural form so they basically them become high power sayians in\neveryday life masking their energy with ease keeping their level right at\nsuper and easily transforming to super sayian when they please and then the\npower up starts just like trunks did vs his fight with cell but did not win\nafter just meshing and harnessing true power trying to use it against perfect\ncell made of androids and z fighters and ultimately the advantage of super\nsayians thus doctor was on planet namek and his bug collected cell of super\nsayian goku,so to answer question simply a need is acquired on training to\nlearn of unreached power levels and keep the sayian powering up with out\ngiving up and needs to learn what that level is the amount of event and rest\nacquire to reach it, goku says its a need cause it was vs frieza so that's his\nway of explaining to get to super level, but training and getting stronger and\nhaving a sayian knowing that super saying level is real having not seen their\nown ancestors do it because frezia put the fear in all sayians that they could\nnot reach that sayian level it's a myth so no sayian ever tried to push pass\nexceretion and train their body to transform, all sayian are super strong and\nthe ability to heal and get stronger after a fight plays a big role shall to a\nsayian reaching super level, the need is just goku explanation but works as a\nmind technique to become stronger and better there's always a need a saiyan\nwants to win their fight thru out the whole dragonball z series so why didn't\ngoku become sayian as a boy faced with some serious needs to win against some\ntuff oppents? but training and becoming stronger is the ultimate key to\nbecoming sayian so the need plays no part in small trunks and small gotenks\nbeing sayian a young boy can not simply reach that power level, so how they do\nit? Lmao who knows sayian freaks they do what they want and kick ass!!!!! Lol\nz fighters!\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-04-16T22:33:57.323", "id": "31449", "last_activity_date": "2016-04-16T22:33:57.323", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "23494", "parent_id": "3075", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think it is best to start looking for the answer on the metaphysical level.\nThe writers' purpose made this scene ambiguous as to leave uncertainty in the\nviewers' mind, and spark their imaginations. This distinction is even brought\nup explicitly by the characters themselves as they reflect on the scene as\nthey are leaving. It seems that the writers were successful in accomplishing\nexactly what they wanted to.\n\nNow, all of that said, one could examine the entire context and find some\nevidence for both claims.\n\n# Evidence that it was Latias\n\n * The girl did not say anything, and of course Latias can't speak. Now, of course Bianca could have simply decided to stay silent, but it seems awkward that if she were to make such an emotional and romantic advance that she'd say nothing. Consider these small phrases that would be appropriate (and seem awkward without): _Thank you._ , _I'll never forget you._ , _I love you._ , etc.\n\nShe says absolutely nothing, most likely because she can't.\n\n * Throughout the movie, Latias is the one who shows an interest in Ash. In fact there is no signs of any chemistry at all between Ash and Bianca. If it _is_ Bianca that kisses him, then perhaps she does so because she secretly likes Ash, but is to scared to show it, but doesn't want him to leave without a sign of affection to remember her by? Even that is pushing it. Considering the absurdity of it being Bianca, we must logically say it was Latias.\n\n * Ash mainly saved Latias who was in the greatest distress, and not really Bianca. Therefore Latias has good reason to want to thank Ash, at least more so than Bianca.\n\n# Evidence that it was Bianca\n\n * The piece of art was Bianca's. If it had been Latias that gave it to Ash, she basically would have had to have stolen† it from Bianca, which might have made her mad; this seems out of character for Latias.\n\n† Of course Latias _could_ have gotten explicit permission from Bianca, but\nthis wasn't shown, so to support this theory we must enter the realm of pure\nspeculation.\n\n * Regardless of who owns the piece of art, we must consider who _made_ it. Bianca is the artist, since Latias can't paint. Why did she make a portrait of Ash in the first place? While she could have done it just for Latias, this seems awkward. Most likely this drawing was motivated through Bianca's own good will; though out of romantic, or perhaps just friendly interest remains to be seen.\n\n * Bianca's hat, which throughout the film was the only visible characteristic available to distinguish the two, is seem at home, implying that since she isn't using it, she must not be out, and thus the girl we see is Bianca. Of course we can't say this for sure since the girl doesn't grab it on her way out either. Again, this was probably done on purpose by the writers.\n\n * This isn't really directly perceptible evidence, but many find it odd that there could be a romantic scene between a human and a Pokemon. This relationship, of course, is not meant to be developed.\n\n# Other Theories\n\n * **It was Bianca trying to make them think she was Latias** \\- Some speculate that Bianca purposely didn't wear her hat, nor speak, to make Ash think she was Latias. There is little reason to support this, other than perhaps Bianca was embarrassed to let him know how _she_ felt, or the she wanted to thank him, but thought it would be more appropriate if they thought it was Latias expressing the gratitude. \n\n# Is there an official statement?\n\nOfficial authorities have never clarified this up, and the only info\nBulbapedia can offer is a restatement of what we already know:\n\n> _...The conclusion of the film briefly sees her finishing a drawing. The\n> drawing, which is of Ash and Pikachu, is given to Ash by either Bianca, who\n> had left her hat on her easel, or Latias in the form of Bianca: which is the\n> case is the subject of debate. When Ash received the sketch, the girl kissed\n> him. Bianca is seen again in the credits drawing another sketch by the\n> harbor._\n>\n> \\-- [Bianca (movie),\n> Bulbapedia](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Bianca_%28movie%29)\n\n# Is there a general consensus?\n\nI feel that in general most consider it to be Latias, simply because she\nshowed interest in Ash throughout the film. A few polls have been conducted on\na some forums, including:\n\n * [Was it Bianca or Latias that kissed Ash in the 5th movie? - The PokéCommunity Forums ](http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=100651)\n\n * 80.7% say Latias\n * 19.3% say Bianca\n * [Who Kissed Ash: Bianca or Latias? - Serebii.net Forums](http://www.serebiiforums.com/showthread.php?447712-Who-Kissed-Ash-Bianca-or-Latias)\n\n * 81.82% say Latias\n * 18.18% say Bianca\n\nNeither poll is truly scientific, but both give a good idea of the general\ngist of the matter.\n\nIn conclusion, there is evidence to support either case, and in following with\nwhat the writers wanted we are able to make up our own mind. Sometimes the\nimagination is able to put something in a way that no story ever could.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-28T17:51:12.550", "id": "3082", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-28T22:18:53.890", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-28T22:18:53.890", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "1600", "parent_id": "3081", "post_type": "answer", "score": 39 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is a 50/100 chance that it could be Latias and there is another 50 that\nit could be Bianca but let's get real here. Did Bianca ever give clues or\nteases toward Ash? Who was the main one around him the most? But then again\nAsh does give some care towards Bianca by saving her first when she was\nstringshotted and maybe he grew attached to her since Latias took the form of\nher so he feels the same way as he does towards Latias. To my conclusion I\nthink that the publishers and director did this on purpose so we can CHOSE who\nwe wanted it to be.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-28T16:10:34.897", "id": "6066", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-28T16:10:34.897", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2815", "parent_id": "3081", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is Bianca for sure. Her hat was still at home next to the painting that she\ntook with her. She didn't take the hat and the girl that kissed ash did not\nwear a hat. She had a painting so she might want to confuse Ash and let him\nfind out himself that it was Bianca kissing him.\n\nShe always acted like she didn't like him, but it seemed like that was just a\ncover because she did like him. Latias flew over his head about 2 minutes\nlater and they were flying towards the city, so that means Latias had been\ngone for about a half day, so she isn't the one who kissed him.\n\nIt is Bianca for sure. She was probably just embarrassed to kiss him so she\nleft her hat to confuse Ash\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-11T10:08:11.860", "id": "6851", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-17T04:17:47.293", "last_edit_date": "2016-03-17T04:17:47.293", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "3290", "parent_id": "3081", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nHey we can all agree that there is a 50-50 chance of it being either of them,\nbut I choose to believe that it was Latias who kissed Ash. All this evidence\nis very persuasive, but aren't we all forgetting that Bianca left for the\nmarket? Of course there is the chance that she hadn't left. So it still leaves\nthe chance of it being either. It's true that Latias fly's over them after,\nbut the girl, whoever she was, left them way before Ash, Misty (who was SUPER\njealous), and Brock (who was EVEN MORE jealous) recovered from the shock, Ash\ngot on the boat, and they sped away, Latias had plenty of time to circle back\nand say goodbye one last time.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-19T05:50:44.303", "id": "8769", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-31T13:16:18.770", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-31T13:16:18.770", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "4556", "parent_id": "3081", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is more than likely Bianca. Like others have said Bianca did leave her hat\nbehind in her room which is something the animators would not have shown if it\nwasn't important.\n\nBut another important bit of information is that the girl at the end is\nvisibly tired after running to catch up to Ash which is something that Latias\nnever showed previously when being chased.\n\nLastly the song before the kiss is called Canon (music) which is similar and\npronounced the same as Bianca's Japanese name of Kanon (sound of flower).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-04-03T16:30:08.917", "id": "67865", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-03T16:57:09.030", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-03T16:57:09.030", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "71754", "parent_id": "3081", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAfter researching in some wikis in spanish\n\n[Orochimaru, Spanish Naruto Wikia](http://es.naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Orochimaru)\n\nIt is said that Orochimaru changes the host body to look similar to his\noriginal body. However he can't change the height of the new host.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-30T00:17:07.883", "id": "3104", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-30T00:17:07.883", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8", "parent_id": "3083", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHokutou no Ken was created in 1983. A lot of inspiration for the post-\napocalyptic world in the manga came from the movies [Mad\nMax](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max) (1979) and [Mad Max\n2](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max_2) (1981).\n\nIn these movies (especially in Mad Max 2), oil is very important. Gangs of\nmarauders fight for oil. They have the same kind of vehicles as we can see in\nHokuto no Ken. In fact, in Mad Max 2, Max, the hero, protects a group of\npeople around an oil refinery.\n\nKen and Max have a lot in common as characters.\n\nSo why is oil so important in the movie Mad Max in the first place?\n\nIn 1973 the world endured what was later called \"[the first oil\ncrisis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis)\". 1979 was the time for\nthe second oil crisis.\n\nSo the 1970s were years when people were talking about oil a lot. It was THE\ntopic of the decade (maybe the second topic, just after disco music). In a\nway, it is logical to imagine that a movie made at that time would give such\nimportance to finding oil.\n\nIf you have oil, you have power. In a post-apocalyptic world oil would be more\nimportant than money. In fact, money doesn't exist anymore, there is only\nbarrels of oil to trade.\n\nFor the manga, the world is very similar than the world of Mad Max 2, but the\ntopic of fighting for oil is not the main theme. Ken fighting for revenge,\nseeking his brothers, martial art, ... are the main themes. The problematic of\noil/energy is not really explained, since it would be a little bit off-topic.\n\nThe enemy organizations are just bad guys and the don't really need a reason\nto attack the normal citizens. They attack normal people because they are bad\nguys. This is a reason good enough for Ken to fight them. There was no need to\nadd some stuff about fighting for oil.\n\nIf you really need an answer, we can probably say that the bad guys are\nfighting for the control of oil. The gangs probably gather around an oil\nrefinery, or a storage of oil barrels. This explains why the bad guys have\nvehicles, while normal people just live where they can. However, this\nproblematic was not considered important to the scenarist and he just omitted\nit.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-03T21:37:38.090", "id": "3239", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-04T06:44:59.823", "last_edit_date": "2013-04-04T06:44:59.823", "last_editor_user_id": "18", "owner_user_id": "1609", "parent_id": "3085", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBlack Lagoon is set in Thailand, where the primary religion is Buddhism. About\n95% of the people in Thailand are Buddhist. Incarnation is a primary tenant of\nBuddhism, so that is likely where the incarnation part came from.\n\nThe seven part is a little bit more vague. Assuming it is a reference to\nBuddhism, the most likely idea is is follows:\n\n> A Sotāpanna will be safe from falling into the states of misery (they will\n> not be born as an animal, ghost, or hell being). Their lust, hatred and\n> delusion will not be strong enough to cause rebirth in the lower realms. A\n> Sotāpanna will have to be reborn at most only seven more times in the human\n> or heavenly worlds before attaining nibbana. It is not necessary for a\n> Sotāpanna to be reborn seven more times before attaining nibbana, as an\n> ardent practitioner may progress to the higher stages in the same life in\n> which he/she reaches the Sotāpanna level by making an aspiration and\n> persistent effort to reach the final goal of nibbāna.\n\nThere aren't any other religious references to seven incarnations, but there\nare other secular references. There is a text RPG called \"Coast of Seven\nIncarnations\", as well as a reference to the seven incarnations of the earth\n(Saturn, Sun, Moon, Earth, Jupiter, Venus, Vulcan) and the seven incarnations\nof human society in the book \"The East in the Light of the West and Children\nof Lucifer\" by Rudolf Steiner. Neither of these are, in all likelihood,\nrelated to the phrase, but there are some of the only other references to\nseven incarnations that I can find.\n\nLikely, it is either referencing the aforementioned Buddhist idea (or another\nBuddhist idea) or is not based on a religious idea.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-25T01:50:08.590", "id": "3525", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-25T20:21:00.430", "last_edit_date": "2013-04-25T20:21:00.430", "last_editor_user_id": "93", "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "3088", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThere are a few distinct mentions of cases of the _Seven Incarnations_ , which\nare each plausible in their own rite.\n\n# Notable mentions of incarnations\n\n**Incarnations of Immortality** \nThe [_Incarnations of\nImmortality_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarnations_of_Immortality) is a\nseries in which seven books each focus on a single\n[_incarnation_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarnations_of_Immortality#Characters),\na mortal which becomes the personification of Death, Time, Fate, War, Nature,\nEvil, or Good. Most people feel the effects caused by one or more of these\nincarnations. So, _Black Lagoon_ may be referring to how Ginji is affected or\ncomposed of each of these seven things; he could be more or less saying,\n\"Please allow me to protect you with my entire being.\"\n\n**Vishnu's incarnations** \nThe second possibility is a reference to [Vishnu\nPurana](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu_Purana), a religious Hindu text.\nAccording to legend, Vishnu created incarnations of himself to eradicate evil\nand balance the world. Vishnu Purana states that there are seven such\nincarnations1:\n\n> Vishnu Purana says that there were seven incarnations of Vishnu including\n> Yajna, Ajit, Satya, Hari, Manas, Vaikuntha, and Vamana.\n>\n> — _Mythology of Vishnu and His Incarnations_ , pp. 44–45\n\nThese incarnations allow him to become Supreme God2. Thus, Ginji may be\nstating that he will use any power (the incarnations) available to him to\nprotect Yukio.\n\n**However** , based on how Ginji phrases this in the manga, these two\npossibilities seem unlikely.\n\n[![\"\\[I request\\] to protect you for the entirety of \\[my\\]\nlife.\"](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mxOq4l.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mxOq4.jpg) \n_(Black Lagoon, chapter 27, pp. 17)_\n\n# Buddhist incarnations\n\nOne of [Buddhism](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism)'s more significant\npoints is their concept of reincarnation, or\n[rebirth](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebirth_\\(Buddhism\\)). In Buddhism, as\nyou are born and reborn, you fulfill a cycle known as the \"Cycle of Life\".\nHowever, you must be born seven times (in any form) to achieve\n[moksha](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moksha), a liberation from this cycle\n(which eventually leads to the ultimate peace:\n[nirvana](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana)).\n\n> Calm and unmoved the Pilgrim glideth up the stream that to Nirvâna leads. He\n> knoweth that the more his feet will bleed, the whiter will himself be\n> washed. He knoweth well that after seven short and fleeting births Nirvâna\n> will be his....\n>\n> — _The Voice of the Silence_ , pp. 69\n\nAs you can can conclude, this cycle involves going through seven incarnations,\neach of the births that you endure, before achieving nirvana. In some forms of\nBuddhism, these components are believed to be partial aggregates of your\nconsciousness, thus could be considered a large portion of your \"whole\" being.\n\nWhat makes this the most plausible explanation is that Ginji is a member of\nthe Yakuza. Many Yakuza are focused around the ways of the samurai and their\nteachings. In Japanese history, samurai were largely centered around\n[Zen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen), a form of Buddhism3.\n\nPutting this Zen relationship in context with the manga, which states that\nGinji will \"protect [her] for the entirety of his life\", we can conclude that\nGinji intends to spend all seven of his rebirths protecting Yukio.\n\n# Footnotes\n\n1 Wikipedia has [an extensive\nlist](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar#Avatars_of_Vishnu), but according to\nthe Vishnu Purana, only seven of these avatars truly exist. \n2 Further reading: [Vishnu,\nWikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu#Vaishnava_canon) \n3 Further reading: [The Religion of the Samurai](http://www.holybooks.com/wp-\ncontent/uploads/The-Religion-of-the-Samurai-free-ebook.pdf)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-25T02:01:10.063", "id": "3526", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-01T18:53:45.427", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "3088", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nAs Killua correctly pointed out, the phrase \"with all seven of my\nincarnations\" refers to Buddhism concept of rebirth. In original Japanese, the\nphrase is「七生を以て」(shichi-syou wo motte), and \"を以て(wo motte)\" roughly translates\nas \"with\" and \"七生(shichi-syou)\" consists of \"七(shichi)\" = \"seven\" and\n\"生(syou)\" = \"life\". \"Shichi-syou\" means \"to rebirth seven times\", though, as\nan idiomatic phrase, it means no more than \"eternity\" because \"to rebirth\nseven times\" takes a very long time. So it's safe to say that \"七生を以て (with all\nseven of my incarnations)\" is a bit old-fashioned, thus impressive and grave\nway of saying \"forever\". This choice of words is very appropriate for Ginji\nbecause he is a member of a Yakuza clan, which in general likes to retain\ntraditional ways of life and the members are likely to use old-fashioned\nwording, especially in important moments.\n\nThe first post is six years ago, so nobody would probably notice this post of\nmine, but as a Japanese, I find this question very interesting and feel\nobliged to offer some information. I hope it will be of some help.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-05-05T07:09:49.973", "id": "52813", "last_activity_date": "2019-05-05T07:09:49.973", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "47141", "parent_id": "3088", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't believe there has ever been a death of a character due to a tank-\nrelated incident. However, this is largely due to safety precautions taken by\nthe officials in charge of the tank activities. (And also, a bit of anime\nphysics.)\n\nFrom the [(fan-)translated _Rules of\nPanzerkraft_](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=523527&show=100#msg18657603):\n\n> **3-02 Supplemental Equipment** \n> Furthermore, for the safety of the participants, the crew compartments are\n> required to be fitted with League-approved armored mantles as an added\n> safety measure.\n>\n> **3-03 Usable Cannons** \n> All rounds are to be League-sanctioned live ammunition; production of your\n> own warheads or charges is not allowed.\n>\n> **5 Prohibited Actions** \n> a) Using unregulated equipment or parts \n> c) Firing directly on humans\n\nNote the usage of controlled armor, rounds, and a rule that you may not fire\nat a human. So, it does appear that the tank warfare is dangerous to people,\nbut the safety measures in place are enough that the direct warfare does not\ncause any fatalities or serious injuries. (I think there's an incident where\none girl has her glasses broken, but that's it.)\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-06T00:46:18.953", "id": "3267", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-06T00:46:18.953", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "3091", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom the Manga. The tanks are coated with high tech materials that prevent\npenetration by rounds. This is referred to briefly in the anime, when someone\nsays something like, \"the tanks have carbon\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-25T00:24:56.990", "id": "17052", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-25T00:24:56.990", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10838", "parent_id": "3091", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nEven if the shells are training or powder, it's still a metal shell, no matter\nhow brittle. Fired by novices (first episode) at like 500mph toward a tank\nwhere a girl who is outside the tank as a spotter. No one dies in the entire\nseries and it would be weird to make a cute girls doing cute stuff anime get\nbloody and tragic.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-03-21T19:35:38.627", "id": "57029", "last_activity_date": "2020-03-21T19:35:38.627", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "52383", "parent_id": "3091", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAlthough it was not explicitly stated in the Anime. The following sequence of\nevents was strongly implied and was part of Squealer's master plan.\n\n 1. Squealer helps Maria and Mamoru escape. Furthermore, he lets them stay and live with the colony.\n 2. Squealer waits for (or sweet-talks) Maria and Mamoru into having a child.\n 3. Once the child is born, Squealer (and/or his fellow rats) kills Maria and Mamoru.\n 4. They take the child and raise him/her. (\"him\" in the Novel, \"her\" in the Anime)\n 5. Squealer then takes the bones of Maria and Mamoru and gives them to the ethics committee.\n\nWhen Squealer says that he will prepare fake remains for the villagers to find\nand that it will \"take some time\". He really means the _actual_ remains of\nMaria and Mamoru and that it will \"take some time\" for them to have a child.\n\n* * *\n\nThe sole purpose of this was to get a human child that could be raised into an\nAkki* and used against humans in Squealer's pursuit of world domination.\n\n*I use Akki for short. But they really aren't. In reality, the children raised by the rats will believe themselves to be rats, thus attack inhibition and death-feedback will apply to rats instead of humans.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-29T15:56:34.187", "id": "3096", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-29T16:05:36.930", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-29T16:05:36.930", "last_editor_user_id": "17", "owner_user_id": "17", "parent_id": "3095", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nI think its pretty obvious that Maria and Mamoru are dead if the etheics\ncomittee found the remains had their DNA in it.. Not to mention that squeeler\nmanaged to take their child from them..\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-08T09:01:58.467", "id": "14341", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-08T09:01:58.467", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8621", "parent_id": "3095", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIf we consider that everything said and implied make sense (story most likely\ndon't imply anything without a purpose), we could even propose a darker\npossibility.\n\nWhile it's obvious that they were both killed, we can't be sure about when. I\nwould say the rats could have used brain surgery as they did for their queen\nto dispose of Maria after she went pregnant. (It's implied \"what if they did\nit to human ?\") We don't know if the council got the full squeletal or not. If\nnot, they could have disposed of some of the body parts without killing them\nin order to give evidences to the council before the 10 month needed to give\nbirth.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-03-09T17:14:45.883", "id": "39325", "last_activity_date": "2017-03-09T17:14:45.883", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "31353", "parent_id": "3095", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nFor me they did to them what they did to their queen. Saki asked to Satoru in\nthe anime _if they do something like this to a human_ (and give up on\nquestioning). But I don't understand why in the end she neither mentions it\nwhen talking with Squealer. When it is said that they are really dead, she\nshould have realized that squealer was involved.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-08-18T06:56:26.980", "id": "41894", "last_activity_date": "2017-08-18T08:44:56.650", "last_edit_date": "2017-08-18T08:44:56.650", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "35206", "parent_id": "3095", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 }, { "body": "\n\nThe (short/long) answer. Maria and Mamoru stayed in squealers colony. In the\ntime that they stayed there, they began to get closer to one another. Since\nthe child is about 9 years old, they must have been together for just about\nthree years. I’m not entirely sure how long they stayed in squealers colony,\nbut from the manga and the implications of the anime. Maria and Mamoru clearly\nhad a child, and weren’t entirely trusting of squealers colony.From what was\nsaid in the manga. Mamoru, at the time, wasn’t there to protect Maria after\nshe had her child and was tricked and killed. Upon Mamoru’s return, he was\nalso killed and their child was stolen by Squealer. By the end, Maria and\nMamoru make there way to the heaven kotatsu with Shun & Reiko. After a few\nyears Messiah (Maria & Mamoru’s Child), arrives in heaven and sits down in the\nKotatsu with his cold mother.\n\nIn the end, they all joke in heaven about how long it’ll take for Saki to come\njoin them.\n\nNote: this is an Omake added at the end of the final chapter.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-11-28T07:24:20.967", "id": "49887", "last_activity_date": "2018-11-28T07:24:20.967", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43646", "parent_id": "3095", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere's actually two parts to your question:\n\n> Do Akkis (fiends/ogres) have abnormal strength?\n\nThere's a bit of a disconnect here. Maria and Mamoru's child is not actually\nan Akki as mentioned in the last episode. The akki \"K\" in the flashback is\nactually a grown up teenager. So he could very well be that strong in the\nfirst place.\n\nSo the real question is: \"Why is Maria and Mamoru's child so strong?\"\n\nThis assertion does seem to be true since the kid is able to do precision\nkills while normal children of the same age have trouble levitating a ball.\n\nA speculative answer would be to go back to the fact that Cantus is a power of\nthe imagination. It's possible that Maria and Mamoru's child, having grown up\noutside the village and influence of humans, has a completely different\nmindset and thus different imaginative potential.\n\n> Why was Maria and Mamoru's child able to defeat Shisei Kaburagi (the\n> strongest Cantus user) at such a young age?\n\nThis is simply because Shisei, a normal human Cantus user, is restricted by\nattack inhibition.\n\nSo regardless of how powerful he is, he cannot hurt the child. On the other\nhand, the child can freely attack Shisei. Note Shisei does attempt to defend\nhimself since he manages to protect himself against the rocks that the child\nthrew at him. But once the child used his/her Cantus directly on Shisei,\nShisei was as good as dead.\n\n_In other words, if you tied a 200 pound wrestler against a wall and let a\n10-year-old kick him in the balls repeatedly, eventually the kid is gonna\nwin._\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-29T16:26:10.283", "id": "3098", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-10T02:18:57.217", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-10T02:18:57.217", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "17", "parent_id": "3097", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThese originate from a similar practice in the real world, where\n[they](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrist_wraps) are used in boxing, combat\nsports, and martial arts (largely muay thai, one of the more brutal sports).\nThey are mostly seen on the wrists, but can be used on the legs too for [the\nsame\nreasons](http://www.shenmartialarts.com/displayitem.asp?catalogid=356&id=5&origcat=5).\n(Legs are [sometimes wrapped around the hips and\nthighs](http://books.google.ca/books?id=XhJYfcWlhMcC&pg=PA249&lpg=PA249&dq=martial+arts+leg+wraps&source=bl&ots=SvHv9bC3aB&sig=S7xgvhv5h9lC2ZyUBxu5dpvvgr8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9_tVUfD7Ka33igLRkYDoCA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=martial%20arts%20leg%20wraps&f=false),\nbut can be wrapped lower down as well.)\n\nThere are different types of wraps: cloth/elastic, gauze, or a type of cast\nmaterial which is much firmer.\n\nCloth wraps help protect from superficial cuts and other scrapes; you may have\nseen (or been in) situations where, after a punch, your knuckles can get worn\ndown or bloodied up as the skin dries/breaks from the impact. Having a cover\nover them would obviously protect them from doing so.\n\nGauze and stronger cast materials (and even cloth, to a lesser extent) are for\nprotecting the wrist and hand from damage sustained while punching. They help\nby holding the hand in its proper shape by wrapping around the fingers and the\nthumb and keeping the structure intact when an impact is sustained.\n\n \n_(Source:[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KICKBOX008cropped.jpg))_\n\nIt is more than likely that _Naruto_ adopted this to have their characters\nappear as (semi-)realistic, prepared martial artists.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-29T20:49:31.650", "id": "3101", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-29T20:49:31.650", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "3100", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nOne thing I don't see mentioned anywhere is the fact that bandaging is also\nused to tether items to ones body. Apart from providing protection, some parts\nof the body can simply be wrapped to be used as some type of pocket. Blades\ncan be hidden on the inside of one's forearm, pouches attached to the leg, and\nmany items from weaponry to medic kits to the main torso underneath ones\nclothing. Where do you think the ninja in Naruto pull all their weaponry from?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-04T06:38:44.367", "id": "43142", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-04T06:38:44.367", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "36456", "parent_id": "3100", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is never explained why only the Sohma clan has this curse. The only\nreference we have to how the curse may have begun is the zodiac story told in\nthe later part of the manga, though it is not very clear how it relates to the\nSohma or the current state of the curse.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-01T23:46:03.393", "id": "3192", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-01T23:46:03.393", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1524", "parent_id": "3102", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe curse appears to be the result of the [_Zodiac\nLegend_](http://fruitsbasket.wikia.com/wiki/The_Chinese_Zodiac). It is based\non [the real Zodiac legend](http://www.chinavoc.com/zodiac/stories.asp), but a\nmore detailed \"true\" version is outlined in [Volume\n22](http://fruitsbasket.wikia.com/wiki/Zodiac_Legend:_Volume_22). It's quite\nlong, but I'll post an abridged version here.\n\n> Long ago, God found a stray cat, and the two became friends. God was then\n> inspired to send out invitations to other animals, to a banquet, so that he\n> could meet more of them.