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2014/01/18 | 961 | 3,764 | <issue_start>username_0: As we know, if Lelouch uses his Geass, there is a small gap in memory from the order until it has been done.
My question is, can it be arranged so that if Lelouch's geass is used on someone, that person will remember the order after it has been done?
For example, can Lelouch order "Hide this box, and remember where you hide it."? The `keyword` here is `remember` - as in the `person I geassed will remember it`. Notice it's not a direct order that is ordered by a query ("When I snap my fingers, tell me where you hid it")
Was this explored in the Anime? What about the OVAs or supplemental materials?<issue_comment>username_1: I would say yes people subconsciously remember the command that has been given to them.
I one of the first episodes of the first season Lelouch orders a girl at his school to go to a certain point and carve a line. This in order to see how long his commands would last. As you stated there is a blank spot in their mind after being commanded by the geass this would mean that they do subconsciously remember the event. And most likely also could be manipulated in such a way that if he snaps his fingers they will 'remember' where they hid it, Tell Lelouch, and forget about it again.
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Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: The Memory Gap depends on the order that was given mainly if the order strips away the free will of the target, and example of this is when we see Mao ordered to
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Mao is unable top speak yet his will remains otherwise his memory would be a mess because of the constant order, however with Lelouch commanding Villetta to hand over her Knightmare it stripped her of her free will so she did not remember after the geass dispelled. With the girl doing the crosses on the wall the order was
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This would mean that the Geass lays in the subconscious for the specific time where it will activate and the girl would make her way to the wall, only after she made the cross and returned would she regain control but not remember what she did due to her free will being taken away.
With Euphemia's accidental order to "...kill the Japanese..." we see that she remembers the order when she fights against it as when she is dying the Geass activates again when she remembers Suzaku is Japanese however after she shakes it and remembering that she was thinking of killing Suzaku however she does not remember ruining the ceremony which see moment after when she asks Suzaku how it went, this hows that the free will have to be totally stripped from the target for the memory gap to occur (Euphies free will was stripped before she was shot but not stripped when she was thinking of killing Suzaku)
We have seen people ordered to forget, the first instance is with a unnamed male artificer who made the Zero Costume, the order was
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This would indicate that there is a chance that one can find evidence and help them remember as we see when Suzaku listen to what was recorded from the Lancelot's com radio after Lelouch ordered him to Live. We also see Lelouch ordering Shirley to forget about him after her emotional breakdown caused by Mao so it stands to reason that if Lelouch can make someone forget he can make them remember, an implementation of this is seen with Mao when Lelouch uses Geass on himself to to forget his plan with Suzaku to prevent Mao reading his minds and remembering it when he looks at himself in a reflection
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2014/01/18 | 400 | 1,474 | <issue_start>username_0: I was watching the fight between Luffy and Hody, when Hody tries to use the attack where he shoots water bullets (I think it's called Yabusame).
So I was wondering how he can produce so much water when there is no water around him? Is that some quality of the fishmen or am I missing something?
Here's the image from the fight.
<issue_comment>username_1: Well if you think of it in a real life standpoint, the air is full of water particles, gather tons of it together and I suppose you can do something like that xD. That's my suggestion, hope it helps.
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_2: As state on [wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Hody_Jones#Abilities_and_Powers), Hody's body under the influence of Energy Steroids can produce water, so he can make a drip of water even when he wasn't soaked
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So I think it's just like sweat, but with greater amount of water
Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_3: Fishman Karate Allow you to control water within a certain vicinity, so controlling water particles in the air is possible, and even controlling and using the water within one's body, and one's body almost purely consist of water.
Jinbe also explains Fishman Karate in Chapter 629.
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2014/01/18 | 658 | 2,258 | <issue_start>username_0: Kabuto was able to revive almost all high grade shinobi figures. But I was just curious to know why Kabuto didn't revive Kakashi's father.
Kakashi's father, known as Konoha's White Fang, was a renowned, high ranking Konohagakure shinobi. Did <NAME> intentionally avoid his ET or was there any specific reason for which Kabuto was unable to revive him?
I am asking this question mainly because Kakashi's father was **mentioned** in many episodes. He was responsible for killing Sasori's parents, which earned him Chiyo's hatred. He was also responsible for Konoha's mission failure for which he took a grave step of committing suicide.
ET's characters like [**Pakura**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Pakura), [**Chukichi**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Ch%C5%ABkichi), etc, got resurrected. Although they were not mentioned until the Fourth Shinobi Arc started, their ET were given more importance than Kakashi's father.<issue_comment>username_1: It wasn't mentioned anywhere. Kabuto never talked about Sakumo when showing off or discussing his reanimations.
We can only assume:
* They never found a body, or it was so well guarded that Kabuto couldn't get a DNA sample.
* Kabuto was sure of his victory even without Sakumo's DNA, or waited for a right moment to pull him out as a trump card.
* Kabuto is an idiot. (He is, what the hell did he think was going to happen when he revived Madara?!).
Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Sakumo's body was never found like uchiha shisui who committed sucide thats the reason why kabuto coudn't revive sakumo and shisui.
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_3: Sakumo's body might not have been found by Kabuto, we also know he killed himself so his body could have been damaged badly.
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_4: The theory that Sakumo's body was well-guarded in Konoha doesn't hold merit. Kabuto was able to obtain Sarutobi Asuma and Dan's DNA to resurrect them, what makes you think he couldn't have gotten Sakumo's?
Also, to the one who said Sakumo was not skilled enough... let's not forget that he was on Sannin level. Unlike Kakashi, he did not need a borrowed Sharingan to kick butt.
My guess is Kichi forgot about Sakumo.
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2014/01/19 | 459 | 1,625 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been watching this thing since I was 8, now I am curious to know what I've been watching all these years. I am not sure what makes an anime and a cartoon different, but I think anime has more violence content than cartoons.
In many of Ninja Hattori's episode, use of weapons, like sword and shuriken was shown. And in most of the episode you can see Hattori and Amada fighting, which is not suitable for a cartoon. Those fights can be compared to the fights in DBZ or other action manga and animes.
So what do you think, is it a cartoon for children or a action genre anime/manga?<issue_comment>username_1: It's Anime because it's made in Japan, and (generally) made for Japanese people.
Cartoons are animations in a broader sense, and as such, Anime is a form of Cartoon.
Made in Japan.
<http://myanimelist.net/anime/4936/Ninja_Hattori-kun>
It lies in the rating of the show and its targeted audience to determine what can be shown to viewers, low violence doesn't make something a Cartoon if that's what you mean.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: Yes, Ninja Hattori is an Anime series because it's Japanese series adopted from the Manga.
Anime comes from manga, and this is one reason that Anime users like to watch anime than cartoons. Ninja Hattori specialized to represent Ninja cultures and techniques using weapons things like swords and others.
Ninja Hattori also airing in several Asian countries like India, it's a popular show airing in English and other languages on Disney Channel.
Reference:
<https://ninjahattori.fandom.com/wiki/Ninja_Hattori-kun_(anime)>
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2014/01/19 | 874 | 3,313 | <issue_start>username_0: I just watched *<NAME> no Railgun*. It seems like Kuroko is in love with Misaka (?) and calls her "onee-sama", but when did it start? And why/how did this happen?<issue_comment>username_1: Onee-sama is commonly used in an idol-follower relationship between women, usually signifying extreme adoration on the part of the follower so on the surface it can look like Kuroko idolized Misaka because she's a Level 5.
However, we see that Kuroko sees Misaka as something than an Idol ie. groping her in the showers, getting jealous of any man being with her or wanting to see her, stealing her underwear,
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this would indicate that Kuroko has feelings for Misaka which are ignored by Misaka possibly passing it off as just Kuroko's personality.
This would be a subset of the idol-follower type of relationship, signalling a lesbian relationship with the youngest of the couple referring to the oldest one as "Onee-sama", this is common in Shoujo Ai/Yuri where the youngest adores her older partner and the term is used to demonstrate how strong they feel as wanting to be a family with them.
However there are times where the oldest in the couple find this as a sort of "turn on", in the first Sono Hanabira game Yuuna gets Nanami to call her Onee-sama and the moment Nanami does we can see the euphoria in Yuuna as Yuuna keeps requesting Nanami to "say it again" and tries to get her to use it in conjunction with some lewd talk (to which Nanami releaises what she is about to say and stops it), Yuuna also tried to get Sara in the second game call Kaede Onee-sama but after a couple of uses Sara chooses not to.
Now as for the second part to your question, while i have yet to read the light novels, given Kuroko's personality it may have started when Misaka and her first met being "love at first sight", i remember Kuroko mentioning she had to "pull some strings" to get her and Misaka to share the same room and given how Misaka is used to Kuroko actions and how Kuroko is used to being "punished" it would indicate it's been going on for quite a while
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: In traditional Asian countries (like in Southeast Asia, China, Japan, etc.), you can address someone close to you as "older sibling" or "younger sibling" if their age is not far from yours, but if they are much older than you, sometimes you can address them as "Uncle" or "Aunt" even if they are not actually your family.
This applies to many anime due to Japanese tradition. Kuroko gives respect to Misaka as someone older than her, but calling such people "X-sama" primarily only happens in fiction. However, sometimes this term of address is actually used in family that have a perspective based in ancient tradition (like yakuza families, etc.), but this is not too common.
Note that calling someone "Uncle"/"Aunt" sometimes may not be polite (especially if the age difference is not substantial), because it makes it seem as you are treating them as old. Most of the time, in Asian tradition, we use just a word meaning "older/younger sibling" instead.
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2014/01/19 | 758 | 2,727 | <issue_start>username_0: If they weren't allies, how could Obito just think about capturing both the eight and nine-tails, and win a war in which he was challenging the 5 great nations?
His only weapons were the clones of the white Zetsu, which, regardless of their "copy ability", were such a big failure, and the Gedo statue, which was his trump card. In that way, Obito would stand against an Allied Shinobi Nation, who weren't weakened by the Edo Tensei reanimations, but obviously, he wasn't expecting that Kabuto would search for him and offer a helping hand, so I think that Obito was overestimated by Madara to think that he could manage a plan with such a great magnitude.
And as second thought, what were his plans for resurrecting Madara? Losing Nagato's 7th path, I'm curious how he would've managed this part of their plan. It's kind of luck for both Obito and Madara, that the events turned out as they are right now in the anime...<issue_comment>username_1: I think your hint goes in the right direction, Madara had counted on Nagato to resurrect him, he didn't expect Nagato to betray their plan. And then Madara, with Obito and Nagato's help, could have taken care of the five nations.
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Obito seems to have underestimated the 5 nations. Maybe because he thought that he can take advantage of their previous wars and conflicts and never expected that the alliance will truly go in war as one allied shinobi rather than fighting for their own nation.
As for plans on resurrecting Madara, I don't think he still plans to do so since he said that he wants Nagato to use the 7th path on him and his current actions shows that he wants to be the Juubi's jinchuriki himself and the one to cast infinite tsukoyomi and I think he underestimated Madara on that one too.
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_3: With the rinnegan, he can defeat the five kage. Also he had gedo statue and 7 tailed beasts at his disposal. If you consider that kabuto never met him, then there would be no itachi and no previous hokage and sasuke would have been on his side. With an EMS sasuke, he can easily win the war. Even if sasuke never joined the battle, he was able to take on kcm2 naruto, bee, kakashi and guy. He would have found a way to retrieve some part of 8 tails and 9 tails chakra either by using white zetsu or by his chakra absorption and gone for an imperfect transformation again by making kakashi force him break the seal by a chidori.
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2014/01/20 | 1,043 | 4,123 | <issue_start>username_0: How is Alphonse Elric ( And all the other souls affixed to objects ) able to see ?
***Contains Spoilers***
Alphonse soul got affixed to a armor but his real body still remains in the void. So how is he able to see through the piece of armor? And does this not collide with his real body's vision. All his other sense's such as feeling, taste are removed. And he also has the inability to sleep. So why does his vision remain?<issue_comment>username_1: Trying to factor how the Soul works in physics is a very hard thing to do since currently there is no way to confirm or deign it's existence of weight, there is a believe that all senses connect to the soul.
When we touch, taste, smell, hear or see, our mind translates this so that our soul can understand it,
* for touch and taste we need nerves to collect the information, since Al has no nerves he can't use these, he can however feel his Soul being scratched at only when someone is scratching at the blood seal
* for smell we need a nose, since Al has no nose he can't smell
* for hearing and seeing, the soul can understand what it hears/sees however it can recognize which is why Al is unable to remember key arts of his memory
this is all just speculation however and will change based off belief, as i said, trying to factor how the Soul works in physics is a very hard.
As for what you mentioned about Al's vision not colliding with his real body's vision, the Gate can only be access via special methods, remember at first Ed and Al believed Al's body to be lost however then started to believe that his body may still be at or in the Gate, it could be that when Al Body and Soul were separated so too was the connection between them thus disallowing Al to tell if his body still existed or not, this would too explain why in Botherhood Barry was surprised to see his body.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_2: There's a bit of speculation here, since there is no blatant in-universe explanation nor [Word of God](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WordOfGod) to fully demonstrate the reason for this.
You may want to take a look at the answer to [why a soul bonded to a suit of armor can move](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/3865/274), because the explanation here is pretty similar. Essentially, keeping in line with the series' representation of [eyes being windows to the soul](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/3939/274) (a [common trope](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/3547/274)), basically: Sight is not necessarily handled biologically.
Here's basically how this works: If an average person loses his sight (as does happen in the series), he cannot see, because there is no channel of vision connected to his soul (for either eye). However, Alphonse, Barry, and the other soul-bound armors do have this channel of vision, just as there is the ability for them to move their steel fingers (with, of course, the channel being in opposite direction).
The reason what he sees does not collide with what his body sees is because his body is not transmitting its sight to a soul. It has no conscious mind to connect to its sight. As for his sleep, because he has no biological mechanisms, they do not need to rest, but his conscious mind still remains active because it is affixed to his soul (imagine the way we dream).
You're probably thinking, "Oh, hurr hurr, mister clever, there's still no physical organ to transmit the vision data!" And you'd be absolutely right! There is *nothing which suggests that there is a physical entity able to transmit visual data from the real world to the armor seal*, whereas there is a physical entity able to move his limbs. It's not even known that only armor with helmets can see; in fact, when Barry is reduced to a single plate of armor, he appears to be able to see his body standing over him.
So to put it simply, your answer is: **Alphonse and other soul-bound armors see because it's necessary for the story.** We can loosely explain it, as I did above, but there still is no legitimate, solid reason why this should be possible.
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2014/01/20 | 395 | 1,471 | <issue_start>username_0: Both Angel Beats and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya feature a strong female lead as well as a "brigade." In Angel Beats, there is the SSS Brigade, and in Haruhi there is the SOS Brigade. Since Haruhi came first, is it possible that Angel Beats copied Haruhi?<issue_comment>username_1: tl;dr - They share what literary types call "themes". Angel Beats and Haruhi are both "school anime", so they will more than likely share themes.
School anime is a theme, the "school club" and "strong female lead" are also themes. You will find these themes in many anime as you watch more of them. Another example of a "school anime" with a "strong female lead" that's president of a "school club" is Medaka Box.
I wouldn't say Medaka Box copied Haruhi or Angel Beats, though. Just as I wouldn't say Angel Beats copied Haruhi.
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_2: Probably, since the main girl in Angel Beats (can't remember her name) is pretty much just as annoying and bossy as Haruhi. Both animes also take place in high school and have loads of weird situations, so that makes them similar. I watched both shows a while back, but from memory, I don't think Angel Beats straight up copied Melancholy, but it probably took a lot of inspiration from it. The author might have been like, "Well, Melancholy is really popular, and especially the main character, Haruhi, so I might want to make my story a little bit like that so it'll sell..."
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2014/01/20 | 278 | 1,144 | <issue_start>username_0: Why didn't Accelerator get sunburned after losing his vector shield? Albinos are very vulnerable to ultraviolet, so he must have been red all the time.<issue_comment>username_1: From what I understood it's not that he can't use his power. It's just that the amount he can use is limited because his calculations ability is decreased. So he should still have enough to do some stuff. But if he wants to fight with it he needs the collar to help him calculate.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_2: It wasn't explicitly stated, but the collar has three states: Active, Passive and Dead Battery.
In Active mode, Accelerator can use his vector transformation powers. In Dead Battery mode, Accelerator can't walk or talk, he can barely think logically, until the battery is recharged or the source of electromagnetic disruption is removed.
In Passive mode, Accelerator can think, talk and walk (although with a cane), so it isn't a stretch to think that he also has a weak enough reflection shield to keep protecting him from UV light.
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Also, another possibility is that the author never thought about it.
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2014/01/20 | 1,091 | 4,013 | <issue_start>username_0: Just as the title asks, why does Super Sonico always wear those headphones? Is there a reason behind it, or is this just the design Nitroplus came up with?<issue_comment>username_1: I believe this is an example of the [Never Bareheaded](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NeverBareheaded) trope in combination with the [Nice Hat](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NiceHat) trope.
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Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: 1. Character design distinction. Remove the headphones and she'll be any anime character with pink long hair and yeah, large oppai.
2. Conceal ears. Idk, I haven't probably seen an ear of a long haired female character.
3. Her headphones can be also sold as a character product so yeah, more $$$.
This is just my opinion though.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_3: She could be deaf and those headphones serve to help her hear, I mean if it is never addressed then it should be assumed that the information is common knowledge in that universe, maybe they serve to let her hear
I see them in a similar way as a blind man's shades, only with the augmenting ability that they let her hear
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_4: I discovered an interesting piece of information to add to username_1's answer while I was researching my answer to [Why is Super Sonico famous?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/23711/7579). It turns out that Super Sonico was originally designed as the mascot for Nitroplus's music festival, Nitro Super Sonico, as documented on [Super Sonico Wiki](http://super-sonico.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Sonico_Wiki) and [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitroplus). Nitroplus, though primarily a visual novel company, had apparently held this music festival for several years before they introduced Super Sonico as its mascot in 2006. In-universe, Super Sonico is a singer (and gravure model, of course); she had some very out-of-universe albums and singles released, which may have set off the tidal rush of Super Sonico love that resulted in the manga, visual novel, and anime.
So it made sense, when Super Sonico was first designed, to give her a pair of headphones: she was the mascot for a music festival, after all, and a singer herself. username_1's answer explains why she almost never takes them off.
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_5: Sonico is a robot, pretty much. If you take the headphones off, she breaks.
See this link:
<http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2014/01/22-1/super-sonico-child-version-figure-previewed>
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_6: In the game Sonicomi, there is a secret ending (ending 18), where if you touch Sonico's headphones she will say "- the demonic signal will be released and something terrible will happen! Everyone will die! So you can't touch them!". Touching them will result in a zombie apocalypse (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROcp5DJQBu4>). Not sure if this answers the question though.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_7: Maybe Super Sonico has hearing problems and the headphones are hearing aids. In the anime she uses 4 alarm clocks to wake up.
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2014/01/20 | 1,366 | 4,988 | <issue_start>username_0: In Naruto, at least in the early show, he uses the catchphrase "dattebayo" in the Japanese. [This question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/124/why-does-naruto-have-a-catch-phrase) answered on a canon-level where it came from (his mother), but I was wondering where (if anywhere) it came from in terms of the language. I know that there's no direct translation, but is it a sort of portmanteau or version of somebody's name or of some phrase in Japanese?<issue_comment>username_1: As I remembered he stated in one of his interviews that this word has no real meaning. I haven't been able to find the original interview, but it has also been quoted on Urban dictionary On the second example.
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Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_2: *Dattebayo* (だってばよ) is not really proper Japanese, but you can sort of see how it would come about linguistically as a sentence-ending phrase. It's very impolite, somewhat childish, and basically just combines different ways of putting emphasis on the statement in a not terribly meaningful way.
First, the *da* (だ) is a standard way to end a sentence (copula) in Japanese. Depending on the construction of the sentence, some sentences will end with *da* while others end with a dictionary form verb. It should be emphasized that using this would not be considered polite. The polite version of *da* is *desu* (です). [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language#Inflection_and_conjugation) has some more information on copula verbs and verb conjugations in Japanese.
Next, *tteba* (ってば) is sort of a set expression/phrase which adds emphasis. This is a shortened (and hence less polite) version of *tteieba* (っていえば). It can be attached to a noun, in which case it would be translated roughly as "speaking of" in many contexts. In other contexts it could be interpreted (somewhat rudely) as "I'm talking to you" or "listen to me". You might use it with a person's name to attract their attention in this way. It's roughly equivalent to *ttara* (ったら) but this latter one is more commonly used by females. [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_particles#tteba) calls it a "strong emphasis marker" which is probably about as close as you can get to an accurate English description.
Naruto adds it to the *da* above. *Datteba* is something you might hear occasionally in other contexts. To me, this more often sounds frustrated than emphatic, but it could be used either way.
Finally, the *yo* (よ) is a sentence-ending particle. It can be appended to the end of a sentence when the speaker is informing the listener of something or making an assertion. It might be translated in some contexts as "you see" or "you know". It's not necessarily impolite but it could be used in impolite speech. [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_particles#yo) has some other contexts where this could be used.
Putting all these together gives *dattebayo*. It's meaningless and not entirely grammatical, but it puts a lot of emphasis on what he is saying. One might compare it qualitatively in English to using multiple superlatives, e.g. "I'm the most bestest ninja ever" in terms of how it would come across. It isn't actually equivalent to this, but Japanese speakers hearing it would get a similar impression in terms of the manner of speech.
I'll note that while *dattebayo* is most definitely invented for this character, it's somewhat equivalent to *dazo* (だぞ). *Dazo* is not childish-sounding (compared to *dattebayo*), and is mostly used by men. However, it is still quite impolite, all things considered, and puts a strong emphasis on a statement. There's also the more forceful *daze* (だぜ), but *dazo* has somewhat of a more positive tone.
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2014/01/21 | 966 | 3,707 | <issue_start>username_0: In Ano Hana, Menma died when she was a kid, but then a few years later when she appeared again, her ghost was a teenager. What exactly happened here?<issue_comment>username_1: Jintan still has romantic feelings toward her, as do the other male
characters. There are also some scenes (at least one, and I think more)
where Menma is sitting on Jintan's crotch and moving around, which
naturally gives him nosebleeds and at least once causes him to pass out.
The implication is that she has no clue what kind of effect this has on
him because she died before learning about such things.
It seems likely that the creators did not want to show that kind of
scene with Menma looking like a child. *Kodomo no Jikan* ended up not
being adapted for the US market because of such content. The late-teen
male characters having romantic feelings toward such a young-looking
character would also tend to squick people out.
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_2: There are two routes here:
If Menma was a ghost or spirit:
* We know that she doesn't have any memory of the gap in between her death and her reappearance
* Thus she was likely in some sort of stasis or limbo, but still aged
* The major likelihood is that her soul was stuck in the human world because her wish wasn't fulfilled, so she kept aging
* Alternatively, it's possible spirits can control their appearance and it just seemed natural to be at the age of her friends
* As to explaining the memory gap, I like to think that she was unconsciously waiting for the Super Peace Busters to get back together, and when it didn't happen, she didn't have a choice but to wake up in the human world and put everyone's longing to rest herself.
If Menma was a collective hallucination:
* She was grown up in their hallucinations for a reason.
* The reason could be speculated as:
+ Everyone wanted Menma to grow up as well, still not wanting to let go of her death.
+ Subconsciously, it just seemed natural for Menma to grow up as well, because she wasn't dead in the characters' hearts
Personally I would like it better if Menma were a hallucination because seeing people resolve their own emotional traumas without any divine intervention (a spirit coming to make things better by meeting with their loved ones, etc.) is a lot more moving.
Absolutely none of this is canon but it can be in our hearts.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_3: I would also say, that Menmas reappearance was already told to happen. I understand the outro song as something that Menma thinks or sings. And he sings that she wanted to see Jinta in August after 10 years again and, I think, that other then just seeing Jin-tan again, she also saw that the Super Peace Busters aren't real friends anymore which kept here "here". She wanted her friends to get together again, be friends. Nobody should give themself the responsi
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_4: I think she appeared as a teenager because there were reasons behind it as such:
1. I think that she reappeared as a teenager because Jintan still likes her, and so do other male characters, even though she is dead.
2. She reappeared as an adult because it would seem a bit weird for older teenagers to like a 7-10 year old girl.
Plus, if you understand the outro song fully, you'd think it along the lines of it as something Menma would think/sing to Jintan.
Maybe, she also wanted to get the "Super Peace Busters" back together again, as her death made them all split apart.
3. People, including her mum (or mom, however you want to say it), didn't want her to die that day, and they wished she had grown up to live a lovely life.
(There's meh bein' smart ヾ(●ε●)ノ ;^; )
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2014/01/21 | 731 | 2,517 | <issue_start>username_0: In the anime (episode 2) it is shown that Mamimi is bullied, and apparently has her shoes taken away from her. I understand she is probably bullied due to being odd, but why did they take her shoes of all things? it seems bizarre to me.
As seen in the anime itself:
<issue_comment>username_1: In Japanese schools, typically they have set of outdoor street shoes and indoor shoes called "[Uwabaki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwabaki)." Inside, there are typically individual shelves or lockers for everyone's shoes. These shelves/lockers will occasionally have a space for students to put and swap their outdoor shoes for their indoor shoes. This is typically done to keep the floor from being marred by outside elements and maintain its polish for a longer period of time.
The general idea (depicted in anime and manga) of bullying is to either steal them (and toss them away or place them in an inconvenient place) or fill them with tacks or garbage (sometimes also defacing them). The purpose is usually humiliate them and/or cause them distress without actual confrontation. The sandals she wears are probably her indoor shoes, and the idea is probably to take enjoyment in humiliating her by making her walk home without shoes or in her indoor shoes. In essence, the idea of this is to shame the bullied victim (who typically react passively), who loses dignity/"face", which elevates the ego/status of the bully or bullies.
Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: username_1♦'s answer, while good in most regards, seems to be missing the convenience aspect. In anime, and possibly in real Japanese schools, these shoe lockers are often not locked, and sometimes are just open shelves as seen in the second image below.
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source: <https://gowithguide.com/blog/welcome-to-the-japanese-school-visiting-is-believing-shoe-lockers-3496>
Though I can't speak much to real Japanese schools, in anime, these lockers are almost always not locked, thus making the shoes inside an easy and convenient target for bullies.
See also:
<https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/InsideShoes>
<https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StockShoujoBullyingTactics>
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2014/01/22 | 652 | 2,447 | <issue_start>username_0: In *Hunter × Hunter* (2011), Komugi and Meruem play a game called *Gungi*. It's a fictional game which appears to take conceptual origins from chess, Go, and other strategic board games.
We see tidbits of it played here and there, but I'm left to wonder: How is it played? What are the rules?<issue_comment>username_1: With what I have seen in the anime, this should sum up all the rules and factors.
* The objective is to capture the king.
* The game is played on a single color 9x9 board.
* The game starts with a empty board
* The players take turns placing stones, limited to the first 3 rows of the board on your side of the field
* After all the pieces are placed, the players take turns moving a piece.
* The pieces can be stacked on top of each other (the 3rd dimension) up to 3 pieces.
* Certain pieces are stronger than others. Therefore, not all setups can beat certain counters.
* Each player has 24 pieces in total.
The pieces used in this game are as following
* Pawn
* Spy
* Cannon
* Fortress
* Musketeer
* Knight
* General
The exact conditions for victory are too blurry to confirm, but the rules for victory seem pretty similar to chess, which would equal to trying to checkmate the king. The placement and tactics used in the game are pretty similar to shogi. As for the initial placement, it's pretty similar to checkers. For the combat side of the game, it also seems to have a slide of [Stratego](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratego) in it, as some pieces are stronger than others, and there potentially are pieces that can only be beaten by certain other pieces.
This is all I managed to find out.
Upvotes: 4 <issue_comment>username_2: The game appears to be a blend of shogi, othello, checkers, chess, and as mentioned earlier stratego. The objective is to put your opponent into checkmate by capturing the king. The set up is closest to checkers, while movement is like chess, and the evolution of pieces is similar to checkers "king" creation. Shogi is in the overall patterns and formations that can be made on the board and in the variations of strength regarding pieces.
Some of the pieces being taken after certain placements were shown in the anime during a few of the matches more complicated maneuvers. This is what leads me to think of Othello, though this may have no real bearing at all in the true gameplay.
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2014/01/22 | 1,085 | 3,553 | <issue_start>username_0: So in my re-reading of the Fullmetal Alchemist series I remember them describing the State Alchemist issue pocket watch as being golden in color. But then in the both of the animes they show the pocket watch as being silver. Why is this different? And what is the true color of the pocket watch?<issue_comment>username_1: The [Wikia](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/State_Alchemist) pages indicates it is a **silver pocketwatch**.
Looking up Brotherhood's [differences from the manga](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Fullmetal_Alchemist:_Brotherhood#Differences_From_the_Manga), while Brotherhood follows the manga more faithfully than the 2003 series, most of the changes are omission of the scenes which are covered in the 2003 series, with some slight changes in other scenes due to the aforementioned omissions.
For example, <NAME>'s first appearance was in Youswell in the Manga, but since this was omitted in Brotherhood as the main points of the events (Yoki being tricked, people of Youswell gaining ownership to the deed of their town, and the start of Ed's fame as "Hero of the people") were already covered in the 2003 anime, the dialogue during her second visit was changed to avoid confusion.
There doesn't seem to be any mention of either the 2003 series of Brotherhood changing the pocketwatch's composition, but instead only the change in the hexagram presumably as to not invoke Judaism. However, I have yet to read the manga and just looking at the covers, the most we can ever see is the silver chain which the watch is connected to.
 
I also want to point out that, Gold in Japanese is *Kin* (金), while Silver is *Gin* (銀). It could be quite possible that the translation may have made a mistake. However, without seeing the pages myself, this part is just speculation.
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_2: The pocket watch is in fact gold according to the English translation of the manga. Yoki mentions this in chapter 3 of volume 1 saying: "A gold watch with the president's crest and the hexagram!! GAH!" After Ed introduces himself in the Inn by showing them the watch. It would be very interesting to find out which side the mistake was made on, translation or the anime and all colored artwork. :) I was wondering about this too for some time but couldn't find anything on it online.
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_3: **The correct color of the watch is silver.**
A popular fan scanlation of the manga (volume 1, chapter 3, page 19) **incorrectly** states that the pocket watch is gold in color.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CGNJo.jpg)
Third panel down on the left: "The president's crest! The hexagram gold watch!"
The correct color is in fact silver, according to the raw version. Here is the same panel, taken from the raw manga (volume 1, page 117).
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The same panel as above reads:
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Specifically here, the term 銀時計｛ぎんとけい｝ (*gintokē*, lit. "silver watch") refers explicitly to **銀｛ぎん｝ (*gin*, lit. "silver")**; as [@username_1](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/1587/memor-x) [mentioned](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/7116/274), it is similar to 金｛きん｝ (*kin*, lit. "gold"), which most likely led to the confusion.
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2014/01/23 | 1,123 | 4,077 | <issue_start>username_0: In the Punk Hazard Arc, Zoro has a fight with a logia named Monet. She had the snow snow no mi power. In that fight Zoro defeated Monet not using haki but using some form of fear relating to an animal.
How exactly did zoro defeat Monet using this new ability of his? What this ability of his do? Have we seen the same ability like this being used by someone else?<issue_comment>username_1: If you look at the wiki page of [Monet](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Monet), the fight is very clearly explained in there (emphasis mine).
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Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Zoro did not defeat Monet. The attack involved no haki.
Acoording to the [story](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Monet), Monet is first sliced vertically in half by Zoro. However, Zoro did not imbue Haki into his attack, allowing Monet to survive. Realizing what would have happened had Zoro used Haki, she is left terrified to the point where she could hardly put her body back together. 
As Zoro walks away, Monet manages to partially reform and attempts to stab him in the back with her ice picks, but Tashigi quickly deals the finishing blow. Monet then falls to the ground, defeated. When the poisonous gas starts flowing into the Biscuits Room, Zoro and Tashigi flee and Monet is left behind.
Later we see that she manages to escape to a different section of the facility. While amongst the crumbling rubble of the lab, she contacts Joker and apologizes for her failure and came to the decision to set off the remaining weapon to destroy the entire island and kill everyone on it.
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2014/01/23 | 981 | 3,328 | <issue_start>username_0: Episode 20
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Okay, excuse my language, but what is up with that? It's just a handcuff, you'll be able to chainsaw it or something!
If L thought that far and actually made the chain indestructible (Maybe he used titanium or something!?), we would have probably been able to pick it.
IF (highly unlikely) L actually took every precaution, **L's body** is not going to be as strong as the metal.
So why did he trust it so much? Was it a bluff/joke?<issue_comment>username_1: It was indeed a bluff made by light
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**In chapter 37**, L handcuffs Light, because at this point L still believes Light to be the killer. He just can't prove it due to their long confinement and the continuation of murders. So he still believes what he had said in chapter 32 and thus to repeat this in front of everybody he says that they will both share the same faith.
Later when L actually dies, Light can escape imprisonment, because of the fake rules he had put up. If the 13 day rule wouldn't have been in the Death Note he would have been captures by the NPA and L's prediction would have come true.
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2014/01/23 | 892 | 3,071 | <issue_start>username_0: I've seen the newest episodes of the anime, and I was thinking:
I understand that he didn't have the Rinnegan right after the battle with Hashirama, but still, I can't imagine that his recovery from that battle would be so long. He remained alive, and he was the strongest Uchiha, and one of the strongest shinobi in the world (and now with the cells of Hashirama), so why wait for someone (because Obito got to him by chance) if you can start what you want, when you want? With his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, he could have built an organization like the Akatsuki, and played in the shadows, just as Obito did. In this way he could have time to search for a pupil, and at the same time, the organization members would search for the Tailed Beasts, and after defeating them, keep them in a "vegetative state" until Madara awakens his Rinnegan to manipulate the Gedo Statue and collect the Bijuu's before he dies (note that he's able to steal the Gedo Statue's power, so with Tailed Beasts inside it, he could have been much stronger, despite his age).
Then pass the Rinnegan to the pupil-> Rinne Tensei-> resurrected Madara has his youth and force back, plus the Tailed Beasts are already in his possession. (And MAYBE even his pupil would've survived and both of them would possess the Rinnegan)-> straight way to Tsuki no Me plan.<issue_comment>username_1: Madara didn't know he was going to awaken the Rinnegan. He knew about the story with the Sage of Six Paths and the Juubi, he also probably knew about the existence of the Eternal Tsukuyomi. But without the Rinnegan, his plan couldn't have succeeded at all (because the Rinnegan is needed for the Gedo Mazo).
Since Madara didn't know he was going to awaken the Rinnegan, or what the requirements were, he couldn't have started his plan.
Sure, in retrospect, if he had known he would awaken the Rinnegan at a later point, starting to collect the Bijuu early might have been a clever move.
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Note that even his current plan had flaws in it:
* Obito never planned to resurrect Madara. It was Kabuto who made the fatal mistake of reanimating him (having been tempted by Black Zetsu with Madara's corpse), and thinking he could control him. Obito's plan was to complete the Infinite Tsukuyomi himself, and create a world in which Rin lives.
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2014/01/24 | 612 | 2,098 | <issue_start>username_0: When we see the old Madara talking to Obito after he was found, we can see that his right part of the body is destroyed and replaced with that artificial, Hashirama cells included "body", and we can also see that his face is in a pretty bad shape, too, but he's got his right Sharingan. How it happened, that his right eye came out harmless after that incident?<issue_comment>username_1: Madara didn't know he was going to awaken the Rinnegan. He knew about the story with the Sage of Six Paths and the Juubi, he also probably knew about the existence of the Eternal Tsukuyomi. But without the Rinnegan, his plan couldn't have succeeded at all (because the Rinnegan is needed for the Gedo Mazo).
Since Madara didn't know he was going to awaken the Rinnegan, or what the requirements were, he couldn't have started his plan.
Sure, in retrospect, if he had known he would awaken the Rinnegan at a later point, starting to collect the Bijuu early might have been a clever move.
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Note that even his current plan had flaws in it:
* Obito never planned to resurrect Madara. It was Kabuto who made the fatal mistake of reanimating him (having been tempted by Black Zetsu with Madara's corpse), and thinking he could control him. Obito's plan was to complete the Infinite Tsukuyomi himself, and create a world in which Rin lives.
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2014/01/25 | 619 | 2,295 | <issue_start>username_0: In one of the Baccano! episodes (apparently episode 8, according to Wikipedia), we see a number of people from the police being briefed about the burglaries committed by Isaac and Miria. Does the pair actually end up getting confronted by law enforcement anytime in the course of the anime series (or even the light novels)? I don't recall this happening in the anime, but I have read that it leaves out some details from the light novels.<issue_comment>username_1: In 1934 in the novels Isaac gets arrested and sent to Alcatraz.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: In the eighth novel (year 1934), Firo is sent to Alcatraz by <NAME>1 and meets both Isaac and <NAME> there. Isaac was imprisoned for various thefts but is released in the same year.
This is the only known sentence and it's not known *which* thefts, but I recall from the anime that the police knew most of their criminal actions. I don't know why he was released the same year or why Miria wasn't in prison, though.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_3: Some undercover cops over hear Issac talking in the Alvaere about their various crimes (in 1934) and asks him and Miria to come see a show at a nearby building. Issac asks Miria to go fetch his wallet, and then tells the police officer to go ahead and arrest him. Due to being in the middle of Martillo territory with a lot of the gang glaring at them, they decide to only arrest Issac instead of making a scene trying to capture Miria, who is then sent to stay with Jacuzzi's crew at the Genoard vacation manor to lay low until the charges against her are dropped, where she remains until she goes to meet Issac after his release.
Victor pulls some strings and agrees to drop the charges against Miria and give Issac a reduced sentence if he'll help them with Huey at Alcatraz. Since Firo agreed to go to prison in exchange for Victor not pursuing his vendetta against Ennis for devouring his friend (and being involved with Szilard's schemes), they decided not to use Issac and he simply did his time (3 1/2 months), and was released, and then he and Miria had a clean slate.
Due to the ridiculousness of all the crimes, the only crime Issac was actually charged with was robbing the Genoard mansion.
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2014/01/27 | 1,189 | 3,524 | <issue_start>username_0: I was watching *<NAME>* during the Kakashi chronicles, and he mentions that rule 25 is that a Shinobi isn't allowed to cry.
What are the other rules (that have been revealed)?<issue_comment>username_1: There are a few more indeed.
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Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_2: Don't forget the rule that supersedes all rules: protect your comrades!
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Rule 2. A Shinobi must not value himself but rather adhere to his village's ideals.
Rule 3. hone your reflexes, they often react without you realising it.
Rule 4. A Shinobi must always put the mission first.
Rule 5. A Shinobi must always put his village before himself.
Rule 6. Misdirection is the sharpest blade.
Rule 7. A Shinobi should be able to prevail without fighting, only if there is no other choice but to do so.
Rule 8. A Shinobi must abstain from overindulging in the three vices: sex, alcohol and money.
Rule 9. A Shinobi must always carry out the mission assigned.
Rule 10. There are times when information is more important than lives.
Rule 11. A Shinobi must see the underneath under the underneath.
Rule 12. A Shinobi world is a world of shadows.
Rule 13. Hesitation is death.
Rule 14. When in danger you must not reveal anything involuntarily.
Rule 15. Only through experiencing the confrontation of danger, the transcendence of fear or injury or death can you acknowledge individual personal powers and limitations.
Rule 16. Turn your weaknesses into strengths.
Rule 17. Death to traitors.
Rule 18. A Shinobi must prepare before it is too late to.
Rule 19. Shinobi have no honour, they take their village's honour as their own.
Rule 20. A Shinobi must never question their commander.
Rule 21. The failures or successes of one affect the whole.
Rule 22. A Shinobi must never show attachment.
Rule 23. A Shinobi must endure.
Rule 24. Forgiveness is a luxury.
Rule 25. A Shinobi must never show emotion.
Not sure if these are the actual rules but they seem pretty realistic, so yeah. Here is the source if you wanna check it out: <https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10924400/1/Shinobi-Rules-Book>
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2014/01/29 | 407 | 1,369 | <issue_start>username_0: As Itachi was able to stop Kabuto's ET, the reanimated souls got released.
But what happened to Nagato?
Since he was pierced with Itachi's Totsuka Blade, will his soul be released? Or will he be trapped in the sake jar?<issue_comment>username_1: I haven't found a proper answer, it seems to me that this one is unanswered, yet Nagato stated this before the sealing was over:
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So it appears to me that Nagato knew that he'll be released and he would meet Jiraiya in the afterlife. Btw, don't forget that every sealed reanimation body was released (e.g all the Kages), so we could assume that along with them, Nagato was freed from the jutsu, too.
Upvotes: 2 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Nagato was released from Itachi's seal when Itachi undid the Edo-Tensei, Nagato knew he would rejoin Jiraiya, because he had no doubt that Itachi would be able to stop kabuto and undo the Jutsu, when Itachi sealed him, it was because he was the link to the Totsuka blade, when Itachi released (Killed) himself by undo-ing the Jutsu, there was no more link, thus freeing Nagato to the afterlife with Jiraiya again.
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2014/01/29 | 1,061 | 3,517 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been surfing on a page, and I found a comment which appears weird to me:
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> If you KILL the Jinchuuriki, the demon fox will die too...
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It's hard to believe that this one is real, but then it just popped up in me that is there some way for a Bijuu to die?
Note that all of the Akatsuki members were ordered to weaken/exhaust their target Jinchuuriki, but stay vigilant not to kill him. That should give some base to the theory that they can be killed.<issue_comment>username_1: A bijuu can indeed die, in a way.
A bijuu is purely made up of chakra, some times the are even referenced to as [Chakra Monsters](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tailed_Beasts). The same rules apply to the bijuu as to all the normal humans in the world. If your chakra runs out, you die.
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> quoted in naruto episode 50-60, or when ever it was that the chunin exams went on and the sand attacked the leaf, sasuke and kakashi were off training when kakashi told sasuke "well your about good for 2 blast", refering to chidori. then sasuke said, "what would happen if i tried a third?" kakashi then said "in the turn that you try to force a jutsu, not only will it not work, you use up all your chakra, worst case scenerio, you die" so if you do lose all your chakra, you do die. [as quoted from](http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110102124403AAFmHpq)
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This means that if a bijuu runs out of chakra he dies. If the jinchuuriki dies with the bijuu still inside of him the bijuu will die.
in this last case there has also been stated that if the jinchuuriki die's with the bijuu inside of him he we revive
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so upon the death of the jinchuuriki the tailed beast will disappear for a while. But it'll reappear again after some time. It is also said that this reappearance is on a random location. If the bijuu retains his original memory is also not known.
Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: A Bijuu can die. I remember when Kurama threatened Sasuke, he said "Don't kill Naruto", maybe because he was scared that if Sasuke kills Naruto, he would die, too.
About the chakra level, I can't imagine a Bijuu running out from chakra and die.
Manga episode 309:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fEoAp.png)
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_3: Actually, from what I have seen in Naruto Shippuden. A bijuu can "die." In this circumstance it's chakra gets dispersed. However, over time the chakra recombines to form the tailed beast
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_4: A bijuu is simply a being made purely out of a hell of a lot of Chakra. Chakra like any type of energy can't be created or destroyed. Hence if a bijuu is 'killed' it's chakra will disperse and then it will reform as its chakra comes back together. This also applies for if its host is killed, the bijuu's chakra will disperse before it eventually reforms. This is why the Alatsuki were told to weaken and not kill the jinchuuriki because if they did it would take time for the bijuu to reform which would be very inconvenient for their plans as they would have to wait possibly years for the bijuu to reform during which time the hidden villages could mount some form of offensive against them to get their bijuu back.
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2014/01/30 | 2,131 | 8,114 | <issue_start>username_0: In one episode we see Re-l's name on a computer terminal. However where the "-" is, we see it's actually supposed to be an "A" as the rest of the letter is just visible. This means her name may have been supposed to be Real.
I am wondering: if there is some sort of meaning behind Re-l's name having originally been Real but being recognised as Re-l?<issue_comment>username_1: I think
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> Daedalus's purpose was to create proxy.
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Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: Her name is written in katakana as リル・メイヤ (<NAME>), leaves her romanized name up to interpretation... but it's speculated that there seems to be a some parallel between the her ID number (124C41+) and the episode title: リル124C41+/RE-l124c41+ and Re-L as a character. The code is based off of a sci-fi novel by <NAME>, titled [*Ralph 124C 41+*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_124C_41%2B). The title in itself, is a play on words meaning "one to foresee for one another (1 2 4C 4 1 +)".
It's assumed that the significance of her name is based on the protagonist of the book, who saves the heroine by directing energy at an avalanche, and then continues to do on about about modern technology and the wonders which actually proved as successful predictions in regards of the technology we have today. E.g., solar power, transcontinental air travel, synthetic foods, tape recorders, etc.
I assume that like most (if not all) of the characters in the series, she's named after historical figures, philosophers, and/or fictional characters.
There's speculation in the fan community that Re-L may be an imperfect clone of Monad Proxy and her name is a reflection on that.
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_3: **HEAVY SPOILERS AHEAD.**
This anime is rife with Gnostic symbolism and themes. The meaning of Re-l's name is actually very critical to understanding the point of the entire show. Before I can tell you the meaning of Re-l's name, you need to understand a bit about the Gnostic themes expressed in Ergo Proxy.
The main thing you need to know about Gnosticism to understand the meaning behind the names Re-l and Real is that Gnostics endeavor to achieve union with God, where a human can truly touch the Divine.
This steps beyond the dogmatism of monotheistic religious beliefs. What Gnostics seek is a realization of "true reality." For the Gnostics, who were very much influenced by [Neoplatonism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoplatonism) and Plato's idea that this true reality exists beyond the physical, material world. In this physical world, we are condemned to suffering and repetition of all our mistakes. Plato believed true *Reality* exists in the *Mind*. For Plato, that which is real is an *idea*. This most well-known articulation of this conception of our place in the world is expressed through Plato's famous allegory of [The Cave](https://web.stanford.edu/class/ihum40/cave.pdf). To some extent, we can think of the life of illusion that "everything is okay" experienced by the "fellow citizens" in the dome cities is a parallel to the people tied up in Plato's Cave. When Re-l and Vincent begin their journey outside of the dome, they soon begin to see things as they really are, thus serving as a parallel for the person who escaped their bonds and ventures outside the cave. When Re-l and Vincent encounter the deformed, sluggish and sickly people in an actual cave filled with noxious poison gas, Re-l reflects on her experience in the Romdo. She notes that these people, in their effort to hide from the real world of suffering and pain, have stunted their development as beings. She realizes that they are not so different from the people in Romdo. This further serves to solidify that this theme in Ergo Proxy refers to Plato's Cave.
The Gnostics take this idea one step further by claiming that dogmatic religion up to this point has lied to us and kept us apart from the true *Reality*. Ergo Proxy does a good job of representing this lie told to us by society with the way the government of Romdo lies to its people, claiming it is for their own good. Plato believes we can find truth in the world outside the cave, while the Gnostics seek to become *one* with this truth. Ultimately, the meaning of the Gnostic ideal of *union with God* is something that has been interpreted in different ways by many different scholars. I have my own opinion about what this union with God looks like, but I am not going to go into that here. Here I am just going to answer the question, "What is the meaning behind Re-l's name?"
What Ergo Proxy offers us is an interpretation of the Gnostic ideal of union with God and the true *Reality*. Through their quest for knowledge, Re-l and Vincent learn about how the Proxies created the Domes so that people could continue their lives on this apocalyptic husk of a planet. At this point we learn the Real, an apparent clone of Re-l, is actually a reincarnation of Monad Proxy. Real urges Vincent to fly to the sky with her and abandon the world of suffering and pain below. However, Daedalus tells us that when Proxies are exposed to the sun, they die. The blue sky and sun above the clouds represents the true Gnostic *Reality*, and this interpretation is further supported by Plato's use of *Light* as a symbol for the Mind and the truth of *ideas*. The world of Earth, below the clouds, is dark and full of pain and suffering, but it is also the place where Vincent, as a Proxy, can live as a physical being with desires, pleasure, pain, and everything else entailed by living here. What this reveals is that Ergo Proxy is presenting the Gnostic *Reality* as bliss, complete unity with all of creation, and thus, *oblivion*. Yes--freedom from the physical form means relinquishing this physical form. To become part of the infinite is to relinquish the finite, and thus relinquish mortality, and indeed, life. To unite with God is to die, but also to stop suffering. We see this when Real flies to the clouds and disintegrates as a blur, merging with the greater cosmos.
Vincent, as a Proxy, occupies a space between this physical reality and the true *Reality*. Perhaps he is like the man who ventures outside of the cave in Plato's allegory. But Vincent was very much attached to the world of humanity, the imperfect, painful, dark and desolate world, but also the world full of beauty, innocence, and freedom to choose who you are among the finite. But what I do know is that at the very end, Vincent faced a choice, and this is ultimately where we come to the meaning behind the names Re-l and Real.