\n>\n> Twelve animals showed up (the twelve animals of the Zodiac), as well as the\n> cat. The banquet was fantastic, until the cat collapsed on the floor, his\n> life having finally run out. Not wanting to let go of his friendship with\n> the cat, God forced the cat to drink an elixir of life, giving him\n> immortality. He then had all the other twelve animals drink it as well.\n>\n> As the cat came to, he told God that he did not want immortality. Everyone\n> was shocked at the cat's rejection of immortality and his acceptance to let\n> his life end. This allowed him to die, but the other animals didn't care, as\n> they felt betrayed and alienated.\n>\n> Eventually, the other animals were able to die as well, and God was once\n> again left alone. As God's time to live came to an end, he accepted it,\n> because he knew that he would see the other animals again on \"the other\n> side\".\n\nSeems like a pretty happy ending, but the way the volume tells goes on a bit\nafter this. In particular, it says:\n\n> That first... \n> ... promise. \n> At what point... \n> ... did it become a curse? \n> When did it change... \n> ... into a burden?\n\nThis event appears to be the origin of the Sohma Curse, as each cursed Sohma\nrepresents one of the twelve animals (and Kyo is the cat) that met at the\nbanquet.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-03T17:15:45.023", "id": "3231", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-03T17:15:45.023", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "3102", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is never explained what makes some Sohma born with the curse and some not\nand what animal they represent. The only rules seem to be that only one person\ncan have an animal's the curse at a time and they must be part of the Sohma\nclan. The current condition where all animals are represented at the same time\nis rare.\n\nAlthough some of the years do potentially match up (Ex. Shigure can be year of\nthe dog 1982 and Tohru can be year of the dog as well in 1994, Ox is a year\nyounger than the Rat, the Snake and the Dragon are close together), the year\nof birth isn't the single determining factor, since the ages don't match for\nall the zodiac members. (Ex. Momiji is the same age as Hatsuharu and slightly\nolder than Kisa.)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-01T23:33:29.080", "id": "3190", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-03T14:29:52.480", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-03T14:29:52.480", "last_editor_user_id": "1724", "owner_user_id": "1524", "parent_id": "3103", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nConsidering the shock and revulsion Sohma parents are often met with upon\nfinding their child to be of the Zodiac, it is highly probable that it is\ncompletely random, or at the very least, nobody has determined a reliable\nmethod for predicting it. What we do know from some characters' dialogue is\nthat it is rare for all of the Zodiac to be around at the same time.\n\nFrom <https://fruitsbasket.fandom.com/wiki/Sohma_Curse> :\n\n> Shigure has many theories about the weakening state of the curse and has\n> stated throughout the series that he hears the sound of “something\n> breaking”. He also had a feeling that since the current generation is the\n> first time all twelve members of the Zodiac (including the Cat and God) are\n> alive at the same time, the God and the animals are all gathered for the\n> final banquet.\n\nAnd the year definitely does not determine which Zodiac spirit will be born,\nbecause most of the casts' birth years don't match up with their curse.\n\nWe also know from the origin story of the curse that the animals are bonded to\nthe god, and they are all bound to reincarnate together. Hence, I don't think\nthis question makes as much sense as it seems. Rather than saying a person\ndetermines what Zodiac they get, I think it makes more sense to say that the\nZodiac determines (partly) what kind of person they will be, since the Zodiac\nsoul existed first.\n\n> Though since the curse broke and the Zodiac spirits moved on, it can be\n> definitively said that those possessed have independent souls of their own.\n> Still, the point remains: the Zodiac spirits came first, not the Sohmas.\n> They're Zodiac from birth, but the criteria can't be related to the\n> qualities of a person who has not been born.\n\nSo, what determines which animal? There is just one qualification, and that is\nbeing born in the Sohma family. Everything else is up to chance.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-16T21:18:20.467", "id": "67666", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-16T21:18:20.467", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "3103", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is from the second OST, track 6, titled **BafBaf! そんなに燃えるのが…好きかい** (\n_\"BafBaf! Sonna ni Moeru no ga...Suki Kai?\"_ , _\"BafBaf! Being Fired Up Like\nThis... Don't You Like It?\"_ ).\n\nThe scene in the question starts playing from around 02:28 into the track.\n\nThe song was also featured in _Gurren Lagann Parallel Works_ [music video\n#2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gurren_Lagann_episodes#Gurren_Lagann_Parallel_Works).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-30T19:09:03.347", "id": "3118", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-22T13:45:59.227", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-22T13:45:59.227", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "3106", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to [this wiki](http://angelbeats.wikia.com/wiki/TK):\n\n> His real identity and his name are still unknown even to the SSS, so they\n> identify him as \"TK\", a nickname he gave himself.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-30T04:40:04.810", "id": "3111", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-30T04:40:04.810", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "3108", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\n[What kuwaly said](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/3111/2516), his real\nidentity is still unknown. But if you're willing to accept some guesses (some\nof which are taken from [TV\nTropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WMG/AngelBeats)) as to why he\ncalls himself TK, his name could be derived from:\n\n * [Tetsuya Komuro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsuya_Komuro), the most successful producer in Japanese music history. His nickname is also TK and most of the [songs that TK references](https://angelbeats.fandom.com/wiki/TK#Phrases) come from TM Network which Tetsuya is the lead singer of.\n\n * [Tachibana Kanade](https://angelbeats.fandom.com/wiki/Kanade_Tachibana), the team killer. Tachibana's [guard skills](https://angelbeats.fandom.com/wiki/Kanade_Tachibana#List_of_Guard_Skills) are named after common effects of [effects pedals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_unit).\n\n * [To come](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_come_\\(publishing\\)), which is used to signify that additional material will be added at a later date.\n\n * Time keeper. Inspired by [What are the positions \"CA\", \"TK\", and \"AP\"?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/28838/8486).\n\n * A shorthand for とにかくキてる (Tonikaku Kiteru, \"an eccentric person anyhow\"), a nickname given by Noda in chapter 40 of the [_Angel Beats! Heaven's Door_](https://angelbeats.fandom.com/wiki/Heaven%27s_Door) manga. This might be the canonical answer as to what TK signifies and how he received that name; the manga's plot after Shiina's recruitment to the SSS seems to be based on Jun Maeda's new writings, according to [Wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Beats!#cite_ref-96).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OXzIbl.jpg)\n\n * Tainted kerchief. This nameless guy who died in the train accident in episode 9 also wore a \"red\" bandana like TK's.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dOyBbl.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-29T05:45:19.653", "id": "18944", "last_activity_date": "2023-06-23T12:05:40.880", "last_edit_date": "2023-06-23T12:05:40.880", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "3108", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to the manga _Angel Beats! Heaven's Door_ , it was NODA who gave him\nthat nickname since SSS always calls him 'that guy from whatever kingdom come'\nwhy not shorten it to TK instead?\n\nYurippe also thinks he's got [savant\nsyndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savant_syndrome) for he's incapable of\nhaving a conversation with them.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-08-04T02:57:16.557", "id": "48181", "last_activity_date": "2018-08-04T10:40:50.510", "last_edit_date": "2018-08-04T10:40:50.510", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "41853", "parent_id": "3108", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is the translated story description:\n\n> Okabe Rintarou—a self-proclaimed \"insane mad scientist\" and chuunibyou\n> college student. With a coincidence, he created the \"D-mail\" with his\n> friends, a mail that can be sent to the past. This led him to a cruel future\n> resulting in the death of his friends, despite how many times the past was\n> being changed (the shift of worldline)... Then a daylight appeared before\n> the despaired Okabe, a future that no one will die, the worldline called\n> \"Steins Gate\". After crossing timelines and solving all the mysteries, Okabe\n> had finally arrived at the \"Steins Gate\". But being crossed so many\n> worldlines, Okabe's mind has begun to severely \"overload\"...\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-30T16:34:57.143", "id": "3115", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-04T07:46:58.477", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-04T07:46:58.477", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "1624", "parent_id": "3113", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to Wikipedia:\n\n> The movie, featuring an original storyline taking place after the events of\n> the series, is titled Steins;Gate: Fuka Ryōiki no Déjà vu (劇場版 シュタインズ・ゲート\n> 負荷領域のデジャヴ Gekijōban Shutainzu Gēto Fuka Ryōiki no Dejabu?, lit. Steins;Gate\n> the Movie: Loading Area of Déjà vu) and is scheduled to premiere in Japanese\n> theatres on April 20, 2013.\n\nThat Wikipedia page cites\n[this](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-02-01/steins-gate-film-\nslated-for-april-20), which says:\n\n> The sequel to the 2011 Steins;Gate television anime series will open in at\n> least 30 theaters across Japan.\n\nTo summarize, the movie takes place after the anime series.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-30T17:24:12.817", "id": "3116", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-30T17:24:12.817", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "3113", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nNow that the movie is out, we can definitively say exactly when it takes place\nin the series. According to\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steins;Gate%3a_Fuka_Ry%C5%8Diki_no_D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu):\n\n> The film takes place in August 2011, one year after the events of the anime\n> series.\n\nHaving seen the film myself, I can confirm this. The events in the film occur\nin August 2011, a year after the ending of the anime where Okabe is ostensibly\non the Steins;gate timeline. For obvious reasons, it's only compatible with\nthe true ending of the VN (the one which the anime followed most closely).\n\nIt is worth pointing out that this is not compatible with the official non-\ncanon sequel [Steins;Gate: Hen'i Kuukan no Octet](http://vndb.org/v9887).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-16T17:42:18.190", "id": "6359", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-16T17:42:18.190", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "3113", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI might be missing a few referenced, but from what I can recall from skimming\nthrough the series again (in no particular order):\n\n * [Midnight Plus One](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Plus_One) by Gavin Lyall\n * [Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_on_Inequality) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau \n * [Toward a Philosophy of History](https://books.google.com/books?id=6U4naz5DfsgC&dq=Toward+a+Philosophy+of+History+by+Jos%C3%A9+Ortega+y+Gasset&source=gbs_navlinks_s) by José Ortega y Gasset \n * [Economy and Society](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_and_Society) by Max Weber\n * Various works by William Shakespeare, such as [Twelfth Night](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_Night), [Macbeth](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth), [Titus Andronicus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Andronicus), and [Hamlet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet)\n * [Carmilla](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmilla) and [In a Glass Darkly](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_a_Glass_Darkly) by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu\n * [Heart of Darkness](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness) by Joseph Conrad\n * [Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_Sheep%3F) by Philip K. Dick\n * [Gulliver's Travels](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver's_Travels) by Jonathan Swift\n * Various [William Gibson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson) works, such as [Johnny Mnemonic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mnemonic) and the [The Sprawl Trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprawl_trilogy)\n * [Difference Engine](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Difference_Engine) by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling\n * [Pensées (Thoughts)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pens%C3%A9es) by Blaise Pascal\n * [The Most Dangerous Game](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Dangerous_Game) by Richard Connell\n * [An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation](http://www.econlib.org/library/Bentham/bnthPML.html) by Jeremy Bentham\n * [The Republic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Republic_\\(Plato\\)) by Plato\n * [Beyond Good and Evil](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Good_and_Evil) by Friedrich Nietzsche\n * [Violence: A New Approach](http://books.google.com/books/about/Violence.html?id=CIuNmAEACAAJ) by [Michel Wieviorka](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Wieviorka)\n * [The Conquest of Happiness](http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Conquest_of_Happiness.html?id=--lefVQ_MYYC) by [Bertrand Russell](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell)\n * [The Red and the Black](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_and_the_Black) by [Stendhal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stendhal)\n * [Oathbreakers](http://books.google.com/books/about/Oathbreakers.html?id=IM17Mj4zDd8C) [by](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_Lackey_bibliography#Vows_and_Honor) Mercedes Lackey (in reference to the subtitle of Ep. 16)\n * [Faust](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe's_Faust) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe \n * [Principles of Philosophy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_of_Philosophy) by René Descartes\n * [Crossroads: The Life and Afterlife of Blues Legend Robert Johnson](https://books.google.com/books/about/Crossroads.html?id=avU5AQAAIAAJ) by Tom Graves (in reference to the subtitle for Ep. 12)\n * There are references to works of [Project Itoh](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Itoh) ([Genocidal Organ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocidal_Organ)?) and [Kierkegaard](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard) ([The Sickness Unto Death](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sickness_Unto_Death)?), but no works are specifically named.\n\nAs mentioned before by others:\n\n * [Nineteen Eighty-Four](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four) by George Orwell\n * [A Revolution Sabotaged Before it Began](http://books.google.com/books/about/%E3%81%82%E3%82%89%E3%81%8B%E3%81%98%E3%82%81%E8%A3%8F%E5%88%87%E3%82%89%E3%82%8C%E3%81%9F%E9%9D%A9%E5%91%BD.html?id=pbkfNwAACAAJ) (あらかじめ裏切られた革命) by Iwakami Yasumi\n * [Swann's Way](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time#Volume_One:_Swann.27s_Way) by Marcel Proust\n * [The Bible](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible) (New and Old Testament; e.g., Matthew 13:24-30, Book of Genesis)\n * [Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_and_Punish) by Michel Foucault\n * [Justine](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justine_\\(Sade\\)) by Marquis de Sade\n\nCertain movies are referenced as well:\n\n * [The Man Who Stole the Sun](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiy%C5%8D_o_Nusunda_Otoko) (in Ep. 5)\n * [The Deer Hunter](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deer_Hunter) (in Ep. 11)\n * Shuuji Terayama's theater drama play \"[Saraba, eiga yo](http://www.theaterguide.co.jp/search_result/paid/detail.php?id=31190) (さらば、映画よ).\"\n\nIn _Psycho-Pass: The Movie_ :\n\n * [Peau noire, masques blancs](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peau_noire,_masques_blancs) and [The Wretched of the Earth](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Damn%C3%A9s_de_la_Terre) both by Frantz Fanon \n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-31T19:26:58.683", "id": "3129", "last_activity_date": "2018-07-08T12:06:29.490", "last_edit_date": "2018-07-08T12:06:29.490", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3119", "post_type": "answer", "score": 30 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom [this AMV](https://youtu.be/EglGDGi_JNI?t=23), some other real-life books\nthat could be recognized on the bookshelves:\n\n * [Power/Knowledge](https://books.google.com/books/about/Power_Knowledge.html?id=Cai4AAAAIAAJ) by Michel Foucault\n * [Critique of Pure Reason](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critique_of_Pure_Reason) by Immanuel Kant\n * [The OTHER Heading](https://books.google.com/books?id=ojxpUU7fTrcC) by Jacques Derrida\n * [OF GRAMMATOLOGY](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Grammatology) by Jacques Derrida\n * [The ear of the other](https://books.google.com/books/about/The_ear_of_the_other.html?id=OtoZAAAAYAAJ) by Jacques Derrida\n\n* * *\n\nThe Japanese-titled books are related to farming/agricultural technology.\nInstead of real-life books, these are more specific to _Psycho-Pass_ universe\nregarding the advancement in those technologies:\n\n * センターピボットがもたらす農業改革[...] ([...] Agricultural Reform Caused by Center Pivot)\n * [...]組み換え植物の極？を？[...] ([...] a Recombinant Plant [...])\n * 最強の農業ドローンシステム (The Strongest Agricultural Drone System)\n * 総合防除と生物農業の干？[...] ([...] Integrated Pest Control and Biological Agriculture)\n * [...]ウィルス拡散の脅威 (Threat of [...] virus spread)\n * ウカノミタマ ([Uka-no-Mitama](https://psychopass.wikia.com/wiki/Uka-no-Mitama_Defense_Virus))\n * 無敵の盾 (Invincible shield)\n * [...]品目による自給体制のリ[...] ([...] Self-sufficiency System with Items [...])\n * [...]与える農薬の影響 ([...] Influence of Pesticide Given)\n * ハイパーオーツは人類を賄う ([Hyper-oats](https://psychopass.wikia.com/wiki/Hyper-oats) Maintain Humanity)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-07-08T14:32:56.753", "id": "47736", "last_activity_date": "2018-07-08T14:32:56.753", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "3119", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nGaara used the \"Feigning Sleep Technique\" which allows the Shukaku to fully\ncontrol his body and unleash its own power. However, Naruto woke Gaara up with\nthe headbutt, which broke Shukaku's control.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-31T14:03:12.590", "id": "3125", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-31T14:03:12.590", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "97", "parent_id": "3123", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI think Gaara just lose control over the chakra flow when Naruto headbutted\nhim. With that, he couldn't keep the jutsu which showed the body of Shukaku.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-31T18:07:18.377", "id": "3128", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-31T18:07:18.377", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "3123", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo, this is not related to any previous episode and is basically a filler\nepisode. The intruder who died by \"taking a pellet\" is no-one that has been\nshown before.\n\nIt doesn't match completely because it isn't supposed to. It isn't following\nany story line provided by the manga. That is why its called a \"filler\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-26T13:41:04.103", "id": "13642", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-26T13:41:04.103", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7728", "parent_id": "3126", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[**Ninja Clash in the Land of\nSnow**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_the_Movie:_Ninja_Clash_in_the_Land_of_Snow)\n\n> between episodes 101-106\n\nSakura's hair is short in the movie. She cut it during the chunin exams.\n\nThe limited opportunity team 7 has to go on a mission together between the\nchunin exams and Sasuke's defection would be between episodes 101-106\n\n[**Legend of the Stone of\nGelel**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_the_Movie_2:_Legend_of_the_Stone_of_Gelel)\n\n> The movie takes place after episode 160\n\n[**Guardians of the Crescent Moon\nKingdom**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_the_Movie_3:_Guardians_of_the_Crescent_Moon_Kingdom)\n\n> The movie takes place after episode 196, during the anime's post-Sasuke era\n\n[**Naruto Shippuden the\nMovie**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto:_Shipp%C5%ABden_the_Movie)\n\n> After Shippuden episode 53, when Naruto, Sakura, Sai and Yamato returned to\n> the village.\n\n[**Inheritors of the Will of\nFire**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_Shipp%C5%ABden_the_Movie:_The_Will_of_Fire)\n\n> After Shippuden episode 89, due to the large influence of the Hidan and\n> Kakuzu Arc.\n\n[**Bonds**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_Shipp%C5%ABden_the_Movie:_Bonds)\n\n> After Shippuden episode 111, since Orochimaru was sick, which happened\n> around when Sasuke was about to kill Orochimaru.\n\n[**The Lost\nTower**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_Shipp%C5%ABden_the_Movie:_The_Lost_Tower)\n\n> After episode 152-154, after Jiraiya's death and before Pain attacked the\n> village.\n\n[**Blood Prison**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_5:_Blood_Prison)\n\nNo accurate timing, due to plot inconsistencies:\n\n> Naruto knew Sage Mode and remembered when he met his father, despite the\n> fact that the invasion of Pain had not occurred. A, the Fourth Raikage,\n> still had his left hand, despite having lost it during the Five Kage Summit.\n> Naruto knew Killer B, but Naruto did not meet him until their training at\n> the Island Turtle. Anyway, if I had to put it somewhere, I'd probably put it\n> after episode 196.\n\n[**Road to Ninja**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_6:_Road_to_Ninja)\n\n> After episode 251, because Naruto must have already met his mother, and I\n> don't think it would take place in the middle of a war. However, the fact\n> that Konoha shinobi were fighting against Pain and the Akatsuki at the\n> beginning would place this before the 150s and undermines the plotline of\n> Naruto's understanding of his parents, which means that it just doesn't fit\n> perfectly. Later in the movie, it was showed that the Akatsuki members were\n> white Zetsu's, not the real ones (which is why they were defeated so easily\n> and could go through the ground).\n\n[**The Last**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/The_Last:_Naruto_the_Movie)\n\nI'd say this movie happens after episode 493, but I would watch it after ep\n500 because some stuff the happens in the end of the movie\n\n> that hints to the episode 500.\n\n[**Boruto: Naruto The Movie - The Day Naruto Became\nHokage**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/The_Day_Naruto_Became_Hokage)\n\nThis happens before 'Boruto: Naruto Next Generations' so watch it after\nEpisode 500. It's a special episode, so it's about 10 minutes. The title of\nthe short \"film\" says it all.\n\n[**Boruto: Naruto The\nMovie**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Boruto:_Naruto_the_Movie)\n\nThis movie happens after the 'Boruto: Naruto Next Generations' have started.\n\n> Probably around the The Chūnin Exams.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-12T11:17:54.297", "id": "3357", "last_activity_date": "2018-07-16T02:05:27.500", "last_edit_date": "2018-07-16T02:05:27.500", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "3127", "post_type": "answer", "score": 36 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording [here](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FaceFault)\n\n> When shocked or surprised, often by an absurdity or non sequitur, the\n> listener may fall over onto his face, his limbs in a twisted mass above him.\n> In its typical form, the character in question has just heard someone else\n> say something so incredibly stupid that it, quite literally, floors them. A\n> device usually limited to humorous anime, **this may have been imported from\n> a similar trope in[early American comic strips called the 'flip-\n> take'](http://www.lileks.com/comics/jerry/index.html)**. A variation used\n> mainly in films (as falling on one's own face in real life tends to be\n> dangerous) has the characters briefly faint backwards, as opposed to\n> forwards. Often includes, and is confused with, [Wild\n> Takes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_takes).\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-15T06:52:34.727", "id": "3389", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-15T06:52:34.727", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "3130", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThe fruits basket is metaphorical, not literal. It represents how Tohru feels\nlike an outsider in her family, at school and with the Sohmas, in the same way\nthat an onigiri doesn't belong in a fruits basket. In the manga, she is often\nrepresented as an onigiri.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-01T23:13:21.993", "id": "3189", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-01T23:13:21.993", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1524", "parent_id": "3133", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Fruits Basket is a game where a player is assigned to one fruit (any fruit\nas long as it is a fruit). Tohru was assigned by her friends to be the onigiri\n(rice ball, which obviously isn't a fruit), so she was left sitting alone\nbecause onigiri won't be called since onigiri isn't a fruit. It is also a\nmetaphor on how Tohru can't belong to the Souma family as an onigiri won't\nbelong to a Fruits Basket. [Reference\nhere](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_Basket_Turnover#References_to_the_game).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-01T23:45:51.643", "id": "3191", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-01T23:45:51.643", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "3133", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is a reference to a Tohru played in her childhood where everyone is given a\nname of a fruit. However, some of the kids, who were pretty mean to her,\nlabelled her as a rice ball (onigiri) so the name of her \"fruit\" was never\ncalled out and she wasn't able to participate. This also symbolizes how\nisolated she was as a child. Also, in the manga, sometimes when one of the 12\nzodiac speak, you can see a small picture of their specific animal when their\nface isn't in the panel. In Tohru's case, we see a small picture of a rice\nball instead.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-05-12T16:37:01.200", "id": "57526", "last_activity_date": "2020-05-12T16:37:01.200", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "53295", "parent_id": "3133", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nSome anime titles are literally meaningless, however fruits basket is not one\nwithout meaning.\n\nTohru is like an outcast, fruits basket is like a musical chairs game, except\nit uses fruit names and Japanese kids play it. In this anime, Tohru is like\noutcast by the group and called onigiri (not a fruit), and thus she was left\nout.\n\nThus the title would seem to be about how Tohru is different or outcast, and\nmaybe finds her happiness with different people.\n\n[Fruits Basket game](https://genkienglish.net/fruitbasket.htm)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-05-12T20:38:37.250", "id": "57531", "last_activity_date": "2020-05-12T20:38:37.250", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "53296", "parent_id": "3133", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't think you can separate destroyed and _being eaten_ , eating a devil\nfruit in One Piece pretty much\n[_destroys_](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/932/1528) it. So destruction by\npower, physical force and or being eaten could be considered as being the\nsame.\n\nThat being said, I would think the same thing would happen in any instance of\nit being _'destroyed'_ , it will _'respawn'_ and take on the form of it's\nclosest _'relative'_.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-01T14:59:27.047", "id": "3160", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-01T15:51:55.253", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1528", "parent_id": "3134", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThe only way you can get a canon answer is from the source. Yet, seeing as\nthere is no way to just _destroy_ anything, this situation is completely void,\nsince it would never happen, and would have no reason to.\n\nSince canon won't happen, here's some speculation: Since nothing can be\ndestroyed, whatever remains of the fruit (and there _will_ be remains) will be\neaten by bacterium. After the bacteria dies, the fruit will be reborn. So, I\nguess iKlsR was as right as you could hope for.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-04T04:01:56.210", "id": "4291", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-04T04:08:11.703", "last_edit_date": "2013-07-04T04:08:11.703", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "1983", "parent_id": "3134", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThis question has been already answered here:\n\n[In One Piece, does a Devil Fruit reappear after the user\ndies?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/2979/in-one-piece-does-the-\ndevil-fruit-reappear-after-the-user-dies)\n\nIn summary, when the ability user dies, the ability reborns in another fruit.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-29T07:56:08.717", "id": "4496", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-29T07:56:08.717", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2102", "parent_id": "3134", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think the orange personifies the characters of the Toradora, mostly the\ngirls (Taiga, Ami & Minori).\n\nThe lyrics says,\n\n> ORENJI iro ni hayaku naritai kajitsu kimi no hikari wo abite\n\nwhich translates to:\n\n> The fruit wants to hurry up And turn orange-colored Basking in your light\n\nmeans that the girls want to be more matured, like a still unripe orange that\nwants to be ripe.\n\nIt also says,\n\n> ORENJI kyou mo tabete mita kedo mada suppakute naita watashi mitai de\n> nokosenai kara zenbu tabeta\n\nwhich means:\n\n> I tried to eat \n> An orange today, too But it was still sour, and I cried Because it's unlike\n> me to leave any behind I ate it all\n\nor (this is just my translation of the line `watashi mitai de nokosenai kara`\nwhich could be wrong).\n\n> I tried to eat \n> An orange today, too But it was still sour, and I cried It's like me so I\n> can't leave it behind and so I ate it all\n\nand can be pertained that the singer is comparing herself to that particular\norange, which is still sour (not matured enough), like her, so she ate it all\nup. Can also be assumed that she can't leave herself behind or she pity the\norange because it was like her.\n\nAlso,\n\n> ORENJI itsuka amaku naru kana sore to mo shibonjau no? watashi no mirai\n> shiritakunakute zenbu tabeta\n\nwhich means,\n\n> I wondered if The oranges would turn sweet someday Or would they wither? I\n> didn't want to learn of my future So I ate it all\n\nFirst she wondered if the oranges will someday turn sweet or wither, then she\nstated that she didn't want to learn _her_ future, which solidifies that the\nsinger was personifying herself in that orange fruit.\n\nToradora involves the story of the girls and their thinking development\ntowards love. If you have watched Toradora yourself, you would know that this\nsong really relates to them (Taiga, Minori & Ami).\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-01T09:39:48.063", "id": "3150", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-02T00:27:38.243", "last_edit_date": "2013-04-02T00:27:38.243", "last_editor_user_id": "88", "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "3135", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThis song, being sung by the 3 main heroines, was especially made for the\nanime. The song uses the metaphor of an orange, likening the girls to an\nunripen, not yet matured, orange.\n\nThis [blog\nentry](http://web.archive.org/web/20100901080252/http://thetruemelody.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/new-\ntoradora-op-and-ed/) offers a much in-depth look into the meaning behind the\nsong. Though the translations may differ between people, the general meaning\nstays intact. The blog article mostly compares the CoalGuys and the [{Words of\nSongs}](https://atashi.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/toradora-2nd-ending-theme-\norenji/) fansubs, with the author trusting the {Words of Songs} version over\nthe CoalGuys fansub (though he admits he likes the fansub lyrics better).\n\nOne can assume one of two things from the lyrics: the first being that it's\nTaiga who is the main voice narrating the lyrics, or the second, that\neverybody is narrating these lyrics. The following explanations will try to\nlook at the lyrics from both perspectives.\n\n> _“It’s just that I don’t know/My true self.”_ This line can easily be seen\n> to be Taiga, or any of the characters. I think Toradora is special in the\n> fact that all the characters can fit into this. It implies how all the\n> characters have a hidden side to themselves that even they may not know.\n>\n> _“Into the broad earth, a single seed/Extended its roots/And bore fruit that\n> was still unripe.”_ The fruit, first of all, probably symbolizes the\n> narrator(s). This “unripe fruit” thing, I’m guessing, is a lack of maturity\n> for the fruit and the person.