**Real, the Proxy, offers Vincent a choice to join with the true *Reality*, if he would only fly up with her into oblivion. Re-l, the human, offers Vincent a choice to stay with humanity and be one of the mortals. They are indeed clones of each other, and their names are so close together yet significantly different. "Re-l" is fragmented, it is almost the full name "Real" but it is missing a letter--it an incomplete name--just like the incomplete physical reality that she represents. "Real" is the full name and she represents this true *Reality*, the implications of which I have discussed above. Real cannot stay in the physical world because she is destined to fly to the sky and become one with God, a realization which, in Ergo Proxy's interpretation, is oblivion.**
At the end, Vincent made his choice. He chose the imperfect Re-l because he loved her. He chose this imperfect reality because he loved it. He abandoned his chance at unity with *Reality* because he saw this world as a world worth living in. He could never abandon this world.
This is just my interpretation of the meaning behind the names "Re-l" and "Real". Perhaps my interpretation is not what the creators of Ergo Proxy had in mind, but it makes sense to me. I also know there are so many other details and philosophical concepts explored in this anime, that I did not visit in this response. Really this is just my effort to answer the one question at the top of this page.
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2014/01/30 | 1,043 | 3,104 | <issue_start>username_0: I have started doing jigsaw puzzles with a friend and we were hoping to find one for FLCL but I was not able to find any (on American online stores at least). My Google-fu is pretty terrible though. So are there any American or Japanese (or other) stores that sell Anime based Puzzles? I am specifically looking for FLCL as I said but I was barely able to find any at all so anything would be appreciated. Or is my search futile and Puzzles are just an uncommon piece of Anime merchandise?<issue_comment>username_1: There are indeed close to 0 jigsaw puzzles for FLCL available.
I did find a digital one
<http://www.jigidi.com/solve.php?id=WHBI5J3Y>
and there might be some other digital on this site. But i did not directly find it.
<http://www.onlinejigsawpuzzles.net/anime.htm>
As for your other jigsaw puzzle needs you should checkout one of the following sites. They offer the broadest variety of anime jigsaws. The might not have FLCL but do have loads of others.
<http://shop.animepagoda.com/Jigsaw-Puzzles>
<http://jzool.com/en/c/444-anime-jigsaw-puzzles#>
and might also run into a FLCL one on here, but that is mainly based on luck. They do usually offer a variety of other anime related jigsaw puzzles though.
<http://www.ebay.com/bhp/anime-puzzle>
<http://www.amazon.com/s?rh=n%3A166363011%2Cp_n_feature_browse-bin%3A3233064011>
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: There are many websites that allow you to create your own jigsaws, like [JigScenes.com](http://www.jigscenes.com/) , [CreateJigsawPuzzles.com](http://www.createjigsawpuzzles.com/promotional/photo-into-puzzle.html) or [Jessops.com](http://photo.jessops.com/gifts/baby-toys/jigsaw-puzzle-1000.html) (This last one supports 1000 piece jigsaws)
If you have anime/manga artwork you could use this service to create your own - Although this way, the people who made the work won't see any of the money from the purchase.
You'd also want to make sure you'd have the rights to making something like that, so this is a better solution for fan works and similar which may have more lenient licensing.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_2: I found a shop in Akibahara that sells anime themed jigsaw puzzles - Yodobashi.
They have an online store which returns around 370 results for ['jigsaw puzzle'](http://www.yodobashi.com/ec/category/index.html?cate=&word=%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A1%E3%82%B8%E3%82%B0%E3%82%BD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%91%E3%82%BA%E3%83%AB&ginput=%E3%82%B8%E3%82%B0%E3%82%BD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%91%E3%82%BA%E3%83%AB).
FLCL is a good 15 years old now, so it's unlikely that there are any currently instock jigsaws for the series - Japanese anime stores only tend to cover the most popular old series (Ghibli, Evangellion, Kon) and current season shows.
Your best bet is to probably monitor auction sites such as Yahoo and Ebay.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_3: Imaginatorium shop have some anime jigsaw puzzles (Naruto, One Piece, Ghibli...)
<http://imaginatorium.org/shop/shop.htm>
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2014/01/31 | 773 | 2,496 | <issue_start>username_0: Early into Fate/Stay Night, there is a scene where Shirou sees Sakura and another man:
In the Unlimited Blade Works Route, we confirm this other man is Gilgamesh. When Sakura talks to Shirou, she says that the other man was a foreigner and she couldn't understand him. However, we can see from the image that that may not be the case.
Since Gilgamesh has been tainted by Angra Mainyu's corruption of the Holy Grail from the previous war, and Sakura is a "Black Grail" Vessel with a deeper connection to Angra Mainyu than the "White Grail" Vessel (Ilya), did Gilgamesh already know about Sakura?<issue_comment>username_1: He knows that Sakura is "the other grail" besides Illya, thus he approach/come to her and said "Die" to Sakura, because she is the "fake" grail.
And, Gilgamesh can't be tainted because of his high ego
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: To complement username_1's answer, here's a [relevant quotation](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Gilgamesh#Fate.2Fstay_night) from TYPE-MOON Wiki:
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> Gilgamesh is one of the antagonists in each scenario of Fate/stay
> night. He first appears before the start of the Fifth Holy Grail War
> around [Sakura](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Sakura)'s house. He identifies her as “the other Grail” and
> comes to tell her “Go die right now.” It is just a suggestion rather
> than a command, as he believes that the matter will develop into some
> sort of entertainment regardless of the situation. When questioned
> about the encounter, Sakura just claims that he was asking for
> directions and that “It was English” in order to hide the truth.
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And source referenced is as follows ([Citation Note 14](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Gilgamesh#cite_note-13)):
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> [Fate/complete material III](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Fate/complete_material#Volume_III_-_World_material) World material - FAQ with Nasu: General Questions about Fate, p.130
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> **Q: Prior to the start of the Holy Grail War, what was Gilgamesh doing around Sakura’s house?**
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> A: Yes. He came to tell Sakura to “Go die right now”. It is rather a suggestion than command. Regardless the situation, from the King’s perspective, this matter will develop into some sort of entertainment. As a result, what Gilgamesh said was not a command. Sakura’s reply “It was English” was a convenient excuse to hide the truth.
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2014/01/31 | 860 | 2,828 | <issue_start>username_0: In the actual Fate Route (after Saber is summoned) we see Gilgamesh in casual attire when he confronts Saber and Shirou before getting into his golden armour. However, in Unlimited Blade Works and before the start of the Fate Route, his casual attire is different, particularly his hair and that he's not wearing earrings.
(left: Unlimited Blade Works; right: Fate)
Now I can understand that in Unlimited Blade Works the reason he doesn't wear his armour when fighting Shirou in the end is in part due to his ego in thinking he won't need it on someone like Shirou. However, I don't think it's his ego which is the cause of his change in appearance.
So I am wondering, why does Gilgamesh's casual appearance look different in these two routes, considering his Unlimited Blade Works appearance was also seen when he was talking to Sakura?<issue_comment>username_1: He knows that Sakura is "the other grail" besides Illya, thus he approach/come to her and said "Die" to Sakura, because she is the "fake" grail.
And, Gilgamesh can't be tainted because of his high ego
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: To complement username_1's answer, here's a [relevant quotation](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Gilgamesh#Fate.2Fstay_night) from TYPE-MOON Wiki:
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> Gilgamesh is one of the antagonists in each scenario of Fate/stay
> night. He first appears before the start of the Fifth Holy Grail War
> around [Sakura](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Sakura)'s house. He identifies her as “the other Grail” and
> comes to tell her “Go die right now.” It is just a suggestion rather
> than a command, as he believes that the matter will develop into some
> sort of entertainment regardless of the situation. When questioned
> about the encounter, Sakura just claims that he was asking for
> directions and that “It was English” in order to hide the truth.
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And source referenced is as follows ([Citation Note 14](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Gilgamesh#cite_note-13)):
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> [Fate/complete material III](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Fate/complete_material#Volume_III_-_World_material) World material - FAQ with Nasu: General Questions about Fate, p.130
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> **Q: Prior to the start of the Holy Grail War, what was Gilgamesh doing around Sakura’s house?**
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> A: Yes. He came to tell Sakura to “Go die right now”. It is rather a suggestion than command. Regardless the situation, from the King’s perspective, this matter will develop into some sort of entertainment. As a result, what Gilgamesh said was not a command. Sakura’s reply “It was English” was a convenient excuse to hide the truth.
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2014/01/31 | 1,002 | 3,975 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there any official site for anime and manga ranking? I know some site for anime and manga, and they have some kind of rating and ranking, but their rating and ranking are different. I'm wondering if there are any official site for anime, maybe something like IMDB? Honestly, I don't really know if IMDB is official or not, but if someone is to ask for the rating of a movie, they always say to look it in IMDB.<issue_comment>username_1: As far as I know there is no official ranking site for anime/manga.
The closest thing you could get to an official ranking would be ranking them according to their sales, which gets featured on a lot of sites. An example would be this [MyAnimeList post](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=759719). More info and sites can be found on the post [Where can one learn about viewership ratings for anime?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/5095/1458), where some nice sites have been listed.
Most other rating sites are, as [hungerartist](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/2604/hungerartist) mentioned, user rated and therefore not official.
Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: No, there's nothing official, as there's nothing official that regulates anime industry or something. You can try Dimitri's solution, but I would recommend sticking to Anime News Network and looking at their sales reports instead of seeing what's popular.
Sales charts are more useful, popularity often has a multiplier effect.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_3: **OP please read this, I took the time to write it for you**
I write this hoping to rid you of some misconceptions you seem to have. Even though it's been almost 2 years, I took the time to help you.
Very few things can/should get an official rating or ranking. Art, like movies and anime, definitely SHOULD NOT! (or cannot, depending how you see it)
**The rating in IMDB is the average of the scores given by random people who took the time to rate in that site. The same could be said of most movie/TV/anime sites that have ratings.**
IMDB is such a big reference because it has a gigantic amount of users who rate. And that's why it is a good reference and people point you to it. But it isn't an official rating site and it cannot be one.
People are not forced to rate, so any rating you see anywhere is either by a single person or a selection of people. In sites like IMDB that selection is people who have watched that piece, out of everyone in the world, who also:
1. Know of and use that site,
2. Take the time to rate (publicly),
3. Happen to have rated that particular piece.
So ratings/scores are a reference, and you should use them keeping in mind who gave them.
If a website has become the *de facto* "go to place" for rates/ranks, like IMDB has for movies, then it's a very valuable reference, but not an official consensus of the viewers.
The only numbers you can get that may be "official" are stuff like manga or DVD sales (factual numbers).
**For anime, the website that seems to be the big reference in ratings is [MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/) (MAL).**
My only problem with it is it has no input from Japanese viewers, since (probably) almost no Japanese use it. You only get the input of avid western watchers, and Japanese viewers obviously have a very different context. (I'm looking for a Japanese equivalent to MAL for an extra reference, which was why I found your post).
I recommend you use MAL: not only to see ratings and other information, but to make a list for yourself, even if you normally don't care about doing your own lists and ratings. You can use the list to keep track of what you're watching/have watched, which episode you're on, etc. You can have your own ratings of anime for future reference (influencing the average score by doing so). It's super useful, really, otherwise I wouldn't give them this free publicity.
Hope this wasn't a total waste. All the best.
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2014/01/31 | 506 | 1,889 | <issue_start>username_0: As far as I know, all of Black Organization's members using the names of alcoholic drinks as their code name, like Gin, Vodka, Sherry, and Vermouth. Is there any reason behind this?<issue_comment>username_1: There is a reason behind this.
G<NAME>ama stated that there is a reason behind all the names of the, as we call it, Black Organization. He also said, that if we would knew the real name of the Organization, we would know the boss.
Now, we just have to wait until Mr. Aoyama reveals the real name. And it better be something better than "Bar", "Club" or "Organization of Alcoholic Drinks".
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: I think that there code names are base on there roles in the organization because sherry is made of grape that is good for medicine and her role is to make poison or medicament
Vodka is made of potato and there are trades for poor peoples like the alcohol to so he do the trades like tequila that is also like vodka
Another exemple calvados is a sniper and you all know the game shoot an apple on the head...
So with those codes names the contact by telephones are at a minimum number because the phone number is the proof that she is a women that want to avenge her 7 child with the poison made by ai
And because of her known that she can be a bar woman
And because she called ai sherry and not xeres like in other languages we can know she is from england or america but the suspect number 1 if I am right is Yuzuki from the BAR POOL
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_3: Also, another useful information to note, Ano Kata chooses hard/distilled alcoholic codenames for male members (e.g. Rum and Gin) and sweet alcohols for females (e.g. Vermouth and Sherry), the boss is a person with very malevolent intents, he might have a keen interest in alcohols, so he might have chosen alcoholic codenamed for members.
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2014/02/01 | 876 | 3,555 | <issue_start>username_0: In *Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood*, the characters gain skill in alchemy through [learning](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/6368/how-did-the-characters-learn-alchemy). So I'm wondering, is it possible to learn more than one alchemy? Because it seems like everyone is a specialized in particular alchemy. Also, if this possible, can they perform more than one alchemy at the same time?<issue_comment>username_1: Focusing on Edward, he does alchemy (at least) on metal, binds souls to armor, attempts human transmutation, repairs machines, changes carbon structure (in Greed), etc.
I believe that he does alchemy on what he feels useful. Everyone else is only limited by what circles they have already drawn (as they need transmutation circles to do alchemy) and their knowledge. In other words, they need to know the characteristics and how to draw the circles for what they are transmuting and what they are transmuting it from. For instance Mustang handles fire as that is what transmutation circle is on his gloves.
TLDR: No, they are not (usually) only limited to one type of transmutation but they have to have the circle and knowledge for any transmutation they are doing.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: **Yes!** Absolutely, characters can learn more than one kind of alchemy. It's just that, as in real life, people tend to specialize in something very specific and get *very* good at it.
But let's take a look at a few examples:
* **<NAME>:** Like Alphonse, he takes after Izumi Curtis's style (including the big fists and such), but was able to attempt Human Transmutation, soul binding, modification of object structures (such as what he did in Youswell or in Greed), and even weird, quirky things like transforming a military vehicle into a clown car.
* **<NAME>:** Specializes in flame alchemy, but is seen, most obviously at the end of the series, to be able to modify structures of objects (when he makes a wall out of the ground). To do this prior to his "accident", he would have had to draw the transmutation circle, which is obviously less effective.
* **<NAME>:** Specializes in medicinal alchemy, but did so even before he began to specialize in the creation and destruction of Philosopher's Stones.
* **Scar:** Is able to perform both destruction and creation alchemy through different transmutation arrays.
Then there's a few oddballs, but the rule can still apply to them:
* **<NAME>:** Specializes in medicinal alchemy, but is also seen modifying object structures including metal and stone.
* **Father:** Can do pretty much everything, even before the climax; he is able to make homunculi, reshape metal, etc.
Keep in mind that, similar to what [@username_1](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/3561/username_1) said, transmutation circles come into play. Not just in knowledge, though; the person actually has to either have that transmutation circle with them or draw it on the spot, which is not feasible in combat. So, someone like Armstrong would not thrive at the same things as Basque Grand, because they both use different transmutation circles. This is clear with Mustang who broadens his use of alchemy after his "accident".
So from this, we can tell that it's possible for alchemists to learn more than one type of alchemy, but it's difficult for them to always apply it under pressure (for multiple reasons); given cases like Ed, who doesn't need transmutation circles, we can see a broader range of alchemy used.
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2014/02/02 | 340 | 1,176 | <issue_start>username_0: Every time HOMRA are about to battle, they always shouting "No Blood! No Bone! No Ash!" Does it have any meaning? Somehow I can relate "ash" to their burning power. (but it's just my assumption, and I don't know about the other)<issue_comment>username_1: HOMRA (吠舞羅, *homura*). It's not 炎, the spelling is different.
The Arabic word "حمرة" which means "redness" must be the origin, it is the red clan after all, and the spelling is identical. (try the speaker button on Google Translate for the pronunciation)
In season 2 episode 3, Kismet is from an Arabic origin as well.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_2: "No blood, no bone, no ash" is the saying that the red king's clan yell out before battle. It is to say that they will leave no blood, no bone nor any ash behind. It is related to their burning power.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_3: The saying ***"No Blood! No Bone! No Ash!"*** can mean a few things like the power that the red clansmen have or just the sheer strength that they have, but I think it means that they leave nothing when they pass or that they have no regrets (I have no idea if any of these are correct)
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2014/02/02 | 1,232 | 3,691 | <issue_start>username_0: In Wikipedia, *Kamehameha* is defined as a species of butterfly.
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> kamehameha
> Web definitions
> The Kamehameha butterfly is one of the two species of butterfly native to Hawaii. The Hawaiian name is pulelehua. ...
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamehameha_(butterfly)>
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What does it mean in the *Dragon Ball* series?<issue_comment>username_1: About the best source I can find on the matter indicates that it means ["Turtle Destruction Wave"](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Kamehameha). But I can't derive that from the provided hiragana alone.
It makes sense if you break it down:
* Turtle = Kame = 亀
* Wave = Ha/Nami = 波
...which is essentially "turtle *\_* wave", which is a nod to Master Roshi (the Turtle Hermit).
If I fiddle a bit in Google Translate, I get something closer to 亀羽目波, which is literally "turtle wind-up wave" - and that sounds close phonetically.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: According to [Dragon Ball Wikia](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page):
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> <NAME> actually tried a number of poses when he was alone in
> order to decide the coolest pose for the Kamehameha. After much
> contemplation, he could not decide on a name for his "Kame" attack, so
> he asked his wife who came up with the name. She told Akira that it
> would be easy to remember the name of the attack if he uses the name
> of the cultural Hawaiian king named Kamehameha (lit. "the very lonely
> one" or "the one set apart" in Hawaiian language). Also, Kamehameha
> means "Turtle Destruction Wave" in Japanese.
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So, despite the literal translation in Japanese "Turtle Destruction Wave", Kamehameha is also a name of a [Hawaiian king](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamehameha_I):
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> Kamehameha I (Hawaiian pronunciation: [kəmehəˈmɛhə]; c. 1758 – May 8,
> 1819), also known as Kamehameha the Great, conquered the Hawaiian
> Islands and formally established the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi in 1810. By
> developing alliances with the major Pacific colonial powers,
> Kamehameha preserved Hawaiʻi's independence under his rule. Kamehameha
> is remembered for the Kānāwai Māmalahoe, the "Law of the Splintered
> Paddle", which protects human rights of non-combatants in times of
> battle. Kamehameha's full Hawaiian name is Kalani Paiʻea Wohi o
> Kaleikini Kealiʻikui Kamehameha o ʻIolani i Kaiwikapu kauʻi Ka
> Liholiho Kūnuiākea.
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Upvotes: 5 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_3: The term Kamehameha seems to come from the king of Hawaii, King Kamehameha. However this is not the case: Kamehameha is a term for something along the lines of "Turtle Destruction Wave", or のカメの破壊の波 (No kame no hakai no nam). That is as close as I could possibly get it to Kamehameha, which is what Kamehameha stands for: Turtle \_\_\_\_ Wave. But because it destroys anything in its path, I would assume that it would be "Turtle Destruction Wave".
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_4: ```
亀 Kame Turtle
破滅 Hame(tsu) Destruction, Ruin
波 Ha, Nami Wave
```
Turtle for Roshi's Turtle school. (It's the kanji on all their gi) Then hame and ha for what the ability is. (A destruction wave.)
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_5: Japanese Wikipedia says it comes from the Hawaiian king, recommended by the creator's wife. The "kame" part is a bit of a pun because it can also mean turtle. "Hame" has no meaning. "Ha" means wave. On the whole, it just sounds a bit silly, which is on purpose. "Turtle destruction wave" is fake news and there is absolutely zero support for that interpretation. 破滅（はめつ）would never in 100 years be abbreviated "hame" in Japanese. Source: Japanese speaker.
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2014/02/03 | 567 | 1,914 | <issue_start>username_0: One Piece chapter 467 when Zoro fighting Samurai Ryuuma at the end of their fight Zorro slash him down and his wound become a fire? Is there any explanation about this? I don't remember Zorro doing something like this again later.
<issue_comment>username_1: This is one of his Santoryuu/Iitoryuu techniques.
According to the [wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Santoryu/Ittoryu): -
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> Hiryu: Kaen (飛竜火焔 Hiryū: Kaen?, literally meaning "Flying Dragon:
> Blaze"): Using one sword wielded in his left hand with his right hand
> gripping his left wrist for support (or vice-versa), Zoro jumps high
> up into the air and slashes his opponent. After slashing them, Zoro's
> opponent then bursts into flames (in the anime, the color of the fire
> is blue instead) from where they were slashed. This was first seen
> being used against Ryuma. The animal or creature that usually
> accompanies Zoro in the background when performing powerful techniques
> is an occidental dragon. The dragon bares an uncanny resemblance to
> the dragon killed by Ryuma the King from Oda's earlier work, Monsters.
> The scene where Zoro slashes Ryuma with this technique also resembles
> the scene from Monsters, in which Ryuma slays the dragon.
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Zoro has used this technique only once. There are many techniques which he has used only once!
Plus the name of his techniques are pretty complicated so its hard to remember :P
For further references, you can check the [wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Santoryu/Ittoryu)
Upvotes: 2 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: It is the sword technique that causes the flame, although not properly explained how it is assumed that this technique uses [Friction Burn](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FrictionBurn) to set the enemy ablaze.
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2014/02/03 | 3,735 | 13,371 | <issue_start>username_0: Do <NAME> and Arturia ever meet again after Fate/stay night,
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> I'd like to know because it's pretty sad that she says that she loves him then dies.
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Thanks!<issue_comment>username_1: Going off the assumption that you are actually asking about Emiya **Shirou** (i.e. the guy who is the protagonist of Fate/stay night) - see below for spoilers concerning the visual novel (and hence also the UBW movie).
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> The answer is **yes, sort of**. The first thing you need to know is that Archer (the red man, not Gilgamesh) is actually Shirou. I don't think you are told this in the TV series, but you do learn this if you watch the UBW movie.
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> Now, in the visual novel there are three routes, with a total of five non-bad endings between them. Once you have achieved each of the five endings (that is, Fate, UBW Good, UBW True, HF Normal, and HF True), you gain access to a bonus ending called **Last Episode** (this might only occur in Realta Nua; I'm not sure).
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> What basically happens there is that you get a short recap/sampling of the events of the Fate route, mostly focused on things Saber did, plus a few flashbacks to her childhood, when she first pulled the sword from the stone. Eventually, you get to the scene where Saber tells Shirou she loves him, and then disappears.
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> And then after that, we get some internal monologue from Shirou-turned-Archer, bemoaning the worthlessness of his existence, followe by some internal monologue from Saber, longing for Shirou. Merlin (I think) pops in and monologues at Saber for a while.
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> Finally, after an undetermined length of time, Shirou/Archer and [Saber](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GHFRq.png) meet again in some sort of afterlife-y place that most people agree is Avalon. Hooray!
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> So why is the answer to your question "sort of"? This is because the Type-Moon universe has this notion of parallel worlds in which basically everything that is shown to happen actually happens in one parallel world or another. So, Last Episode presumably happens at least in some variants of the Fate timeline, but doesn't happen in all timelines.
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If, for some reason, you actually want to know if Kiritsugu and Saber ever meet again, the answer is no. Kiritsugu dies a few years after the fourth war, and that's the end of that.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: Yes they do.
In the Visual Novel of Fate Stay/Night Realta Nua, once you have seen all five endings, a new ending appears accessible from the title screen called -Last Episode-. This is in two parts: a monologue of the Fate Route and a second part where Arturia is hearing from Merlin about a miracle achievable by two people, one who "wait endlessly" and one who "pursue endlessly", and eventually the pursuer will stop when they reach the waiter.
What Merlin is referring to is Arturia waiting and Shirou pursuing. Eventually Shirou reaches [Avalon](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iUpgo.png) where Arturia is sleeping and the two finally reunite. It's not entirely certain how long it took Shirou to reach Avalon however, considering that Avalon transcends all magic including the 5 Magics it must have taken an eternity for Shirou to reach.
In Unlimited Blade Works, because Caster canceled the contract between Saber and Shirou, Rin is able to from a contract with Saber. In the Good Ending of Unlimited Blade Works, we see that Rin is able to maintain Saber's Prana Supply but complains she finds it hard supplying her with energy without something like the Holy Grail. You can see this has Shirou being able to stay with Saber. However in Unlimited Blade Works, Rin is Shirou's love interest so with the True Ending for Unlimited Blade Works where Saber does disappear at the destruction of the Grail, it can be assumed that Shirou loves Rin more and does not go to find Saber so -Last Episode- won't occur.
In Fate/Hollow Ataraxia, Arturia comes back thanks to Rin's and Ilya's experiment to make the Jewel Sword into a pendant to allow easier use of the 2nd Magic. This allows Fuyuki City to becomes a place where "any and all events are possible", so all the Servants are brought back including Saber. In Avanger's design to recreate the 3rd Holy Grail War, because in the 3rd war the Edelfelt Sisters used their Sorcery Trait to summon 2 Sabers, this is mimicked in this new war with Arturia having a second personality in the form of Saber-Alter which is her dark corrupted self from the Heaven's Feel Route of the visual Novel.
I should point out that Fate/Hollow Ataraxia occurs in a parallel timeline where at least the Fate and Heaven's Feel routes occurred at the same time as Sakura is shown wearing a sleeve reminiscent from when she had a contract with Avanger, Alter-Saber cannot exist unless she was corrupted in the Grail (Heaven's Feel), Ilya is alive and well (Fate), the Vessel of the Holy Grail was destroyed (Fate), and the Greater Grail is thought to still be operational just without any purpose for all the prana it has collected from two wars, so -Last Episode- may still occur after Fate/Hollow Ataraxia.
Upvotes: 5 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_3: Memor's answer is very good. I'm gonna work on it and explain why I think there is a fourth ending in which we have Saber X Shirou.
Let's begin with the basics. There is a common belief that states Shirou gets Rin as a love partner more times than any other girl. I'm gonna explain why I believe Saber is the girl Shirou gets more times, not Rin.
1. As Memor stated the ending of the very first route of Fate Stay Night (Fate route) is "the Last Episode", where Shirou and Saber live happily ever after in Avalon, a magical paradise where it will be just the 2 of them as a couple.
2. In UBW if you give points to Saber she will feel cherished by Shirou and will decide to stay with him in the real world (in the visual novel she even says her only reason to stay is to watch over him. Later Rin gets angry and tells her not to flirt). In this ending Shirou gets both Rin and Saber, who will train Shirou in magic and Martial arts and guide him to his happiness as Rin promised.
3. Fate Hollow Atarxia's true ending: Shirou has the ultimate harem. He has Saber, Rin, Sakura, Caren, Ayako, Bazett... and all of them fight between themselves for his love.
4. Nasu said:
"Nasu said:
"I personally wrote “Reunion”, the introductory portion of Fate/hollow ataraxia with the intention of it being the ending of a certain route in Fate/stay night and the ending of “hollow ataraxia”"
This Reunion was confirmed as the scene "Reopening"
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ShPOZvbFLA>
So basically we have another ending that was meant to happen in the original game. After that it was meant to happen at the end of its sequel Ataraxia.
Whatever the situation just keep in mind that Nasu wrote that scene as an ending and can therefore be considered as such. It's no mere headcanon.
The way it is done it seems to be similar to UBW good ending, so I guess it could also be its future once Rin goes to Clock Tower considering that Saber says: ""with Rin gone, it is my duty to supervise you". But maybe it's better to just consider it another ending in which Rin leaves to study magic and Shirou and Saber live happily in this world. Basically they choose different paths as Shirou and Saber don't follow her (as Shirou does in UBW true ending)
The Saber eclipse scene shows in Fate Hollow a Saber that comes from UWB and that loves Shirou and has sex with him, so Saber X Shirou in UBW is there in my opinion.
So, what does it mean? It means Shirou gets saber in every possible way: A happily ever after in paradise, a harem with Rin, a harem with everyone and a happily ever after in this world just the 2 of them.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_4: I'm going to mainly focus on the Last Episode, stating a few things that weren't said in other answers.
Main point: The answer is YES as you're referring to the Fate route's true ending (as it is its canon epilogue). But the Fate route has many endings, and so do other routes/timelines. In this case, regarding the rest of the timelines, the answer is Maybe, sort of. Because of how Nasu made it, it can also happen in the rest of the timelines.
Before continuing, the 100% canon endings written by Nasu where Shirou and Arturia live together happily are:
* Last episode
* Unlimited Blade Works good ending: In the VN, if Shirou appoints love points to Saber, the good ending will happen and Saber will say she stays for him.
* Ataraxia's true ending outside of the loop once 100% of the game is completed: Shirou gets Saber as his servant and they live happily.
"Last episode" can also happen in different timelines/routes but it is sure to happen after Fate's true ending. The reason is that it is done as an epilogue for such ending (it actually says epilogue).
Nasu has made epilogues for all 3 true endings. In the original game, he did Heaven's Feel true ending epilogue. After some time he did Fate's true ending epilogue "last episode" and recently he's made UBW's true ending epilogue (an 11-page script that was handed to Ufotable in order to make the epilogue episode).
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It isn't questioned but I'm gonna address a few doubts the OP may have.
You may think that even though it's the canon epilogue written by Nasu, it is also fanservice because of how happy it is.
Actually, the reality is that all happy endings if you reach the end of the game are strongly criticised by the VN community as fanservice.
The last episode makes a lot of sense as Fate's true ending epilogue (as Nasu has created it) because:
1. Nasu has stated that in every route, the chances of Shirou becoming Archer are so close to zero they are not worth mentioning. When asked if Archer comes from the Fate route in interviews, he has denied it. Archer comes from a timeline where Rin didn’t summon him.
If he doesn’t become Archer in any final ending from each route, it is because the heroine saves her. It makes perfect sense for Shirou to look for Saber and for Saber, who loves him deeply, to suffer waiting for him (risking suffering for all eternity). After that, they reach their happily ever after. Otherwise, Shirou would become Archer, which is something Nasu has told us doesn’t happen.
2. Saber loves Shirou a lot. After the H-scene in the Fate route, Saber’s mind is 100% set on Shirou. She was also very proud saying things like “Shirou knows my body best” and stuff like that. It was clear she loved him, but after that, she’s so lovestruck she can’t even spar with him. Her attitude towards the rest of the people remains the same though. She also sacrifices her Holy Grail dream for him.
In UBW, Rin says Saber is way too dedicated to Shirou. Before the final fight, Saber tells Shirou “Shirou, you are still my master”, and before dying in the true ending, she says it’s normal because “Shirou already has Rin”. In UBW's good ending, Saber flirts with Shirou as Rin states and she says she stays just for him.
The only difference between the good and true endings is that in the good ending, Shirou gives love points to Saber, so she wishes to stay. So we have a Saber class servant that willingly states “Shirou, you are still my master” while having another master, and in the visual novel after Rin saves her, she flirts with her master’s boyfriend. As I said, the only difference between UBW's true and good endings is that in the Good ending, Shirou gives points to Saber. That’s the reason she wishes to stay, she feels Shirou really cares for him in the good ending because of the increased affection that Shirou has for her.
After knowing this, it makes perfect sense for Arturia to wait for Shirou (risking suffering for all eternity as Merlin says).
3. The rest of the endings are just as fanservice as this one.
* Heaven’s Feel true ending: This is the first epilogue Nasu wrote. You can find people everywhere saying it is a nonsensical happy ending. The rational ending after everything that happened should be the normal ending. Sakura should be a deranged girl, not a mentally healthy happy girl.
* Fate’s true ending “last episode”: Because of their deep love, both Saber and Shirou forge their own happy ending in Avalon. It is the same as Heaven’s Feel true ending where Sakura and Shirou work really hard to get that ending.
* UBW true ending epilogue: Nasu wrote the epilogue for UBW true ending recently and people complain it’s too happy (even though it’s based on a manuscript written by him which is actually much happier that the episode itself).
* UBW good ending: This is the most attacked by far. People say that the fanservice reached new heights and that it’s impossible to happen. I’ve read HUNDREDS of comments saying UBW's good ending is just mere wish-fulfillment and that Saber shouldn’t be able to be maintained in this world no matter how much Shirou bangs both girls to help.
* Ataraxia’s ending outside of the time loop once 100% of the game has been completed: This ending is just too perfect if you happen to be Shirou.
At the end of the day, FSN is mostly good and does more thing right than wrong, but it’s still deeply, deeply flawed, and the endings, in particular, is not its strong side.
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2014/02/03 | 261 | 1,008 | <issue_start>username_0: At the point where Hare got shot, after healing Shu, she says, "Shu... I'll give you my..." but dies before finishing her sentence. What did she want to say to Shu?
<issue_comment>username_1: I think she wanted to say: "Shu I give you my heart". After all she did entrust Shu with her void before, and she wanted to show that her heart belonged to him, because she loved him.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: Just as user4670 said, she would probably say, "Shu, I'll give you my heart," that is the most practical answer.
However, since the sentence does go unfinished, it's really up to the imagination of the watcher what she would say, even if the answer can be quite obvious.
Another few possibilities are "...my soul." as well as "...my love." However these are probably the least likely answers of the three possibilities, despite all three representing a similar meaning.
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2014/02/03 | 767 | 2,582 | <issue_start>username_0: At the beginning of chapter 117 of Bleach, Juushirou Ukitake says, "Byakuya... Who is he?" (referring to Ichigo) and Byakuya replies, "He's not related. At least not ... to the one you're thinking of. He's no one. Just a ryoka. I'll dispose of him. And then... this trifling conflict... will come to an end."
Who is Byakuya referring to when he says, "He's not related. At least not ... to the one you're thinking of."? Or another way to say it, who did Juushirou Ukitake think that Ichigo was related to?<issue_comment>username_1: He's referring to <NAME>, the former lieutenant of Jūshirō Ukitake's squad.
In the anime, his wife Miyako who was the 3rd Seat was possessed and devoured from the inside by one of Sōsuke Aizen's Hollows Metastacia. Kaien decided to track her down and kill her. However, Rukia followed him and saw him becoming possessed by the Hollow which leads to her having to reluctantly kill him and then deliver his body to the Shiba clan.
This begins Ganju's hatred for Soul Reapers as Kaien was his brother and he knew a Soul Reaper killed him because of the sword wounds on his body. However, Kūkaku knew full well it was Rukia who killed him and knew why she did and vowed that should she confront her about Kaien and apologize she would forgive Rukia.
Now, what Jūshirō Ukitake talking about is Ichigo's appearance in relation to Kaien's as they both look similar which in some cases may explain Rukia's actions as she's always felt guilty having been the one to kill Kaien, one of the 2 people who didn't treat her differently because she was Byakuya sister, the other was Miyako.
**Ichigo**
**Kaien**
I should point out that this is from the Anime. From my understanding, apart from fillers, the anime is faithful to the manga.
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: I have been through this and I have to say I have a different take. They make mention (I can't remember which episode) a red haired person from eons ago who Ichigo reminds them of. Ive read all of the Kaien references but I haven't read anywhere about the red haired guy they dont full speak about.
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_3: I think Brock's comment is possibly correct. I believe that <NAME> was remembering the spiky red hair from Ashido Kanō, a soul reaper trapped in hueco mundo. Although, I am partial to The Kaien Theory™ and reading about Ichigo's dad being a Shiba clan member has me on the fence.
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2014/02/04 | 954 | 2,538 | <issue_start>username_0: We know that the *Yonko* are one of the three great powers of the One Piece World. Though they are the four emperors ruling the second half of grand line, they are still *Pirates* in the eyes of the world government with some bounties set for each of them.
So can somebody tell what the current bounties (as of Jan 2020) of the present/past yonkos are?
Bounties for the guys I'm looking for:
* <NAME>, Whitebeard (now deceased)
* "Red-Haired" Shanks
* <NAME>, Big Mom
* Kaido of the Beasts
* <NAME>, Blackbeard (took over as the Yonko after WB's death)
Note: Like the *Shichibukai*, even the Yonkos might not have their bounties active (I do not know for sure), but certainly there must be a bounty on them which would determine their strengths, influence and importance (need a case arise when one of them is dethroned).<issue_comment>username_1: [Bounties for Yonkos haven't been shown till now](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Yonko). And IMO, for someone as powerful as a Yonko, bounties doesn't matter much. Bounties are set so that some bounty hunter would be tempted to capture them. But yonkos being one of the most powerful forces in OP, no one would dare to capture a Yonko.
WhiteBeard- Not revealed.
Shanks- Not revealed.
Big Mam- Not revealed.
Kaido- Not revealed.
Blackbeard- Not given any bounty.
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_2: None of the Youkou Bounties have been shown so far.
But Since Charlotte Katakuri's bounty is 1057 million bellies, You can expect Big Mom's bounty to be in the range of 1.5 Billion to 2.5 Billion.
Assuming BM's is close to 2 Billion, Shanks and Kaidou might have a bounty close to 2.5 to 3 Billion.
Since Black Beard is still new, we can expect his Bounty to be close to Big Mom at around 2 Billion. But expect his bounty to surpass Kaidou and Shanks once both are defeated.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_3: Yes! Their bounties have been revealed as of [chapter 957](https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Chapter_957).
The amounts are as follow:
**Kaido:**
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> B. 4,611,100,000
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**<NAME>:**
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> B. 4,388,000,000
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**Shanks:**
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> B. 4,048,900,000
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**<NAME>:**
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> B. 2,247,600,000
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**Whitebeard:**
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> B. 5,046,000,000
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**<NAME>:**
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> B. 5,564,800,000
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[Color comment](https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Ope_Ope_no_Mi): The marines formerly made an offer of **B. 5,000,000,000** for the Ope-Ope no mi.
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2014/02/04 | 1,067 | 3,979 | <issue_start>username_0: According to this [wiki page](http://kurokonobasuke.wikia.com/wiki/Tetsuya_Kuroko#Skill):
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> If the vanishing drive based on pushing the opponents to focus attention to someone else and then steps in unexpectedly.
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> Kuroko uses his misdirection in function of his teammates. He must make eye-contact with the passer while doing his misdirection and so the eyefield of the other players becomes a "mirror" for Kuroko's position.
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How is it that [Momoi was affected by it](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SeZd6.gif) when Kuroko showed to her for the first time, when no other player was around?<issue_comment>username_1: To answer your question, this is a rather a technique based off of misdirection called **Vanishing Drive**.
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> Kuroko developed this after being soundly defeated by Daiki Aomine. As said on the wikia Kuroko trains himself to evolve his play style. Given the absolute presence and importance of the ball in play, it had been previously thought impossible for Kuroko to maintain his misdirection while in possession of the ball; as such the time he spends handling the ball on court is extremely minimal.
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Bibliography for reference to information:
1. <http://kurokonobasuke.wikia.com/wiki/Tetsuya_Kuroko>
2. <http://kurokonobasuke.wikia.com/wiki/Tetsuya_Kuroko#Vanishing_Drive>
The relevant information that I have in my answer can be found by heading to the hyperlink [here](http://kurokonobasuke.wikia.com/wiki/Tetsuya_Kuroko) or above and going to abilities.
Upvotes: 1 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: The way the vanishing drive works is that he diverts their attention for a split second, and is then past them by the time they realise what he's done. Against skilled players in a proper game, he needs something with a huge presence, such as Kagami or Aomine to make them forget about him, and that's the real trick, distracting someone when they're completely focused on you.
However Momoi is not a competitive basketball player and they were not playing in an actual game, so my best guess is that he was able to use something with far less presence than he would normally need, like a street lamp or a car or whatever was nearby.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_3: When Kuroko went up against Midorima, with the intention of doing the vanishing drive, it shows what Midorima is looking at in his glasses. Before he finished perfecting the drive, Kuroko used the thing which has the most presence in the entire game, the ball. He slowly lowers the ball into a dribble, and as soon as Midorima's attention is completely on the ball, Kuroko ducks in at a very difficult angle to follow. The reason it works even against Midorima is that Kuroko can do it almost instantly after Midorima's attention is on the ball. Kuroko later perfects it with the addition of adding Kagami in.
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2014/02/04 | 742 | 2,432 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been pondering this question because Shikamaru's name is from his dad's (Shikaku), Ino's name is from her dad's also (Inoichi); Shino is from Shibi and Choji is from Choza. Okay, maybe not all of the characters' names are from their dad's, but I'm just wondering. :D TIA<issue_comment>username_1: Naruto's father was <NAME>, who had been Jiraiya's pupil.
As we know, Jiraiya wrote, and the main character of his first book was named Naruto.
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From [Naruto Wikia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Utterly_Gutsy_Shinobi).
**So Naruto got his name from a character Jiraiya created in one of his books.**
Upvotes: 5 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: As you may know, [Jiraiya](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Jiraiya) was an author, as well as the teacher of Minato, Naruto's father.
His first book, [The Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Shinobi](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Utterly_Gutsy_Shinobi) featured a protagonist who held the ideals of Jiraiya and was called - Naruto (possibly named so after the food).
Minato liked the book very much and decided to name his son after this character.
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_3: In addition to the accepted answer, which is correct.. Jiraiya got the name 'Naruto' for that character while he was eating ramen. One of ramen's toppings is called 'narutomaki', and that's where Jiraiya got that character's name, 'Naruto'.
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_4: I think Kishimoto gave naruto his name because it fit the theme of his mother's maiden village: the village hidden in whirlpools. Since Naruto roughly translates from Japanese to mean maelstrom or whirlpool, it is very likely Kishimoto bequeathed the protagonist name to be this since he already had his mother's last name, uzumaki, which means spirals or whirlpools.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_5: Nagato was one of Jirayaya's students. Nagato inspired the hero of the story, and so the character was named Naruto, after him. Naruto's father then named his son after the character of the story.
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2014/02/04 | 1,019 | 3,871 | <issue_start>username_0: I just finished watching SAO, and I'm not sure if this is ever explained:
Yui is a program that supports the psychological health of the players. She states that, for some reason, Cardinal did not permit her to relate with the players, and was limited to observing them.
Why did Cardinal block Yui? Is this explained in the novel perhaps?
If Kayaba created SAO, I'd guess that he also made Cardinal and Yui. I doubt that he'd want to block his own creation from doing its job, so I guess that the fault is entirely Cardinal's.<issue_comment>username_1: She was there to support players and keep their psych in top condition. The moment the game kept people inside, Kayaba most likely forced her to stop for his "sick game of death".
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(Source: Baka-Tsuki)
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Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_3: I don't think Kayaba worked on SAO alone. This is never explicitly stated. It's likely he had a large part in it, and created most of the core, and designed most of the elements of the game, but I can't see one guy creating everything alone.
Yui was possibly created by someone else who worked on the game (Or possibly even Cardinal). SAO was the first real VR Game, so the effects of being inside a VR world for long periods of time weren't really known. The Cardinal System was created with the intention of being self-managing, so that humans were never needed, to manage to game, or even to update/patch the game. A program to take care of a player's mental health (to possibly avoid law-suits?) was probably part of the plan for that.
Here's a [link to a translation](http://www.taptaptaptaptap.net/sao-qna-heathcliff-kunori/) of a sort of "Q&A" that the author had with fans, and characters of the story, back in 2005 (when SAO was still a web-novel.)
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Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_4: Another option, are, even if all system are programmed by one or multiple persons, Yui are here as a part of Cardinal System, and The Seed. All the system are programmed not only for SAO, it's ready for creating more worlds (end of ALO words of Kayaba).
It's the same as the link between The Seed created games. These system are present on SAO too (probably), but, you cannot view it because there isn't more games, or, these system are explicit disabled.
Another option are, Cardinal disabled Yui itself, because Yui have GM privileges and can logout players if they're in too bad mod (something stupid in a game without logout button).
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2014/02/05 | 990 | 3,091 | <issue_start>username_0: I watched Berserk years ago and I'm thinking of introducing someone else to it, but I'm told that the OVAs do the original manga more justice. I've not seen the OVAs just the anime series, how much of the same ground do they cover?
If I remember correctly the original anime series just cut off with no resolution.<issue_comment>username_1: I'm not entirely sure as I haven't read all of the manga as of yet but everyone who has recommended the OVAs to me has assured me that it follows the manga a lot better than the original anime.
I know they've also got a long way to go with the OVAs though, it's a while off reaching the end of the manga.
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_2: You should read the manga. The anime series just cover about 120 chapters out of 333 chapters of the original manga! and the anime is with less details. The manga is still ongoing, it is not finished and has been postponed for some years cause the writer was busy with another manga. I don't know if he starts writing berserk again or not!
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_3: As @username_1 and @Saman <NAME> explained about the anime, it is not not covering the whole manga. As for OVA, I am not sure if there is an actual OVA.
However, there is a 3 part 3D animated movies(showed in Japanese cinemas) just recently released (2012-2013) and it was summarising the anime itself with maybe 5-10 minutes extra details at the end of the last part.
[Animenewsnetwork](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/search/name?q=berserk) link for listing related productions Berserk.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_4: The first anime series (1997) covers *Black Swordsman* arc (volume 1-3) until **just before the end** of *Golden Age* arc (volume 3-**13**). However, it includes original episodes and some modifications to the original story. (Source: [Yahoo! Chiebukuro (Japanese)](https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1226339822))
The OVA (or 3-part movies) covers the whole *Golden Age* arc, which is volume 3-14, hence the name *Berserk: The Golden Age Arc*.
The second anime series (2016) covers the beginning of *Black Swordsman* arc (chapter 1&2), **omits** the whole *Golden Age* arc, then continues on *Conviction* arc (volume 14/chapter 115 - volume 21) until *Falcon of the Millenium Empire* arc (volume 22~)
The third anime series, *Berserk: The Golden Age Arc - Memorial Edition* is based on the remastered version of the OVA, edited for TV broadcast, and added new scenes. It also covers the whole *Golden Age* arc.
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For additional reference, the manga is still on-going (volume 39) as of now. The story arcs:
* *Black Swordsman*: Volume 1-3
* *Golden Age*: Volume 3-14
* *Conviction*: Volume 14-21
* *Falcon of the Millennium Empire*: Volume 22-35
* *Phantom World (Fantasia)*: Volume 35~
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References:
* [Japanese Wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AF_(%E6%BC%AB%E7%94%BB))
* [English Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserk_(manga)#Adaptations)
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2014/02/05 | 2,072 | 7,309 | <issue_start>username_0: In the past, I've used apps that have suggested films, books, or music to me based on a set of items I've enjoyed that I provide to the app.
Is there anything like that for anime? Basically I'm looking for something in which I can input that I like anime X, Y and Z and for it to suggest that I might like anime A because it has similar themes, or because other people who like X, Y and Z have also said they like A.<issue_comment>username_1: Yes there are engine's such as that. A good sample would if you are a owner of a filled in [Myanimelist](http://myanimelist.net/). If you have that can go to mal graph mal.oku.im and see recommended. I attached my own recommended as a sample for this. <http://mal.oko.im/d3ullist/recs,anime>
Then again in the end it all depends on your own taste´s.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_2: [Anime-Planet](http://www.anime-planet.com/) and [MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/) have user submitted suggestions for shows on a "if you liked X, you might like Y" setup.
As a developer myself, this is something I've wanted to look into making, and MyAnimeList seems to be the most common site to be used for an engine as they provide an API to programmers.
**Anime-Planet Recommendations:**
*Per-show Recommendations:*
**Update:** Anime-Planet now have version 1 of a *personalized recommendation engine* that works off what you have already seen
**MyAnimeList Recommendations:**
*Per show recommendations*
There are a couple of engines based off of MyAnimeList that people have made such as [AnimeRecs](http://www.animerecs.com/) (which is down at the moment) or [mal.oko.im](http://mal.oko.im/)
There's also a new anime cataloguer [Hummingbird](http://hummingbird.me/) which gives you a range of recommendations based on what you've watched, what genres you like, which are your favourites. It seems to be the easiest to access and isn't soley show-specific.
**Hummingbird Suggestions:**
**Other Sources**
Other websites which provide anime have recommendations engine built in, Usually these are based off of what similarly interested people have enjoyed also.
Crunchyroll (Thanks @David\_Starkey ):
Amazon:
Upvotes: 6 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_3: There aren't really dedicated "suggestion engines" for anime. your best bet is looking through places like [MyAnimeList] or [AnimePlanet]. Otherwise, you can go through something like [this](http://thatanimesite.tv/anime-list/), scroll through to something that has genres you like, and look for whether or not it is highly rated.
In the end, there are plenty of websites you can go to that will give you info about series, recommendations, suggestions, etc., but nothing with a dedicated system. Just use a bunch'a different sites, and you won't go wrong.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_4: Just to add to the list, there's also [anidb](http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=main) which will also provide related, similar, and random anime recommendations
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_5: I love this site: <http://animesuggestions.com/>
You just type any anime you like, *e.g. "One Piece" or "Hunter x Hunter"*, and it shows you a bunch of similar animes from which you can choose whatever catches your eyes, I guess.
(I only tried it once and I searched "Nagi no Asukara" and found "Elfen Lied", and I really liked it, okay?)
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_6: [AniDB](http://anidb.net) also has a recommendation feature. To use it, you need to add the series and episodes you watched to your AniDB MyList. Most importantly, you also need to *rate* the series from 1 to 10 (10 being best).
The system then uses some hidden algorithm based on what you voted and what others voted and thereby predicts your votes for series you have not yet watched. You can even remove recommendations from the prediction list if you say ‘I’m not going to watch that, stop telling me I’m going to rate it with a 9’.