\n>\n> _“The fruit that wants to turn orange as soon as possible.”_ An unripe\n> orange is usually green, while a ripe one is... well, orange (big surprise,\n> huh). Basically, the person(s) want(s) to mature. This may be because if\n> they mature, they may learn more about themselves in the process.\n>\n> _“by basking in your light.”_ I think that this light is the object of the\n> narrator’s affection. It’s easier to see that when looking at the next\n> reference to light: “I didn’t want to get hurt/So I fled/When I did that,\n> not even light/Would shine upon me.” Because love is known to be painful,\n> the narrator tries to flee from it, but realizes she cannot grow as a person\n> without love.\n>\n> _“I tried to eat/An orange today, too/But it was still sour and I cried/It\n> reminded me of myself, so I couldn’t throw away the rest.”_ We can see how\n> the person and the fruit are symbols of each other, and their immaturity is\n> also accented. If we look at the fansub version we see that eating the\n> immature/unripe fruit shows that the person is also not mature yet, while\n> it’s a lot harder to use the {Words of Songs} one.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-02T00:56:36.963", "id": "3198", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-02T15:19:08.320", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3135", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nOne key facet to this song is the point at which it becomes the ending song,\nand how that timing and the song itself play against the larger theme of the\nanime. The driving message of Toradora is not so much how the characters\nevolve, but how all their concepts of love evolve.\n\nIn the begining, Ryuji and Taiga have very similar ideas about the concept of\nlove, centered around the high school crush. In the episode just before the\n\"Orange\" takeover, we find out that Kitimura had the same notion, but when\nTaiga rejected him, found something new.\n\nThroughout 'Mercury is Retrograde at Christmas,' we see the other main\ncharacters also begin to take up this transformation, along with all the pain\nand confusion that comes with it. From the moment Ami's question about her\nfeelings of guilt rattles her to the point of fouling up the game, Minori is\nforced to consider her growing feelings for Ryuji and their potential\nconsequences, in was she was not able to back at the beach house. Ryuji has\nhis own moment of burgeoning crisis watching Taiga and Kitimura, while\nKitimura has gone from tight containment to bouncing off the walls.\n\nTaiga hasn't looked at herself clearly yet, but Christmas is the arc where we\nwill see her do so. And as for Ami, she is doing her best to force things to a\ncrisis, trying to make the fruits turn orange around her. None of them are\nquite ready yet, all a bit sour. But they are starting to see that quality\nwithin each other, and from there reflect what it means when turned inward.\nThat looking forces them tighter together, unable to give up on those facing\nthe same challenges they are facing.\n\nThe strength of this is that it is something that most viewers can also\nconnect with. A challenge we have seen in ourselves. It garners an emotional\ncatharsis that drives viewers to not let it go, because their sour fruit\nreminds us of ourselves, and we cannot toss that aside or stop from eating\nit... whichever of those two translations you like best.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-06T06:40:42.053", "id": "15520", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-06T06:40:42.053", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9503", "parent_id": "3135", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe narrator is a person who sings of her plight and hopes as:\n\n 1. sour, unripe, insignificant orange + sunlight = ripe orange\n\n 2. bitter, incomplete, pained person + lover = happy person\n\nUsing the orange metaphor, the narrator is a unripe fruit that chanced upon\nthis world and her lover is sunlight that shines upon her. \"So look at me!\"\n\nThe song continues its flavor (bazinga!): as a person, she gets reminded of\nherself by oranges. In particular:\n\n 1. most striking, a sour orange reminds herself of her sourness, so om nom nom nom\n 2. a bunch of unripe oranges reminds herself of her uncertainty, so om nom nom nom\n\n* * *\n\nBoth Taiga and Kushieda can play the orange role, while Ryuji is the Sun.\n\nYou may be interpreting stuff too literally. Dont go through the orange,\ninstead let the orange go through you!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-04T11:35:38.677", "id": "19112", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-04T11:35:38.677", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1645", "parent_id": "3135", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI couldn't find an inital series/time, but I did find something of interest\nwhen I was researching.\n\nStrawberries are often associated with cakes, whipped cream and other\nniceties. They're usually a symbol for being cute or sweet, so you'll more\noften see strawberry panties than boxers like Gintoki.\n\nQuote from [ a Forum Discussion on the topic of\nStrawberries](http://www.animenfo.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11350):\n\n> I did some research and came up with a couple of things, Until 2000\n> strawberries were considered a delicacy in Japan which at that time they\n> imported about 30,000 tonnes mostly for use in jam. After 2000 inports went\n> up dramatically as Japanese chefs and wives started to expirement with\n> strawberries in various dishes like deserts and salads.\n>\n> That's the technical reason. I think the reason you see it in so many animes\n> is that they look at the strawberry the way we look at the cherry especially\n> when it comes to sex. Ichigo the girl in the strawberry panties. I bought 2\n> pair when I saw that. Strawberry Panic, a story of innocent girls in a\n> boarding school filled with sweetness and light.\n\nSo for dates, 1980-1985 (the times when Dr. Slump was published) was perhaps a\ntime where it was seldom used and as a symbol of rare delicacy, but from 2000\nonwards, it may have become more prevalent in media, changing its image to one\nof cuteness and perhaps becaming more of a trope.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-11T09:39:17.933", "id": "3332", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-11T09:39:17.933", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "3136", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nEvery character in _Banana no Nana_ has a \"Risk\", some kind of condition they\nhave to fulfill in order to keep using their powers. (Most of which, by some\nodd coincidence, seem to involve fan service.) Nana's is to eat bananas with\nthe skin on. Her friend Ringo, the one forcefeeding her the banana in the\nabove scene, has to wear a miniskirt in order to keep her leg powers. (This\nallows us and Nana to see her panties every time she uses her kicking\nattacks.) The first chapter's villain, in exchange for water powers, has to\nstay in the bath almost all the time, so she has a pair of thugs who carry her\naround in a bathtub when she goes out.\n\nThe only explanation up to the point I've reached is that these conditions are\nimposed by God in return for the powers. God also puts limits on the strength\nof powers, but some people, including Ringo, can break these limits under\ncertain conditions. (Ringo's is getting angry.)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-23T22:29:23.430", "id": "13599", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-23T22:29:23.430", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "3138", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nConsidering that the subtitle for it is in French, I'm making a logic jump by\nguessing \"grisaia\" is just a conjugation/grammatical form of the word\n\"grisait\" or something close (I don't know french at all, but then again it\ncould be a classic case of the Japanese tripping up with a foreign language).\n\nAccording to google, grisait means something between \"intoxicate\" and\n\"fascinate\" in french, so I guess the VN's title was going for \"The Fruit of\nIntoxication\"? Sounds fairly plausible at least...\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-06T03:19:25.613", "id": "4640", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-06T03:19:25.613", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2160", "parent_id": "3139", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to [this interview](http://getnews.jp/archives/97102) with Front\nWing Producer, President, and CEO, Ryuuichirou Yamakawa:\n\n> **山川**\n> 絵画の画法でモノトーンで書く手法を「グリザイユ」というのですが、これを少し、いじって『グリザイアの果実』つまり「灰色の果実」という意味が込められています\n\nThe word \"grisaia\" is a corruption of the French term used in art,\n\"[grisaille](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grisaille),\" a method of painting in\nmonochrome or near-monochrome, typically to resemble the appearance of marble\nsculptures. So literally it's meant to be \"the gray-colored fruit\" or\nsomething like that.\n\nThe fruits refer \"guilt\" the heroines bear, as described by the [story\nsynopsis](http://blog.tomoyo.eu/moege-awards-2011-announced/) of the game:\n\n> ──その学園は、少女達の果樹園だった。 \n> 外敵から隔離された学園にやってきたのは、生きる目的をなくした一人の少年。 \n> 守るべき物を見失い、後悔と贖罪のみに費やされる人生の中で、その少年に残されたのは首に繋がれた太い鎖と、野良犬にも劣る安い命。 \n> そして少年は、その学園で少女達と出会い、新たな希望を見つけ出す。\n>\n> ──その少女は、生まれてきたことが既に間違いだった \n> 逆らった罪── \n> ──生きながらの死 \n> 誰も守ってなんかくれない── \n> ──そして生き残った罰。\n>\n> そこは、少女達の果樹園。 \n> 彼女達は、後悔の樹に実った **懺悔の果実** 。そんな少女達に、俺はいったい何が出来る…？ \n> それは、一人の少年が夢見た永遠の希望──\n>\n> That academy – used to be the orchard of young girls. \n> A lonely boy, who lost his purpose to live, came to that isolated-from-the-\n> foreign-enemies academy. Lose sight of things that should be protected, he\n> spends his life in living day by day with regret and atonement. His life is\n> cheaper than a stray dog when that heavy cangue still around his neck. \n> And then at that academy, the boy finds out his new hope in encountering\n> with these girls.\n>\n> ──That girl, who being born was already a mistake. \n> Who defied the sin── \n> ──Who died though she’s living. \n> Who no one will protect── _[Note: translation corrected]_ \n> ──and who being punished for surviving.\n>\n> That place is the girls’ orchard. \n> The trees of regret bear the **fruit of repentance** of those girls. What\n> on earth can I do for these girls...? \n> That is the eternal hope which the lonely boy dreamt...\n\nEach heroine is\n[represented](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B6%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%81%AE%E6%9E%9C%E5%AE%9F)\nby a fruit:\n\n * Yumiko = grape\n * Suou = cherry\n * Michiru = lemon\n * Irisu = strawberry\n * Sachi = apple\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-18T01:15:58.017", "id": "6389", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-27T09:46:03.400", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-27T09:46:03.400", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3139", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nGrisaia is a bastardization of the French term Grisaille which refers a method\nof painting in monochrome. Grisaille in Japanese is グリザイユ or gurizaiyu and the\nonly difference in Japanese between Grisaia (グリザイア) and Grisaille is the last\nsound (yu in grisaille and a in grisaia). The reason for the name and why the\nend is changed won't really come up until the third and last game in the\nseries though.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-31T18:18:11.297", "id": "8396", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-31T18:18:11.297", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4342", "parent_id": "3139", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe conversation between Kyoko and Sayaka in the church strongly implies that\nKyoko does in fact steal the apples and that she knows that it's wrong.\n\nThe dead give-away for this is towards the end of the conversation. (ep 7,\nroughly 13:45 including OP)\n\n * Sayaka asks Kyoko where she got the apples. Where she got the money from.\n * Kyoko looks down at the apple and flinches. She does not answer.\n * Kyoko then lashes out at Sayaka in apparent defense of her actions.\n\nThat's exactly the kind of reaction someone would get when they are caught\ndoing something illegal/criminal.\n\n* * *\n\nIn short, episode 7 paints a dark picture of Kyoko and her past. She's\nbasically in \"survival mode\". So even though she knows that stealing is wrong,\nshe still needs to eat. Without money or any other support, her only option is\nto steal and make the most of what she has. This is also why she gets angry at\nSayaka when Sayaka throws the apple on the ground calling it a \"waste\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-01T07:34:31.603", "id": "3142", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-27T13:02:48.623", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-27T13:02:48.623", "last_editor_user_id": "3387", "owner_user_id": "17", "parent_id": "3140", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis appears in episode 4 of [**Koi to Senkyo to\nChocolate**](http://myanimelist.net/anime/12175/Koi_to_Senkyo_to_Chocolate),\nabout 5:40 seconds in, during a sequence when [Nozomi\nEdagawa](http://myanimelist.net/character/63477/Nozomi_Edagawa) is talking\nabout food.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-01T07:52:40.783", "id": "3143", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-01T07:52:40.783", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "3141", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nThese are all characters from [**Koi to Senkyo to\nChocolate**](http://myanimelist.net/anime/12175/Koi_to_Senkyo_to_Chocolate)\n\nFrom left to right these are the following characters:\n\nBack row:\n\n * Lemon\n * Melon\n * Pineapple\n * Melon (whole)\n * Bananas\n\nMiddle Row:\n\n * Grapes\n * Strawberries\n * Pear\n * Melon\n\nFront Row:\n\n * Orange\n * Apple\n * Kiwi\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-02-08T19:27:54.870", "id": "29623", "last_activity_date": "2016-02-08T19:27:54.870", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "17758", "parent_id": "3141", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt has nothing to do with the fruit. They are derogatory versions of their\nassociated words to make fun of the way they are mispronounced in English\n(with the \"a\" vs \"ah\" sound). Unfortunately, I don't have any references.\n[Lurkmoar](http://www.lurkmore.com/wiki//a/) has a page dedicated to the\nanime/manga board on 4chan.\n\nEDIT: Just to clarify, I think people started using the \"animu\" and \"mango\"\nterms on /a/\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-01T09:10:26.127", "id": "3148", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-01T18:42:35.470", "last_edit_date": "2013-04-01T18:42:35.470", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "3144", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\n[Mango](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mango) is a native fruit from the\nPhilippines and is called **Mangga** in their language, which also has the\nsame pronunciation of [Manga](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga) (the\nJapanese comic book). So I think Filipinos started to call Manga as _mangos_\n(real plural spelling is _mangoes_ ), being it the plural of Mangga and it\nstarted to be viral in memes.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-01T09:12:27.220", "id": "3149", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-01T09:12:27.220", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "3144", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThe joke is to make fun of Americans saying 'animes and mangas' seeing as\nthere are no pluralization for these words, other fans joke that they are\nsaying animus and mangos.\n\nAnd this is what an\n[animu](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/animu)/[animus](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/animus#Latin)\nis:\n\n> **Noun:** animus\n>\n> 1. The basic impulses and instincts which govern one's actions.\n> 2. A feeling of enmity, animosity or ill will.\n> 3. (Jungian psychology) The masculine aspect of the feminine psyche or\n> personality.\n>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-01T20:05:30.380", "id": "3181", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-01T20:05:30.380", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1607", "parent_id": "3144", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nEvery artist has different drawing techniques.\n\n * Some fully use the computer (using a drawing tablet and photoshop)\n * Some fully draw by hand (using pencil, then pen, then erasing the pencil, the making the pen lined bolder)\n * Some use a combination of the two (Draw by hand, scan to computer, complete with photoshop).\n\nIt's really up to the artist.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-01T08:52:34.877", "id": "3146", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-01T08:52:34.877", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "3145", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nJust to add up to @Madara's answer.\n\nComputers are also used to generate backgrounds. They'll generate wire mesh\nobjects and room, if neccesary they'll apply complicated lighting and shadows\n(like sunlight passing through a complicated ceiling), apply textures to the\nmodels, and then print them and work by hand over them!\n\nYou can see the process of an artist mastering this tools in the omakes from\nKen Akamatsu's Negima! volumes.\n\nHe would sometimes take photographs in many places or search for pictures of\ncertain architectural designs (castle, palaces, etc) and he and his team would\nreproduce them on wire mesh models.\n\nThe work of Ken Akamatsu on sceneries is gorgeous, and most of the time you\nwouldn't think was done with CGI since it still has a lot of hand-drawn work.\n\nHe also creates creatures models to create and reproduce more easily crowds.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-11T16:30:33.637", "id": "26562", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-12T01:56:11.640", "last_edit_date": "2015-10-12T01:56:11.640", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "14289", "parent_id": "3145", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to [wikia](http://ccs.wikia.com/wiki/Fruits_Candy), there is another\nversion of the song sung by Sakura Tange, Junko Iwao and Aya Hisakawa, the\nvoices of Sakura Kinomoto, Tomoyo Daidouji and Cerberus, respectively. So\nthere are two versions in total.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-02T00:51:03.610", "id": "3197", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-02T15:51:38.897", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-02T15:51:38.897", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "3147", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe song \"Bad Apple\" was originally the stage 3 theme from Touhou 5 Lotus Land\nStory. The popular version by Alstroemeria Records is a lyrical remix of that.\nBecause Elly was the boss for stage 3, she makes an appearance towards the end\nof the video despite being a minor character.\n\nThere isn't any real explanation in the game as to why the song would be\ncalled \"Bad Apple\". Many original Touhou music pieces have names that don't\nreally match the plot in any way, and as far as I know ZUN has never\nspecifically explained this title. However, it is true that the popularity of\nthe remix may be in part because it casts the series in a somewhat darker and\nmore serious tone than the ordinary moe artwork, as the name would suggest.\n\nAs for the characters, I'll list them in order of appearance. The times\ncorrespond to when they first appear, and the names link to the relevant\narticles on Touhou Wiki.\n\n0:00 [**Hakurei Reimu** (博麗 霊夢)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Reimu_Hakurei)\n\n\n\n0:15 [**Kirisame Marisa** (霧雨\n魔理沙)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Marisa_Kirisame)\n\n\n\n0:28 [**Patchouli Knowledge**\n(パチュリー・ノーレッジ)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Patchouli_Knowledge)\n\n\n\n0:36 [**Remilia Scarlet**\n(レミリア・スカーレット)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Remilia_Scarlet)\n\n\n\n0:45 [**Izayoi Sakuya** (十六夜 咲夜)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Sakuya_Izayoi)\n\n\n\n0:50 [**Flandre Scarlet**\n(フランドール・スカーレット)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Flandre_Scarlet)\n\n\n\n0:58 [**Konpaku Youmu** (魂魄 妖夢)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Youmu_Kompaku)\n\n\n\n1:03 [**Saigyouji Yuyuko** (西行寺\n幽々子)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Yuyuko_Saigyouji)\n\n\n\n1:11 [**Onozuka Komachi** (小野塚\n小町)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Komachi_Onoduka)\n\n\n\n1:18 [**Shiki Eiki Yamazanadu**\n(四季映姫・ヤマザナドゥ)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Shikieiki_Yamaxanadu)\n\n\n\n1:25 [**Fujiwara no Mokou** (藤原\n妹紅)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Mokou_Fujiwara)\n\n\n\n1:32 [**Kamishirasawa Keine** (上白沢\n慧音)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Keine_Kamishirasawa)\n\n\n\n1:39 [**Yagokoro Eirin** (八意\n永琳)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Eirin_Yagokoro)\n\n\n\n1:45 [**Houraisan Kaguya** (蓬莱山\n輝夜)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Kaguya_Houraisan)\n\n\n\n1:51 [**Prismriver Sisters** (プリズムリバー三姉妹), from left to right, Lyrica, Merlin,\nand Lunasa](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Prismriver_Sisters)\n\n\n\n1:59 [**Chen** (橙)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Chen)\n\n\n\n2:00 [**Yakumo Ran** (八雲 藍)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Ran_Yakumo)\n\n\n\n2:01 [**Inaba Tewi** (因幡 てゐ)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Tewi_Inaba)\n\n\n\n2:02 [**Reisen Udongein Inaba**\n(鈴仙・優曇華院・イナバ)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Reisen_Inaba)\n\n\n\n2:05 [**Inubashiri Momiji** (犬走\n椛)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Momiji_Inubashiri)\n\n\n\n2:07 [**Kochiya Sanae** (東風谷 早苗)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Sanae_Kochiya)\n\n\n\n2:11 [**Kagiyama Hina** (鍵山 雛)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Hina_Kagiyama)\n\n\n\n2:12 [**Yasaka Kanako** (八坂 神奈子)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Kanako_Yasaka)\n\n\n\n2:15 [**Moriya Suwako** (洩矢 諏訪子)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Suwako_Moriya)\n\n\n\n2:22 [**Yakumo Yukari** (八雲 紫)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Yukari_Yakumo)\n\n\n\n2:27 [**Hinanawi Tenshi** (比那名居\n天子)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Tenshi_Hinanawi)\n\n\n\n2:36 [**Shameimaru Aya** (射命丸\n文)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Aya_Shameimaru)\n\n\n\n2:41 [**Ibuki Suika** (伊吹 萃香)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Suika_Ibuki)\n\n\n\n2:48 [**Alice Margatroid**\n(アリス・マーガトロイド)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Alice_Margatroid)\n\n\n\n2:54 [**Kawashiro Nitori** (河城\nにとり)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Nitori_Kawashiro)\n\n\n\n3:02 [**Kazami Yuuka** (風見 幽香)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Yuuka_Kazami)\n\n\n\n3:09 [**Elly** (エリー)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Elly)\n\n\n\n3:20 [**Hakurei Reimu** , PC-98\nappearance](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Reimu_Hakurei)\n\n\n\n3:24 [**Kirisame Marisa** , PC-98\nappearance](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Marisa_Kirisame)\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-01T17:14:42.453", "id": "3174", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-01T17:14:42.453", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "3162", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 }, { "body": "\n\nTwo of your questions have already been answered correctly (1 and 3). To\nanswer question 2, I believe the song is called 'Bad Apple!!' because of how\nthe lyrics correspond to the old saying \"One bad apple\", which refers to a\nrotten person, someone who is all around bad, etc. and the lyrics describe\nsomeone who is a \"Bad Apple\", or someone bad to the point of being worthless,\nand the singer in the song wishes to change, and have her hateful heart go\nfrom \"Black\" to White\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-25T16:43:12.130", "id": "4959", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-25T16:43:12.130", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2283", "parent_id": "3162", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAs Alana has already suggested, the generally accepted theory is that the\ntitle comes from the saying \"One bad apple spoils the barrel\"\n[[1]](http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/bad%20apple!!),\n[[2]](http://dic.pixiv.net/a/Bad_Apple!!), but I do not know whether this has\nbeen \"officially\" confirmed by ZUN himslef. AFAIK the only thing ZUN has\n[explicitly stated](http://www43.atwiki.jp/tohomusicdb/pages/155.html) about\nthis song is that it is like his older composing styles, but since it fits the\nstage, it should be okay. But then again, ZUN never reveals everything about\nhis works.\n\nIt's also worth noting that this video is based on a very-quickly-made sketch\n(MS Paint stuff) by someone else. The original \"author\" uploaded the\n\"storyboard\" saying \"I want to see a video like this. Somebody draw it\nplease?\" This storyboard remained mostly unnoticed until more than a year\nlater, when somebody with an ability on the level of drawing cool silhouettes\ncame and uploaded the famous video.\n\nThe original \"author\" never said that the video should be in black & white,\nbut it works very well. Although the choices, the order, and the timing of the\ncharacters' appearances in that video follows the storyboard almost exactly,\nthe comparison (<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkHFbIIQ9Tg>) can be quite\namusing.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-26T02:59:37.377", "id": "4967", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-26T02:59:37.377", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2248", "parent_id": "3162", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nMy theory about the meaning is that the song is telling us that we have to\nmake a choice in our life. A very heavy and deep choice. The choice gives us\ntwo options. We can have a clean and pure heart, or a very dark heart. The\nsong tells us either choice we make that we will both lose and gain something.\nIt tells us to think hard, and don't choose right away. Either way we choose\nwe will still feel agony and joy. I don't know for sure if it's the real\nmeaning. It's just the message I feel from the song. I honestly don't care\nwhat the real meaning to the song is because they both are pretty good\nmeanings. Either way I will still listen to the song because it's a great\nsong. Tell me what you think it is. I really would like to read your thoughts\nyou guys!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-01-20T22:23:47.343", "id": "29136", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-20T22:23:47.343", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "20569", "parent_id": "3162", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nOk so i may be wrong and this might be already writen down so please bear that\nin mind.\n\nIm acually listening to lyrics and i believe its saying how the person \"aka\"\nthe singer is saying how she's nothing she's nor good or bad she is in between\nand she is saying that its pain full\n\n\"It will never change\",this is one of the lyrics saying that no matter what\nshe does she will stay the same\n\nIn the english lyrics she asks\"who are you idk what this is but i think that\nthe \"you\" is the bad apple\n\nI also have another theory the theory is that she is a vocaloid and the\ncreator aka the one that is controling she is telling her to do certen tasks\nand she is being abused i think but pls dont hate?\n\nAnyway i thing that the person singing the song is in the middle the ying yang\nrepresents \"other people\" and the other people in video is her and it changes\nconstantly that meaning she is not black or white\n\n\"You can tell me what to say you can tell me where to but i dout that i would\ncare and my heart would never know\",is on of the lyrics but like i said before\nwho is \"you\" thats up to you\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-01-15T01:59:00.557", "id": "44221", "last_activity_date": "2018-01-15T01:59:00.557", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "37632", "parent_id": "3162", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI haven't seen it myself, but apples can often symbolize sexuality, temptation\n(\"forbidden fruit\") , fertility (\"bearing fruit\" as in your screenshot).\n\nConnections can also be made to the stories of Adam & Eve and Sleeping Beauty.\n\nThe circular shape of an apple can also be a depiction of loops, or eternity -\nwhich is what it appears to be in Penguindrum:\n\n> It is revealed in the finale that the apple is a metaphor for the\n> Penguindrum, which seems to be Kanba's life, shared between the three\n> siblings\n\n([TVTropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/MawaruPenguindrum))\n\n[This article is more indepth about the apples in\nPenguindrum](http://snippettee.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/afterthoughts-on-\nmawaru-penguindrum-apples-and-its-symbolisms/ \"External Link\")\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-03T19:39:55.627", "id": "3234", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-19T10:47:02.520", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-19T10:47:02.520", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "3173", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe Village of Resembool is a sheep-farming town in Amestris and is well known\nbecause of this\n\n[Village of Resembool](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Resembool)\n\nIf you have watched the anime when Ed and Al go back home there are a lot of\nfarms\n\n\n\nSo my guess is that she harvested her own vegetables for their food and maybe\nfor trading.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-04T14:04:40.480", "id": "3253", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-04T14:04:40.480", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8", "parent_id": "3182", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nThis is my own guessing, but it may be the truth.\n\nI read some researchers about tomatoes and their nutritional value, and it\nfound out that their lycopene value is very high, and considered to be helping\nwith cancer and more disease.\n\nIt might be pure guess, but it may suggest that the authors of FMA wanted to\nlet us the readers/watchers know that Trisha is already in deep disease, and\nso that's the reason she raises them.\n\n<https://www.nfcr.org/blog/tasty-tomatoes-anti-cancer-attributes-healthy-\nrecipe/>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-10-27T12:51:28.477", "id": "65813", "last_activity_date": "2021-10-27T12:51:28.477", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "51620", "parent_id": "3182", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to [_The Joy of\nPickling_](http://books.google.com/books?id=xQkRMGf-l0YC&printsec=frontcover&dq=apples&hl=en&ei=UJLmTI-2C4vQnAeMgZHyDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-\nthumbnail&resnum=1&ved=0CC8Q6wEwAA#v=onepage&q=honey%20apples&f=false) (see\npage 75 \"Pickled Apples\"), there is a recipe for Pickled Apples, which\noriginates from the area around Russia; this recipe involves the whole apple,\nunlike most recipes that require the apples to be sliced.\n\n**Pickled Apples**\n\n> \"Another Russian specialty, brined apples retain their crispness but acquire\n> a flavor like that of sparkling wine.\"\n\nIngredients:\n\n * 3 quarts water\n * 1/4 honey\n * 8 teaspoons pickling salt\n * 2 or 3 handfulls of sour cherry leaves\n * 4 to 6 sprigs of tarragon\n * 3 pounds of small tart apples, such as Graventeins\n\n> In a non reactive pot, bring to a boil water, honey, and salt, stirring to\n> dissolve the salt. Let the brine cool.\n>\n> Spread some cherry leaves and 1 or 2 tarragon sprigs on the bottom of a\n> 1-gallon jar, Add a layer of apples on their sides.\n>\n> 3 should just fit. Layer more leaves, tarragon, and apples, and then repeat\n> for a third layer. Top with the rest of the leaves and tarragon.\n>\n> Pour enough brine over the apples to cover them well. Push a freezerbag into\n> the mouth of the jar and pour the remaining brine in to the bag.\n>\n> Seal the bag. Let stand at room temperature for 5 or 6 days, until\n> fermentation slows.\n>\n> Remove the brine bag, cap the lid tightly and set in a dark place where the\n> tempreature dosent rise above 50 degrees (use a fridge produces good\n> results)\n>\n> Let the jar stand for 30 to 40 days befre eating the apples.\n>\n> After you open the jar, the apples will keep for at least a week in the\n> fridge.\n\n* * *\n\nThis Ukranian\n[recipe](http://www.ukrainianclassickitchen.ca/index.php?topic=1560.0) details\nfermented apples to be a regional specialty of central Ukraine and are\ntypically used as a relish or an accompaniment to roasts, poultry, and game.\n\n> They are somewhat similar to apples cured in sauerkraut but of a more\n> delicate flavor although they are considered a delicacy by the old country\n> gourmets, one has to be accustomed to them to enjoy their piquant taste.\n> Ukrainian Canadian homemakers seldom, if ever, make the, but the recipe is\n> worth preserving. When trying this recipe, select undamaged apples of a good\n> quality and tart in flavor.\n\nIngredients:\n\n * 5 lb apples (select ripe, undamaged apples with a tart flavor.)\n * 5 qts water\n * 2 cups rye flour\n * 4 tbsp sugar or honey\n * 2 tsp salt\n\n> Wash the apples thoroughly and remove the blossom ends.\n>\n> Place the apples in a crock. If cherry or currant leaves are available,\n> arrange the apples and leaves in alternate layers.\n>\n> Bring the water to a boil. Pour half of the water over the flour and stir\n> briskly until smooth. Add the remaining water and strain the mixture.\n>\n> Stir in the salt and sugar. Cool to lukewarm. Pour over the apples, allowing\n> enough liquid to rise several inches above the apples.\n>\n> Cover with a plate and weight down with a suitable weight to keep the apples\n> completely submerged. Keep at room temperature for 1 week and then store\n> them.\n>\n> It will take 5 to 8 weeks for the apples to ferment, depending on the\n> variety used. During the process of fermentation, a scum will form on the\n> surface.\n>\n> It should be removed and the plate washed as often as necessary. Store in a\n> cold place.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-01T22:50:02.207", "id": "3188", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-01T23:05:41.693", "last_edit_date": "2013-04-01T23:05:41.693", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3186", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\n> Spice and Wolf is also culturally based on Europe, though exactly when or\n> where isn't revealed and the setting doesn't seem to exactly be Europe.