Note that for recommendations to work best, you should attempt to vote in a way that puts your median at 5.5 and resembles a standard distribution. While the system ‘corrects’ votes for overall series ratings, if you use exaggerated votes you will also receive exaggerated vote predictions (such as 13, which is obviously larger than 10).
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_7: [graph.anime.plus](http://graph.anime.plus) is a great analyser for your myanimelist profile.
On top of giving you a great deal of information on your habits and breakdowns on what you've listed it appears to just trawls through your favs and pulls the mal recommendations (~~it'd be damn cool if it~~*[I've found a damn cool tool that](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/39574/23554)* finds similar-minded people and recommend things you haven't seen that they liked).
Another thing it does in the same tab is show you related items that you haven't seen yet, which may yield a sequel or cool OVA you missed
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[AniPlan](https://www.anime-planet.com/forum/threads/new-feature-personal-anime-suggestions-for-you.225602/) does both of these too
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_7: adding another answer since this is a drastically different way to go about it
You can use [affinity.animesos.net](http://affinity.animesos.net/) to search for other people that share your tastes (based on mal's affinity).
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/twWbM.png)
Wow, someone with >95% affinity! Click their name to see their profile, then simply click the "~ shared" link.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mfTfJ.png)
I recommend sorting by score and first looking at what you two agreed on and what you didn't to be able to gauge where their tastes will apply to you, then just scroll down to the "Unique to [them]" section to add some of their favourites to your plan-to-watch!
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Disclosure though; see how the affinity search said we only shared 11, yet mal says we share 79? Mal includes the unscored entries as items able to be common between people.
[Here's a link to the comparison page](https://myanimelist.net/shared.php?u1=_Arris_&u2=Hashbrown777&type=anime&o=2), we might not be a great pair to extrapolate our opinions to each other.
So I bumped the search requirements to only use people with 50 shared titles, and that dropped my closest match to 69% affinity, [but have a look at our comparisons page](https://myanimelist.net/shared.php?u1=Oliver255&u2=Hashbrown777&type=anime&o=2).
This should be a much more useful match to find new anime, especially if I work my way down the result list and see any titles that continue to pop up in a lot of peoples lists. Good luck!
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2014/02/05 | 712 | 2,511 | <issue_start>username_0: The [page on Kuriyama Mirai on Kyoukai no Kanata Wiki](http://kyoukainokanata.wikia.com/wiki/Mirai_Kuriyama#Appearance) says she uses her ring to activate her ability.
From the show, I got the feeling the ring was something that kept some of her powers on check, rather than an activator.
I don't recall any explanation of how the ring works during the series.
Whichever the case may be, how exactly does the ring help her control/activate her ability?
Does the ring possess some kind of magic? Or is it some kind of psychological power it exerts over Mirai?<issue_comment>username_1: This answer only applies to the TV series proper. Additional information is given in *Mirai-hen*; see Amir's answer.
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So, basically, it's probably just what you thought it was - a power limiter of sorts.
Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: From the events in the anime, it can be inferred that the ring is in fact an object to keep her powers in check. The ring was a gift from the family that took her in, and she accidentally killed one of the daughters in said family. The ring serves as a reminder just how dangerous her abilities can be, and the mistake she had made. In the anime, Mirai's blood becomes more acidic whenever the ring is taken off. This can be seen when she gets into more serious fights. So, technically speaking, the ring helps her keep that acidity away from hurting her friends because she is reminded of what she did to the family.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_3: This is a late answer, but in the sequel movie "Mirai-hen" it was revealed that Akihito's mother made the ring from Mirai's mother's body after Mirai's mother died. Mirai's mother said she would supress Mirai's powers and protect everything that she held dear.
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2014/02/06 | 914 | 3,321 | <issue_start>username_0: I don't know why, but while I'm reading fanfiction and other things I notice that people sometimes quote how no one wants Eren to die because he's "the key to humanity". I've always thought he was immortal so that confused me.
Because of Eren's Titan skills, he heals fast, which seems kind of immortal.
Does Eren have a weak spot that will kill him?
Also note that Levi said in an episode that there is no way for Eren to die (at least as of that point, given that no one has found a way to do so), but there is a way to permanently injure him. So does that make him immortal? And why do people say he's not immortal like he will die or something?<issue_comment>username_1: Lets compile what we know.
Eren up until now has show none of the signs of an immortal ability but only high regenerative abilities. He has been capable of replacing/regenerating lost limbs and recover his formal facial features. Eren hasn't been hit with any critical injury that would cause any normal human dead.
Eren is only a *die hard* character due his regenerative abilities but it's safe to assume that if his head is blown off or his heart is screwed over he *could* die.
Upvotes: 4 <issue_comment>username_2: It has yet to be determined, however information for Season 2 assuming they follow the manga suggest that Titan Shifters may be considerably long lived or age differently after reaching maturity. Eren at present has only demonstrated the ability to regenerate and Annie showed some signs of fearing death, so its unlikely that Titan Shifters are outright Immortal. Plus the Colossal Titan chose to shift and escape suggesting Eren could have killed him.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_3: **No**, Eren is not immortal and can be killed. **Eren isn't different from other Titan Shifter**. If anything he is actually weaker than most of the Titan Shifter we have seen, yet some have died. Out of the seven introduced Titan Shifter, two were killed so far, so it is safe to say that Eren has the same weakness as they had and that he can be killed.
**Eren is a Titan** and will always be a Titan. Titans can all regenerate quickly, but the only weaknesses known so far is **destroying their necks** beyond repair. We know that not only regular Titans have this weakness, but Titan Shifter also have this weakness as we can see Annie protect her neck by all means.
If anything, I'd say **the Armored Titan might be immortal** as we haven't seen a way to pierce the armored skin so far. He can be killed in human form, but if he can transform fast enough for it to happen, we have yet to find a way to stop him.
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2014/02/06 | 674 | 2,602 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that every Pain used a different technique, but I'm interested in knowing if there was any difference between them besides their abilities?<issue_comment>username_1: I think yes, just think about it,when Naruto fought Yahiko(Pain),just look at the magnitude of that fight...the Nine-tails fought him almost! at full power,yet he resisted...Pain was totally crushed with a high power,yet he withstood, and after he was slammed with that gigantic rock,and he questioned Naruto whether **he felt the pain now**.
So I think,because Nagato loved Yahiko so much,for which he made him **more stronger,faster and resistant to damage**[by sending him more chakra]...
And as second thought, he might had more chakra rods than the others, so his body can deal with high level of damage, making Nagato's work easier.In that way he controlled Yahiko with less problems,and making him stronger at the same time
Upvotes: -1 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: To be honest, I felt that the way a ninja uses and handles his/her power makes them stronger. I really can't comment whether there were any difference of power among the six Rinnegan users.
Why do I say this?
Recall the incident between Sasuke and Itachi's fight. Sasuke used his Sharingan very efficiently when he fought against Itachi.
So bottom line: **it totally depends on how a wielder wields the weapon.**
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_3: On contrary to @username_1's answer, I think there are no difference between them. The six paths of pain are created by rinnegan user. Nagato simply used different bodies to cast different jutsus. And Tendo being yahiko's body, nagato gave more chakra to it than other bodies. Later we see that Edo-Nagato could use all the six paths's power from his own body.
There might be difference in the physical prowess of each body as each type took different kind of damage from similar attacks. But seeing as Nagato could easily replace bodies in his six paths, physical constraints don't matter much.
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_4: Remember, each one of the "Pains" as said, were at one time individual ninja that learned from username_2 just like Nagato who at that point was using chakara rods along with that jitsu to control the remaining chakara left within the individual ninja's body. So to simply answer your question, absolutely their abilities were different as well as the chakara level of each individual ninja. Of course, how it is used with make a huge difference.
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2014/02/06 | 386 | 1,348 | <issue_start>username_0: I remember that all toads summoned by Jiraiya or Naruto were able to speak. I know that Tsunade's snail or Orochimaru's snake is able to speak, too. But what about the Ninken? I know that Pakkun can talk, but what about Kiba's Ninken and the others (I know around 3–4 dogs out of 9)? I know that the Pain summonings aren't able to talk.
Is there a rule that every animal can talk, or something like this?<issue_comment>username_1: No, not every summoned animal can speak.
For example when Naruto learned summoning the toads, he first summoned a tadpole, which was not able to talk. Now you could say it was just too young to speak, but it didn't make any vocal sound at all, like crying etc.
As far as I know none of the Inazuka's clan's dogs are able to talk either, nor do I think that Itachi's crows were able to speak.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: Although they didn't explicitly show whether they can talk or not, but one thing is for sure: that Pakkun can talk.
Kiba's Akamaru can't talk, so we can assume that other dogs of Kakashi also can't talk (since there is no evidence in the manga or anime).
So in order to answer your question: **"Is there a rule that every animal can talk, or something like this?"** I would say **"No, it is not mandatory for animals to talk."**
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2014/02/06 | 585 | 2,075 | <issue_start>username_0: After Rin was killed, he went rogue and attacked Konoha with the Nine-Tails, and he was obsessed only with his Tsuki no Me plan. Didn't he have any sibling, parent, or someone to care about?? I don't remember seeing anyone close to Obito besides his teammates.<issue_comment>username_1: The Naruto Wikia [article on Obito Uchiha](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Obito_Uchiha) states:
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Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Expanding on username_1's answer.
There was a picture of Obito's parents. The photo is aged and has tears, while also being fastened to the wall, instead of tacked. It's probably leading to the assumption that it is very old, and that his parents had died when he was a young age, perhaps during the Second or Third Great Shinobi Wars. Uchiha are a clan built on feelings, and Obito's feeling of loneliness are what fueled his goals with his teammates and his hope of being Hokage.
Of course this by theory, and other people have made assumptions such as them being Rin's parents, alluding to Obito being a stalker, or that Kagami Uchiha (Shisui's dad) is really Obito's dad, since the age difference is not all too impossible, considering Hiruzen had Asuma, and Asuma was Obito's classmate, while Hiruzen was in the same class as Kagami. This leads to fan-theories of Obito being Shisui's brother. Of course nothing is set in fact, as Kishi hasn't released any further information pertaining to Obito's parents.
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2014/02/06 | 673 | 2,438 | <issue_start>username_0: Obviously, <NAME> is pretty funky looking. I understand that his horns and wings are articles of clothing but his size, neck, and leek-like appearance are strange. In a forum discussing fan theories concerning the nature of "minkmen" someone wrote that Oda confirmed Moriah to be a human (as opposed to fishman or snakeneck) and therefore "anything is possible". I've been unable to find his source.
I am not asking if Moriah is a snakeneck or minkmen as I believe they have not yet been shown/identified by official sources. What I am asking is: are there any official sources that identify whether Moriah is human?<issue_comment>username_1: The Naruto Wikia [article on Obito Uchiha](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Obito_Uchiha) states:
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So I think no, he didn't have any parents, siblings or friends, until he met Rin and Kakashi. That is why he was obsessed with the Eye of the Moon plan. On second thought, I think Obito was rejected even by the other Uchiha, so he was totally alone.
Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Expanding on username_1's answer.
There was a picture of Obito's parents. The photo is aged and has tears, while also being fastened to the wall, instead of tacked. It's probably leading to the assumption that it is very old, and that his parents had died when he was a young age, perhaps during the Second or Third Great Shinobi Wars. Uchiha are a clan built on feelings, and Obito's feeling of loneliness are what fueled his goals with his teammates and his hope of being Hokage.
Of course this by theory, and other people have made assumptions such as them being Rin's parents, alluding to Obito being a stalker, or that <NAME> (Shisui's dad) is really Obito's dad, since the age difference is not all too impossible, considering Hiruzen had Asuma, and Asuma was Obito's classmate, while Hiruzen was in the same class as Kagami. This leads to fan-theories of Obito being Shisui's brother. Of course nothing is set in fact, as Kishi hasn't released any further information pertaining to Obito's parents.
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2014/02/06 | 938 | 3,288 | <issue_start>username_0: Just some random curiosity about the Dragons in *Fairy Tail*.
* Acnologia,
Igneel,
Grandeeney,
Weisslogia,
Metalicana,
Skiadrum,
Atlas Flame,
Zirconis,
Motherglare,
Scissor Runner,
Revire,
Dark Dragon,
Rock Dragon
Are their names based on anything?<issue_comment>username_1: It seems some of their names have parts which relate to their nature:
* **Weisslogia**: Weiss or Weiß is German for "white". Sting performs White Dragon Slayer to produce beams of sacred light, so we can see how White factors into Weisslogia's name.
* **Metalicana**: Obviously, the use of Metal in its name reflects the Iron Dragon Slayer Magic Gajeel uses
* **Skiadrum**: Skia or "σκιά" is Greek for shadow, and Skiadrum is the Shadow Dragon.
* **Atlas Flame**: Atlas is the name of a Greek god, but I do not know how it would relate to the character. Images I have seen of this dragon show that it's totally wrapped in flames, and its title is also the Flame Dragon
* **Motherglare**: This may be related to its [Egg Magic](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Egg_Magic). In most cases, mothers use a form of egg to give birth to children. In a lot of fictional works, Dragons lay eggs to give birth.
* **Scissor Runner**: May be a reference to the two huge spines coming out of the top of its head and its chin
* **Rock/Dark Dragons**: Obviously for their appearance. However, those aren't their names, but how they are referred to due to their appearance.
* (**Revire** has a somewhat aquatic appearance, and its name is pronounced as "Rivaia", which kinda sounds like river. However, that is a long shot.)
I couldn't find anything on **Acnologia**, **Igneel** or **Grandeeney**.
I should point out that I have not read the manga nor watched enough of the anime (I have seen like 50 episodes), and I found out all of these by google searching for images, picking apart their names and looking up Wikipedia articles. Someone else may have a more accurate answer. These are just my observations and may help others fill in holes in their own research.
Upvotes: 5 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: I believe **Igneel** comes from [igneous rock](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igneous_rock), which refers to rocks formed through the cooling and solidification of magma or lava.
The other two kinds of rocks are sedimentary and metamorphic. Sedimentary rocks form from once-living things (examples are fossils and coal). Metamorphic rocks are igneous rocks that were reheated after they were formed.
Therefore, seeing as igneous rocks are the only ones formed by magma/lava, that's where I figured it came from.
The name probably also comes from "ignite", but I might be overthinking about it.
Source(s): Science teacher
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_3: To add to the list,
**Igneel**: most likely derived from Ignis, which means fire.
**Grandeeney**: She's the skydragon, named Grandine in Japanese. This translates to *hail* from Italian, which might explain the relationship
**Acnologia**: "Acno" is a Greek word used to reference aging. The word "Logia" is a Greek word from New Testament scholarship that translates roughly as "sayings, utterances, oracles". His name could thus be translated as "The Prophet of The End," as well as "Ender of Eras"
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2014/02/07 | 507 | 1,815 | <issue_start>username_0: I haven't watched Higurashi and am a bit hesitant to do so after seeing some clips of it and I haven't gotten around to watching Umineko but I've been wondering: apart from the obvious in how they have the alias "When They Cry #", how are Higurashi and Umineko related?
VNDB does not list any of the 4 visual novels as sharing any characters with each other than [Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai](http://vndb.org/v68) and [Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru](http://vndb.org/v2153) sharing characters from the unofficial [Minagoroshi-hen Bad End ~Rika-hen~](http://vndb.org/v12703).<issue_comment>username_1: Higurashi and Umineko take place in the same story universe as far as I'm aware, but there is no character overlap. As for Umineko, there is an entirely new cast of characters. That said, events in Umineko may shed some light on the workings of the Higurashi / Umineko universe, and it references Higurashi quite a bit.
While it is not strictly necessary, I think you would get more out of Umineko if you watched Higurashi first, even though the cast and story are entirely different. Also, if you can manage, I'd recommend reading the Visual Novels for Umineko instead of watching the anime. The anime is poorly done and ends prematurely, leaving you with far too many questions unanswered and no real resolution.
Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: I don't think Umineko takes place in the same universe. Higurashi is referenced as a novel during the first arc. 
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_3: With the new Higurashi series arcs (Gou and Sotsu) there appear to be more connections between the two- without too many spoilers, some of the witches in Umineko may be versions of Higurashi characters.
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2014/02/07 | 1,898 | 6,715 | <issue_start>username_0: Saber's character in Fate/stay night and Fate/zero is based on the real-life hero King Arthur. Are the other Holy Grail War servants also based on real-life heroes? And if they are, who are those heroes?<issue_comment>username_1: For the most part, yes, but there are some exceptions. I assume you haven't read the Fate/stay night visual novel, which answers your question. As such, spoilers for that below.
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Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: The Tohsaka Family in the beginning provided the necessary land and called forth the Servants. The original design was to summon only heroes from history and legend. In the Nasuverse, there are a lot of our legends of heroes such as Hercules, <NAME> and Siegfried which actually did happen. However, their legends are changed in parts, such as <NAME> having actually been a woman who was made into a pseudo-male by Merlin (considering that Guinevere knew Arturia was a woman, Merlin's actions may have been on his own whims as a prankster).
Real life "heroes" such as <NAME> Great, <NAME> and <NAME> have their histories change to suit the fact that magic exists. Their Nobel Phantasms, the symbols of their heroic deeds, are also more magically based.
Servants such as Medea and Medusa should not have been able to be summoned as they aren't heroes. However, during the 3rd Holy Grail War, the Einzbern, having lost the first 2 wanted to win at all costs and created a new Servant Avenger who was [Angra Mainyu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angra_Mainyu). However, this Avenger class was very weak and was killed early in the war. However, Avenger was accepted into the grail and corrupted it. This allowed almost anything to be summoned, as the original rules of the Holy Grail had become distorted by Angra Mainyu's corruption. This may have happened before Saber was summoned during the third war as the Edelfelt sister's sorcery trait allowed 2 Sabers to be summoned, one aligned to good and one aligned to evil as in the fake Holy Grail War in Fate/Hollow Ataraxia. Arturia summoned with her Alter from as a second personality to duplicate the Edelfelt sister's Saber (the fake 5th war was based off of the 3rd war).
Originally, the Holy Grail required that those summoned under the Assassin class had to be one of the nineteen individuals known as Hassan-i Sabbah, the pseudonym for the leaders of a medial Islamic sect called Hashshashin. Hashshashin is the etymological root of the word "assassin". However, due to the corruption of the grail, Sasaki Kojirou could be summoned. <NAME> does not actually exists in the Nasuverse at all. He was a nameless martial artist with some relation to the Ryuudouji Temple, and Medea used the temple grounds itself as catalyst to summon him. Of course, when Zouken got involved he was able to turn Sasaki into one of the Hassan-i Sabbah.
With King Arthur, King Arthur is a real hero. However, the commonly known Arthurian legend is mainly fiction based on Arthur's legend. However, in the Nasuverse, they did actually happen, i.e. Merlin, <NAME>, Arthur's Fate.
Now that's just the Fuyuki Holy Grail War. There are other Holy Grail Wars that occur outside Fuyuki and have different rules, like the case with the Moon Cell Holy Grail War. Because the Moon Cell have observed all of human history, any hero is summoned as their true self and not affected by how their legends/history has been perceived over time. This is why <NAME>us Germanicus is summoned as a woman and looking a lot like Arturia because <NAME> was said to be a fusion between two individuals, one of whom was a Roman general. Vlad III is different from his Great Holy Grail War counterpart. The one summoned in the Moon Cell is more blood thirsty and mad in relation to who he was (in the Nasuverse), while the Great Holy Grail War version of him gives off a more of a vampire feel as due to how Dracula's legend was born from Vlad's actions.
The Great Holy Grail War occurs after the Greater Grail had been stolen after the 3rd Holy Grail War. It's not known if the 3rd war is the same as the one Avenger was summoned in or a different one in a parallel universe where he is not summoned. However, much like the Fuyuki Holy Grail Wars, the Great Holy Grail War summons heroes from both real history and from legends that occur in the Nasuverse such as Siegfried and Mordred. However, other Servants who wouldn't normally be classified as heroes are summoned such as Frankenstein's monster, Shakespeare and <NAME>. Also, it seems Assassin doesn't have to be Hassan-i Sabbah.
On the [this Type-Moon Wikia page](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Servant#Known_Servants), you can see a list of every known servant summoned in all the different wars, their know heroes and links to Wikipedia articles for most. Links in the Servant column go to that Servant's profile within the Nasuverse while the Identity Column normally goes to the Wikipedia articles if they have a known history/legend (one exception is of course EMYIA).
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2014/02/07 | 691 | 2,568 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there any significance to the character names in Elfen Lied, particularly with regards to the more important characters? With some characters, there's a clear "meaning" - e.g. Nana, who was also known as "Number 7" at the research facility. Could other character names e.g. "Lucy" be allusions to something, or perhaps in some other way meaningful given the plot?<issue_comment>username_1: Although this is never confirmed it does fit the plot in a way
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Lucy's name closely resembles Lucifer considering that Lucy is the evil alter-ego it would be one of the most fitting.
Another possibility would be that the name is related to St. Lucy/Lucia, but this is a pretty far fetched theory.
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Re-reading the related question [What's the significance of the 'w' finger position in Elfen Lied?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/5472/whats-the-significance-of-the-w-finger-position-in-elfen-lied?rq=1) I think the st Lucy/Lucia theory is less far fetched then I thought myself. Elfen Lied seems to be pretty Christian influenced.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: One other interpretation is that Lucy is a reference to [the hominid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_%28Australopithecus%29), as mentioned by [ninjalj](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/3652/ninjalj). This would seem to make sense given the role of Lucy within the plot as a mitochondrial Eve for the researchers. However, the manga itself doesn't seem to explicitly explain why Kaede is designated as Lucy by the researchers, and so it isn't clear what the "correct" interpretation of Lucy's name (if there is even any) is.
The same appears to go for many of the other characters, beyond very obvious cases such as Nana.
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2014/02/07 | 328 | 1,139 | <issue_start>username_0: Not much to explain. Why does <NAME> have purple stripes on her cheeks?
<issue_comment>username_1: It's most likely a sign of her clan. Kiba has the red stripes, as does the rest of his family to symbolize clan members. But, it could be just a symbol of her personality or being, as many characters, such as Chouji, Chouza, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Jiraiya, Orochimaru, Itachi Uchiha, Kankurou, Gaara, etc. have their own, which are shown not to be associated with any of the other members of their clan. So take it two ways, it's either a clan symbol, or just a way of having their own style or their beliefs.
Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Usually, it is a tradition passed down from clan members or affiliations. For example, Jiraya has red markings because of his toad affiliation. Kiba and other Inuzuka clan members before him had markings, resembling/identifying their dog user capabilities.
Rin has them probably because the Nohara clan puts on the purple striped, or it is either because of her use of medical ninjutsu.
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2014/02/08 | 1,012 | 3,691 | <issue_start>username_0: Lately, I been reading quite some more manwha cause of their good stories. But I can't help but notice that manwha use a lot more colored pages, sometimes even fully colored volumes. Or just all pages color, why are color pages more commonly used in manwha then manga? Is there a specific reason for this?<issue_comment>username_1: There's the so called WebToon, which is most likely the one you refer to (and you are reading). Frankly speaking, printed color pages are not cheap. They cost a lot more than B&W page and are difficult to print correctly. With webtoons there's no such thing as "printing", everything is done digitally.
Manwha that is done in B&W completely due its distribution method (printed) which you will not see color pages (like Chevalier of the Absis, or ID which has some color pages as bonus), there's also webtoons that could be printed later on (like The Breaker/NW) and there are those that are not printed (almost all webtoons).
Is difficult to see a Manwha (or any printed media) in full color. The only case I know of is To Love る which is released later on after the black and white pages are released.
Is a matter of cost of distribution of the media, which is cheap for webtoons so artist can offer color pages.
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In the example you gave, "Magician" by <NAME>, this is an original webtoon that is published using [Naver](http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/list.nhn?titleId=24965).
* [A list of manwha that are in full color (MU)](http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?perpage=50&category=Full%2bColor&type=manhwa&orderby=rating): ~250 titles
* [All kind of manwha (full color and B&W) (MU)](http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?page=5&orderby=rating&perpage=50&type=manhwa): ~1500 titles
There are lots of black and white Manwha, just that are more difficult to find since they are distributed physically.
Upvotes: 5 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Long time ago before when there was no internet yet in this world, I always found Chinese comics (maybe weekly comics because they were thin) in full colour. I don't know why, but probably it's because of tradition.
In contrast, manga have no colours probably because of the Japanese mentality - they don't like to waste money etc. I'm saying this because, in national universities, even the copy paper there uses recycle papers. Not to mention the shounen magazines etc, that one's quality of paper is terrible, that's why they can sell a thick shounen magazines considerably cheap.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_3: Actually, most manhwa aren't colored either. Along with some webtoons, only a few manhwa are colored.
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The reason they aren't colored is because it takes a long time to create manga and manhwa, and it's a lot more expensive if each page is colored. Most of the creators start working alone without any financial support, thus making colored pages very difficult. Western comics are mostly made by large companies like DC or Marvel, and these companies have enough resources to make colored comics quickly.
**Additional Resources:**
If you'd like to confirm that manhwa is usually black and white, [MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/topmanga.php?type=manhwa.) has a list of manhwas for reference.
[MyOtakuWay](http://www.myotakuway.com/t208-diferenca-entre-manhwa-mangas-e-manhua.) explains the difference between manga and manwa.
Searching for manga on [MyAnimeList.net](http://myanimelist.net/manga.php) will let you see that most have just one author, not a campany or a staff.
Finally, [ComicList](http://www.comiclist.com/index.php) is a list of comics where you can see that they are made by a company.
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2014/02/08 | 1,116 | 4,225 | <issue_start>username_0: [Rule X](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_X) in the Death Note states:
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Besides the fact that I find these 2 rules to be contradicting (correct me if I'm wrong), it still made me curious: **Is it possible to kill people indirectly with the Death Note?**
For example, writing a heart surgeon's name during a operation, or a pilot's name while mid-flight.<issue_comment>username_1: The rules aren't contradicting. Both say that you cannot use the death note to kill other people whose names aren't written in it. For example, you can't write
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Because that would mean other people would die.
As for your specific examples, you cannot write passenger plane crash as the cause of death for a pilot, because that would kill other passengers too. If you wanted, you could write "The pilot disabled the auto-pilot, then had an heart attack". That way, the plane crash has nothing to do with his death, and the plane would still (probably) crash.
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_2: *People who name is not written in the note shall not die due someone else that will die due his name being in the Death Note*, both rules can be boiled down to that. That is what the *If the death leads to the death of more than the intended* means. As long as the death of the person leads to someone else dead, or the conditions prior death can cause death to others, they will die of a heart attack.
There's no contradiction, both rules says the same just in different ways.
In the example you made: both will die in such way that nobody else dies. The surgeon will step back of the table and die, the pilot will die when he's not piloting. Of course, this is mere supposition and details could escape.
Light made some experiments trying to kill in such impossible ways (like a Japanese prisoner died in front of Eiffel Tower), those died on hearts attacks.
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This probably makes the most sense. Were it otherwise, people who know the rules could make themselves (nearly) invincible to the Death Note by having a system by which, if they die, someone else is killed (or kills themself). I say “nearly” because the cause of death could be made to say “die at midnight” for both people, and that might kill them. Obviously, the Death Note user would have to know both people involved, which could be made near-impossible quite easily[1].
Though, there is the further question of whether “die at midnight” would work. One person's name has to be written first, and at the time at which it is written, it is not allowed. However, writing the other person's name after then makes it allowed again. When are the rules evaluated, and by what means? Death Note has the power to predict the future of its victims, but can it predict the future of its own use? This is into the realm of time paradoxes!
Or, you could just say that they die of a heart attack. ;-)
*Edit:* [1]For example, if L wanted to make himself invincible to the Death Note, he could have some system by which someone from Wammy's House is killed if he dies. Then, to kill L, a Death Note user needs both L's name and the name and face of that person who gets killed. Even for someone with shinigami eyes, that's virtually impossible to work out.
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2014/02/08 | 380 | 1,273 | <issue_start>username_0: In episode 17 of *Kill la Kill*, <NAME> brings out a toast to their success with what looks like a cup of sake. But, considering it is a school and they are between the ages of 16 and 19, they shouldn't be allowed to drink this yet, right? So what did they toast with?
<issue_comment>username_1: This is likely to be a Sakazuki, which are small to medium-sized ceremonial cups during a celebration, most commonly used at weddings and other special occasions such as tea ceremonies. The Yakuza are know for their particular initiation ceremony where the initiate exchanges Sakazuki with the Oyabun (Boss) as a vow of loyalty.
As for the underage drinking, the legal drinking and smoking age is 20 in Japan. Typically it's socially acceptable to drink a little for celebrations.
Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: I heard that was water.
I thought that was sake, too.
That is called Mizu-Sakazuki (Hai).
It means final water in life.
Breaking cup means that, too.
Before battle against strong enemy (Kiryuin's mother), they did that.
The scene was talked about in Japan, too.
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2014/02/09 | 787 | 2,853 | <issue_start>username_0: The [Death Note Wikia](http://deathnote.wikia.com) states that...
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Which lead me to ask what is the limits of the Death Eraser and if you wrote "commits suicide by gun" and you used the Death Eraser to bring them back, would the wounds heal even though they come back to life?<issue_comment>username_1: I doubt the "Death Eraser" exist (I actually haven't found references in any plot of the official manga/anime), since the Shikigami, who are the original owners of the notes, gets the remaining human life span and adds it to themself. Something that could revive humans would alter fundamentally the propose of the Death Note, and such thing was not devisable by the mangaka.
I remember you that wikia is a fan-made site and references and claims are not official nor accurate.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: First of all, [The Death Eraser](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Eraser) is a plot device exclusive to [the manga pilot.](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Note_Manga_Pilot)
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Simply said, It all comes down to the fact its a miracle.
Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_3: The "death eraser" only made it as far as the pilot manga. This is understandable considering that if it would have made it into the actual series it would have caused major contradictions. The fact that the death note ever exists would contradict the existence of the "death eraser" If the death note was made to add life to a Shinigami than would the death eraser take away from the Shinigami's lifespan? That's probably the reason that the "death eraser" never made it to the official series: it would cause too many problems that would have to be worked out and explained. By the time that everything was explained we would already be about 2 episodes in. Nobody would want to watch that content. So in the long run, taking the "death eraser" out of the series completely would be the best solution.
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2014/02/10 | 7,126 | 27,329 | <issue_start>username_0: In Yu-Gi-Oh God Cards posses almost "un-godly" power, but are The God Cards stronger than Number Cards and are they and will they always be the most powerful cards in Yu-Gi-Oh.<issue_comment>username_1: Aren't you overestimating the God Cards at this point? The Egyptian Gods were created before concepts of Synchro, Contact Fusion, or XYZ were even thought of. There's a Number card that can declare that you win the duel after three turns. <http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Number_88:_Gimmick_Puppet_of_Leo> I mean doesn't the Seal of Orichalcos basically make the gods pointless? I don't know much about Zexal, but I do know that if you know they're going to be trying for the summoning of an Eygptian god, you should make all efforts to destroy their field and block their monster zones, so they cannot tribute. Dark hole, card destruction, an Ojama deck can work nicely.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: This question is just silly like the previous person there is no comparison between the God Cards being stronger than the other types of cards that came out later on, each card has it's strengths and weaknesses...
In fact there is a God card that is like Exodia as well...
<http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/The_Creator_God_of_Light,_Horakhty>
This card states
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> Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned (from your
> hand) by Tributing 3 monsters whose original names are "Slifer the Sky
> Dragon", "Obelisk the Tormentor", and "The Winged Dragon of Ra", and
> cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. This card's Special Summon
> cannot be negated. The player that Special Summons this card wins the
> Duel.
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As far as being stronger / less powerful than XYZ / Synchro....
Yes and No.
Of course they are more powerful than the weaker cards in those types, but the power of the god cards / abilities are usually actually not that good.
In current Meta nobody even uses the God Cards.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_3: In terms of the anime, the God Cards have been made weaker due to new mechanics added to the game. At the end of the original series, Yugi was able to defeat all 3 at once. I should also point out that Exodia under the rules of the anime, if assembled will win even if the opponent has 2 of Obelisk and Slifer, one of Ra and has infinite hand in play. Also, Exodia Necross is about as strong as a god card as well.
Also in the anime, at the times where a good guy had the God Cards and could use them to defeat an arch enemy, the God Cards had always been stolen. In the Orichalcos Arc, they were stolen and only come back at the very end while Yami Bakura's "Shadow Game" was not what we was expecting as the final fight between him and Atem
However, in terms of the real life game, the first versions of the cards are illegal and can not be played. Legal versions have been released however are still banned from all sanctioned tournaments. One can duel with the legal god cards, however, most players will have strict conditions and I very much doubt that even if a player allowed to have all 3, they won't be allowed Horakhty.
That being said they can be stopped, none of them can be special summoned so you can aim to stop the tributes.
* Slither's attack depends on the number of cards in a users hand, which means it can be 0 if the hand is empty, so you just need a monster with at least 2001 ATK to kill it.
* Obelisk can destroy all monsters but requires tributes of a set ATK and DEF of 4k, which means it can be killed by monsters like Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon.
* Ra's power comes from the user's life points so it can be destroyed if the user is low on them or a direct attack on the user if they use Ra's full power will win.
Also each of the God Cards have been defeated in the anime despite strategies being implemented to make them all powerful. The means to defeat them was created with pre-GX, 5Ds and Zexal cards in mind so they can probably be defeated much more easily now. If the God Cards were to make an appearance within an anime again and becomes all powerful, they will be used a tributes for new stronger versions (kinda like Horakhty). However, given predictable plot they can still be defeated, and by understanding a character's strategy these can be done in real life.
In Yu-Gi-Oh or Dual Monsters in general, there is no such thing as a card always being powerful. Each card is strong but has it's weaknesses and can be defeated with a proper strategy. Anything that is "all powerful" in the anime will never be used in sanctioned tournaments, and most players will disallow opponents to use them as well, especially if one is playing with a tournament rule deck.
Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_4: The God Cards are incredible, but against Number Cards might I add could only be destroyed by another Number. Because of this the God Cards are virtually useless. Anime wise: Egyptian God Cards win. Reality wise: Hell no.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_5: I will have to disagree with the statement that the Egyptian God cards are the most powerful. If you had Obelisk the Tormentor and I had Number C39: Utopia Ray and I had 1000 or less life points, I could use all three overlaying units to bring Utopia Ray's attack points up to 4000 and at the same time direct the attack at Obelisk, which, with the special effect of Utopia Ray, will reduce Obelisk's attack points down to 1000, thus Obelisk would be done for. Look up Number C39: Utopia Ray and you will see why Utopia Ray's special effect raises its own attack while at the same time reduces the attack points of the monster it attacks.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_6: Actually, winged dragon of Ra is the strongest god card and if you have them look close to the bottom of the card it says banned from battle
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_7: In the anime, it is implied that the god cards are the strongest creatures in the game because their effects are over the top strong and they have limitless potential in terms of ATK power. I will explain how and why this is the case.
**SLIFER THE SKY DRAGON:**
**Slifer gains 1000 ATK and DEF multiplied by the numbers of cards the controller holds in his hands.** Meaning that as long as you find a way to add more cards in your hand there is no limit to how strong slifer can get. Yes I know that the limit is the number of cards the player has in his deck, but there are ways to steal cards from your opponent and add them to your hand, implying that as long as you find ways to add more cards in your hand, slifer's attack points can exceed the limit that are set from the number of cards that you have in your deck). **Depending on the position that a monster is summoned or set on the opponent's side of the field, SLifer has the ability to lower that monster's ATK or DEF and then if the monster's ATK or DEF reaches 0, it is automatically destroyed.**
Meaning that your opponent will be unable to gather any monsters to do anything since anything that would be summoned would probably die before it could be used for the summon of a stronger monsters. And even if you do protect your monsters and manage to summon something stronger, that monster will also get weakened by the effect of slifer. Making it almost impossible to summon a monster that will be powerful enough to fight slifer.
**OBELISK THE TORMENTOR:**
Obelisk has 2 abilities that where shown throughout the series.
**(1): Tribute 2 monsters and destroy all monsters your opponent controls with ATK equal or less to Obelisk, then attack all opponents in the game. If they still control a monster, attack them directly.** This effect was used when Kaiba and Atem dueled for the first time against Lumis and Umbra. Kaiba used this ability to destroy the monsters that Lumis and Ubra had set on the field, after which he proceeded to attack both players directly, implying that Obelisk can attack 2 players at once when this ability is activated. Umbra tried to defend with mirror force, however traps don't work on Obelisk which resulted in the continuation of the attack anyway.
This effect was also used in the duel between Kaiba and Atem. However, since Slifer was stronger than Obelisk at that moment, Kaiba was unable to destroy Slifer with this ability, but he could still declare a direct attack on Atem, which resulted in Atem using Kuriboh to protect his life points from the battle damage.
**(2): Tribute 2 monsters so Obelisk could gain infinite ATK.** When this effect is used, Obelisk's body becomes crimson pinks, implying that the god is charging itself with infinite power. Surprisingly, this effect was actually used during the duel between Kaiba and the Duel robot, back when Kaiba wanted to test the power of Obelisk after he received the card from Ishizu. Even though Obelisk doesn't turn crimson red (probably because the animators came up with that idea later on in the series) the scientist who where spectating the duel with Mokuba, point out that the attack counter of Obelisk is rising way too fast, implying that Obelisk's attack power was becoming infinite.
This effect was also used when Atem dueled against Yami Maryk.
**THE WINGED DRAGON OF RA**
**1: This card gains ATK equal to the combined ATK points of the monsters tributed for it' summon and DEF equal to the combined DEF points of the monsters tributed for it's summon.** Meaning that this card doesn't have a limit of how strong it could be in terms of ATK, it all depends on the monsters you tribute for it.Meaning that if you tribute a monster with infinite ATK,Ra will have infinite ATK.
**2: You can tribute any number of monsters you control to add their ATK points to RA.** This is the second option you have to give Ra ATK power. Meaning that if you have a way to constantly spam monsters on the field you can increase RA's ATK power as much as you want.
**3: You can pay all your life points but 1 to increase Ra's ATK power equal to the ammount of life points you paid.**
**4: Phoenix mode. You can make this card unaffected by the effect of other cards, even by the effect of other gods. Then, you can pay 1000 life points to destroy all monsters on your opponent's side of the field. After this effect resolves, phoenix mode is deactivated.** It is not stated whether this effect can be activated again or if it's a once per turn ability.
**5: If this card is revived from the graveyard, it can declare an attack, even if there are cards that prevent it from doing so. Then this turn, this card can attack all monsters on your opponent's side of the field.**
**COMMON EFFECTS THAT ALL GOD CARDS SHARE**
**If this card is special summoned from the graveyard, it will return to the graveyard at the end of the turn.**
**When they are brought from the graveyard, they can redirect and absorb the attacks or effects of the opponent's monsters into themselves**.
Examples of this happening is during the duel between Atem and Kaiba, when Atem attacks Kaiba's monsters and Kaiba revives Obelisk, which automatically redirects the attack towards Obelisk. And in the duel between Atem and Yami Maryk, when Maryk tries to use Phoenix mode to destroy all monsters on Atem's side of the field, Atem revives Slifer the sky Dragon, which protects Obelisk and all monsters on the field from Ra's ability, after which it get's destroyed.
**Traps cannot directly affect gods** (Look for a detailed info in weaknesses). **Spells work for 1 turn. Unaffected by monster effects, unless it's a god.**
**Tho never shown in the anime, the summon of a god could not be negated.**
(For more detailed explanation about that part, read about it in the weaknesses)
**WEAKNESSES**
Monster effects don't work **unless they are a god card as well** and they work only for 1 turn, as shown between the fight against Kaiba and Atem, when Kaiba summoned Obelisk, and Slifer lowered it's ATK for only 1 turn. **If a god destroys another god with it's effect, that god won't return**. As it was shown when Ra destroyed Slifer during the duel between Maryk and Atem. And during the ceremonial battle, when **the effect of slifer was used to destroy all 3 god cards on the field**.
It is important to note that if Slifer had lower atk than Obelisk, Kaiba would've been able to destroy slifer with Obelisk's first effect during his duel with Atem.
**Ra is the only god that is unaffected by all cards, including the other two gods, while it is in it's Phoenix Mode.**
**Spells are said to have effect on gods for only 1 turn**, however **if a god is destroyed by a spell, they do not return on the field**, as shown in the final face off between Atem and Maryk, when Atem used the **Ragnarok** spell to destroy the winged dragon of Ra. I also want to add that during the same duel, Atem had the opportunity to tribute RA with the effect of the spell card **Soul Taker**. Whether this would've succeeded was never shown because Atem decided to tribute the **Egyptian god slime** instead of Ra, to activate the ability of Obelisk to make it's ATK infinite. However if we stick to the knowledge that spells affect gods for 1 turn, then there is no reason why Soul Taker wouldn't have worked on Ra.
The anime doesn't give a very good explanation as to why some trap cards don't work on the god cards but others do. Soo I will try my best to break it down for you guys.
I wanna add how some people pointed out that trap cards **Magic Cylinder** and **Spellbinding Circle** worked on Slifer the Sky Dragon in the anime. I wish to point out that in the anime, **both cards where spell cards**, which is the reason they worked in the anime. After all one is a **Spell**binding circle and the other is a **MAGIC** cylinder soo I guess it made more sense for these cards to be spells in the anime. However in the official TCG and OCG version of the game, **these cards are traps**.
Let's talk about the trap cards which where used throughout the series against the gods and why some worked while others didn't. The traps I will be talking about are:
**Mirror force**,
**Blast held by a tribute**,
**Ground Erosion**,
**Magnet Force** and
**Pyramid of light.**
First off is \*Mirror Force\*\*
When an opponent's monster declares an attack: Destroy all Attack Position monsters your opponent controls.
Meaning that this is used by the player to directly affect the opponent's monsters. Traps don't work **directly** on the gods themselves, which is why Obelisk was not destroyed when Mirror Force was used against it.
Now keep this in mind because it is very important for you to be able to understand this next part.
Blast Held by a Tribute is a trap that also destroys monsters. However in the anime it works a bit differently.
In the anime, it was shown during a vision that Ishizu Ishtar had,that during her duel against Kaiba, Obelisk was gonna be destroyed if Kaiba declared an attack, die to the Blast Held by a Tribute trap.
To explain why that was going to happen, lets start by reviewing the anime effect of the card. It goes as follows:
**Plant a bomb in one monster on the field. A monster that was Summoned using that monster as a Tribute is destroyed the moment it attacks. Its ATK is dealt as damage to its player**
Soo in other words, if the trap forces the game itself to do something, it will work. Because even tho traps don't work on gods, the rules of the game do.
Kaiba tributed Ishizu's monsters with **Soul Exchange**, not knowing that one of those monsters was infected with the effect of the trap. The part where it states that **A monster that was Summoned using the infected monster as a Tribute is destroyed the moment it attacks** implies that **the game** must destroy the monster the moment it attacks, since the trap has resolved it's own part of the effect. Soo Obelisk was not gonna be destroyed directly by the trap itself, but by the effect of the trap which forces **THE GAME** to destroy obelisk the moment he attacks.
**Ground Erosion**
Another example of a trap that works indirectly on a god card.
This happened during the ceremonial duel between Yugi and Atem, when Yugi used **Ground Erosion** to lower the attack of Obelisk. Even though Atem stated that **traps don't work on god cards**, Yugi implied that it was **not working on obelisk, but on the field he was standing on**.
The effect goes as follows:
**Select 1 Monster Card Zone on your opponent's side of the field that is currently used by a Monster Card. You can send this face-up card to the Graveyard to negate the effect of the monster in the selected Monster Card Zone and decrease its ATK by the number of your Standby Phases this card has been face-up on the field x 500.**
You can see here that this card, affects the field on which the gods are standing on. The field is part of the game, and the gods are bound to the rules of the game. Soo Yugi was using the field, against the gods.
Now let's talk about the effect of **Magnet Force**
Until the End Phase, if any of your face-up Rock or Machine-Type monsters are targeted by an opponent's card effect, switch the target(s) to an appropriate monster(s) your opponent controls.
Each time slifer would use it's effect on any of Yugi's magnet warriros, Yugi would use this card to switch the target back to one of the gods. This trap was not doing anything directly to the gods themselves, it simply redirected their effects towards themselves, and since the only monster type that can use it's effects on a god, is another god, Yugi successfully redirected slifer's effect to hit itself and the other gods.
And last but not least, **Pyramid of Light**
All God Cards on the field are removed from play.
Another example of a card that forces the game to work for it.
**Bonus information : Since back when this card came out for the OCG/TCG, the gods where not released with official effects for legal play, KONAMI created a different effect for this trap. Which focuses on the SPHINX archetype that Anubis used.**
**If this face-up card is removed from your side of the field, destroy "Andro Sphinx" and "Sphinx Teleia" on your side of the field and remove them from play.**
This allows the effect of Theinen the Great Sphinx to summon itself once both Andro and Teleia are destroyed at the same time.
Soo in short, **Traps don't work on gods, unless they force the game itself to do something on those gods**.
Speaking of indirect ways to deal with the gods.While they are not on the field, any card can be used to get rid of them. For example, **if you play Soul release to remove a god in the grave from the game, that god won't return back in the grave at the end of the turn**. **While they are in the hand or deck, any card can discard or send them to the grave or remove them out of the game**.
You can also steal them with card effects. May Valentine used the effect of her **Amazoness Chain Master**, to take the winged dragon of Ra from Maryk's deck, while Kaiba on the other hand, used **Lullaby of Obedience** to take Slifer the Sky dragon from Atem's deck. And right after that, Atem used **Card exchange** to take Slifer back from Kaiba's hand.
As long as you prevent your opponent from gathering monsters that he can tribute for a god, deny him the ability to tribute or special summon a god, or steal the god card with a card effect, a player will not have to worry about playing against these cards.
You can also use cards like **Kaiju** to tribute an egyptian god on your opponent's side of the field. This will work because the summoning condition requires you to tribute an opponent's monster. The gods do not have an effect that protects them from being tributed.
**Fun fact** - Maryk used \*\*Lava Golem\* in his deck. Tho he never managed to used it to tribute any god cards on his opponent's side of the field.
**The only weakness that was never confirmed in the anime was, if you can negate the summon of a god card with cards like Solemn Judgment. We came to the conclusion that all cards can work on gods as long as the gods are not on the field. The rules of the game state that negating the summon of a monster, means that that monster never entered the field. So this implies that a card like Solemn Judgment SHOULD work on a god. However when Konami created the cards for official play, an effect was revealed in which when one is Normal Summoned, cards and effects cannot be activated. Soo we can assume that the god cards in the anime, had a similar effect that prevented the opponent from negating their summon, but cards could still be activated in response to their summon. As shown when Kaiba summoned Obelisk and Slifer's effect still activated.**
I can only think of 2 moments where a god has been stopped from being summoned. One was when Kaiba tried to summon Obelisk against Atem and was stopped with Lightforce Sword. However this didn't negate the summon of the card, it simply removed it before it could be played. The other example is when Atem tried to bring back Slifer the sky dragon with monster reborn during the ceremonial battle against Yugi, however Yugi negated the effect of monster reborn with the Gold Sarcophagus. And since the effect of monster reborn was negated, slifer remained in the graveyard.
Other effective ways to prevent your opponent from playing with the god cards are to **actually steal them**. (Tho I don't recommend you do this in the real world because it's a felony and you can get in trouble)
Examples of this happening was when Raphael, Alister and Valon decided to steal the cards directly from the hands of Solomon Mutou, so that Atem would not be able to use them in any of his duels. Atem managed to find and retrieved those cards after he defeated Dartz in a duel.
Weevil Underwood and REx Raptor also decided to steal the cards, so they sneak inside Yugi's house and stole the cards along with the millennium items that Yugi managed to gather throughout the series. Thanks to Yami Bakura tho, Yugi got those back.
**BONUS INFORMATION FOR THE TCG/OCG PLAYERS**
Konami made sure to nerf the effects of the god cards when they created them to be legally played in the TCG and OCG version of the game. And now their effects are like this.
**SLIFER THE SKY DRAGON**
Requires 3 Tributes to Normal Summon (cannot be Normal Set). This card's Normal Summon cannot be negated. When Normal Summoned, cards and effects cannot be activated. Once per turn, during the End Phase, if this card was Special Summoned: Send it to the GY. Gains 1000 ATK and DEF for each card in your hand. If a monster(s) is Normal or Special Summoned to your opponent's field in Attack Position: That monster(s) loses 2000 ATK, then if its ATK has been reduced to 0 as a result, destroy it.
**OBELISK THE TORMENTOR**
Requires 3 Tributes to Normal Summon (cannot be Normal Set). This card's Normal Summon cannot be negated. When Normal Summoned, cards and effects cannot be activated. Cannot be targeted by Spells, Traps, or card effects. Once per turn, during the End Phase, if this card was Special Summoned: Send it to the Graveyard. You can Tribute 2 monsters; destroy all monsters your opponent controls. This card cannot declare an attack the turn this effect is activated.
and finally the one konami made sure to shit the most on.
**THE WINGED DRAGON OF RA**
Cannot be Special Summoned. Requires 3 Tributes to Normal Summon (cannot be Normal Set). This card's Normal Summon cannot be negated. When Normal Summoned, other cards and effects cannot be activated. When this card is Normal Summoned: You can pay LP so that you only have 100 left; this card gains ATK and DEF equal to the amount of LP paid. You can pay 1000 LP, then target 1 monster on the field; destroy that target.