\n\nThe scenery and period is based on England if you are actually curious, this\nis why the show includes sheep and thatch roofs and some other\ncharacteristics. However most of the characters are given German names, so\nit's a bit all over the place, of course it's a fantasy anime (not a\ndocumentary).\n\nThe plot of the anime itself though is not based on Europe. Most of the\ncharacters are European of some form, Holo herself is likely not meant to be\nEuropean though, she is a wolf deity and not even human. Plus her daughter has\na Japanese name.\n\nHowever, most of the other human characters in _Spice and Wolf_ are meant to\nbe European, hence their katakana names and German type romaji names. In the\nmanga quite a lot are drawn very stereotypical to be a westerner. Whatever\nstudio did the anime however, drew them a bit more generic, however despite\nthis, they are indeed meant to be European.\n\nAs far as your original question, it's probably too hard to find a traditional\nrecipe and like many elements of this anime, the creators likely just made it\nup.\n\nAssuming that elements within it would be historically accurate is unrealistic\n- it's about a wolf-girl goddess, after all.\n\nHoney was used in old Europe as a sweetener, because Europeans didn't know of\nsugar yet. However there is no record of a dish with honey+apple+ginger\nhistorically. That doesn't mean it didn't exist though, it may have existed\nand just wasn't recorded in any book.\n\nIt's likely that the anime creator just made this up. Just like many of the\nother elements within this anime that are fantasy-based and not historically\nbased on anything. In fact most anime are packed full of pure fantasy, it's\nthe whole point of it.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-05-12T20:02:27.020", "id": "57530", "last_activity_date": "2020-05-13T06:34:00.527", "last_edit_date": "2020-05-13T06:34:00.527", "last_editor_user_id": "35679", "owner_user_id": "53296", "parent_id": "3186", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTangelo Island is situated in the [Orange\nArchipelago](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Orange_Archipelago), a\nseries of islands in the Pokémon world, located south of the Kanto region.\nEach of these islands is tropical and generally warm, and many of them are\nnamed after fruits--particularly oranges (its namesake) and other citrus\nfruits:\n\n * Valencia Island ([Valencia oranges](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valencia_orange))\n * Tangelo Island (the [tangelo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangelo))\n * Mikan Island (the Japanese name for [satsuma oranges](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_unshiu))\n * Sunburst Island ([sunburst tangerines](http://www.urbanharvest.org/advice/fruitgardening/fruitvarieties/tangerinemandarinsatsuma.html))\n * Mandarin Island, North and South ([Mandarin oranges](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_orange))\n * Kinnow Island (the [kinnow](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinnow))\n * Navel Island ([navel oranges](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navel_orange#Navel_oranges))\n * Seven Grapefruit Islands (the [grapefruit](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapefruit))\n * Golden Islands (possibly the [Shonan Gold](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shonan_Gold))\n * Murcott Island (a [type of tangor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangor))\n * Trovita Island (a type of navel orange)\n * Fairchild Island (the [Fairchild mango](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_\\(mango\\)))\n * Shamouti Island (another name for the [Jaffa orange](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_orange))\n * Ascorbia Island (named after [ascorbic acid](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascorbic_acid), a common acid in citrus fruits)\n * Butwal Island (the Butwal lemon(unable to find a link on this))\n * Kumquat Island (the [kumquat](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumquat))\n * Rind Island (another name for a fruit [peel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_\\(fruit\\)))\n * Pummelo Island (alternate spelling of [pomelo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomelo))\n * Tarroco Island (a misspelling of \"tarocco\", a [variation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarocco#Tarocco) of the [blood orange](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarocco))\n * Hamlin Island (the [Hamlin orange](http://www.ultimatecitrus.com/Story/varieties/hamlin.html))\n\n_(Note: All of the above islands also have Japanese names, such as \"[Bontan\nIsland](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Tangelo_Island)\" that you\npointed out, which are also largely related to citrus and citrus fruits.\nAdditionally, there are a handful of unnamed islands, and a few named after\nthe basic elements as well.)_\n\n[Pinkan Island](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pinkan_Island) is\nanother island in this area, whose name is derived from the Japanese word for\n\"citrus\" (柑 _kan_ ), and which grows berries by the name of [Pinkan\nBerries](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pinkan_Berry).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5jqc3.jpg)\n\nHowever, aside from Pinkan Island, none of the others appear to grow fruits\nthat are related to their name. It does not appear as if Tangelo grows\ntangelos and Navel Island grows navel oranges, for example. There may be\nfruits growing on these islands, like the Pinkan Berry, but there is not a\ntrend for each of the islands that has determined the names of the islands.\n\nIn fact, like you pointed out, the Japanese and English names often diverge\nquite significantly; the reason they are able to do this is that each island\nis not specifically named after what grows there.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-29T16:47:30.487", "id": "3612", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-29T16:47:30.487", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "3187", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIf I remember correctly, Ryuuk said that apples in his world were dry and\nawful, but in human world they were \"Juicy.\"\n\nThis is most likely the reason why he enjoys apples. There's also probably\nsome hidden meaning to it.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-02T00:56:38.950", "id": "3199", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-23T11:28:10.873", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-23T11:28:10.873", "last_editor_user_id": "3081", "owner_user_id": "1642", "parent_id": "3195", "post_type": "answer", "score": 34 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom the [wiki](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Apples)\n\n> Apples are Ryuk's favorite food and probably the only thing he eats. _He\n> likes apples from the human world because they are \"so juicy\"_. Ryuk stated\n> that apples are an addiction for him, like alcohol or cigarettes for humans.\n> Ryuk exhibits symptoms of withdrawal if he goes without eating apples for a\n> while. These symptoms include contorting his body into uncomfortable\n> positions and desperation to the point that he will take orders for one\n> (i.e. looking for hidden cameras in Light's room).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-02T01:30:46.620", "id": "3201", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-02T01:30:46.620", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1528", "parent_id": "3195", "post_type": "answer", "score": 23 }, { "body": "\n\nAs [Kai already mentioned](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/3199/51): Ryuuk\nsaid that apples are dry and awful in his Shinigami Realm, and that the ones\nin the human world are juicy.\n\nIf I also remembered correctly, he let Misa have a bite of one of these apples\nfrom the Shinigami Realm and she mentioned that it tasted like sand.\n\nTo answer the second part of your question: It is Ryuuk who loves apples.\nAnother Shinigami, called Sidoh, does love chocolate instead of apples.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-05T19:51:22.563", "id": "3264", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-17T19:12:21.097", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "51", "parent_id": "3195", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nI think the writer chose apples because they have both mythical and religious\nvalues , like in Adam and Eve's story or Newton and gravity. Apples are native\nto the Mediterranean where civilization began, they have been cultivated for\nthousands of years and that's why they have such big attention.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-20T02:29:29.750", "id": "4410", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-20T10:03:00.807", "last_edit_date": "2013-07-20T10:03:00.807", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "2050", "parent_id": "3195", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAfter some googling, it turns out that all of the episode titles are parodies\nof the names of light novel series that have a big brother ― younger sister\ntheme:\n\n>\n> [ある朝、ヒーローの妹ができまして。](http://dash.shueisha.co.jp/bookDetail/index/978-4-08-630652-2)\n> [[Amazon]](http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4086306522)\n> [[Screenshot]](https://i.stack.imgur.com/V1M6e.jpg) \n> ⇒ Episode 1: ある朝、大阪おかんの妹ができまして。\n>\n>\n> [妹がゾンビなんですけど！](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A6%B9%E3%81%8C%E3%82%BE%E3%83%B3%E3%83%93%E3%81%AA%E3%82%93%E3%81%A7%E3%81%99%E3%81%91%E3%81%A9!)\n> [[スマッシュ文庫]](http://www.php.co.jp/smash/books/2012/03/post-7.php)\n> [[Amazon]](http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4569676472/)\n> [[Screenshot]](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TxAu9.jpg) \n> ⇒ Episode 2: 妹が大阪おかんなんですけど！\n>\n>\n> [妹ホーム（マイホーム）](http://dengekibunko.dengeki.com/newreleases/978-4-04-870881-4/)\n> [[Amazon]](http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4048708813)\n> [[Screenshot]](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eQgbl.jpg) \n> ⇒ Episode 5: 大阪おかんホーム\n>\n>\n> [あるいは現在進行形の黒歴史](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%82%E3%82%8B%E3%81%84%E3%81%AF%E7%8F%BE%E5%9C%A8%E9%80%B2%E8%A1%8C%E5%BD%A2%E3%81%AE%E9%BB%92%E6%AD%B4%E5%8F%B2)\n> [[GA文庫]](http://ga.sbcr.jp/novel/kurorekishi/)\n> [[Amazon]](http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4797361476)\n> [[Screenshot]](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5zrox.jpg) \n> ⇒ Episode 8: あるいは現在進行形の大阪おかん\n>\n>\n> [女子モテな妹と受難な俺](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A5%B3%E5%AD%90%E3%83%A2%E3%83%86%E3%81%AA%E5%A6%B9%E3%81%A8%E5%8F%97%E9%9B%A3%E3%81%AA%E4%BF%BA)\n> [[ガガガ文庫]](http://www.shogakukan.co.jp/books/volumes/_id_26208)\n> [[Amazon]](http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4094512411)\n> [[Screenshot]](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kVQqv.jpg) \n> ⇒ Episode 9: 大阪おかんな妹と受難な俺\n>\n> [妹はラノベの女神ちゃん](http://www.php.co.jp/smash/books/2012/08/post-24.php)\n> [[Amazon]](http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4569678289/)\n> [[Screenshot]](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yAOU5.jpg) \n> ⇒ Episode 10: 妹は大阪おかんの女神ちゃん\n>\n>\n> [最近の妹ブームはどうやら俺のおかげらしいですよ](http://data.ichijinsha.co.jp/book/booksearch/booksearch_detail.php?i=75804326)\n> [[Amazon]](http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4758043264)\n> [[Screenshot]](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TPeQD.jpg) \n> ⇒ Episode 11: 最近の大阪おかんブームはどうやら俺のおかげらしいですよ\n\n**I still don't know whether the special episode (episode 1.5) is parody of\nany existing work or not.**\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-06T05:01:48.193", "id": "3268", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-10T22:12:13.180", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-10T22:12:13.180", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "3202", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nUp until the end of the third Grail War, the vessel for the sought-after\nGrail, known as the Lesser Grail, was a literally a cup.\n\nAccording to the [Type\nMoon](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Holy_Grail#Container) Wiki:\n\n> However, during the events of the third War, it was damaged in battle and\n> the ceremony was interrupted; for that reason, it had to be made as\n> something that could manage itself and take care of itself.\n>\n> During the Fourth War, Irisviel von Einzbern was a homunculus forged by the\n> Einzbern family to be the physical embodiment of the Lesser Grail.\n\nIn other words a Einzbern homunculus has to exist in order to serve as a\nvessel to connecto the [Great\nGrail](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Grail), it stores the souls of the\nheroic spirits after they're killed.\n\nIf everything goes according to plan, the Lesser Grail will be able to summon\nthe Great Grail and use the power of the heroic spirits and the Third Magic to\ncreate a gateway to the Root. Afterwards, the Grail can technically grant\nwishes, due to all the leftover prana.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-02T15:03:28.600", "id": "3206", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-02T15:03:28.600", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3205", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThey would probably be \"anime\" and \"manga,\" just like the plural of Pokémon is\nPokémon.\n\nMost nouns in Japanese have no plual form, so you use the same word whether\nyou're using a singular noun or a plural noun.\n\nThere are rare exceptions when a noun does have a plural form, but usually the\nplural form simply repeats the word using a \"repeater\" sound for the first\nconsonant.\n\nE.g. _hito_ (人 [ひと], person) becomes _hitobito_ (人々 [ひとびと], people) and _kami_\n(神 [かみ], god) would be _kamigami_ (神々 [かみがみ], gods).\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-02T20:58:37.933", "id": "3213", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-02T20:58:37.933", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3212", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nIt depends.\n\nIf you want to go based off of Japanese, then the plural would just be \"anime\"\nand \"manga\". There is no normal way to pluralize these words in Japanese;\nrather, you would say something similar to \"anime shows\" instead of\nspecifically multiple anime.\n\n> My #1 favorite anime is Pokemon.\n>\n> My two favorite anime are Pokemon and Digimon.\n\nIf you want to go based off of English, then the plural would be \"animes\" and\n\"mangas\". This is how most pluralization occurs in English.\n\n> My #1 favorite anime is Pokemon.\n>\n> My two favorite animes are Boku no Pico and Digimon.\n\nEven though they are Japanese words, if you are using them in English\nsentences, it's not all that weird to pluralize them like an English word.\nCafé comes from the Romance languages, but would you be all that irked if\nsomeone said \"There are two cafés on that street\"?\n\nIt's really a preference. Your message will probably be properly conveyed\neither way. Whichever one you pick, _someone_ will think it's wrong, so you\nmight as well go with the one you prefer. I've seen both pluralization methods\nused quite often, so I wouldn't be greatly shocked by either.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-02T21:04:16.803", "id": "3214", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-02T21:04:16.803", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "107", "parent_id": "3212", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nAs far as the \"English\" language is concerned, from the [Wiktionary entry\nabout \"anime\"](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anime):\n\n* * *\n\nNoun: **anime** (countable and uncountable; plural _anime_ or (proscribed)\n_animes_ )\n\n 1. (uncountable) An artistic style heavily used in, and associated with, Japanese animation, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of animated works from other countries\n\n> I can draw an anime version of you, if you want.\n\n 2. (countable) An animated work originated in Japan, regardless of the artistic style.\n\n * 2005, Peter J. Katzenstein, A World of Regions, page 165,\n\n> After three months of successful sales in manga form, it was made into an\n> anime for television.\n\n * 2005, Joan D. Vinge, in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection, page cix,\n\n> Usually the manga comes first, though it may be an offshoot of a novel, and\n> an anime may be inspired by a video game.\n\n * 2006, Thomas LaMarre, in Japan After Japan (Tomiko Yoda & Harry D. Harootunian, eds.), page 363,\n\n> These anime prepared the way for Otaku no video, a two-part Original Video\n> Animation (OVA).\n\n 3. (rare, countable, chiefly proscribed) An animated work in anime style, regardless of the country of origin.\n\n* * *\n\nLikewise, from the [Wiktionary entry about\n\"manga\"](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/manga), it's handled a bit differently:\n\n* * *\n\nNoun: **manga** (countable and uncountable; plural _manga_ or _mangas_ )\n\n 1. (uncountable) An artistic style heavily used in, and associated with, Japanese comics, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of comics from other countries.\n 2. (countable) A comic originating in Japan, regardless of the artistic style.\n 3. (rare, countable, chiefly proscribed by fandom slang) A comic in manga style, regardless of the country of origin.\n\n> Lately I've been reading a Brazilian manga.\n>\n\n>\n> * * *\n\n_(Note that 2 of the examples from the countable plural of \"anime\" also apply\nto \"manga\")_\n\nSo in the case of anime, the non-proscribed (or exclusionary) plural is\nunchanged, but the rarer proscribed plural can be used with an \"s\". The case\nwith manga seems to be either way as far as Wiktionary is concerned.\n\nThe [Collins\nDictionary](http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/manga), the\n[New World Dictionary](http://www.yourdictionary.com/manga), [Oxford\nDictionary](http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/manga) all say\nthat **manga** is also the plural form. Horever, the [Macmillan\nDictionary](http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/manga) says\nthat **mangas** is the plural form (need to click on \" _Word Forms_ \").\n\nIf you're using it as a Japanese borrowed word (either \"manga\" or \"anime\"), it\nisn't incorrect to use the same form as singular and plural, like the Japanese\nwords themselves.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-02T21:12:33.340", "id": "3215", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-02T21:12:33.340", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "3212", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's mainly just preference. Since the Japanese language does not have a way\nof pluralizing that applies to most of their words (like adding an 's' to the\nend of words in English), it is usually left to preferences.\n\nSome people like to say 'manga' and 'anime' as the plural form of the words\nsince it sounds more \"correct\" and is similar to the way the plural version of\n'deer' is 'deer'.\n\nOther people prefer to say 'mangas' and 'animes' because in English it is\ncommon to add 's' to the end of words to pluralize them.\n\nSince there is no definite way of pluralizing these words, you can just pick\nwhether or not you want to say the words with a 's' or not.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-03-02T22:11:21.373", "id": "39222", "last_activity_date": "2017-03-02T22:11:21.373", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "31255", "parent_id": "3212", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs per [wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotech) :\n\n> Series writer/actor Greg Snegoff said in an interview on the now-defunct\n> Shadow Chronicles News fansite that, \"afterward, we received compliments\n> from the Japanese who thought our dialogue and stories were better than the\n> original\". However, Animag magazine (issue 11) and Animerica magazine (issue\n> 9, volume 4) reports that the staff of Macross at Studio Nue and Artland,\n> such as the original story creator and mecha designer **Shoji Kawamori** and\n> chief director **Noboru Ishiguro** , expressed their concern over the\n> **Robotech** adaptation, and surprise at its differences.\n\nSo it seems that he raised concerns about the same, and acknowledged the\npresence of **Robotech**\n\nFurther can be noticed in the interview clip\n[here](http://www.awopodcast.com/?bloggerURL=/008/05/bonus-interview-with-\nnoboru-ishiguro.html)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-12T09:45:53.257", "id": "3356", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-12T09:45:53.257", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1579", "parent_id": "3216", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to this, he was once asked in an spanish interview about it and his\nanswer was\n\n> does Robotech exist? What is that? Does Macross II exist?\n\n<http://rdfhqcommunicationscenter.yuku.com/topic/1583/Shoji-Kawamori-does-\nRobotech-exist#.WFNQHPl97IU>\n\nEdit: 01/05/2017\n\nI found more about this recently. Very interesting actually\n\n> “When it comes to Robotech, it's difficult to comment. It's not as though I\n> have sat through the whole series. Not to mention that it combines three\n> separate series Macross, Southern Cross and Mospeada. So it feels a bit\n> forced as a result.”\n>\n> “At the same time, this was an opportunity for our work to be shown to the\n> world and for that I am thankful. However, because the partial change in the\n> story was made without approval from us, the original authors, it still\n> produces an uncomfortable feeling after all these years.”\n>\n> \"As for the recently announced live action Robotech movie, I welcome the\n> opportunity to work on it but that request has yet to come.\"\n\n<https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2015/12/10/shoji-kawamori-the-\ncreator-hollywood-copies-but-never-credits/#5a3eb4d63a0f>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-16T02:25:24.623", "id": "37883", "last_activity_date": "2017-05-01T23:59:26.190", "last_edit_date": "2017-05-01T23:59:26.190", "last_editor_user_id": "3028", "owner_user_id": "3028", "parent_id": "3216", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, she's hallucinating. The evidence for it at the start of episode 24 is\nirrefutable.\n\n \n\n**Why would she be hallucinating?**\n\nIt safe to say that given what Saki has gone through, she isn't in the best\nstate of mind. With all the death and destruction she's witnessed and\nexperienced, she's probably in some form of denial.\n\n**Where does the advice from Shun come from?**\n\nHerself actually. Her own subconscious mind.\n\nWhen you're in such a hypnotic effect, things from deep in the back of your\nmind can come forward at unusual times. This is the same reason why hypnosis\nis sometimes used to bring back memories for criminal investigations and why\nartists can do their greatest works under times of extreme stress.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-02T21:59:04.890", "id": "3222", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-02T22:19:45.557", "last_edit_date": "2013-04-02T22:19:45.557", "last_editor_user_id": "17", "owner_user_id": "17", "parent_id": "3219", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the Wikipedia [article on\nTransformers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers):\n\n> However, the Japanese broadcast of the series was supplemented with a newly-\n> produced OVA, Scramble City, before creating entirely new series to continue\n> the storyline, ignoring the 1987 end of the American series. The extended\n> Japanese run consisted of The Headmasters, Super-God Masterforce, Victory\n> and Zone, then in illustrated magazine form as Battlestars: Return of Convoy\n> and Operation: Combination.\n\nAlso,\n\n> After the first season of Beast Wars (comprising 26 episodes) aired in\n> Japan, the Japanese were faced with a problem. The second Canadian season\n> was only 13 episodes long, not enough to warrant airing on Japanese TV.\n> While they waited for the third Canadian season to be completed (thereby\n> making 26 episodes in total when added to season 2), they produced two\n> exclusive cel-animated series of their own, Beast Wars II (also called Beast\n> Wars Second) and Beast Wars Neo, to fill in the gap. Dreamwave retroactively\n> revealed Beast Wars to be the future of their G1 universe, and the 2006 IDW\n> comic book Beast Wars: The Gathering eventually confirmed the Japanese\n> series to be canon within a story set during Season 3.\n\n[Robots in\nDisguise](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers:_Robots_in_Disguise) was a\npurely Japanese creation that was highly censored and then banned from cable\nTV in the U.S. because its original run in Japan ended at the end of 2001, and\nit had references to building destruction and terrorism.\n\nAlso,\n\n> In Japan, the series Transformers: Cybertron showed no ties to the previous\n> two series, telling its own story. This caused continuity problems when\n> Hasbro sold Cybertron as a follow-up to Armada/Energon. The writers\n> attempted to change certain plot elements from the Japanese version to\n> remedy this, although this largely added up to nothing more than references\n> to Unicron, Primus, Primes and Minicons.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-08T00:56:13.060", "id": "4067", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-10T03:47:29.003", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-10T03:47:29.003", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "3223", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think you hit it on the nail with the Karaoke connection. Karaoke is\nextremely popular in Japan, so offering song subtitles is something of a no\nbrainer. Also, OPs and EDs are an integral part of an anime franchise, both as\nan identity and as a source of sales. Putting the lyrics in plain view makes\nsinging along with the songs a lot easier, which in turn makes them _stick_ to\na listener's brain. This could lead to increased loyalty for the title and\nincreased sales for its merchandise, especially musical ones.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-02T22:21:21.660", "id": "3225", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-02T22:21:21.660", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "66", "parent_id": "3224", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nI think this is only common among shows aimed at children. All of the examples\nyou gave were shows which are, at least partly, aimed at children. Having\nkaraoke for the song helps the younger viewers sing along, and also has some\neducational benefits in terms of learning more advanced characters. If you\nwatch anime targeted at older viewers, they rarely have karaoke.\n\nIt's also notable that those anime aimed at younger children are using only\nvery common kanji that even children would probably know, and is giving\nfurigana. Those aimed at older children tend to have more complex kanji and\nsometimes omit the furigana as well. This isn't apparent from just the exam\n\n", "comment_count": 8, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-03T00:22:46.247", "id": "3227", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-03T00:22:46.247", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "3224", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 }, { "body": "\n\nSome music animes or Idol animes such as Love Live gather fanbases that love\nto sing along. This is also done when an anime is dubbed (the op/ed is some\ntimes given an eng translation along with karoake words. Other animes seems to\nhave no reason.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-06-19T13:37:58.683", "id": "40941", "last_activity_date": "2017-06-19T13:37:58.683", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "33168", "parent_id": "3224", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to what she said in last episode\n\n> \"The Department of Exospecies Control became a direct subdivision of the\n> Ethics Committee and I served as both a member of the Ethics Committee and\n> the Exospecies Department Chief.\"\n\nShe is never mentioned as Ethics Committee head and we can assume because she\nseemed to focus about queerats at this time and wasn't leading the whole\nvillage, while the Ethics Committee head is more likely a leader to the\nvillage. But in the future she might be.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-12T06:25:20.710", "id": "4761", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-12T22:32:03.347", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-12T22:32:03.347", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "2185", "parent_id": "3230", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n# Alternate Timelines are not strict branches\n\nParallel universes can often mess with your mind if you're not careful. You\nneed to pay careful attention to both where you are, what are the\npossibilities, and what has occurred to affect change. DBZ uses the alternate\ntimeline version of time travel, so this means that many universes can exist,\nshown or not. A diagram will be easiest.\n\n# Timeline\n\n\n\nThere are actually 4 different timelines involved in the Cell/Trunks/Android\nSaga (excluding ones created/changed by time travel).\n\n## Cell to DBZ\n\nThe _first timeline_ is one in which the Androids have ravaged the earth, and\ncause chaos. All of the main heroes have died, and Trunks (I'm calling him\nTrunks \"killed\") is left to fend for himself. He travels back in time to _an\nalternate DBZ timeline_ (one we don't see or know much about, but there is\nonly 1 version of Cell in this timeline) to give Goku the medicine.\nPresumably, he defeats the androids and/or give Goku the medicine, then\ntravels back to his own timeline. At this point, he (Trunks \"killed\") is\nkilled by [Cell](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Cell) (who is the main Cell\nin the series), and Cell (main) steals his time machine to travel back in\ntime.\n\n## Trunks to DBZ\n\nCell (main), travels to the _known DBZ timeline from the show_. He shows up\nand that process starts. Trunks (the one called Future Trunks often, the one\nin the show and in History of Trunks) meanwhile, in _his own, future timeline_\n(likely related, see below), also travels back in time, also to the current\nDBZ known timeline, to warn about the Androids. When he arrives, there are 2\nCells in this timeline, the main one, and one that already existed. The one\nthat is native to this timeline (called [Present\nCell](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Present_Cell) often), is destroyed with\nthe destruction of the lab by Future Trunks, and Krillin.\n\n## Loose Ends\n\nBlah, blah, blah. Cell saga continues until Cell (main) is destroyed. At this\npoint, Future Trunks, travels back to his own timeline, and there, already\nknows about, and destroys the [Cell in that timeline (Future\nCell)](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Future_Cell). In total, there were:\n\n * 5 Cells (the forth is never mentioned, but likely grew into a full Cell later in the alternate DBZ timeline; fifth is assuming Future Trunks' timeline is derivative, see below)\n * 4 timelines\n * 2 Trunks from the Future\n * 2 Trunks from the present\n * 2 time machines\n\n# The question: Why?\n\nSo why did Trunks arrive in the same Universe as Cell? Well, that's easy. He\ndid, and he didn't. He arrived in the timeline we were shown (the main DBZ\ncontinuity), but the previous Trunks arrived in one in which the Future Cell\nhad not arrived yet. The theory of alternate timelines often involves time\ntravel on a single thread. That is, Future Trunks' universe likely existed\nfrom a timeline branch in which Cell (main) had already arrived. When Future\nTrunks traveled back in time, he was traveling to his past, which included\nCell (main) being there, but none of the events that had been set into motion\nto lead to his timeline. His presence then altered the timeline to include the\nevents we saw, and to not include the ones that lead to his time.\n\nBasically, if Trunks didn't go back in time, things _could_ have happened in a\nway which lead to Trunks going back in time, which caused the series of events\nin which we saw. Simple, right?\n\n## What happened to Cell (main) in Future Trunks' timeline?\n\nWe don't know. Likely something. But we don't have anything to state what\nmight have happened.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-04T03:05:48.917", "id": "3251", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-04T03:10:52.737", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "118", "parent_id": "3232", "post_type": "answer", "score": 21 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is a much simpler explanation than trying to explain why Cell appeared\nin Future Trunks timeline in the past, but never emerged/got attention/went\ncompletely unknown by Trunks, just so that Future Trunks could travel back and\narrive in a past with Cell already existing. And that is: Cell was the one to\ntravel to a time with an already existing time traveler, not Trunks.\n\nIt goes like this, there are 4 timelines (that still holds true) and they will\nbe labeled thusly: Original Timeline, Unseen Past Timeline, Series Timeline,\nNew Future Timeline.\n\nOriginal Timeline: This is the completely unaltered history. Goku dies of the\nHeart Virus, heroes killed by Androids. Trunks travels into the past (creating\nthe Unseen Timeline) before being killed by Cell. Cell then travels into the\npast (creating the Series Timeline).\n\nUnseen Timeline: This is the timeline created by Trunks when he went into the\npast to warn about the Androids. Trunks is the only time traveler here, there\nis no Cell from the future. We never see this timeline in the series.\n\nSeries Timeline: The timeline we see in the series (obviously). This one is\ncreated by Cell when he travels into the past. Now, I know what you're\nthinking. \"But Cell went back further than Trunks did so how is Trunks still\nthere?\" Because Trunks' arrival is part of the history of the Unseen Timeline.\nNothing Cell does in the past will prevent Trunks from appearing. So, Trunks\nsplits along with everyone else, and the entire timeline.\n\nNew Future Timeline: The New Future is the final timeline, the one that the\nTrunks from the Series Timeline inadvertently creates when he returns home.\nAfter warning Goku and the others about the Androids Trunks attempts to return\nhome unaware that he's already done so (in the Unseen Timeline) thus causing\nthe Original Timeline to split and form the New Future Timeline. The New\nFuture is the history where Trunks knows of, and kills, Cell.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-18T01:48:57.497", "id": "24172", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-18T01:48:57.497", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "16371", "parent_id": "3232", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's important to know that in something like manga, even though thoughts are\nable to be shown, there is still a very heavy visual element for the reader.