**Obelisk the tormentor is the only one out of the 3, that has protection against targeting.** While **The winged dragon of ra is the only one out of the 3 that cannot be special summoned**.
In time, Konami realized that no one would play Ra, so they made 2 additional versions of that card so that Ra would be more playable. Those 2 different versions are the Sphere mode and Phoenix mode.
**The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode**
Cannot be Special Summoned. Requires 3 Tributes from either side of the field to Normal Summon to that side of the field (cannot be Normal Set), then shift control to this card's owner during the End Phase of the next turn. Cannot attack. Your opponent cannot target this card for attacks or by card effects. You can Tribute this card; Special Summon 1 "The Winged Dragon of Ra" from your hand or Deck, ignoring its Summoning conditions, and if you do, its ATK/DEF become 4000.
**The Winged Dragon of Ra - Immortal Phoenix**
Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned by its own effect. If "The Winged Dragon of Ra" is sent from the field to your GY while this card is in your GY: Special Summon this card. Cards and effects cannot be activated in response to this effect's activation. This card is unaffected by other cards' effects. You can pay 1000 LP; send 1 monster on the field to the GY. Once per turn, during the End Phase: Send this card to the GY, and if you do, Special Summon 1 "The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode" from your hand, Deck, or GY, ignoring its Summoning conditions.
So the god cards are not only weak in their TCG and OCG versions, they could easily lose to most, if not all of the number cards. Simply because their effects are not as powerful as their anime counterpart, and **Obelisk is the only one from the 3 that has a protection effect**. (excluding the Sphere and Phoenix modes of RA)
And I almost forgot the mention about the existence of Holactie the Creator of Light. Which in the time I am writing this answer, it is still only playable in the OCG.
**Holactie the Creator of Light**
Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned (from your hand) by Tributing 3 monsters whose original names are "Slifer the Sky Dragon", "Obelisk the Tormentor", and "The Winged Dragon of Ra". This card's Special Summon cannot be negated. The player that Special Summons this card wins the Duel.
If you summon this, it won't matter what Number your opponent has on the field.
Anyway,with all of the information I presented to you, I hope that you all have a better understanding as to why the god cards where considered to be the strongest cards in the game (**at least in the anime**) and are more than capable of handling each and every one of the Number monsters. Or in other words, from where I look at it, the gods are stronger than any of the number monsters.
I hope that my answer was helpful and fun to read.
I am sorry that it was this long but I felt that it would be better if I didn't miss any details. With all of the information I presented, people would have a better understanding as to how strong those cards are in the anime. I did this because most people only know these cards and their effects in the TCG and OCG version of the game. I also edited this comment multiple times because I remembered about many little details I forgot to mention and figured out many things about the way traps work along the way of writing this. Also re-reading the comment, I rearranged the information so it would not sound repetitive at some places.
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2014/02/10 | 310 | 1,050 | <issue_start>username_0: I know only <NAME> (The Fourth Hokage). Who are the other two members of Team Jiraiya?<issue_comment>username_1: As of right now there is no information disclosed about the other two members of [Team Jiraiya](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Team_Jiraiya).
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Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: The name and details of the rest of the team was never revealed in the original manga. However we may assume that they were very talented to be taught by Jiraiya.
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2014/02/12 | 1,421 | 5,473 | <issue_start>username_0: Watching episodes 114-116 of *Hunter X Hunter* (2011), I started to wonder.
Does Killua have a crush on Gon? Or am I just misinterpreting his text lines?<issue_comment>username_1: **Short answer:** There is little or no canonical love from either Killua or Gon toward the other. If any kind of love is to be clearly deduced, it should be regarded as platonic or brotherly.
**Longer answer:** From childhood, Killua was deprived of the experience of having friends. He met Canary, a guardian of the Zoldyck estate, and wished to be her friend, but she disciplined herself to not have any personal feelings for her employers (Killua included).
Fast-forward to the Hunter Exam, and Killua meets Gon, quickly discovering that he wants a friendly relationship with him (attempting to sever the ties to his former life as an assassin). In this case, you have to understand that Killua doesn't know how to behave around friends. He does his best to be himself, but he doesn't want to push Gon away. Even in a relationship as simple (to you and me) as friendship, Killua doesn't know how to manage his feelings.
As a result, personally, I would say that Killua just shares a really, *really* strong best-friend relationship with Gon, and feels a personal need to protect Gon, which can appear romantic at times. Gon, being the nutty lil' boy he is, also tends to express his friendship in odd ways...
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rif6L.jpg)
Now, taking all this into consideration... It doesn't honestly seem like there is any romantic relationship between them (though the mangaka seems to have thrown in a few choice lines to tease fans with).
In the episodes mentioned in the question, Killua does have some very odd lines.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Emnuw.png)
He states that if he asks Gon what he means by "Let's go!", then he "won't be able to go back." This sounds a bit lovey at first, but I think Killua is honestly more worried about Gon, almost like a brother might be. He understands the rage Gon holds within, and is deeply worried that Gon might be headed down a spiral of destruction. With good reason:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rmDay.png)
Sadly, though, asking about something like that could almost seem like a betrayal; remember that Killua doesn't want to do anything that would endanger his friendship with Gon.
So while I think it's important to recognize that there is no canonical love in play (at least in the anime, I haven't read past the manga's equivalent of episode 115), I think their relationship is designed in such a way to make us ask this kind of question. Their relationship is *far* from simple, and that's probably one of the things that makes it so compelling.
Upvotes: 5 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Of course he does. They're two guys but that doesn't mean they don't love each other and the fact that they love each other is obvious if you're paying attention to the show. Gon mentions multiple times how he wants to travel the world with Killua, something often said by eloping couples. Killua also mentions several times how embarrassing Gon's words are, precisely because they imply a sort of love. At episode 87ish Killua says Gon was a light that is so bright sometimes that he has trouble looking at him, something a certain romantic Shakespeare Sonnet talks about.
Love doesn't have to lead to sex and neither does gender matter when it comes to having a crush. Their bond is so strong and they like each other to the point where love is a weak word to describe it. Japanese has a word for this kind of friend for life who is said to make your life complete and/or whole, and it doesn't mean a wife but someone more; soulmate basically best defines that word.
Fyi, the Europeans supposedly imposed homophobia on Japan. Homosexuals were more accepted before westernization, probably because such relationships were common among powerful men such as a samurai. It's a controversial concept in Japan I suspect, but not as much as it is here in America.
Gon and Killua's fighting style compliment each other and their characters grow when they are together so they could very easily be classified as soulmates. They obviously like each other and you would have no problem calling it love if one of them wasn't male and if your definition of love isn't so exclusive to male/female relationships (which is dumb). Their relationship is a precious thing not often seen in society, but it's the most natural thing in the world. Everyone should pursue having what they have.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_3: It really is an interesting question.
I'm doing some process and I think that the answer is a maybe. I'm starting to think that there must be something that Killua didn't talk about with Gon. That's one thing you might think about - are Gon and Killua are going to be a couple? My answer is a no. Why you say? It is because I think Gon is starting to have feelings to someone else. Even though I haven't watch it yet, I know that there's only one female character who is almost the same age (in appearance I mean) and that is Kairo in Chimera ant form.
It looks like that Gon is having a nice relationship with her (or his) past self. So in summary, your question leads to a dead end.
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2014/02/12 | 2,830 | 9,819 | <issue_start>username_0: From the Chapter 510, you can see Tobi talking to Konan
Tobi happens to mention that *Izanagi is available only to those with the power of both Senju and Uchiha*. Is it really true? Because in the very next line he happens to mention that it is the power of the *Sage of Six Paths*.
That means either of the below 2 things are not-true.
1. We know that when Itachi explained Izanami to Sasuke, he happened to mention why the Izanami was created. It was because the Uchiha folks back then, used Izanagi for all wrong reasons. And most of those Uchiha certainly did not have the Senju DNA. So if what Tobi said was true, this has to be false.
2. If what Itachi explained about Izanagi's misuse is true and that every Uchiha who knows the jutsu Izanagi can use it, then what Tobi mentioned to Konan was wrong.
So which of the following is true? Or probably what Tobi told Konan was a plot-hole by *Kishimoto*?<issue_comment>username_1: Well, we all know that:
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Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: So as for your theory:
1. We know that when Itachi explained Izanami to Sasuke, he happened to mention why the Izanami was created: it was because the Uchiha folks back then used Izanagi for all the wrong reasons. And most of those Uchiha certainly did not have the Senju DNA. So if what Tobi said was true, this has to be false. **TRUE**
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The two instances where Izanagi is discussed formally are during :
1. Itachi and Sasuke's fight against Kabuto
2. the Konan vs Tobi fight
[Itachi explains to Sasuke](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/When_It_Turns_9_o%27clock) how the Izanagi and Izanami are very much related and what role they played in the Uchiha history. However, Itachi mentions that the Uchihas were able to use Izanagi. This contradicts Obito's explanation. Well, not really.
What Obito said was
Notice how he said *incomplete* form of Izanagi. In the fight between Obito and Konan, Obito was able to surprise Konan by escaping her *10 minutes of paper bomb explosion*, using Izanagi. This was considered the complete form of Izanagi (Obito's thoughts) because Obito had control of Hashirama Senju's DNA. Whereas Danzo's Izanagi was considered incomplete because of the control he lacked over Hashirama's DNA.
So there exists two types of Izanagi: the complete form and the incomplete form. To perform the complete form, you need full control of Senju DNA and of course, Sharingan. The incomplete form however, needs only the Sharingan and a good amount of chakra.
Hence, both cases are TRUE, leaving no plot holes. Seems both Itachi and Obito were right, but the entirety wasn't revealed.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_4: Tobi/Madara was incorrect in many of his statements. Whether a plothole/lie/etc.
There was this example of the Izanagi...
Then there was also the time where he swore to Sasuke that the 9-tails attack he himself perpetrated, was a natural disaster and wasn't perpetrated by anybody, specifically Uchiha. Although he himself is Uchiha...
But then again, so was Itachi. When he stated that Sasuke could be only the 3rd to master the Mangekyo. Implying himself and Madara. But then, there were all of those in the Izanagi story, they all had Mangekyo. Let's assume he didn't know that history at the time. There was still Madara's brother, who he told Sasuke had achieved the Mangekyo, which was then stolen by Madara for the EMS (according to that story). Then let's assume he didn't know about THAT story at the time either. Shisui GAVE HIM his Mangekyo (the only one with a 4-sided design, and likely would have been the most powerful EMS pair if they were able to be implanted into anyone. PLUS, Fugaku, who could control the 9-tails with his. Though Fugaku could be considered filler and not cannon, Shisui is DEFINITELY canon. So the whole Mangekyo, EMS, Izanagi/Izanami situation is extremely confusing if you try to sort it out based on their statements
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Izanagi is a technique available to all Uchiha members with the Sharingan, but it has various levels of effectiveness:
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### Normal Izanagi
For normal Sharingan users, Izanagi can help you change reality for a brief moment.
### Incomplete Izanagi (it's better)
For Sharingan users with Hashirama's DNA, it extends the lifespan of the jutsu. Since Danzo had Senju DNA in his right arm, he was able to extend Izanagi for each eye up to a minute.
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Finally, we have the Uchiha members who can control Hashirama's DNA — Obito and Madara. Obito's Izanagi can last much longer than Danzo's (surviving Konan's signature move), and he doesn't need to use any hand seals. As for Madara, he never uses Izanagi with Senju's DNA transplanted into him, although it is shown that Senju's DNA heals his right eye in the end.
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Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_6: Uchihas can only preform an incomplete Izanagi. That's why your above quite says brief control of reality, although that really isn't too clear. But many previous episodes, that people have shown here already, prove it's not a plot hold because Obito does know that a Uchiha's Izanagi isn't complete like one who also possesses Senju's DNA.
People seem to think a big difference is Obito creating much longer alternate realities and he doesn't need hand signs. I'm not sure but I don't think Danzo using hand signs has anything to do with it being incomplete. Most likely he just needs to sign to direct his chakra to those eyes because they are on his arm, rather than a normal eye connected to ones brain.
We also don't know for sure that Obito's Izanagi is complete because it can last 10 minutes. He would not have had to continuously change reality for 10 minutes. He would just need to alter the event before he fell or use it for a second to get out of the pit. Surely not using it for 10 minutes. He would fall in the pit for 10 minutes. So he would transport body so he doesn't get hit by the bombs for his 5 minute maximum. And then 5 minutes of using Izanagi to change each result of every bomb explosion? Just doesn't sound like that's what he did
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_7: Rinnegan only awakens in Indra reincarnation with Senju powers in Uchiha body, plus in point of death (Like Madara for old age or Sasuke vs Madara while Kabuto saved him injecting Hashi cells) It's not a plot hole, but true facts, that's why Obito didn't awakened Rinnegan while Sage path yep
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2014/02/12 | 741 | 2,564 | <issue_start>username_0: Is chapter 66 the true ending for *Season II*? According to Akihisa Ikeda, this chapter would be the last chapter and for three months I could not find any more pages after this. However, it seems it's still "to be continued" as mentioned on the page.
Is this the last page/chapter?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes that is the ending of Rosario Vampire Season II. There are chapter 66.2 to 66.6 but the picture your showing is indeed the last one story wise.
The chances of more chapters to come is very unlikely aswell as stated on [Funimation](http://www.funimation.com/forum/showthread.php?497-%2aDo-NOT-Request-Rosario-Vampire-season-3-%2a)
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Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_3: No, there is an additional few chapters that show him fighting Alucard. It ends at chapter 66.6 and apparently, there was an epilogue released recently .
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_4: From what I have read, this also includes the epilogue they may release more but perhaps under a different name since the Rosario was destroyed and the name *Rosario + Vampire* is no longer able to be referenced due to that simple fact, and Tsukune is a vampire now and the outer Moka is gone. Perhaps the name would be changed.
It also said that "Yoshii Kiria took over fairy tail" and then state "but let's save that story for another time". At least from what I understand of the wording, it is passable for a continuation of *Rosario + Vampire*, but would most likely no longer be called that anymore. This comes from "Dawn of the Dark" arc of the manga as Tsukune is being trained by Moka's father, <NAME> in the after story.
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2014/02/12 | 185 | 601 | <issue_start>username_0: In the last page of Chapter 737 of One Piece, it's stated that.
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Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Next chapter (738) will be out on February 18th. Scans will probably be up later that day or by early morning of Wednesday the 19th.
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2014/02/14 | 657 | 2,512 | <issue_start>username_0: As a former Shotokan Karate practitioner myself, I am quite familiar with the Heian Kata series. However I have never heard of Heian Hyakudan before.
First and foremost, is this a real technique or kata? I've been trying to find out more about Heian Hyakudan through google searches, but I get absolutely nothing.
If we dissect his finishing stance, we might be able to come closer to a conclusion. His bottom section, leg and hip formation is a posture held after jumping or leaping. We also know he is landing from a jump due to his forward shoulder being lower than the back shoulder (as well as the visual landing effect).
The part that throws me off the most is his upper posture. Normally when a jumping technique is executed, both arms work together and are connected(katas: Heian Godan and Bassai Dai). In this picture, his left arm is back which would mean that his technique requires a certain hip motion. The only times I recall seeing the top posture is in a Kata like Chinte, but even then, the leg stance requires feet to be spread out with open or reverse hips.
The top just doesn't match with the bottom. I have never seen a technique like this, nor heard of it.
Please help me identify this specific technique or Heian Hyakudan.<issue_comment>username_1: The technique Heian Hyakudan is non existing technique in karate.
Shio Sakaki claims to hold 100 dan in the arts of karate . So the move Heian Hyakudan could be a word play on this with Hyaku meaning 100 (百).
As for his movements, with the rotation and forward moving speed he should have fallen indeed. Although in the manga (don't remember the exact chapters) it is also shown that Sakaki can alter his central point of gravity by using certain muscles. Which in this case would have helped him with maintaining balance and allowing him to land in such manner.
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: The "Heian Hyakudan" technique pictured resembles a real technique in the kata Chatan Yara Kusanku. I'm sure it's a coincidence but it is interesting. You can watch a video of it [here](http://youtu.be/iiiznDpoapQ).
You will see it in the 4th and 5th directions. It has a twisted stance with a chop like this, and is followed with a kick and then a drop to the ground. I doubt if it would send multiple people flying through the air like they got hit with tornadoes, but maybe when one reaches 100th Dan...
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2014/02/15 | 767 | 2,499 | <issue_start>username_0: There are a lot of threads on the internet that have confusing/contradicting answers, but how are Vasto Lorde different from the Espada?<issue_comment>username_1: Vasto Lorde are the top of the Hollow species. However, they are Hollow, not Arrancar.
Arrancars are Hollow which, using the power of the Hogyoku, removed the boundry between Hollow and Shinigami, and achieved a greater power, usually by removing their masks and sealing most of their power into a sword.
Espada, are by definition the top ten *Arrancar*. **They may or many not be Vasto Lorde**.
It was heavily implied that of all the Espada, only the top four (Ulquiorra, Halibel, Barragan and Stark) were Vasto Lorde before they became Arrancars (and subsequently Espada).
Upvotes: 5 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Vasto Lorde are extremely powerful hollows. Hitsuguya suggested that if Aizen were to get ten Arrancars on Vasto Lorde level, the Soul Society would be doomed. For
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Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_3: Hallows have 3 ranks apart from their basic form :
1st rank Gillian also called menos Grande
2nd rank Adjuchas
3rd rank Vasto Lorde
these hollows keep their hallow forms.
Now Hallows who attained powers like a soul reaper are called Arrancar (which means to rip/tear off) and do not have the hollow defining skull mask and look human like with only a fragment of their mask attached to their head.
Espada are simply the top ten strongest Arrancar in Sousuke Aizen' s army of Arrancar. Hope this was helpful
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2014/02/16 | 756 | 2,759 | <issue_start>username_0: We know Light is clever and smart and almost devilish? But I don't understand why Light wanted Rem out of the way?
What was his motive and what would have happened if it went wrong?<issue_comment>username_1: Because Rem threatened to kill him should anything happen to Misa Misa. If he planned to use Misa Misa as a tool and perhaps sacrifice her eventually. He would have to get Rem out of the way.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: Rem wanted to protect Misa and would kill Light if he let/caused Misa to die. Misa, however, was a good tool for Light and he could not kill her without raising suspicion towards himself.
Light also wanted L to die, but he could not kill him without knowing his real name. Rem could see everyone's name with her shinigami eyes, but would not kill anyone unless Misa was in trouble. So, Light put Misa in trouble and pressured Rem into killing L and Wastabi. As a result, Rem died and Light thought he had no more people in his way.
If Rem didn't kill L and Wastabi, Misa definitely would have been caught again and killed. There would have been a lot of suspicion towards Light, but he may have been able to talk himself out of it. If he did not, he would have died also. It was a gamble.
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_3: Misa Misa was a useful tool but, with Rem always wanting to protect her and began to really care for her Light couldn't use her in anyway that would put her endanger for Rem would kill him the first chance she got. In order to use Misa and kill L he got Misa taken in and "endanger" putting the blame on L that he had done it. Doing that and edging Rem to kill him in order to save Misa since she was the only creature that could see L's real name doing this was killing to birds with one stone that kept getting in the way of Light's "good work."
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_4: What could've happened if it went wrong:
Rem betrays Light to save Misa:
See this genius answer: [Why did Rem kill L?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/19123/why-did-rem-kill-l/21151#21151)
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2014/02/16 | 397 | 1,326 | <issue_start>username_0: I have seen in a number of series, when a person is sad, they have mushrooms growing out of their head. In Ouran High School Host Club, this happens a number of times to Tamaki when Haruhi rejects him. He often goes and sits in a corner.
The below gif from FMA shows it as well. Where did this trope come from?
<issue_comment>username_1: I cannot tell you who started it or where it comes from exactly, but it is based on the fact that mushrooms grow in dark and dank places. Exactly the kind of environment depressed characters are visually and mentally put into.
It is mentioned in the [Corner of Woe](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CornerOfWoe) trope:
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The expression from Haruhi there about telling Tamaki to "stop growing mushrooms in one's closet" which means, more or less "stop being depressed".
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2014/02/17 | 622 | 2,210 | <issue_start>username_0: I've seen the recent episode of the anime, and I saw when Obito summoned Kurama. I'm interested in the fact that does he get into some kind of "contract" with some animals/things? (That would mean that he is really able to summon.) I've checked on the Narutopedia, and it appears only the Gedo Mazo is attached to his name, so is the summoning of the Nine-tails just a normal/simple summoning technique? Because you must have that kind of bond between you and the summoned animal, which is made with your chakra/blood, just like Naruto did with the toads and it would be weird if you would be able to summon a tailed beast just "because".<issue_comment>username_1: Tailed Beasts are not animals. They are large mass of chakra with there own consciousness. In the first fight between Hashirama and Madara, Madara could use Kyuubi like his summoning. That time Kyuubi was not bound within a jinchuriki. So I think someone as powerful as Madara could easily control the tailed beasts by overwriting their consciousness. And since Obito now had combined power of Uchiha as well as Senju, IMO he was strong enough to summon the tailed beast and use them.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_2: From the the battles of Minato vs Obito and Hashirama Vs Madara I can recollect **three** important things:-
1. Both Sharingan users[Obito and Madara] casted genjutsu to Kurama[Kyuubi] and as a result they were able to control it.Kurama was bound to obey them
2. There was some contract seal between the caster and Kyuubi.
3. Both Minato and Hashirama used their contract seal.
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Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_3: Of course, Obito mastered the Summoning Jutsu.The great disaster in Konoha was caused by Kurama and the one who summoned the Kyuubi was Obito Uchiha.
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2014/02/17 | 514 | 2,051 | <issue_start>username_0: In Light's plan on killing L, he plans on killing Misa by shortening her lifespan and then force Rem to save Misa by killing the L.
Misa could have died by other causes not just by being captured by L, so how can he be sure that L will cause Misa's death?<issue_comment>username_1: He couldn't, as mentioned a number of times, Lights's ultimate plot to use Rem to kill L was a huge gamble, however things were more of less siding with him
1. L said to Light (with Rem present) that the Kira's will be executed
2. Misa was not present in the room when L said to Light that the Kira's would be executed, this means Rem could not see if Misa's life span had changed as a result of L's decision to see the Kira's executed or confirm if Light's actions caused the change (Rem had pointed out to Light before the switching of the Death Notes (i think when Misa first goes to Light's place) that Misa's lifespan was monitored )
3. L had explained to Light the physical evidence he had found indicating Misa as the 2nd Kira before her imprisonment, this would be enough for Misa to be imprisoned once again and now that L knew how Kira kills he would be able to find the Death Note much faster (Misa now had her original Death Note but now owned by Ryuk, because Rem would've explained its use to Misa the rules wouldn't have been written, before learning of the Death Note Light did plan on explaining that the Death Note was a log for the Kira Case which would then explain the people's names and times)
All Rem could do at the time was assume that L would cause Misa's death and because L had also noted that Misa was just about to be arrested Rem had no time to investergate
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_2: He realizes that with the info he has gained, L will eventually find Misa if she continues passing judgment on criminals and therefore he knows that L will eventually figure out that the one using the notebook is Misa using his newfound knowledge of the Death note, and will apprehend and execute Misa.
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2014/02/17 | 3,787 | 14,846 | <issue_start>username_0: Anatomically speaking Europeans don't look like that either. But most of the people look more European than Japanese, at least it seems to me ... Maybe it's the round eyes? And the non-black hair in some cases?<issue_comment>username_1: Just like [@senshin](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/1908/senshin) stated in his comment, for the Japanese people, their characters do look Asian.
There is a really nice article written about this on [thesocietypages](http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/08/30/guest-post-why-do-the-japanese-draw-themselves-as-white/) and as stated there:
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The article above also pointed out something about that:
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> [...] the Default Human Being thing is so strong that lacking other clear, stereotyped signs of being either black or Asian she defaults to white.
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> When you think about it there is **nothing particularly white about how anime characters look**:
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> * **huge round eyes** – no one looks like that, not even white people (even though that style of drawing eyes does go back to Betty Boop).
> * **yellow hair** – but they also have blue hair and green hair and all the rest. Therefore, hair colour is not about being true to life.
> * **small noses** – compared to the rest of the world whites have long noses that stick out.
> * **white skin** – but many Japanese have skin just as pale and white as most White Americans.
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Of course, there are also exceptions. A nice example is indeed [<NAME>](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AGJjJ.jpg), as stated by @senshin. The moment they need to make somebody look non-Japanese, they will try to design the character more to the American/European stereotype, i.e.