\nIn a novel, like _The Twelve Kingdoms_ , it is conveyed entirely through text\nand we are at the mercy of the characters' inner thoughts much of the time.\n\nAsano was added largely as a confidant (and a childhood friend) of Youko; he\nis someone who could externalize the struggles that Youko has internally in\nthe novel. Sugimoto, like Asano and even Yuka, fills a very similar purpose.\nHer role is described as a foil* for Youko, helping her to externalize issues\nthat the viewer would not see (but would be able to read in the novel).\n\nAsano also adds some serious depth to the story (some serious spoiler material\nhere):\n\n> The gradual loss of his mind and his inevitable death are very powerful,\n> mostly because they follow his desperate want to find a purpose in his life.\n> And where better for him to die than in Shoukei's arms?\n\n* In literature, theatre/theater, etc, a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-05T02:50:53.263", "id": "3261", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-05T02:50:53.263", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "3235", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn the manga, he says \"筆記体\" which literally means \"note-taking style,\" which\nis typically used to describe [cursive\nwriting](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AD%86%E8%A8%98%E4%BD%93)... in\nEnglish. So he's implying that the report will be in cursive English.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-03T21:30:54.813", "id": "3238", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-03T21:30:54.813", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3237", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs far as I know, this was never fully explained. But if you think about it,\nit kind of makes sense.\n\nFirst, if we look at the plot, healing Hinata is one of the best way for\nKabuto to fulfill his mission. Hinata starts coughing, nearly vomiting blood.\nLet's say Kabuto had not interfere, her condition might have gone really bad.\nAt some point this would have made a fuss in the spectators (imagine Kiba\ncalling out loud \"Hey, Hinata is dying !\" and so on). This might interrupt the\nChunin exam, which is something Kabuto doesn't want. His mission is to wait\nuntil Gaara fights Sasuke and then start the attack on the village. Healing\nHinata at that moment is a good way to keep the exam going.\n\nKilling Kiba would not help at all. What to do with the body? Furthermore,\nsome ninjas can sense killing intent. So it's in no way a good idea to kill a\nworthless kid at that moment. Just knocking him is enough. If somebody finds\nthe 2 kids (Hinata and Kiba) laying down but alive, nothing happens. While if\nyou find dead bodies, this might alarm everyone and Kabuto's mission would be\na failure.\n\nThis is also coherent with the role he is playing (a member of ANBU would have\ndone something, right?).\n\nNow, why did the scenarist include such a scene? It is more difficult to\nanswer to that and what follows is only my own speculation. In my opinion,\nthis is a way to indicate to the reader that Kabuto made it to the arena and\nis ready for the next part of his mission (last time we saw Kabuto, he was\nstill far away from the arena, just after killing the ANBU agent he replaced).\n\nThis is also a way of raising the tension. The reader has more and more\nindications that something is going to happen soon (other ninjas talking about\n\"the mission\", ...). When Kabuto knocks Kiba, this indicates to the reader \"uh\noh, it's coming soon...\"\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-09T06:53:49.930", "id": "3300", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-09T06:53:49.930", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1609", "parent_id": "3244", "post_type": "answer", "score": 18 }, { "body": "\n\nMight contain spoilers but just minor ones if at all.\n\nI am up to the part of Neji's flashback in Shippuden and it reminded me to\ninquire regarding this topic of Kabuto healing Hinata. I vaguely remember what\nwas and wasn't revealed and what was going on at that time in the story as\nwell as character development, and it hit me (at least If I am remembering it\ncorrectly) it was still unclear how close Kabuto was to Orochimaru and his\nloyalty to him, and Orochimaru was questioning his loyalty like whether he was\ngoing to kidnap or kill Sasuke when they had that meeting by the pillars.\n\nBut my point is, I believe it was meant to play into more whether he was a\ngood guy or not, and if he was loyal to Leaf or Sound, etc... because when he\nhealed her, it continued to bring more uncertainty and curiosity if his\nallegiances and whatnot. At least that's what just hit me and is making sense\nto me. I don't know, it's more of an assumption or feeling more than anything\nelse.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-12-30T21:34:18.683", "id": "61435", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-14T13:41:14.503", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-14T13:41:14.503", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "56615", "parent_id": "3244", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIn my opinion, I think it was a distraction because when he healed Hinata, she\nwas knocked out, and then he knocked out Kiba and then cast the genjutsu.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-04-13T19:05:52.287", "id": "67901", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-14T13:41:16.350", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-14T13:41:16.350", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "71758", "parent_id": "3244", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNaruto aired on Cartoon Network and Naruto Shippuden aired on Disney XD.\nApparently, Disney XD has dropped Shippuden from it's lineup but the Anime\ncontinues and episodes can be viewed on\n[CrunchyRoll](http://www.crunchyroll.com/naruto-shippuden \"Crunchy Roll\") or\n[Viz Anime](http://www.vizanime.com/naruto-shippuden \"Viz Anime\"), though the\nepisodes are subtitled not dubbed.\n\nLooks like, for those wanting Dubbed Naruto Shippuden, getting the DVDs/Blu-\nRays is currently the only option.\n\n**Update:** Stream the latest **English dubbed versions** (legally) from\n[Amazon Instant Video](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B003BIVRTQ).\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-19T22:07:23.553", "id": "3447", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-04T23:26:55.477", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-04T23:26:55.477", "last_editor_user_id": "1612", "owner_user_id": "1612", "parent_id": "3252", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThey're not _actually_ whiskers. They're _whisker marks_ , just marks on his\nface that resemble whiskers.\n\nYes, this has to do with the kyuubi. When Naruto was influenced by Kurama\nprior to birth, he gained the whisker marks:\n\n> Naruto's most prominent physical characteristics, however, are the whisker\n> marks on his face that he gained from Kurama's influence on him while he was\n> in Kushina's womb.\n>\n> — [Naruto Uzumaki, _Naruto_\n> Wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_Uzumaki)\n\nThe reason Naruto's mother did not have them is because these are as a result\nof prolonged exposure (being in the womb) rather than the beast simply being\nsealed within the host.\n\n> Both of Naruto's kids, Bolt and Himawari, have two whisker marks on each\n> cheek, neither of them is a Jinchuuriki but both are the children of\n> Kurama's Jinchuuriki, which implies that this is an inherited trait.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-04T23:50:11.083", "id": "3257", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-07T19:28:10.890", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "3256", "post_type": "answer", "score": 23 }, { "body": "\n\nNaruto got the whisker marks from the nine-tailed fox while he was in his\nmom's uterus because they were both inside her at the same time and while\nnaruto was in her uterus, the nine-tails probably had a little of his power\ngiven to Naruto.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-05T01:21:36.263", "id": "5739", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-29T23:52:16.263", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-29T23:52:16.263", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "2671", "parent_id": "3256", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThere has never been a canon stated reason for the whisker marks in the story\nor by creator Masashi Kishimoto himself, so the acquisition of the whisker\nmarks is still undetermined.\n\nHowever, there are popular fan theories, like the other answers people have\ngiven here, for example. Due to the fact that the only explanations so far\nhave been fandom speculation, the wiki citation given in one of the other\nanswers has since been removed from his wiki page for lack of confirmation or\nsources to back it up, if that clears up any confusion.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-08-25T00:13:15.613", "id": "59413", "last_activity_date": "2020-08-25T00:24:35.013", "last_edit_date": "2020-08-25T00:24:35.013", "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "3256", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to\n[TVTropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrossDressingVoices),\n\n> Sometimes, an animated character is better suited for being voiced by a\n> voice actor of the opposite sex. Maybe a higher voice is needed for a male,\n> or a lower voice for a female.\n>\n> A common variant for this is for young boys, usually 12 and under, to be\n> voiced by an adult woman. This is because real little boys' voices deepen\n> when they go through puberty. Not to mention that it's easier to find\n> experienced actresses than experienced prepubescent male actors. The\n> producers don't have to deal with child labor laws that limit the amount of\n> time a child can spend in a studio, either. Women are often able to maintain\n> the role longer, as well, since their voices don't change like a growing\n> boy's.\n>\n> There are exceptions, of course — sometimes an adult man or an actual child\n> will voice a little boy. In films, this is the rule rather than the\n> exception, as voice recording for a film generally takes much less time than\n> for a TV series.\n>\n> And on a related note, sometimes, for comedy purposes, a deep-voiced woman\n> will be played by a man.\n\nAlso, female seiyuu voice acting as a male character is much more common than\nmale seiyuu voice acting as a female character probably because it is easier\nfor a woman to lower her voice's pitch than a man to make his voice's pitch\nhigher like that of a woman.\n\nPersonally, I don't know of any male seiyuu who voice acted a female\ncharacter, but [Jun Fukuyama](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jun_Fukuyama)\nvoiced [Grell Sutcliff](http://kuroshitsuji.wikia.com/wiki/Grell_Sutcliff) who\nacted as gay.\n\nFrom the TVTropes link I have provided, here are some examples (some examples\nare from Japanese animated films or games):\n\n> * Spy D is voiced by [Tessho\n> Genda](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TesshoGenda), who is a\n> well-known Japanese live-action actor renowned for his \"tough guy\" roles. In\n> fact, Spy D's personality and physical appearance were based on Tessho\n> Genda. It is reported that he had no idea the character was female until he\n> saw the finished movie.\n> * Akihiro Miwa, a male actor and cabaret singer, has played female roles\n> in two Miyazaki films: The Witch of the Waste in [Howl's Moving\n> Castle](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/HowlsMovingCastle) and\n> Moro in [Princess\n> Mononoke](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/PrincessMononoke), who\n> is a giant wolf for which a deep growling voice is actually quite\n> appropriate.\n> * A rather interesting (and literal) twist in [Gundam\n> 00](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/MobileSuitGundam00): In one\n> of the drama CDs, Tieria poses as a female student to infiltrate the high\n> school that Louise and Saji attend. While disguised, his voice is provided\n> by...his normal voice actor, Hiroshi Kamiya, who can apparently pull off a\n> rather convincing female voice. Who knew?\n> * This is repeated in the second season, where Tieria dresses as a woman\n> (with Gag Boobs, hence the Fan Nickname \"Titeria\") to infiltrate a party the\n> bad guys are throwing. Considering Tieira was a major source of Viewer\n> Gender Confusion before the show aired...\n> * In [ICE](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/ICE?from=Main.ICE),\n> Julia is played by a man in both Japanese and English.\n> * In [Ixion Saga\n> DT](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/IxionSagaDT), Jun Fukuyama\n> voices Mariandale, the princesses' maid. Turns out he's just cross dressing.\n>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-05T01:43:46.350", "id": "3260", "last_activity_date": "2016-11-06T06:52:50.347", "last_edit_date": "2016-11-06T06:52:50.347", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "3259", "post_type": "answer", "score": 19 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBased on this [thread from MAL](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=580793):\n\nIt seems that it _**IS**_ gibberish. They just jumbled a lot of languages\ntogether (English, French and German to name a few).\n\nHere are some quotes from the thread _(I am still not sure if they can be\ncounted on as being 'facts'):_\n\n> The way they threw random words of other actual languages into their made up\n> language was very funny, especially if you understand Japanese (how foreign\n> words are transliterated/pronounced in a syllabary language). - Usuzumiiro\n> [(1)](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=580793#WAHLukAMEgLREzwl.99)\n>\n> I kept trying to figure out what language they were speaking only to learn\n> it was made up [maouspeak](http://www.rabuko.me/maouspeak/)... sneaky anime.\n> - AOMINE\n> [(2)](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=580793&show=20#57cRtit5kYgQbCec.99)\n\nI tracked these down by just going to page 1 of that thread then searching for\nthe word \"language\". It seems the general consensus is it is gibberish and\nthat it is a mixture of words. Still looking for the actual source for them\nall to say that though. _(I am thinking it is on 4chan)_\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-02T12:29:54.067", "id": "3640", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-06T18:39:45.233", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1731", "parent_id": "3262", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to [this article](http://purisoku.com/archives/6496740.html) (which\ncites from a 2ch thread), the language is is pretty simple:\n\n> The Entean language is basically letter substituted English, with vowel\n> keeping their original position, while the consonants are reversed, so B=Z,\n> C=Y, D=X, ... and vice versa.\n[code]\n\n> ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\n> -> AZYXEWVTISRLPNOMQKJHUGFDCB\n> \n[/code]\n\n>\n> For example:\n>\n> * 人間 human → tupan\n> * 世界 world → foklx\n> * 魔王（芦屋による呼称） majesty → pasejhc\n>\n\nThey say it with such enthusiasm, too:\n\n<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSwnNy6MRa8>\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-06T17:47:24.650", "id": "3692", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-04T07:50:14.200", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3262", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMystogan is pretty wary about revealing his face to anyone in any situation.\nHis first appearance was at the beginning of the the arc, where he put all of\nthe guild members to sleep, before he took a mission and left, leaving the\nguild quite mysteriously. If he goes as far as to do this, its safe to assume\nthat:\n\n 1. Either he freezes time so that he can remove the scarf, have a bite and then unfreeze time. (Quite unlikely)\n\n 2. He wears a glamour charm that allows a mask like covering over his face which is just an illusion, through which he may be able to eat at will\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-05T20:48:43.687", "id": "3265", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-05T23:54:43.033", "last_edit_date": "2013-04-05T23:54:43.033", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1579", "parent_id": "3263", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nI'm pretty sure that he used illusions in that case. In his fight with Laxus,\nhe uses illusions to make it appear as if the building dissapear, Laxus is\ncaught and the heaven was opened in half to release a giant monster (chapter\n120 pages 3-6). Althought Laxus realised it's an illusion, it's probably\nmostly because it was too absurd to be true.\n\nBut a fellow man, famous for being mysterous, to eat apples through his scarf\nmight not be something as easily taken as an illusion than, say the armageddon\nof mankind.\n\nSo I'd say without actually watched the anime, Mystogun was hungry, physically\nremoved the scarf, but created an illusion of still wearing his scarf\nmeanwhile, thus being able to cover his face and enjoy delicious apples.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-09-10T08:28:36.957", "id": "5142", "last_activity_date": "2013-09-10T08:28:36.957", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1407", "parent_id": "3263", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMaybe one can only use on device once in his/her lifetime. or Even if its the\nfuture and there is a time travelling device, it is highly logical that it has\nrestricted access. What reason would he give? that he wants to just live in\nthose times? I am retty sure nobody would agree to that. Its been a while\nsince I watched it so it is possible I am forgetting something.\n\nAnd for all you know, that aunt of hers was actually the girl who comes back\nin that time and the person she is saving that painting for is Chiaki. The\naunt was a bit mysterious saying even she did the time travelling thing you\nknow.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-30T10:00:17.280", "id": "3965", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-30T10:00:17.280", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1839", "parent_id": "3269", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nChiaki does go back to the future. Chiaki goes back in time to save Kousuke so\nMakoto did not have to use her last leap saving Kousuke.\n\nThen Makoto goes back even further and prevents most of the movie from\nhappening, meaning Kousuke and the short girl are never in danger, so Chiaki\nnever uses his last leap.\n\nChiaki trades his last leap to get Makoto one more, then Makoto trades her\nlast leap to get Chiaki one more.\n\nChiaki then leaves at then end of the movie, going back to his own time (he\nsaid earlier he was supposed to do right away but got distracted having fun).\nWhen he goes home he probably will get more leaps, but will not come back to\nthe time in the movie because he does not want to, that why he said goodbye to\nMakoto.\n\nIf he wasn't going back to the future at the end, he would have no reason to\nleave.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-24T10:51:32.890", "id": "4204", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-12T05:32:01.833", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-12T05:32:01.833", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1933", "parent_id": "3269", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\n**_I'm literally over a year late, but, why not?_**\n\nI just watched the movie. As a good engineer (for better or for worse) I\nneeded to know what had happened at the end of the movie. So I went to the\ninternet and looked for answers. At first, as always, I just assumed\neverything they say is correct, but then the ideas sank in, and I made my own\nconclusions, which evidently lack complete information, since the film itself\ndoesn't let you see things I'd need to confirm my interpretation. But here it\ngoes:\n\nHere are the theories I'd like to debunk:\n\n 1. Chiaki convinced the aunt to take care of the painting.\n 2. Chiaki couldn't have gone to the future anytime he wanted.\n 3. Makoto is the aunt, grown up.\n 4. Chiaki wouldn't actually see Makoto in the future.\n\nTo do this, we need some basis. Here are some ideas that many people don't\nconsider.\n\n * Chiaki never said he had travelled through time both ways. All he says regarding his leaps is that he _knew_ that the painting had records during the period in which the movie is set. Secondly, he stated clearly that \"tomorrow\" he would return to the future. Here we have a problem, because this might have two reasons.\n\n 1. The first one is that when the count reaches zero, the leaps end (literally physically end) and the user of the time travel goes back to the first jump, since for all we know he was forced to return until he reached 0.\n 2. The second one is that in the future they found out that he revealed the secret of time traveling, and he would be forced to return. It is a wild guess, but completely stopping time and now just jumping, as he saw at the crossroads, doesn't seem something that may be done with the charges. That would have meant that Chiaki had one charge to avoid the crash as well as to stop time, which doesn't sound logical, yet is a possibility.\n * Some people actually mentioned that Makoto didn't see herself in the past. This means that she can't be the aunt given the fact that the logical conclusion from before is that there can't be two of the same person in one reality.\n\n * We get an interesting scene that most commenters overlook, which is the one of the jump at the lake. Makoto went back in time _and returned_! Even a child screamed that he saw the girl disappear and reappear. (Although circumstantial, it supports the point.) This leads up to the idea that for every time travel you do, as we might relate with the movie _Inception_ , at the end of the physical jump, the traveling ends.\n\nNow to the point.\n\n> \"Chiaki convinced the aunt to take care of the painting.\"\n\nThis can't be true given that Chiaki can't bend the story. For this to be\npossible, he would have had to convince Witch to take care of the painting.\nThis means that he went to a time before Makoto and did this. He would then\nhave had to return a few years later to convince Makoto to do this. This\nimplies that he went back, returned, back again, and returned. Finally, if\nhistory can't be modified, the moment he returned to his time would have reset\nwhatever he did with the aunt. Therefore, that couldn't have happened.\n\n* * *\n\n> \"Chiaki couldn't have gone to the future anytime he wanted.\"\n\nAt the crossroads we get that he would be forced to return to the future. He\nwould be _forced_. In practical terms, that gives him an \"extra\" one-way leap.\nWhy else would he worry so much about his forced return? He actually\ncontradicts himself by stating at the crossroads that we would be gone by\ntomorrow and, during the same stop, saying that he could no longer go back to\nhis time. Here we have to decide which statement is true since they are\nmutually exclusive if Chiaki never lied. The way I see it, he could jump to\nthe future. (He would be forced back to the future due to the end of the\nleaps/count 0.)\n\n> \"Chiaki could have gone to the future anytime he wanted.\"\n\nSame argument as above, except for the final point.\n\n* * *\n\n> \"Makoto is the aunt, grown up.\"\n\nSimple and without using a reference to the picture: no double person per\nreality.\n\n* * *\n\n> \"Chiaki wouldn't actually see Makoto in the future.\"\n\nI bet this is the one every-fucking-one is waiting to read. Feeling romantic?\nWell, you're lucky. I can't believe so many persons overlooked this tiny\nlittle detail: Makoto has all her jumps restored. Well, that sound great, and\nthis is why this is probably true! First of all, jumps all the way before the\nbooks fell on her. Let's say we get a 50/50 of having the device giving her\nthe full count again. Second point: Chiaki gives Makoto time-travelling\nadvice. Sounds promising to me.\n\nNow, this is going to get complicated, but try to follow me, even though I\nmight be wrong. The way Chiaki would go to the future would be by going even\nfurther into the past. As confusing as it may sound, going back in time would\ntake him back to the future. Follow this thread, backwards now: the end of the\nmovie, the beginning of the movie, the moment Chiaki leapt into the movie's\ntime, Chiaki's original time. Therefore if he jumps back enough to go to the\nmoment before he went back in time, he'd be back in the future! Time traveling\nactually goes one way here.\n\nNow, if we want to extrapolate, we find that Chiaki used a hell of a ton of\njumps to get to the movie's time. He would have needed to jump from the\nstratosphere to get to that time, as I see it. He jumped bit by bit until he\nhit the right time. That explains his single leap left at the end. The way we\nfollowed the reasoning here, taking the idea that he could time travel and was\nstuck when his count hit 0, he would have been able to go back enough to get\nanother time-travelling device.\n\nBeing still in the same reality, his jump would eventually end and would find\nMakoto there. If this doesn't sound good enough for you and believe that\nChiaki is not evil, he would go back to the future, get leaps, and go back to\nMakoto on _his_ timeline, while Makoto on _her_ timeline would eventually see\nhis jump's end and find him again.\n\n* * *\n\nIn the end, the movie might actually be talking about creating parallel\nrealities, which diverge with every jump, as well as there being separate\nrealities for each person who leaps. The way you take these arguments, which I\nbelieve are most of the relevant ones, may lead to take different conclusions.\n\nEither way, I believe that Chiaki got scared or something and dropped the\ndevice. The whole thing happened and the guy got stuck in time. Having\ndifferent leap counts for each person, Makoto returned when he still had count\n1. She jumped far enough to get her full count, too. Finally, Chiaki is an\nasshole for jumping back in time knowing he could have seen the painting,\nmovie-time. Apparently he did disappear, but will eventually end his leap and\nreappear in Makoto's reality. And she will hate him for being a jerk who\ninstead of waiting for the restoration to be finished, preferred to go to his\nno-river-no-nature-not-many-people-without-blue-sky time.\n\nSucker.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-12T05:19:33.880", "id": "11230", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-06T14:32:10.610", "last_edit_date": "2016-06-06T14:32:10.610", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "6207", "parent_id": "3269", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the end Makoto already has her leaps restored and Chiaka says 'I will be\nwaiting'. To this, Makoto replies 'I will come running'. This refers to one of\nthem time leaping to the baseball scene/part probably to spend more time with\neach other.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-16T01:27:48.843", "id": "15109", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-16T08:51:39.833", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-16T08:51:39.833", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "9189", "parent_id": "3269", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nHere's my two cents, and it has to do with one of the above theories. Makoto\nwouldn't have restored her jumps by jumping back in time (it didn't happen\nthroughout the movie). When she regained one, it was simply that Chiaki jumped\nso far back that he happened to \"undo\" her last leap by trying to prevent the\naccident.\n\nMy next theory is that Chiaki is from the same era (but that would mean the\ntime leaps would have to have been discovered in that present era...).\nReasoning: Everytime Makoto jumped, she returned to the place and state she\nwas at that time (remember all the rolling and falling?). Going off of that\nidea, (that a person can only return to a point in their past life) Chiaki\nwould have only been able to return to a previous point in his life.\n\nThat begs the question: Was Chiaki actually from the same era as Makoto? Maybe\nthey had met in the future. That would explain Chiaki's \"I'll be waiting.\"\nThat is unless Makoto finds a way to travel to the future (which there was\nabsolutely no mention of.)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-11-20T12:17:18.103", "id": "27448", "last_activity_date": "2015-11-20T12:17:18.103", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19192", "parent_id": "3269", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI think Makato restored her time leaping and goes back to the time in the\nfuture. And she in the future takes up historic painting restoration\nprofession so that Chiaki of the past ( _when they were in high school_ )\ncould come and see the painting he had wanted to see.\n\nIn fact Chiaki said that the painting record's were found in that particular\nera.After that the painting was not found.That means makato was actually aunty\nwitch who time leaped to do the restoration so that chiaki in the future could\nsee it.also she had mentioned that she has done time leaping in past.Also in\nthe movie aunty witch's identity was very little known and she was a\nmysterious person......she have a very few friends.\n\nShe also had shown no anxiety when she heard makato telling about her\naccident.{because she knows that makato( _\" **herself** \" as i have\nexplained_)would not die.( _unless she actually is not a witch lol_ ).And that\npainting is important because it will make chiaki from the future to time leap\nand he would meet makato}.Makato even in the ending had said that she had\nfound out what she wanted to do in the future but it was a secret...and the\nprofession she would take is restoration of paintings and she would end up\nbeing aunty witch in future and chiaki would have came again to meet her and\nwould have give her the time leaps {or somehow she manages to get them to\nreturn to the time of her high school life when the painting was there to\nrestore so that makato of the past could meet chiaki and it will be an endless\nripple{it may sounds odd but in my opinion if makata of future leaps back to\nthe past then the past makata when she would reach in that time of future\nmakata had made the time leap she would time leap again and it would create an\nendless ripple}.\n\nI am not sure if Makato would ever meet chiaki in the future but as aunty\nwitch she waits for him and she restores the painting in hope that even if he\ndoesn't meet her in the future she would restore the painting so that the\nfuture Chiaki when he would make the time leap would able to meet Makato\n'herself'again in the past.\n\nsorry it is long and boring and my English is terrible.....\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-01-03T11:26:20.697", "id": "28634", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-06T12:29:06.113", "last_edit_date": "2016-01-06T12:29:06.113", "last_editor_user_id": "15276", "owner_user_id": "20172", "parent_id": "3269", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI just happened to be looking for “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time” on DVD,\nsince mine was badly damaged, when I came across this site. After reading\neveryone’s comments, I came to realize that everyone seems to be missing the\nsame information. I’d like to help everyone out.\n\nFirst off, “Auntie Witch” is NOT a future version of Makoto Konno; her name is\nKazuko Yoshiyama. What no one seems to know is that this movie (aka: “Toki o\nKakeru Shōjo”), which was written by Satoko Okudera in 2006, is a sequel to a\nbook by the same name written by Yasutaka Tsutsui in 1965. This movie also has\na manga form by Ranmaru Kotone also in 2006, which has an extended ending;\nwith what came after Makoto and Chiaki say their goodbyes.\n\nIn the book, after an incident in the science lab, 15 year old Kazuko\ndiscovers that she has the ability to time leap. She tells her two classmates\nand best friends, Goro Asakura, Kazuo Fukamachi and her science teacher, Mr.\nFukushima about it in the hopes that they can help her figure things out.\n\nLater, like Makoto, Kazuko discovers that one of her friends is a time\ntraveler; of course, I’m not going to tell you which one it is. ^-^\n\nThis time traveler tells Kazuko that he was born in 2649 and that he came from\nthe year 2660; which would make him 11 years old, though he doesn’t look it,\nand that he is a university student studying pharmaceutical science. He\nexplains that chemicals were being developed that could bring out latent\nabilities in humans; physical, telekinetic and psychological powers. He\nexplains that he was experimenting with a compound that would allow him to\ntime travel and he got stuck in the past but that he had managed to replicate\nhis work and could now return to his time. He also explains that the incident\nin the science lab that exposed her to the compound was his fault and that he\nnever intended for Kazuko to experience all these strange things.\n\nKazuko asks him to stay but he explains that he couldn’t because time travel\nconfuses history and that there is a law in his time that forbids them from\ntelling people in the past about time travel. As a result, he explains that he\nwill have to erase Kazuko’s and everyone else’s memories of him. Kazuko asks\nhim if he would ever return to her time, would she ever see him again and he\npromised that he would come back and that he would come see her; “when I\nfinished my research, when I succeed in making the potion.”\n\nIn the end, even though the time traveler erased Kazuko’s memories, she was\nable to regain her memories of not only him but everything about time travel\nand what he told her about the future.\n\nIn the movie, it’s not known whether Kazuko really is Makoto’s biological aunt\nor just a close family friend. Either way, Kazuko decided to get a job at the\nTokyo National Museum and restores old works of art. It’s clear that she made\nthe same promise to the future that Makoto will make; to preserve history for\nthe sake of the future.\n\nTHEORIES\n\nAlthough Makoto used a device to obtain the ability to time leap, Kazuko had\nthe ability inside her the whole time; a latent ability brought out by the\ncompound. Since every time Makoto went back her leap counter would decrease,\nit’s clear that no matter how far back she went she would never get her leaps\nback. It is my theory that Kazuko recharged Makoto, giving her one more time\nleap.\n\nNow, like in the movie, there is a “stopped time” scene in the book; the\ntraveler uses a device to accomplish this feat. Kazuko makes the comment that\ntime had “stopped” and the traveler corrected her, explaining that they were\ntraveling back in time at the same speed that time is moving forward; this is\na sound theory in quantum studies. Since Chiaki only had one time leap left,\nit’s logical to assume that he had a similar device with him to use if he\nneeded to. Or something similar to the “stopped time” device was formulated\nand the technology was integrated into the time-leaping ability; Makoto would\nnot have this ability, as she only came in contact with the recharge device.\n(Quantum Theory: breaking the sound barrier creates a sonic boom, breaking the\nlight barrier slows and/or stops time, breaking the time barrier distorts\ntime; allowing for one to move backward or forward in time.)\n\nI’ve noticed that a lot of people couldn’t understand how Chiaki saved Kousuke\nand Kaho from being hit by the train when he only had one time leap left. The\nanswer is simple: The day after the accident, Makoto was so grief stricken\nthat Chiaki couldn’t bear it and went back in time, using his last leap. The\nquestion is: what time did he go to? Answer: Kaho hurt her ankle and Kousuke\nborrowed the bike to take her to his family’s medical clinic and that after\nleaving the clinic the accident occurred at 4pm. Chiaki went back in time with\nthe destroyed bike; since in the story, time self-corrects, there was no\nparadox. Chiaki went to 4pm and instead of landing at that time he drew in\nMakoto and took her with him through time to 3:30pm; he made a double leap\nbackward to the moment before he had called Makoto and asked her about time-\nleaping. The bike disappears while Kousuke and Kaho were in the clinic,\nthusly, no bike, no accident and the bike with Chiaki was restored.\nImmediately upon landing in the past at 3:30pm, Chiaki used the “stopped time”\ntechnology and enveloped himself and Makoto in its time field; like with the\nbike, time self-corrected and Makoto’s injuries were erased. In addition, with\ntime held in place, paused, and Makoto in this “stopped time” it allowed her\nto retain her memory of the accident instead of rewriting it.\n\nChiaki’s last words: “I’ll be waiting for you” and Makoto’s reply: “I won’t be\nlong. I’ll come running”. I found that some people were taking these words too\nliterally. When Chiaki said that he’ll be waiting, he meant that he will look\nthrough records to find the things that Makoto had promised to preserve for\nthe future; like the painting. When Makoto said that she won’t be long and\nthat she’ll come running, she meant that she’ll work hard and do what she can\nfor the sake of the people in the future. What they said was like someone\nsaying “see you later” instead of “goodbye”, because the finality of it is\njust too much to bear.\n\nI hope this post makes things clearer for everyone. See you later. ^-^\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-03-03T18:10:40.473", "id": "51032", "last_activity_date": "2019-03-03T18:10:40.473", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "45245", "parent_id": "3269", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't think it can. \nFor instance: in the starting Naruto episodes, when Kakashi was trapped in a\nwater ball by Zabuza, he could not get out until Naruto intervened (the first\ntime it was shown that he could use his brain).\n\nSo I don't think Jutsu can pass through a Jutsu created barrier, but can break\nthrough if its weaker (kind of obvious). In other words, when Jutsu clash, it\nmust be the battle of chakras between the barrier caster(s) and the one\ntrapped.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-30T10:32:01.140", "id": "3970", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-30T10:57:47.317", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-30T10:57:47.317", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "1839", "parent_id": "3271", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe word \"Chibi\" (ちび or チビ), means \"short person\" or a \"small child\".\n\nLouise is the vertically challenged youngest sister in the family. So it makes\nperfect sense for her older sisters to poke fun at her with the name \"Chibi-\nLouise\". (or \"short Louise\")\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-07T02:43:49.707", "id": "3276", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-07T02:43:49.707", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "17", "parent_id": "3272", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nL was killed by a Death Note (Rem's). When someone is killed by a Shinigami's\nDeath Note, the remaining life span is added to the Shinigami's life. This\nmeans the life span seen using the Shinigami eyes doesn't account for deaths\ncaused by the Death Note (since that difference is added to their life). The\nimportant part of what the Shinigami eyes does for Misa is that she can see\nL's real name.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-06T16:25:51.283", "id": "3274", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-06T16:25:51.283", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "3273", "post_type": "answer", "score": 27 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBlood type in Japan is associated with temperance or personality. On Facebook\nin Japan, as well as Wikipedia and matchmaking sites, blood type can be\nlisted. Many horoscopes and matchmaking services also use blood type to match\npeople together.\n\nAccording to\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_types_in_Japanese_culture):\n\n> It is common among anime and manga authors to mention their character's\n> blood types, and to give their characters corresponding blood types to match\n> their personalities. Some video game characters also have known blood types.\n> In addition, it is common for video game series to allow for blood type as\n> an option in their creation modes.\n\nThe associated personality traits (from the chart\n[here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_types_in_Japanese_culture)):\n\n * A \n * Better traits: Earnest, creative, sensible, reserved, patient, responsible\n * Worse traits: Fastidious, overearnest, stubborn, tense\n * B \n * Better traits: Wild, active, doer, creative, passionate, strong\n * Worse traits: Selfish, irresponsible, unforgiving, erratic\n * AB \n * Better traits: Cool, controlled, rational, sociable, adaptable\n * Worse traits: Critical, indecisive, forgetful, irresponsible, \"split personality\"\n * O \n * Better traits: Confident, self-determined, optimistic, strong-willed, intuitive\n * Worse traits: Self-centered, cold, doubtful, unpredictable, \"workaholic\"\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-07T02:50:13.193", "id": "3279", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-08T02:42:26.807", "last_edit_date": "2013-04-08T02:42:26.807", "last_editor_user_id": "93", "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "3275", "post_type": "answer", "score": 21 }, { "body": "\n\n### Overview\n\nBlood type carries a significant weight in Japanese culture, so much so that\nJapanese are often surprised when people of other origins are not familiar\nwith their blood type. In their culture, they associate every blood type with\na certain personality and demeanor.\n\nThere is an [interesting\nhistory](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_types_in_Japanese_culture#History)\nbehind blood types; in 1900, A, B, and O were initially pinned down; more than\ntwenty years later, in multiple reports over a number of years, there were\nlinks made between specific racial traits and blood type (such as the\nrebelliousness of the Taiwanese, who have a majority of O-type). As a result,\nand ever since, the blood type of people has been indicative of other traits\nas well.\n\n### Relationships\n\nEven now-a-days, blood types are uesd in Japanese culture. This can go to such\nan extent that it's common for young women to select husbands based on it.\nThere are even compatibility suggestions, which I've put in a chart below:\n\n (\n_Compiled from JapanToday's\narticle[[1]](http://www.japantoday.com/category/lifestyle/view/the-importance-\nof-blood-type-in-japanese-culture)_)\n\n### Traits\n\nThe personality traits that are determined by a blood type are usually\nconsistent between negative and positive blood type. (I focused mostly on the\npositive traits; [@kuwaly](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/93/kuwaly)\n[mentioned](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/3279/274), some more negative\nones.) Some of the more dominant traits\nare[[1]](http://www.japantoday.com/category/lifestyle/view/the-importance-of-\nblood-type-in-japanese-culture):\n\nType A\n\n * Cautious\n * Empathetic\n * Kind\n * Good host\n * Quiet (to prevent arguments)\n * Honor student material\n * Big on cleanliness\n * Hard working\n\nType B\n\n * Independent\n * Agressive\n * Optimistic\n * Friendly and open\n * Humble\n * Afraid of being alone\n * Flexible thinker\n * Like to play\n\nType AB\n\n * Dream chasers\n * Don't desire success as much\n * Strong spiritually\n * Calm and rational\n * Sensitive and easily hurt\n * Private life is important\n * Pursue a variety of interests\n * Have unique ideas and are creative\n\nType O\n\n * Realistic\n * Vigorous at earning a living\n * Strong in face of adversity\n * Romanticists\n * Ambitious\n * Very cautious\n * Don't care about small things\n * Devoted\n\nThe [article I've been\nsourcing](http://www.japantoday.com/category/lifestyle/view/the-importance-of-\nblood-type-in-japanese-culture) has even more on this, including recommended\ndiets and exercises for the various blood types.\n\n### Why assign one to a character?\n\nTo the original question: Why assign a blood type to a character? Well, you\ncan almost think of it like assigning an astrological sign or even a body\nbuild; these characteristics tend to define a character as much as the blood\ntype does (in Japanese media). Not only does it become part of that\ncharacter's identity, but it helps to define them both to the creators and to\nthe viewers.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-08T02:37:22.913", "id": "3285", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-08T02:37:22.913", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "3275", "post_type": "answer", "score": 21 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs per this [link](http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Bloodbending) Bloodbending has\na lot of potential to be used in specific ways. One of the effects is Bending\nsevering :\n\n> **Bending severing** :\n>\n> Bloodbending can be used to completely cut off a bender from his or her\n> bending abilities, achieving the same effect as\n> [energybending](http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Energybending). This technique\n> has only been demonstrated by Amon and requires direct physical contact\n> between the user's hand and the victim's forehead. The effects of this\n> technique are long-standing, and, unlike [chi\n> blocking](http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Chi_blocking), it cannot be easily\n> undone. According to Katara, the technique \"severs\" an individual from his\n> or her bending, making it impervious to all methods of healing. Even so,\n> only active chi pathways can be severed; Korra was able to use airbending\n> because it was still dormant when her other bending abilities were removed.\n> However, the severed bending can be restored through the use of\n> energybending, as shown by Aang and Korra\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-08T05:51:38.300", "id": "3289", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-08T05:51:38.300", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1579", "parent_id": "3280", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOrochimaru tried to summon the Fourth Hokage. The coffin did not open, because\n(as you already said) the Fourth Hokage was already sealed. Orochimaru tried\nto summon him anyway, and failed.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-08T07:03:12.057", "id": "3290", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-07T06:17:04.997", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-07T06:17:04.997", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "3281", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nAs can be seen on this image, it was indeed the 4th Hokage that Orochimaru\ntried to summon.\n\n\n\nThe kanji that appears in that coffin is\n[四](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%9B%9B#Japanese), which is the kanji for\n4.\n\nHowever, unlike you said in your question, **Hiruzen did not stop** this\ncoffin. It was the fact that the 4th Hokage was sealed with the **Shiki Fuujin\nthat prevented that summoning**.\n\n", "comment_count": 8, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-08T08:53:51.123", "id": "3291", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-07T05:45:36.190", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-07T05:45:36.190", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "3281", "post_type": "answer", "score": 25 }, { "body": "\n\nI see a lot of pro Fourth Hokage for who's in the coffin throughout all the\nNaruto posts. Personally, I believe this could have been **Madara**. Maybe\noriginally in the series, it was meant to be the Fourth by how the first two\nwere former Hokage, but as for current timeline, it was established the Fourth\nwas trapped by the Death Seal so he could not be revived without the ritual\nOrochimaru had to perform much later in the series. However, Kabuto did have\nMadara's coffin in the war which is probably a good indicator that it was\nprobably the 3rd coffin Orochimaru was going to use and why the 3rd was afraid\nof it.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-15T20:02:07.300", "id": "12862", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-07T06:15:04.897", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-07T06:15:04.897", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "7597", "parent_id": "3281", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nOrochimaru, one of the legendary sanin might knew that the souls trapped by\nreaper death seal cannot be summoned. So, there was no 4th hokage. However,\nthe kanji on the coffin reads 4. It might be possible that there was 4th\nkazekage who was killed by orochimaru before the invasion on konoha.\nFortunately, hiruzen able to stop it by performing some hand seals.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-14T17:42:17.873", "id": "15086", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-14T17:49:25.197", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-14T17:49:25.197", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "9168", "parent_id": "3281", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nYes, it was the Fourth and it didn't fail because he was already sealed, as\nlater on (much later) Orochimaru summons the Fourth and the Third to fight in\nChapter 329, I believe (not certain which episode).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-15T03:27:15.140", "id": "19370", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-07T06:16:07.017", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-07T06:16:07.017", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "11729", "parent_id": "3281", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is a way to be the Fourth, but very unlikely. In the anime, probably in\nthe manga as well, Kabuto taught Obito Edo Tensei. He got Danzou's bodyguards\nto show an example. He kills one of them, take his DNA and start the ritual.\nAfter it's complete, the dead guy is standing there, but he's not moving. That\nmakes me think that only the body was there, and not the shinobi's soul or\nmind. As we saw in the [Chikara](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Power_%28Arc%29)\nfiller arc, Kabuto tried to use some of the Akatsuki members but failed,\nsaying that it was not enough time to use it yet. That could mean that between\nsuccessive the ritual, there is a cooldown time, maybe the time for his mind\nor soul take control of the host. Considering this, the most probable thing is\nthat it was the Fourth, but the ritual was made not so far in the past.\nOrochimaru did complete the ritual, and had Minato, but he couldn't use him\nright away. He tried to summon him on the fight, but because of the Shiki\nFuujin, the host was not taken over by Minato's soul or mind. Either\nOrochimaru didn't know about the sealing or didn't know about the cooldown\ntime. Minato died protecting the village, but many didn't know how. Orochimaru\nmaybe didn't know he was sealed, and that made the coffin to failed and he\nbeing surprised in the fight.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-12T21:43:48.000", "id": "20004", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-07T06:02:23.420", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-07T06:02:23.420", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "13202", "parent_id": "3281", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe coffin said 4 but it never specified it was a hokage. It could have been\nthe kazekage that Orochimaru killed and impersonated during the exams. We were\nall under the assumption that it was a hokage because of the first and second,\nbut it could have easily have been the kazekage.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-31T20:55:11.337", "id": "23708", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-31T20:55:11.337", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "16002", "parent_id": "3281", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe _Kimi ni Todoke_ anime starts at Chapter 1 and covers up to (Vol. 7)\nChapter 27 or the first season. The second season technically ends at (Vol.\n11) Chapter 43 of the manga, since Chapter 44 is a recap from Kazehaya's point\nof view. Their first date takes place in Chapter 46, but it's a bit different\ncompared to final scene of Kimi ni Todoke 2nd Season.\n\nThe anime stays pretty faithful to the manga so nothing major was left out. I\nbelieve they ended it here, because there wasn't enough material to adapt to\nanother season. So if you wanted to continue where the 2nd Season left off,\nyou should start with Chapter 44/45.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-23T21:14:13.150", "id": "3513", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-24T03:12:24.890", "last_edit_date": "2013-04-24T03:12:24.890", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3282", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe manga never explains why exactly he is so fond of Mr. Wilde. It is\npossible that he views him as a pervy role model and inspiration, being\nnotorious for his (homo)sexual shenanigans. Yet I don't think this is the main\nreason, since this is a het ecchi series, which tend to view homosexuality as\nsquick.\n\nIt is more likely a reference to the nature of Wilde's works, which Yokodera\nhas almost certainly read, given how often he quotes from them. They tend to\nfocus on similar issues to the ones he's facing: e.g., [The Importance of\nBeing Earnest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Importance_of_Being_Earnest)\ndeals with matters of saving face, when to lie and not, the purpose and\nfunctions of social graces and hierarchy, and of course, How To Get The Girl!\nNot to mention the tone is almost always light, irreverent and satirical of\nhis \"social betters\". All of this mirrors issues within his own life, and so\nhe likely feels Wilde is a kindred spirit. (And not least, he's a very\nentertaining author to read, and eminently quotable for every occasion!)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-16T02:17:46.283", "id": "24119", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-16T02:17:46.283", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "16253", "parent_id": "3283", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs per [the article on Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maken-ki!):\n\n> However, he learns that the school is for students who possess _magical and\n> spiritual energies_ called **Elements** and who wield _crafted weapons_\n> known as **Makens**.\n\n**Elements** are: magical and spiritual energies\n\n**Makens** are: crafted weapons\n\nAlso as mentioned [on\nTVTropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/MakenKi?from=Main.Maken-\nki):\n\n> ..... where the only students admitted are those who are able to **control a\n> source of energy found in all living things called \"Element\"**. Manipulating\n> those \"elements\", they are capable to perform common psychic ability like\n> psychokinesis..., to enhance their physical abilities and to be able to use\n> **magical artifacts called Maken**. These Maken give the users specific and\n> varied abilities, like superstrength, turning one's body into steel,\n> manipulating water...\n>\n> There are two types of Maken, external and internal. External Makens look\n> like normal weapons and add-ons, while internal maken are embedded inside\n> the user's body. Since they are powerful artifacts used by ancient gods,\n> students normally do not have true (i.e. original) Makens, but only use\n> imitated Makens that are forged by resident Maken-smith Gen Tagayashi.\n\nSo **Makens** are the way to use the energy within the so-called **Elements**.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-08T05:42:53.943", "id": "3288", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-08T15:13:10.010", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1579", "parent_id": "3284", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's related to the color-coordination of each superhero's costume. Each\ncharacters has a color they identify with:\n\n\n\nBarnaby Brooks Jr., a.k.a. \"Bunny\" is White (with Red).\n\n\n\nKotetsu T. Kaburagi, a.k.a. \"Wild Tiger\" is Yellow (with White and Green).\n\n\n\nAntonio Lopez, a.k.a. \"Rock Bison\" is Green.\n\nYuri Petrov, a villain known as \"Lunatic,\" is Black.\n\nSide note: the fried rice is a reference to how Bunny finally learns how to\nmake fried rice (Kotetsu's favorite food).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-08T04:14:08.913", "id": "3287", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-08T04:21:09.737", "last_edit_date": "2013-04-08T04:21:09.737", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3286", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe English version does things chronologically, blending and splicing a lot\nof events together that were left as flash backs in the Japanese version into\nthe beginning of the English version. So the Japanese one does kinda start at\n\"episode 2\", throwing you directly into the action and getting to the boring\nbits later, at least to my knowledge.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-17T04:00:21.133", "id": "19423", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-17T04:00:21.133", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11769", "parent_id": "3292", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThere was actually a different episode 1 dub when it aired on Fox Kids in\nAustralia, which was the first episode in the Japanese one. For some reason,\none of the companies may have lost the first real episode 1 english dub and\ncreated that patched together Jetix episode to replace it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-05-14T01:29:12.347", "id": "57547", "last_activity_date": "2020-05-14T01:29:12.347", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "53320", "parent_id": "3292", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI've just re-watched the scene in the anime where that happened, and it looked\nto me like the death god was clearly pulling on the part of Orochimaru's\nspirit that controls his arms(you can see hands at the end). That just happens\nto be where the death god was pulling on, and it happens to only have been\npulled out to his elbows or so.\n\nMaybe the 3rd drew the arms out on purpose because he deemed that to be the\neasiest or most effective thing to pull out first in-case he only had to\npartially do the job.\n\nThere's really not much more to it than that.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-09T03:36:37.577", "id": "3297", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-26T20:03:24.813", "last_edit_date": "2013-04-26T20:03:24.813", "last_editor_user_id": "260", "owner_user_id": "260", "parent_id": "3296", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nIf you believe in how a soul works, then it's linked to all bodily functions.\n\nIf you were to lose the use of your legs, as long as your soul isn't damaged\nyou can one day use your legs regardless. In Orochimaru's case, because\nSaratobi (the Third Hokage) was nearing death and was losing strength to even\nhold Orochimaru's soul, and that by even using the jutsu Saratobi had ended\nhis own life; so, all Orochimaru needed to do was get free from his grasp to\nbe the victor. Thus, he aimed for Orochimaru's arms as a means to stop him\nfrom ever using jutsu again, which would be a death sentence for him because\nit would mean that he could perform whatever jutsu he uses to change bodies\n\nThing is, Kabuto must have came up with something to allow Orochimaru to\nswitch bodies and repair the damage to his soul, because even if there was\nanother way for Orochimaru to jump bodies, the damage to his soul would have\nprevented him using his arms. I'm quite sure when he fights Naruto, and Naruto\nuses the Nine-Tails' Cloak, he's using his arms (though I could be mistaken,\nit's been a few months since I watched it).\n\nAs for how cutting a blob removes the use of his arms, Saratobi must have been\nable to \"feel out\" Orochimaru's arms and pull them out. In some anime and\ngames, the soul has the same shape as the physical body with it being anchored\nto the head and feet so when you pull from the chest it kinda looks like\nyou're pulling on a bow string. This could be similar; I just passed that part\noff as a Kage just being awesome to begin with.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-26T02:03:05.683", "id": "3543", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-26T02:47:39.493", "last_edit_date": "2013-04-26T02:47:39.493", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "3296", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's pretty difficult to find information about Earth Star Entertainment, but\nfrom what I can tell, I don't see any similarities. According to its\n[website](http://earthstar.jp/company.php), it was established in 2006 and its\ncurrent director is Masashi Kikuta and the president is K. Makuuchi. Masashi\nis a man's name, so presumably, Masashi Kikuta is a man. The major affiliated\ntalent for the anime is a woman, but there doesn't seem to be any specific\nlink to anything that you mentioned.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-11T21:57:33.253", "id": "3342", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-11T21:57:33.253", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "3298", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are still talking animals in Dragon Ball Z, in the episode [Plight of\nthe children](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Plight_of_the_Children), the\npolice officer is an animal, and some of the children are too.\n\nAlso, near the end of the Cell Saga, you had a cut to the King of the Earth (a\ndog), commenting on how much adult Goku, looked like the child Goku who killed\nKing Piccolo.\n\n* * *\n\nBut the number of talking animals did indeed get reduced.\n\nIt kinda goes with the direction Dragon Ball was taking. It was moving away\nfrom being a fanciful, light-hearted comedy to a more serious fighting shonen,\nand the talking animals fit less and less to the story.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-09T16:42:34.563", "id": "3303", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-05T10:54:56.480", "last_edit_date": "2015-07-05T10:54:56.480", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "260", "parent_id": "3299", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nIn Dragon Ball, [17% of the population of earth are\nanimals](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Animal#Overview). Even the king of\nearth is a blue dog. The reason they stopped showing them is because DBZ was\nmainly set in places like the South City and Ginger Town. Those were mainly\npopulated by humans because animals are only found in the more city-like\nplaces, like the West City (That's where the World Tournament takes place and\nwhere Capsule Corp is).\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-01T01:14:35.780", "id": "17218", "last_activity_date": "2016-04-21T06:34:37.413", "last_edit_date": "2016-04-21T06:34:37.413", "last_editor_user_id": "7579", "owner_user_id": "10959", "parent_id": "3299", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe shopkeeper said it was over if he got caught in the web, which happened.\nYou could see the blue glare under the guy's eyes, which means he wasn't\nhimself anymore. He snapped out of it before because the girl got hurt, but\nafter he got caught in the web again he was being controlled(?) again.So maybe\nthe spider-girl is now manipulating Suzuri and he's thinking she is Mizuki\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-09T09:21:02.220", "id": "3302", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-09T09:42:39.343", "last_edit_date": "2013-04-09T09:42:39.343", "last_editor_user_id": "1579", "owner_user_id": "1579", "parent_id": "3301", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nYes, Suzuri was caught by the web after Mizuki fell into the lake. My guess is\nthat she was eaten or whatever by the spider-mum and the girl who was with\nSuzuri was the spider-girl. Because, if you did notice, at the scene where she\nlet Mizuki fall from the web, the spider-girl looked more mature and grown up.\nSo she probably cut her hair to look like Mizuki afterwards but I doubt that\nthe girl with Suzuri at the ending was Mizuki.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-16T17:48:41.217", "id": "4378", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-16T17:48:41.217", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2029", "parent_id": "3301", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nJudging by the monster-wife the older shopkeeper seemed to have at the end,\nthe story was more of a \"Selkie\" story.\n\nThe Spider-mom would attack the village if not given a sacrifice, until the\nmonk sealed her in the lake.\n\nThe Spider-girl would take control of people using her webs, and force them to\nwalk into the lake to feed her mom.\n\nIt seems that Suzuri was originally going to be sacrificed, but the Spider-\ngirl had A: Fallen for him, or B: wanted to repay his kindness and thus fed\nMizuki to the Spider-mom and took her role as Suzuri's companion in Mizuki's\nform.\n\nLots of legends, both Japanese and European tell of women that were originally\nspirits, animals, or both, that can take on human form to be the wife of a\nhuman, such as Selkies or the Legend of the Swan. Usually the myths end with\nthe spirit wanting to return home, either leaving the husband or in some\nversions taking him with them.\n\nAs aficionados of old books, legends and myths, the two book-sellers would be\nfamiliar with these legends, as hinted at with the older man's \"Wife\" seen in\nthe last few shots.\n\nWhether there was any romantic reasons for the Spider-girl staying with Suzuri\ndoesn't matter; most likely, she was using him to eventually find more food\nfor her trapped mother. It's mostly left up to the viewer what the Spider-\nGirl's intentions were and why she is staying with Suzuri in Mizuki's form.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-16T02:56:03.237", "id": "19386", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-16T03:09:57.923", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-16T03:09:57.923", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "11738", "parent_id": "3301", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAll the answers before this are pretty spot on. \"Don't fall in the web\". Both\nSuzuri and Geppou were \"ensnared\"/infatuated in some way by monster people;\nSuzuri by the Spider girl and Geppou by an unknown one (slime/mist?)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-11-27T16:22:30.963", "id": "37542", "last_activity_date": "2016-11-27T16:22:30.963", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29482", "parent_id": "3301", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nwell I don't think so, cause the spider girl is more likely a youkai which\nmeans some spirit ghost creature. I believe the girl at the end is Mizuki\ntransformed or possessed by the spider girl. Just the last frames make me\nbelieve its likely so, its starts as Mizuki grow longer hair changes hair\ncolour and so on.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-24T11:57:36.873", "id": "38584", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-24T23:40:04.610", "last_edit_date": "2017-01-24T23:40:04.610", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "30505", "parent_id": "3301", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI think Mizuki and spider-girl changed places spider-mon didn't seen mad, and\ngently go back to the lake after Mizuki's Fall .\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-25T01:49:12.970", "id": "38599", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-25T01:49:12.970", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30519", "parent_id": "3301", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nKeep in mind that the previous martial arts tournament took place in another,\nor more specifically the previous, series, DragonBall. They are all grown up\nor older in DBZ. Goku and Gohan appeared there as SSJ. No one recognized Gohan\nwhen he was SSJ (when he met Videl for example). _As for Tien, Piccolo and the\nothers, it can only be assumed that they were simply 'nobodies' as you said,\nno one would know them_.\n\nThey were major characters in DB but not as much in DBZ. Piccolo has appeared\nseveral times after that to people and on the occasion where he was trying to\npersuade the humans to give their energy to Goku, people ran from him and\ncalled him a monster. Only a few of the more important characters recognized\nthem, the army general and an elderly couple recognized Goku and years later\nVidel remembered Gohan. Also remember that the Cell Games were being\nbroadcasted for roughly about 1/5 of the entire length of the full fight as\nthe video camera was destroyed and also keep in mind that the camera was\nmainly focused on Goku for the short period the event was being aired, it\nmerely skimmed over the others.\n\n**So I will conclude by saying that there is no definitive answer to this, but\nthe fact that they weren't perceived generally as major _major_ characters in\nthe plot and as such would not be recognized by anyone in the general human\npopulace.**\n\n", "comment_count": 9, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-09T20:11:48.603", "id": "3307", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-04T07:51:28.717", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-04T07:51:28.717", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "1528", "parent_id": "3304", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nCommon people in DBZ don't generally outright celebrate people unless they are\nconstantly bombarded in the mainstream media. Like Mr. Satan for example. He\nwas always on television and groomed to be a hero by himself and his cohorts.\nHe used his money from winning the tournament (no Z warriors participated) as\nmachinery for his hype. The Z warriors don't have such interest.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-10T09:16:55.990", "id": "4091", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-06T12:33:47.560", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-06T12:33:47.560", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "1725", "parent_id": "3304", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nHere are some reasons:\n\n * All the focus was on Cell, who was going to destroy the world, and Hercule, the world's champion. The king of the world somewhat recognized Goku as the boy who defeated King Piccolo (but did not fully make the connection because he was a SS) and the announcer knew that they defeated Cell. Relatively, only Goku was (barely) recorded fighting Cell. \n\nAnd, they were all considered crazy (Piccolo being green and Tien having a\nthird eye may not have helped) for showing up to fight Cell, and were not\ntaken as serious fighters.\n\n * The Z Fighters only appeared in the tournament no more than 3 times. And I can't think of a time that they were recognized by some random person.\n * When Piccolo entered the next tournament, he was worried that his name would be recognized, but was not concerned with his appearance, in fact non of them were (expect Gohan, but his reasons were different). So they didn't expect to be recognized, perhaps because too much time had past.\n * Dragon Ball Z is different from Dragon Ball. All of their tournament appearances happened in the latter. And there are a lot of other inconsistencies (like Piccolo being a demon)\n\nSo it may have been because the focus was on Hercule, the Z Fighters were not\ntaken seriously, too much time has past, and, more likely, that Dragon Ball Z\nis just not Dragon Ball.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-10-16T02:34:13.137", "id": "5494", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-06T18:42:27.020", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-06T18:42:27.020", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2100", "parent_id": "3304", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Z fighters weren't recognized during the Cell games because they had never\nhad extensive media coverage done on them before.\n\nThe Tenkaichi Budokai was never filmed, but I'm sure that some people who\nattended might have recognized the uniforms and hairstyles (or lack thereof),\nbut that wasn't really a huge group of people.\n\nIt was later revealed that the announcer had barely recognized Goku and\nPiccolo. At that time, Mr. Satan was the majority winner of all the Budokai(s)\nthereafter. He was basically the Mayweather of the time. Totally undefeated in\nthe ring, the common people of the world assumed he was the strongest.\n\nAs you can see, the anime makes a lot more inconsistencies than the manga. In\nthe manga, Goku had never been caught on camera anywhere before the Cell\ngames. That whole bit of Goku being given the key to the world after defeating\nDemon King Piccolo didn't happen in the manga. The King actually took off and\nleft Goku, a child, to fight Piccolo alone. Bulma and co. showed up later\nafter Goku had already left called the media, and told them that the world was\nsaved by the forces of good.\n\nSo the aside from the two second place fights and one first place fight at the\nBudokai Tenkaichi, Goku had not been seen by the entire world before. He had\nonly a few martial arts fans before the tournament became as mainstream as it\neventually became. How can you recognize someone you've never really seen,\nright? Vegeta had appeared on camera once during the Saiyan Saga, and the same\nfor some of our heroes, but only very briefly. Gohan's appearance changed\ndramatically. Trunks was from the future so nobody recognized him. Krillin\nshould have been recognized because he didn't grow much from child to adult.\n\nThat's probably the best answer anyone can give. I saw some other posts that\ngave really good answers and you shot them down. I don't see why. It's a\ncartoon. I don't know what you expect.\n\nPlus, I think it would be better to ask: **Why weren't the Z Fighters\nrecognized from the Cell games during the tournament prior to the Buu Saga?**\n\nTo me, that's a much better question, because they had actually been seen on\nTV at that point. Plus, there were little mascot people doing shows at the\ntournament, who strongly resembled all the Z Fighters. You will be made to\nthink that someone would have put two and two together by then. However, it's\ncompletely understandable for anyone who holds the manga in higher regard than\nthe anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-06T01:47:11.503", "id": "21357", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-06T18:39:29.253", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-06T18:39:29.253", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "14292", "parent_id": "3304", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs [@Krazer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/63/krazer) [mentioned\nabove](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3306/satisfaction-guaranteed-\nwas-anything-past-volume-7-ever-released-in-english#comment2533_3306),\n_Satisfaction Guaranteed_ was one of the projects that\n[Tokyopop](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyopop) was publishing. However, in\n2011, the company was shut down, and the publishing of the project went along\nwith it.\n\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfaction_Guaranteed_\\(manga\\)#Manga)\ncites volume 7 as being the last (English) release as of July 31, 2010.\nAccording to AnimeNewsNetwork, there is a [theoretical volume\n8](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/releases.php?id=11625) in\nEnglish; however, that information was posted prior to the suggested release\ndate of the volume, and it appears to have never come to fruition.\n\nSo it does seem that volume 7 is the last official English version. You'll\nprobably have better luck looking for a Chinese or Japanese version (even\nEnglish fan translations past volume 3 appear to be scarce*).\n\n* Unfortunately, we [cannot link](https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/q/389/274) to scanlations or online readers for legal reasons.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-10T01:35:03.707", "id": "3315", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-10T02:06:08.207", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "3306", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHe simply has **no talent whatsoever for it**. However, since he decided to be\na great ninja nonetheless, he had to excel at Taijutsu.\n\n> Taijutsu - it was the only bright spot for Lee who was told unequivocally\n> that he had no talent for being a shinobi. 1\n\nOrdinarily, the **inability to perform both Ninjutsu and Genjutsu would mean\nthat life as a ninja would be impossible**. But in Lee's case, his closeness\nto Gai as his Sensei, made him somewhat 'inherit' his hard-working resolve as\nwell as his training habits, which combined (also with Gai interest in Lee)\nhave allowed him to fulfill his dream.\n\nLee's case is similar to Naruto's, in that they both achieve greatness through\nhard-work, rather than natural talent. \nSome people are naturally gifted toward some types of technique, like Neji or\nSasuke, while others may never have any talent and thus not be fit to become a\nninja. Lee's case is the latter, but his **determination was what drove him to\nnot give up** , becoming an excellent ninja at Taijutsu. \nHe differs from a regular person, most likely, in sheer will, since (as I've\nsaid before) **not every person is fit to be a ninja**.\n\n* * *\n\n1 [Naruto: The Official Character Data Book](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Naruto-\nOfficial-Character-Data-\nBook/dp/1421541254/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1365547882&sr=8-1&keywords=naruto+official)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-09T22:52:33.453", "id": "3311", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-09T23:04:01.323", "last_edit_date": "2013-04-09T23:04:01.323", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "3308", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nIf I recall correctly it has something to do with the lack of physical\ndevelopment in his \"chakra coils\", meaning he couldn't produce or control\nchakra like an average ninja can.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-01T21:12:41.290", "id": "3991", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-06T08:48:36.993", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-06T08:48:36.993", "last_editor_user_id": "88", "owner_user_id": "1846", "parent_id": "3308", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the Naruto universe, only a few are born with the talents of Ninjutsu and\nGenjutsu. You must have noticed that not all in the Hidden Leaf village are\nninjas as they don't possess those skills to manipulate their and others\nchakra. Hidden Leaf in the Shinobi village of the Fire Country and yet not all\nare ninjas. In the Shinobi Allied Forces, around 30,000 shonobis were there\nwhich included ninjas from all 5 nations' villages. So you get the idea that\namong a population of millions only 30,000 were fit to be ninjas.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-11T16:23:00.377", "id": "4099", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-11T16:23:00.377", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1876", "parent_id": "3308", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe nibi was sealed in episode 81 of Naruto Shippuuden, _Sad News_. The whole\nmission starts in episode 71, _My Friend_ , when Akatsuki starts chasing the\nnibi.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-10T08:21:27.427", "id": "3318", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-10T09:09:37.080", "last_edit_date": "2013-04-10T09:09:37.080", "last_editor_user_id": "88", "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "3313", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe difference is that those are different stages of transformation, or\ndifferent Jinchuuriki forms. \nAs you probably have seen, Killer B can also do a partial transformation,\nsimilar to the one shown on your image of Gaara:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Um6xD.jpg)\n\nNaruto, however, has not been able to do a partial or full transformation yet.\nHe has been able to do a Tailed Beast Transformation, but in that one Kurama\nstill appears as chakra:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/KNeQj.jpg)\n\nAs for the case of Isobu, he generally appears in that form because he was not\nsealed (at that moment) inside anyone. Thus, he appears in his full\ntransformation form.\n\n* * *\n\nSo basically, from what I've been able to gather, the different levels of\ntransformation are as follows (I will use Naruto as my example): \n\\- **Initial form** : in which the Jinchuuriki is simply enveloped in Bijuu\nchakra. Naruto's transformations shown in the first anime series generally fit\ninto this stage. \n\\- **Version 1 of transformation** : in which (in Naruto's case) up to three\ntails are are shown, in addition to the initial form's chakra cloak. \n\\- **Version 2 of transformation** : the one shown in Naruto's fight against\nPain, in which the Kyuubi's skeleton and up to (I think) 8 tails were shown. \n\\- **Partial Transformation** : Naruto's partial transformation happened when\nPain tried to seal him with Chibaku Tensei. However, in Naruto's case, he had\nno control whatsoever over the Bijuu. Different examples of this stage are\nKiller B's case (the image above) and Gaara's (the image on your question). \n\\- **Full Bijuu Form** : Which Naruto has not been able to perform yet. Killer\nB however, has been seen to do this frequently and without much effort.\n\nThere are also the two most powerful transformations that Naruto was able to\ndo ( **Kyuubi Chakra Mode** and **Bijuu Mode** ), but I do not know where\nthose fit in the above 'scale' of transformations. \nPlus, Version 1 and 2 are (as explained above) specific to Naruto's case.\nHowever, there is an intermediate stage between the initial form and the\npartial transformation stages for any Jinchuuriki, in which, proportionally to\nhow powerful the form is, a certain (growing) number of tails appears.\n\nWhen in initial form, the Jinchuuriki only accesses some of the Bijuu's\nchakra, but still needs little control over it. In Versions 1, 2 and in the\nPartial Transformation, if the Jinchuuriki does not have a good control over\nthe Bijuu, he will lose control and consciousness, giving in to the Bijuu's\nwill (which is precisely what happened with Naruto when fighting Pain). \nTo be able to do Partial or Full Transformations, the Jinchuuriki needs to\nhave 'tamed the beast', and also to have very good control of chakra, in order\nto balance his (Jinchuuriki's) and the Bijuu's chakra.\n\n* * *\n\nOn a side note, Naruto Wiki puts Killer B's [Full Transformation\nMode](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Killer_B%27s_Jinch%C5%ABriki_Forms#Tailed_Beast_Mode)\nalongside Naruto's [Bijuu\nMode](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_Uzumaki%27s_Jinch%C5%ABriki_Forms#Tailed_Beast_Mode),\ngiving them both the same name (Bijuu Mode). However, I am unsure as to why\nthis is, because it seems weird that Naruto's Full Mode would look so\ndifferent from all the other Jinchuuriki's. \nPlus, his page there is the only one where both terms (Full [Bijuu number]\nMode and Bijuu Form) appear. In Jinchuuriki 1 through 7, only the term Full\n[Bijuu number] Mode appears, in Killer B's case only Bijuu Mode (Tailed Beast\nMode) appears, and in Naruto's case both terms appear.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-10T09:53:33.673", "id": "3320", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-27T23:39:46.983", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-27T23:39:46.983", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "3314", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nNot sure how to do this but to add on to the previous answer, I suspect\nnaruto's bijuu form is so different due to his uzumaki chakra which manifests\nin this form. An alternate possibility is kurama's chakra has a unique nature\nto it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-22T02:24:51.793", "id": "7629", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-22T02:24:51.793", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3843", "parent_id": "3314", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nYou guys come up with so many theories but forgetting that each Jinchuriki's\ntransformation corresponds to their own tailed beast.\n\nHowever, for Kurama's case, it is mentioned before that its form is unique\nonly to its current host.\n\nFor all, I believe that it's already in a complete form. If not why would\nAshura want to fight a perfect Susanoo against Indra with the same tail beast\ntransformation as what Naruto is doing in manga chapter 670.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-26T18:16:42.073", "id": "8286", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-30T20:23:51.597", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-30T20:23:51.597", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "4274", "parent_id": "3314", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI think Kurama appears in this form, because of the form of sealing and the\namount of chakra that is sealed inside Naruto. Like we know from the manga\n(chapter 643), Minato just sealed the half of Kurama inside of Naruto and the\nother half inside of himself. Because of this, Kurama probably just appears in\nChakra-mode.\n\nGyuki probably appears in Chakra-mode because he is linked to Killer Bee (they\nare friends), so Bee only activates Chakra-mode, because in this mode his\nstrengh is equal with the Raikage's (perfect precondition for their lariat).\nAnd if Bee is fighting alone it's enough to deal with his opponent.\n\n(Please forgive me if I wrote this a little twisted and with spelling\nmistakes, but I'm a German and I'm not the best English-writer.)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-18T19:40:57.990", "id": "8754", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-25T05:01:27.943", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-25T05:01:27.943", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "4547", "parent_id": "3314", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe form could be incomplete due to Kurama not having been fully sealed inside\nof Naruto unlike the other Jinchuuriki, since the other half was sealed inside\nof the Shinigami.\n\nHowever, in episode 365 we see that everything within the Shinigami is\nunsealed, thus having the remainder of Kurama's chakra unsealed and possibly\non its way back to Naruto and Kurama. If this happens, they may be able to do\na complete transformation.\n\nEven still, this may not be possible since a portion of Kurama's chakra is\nalso inside of the Gold and Silver twins (Kinkaku and Ginkaku), which were\nboth sealed away during the Allied Shinobi War at the ocean/beach front.\n\nHowever, honestly, I think Naruto's incomplete transformation is far cooler\nthan the other Jinchuuriki's complete transformations. It's bright and glowy\ntoo.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-25T13:03:56.763", "id": "11467", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-09T12:10:07.657", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-09T12:10:07.657", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3034", "parent_id": "3314", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe reason behind Naruto's transformations is not that he only has half, but\nbecause Naruto and Kurama are not used to being completely linked. Kurama\nstates that he can only use a percentage of the full transformation. Due to\nthe war, they haven't had enough time to train to completely link the\ntransformation. As for the other half, Minato has it inside of him, and Naruto\nreconnects the yin and yang chakras when he meets Minato.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-19T17:34:16.143", "id": "15183", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-30T20:11:09.207", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-30T20:11:09.207", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "9252", "parent_id": "3314", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nWrong. Remember guys when Naruto fought Kurama in a tag of war of chakra? When\nNaruto got Kurama's chakra, he just transform into bijuu mode.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-30T19:34:49.693", "id": "18990", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-30T20:03:12.327", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-30T20:03:12.327", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "11474", "parent_id": "3314", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nUsually they're puns or just included for character. I think the aim behind it\nis to make characters more memorable.\n\nSome of these pay off quite nicely for the series - Squid Girl's de-geso~ is\ninstantly recognizable for fans even outside the show. The usage of it online\nor in popular media makes for good promotion for the series.\n\n'de-geso', is a pun on Geso(tentacles) and De-gesu:\n\n> In end of Edo era and beggining of Meiji era, “De-gesu” is used by males of\n> the lower class as transformational word of “Desu”.\n>\n> “Geso” means tentacles of squid. Its article is mainly based on viewpoint of\n> cooking. If your intention is to refer to Scientific aspects of squid, you\n> would have to choose “Shokusyu” means just tentacle(s).\n>\n> De-geso is the word combined De-gesu with geso. In the beginning of movie,\n> Ika-chan spoke formally (but rudely) as the invader. So it is natural that\n> she says manlike and old-fashioned terms like De-gesu. Of course, present\n> Japanese don’t use such a word.\n>\n> Traditionally, characterizing by making original suffix like De-geso was\n> common technique in Anime. This is regarded as too facile nowadays.\n\n[De-geso~](http://knowyourmeme.com/forums/meme-research/topics/7130-desu-vs-\nde-geso)\n\n[Datebayo](http://forum.minitokyo.net/t14324)\n\nCatchphrases could be used in order to emphasize a particular aspect of the\ncharacter - Naruto's \"Believe it!\" (the frequent English translation) builds\non his lively boisterous character, or in Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei \"I'm in\ndespair\", puts focus on the lead's suicidal & depressional tendancies.\n\n[I'm in\nDespair!](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=wnkr993wsj4uz3wm7350nyri&page=1)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-10T08:21:54.737", "id": "3319", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-10T11:53:54.173", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "3317", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 }, { "body": "\n\nThere are **2 different things** that you're picking up on: **catch phrases**\nproper, versus **copulas**.\n\nBoth of these can be utilized in 1) making a character **easy to remember** ,\n2) setting the character apart in **contrast to other characters in the same\nseries** (it is more common for only one character to sport a catch phrase in\na series than for multiple characters to have one), and/or 3) **epitomizing**\nsomething about that character's **qualities**. Meaningless suffixes can\nlikewise accomplish 1) and 2) but can't fulfill 3).\n\n## Catch Phrases\n\nNaruto's \" _datte ba yo_ \" is a catch phrase, since it is a stand-alone\nsentence that he can say whenever he likes. \" _Datte_ \" means \"because\" or\n\"but,\" or \" _da_ \" is an informal copula (the formal version is \" _desu_ \") +\n\"- _tte_ \" means someone said it, so all together it could be translated to\nsomething like \"'Cuz I say so.\" \"Just 'cuz.\" \"That's what I say.\" \"Isn't it?\"\n\"Word.\" \"Just, yeah.\" or \"Yep.\"\n\nKenshin's \" _de gozaru_ \" is not a catch phrase (see below). His catch phrase\nis \" _oro_.\" The mangaka Nobuhiro Watsuki [explained his catch phrase in an\ninterview](https://rozzychan.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/interview-with-watsuki-\nnobuhiro-at-anime-expo-2002/) at AnimeExpo in 2002 (the English is from the\ninterpreter's on-the-spot translation of his Japanese words):\n\n> Q: What is the origin of “ _Oro_?\"\n>\n> A: I was surprised that it caught on like it did. Because it is just like\n> saying “huh” or “uh” or “eh”. I am surprised that Kenshin used it so much,\n> and that the fans caught on to it.\n\nA good example of a catch phrase is Abe no Yasuaki's \" _Mondai nai_ \" (meaning\n\"It's not a problem\") in _Harukanaru Toki no Naka de_ , since it is neither a\nverb ending nor a suffix. It is simply a phrase he often uses, which\nencapsulates his stoic personality and that as an\n[onmyouji](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onmy%C5%8Dd%C5%8D) he can handle\npretty much anything.\n\nMinami Mirei's catch phrase in _PriPara_ , [\"Pop, Step, Get\nYou!\"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PriPara#Characters), is an interesting\none since she coined it in order to craft an image of herself to project\ntoward her fans, when in fact its buoyant perkiness does not match her real,\nsecret personality.\n\n## [Copula: Verb\nEndings](http://www.japaneseprofessor.com/reference/grammar/conjugations-of-\nthe-japanese-copula/)\n\nKenshin's \" _de gozaru_ \" is a copula of \"de aru\" but it is not strictly\nassociated with him. It is historical from the Edo period and became\n[associated with historical series in\ngeneral](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/653/if-i-wanted-to-\nsound-more-like-a-samurai-what-words-and-phrases-should-i-learn/673#673) in\nthe minds of Japanese people. Kenshin uses it in a period in which it was not\ncommon, highlighting his [personality as humble and not following the fashion\nof the times](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/22460/8134).\n\nIka Musume's \" _degeso_ \" is a creative adaption of a copula. It is a play-on-\nwords (we could call it a pun or _oyaji_ gag), but its intended meaning is to\nbe simply understood as that of the copula \" _degesu_ \" (meaning \"to be\").\n\nChichiri in _Fushigi Yuugi_ ends sentences with [\" _no da_\n\"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fushigi_Y%C3%BBgi_characters#Chichiri).\n\" _Da_ \" is the most common and informal form of the copula, but inserting \"\n_no_ \" makes it sound distinct without changing the meaning.\n\n## Suffixes\n\n[Mascots](http://prettycure.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Mascots) in the _Pretty\nCure_ franchise, characters in [_Di Gi\nCharat_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di_Gi_Charat), and many other\ncharacters in anime, especially cute ones, tack a meaningless suffix onto\ntheir sentences. Rather than being a catch phrase proper, it is either 1) a\nrepetition of part of their own name, 2) part of the name of something else in\nthe series, or 3) a syllable or two that sound cute to the Japanese ear.\n\nMinami Mirei in _PriPara_ (mentioned above) appends the suffix \"- _puri!_ \"\nonto many of her sentences in order to sound cutesy.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-15T09:45:29.297", "id": "22463", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-15T23:24:43.627", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "3317", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n * Forward-backward is 1 dimension (line)\n * Left-right is 2 dimensions (square)\n * Up-down is 3 dimensions (cube)\n\nFrom what I remember in the 1st episode of the anime (I have not read the\nmanga, sorry): several soldiers jumped from their horses into the trees using\ncables. That would be 3 dimensions. Since staying on the horse would have been\n2 dimensional.\n\nAbout effectiveness: it might be a bit early to answer but throwing in a few\ncents... I would guess that since Titans are so large they probably are tough\nbut not quick. So Titans can easily destroy walls, houses, or trees as seen in\nepisode 1 and the soldiers would need to run around these, making attacking\nless effective (and more dangerous) since most of the time they would be\navoiding rubble and falling objects.\n\nSo getting into the air might be a lot more effective. I imagine they would\nuse those cables to try and pin a Titan down and make it fall down.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-10T18:45:08.033", "id": "3322", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-04T07:56:04.110", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-04T07:56:04.110", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "1514", "parent_id": "3321", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to what is shown in **Episode 3** , Three-Dimensional Maneuvering is\nindeed being able to move in all three axes. We, normally, are able to move\ntwo-dimensionally, meaning that we move along a horizontal plane. The gear\nintroduces a vertical axis, making it possible for humans to move to a desired\nheight as well.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iDNpN.jpg)\n\nAs to the advantages it might provide in fighting Titans, besides the ones\n[Rinzwind says in his\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3321/what-is-a-three-\ndimensional-maneuver/3322#3322) (avoid falling rubble and the like; and also,\nto make people move a lot faster), I guess the most evident one would be the\nfact that people do not need to fight at a height that only reaches a Titan's\nfeet or legs and being able to rise enough to be able to attack them where it\nmight do some actual damage. From the **Attacks on Titan** episodes I've seen\nso far (3 episodes), humans always go for the neck, meaning that this gear\nallows them to strike on more (presumably) vulnerable spots.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-23T09:49:34.323", "id": "3507", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-28T04:36:41.637", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-28T04:36:41.637", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "3321", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn the anime, it was stated that the Stand Alone Complex is the spawning of\ncopies without an original. The concept was borrowed from Baudrillard and you\ncan in fact argue that the popularity of _Ghost in the Shell_ is overshadowing\nhis work, and this would be an example of second-order simulacra.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-22T15:17:03.230", "id": "3504", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-24T11:43:48.297", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-24T11:43:48.297", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "1702", "parent_id": "3323", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[The Truth is a cruel, cruel thing](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/87/274).\nIt takes away the part of the body that \"fits\" the person best, to provide the\ncruelest irony.\n\nWhen Father is speaking to the sacrifices, he says why each one (less\nHohenheim) lost what they did. Edward lost his ability to stand on his own;\nAlphonse lost his only way to feel warmth; Izumi could no longer bear children\nafter trying to bring back her own. (Edward's also fits nicely with the\nphrase, \"I would give an arm and a leg to ...\")\n\nUnlike the others, Mustang is somewhat more metaphorical. Mustang had his\nsights set on being Führer, and so he lost his ability to see.\n\n\n\nHere is the quote in full:\n\n> The Truth can be such a cruel thing. The two brothers who wanted to feel\n> their mother's warmth once more: Their attempt to bring the dead back to\n> life cost one of them the leg on which he stood, as well as the only family\n> he had left. The other lost his entire body to have it replaced by a suit of\n> armor that could feel nothing. The woman who sought to bring back her only\n> baby was given a body that would never again bear children. And then, the\n> man who looked to change his nation had his eyesight taken from him, and now\n> he can no longer see his future. Humans who would dare to play God must pay\n> a steep price for their arrogance.\n>\n> — Father, _Brotherhood_ Episode 59, 15:47\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-10T22:07:26.403", "id": "3325", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-10T23:47:53.300", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "3324", "post_type": "answer", "score": 22 }, { "body": "\n\nAlso, Truth’s punishment of Mustang is much more merciful than what he\ntypically dishes out to people who perform human transmutation. Normally,\nTruth takes something physical outright from whoever breaks the rule regarding\nhuman transmutation (Ed’s leg, Izumi’s organs, Alphonse’s body, etc). Since\nMustang was forced to open the gate rather than doing it on his own accord,\nTruth merely took one of his senses with the full knowledge that it could (and\nwould) be fully restored in the future rather than outright take Mustang’s\neyes.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-09-23T14:15:51.233", "id": "59642", "last_activity_date": "2020-09-23T14:15:51.233", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "56362", "parent_id": "3324", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nKonohamaru's parents were never mentioned, neither in the anime, nor in the\nmanga. \nMaybe his parents died on a mission, or they were still alive and simply never\nmentioned.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-11T06:29:00.017", "id": "3330", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-24T06:19:58.887", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-24T06:19:58.887", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "3327", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThey weren't mentioned.\n\nMy guess is that they were alive and well, but just weren't important enough\nto be mentioned. Much like how Jiraiya's parents weren't mentioned (though\nJiraiya did make a remark about them being alive, while Orochimaru's weren't).\n\nIf they had been dead, we can assume it would have affected Konohamaru's\npersonality in the same way it affected Naruto and Sasuke.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-11T08:35:35.393", "id": "3747", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-24T06:19:29.130", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-24T06:19:29.130", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "3327", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nIn **Boruto Oneshot** it is revealed that Konohamaru's parents were elite\njounins part of the Anbu.\n\nIt is not specified if they are still alive or not.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NaaWw.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-30T17:50:48.320", "id": "23675", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-30T17:50:48.320", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10644", "parent_id": "3327", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat ninja was shown, earlier, in the Chunin-exam.\n\n\n\nBecause he takes care that nobody cheats in the exam, he must have an ability\nto sense things without using his eyes. It's most likely a special jutsu or\nKekkai Genkai.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-11T07:29:51.930", "id": "3331", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-29T15:33:49.070", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-29T15:33:49.070", "last_editor_user_id": "104", "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "3328", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFemale Mage was an \"artificial\" hero created by a sect of the Holy Church,\ncalled the Magic Association. She as taken in a a young age and isolated from\nthe world... trained and such by the Association as she was to be a substitute\nfor the Hero, in case he was defeated (in which cae the Association would have\nmuch to gain in terms of political influence).\n\n\"Silver\" 銀 (ぎん, Gin) is the childish, sleepy personality is the primary\npersonality, she is the resulting \"masterpiece\" of all the so-called\n\"training.\"\n\nIn the Gaiden/Side-story まどろみの女魔法使い (Madoromi no Onna Mahoutsukai, the Sleepy\nFemale Mage) she briefly describes her other \"sisters,\" as she calls them:\n\n\"White\" 白 (しろ, Shiro) is the intelligent (and kind) one, one of the surviving\nfailed works and \"Indigo\" 藍 (あお, Indigo) who is the rough (yet also kind) one,\nanother one of the surviving failed works. She recalls that there is another\n\"sister,\" but mentions that she has since disappeared (died).\n\nThe current Female Mage that is an ally of the Hero, is considered a disgrace\nto the Association and has been marked for termination. Perhaps by the\nAssociation's newest artificial hero plan masterpiece, the magic-absorbing\n\"Red (赤)\" battlemage.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-12T07:22:19.073", "id": "3353", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-12T07:22:19.073", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3329", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are a lot of speculations regarding this like on [this Naruto\nforum](http://forum.naruto.viz.com/archive/index.php/t-52607.html).\n\n * They only need a first name for story purposes, the last name doesn't matter so often.\n * Either they don't belong to a known clan (or just don't have one) - making it unnecessary.\n * Maybe its just the way Kishimoto planned it to be or to keep us in the dark or they weren't necessary.\n * They don't have real names.\n * Kishimoto just can't came up with last names to use.\n\nAll of these are speculations and opinions so there is really no definite\nanswer for this.\n\nIn general for anime, according to\n[TVTropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoNameGiven),\n\n> A major character is never referred to by their actual or full name, instead\n> being addressed by a title, nickname, or Only One Name. Reasons for this\n> vary, but it often serves the function of making a character seem more\n> mysterious or eccentric.\n>\n> In older (pre-1900 in North America; pre-1970 in the UK) fiction, a narrator\n> may refer to a character (especially an older or more socially prominent\n> character) by his or her surname. This is because at that time first names\n> were much less commonly used socially than they are now; a young character\n> may not even know the first name of an older character he or she is not\n> related to. It was also common in that time to blank out the names of real\n> people to avoid lawsuits and the like.\n>\n> A common joke is to do The Un Reveal on the full name.\n>\n> This trope can be somewhat justified, however, due to Nominal Importance:\n> It's difficult enough for the writers to come up with good names for the\n> main protagonists; it would be incredibly painstaking to come up with\n> equally good names for a cast of characters who exist solely as part of the\n> setting and serve no further purpose to the narrative.\n>\n> Another common variation is for a series where a child is the main character\n> to have parents only referred to as Mom and Dad.\n>\n> Sometimes, a main protagonist will have no name to add to their mystique.\n\nThe link also provides more examples of anime characters who don't have\nnames/surnames.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-12T07:21:15.073", "id": "3352", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-25T04:57:23.273", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-25T04:57:23.273", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "3333", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThe reason is probably that one of the shinobi rules from the warring states\nperiod was to never revealing your surname to strangers to prevent them\nkilling you due to your relatives or killing your relatives because of you.\nThe shinobi that are without surnames might still follow this rule.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-20T17:11:03.040", "id": "4888", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-20T17:11:03.040", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2256", "parent_id": "3333", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs the white-haired bartender said, _\" 秘密です,\" (himitsu desu, it's a secret)._\n\nWith such an open-ended ending, there's no way to know for sure (much like the\n\"[Cart Driver Dilemma](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/116/63)\" in Code\nGeass).\n\nThe story implies that the younger guy went to heaven while the older dude\nwent to hell, with the masks above their respective elevators with a white\nface and a demon face.\n\nHowever, who is to say any of them went to heaven or hell? Or that things are\nexactly as they are described by the white-haired bartender?\n\nI think the intention of such an open-ended ending is to get viewers to form\ntheir version of the story.\n\nSome points to consider are:\n\n * The fact that the bartender was lying (or at least telling a half-truth and leaving out key details) from the beginning makes you question all of his explanations. Which parts are red herring? Which parts are true?\n\n> If you look closely, the so-implied \"corpses\" the bartender shows the young\n> man are actually marionette parts (look closely at the legs hanging towards\n> the middle right). The bartender mentions that when they arrived, they were\n> of equal footing, perhaps referring to the fact that none of them had their\n> original memories... and with each ball pocketed by the opposing side they\n> got a bit of their memory back.\n\n * The fact that the game (and its outcome) was predetermined\n\n> and the old man was supposed to win.\n\n * The fact that the old man arrives after the young man\n\n> (even though the bartender mentions that those that die at the _same time_\n> are invited there). If they died at the same time, wouldn't they arrive at\n> the same time?\n\n * The fact that they leave in the same elevator they came from (at least the old man does)\n\n * The fact that the old man bites his lip before the white-haired bartender hugs the young man.\n\n * The fact that the old man's flashback happens in reverse order compared to the young man's and also\n\n> how the old man's death is never shown, nor is the first memory of his last\n> moment truly his. It was actually the old man's wife's and his memorial\n> portrait is shown, with offerings meaning that he probably was already dead.\n\n * And most importantly, the jellyfish. The jellyfish are a recurring symbol throughout the series, from the chandeliers to the aquarium, and the stained glass pattern behind the counter and the same design on the bathroom tiles. According to shamanism the [jellyfish totem](http://healing.about.com/od/animaltotems/ss/oceanic-totems.htm) is supposed to represent \"inner strength, vulnerability, transparency, and truth.\"\n\nFrom this, we can imply that although there is a game of life and death going\non, it is not as the bartender describes...\n\n> The bartender mentions that he is the \"さいてい者\" which can be implied to be the\n> \"arbiter\", the person who decides if someone goes to \"heaven\" or \"hell\"...\n> however, who is being judged is never directly stated. The setting could be\n> a place in limbo and it could be just the young man that is being judged,\n> not for whether he goes to heaven or hell, but if he deserves a second\n> chance (さいてい can also mean \"second chance\"), whether to be reincarnated or\n> getting a second chance in his current life. The presence of the old man\n> might be there to play a devil's advocate type of role to prevent this from\n> happening. The old man might be a person that was condemned to hell and\n> given a second chance to be able to be reincarnated if he can reveal the bad\n> side of darkness and sink him into despair.\n\n**What the old man asks the bartender near the end could be something like \"Is\nthe game over (can I move on)?\" and the bartender's reply could be, \"not\nyet.\"**\n\n> This could be why the old man bites his lip. Because he knows he's lost. His\n> smile as the elevator door closes could be because he knows that he'll be\n> back for another shot.\n\nSince the plot and ending is so open-ended, a lot of other things can be\nimplied... much like the ending to _Inception._ You're meant to infer the\nending that you want, rather than be told what it is.\n\nThe hostess seems to be a bit out of place. The piano player is a marionette\nmoved by wires, and it is demonstrated that the wires can move things around.\nThere seems to be no need for a hostess, as she does not serve a particular\nfunction (the bartender makes the drinks, she is only seen receiving the empty\nglass of water). Most of her other actions after the game starts are imitating\nthe bartender's...\n\n> What if she was a person that lost the game and is stuck in this limbo until\n> she discovers the true meaning of life and herself like the young man did.\n> As the credits roll, the hostess first asks the bartender what the old man\n> said to him, he immediately says that it's \"a secret,\" but when she asks who\n> went to what place, instead of telling her that it's a secret, he asks what\n> she thinks, perhaps asking her if she's learned anything, she replies she's\n> asking because she doesn't know, he replies that it's a secret... perhaps\n> implying that she is not yet ready to know... her own fate.\n\nAs a side note, though the gg Fansub translate the name of the place as \"Queen\nDecim,\" I personally believe the place to be called \"Quindecim(e)\", the latin\nword for \"15\" (十五, じゅうご, \"jyuugo\"), perhaps implying the Ten Epithets of\nBuddha (十号, also \"jyuugou\")?\n\n[The Ten Epithets of the Buddha 仏十号(butsujyuugou)](http://www.nichiren-\nshu.org/LasVegas2/Page/sutra/terms_chapter7LS.pdf):\n\n 1. Tathagata/如来(nyorai), one who has come from the world of truth\n 2. 応供(gu), one who deserves oblations\n 3. 正偏知(shouhenchi), one who knows everything perfectly.\n 4. 明行足(myougyou-soku), one who sees the truth and walks the way satisfactorily\n 5. 善逝(zenzei), one who is gone to the world of enlightenment\n 6. 世間解(sekenge), one who understands the world\n 7. 無上士(mujouji), one who is unsurpassed by anyone else\n 8. 調御丈夫(jougo-joubu), one who controls men\n 9. 天人師 (tenninshi), who teaches gods and men\n 10. 仏世尊(Butsu-seson), the enlightened one who is honored by the people of the world\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-12T06:31:54.743", "id": "3351", "last_activity_date": "2016-09-20T07:43:29.860", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3334", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nWith everthing thats been said here I would conclude the old man is part of\nthe test to test if the 30 year old man is worthy of going to heaven. The old\nman goes into the same elevator he came from to start the test with a new\nperson while the 30 year old man goes in the elevator that will either lead\nhim to heaven or hell\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-21T23:15:24.633", "id": "23445", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-21T23:15:24.633", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15809", "parent_id": "3334", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes they did skip some of story in the manga version. There was one part in\nparticular where they make a manga, and in the anime they submit it whereas\nthe anime they just said no I'm going to turn in a better one. I'll add the\nepisode\\chapter numbers when I find it. _Starts sifting through chapters_\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-09T06:18:46.677", "id": "4707", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-09T06:18:46.677", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2187", "parent_id": "3337", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nHere's a list I made for the things skipped/changed from the manga to the\nanime:\n\n(not including filler and some obviously adaption changes)\n\n**S1**\n\nEpisode 1\n\n * Some Death Note references were deleted.\n\nEpisode 2\n\n * In Moritaka and Akito discussion, Iwase were mentioned being dumb, in the anime it got cut.\n\nEpisode 3\n\n * Some scenes of Moritaka and Aktio talking about boxing were cut.\n\nEpisode 4\n\n * Introducing his uncle principles for manga, Moritaka referring to \"Qualification of a man\" and it's principles before his uncle's. In the anime it got cut straight to his uncle's.\n\nEpisode 12\n\n * Moritaka and Miho's “goodbye” were for freaking 30 minutes. The anime “made” it shorter.\n * In the manga Moritaka and Miho got distracted by passing schoolgirls. In the anime by some random dog.\n\nEpisode 13\n\n * In the manga, Moritaka scattering the storyboards over the river. In the anime they also tearing the storyboards apart.\n * In the manga, when Moritaka scattering the storyboards, Aktio commenting about the environment groups might see them, and running away. In the anime, someone who passed there telling them it's bad for the environment and they collecting it.\n\nEpisode 14\n\n * The anime censored and changed some parts of the discussion about Miho's failing auditions.\n\nEpisode 16\n\n * After Miho debut on TV Moritaka analyse her performance. In the anime he got encouraged by it.\n\nEpisode 24\n\n * In the manga, Miho and Moritaka talking over the phone when Kaya giving him Akito's cellphone. In the anime, Miho closing the call on Moritaka. (and they'r having their first phone call talk only on episode 25)\n\nEpisode 25\n\n * Where in the anime the serialisation meeting is getting introduced in this episode, in the manga it got introduced much earlier, while it get more expanding in the meeting of this episode.\n * Akira and Yuujiro are talking about editors changes. Got cut in the anime.\n\n**S2**\n\nEpisode 1\n\n * Christmas eve scene were cut in the anime.\n * Koji makes an appearance in the New Year Party. Got cut in the anime.\n\nEpisode 2\n\n * Miho's side story is starting differently in the anime than the manga as it starts much earlier in the manga, though its climax is on the right timeline.\n\nEpisode 4\n\n * Hiramaru scenes taking different timeline in the anime.\n\nEpisode 6\n\n * Akito talking to Miho got cut in the anime. And also scenes of Miho with her mother.\n * Miho talking to Moritaka's mother got cut in the anime.\n\nEpisode 8\n\n * Moritaka has a talk with his hospital room partner. Got cut in the anime.\n\nEpisode 9\n\n * Extra information about TRAP ending were cut in the anime.\n\nEpisode 11\n\n * Ryo Shizuka character removed from the anime.\n\nEpisode 13\n\n * In the manga Akito forget Iwase's novel in the studio, and then Moritaka putting it in the shelf. In the anime Akito is the one putting it there.\n\nEpisode 16\n\n * Fukuda and Ko character development cut out in the anime. Hiramaru scenes as well.\n * Obvious scenes were censored in the anime.\n\nEpisode 18\n\n * Hiramaru's \"plan\" had been changed in the anime.\n\nEpisode 19\n\n * Where the manga had extended on Moritaka's uncle, the anime shortened it.\n * Where the manga had been on Akito and Kaya moving, the anime cut and censored part of that.\n\nEpisode 20\n\n * Eiji to appear on TV had foreshadowing in the manga. Got cut in the manga.\n * Hattori is threatening Miura telling Moritaka and Akito about Eiji getting +Natural anime adaption. The anime cut it through to the point where Miura is telling them.\n * When Moritaka getting home after Eiji appears on TV, he don't have his own cellphone with him to cal Miho so he takes the home phone. In the anime he have his own cellphone with him.\n * Moritaka and Miho discussion is much extended with character development. The anime cut it through the character development.\n * The anime had changed the order of the events of the manga, causing some changes in the stories.\n\nEpisode 22\n\n * The taxi joke were cut out in the anime.\n\nEpisode 24\n\n * Christmas eve in the manga and the Serialisation meeting day are completely separated days. The anime made them the same day.\n\nEpisode 25\n\n * When Moritaka showing his uncle grave the results for PCP he saying that his uncle would probably say that the challenge only just began and such. In the anime, his uncle \"ghost\" actually appears and saying that.\n * In the manga, after Hattori getting to edit PCP he's thinking himself being selfish so he goes to the editor-in-chief, in that event the editor-in-chief tells him the condition for PCP to keep ongoing. In the anime, those two events aren't related to each other, and Hattori doesn't go to the editor-in-chief when thinking he's selfish.\n\n**S3** (this is where the most changes were made)\n\nEpisode 1\n\n * Moritaka and Miho on the train have exactly 2 to 3 frames in the manga to justify the \"time flows fast when we happy\" idea. The anime made it longer.\n\nEpisode 4\n\n * While in the manga Shiratori have lots of dogs, in the anime he have only one.\n * Mashiro and Aktio character development were cut from the anime.\n * Moriya story and development got cut in the anime.\n\nEpisode 5\n\n * Shiratori arc - shortened in the anime.\n * Mashiro development got cut in the anime.\n\nEpisode 6\n\n * Super Readers Love Fest arc in the manga (vol13) got cut through and shortened in the anime.\n * In the manga, Maoritaka and Akito are hiding from Kaya that PCP won't get anime, so when they discussed about Akito making Lavuta they mentioned that PCP won't get anime with Kaya listening and among the lines of the manga Kaya is surprised by it. The anime didn't let any of these being significant.\n * Furthermore to that, Kaya and Miho talking about Moritaka and Akito about PCP not getting anime had been removed from the anime.\n * That and along more developments the Super Readers Love Fest arc had in the manga, had been cut roughly in the anime.\n * Moritaka and Akito discussion after the result of the Super Readers Love Fest have more \"meat\" and development on the manga. Where in the anime it got cut like most of this arc development.\n\nEpisode 7\n\n * The award ceremony was in the manga after Hiramaru and Ko story. The anime rotated it to before their story. And so a scene from Nonamine arc as well.\n * Where the manga extended the award ceremony, the anime made it a rough 1 minute.\n\nEpisode 8\n\n * The manga \"Classroom of truth\" have more pages in the manga, and also its final page have been cut in the anime. And also more commentary of Moritaka and Akito on the \"Classroom of truth\" been cut in the anime.\n * Flashback from 'Nonamine return arc' were rotated to this episode.\n\nEpisode 12\n\n * Kosugi had more fist fight with Nonamine in the manga, and also threatened him to call the police. The anime cut it and censored it.\n * Mortiaka and Akito meeting Nonamine in the New Year Party has little changes, and Nonamine's line in the manga that he's going to beat them with \"brand new method\" were cut in the anime.\n * Parts of the New Year Party got cut in the anime, mainly due the 2-chapters arc of Nakai.\n * In the manga, Akito telling Moritaka that he had a crush in second grade on Ichiko, and Moritaka meeting her in the reunion. In the anime that part with Akito got cut, and when Moritaka meets her in the anime he says \"So this is Ichiko, huh?\" without any relation.\n * In the manga Moritaka learning to drive mentioned much earlier in the manga. In the anime only in this episode it being mentioned for a line.\n * In the manga, Yamashita arriving to the reunion later. In the anime he's been there already.\n * In the manga at Moritaka and Akito discussion when Akito mentioning Ashite No Joe they are adapting lines from that manga to their situation. In the anime it got cut through the end of their discussion.\n\nEpisode 13\n\n * 2-chapters arc of Nakai got cut roughly and changed heavily in the anime. Grand changes from the manga: 1. Moritaka part in this arc 2. Longer fist fight of Hiramaru vs Nakai 3. Fukuda part in the fist fight 4. In the manga Ko threatens to call the police and actually intends too, but ended in calling Fukuda, so no police really involves. In the anime, at the end of Nakai part there's police sirens. 5 Hiramaru making Friend with Nakai changed heavily in the anime too.\n * This 2-chapter arc were after the Nonamine arc in the manga before the reunion, to make a point by connecting it. The manga delayed it after that.\n * In the manga, when Eiji asking Yuujiro about the differences in votes between 2nd place and 1st place, he's reading PCP. In the anime he's reading his Crow manga. The scene in the anime also combining another scene from the manga as following the next change.\n * In the manga, Eiji shouting about he can't make a storyboard for Crow, when asked by Yuujiro he's saying it's because his names are usual in 2nd place and he wants 1st place. In the anime Eiji only stating that the next one going to be in 1st so he will be delayed.\n * The 'Copycat arc' in the manga is 3 chapters long. the anime crammed it all to single episode cutting several Akito, Hattori and as well Ashirogi Muto development from the manga. (some big, and some that not necessarily big development but mostly cutting lines that highlighting those developments)\n * In the manga, when Moritaka comes to Akito's work room they'r talking about the solution for next chapter. In the anime, the understanding between them is in the air.\n\nEpisode 14\n\n * In the manga, when Yoshide coming to Hiramaru's house he have face mask. In the anime, for comical purposes he have full oxygen tank.\n\nEpisode 15\n\n * Some trial and error of Moritaka and Akito in the manga changed in the anime, like Kaya commenting about making code out of rainbow, in the manga it wasn't treated while in the anime it made them hint. Some was cut as well.\n\nEpisode 17\n\n * 'Nonamine return' arc (end of vol16-vol17) had been removed in the anime. (And so all the development had been done in character and plot)\n * Regarding the arc removed from the anime, connection from the arc to the new manga of Ashirogi Muto has been removed as well.\n * Extra details on Zombie Gun story had been cut in the anime.\n\nEpisode 18\n\n * In the manga when Moritaka making the manuscript for Reversi it's being showed he's completely exhausted. In the anime he's completely normal.\n * In the manga, when Hattori and Yuujiro are in the bar, Hattori is completely drunk. The anime censored it.\n * Extra details on PCP moving to Heishuu Jump were cut in the anime.\n * The part of Moritaka and his grandpa has been shortened in the anime. (some were rotated to Episode 23)\n\nEpisode 19\n\n * Some very little Moritaka development were cut on the anime. And so some of Obata's faces for Mashiro were cut too.\n * Some extra details, and also Akito development were cut from the anime too.\n\nEpisode 20\n\n * In the manga, in the flashback of Hiramaru he's showing shaking as he usually does. In the anime they changed him to look normal and formal.\n * In the manga, Yoshida thinks for Hiramaru's sake is more extend and have some of his own backgrounds (and some gag from the editorial department as well). In the anime it got cut and in the same occasion he's thinking about Hiramaru he's going to his place to encourage him.\n * Some of \"Proposal Mission\" in the manga got cut in the anime.\n * In the manga, Hiramaru and Ko are riding the ferris wheel three times, and Hiramaru proposing to Ko in the second on when Ko noticed while riding that Yoshida is there, after that they getting on the ferris wheel another time with Ko asking the operator. In the anime they changed it to 2 rides, making the 2nd like the 3rd in the anime.\n * In the manga, the reason for Moritaka and Akito going to the Tezuka Award party is pretty much for Kato's request and breather reasons. In the anime their coming is blended with Akito saying \"we are not in the mood for the party\" without much introduction as the manga.\n\nEpisode 22\n\n * Ishizawa part in Miho arc was removed in the anime. And some crazy otaku elements censored as well. (like \"Die Ashirogi Muto!\")\n * Regarding the above, though some net chat are appearing in the anime in this arc, a lot of those got cut in the arc.\n * Fukuda part in Miho arc and as well Road Racer Giri radio was removed from the arc.\n * Some question in Miho's radio were censored.\n\nEpisode 23\n\n * Moritaka's grandpa \"agreement\" on Moritaka and Miho's marriage was discussed much earlier in the manga (see Episode 18 changes). In the anime it's been here with his mother's agreement.\n * In the manga, when Mortiaka's Mother \"agrees\" to the marriage, Moritaka having classic comical reaction of spitting drink. In the anime he have classical comical reaction of falling.\n * In the manga, after Miho's Mistake, the one who found out the script for the audition was the mistaken one was the director. In the anime, the producer is breaking the room to tell them that.\n * In the manga, when the auditions ending, some of the actress addressing the man in charge that Ashirogi Muto revealed Miho that the script was wrong for her to get the rule. In the anime, there's some actresses that saying that in the hallway and even not in front of Miho.\n * In the manga, the public audition is supposed to be show over a week and then have the result. The anime made it in one day only, changing the events of the manga.\n\nEpisode 25\n\n * The anime had moved the prologue from chp175 to after the end, and made kind of it's own prologue.\n\n(though it's seems the anime changed a lot, all those (except S3 probably) are\nvery small parts though still notable, Bakuman anime is pretty faithful to the\nmanga except what it skipped)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-11-25T00:48:47.950", "id": "65990", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-25T00:48:47.950", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "51620", "parent_id": "3337", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> Once upon a time, in the future (roughly two thousand years from now), a\n> colonist ship departed Earth, heading for the stars on it's journey to\n> discover a new world to populate for the human race. This journey proved\n> successful with the discovery of not one but two neighbouring planets\n> suitable of colonisation. However, the colonists grew into conflict with\n> each other - A conflict that divided the crew by gender! The men settled on\n> one planet, which was dubbed Taraaku while the woman settled for the\n> neighbouring planet, Mejarru.\n\nI couldn't find much to support this but it sounds like something that fits\nthe anime.\n\n[Source](http://www.angelfire.com/anime4/spike558/teach.html)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-12T07:23:56.207", "id": "3354", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-12T07:23:56.207", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1610", "parent_id": "3338", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIf I remember correctly, Each colony or colony group was created to provide a\nspecific component or body part to the remaining earth humans. That flotilla\nthat was encountered in space, the one with the weird drink, was created to\nprovide skin, that water planet provided spinal columns, along with nerve\ntissue and fluid, and the split planets, where our main cast come from,\nprovided reproductive organs/hormonal systems. They were separated out and\ninstructed to use cloning technology so that the organs would not be used when\nit was time for harvesting. The split colony was one of the last to be\ncreated, so it wasn't actually ready for harvesting during the series. But\nthey rebelled, by the actions of our crew, and so the harvesting happened\nearly.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-18T22:58:00.683", "id": "15170", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-18T22:58:00.683", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9237", "parent_id": "3338", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI didn't watch it extensively, and I never had much contact with the original\nmaterial, but here's what I remember.\n\nThe series name was changed to \"Mew Mew Power\". They did the usual character\nname changes; the main heroine Ichigo became \"Zoey\", Mint became \"Corina\",\nLettuce became \"Bridget\", etc. You can see the [full list\nhere](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tokyo_Mew_Mew_characters). The\nmusic was changed to American-style pop. As far as I know, there weren't\nextensive edits for content and the plot wasn't really changed, although some\ncharacters come off differently because of how the dialogue is written, or\nbecause of the way the American voice actors play them.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-13T18:18:07.020", "id": "12830", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-13T18:18:07.020", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "3339", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm not sure if it's explained in the manga but it's sort of like a\n[Pygmalion](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_%28mythology%29) type of\nstory. Seiji can't get a girlfriend because he's got a reputation as a tough\nguy and most girls are afraid of him, eventhough he's sort of got a noble\nquality about it all. So he wishes that he had a girlfriend and it just so\nhappened that a Midori from another school likes him. So like Aphrodite did in\nthe Pygmalion myth, his wish is granted through some divine/magical/freak-of-\nnature event where Midori's consciousness and likeness was transfered to\nSeiji's right hand.\n\nThere's extra meaning here because, being someone who (according to himself)\nwill never find a girlfriend, the only \"girlfriend\" he'll have is \"his right\nhand\", a euphemism turned to reality.\n\n> “Three years high school, and the rest of my life for that matter are gonna\n> end with no girlfriend but my right hand! I can’t take it anymore!”\n\nAdditionally, he has a reputation for having a \"Demon right hand\" through his\nfighting prowess, and in probably the greatest possible contrast, his \"Demon\nright hand\" is turned into Midori (美鳥 _beautiful bird_ ). This essentially\ntakes away his ability to punch with his right hand and forces him to change\nas a person.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-12T08:14:12.550", "id": "3355", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-12T08:14:12.550", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "3346", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn _Kite_ , it's merely a parody reference, with the \"[Häagen\nKazs](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NkLmE.jpg)\" name.\n\nIn _Kite Liberator_ , it's also a parody, with the \"[Hëegen-\nGezs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=b6X40p1LkqY#t=3s)\"\nname (Vanilla flavor in this case).\n\nThe ice cream is prominently stated to be Häagen-Dazs in both the _Kara no\nKyoukai_ movies and the [original novel](http://www.baka-\ntsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Kara_no_Kyoukai:Chapter01_01#haag).\n\nShiki and her fridge can also be seen with several\n[bottles](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nE4Ce.jpg) of [Volvic\nwater](https://i.stack.imgur.com/plXMu.jpg).\n\nThese internationally well-known brands are probably so viewers could better\nidentify with them (as they've probably had them in the past).\n\nThe ice cream is most likely being used as a foil to the the main character,\nhighlighting them to be naive, childish (small, like the containers), and cold\nat the same time. The water, too, might be a foil of how Shiki has changed\n(melted slightly), but still remains cold.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-12T01:53:34.763", "id": "3350", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-12T02:05:40.803", "last_edit_date": "2013-04-12T02:05:40.803", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3349", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAll the comments are correct but the truth is that his body isn't built for\nSharingan. He uses it because it was implanted as a gift from a dying friend\nbut there's more to Kekkai Genkai than just the gift. It's sort of like the\nHyuga clan with the Byukaggan. If you notice there's a network of veins that\nsupport their eyes. If their eyes were stolen it's likely this network of\nveins wouldn't exist in the new user and therefore might strain the user's\nbody.\n\nIn the same way Kakashi's body isn't built for extended Sharingan use. Sure,\nhe can use it more than someone who had it newly implanted but he's not an\nUchiha. Where Sasuke can use it for very extended periods of time and even\nstrain it Kakashi can not.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-12T19:31:37.097", "id": "3359", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-12T19:31:37.097", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1338", "parent_id": "3358", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nWhat everyone was saying was partially correct. The Sharingan is a kekkei-\ngenkai made for the Uchiha Clan. Since Kakashi isn't native to this clan, he's\nonly able to use his Sharingan after once in awhile. As said before, he used\nit in the beginning of the series and was out for about a week or two from\nusing too much chakra.\n\nConsumption of all of your chakra will cause you to die.\n\nNow with his Mangekyo Sharingan, he cannot use it much. The example that comes\nquickly to my head is when Kakashi and Naruto were chasing Deidara during the\nGaara Retrieval arc. Kakashi specifically quoted that, \"We have to end this\nsoon. I can only activate the Mangekyo probably one more time.\"\n\nIn the current manga, he can only keep up with using his Mangekyo Sharingan\nwith the help from the Kyuubi's aura/chakra.\n\n**It consumes way too much chakra for him**.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-27T01:59:16.280", "id": "3554", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-26T09:22:08.513", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-26T09:22:08.513", "last_editor_user_id": "3081", "owner_user_id": "1710", "parent_id": "3358", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nYou have a series where ninja use natural elements as base for techniques that\ncan be performed to destroy villages...your only question is why Kakashi\ndoesn't copy his opponents moves? I think, its not that significant at the\nmoment...also to think about it, most of Kakashi opponents were Akatsuki\nmembers, who's each abilities are very unique, probably cant even be copied,\napart from any element base techniques. Then again, I cannot remember if\nKakashi can copy non element jutsus. Ya dig?\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-09-27T20:31:43.790", "id": "5338", "last_activity_date": "2013-09-27T20:31:43.790", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2461", "parent_id": "3358", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nI completely agree that Kakashi should have used his copy moves more. He used\nit like once. It has nothing to do with how the sharigan takes up chakra,\nbecause he already used the sharigan to copy base elemental justsu. So he\nshould use the jutsus he has copied, which don't take as much chakra as his\nsharigan and mangekyo sharigan.\n\nThe techniques he copied from Zabuza, like water sphere, would have been very\nhelpful in the was when dealing with few opponents.\n\nI think it is either the legend of the copy ninja wasn't as great as we\nthought or the laziness of the writer.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-31T23:59:32.473", "id": "13195", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-31T23:59:32.473", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7820", "parent_id": "3358", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nActually Kakashi copies techniques but not everything because only few of them\nare compatible. Hence he could copy 1000 techniques and not show it because\nthere are no perfect enemy he could use his techniques on.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-03T10:25:51.543", "id": "39698", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-03T13:12:37.533", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-03T13:12:37.533", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "31783", "parent_id": "3358", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe answer might be even simpler than we though. Kakashi is the copy ninja, he\nis the one who has copied **1,000** jutsus. Why doesn't he used the copy\nability of sharingan? Here's why.\n\n 1. He has copied the jutsu already, thus no need for him to copy it again.\n\n 2. The jutsu is not copy-able, such as the Hyouton Kekkei Genkai.\n\n 3. Even if he copied it, he can't use it due to not having enough chakra to perform it.\n\n 4. He can copy it but the jutsu is not worthy of being copied.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-03T11:28:13.167", "id": "39699", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-03T11:28:13.167", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "3358", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]