* Bigger noses
* Blond hair/blue eyes/white
* Speaks fluent English
Upvotes: 7 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: I agree that in Aku no Hana they actually do look Japanese. Let's face it, we all know that Japanese, Chinese, and Korean have small, almost squinty eyes. White people don't necessarily have big eyes either, but they're bigger than the ones a typical Asian would have. Some say that the Japanese are trying to take over the world by drawing their characters as Caucasians. I have noticed that in animes the major characters are always white. It's very rare to even have an African character pop up every now and then as a on the side character, but that's about the most culture variation you'll see.
Religion doesn't pop up either in animes, with the exception of the monks, and statues of Buddha that appear(only Japanese culture is allowed in JAPANESE anime and manga of course). And my point on religion and the appearances of the characters is that not every one has the same way of life or is comfortable wearing mini skirts. In a lot of religions they're not allowed to do some of those things that people on animes do. Like dating, flirting, going all the way before marriage, or even as a girl showing your thighs to another girl is not allowed.
So, in the anime world every one is actually the same, even though the main character is usually some what different from the others, but in a way that we can't relate to because it's usually impossible IRL. Like in the anime series Naruto, he (Naruto) starts out as an out cast because of the fox demon sealed inside him. Therefore, treated differently by his peers in a negative way.
The thing about hair colour, well, Asians almost always have black hair. On the other hand, Europeans are more often found with hair that is red. But, I read that that it is possible for Asian and African people to inherit the two copies of a recessive gene on chromosome 16 which causes a mutation in the MC1R protein(causes red hair). Considering the facts, most red heads have European genes, which is why people on animes that have red hair or even blond hair with blue eyes AND white skin, look like white people. But when characters have randomly crazy, awesome and impossible IRL hair colours like BLUE, GREEN, PURPLE, PINK, TURQUOISE, etc. you know it's just part of the illustrators' design.
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_3: I disagree that anime are portraying causcasian/european, because they're portraying Japanese obviously if they have Japanese names...
therefore I agree with Senshin, and username_1
If you look at the Japanese subcultures, they like to dye their hair in different colors to defy the norm, which are largely dark hair, not trying to look caucasian.
I hear people claim that anime looks caucasian/europe makes me sad, as it shows how limited their world view is...
Not all Asian has small squinty eyes, I've known a lot of friends who has round and big eyes, there are even more if you go to Asian countries.
It's like saying those Causcasians who like to tan their skin are trying to be African American, or those who like to dance hip hop or rap are trying to be African American, but are they? Maybe some of them are, but most of them tan their skin because they think it looks nice with their overall eyes and hair, just like Asian/Japanese dye their hair because they think it looks nice with their complexion, and that is reflected in anime with different hair colors etc.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_4: I'm Chinese, but I see white people when I watch anime too. It is incredibly obvious actually:
White skin as opposed to Japanese toned. Round eyes as opposed to Japanese shaped, blonde/red/brown hair as opposed to black, and Caucasian face shape as opposed to Asian shaped.
Even though I grew up in Canada, I still don't think "white" is the default human to me. I don't believe Japanese see Japanese people either, unless the character is Tenchi or one of his friends or something.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_5: Um, sorry but they don't look European to me...
Their facial structure looks Asian, and their hairstyles are more in the style of Asian fashions (well, most Asian can pull it off since they tend to have younger looking faces). Their hair color comes in all ranges so that doesn't count.
When anime portrays Westerners, they tend to have bigger jaws (which is true) and you can distinctly see their nose is bigger/higher. (Look at Monsters for example: those Germans look like Westerners to me, while Tenma certainly looks Japanese.)
To be honest, in most animated Western movies, characters don't look like the average American to me; rather, it's their mannerisms that makes them look American. I was watching Tangled and I noticed that her eyes are very big, to the point where no one can have eyes that big, but minus the big eyes and her mannerisms, yes she comes across as western to me.
That applies to most anime, their eyes are impossibly big for a human being, but minus their non-human eyes, I see lots of Asian features in there, and their mannerism makes it more obvious. Take Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children for example. Most characters, like Cloud (minus blue eye and blond hair), look like Gackt, who is Japanese, to me. And Tifa looks very Japanese. the first time I ever saw a Final Fantasy 7 Crisis Core/Advent Children cut scene, I thought they look very Japanese/anime aesthetic, and I haven't watched much anime at the time as well. You can argue that they look Eurasian more than pure European.
And anime looks out of this world, but with some Asian aesthetic. That's my conclusion. So I disagree; they don't look European. They look Japanese and I accept it as that.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_6: I believe the Japanese were/are highly influenced by western and American culture. So to avoid looking like someone or as a self-hating country as a whole, they say they think that's how the average Japanese person looks instead of 'I like the way whites look.' This is just my opinion, but I see that it could also very much be a fact because if the Japanese see the characters as "Japanese" why just draw them the way we usually see them? Why not with dark skin, or different features? Features we usually see in other cultures. Wanna know why that's usual? Because they don't like it, and don't. See the beauty in it and don't want to be or look like it.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_7: There's a huge diversity of faces among Japanese people. Cartoon characters are hugely simplified, such that you can only typically identify ethnicity of a character if they're drawn to have stereotypical features. But why should Japanese people draw only stereotypical Asian features on characters in a show 100% intended for a Japanese audience? Generally, it is intended for people to assume the characters are Japanese unless stated otherwise.
They only try to distinguish ethnicity in their character designs when the character is *not* Japanese, and then they tend to draw very stereotypical features. From examples like that, you can also tell that Japanese people have a very different idea of what a stereotypical caucasian looks like too. They tend to draw at least the men with clefted chins, square jaws, prominent cheekbones, wide mouths. Sort of like how we draw stereotypical superhero faces, really.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_8: If we look back to Astroboy, the first regularly broadcast tv-length animated series, we can see that characters are still not necessarily Asian-looking
Astroboy started off as a show targeted mostly towards the Japanese, but soon Tezuka realised that it would not strike a profit on this alone. 52 episodes were sold to NBC Enterprises (as opposed to NBC Network), who in turn distributed the show to several places throughout America.
Because of the US's different perspective of what is and is not acceptable for broadcasting on television, several episodes were not broadcast in the States - one of these includes a plot device where a message is held inside the eyeball of a statue of Jesus.
Because the US's involvement was critical for Astroboy's success, <NAME> & his company Tezuka Productions Ltd. had to take this into consideration in later episodes that they produced.
Now that the US were a recognised target audience of the show whom had influence on its production, Tezuka advised production to make the show *denationalized* - that is, they started to include signs in English, removing 'openly Japanese elements' and overall, making the show more accessible to both local and foreign sales.
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Also, in the early days of anime, smaller Japanese studios were always competing with the large US giants such as Disney. As a result, Japanese animation was greatly influenced by them - Tezuka's style (along with many other mangaka's of this era) was quite Disney-like, subconsciously affected by the studio's large successes.
Disney's productions themselves were quite denationalized, some series more so than others, but American viewers did not have to experience a large stylistic change when watching Japanese cartoons - and for the most part, they usually assumed they were American.
Ladd with Deneroff 2009: 21 (on Astroboy in America)
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(American shows are mostly denationalized too)
This isn't the only show to have these concerns however. Denationalization is a significant part of anime history as Japanese studios were always competing with their American counterparts, whose animation was higher quality and cheaper to import than produce locally.
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Take a brief look at Scott McCloud's *Understanding Comics*:
The more generic a character, the more one can associate with them, and by choosing a neutral coloured skin tone, more of the audience will associate with it.
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As a counter example, an animated movie in which Eastern traits were desired was *The tale of the white serpent*. As you can see below, the design of the characters were more oriental. Anyway, denationalization has become the norm and only shows which seek to emphasize Eastern design include it.
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Anime evolved with this feature in mind, and as other people have pointed out - audiences will always try to associate with characters in media, whether that be books, anime, film, etc. So, what may look *European/American* to you, may look equally Asian to those residing there because of the general design of the characters.
**References:**
* Anime: A History by <NAME> (p123,124)
* Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud
Upvotes: 5 <issue_comment>username_9: As the top answers have already stated, the characters do look Asian from the point of view of the artists, but I want to add that Japanese people (and other Asian nations) [have a fascination with white skin](http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/china-and-its-neighbors/091123/asia-white-skin-treatments-risks).
The linked article gives an overview of the phenomenon. Pale skin is seen as an ideal trait that many young women strive for. Its origin is not in trying to appear more Western or European, but rather has a history in economic status, where field workers who were out in the sun all day would have much darker skin than the aristocrats staying in the shade. Today, it is manifested as an unrealistic beauty standard for women, not unlike the ones in the United States and other countries.
How this relates to anime is that artists typically enjoy drawing beautiful people, unless they are concerned with realism (which, let's face it, most anime is not). In this case, that means having pale skin.
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2014/02/17 | 475 | 1,644 | <issue_start>username_0: Do the master of The Ryozanpaku Dojo resemble certain stereotypical descriptions? If they do, which stereotypical appearance would this be?<issue_comment>username_1: Stereotypical might not be the correct word to describe the masters, however, they all do have common personalities compared to the millions of fighting mangas out there. I think it would be better to explain it as no one master has a truly unique personality that doesn't exist in other series.
Here are some of their following cliche personalities:
Kensei Ma (Kung Fu) - Perverted, Passive
Apachai Hopachai (Muy Thai) - Brainless brawn, yet soft on the inside
<NAME> (Karate) - Boastful, tough, brawler
<NAME> (Judo) - Cool, calm, collected tactician
<NAME> (Weapons expert) - Quiet, deadly, mysterious
<NAME> (Furinji style) - Superman
As you can see, their personalities are quite common in other characters from other series. There is nothing personality-wise that makes these characters one of a kind.
Extra side note: Contrary to how the manga describes Akisame's style as Jujutsu, realistically it is Judo. Sakaki's style is also technically Karate-do as opposed to Karate-jutsu.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: You're probably better off looking over [this TV Tropes page](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple) as there's a lot of common stereotypes/tropes that these characters are tied to.
Kenichi is kind of a gag show on top of shounen fighting so it's so chock full of stereotypes that it's hard to list them all.
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2014/02/17 | 1,235 | 4,318 | <issue_start>username_0: There seem to be a ridiculous number of Gundam series, spinoffs and movies. There also seems to be a lot of timelines, parallel universes which has confused me more.
I've tried looking this up before, but there's a large variety of differing answers depending on people's opinions.
As an anime fan, I think I should at least try it out. It might also help for understanding a lot of reference jokes in other series.
Where does one start with all these? Can you watch the series as standalones or should I start watching in a particular order?<issue_comment>username_1: AniDB has a nice [releation graph](http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=rel&aid=715) regarding the different Gundam shows and movies.
Universal Century and related timelines
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If you are interested in the original story of the [Universal Century](http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Universal_Century) (UC) timeline and are willing to invest a lot of time (about 74hrs), you can start off with *Mobile Suit Gundam* (1979-1980) show and work your way through the sequels following the red line in the graph till the latest *Gundam Unicorn* OVA.
*Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin* is the OVA production following *Unicorn* and as the name implies it tells the background story of some characters and how events lead to the original series. You probably don't want to start with this if you intend to watch the original series and avoid spoilers.
*Gundam F91* and *Victory Gundam* are also part of UC, but are of a new generation (referred as Late UC) with completely new characters and parties. While *F91* features similar spaceship and mobile suit designs as well as similar uniforms, and rather falls in the category of a side story, *V* seems to be completely unrelated from my point of view, this also applies to *Gundam Reconguista in G* which is set in [Regild Century](http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Regild_Century), a period 500 years after *Turn A Gundam*.
The summary movies of the original show feature new scenes, but I don't recommend watching them instead of the show, rather watch them when watching side stories.
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140 TV show episodes ((43+50+47)*25min)
13 OVA episodes (12*30min+25min)
1 film (120min)
7 OVA episodes (6*60min+90min)
Total: 74hrs 15min
```
UC unrelated timelines
======================
A [page listing most Gundam series timelines and related works](http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Gundam_Wiki:Series) is also available in Gundam Wikia. Currently these timelines are in order of production dates: Future Century, After Colony, After War, Cosmic Era, Anno Domini, Advanced Generation and Post Disaster. Shows set in these timelines may share some Gundam specific traits, but they were created to be aired on TV and watched independently to attract new viewers or younger audiences, while loyal fans of the original series are treated with OVAs set in UC.
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In the comments above [senshin](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/1908/senshin) found a guide (see below) that includes most of the shows (at least the various SD Gundam shows are missing, which benefits clarity) up until *Gundam AGE* and *Gundam Unicorn*, listing pros & cons for each show.
**Spoiler warning:** I found spoilers in *V* (con) and *00 S2* (con), there may be more.
Link: [Gundam Series guide from /m/](http://i4.minus.com/ibqmrR7wH0gcDp.jpg)
Upvotes: 5 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: As [username_1](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/2590/livewirebt) and this [link](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/8717/60220) suggest, UC was the longest Gundam timeline. And worth to be checked. I personally have watched and recommend Gundam Seed, Gundam 00, and Gundam Unicorn. As they shared a lot similarities about earthlings and spacenoids conflict.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_3: I would definately recommend 00 (sans movie- that may be canon but it was originally supposed to be a seed movie till the lead writer had cancer so they shifted to 00 as that was the anime at the time), seed (destiny if you want to but wouldnt really recommend) and iron-blooded orphans (tekketsu-no orphans - season 2 out in october and s1 just finished).
if your after just fights: try build fighters or build fighters try
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2014/02/17 | 1,782 | 6,049 | <issue_start>username_0: As far as I watched, Bishamon and Kofuku are portrayals of the Seven Lucky Gods (七福神 *shichi fukujin*). But it wasn't clear about Yato. Bishamon mentioned him as a God of Calamity, but there is no such god among the Seven Lucky Gods. So, which god might Yato be a portrayal of? Is he a new character altogether?<issue_comment>username_1: Yato, the god of calamity, is a minor deity apart from the Seven Lucky Gods.
I am inclined to say that he doesn't accurately match up to any actual gods existing in Japanese folklore for a few reasons.
Before all else, we know Yato as a god that does not even have his own grand shrine, indicating that he is relatively unknown. Yato's goal in this series it to become a popular god.
Next, we know that this series does not exactly follow the Japanese folklore. While Bishamon is pretty accurate, Kofuku Ebisu does not represent the god of luck. Instead, she is nearly the opposite.
Lastly, the title of this series leads me to believe that Yato is a fictional god. Nora is a stray shinki, which strongly suggests that the title Noragami means Stray God (with gami meaning god).
Because of the combination of fictional elements and indications that Yato is an unimportant god, he is most likely fictional or even partly fictional like in Ebisu's case.
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_2: Kofuku is not the goddess of luck, and as explained in the series, she is the goddess of misfortune. She is not a part of Seven Gods of Fortune. The Seven gods are Hotei, Jurōjin, Fukurokuju, Bishamonten, Benzaiten (Benten-sama), Daikokuten (Daikoku) and Ebisu. Her surname, Ebisu is shared with the god of fortune as he will appear later in the series or you can just read the manga (which are raws) to find out more.
As for Yato, well, I think it's obvious that he is a fictional character based on the images of the gods of war in Japanese mythology.
Upvotes: 4 <issue_comment>username_3: I agree with the general assumption that Yato is not meant to directly represent any god in particular, but be an inspiration from some minor deity of war, or perhaps even many. It goes with his character's back story, or at least what we have seen of his back story up to this point in the anime. He is referenced as the "god of calamity" and is shown fighting and slaying his opponents in the flash backs.
As a side note, researching the term Yato or Yato-kami does not appear to return anything very compelling, or related to any major deity. This further supports the idea that he is an inspired god, perhaps from a singular or several obscure tales.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_4: From [Yato-no-kami](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yato-no-kami) on Wikipedia:
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This might explain why Yato does not have a shrine. Since Yato-no-kami exterminate people, this might also explain why he is considered a god of calamity. It would also explain his snake eyes.
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_5: It might be this ([Yato-no-kami](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yato-no-kami) on Wikipedia):
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The fact that Yato doesn't have any shrine and in the article above it says that Yato-no-kami is enshrined. And on the past of Yato in Noragami he is a God that kills people and killed a regalia, in the article above it says that the Yato-no-Kami exterminate people. Also the Yato-no-kami are also known as the gods of the night sword and the last regalia that Yato handled in Noragami is Yuki which is a sword. And in the article it says that Yato-no-Kami is a snake deity, if you look closely at Yato's eyes it looks like a snake's eyes because his pupils are thin that is the same with the snakes.
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_6: Regarding Yato as the Yato-no-kami would be a mistake. Spoiler alert:
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Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_7: Yato is an amalgam of many folktales that formed around the Heian period in Japan. I cannot say for sure that he is based on one deity, and as others have stated before he is not a part of The Seven Gods of Fortune, like Bishamonten and other characters that appear later on in the manga (I suggest reading it if you haven't already) and as he does not have his own shrine he is an unknown entity.
We can conclude that he isn't in fact based on one single god. However, I find the "Yato-no-kami theory" interesting and will investigate more about it. There are similarities, but there is something that gets in the way of that. Spoiler alert:
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2014/02/18 | 1,079 | 3,746 | <issue_start>username_0: If I remember correctly, in Attack on Titan, it's mentioned or implied a number of times that humans built the walls to protect themselves from the titans. (Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on this.) If so then, how did they manage to get the walls erected (which seem to be the result of somewhat extensive work) without getting killed, if they were already under attack by that point?
(Note: I'm only about halfway through the anime series, so I might just be missing something that appears later.)<issue_comment>username_1: If I remember correctly,
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Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_2: The walls weren't exactly built by humans.
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Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_3: Just adding on the rest of the answers here, but
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Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_4: The walls are built by a special breed of titans that the colossal titan is and this is discovered when a piece of the wall is broken off
It is also stated [here](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Wall_Cult) that a group of religious fanatics and the king know about the wall being made of titans.
Though the reason for the wall titans to protect humans is not stated it is possible that titan shifters made up the wall it is also possible that not all titans are against humanity considering the size of these titans they could have preyed on other titans thus providing a motive they wished to prey on titans and humans attract titans the humans might have trapped them and then the titans went into hibernation
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_5: <NAME>' ancestors, the first king, used his powers to create the walls (and Titans?) And wiped all memory of the word before the walls from the mind of humanity.
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2014/02/18 | 1,078 | 3,552 | <issue_start>username_0: Does Namikaze mean a clan or is it just his second name?
I think the only way [Naruto](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_Uzumaki) could defeat [Madara Uchiha](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Madara_Uchiha) is to be in a blood-line relation with the [Sage of the Six Paths](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Hagoromo_%C5%8Ctsutsuki), and thereby achieving a [Rinnegan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Rinnegan) of his own.
Since [Kushina](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kushina_Uzumaki), Mother of Naruto is from [Uzumaki clan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Uzumaki_clan); which is a blood-relative of the [Senju clan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Senju_clan), it will make sense if [Minato](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Minato_Namikaze) is from any distant clan related to [Uchiha clan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Senju_clan).
Is there any clue revealing who might be the parents of Minato?<issue_comment>username_1: No, there are no clues, at least not yet (in the anime).
But your second part of question/theory is obviously incorrect, since it's not enough to be related to an Uchiha, because it's not the DNA you need (directly, as is the case with the Senju part), but rather it's the eye itself. Since Naruto doesn't have a Sharingan, even if he's related to the Senju (distantly), he wouldn't be able to awaken the Rinnegan - not even if, by some miracle, Minato were to be related to the Uchihas (it seems pretty impossible to me). So, if Naruto were to not get a Sharingan, e.g. from Sasuke, in my opinion, he will never be able to awaken the Rinnegan.
As with the fight, I've no idea about the manga; the only thing I know is that he will team up with Sasuke (from older posts, which made me crazy...), but off-topic, I think there is more in Naruto, even without a Rinnegan, which could equal AND overpower Madara.
Related to your question, we don't know anything about Minato's parents. "Namikaze" could represent his association with a clan (as in most of the cases), or it could simply be his second name.
Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Woah woah woah woah woah.... Naruto will never achieve Rinnegan.... [**Rinnegan**](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/3187/rinneg4n) has given a proper explanation for it.
To put your answer short:
1. No information about Minato's parents has been revealed. It isn't important, anyway.
2. "Namikaze" *could be a clan* [don't know if it falls in Senju clan]. But it is definitely not associated with Uchiha since all members of the Uchiha clan had the "Uchiha" name. (most common observation has been taken into consideration here.)
3. The Uzumaki clan were the only ones who were associated with Minato for a while. First, it was his wife, Kushina, who belonged to the Uzumaki clan. Secondly, he learned many sealing techniques from the Uzumaki clan.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_3: I agree with the existing answers. I do have a theory that the 4 Hokages' father, <NAME>'s father is the Second Hokage.
I also thought the same thing about what actually happened. He had an off relationship with a woman with the last name of Namikaze. Now, one of these three possibilities could happen and I know it's kind of unusual:
* He died before he can be told about the baby, so she put the child up for adoption, or
* She put a child up for adoption before he died, possibly to keep it send me from getting to it, or
* She died in childbirth.
It would be interesting if we could get the creator of one of those opinions on this.
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2014/02/19 | 439 | 1,482 | <issue_start>username_0: Well... I just saw the notebook in my fellow schoolmate and he just brought it to school yesterday. And I'm really curious *where he got that* and *how much did it cost*.<issue_comment>username_1: Check out these links:
<http://www.399animeshop.com/anime/death-note/death-note-book-replica-size.php>
<http://www.ebay.com/bhp/death-note-notebook>
There are different types tho, one type with only the cover looking like the death note, the content is like a normal notebook. The other type is exact replica, figure out which one you want.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: Another way to get one might be going to a convention (gaming or anime). I don't know where you're from but I got my Death Note replica at the GamesCom (Germany). As Death Note is a really popular anime, you'll find a lot of it on conventions, not only the notebook itself.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_3: Additional to the other answers, they are also available at [Aliexpress](http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=SB_20150610144043&SearchText=death+note+notebook) or [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2/189-8457276-2810964?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=death+note+notebook). They even throw in a feather pen for you to make it even more real.
So my guess would be, that you would be best off going to your favourite online webshop and search for *death note notebook* and you will find what you were looking for.
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2014/02/19 | 612 | 2,232 | <issue_start>username_0: In Naruto we can see people make hand seals to do technique's. The further down the story we come the more neglected this becomes aka Naruto's rasengan does not need any hand seals to begin with. Minato also displayed the ability to form hand seals using a single hand.
So my question, how important are those hand seals anyway? How do they affect the juutsu they cast. And can evrybody do it with 1/0 hands if they train enough ?<issue_comment>username_1: You are right, as we know:
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Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Actually, hand seals are used to help the caster manipulate and control their chakra levels to execute the jutsu. Hand seals indicate how a shinobi can manipulate their chakra properly. However, a highly-skilled shinobi can perform a wide range of jutsu with one hand, or for some - no seals at all. The reason why is because some shinobi can manipulate chakra without concentrating it using hand seals at all. This can be particularly seen in Sasuke after he loses his arm during the Fourth Shinobi World War.
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2014/02/19 | 1,415 | 5,393 | <issue_start>username_0: I know the details of those eyes, I know their combination gives birth to the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. When Madara was almost blind Izuna gave him his eyes, the same thing happened with Itachi and Sasuke.
In these two cases we've seen the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and here comes my question:
1. In the first case, Madara was "blind" and Izuna had the good eyes, the combination was the Eternal. In the second case, Itachi was "blind" and Sasuke had the full eyes, giving birth to the Eternal. So it's indifferent which eye it's transplanted in the host body? (It doesn't matter that the good eye gets a disadvantaged blind eye?)
2. As for the main question, how it is realized the "fusion" of 2 different eyes in one eye hole? I don't want to dig myself into the nerve/artery things. I'm interested more likely in the fact that how you mix 2 eyes into one and how the full eye and the blind eye, it's yet so much stronger??<issue_comment>username_1: Over time, use of the Mangekyō Sharingan's techniques deteriorates the user's eyesight to the point of blindness. Only by taking and transplanting the eyes of another Uchiha clan member can the vision be restored, a process that results in the creation of an Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.
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The time from fusing the donor's Mangekyō with the receiver's Mangekyō to the point of full recovery is at least several days **in the case of Sasuke**.
Not only does this process permanently restore one's eyesight, but it also gives the person even greater power. The Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan also changes form from the original, with what appears to be a fusion of the current owner's Mangekyō with the previous owner's.
Source:-[**Source**](http://narutofanon.wikia.com/wiki/Eternal_Mangeky%C5%8D_Sharingan)
**EDIT**
For better understanding let me give you an instance. MS happens when a person kills someone very close to him/her. So the 'tamui' of the Sharingan changes on its own[**how tamui changes it's pattern is still not explained**].
Coming to EMS, a person can achieve it once he **discards his own eyes** and uses his sibling's ones. That is the mechanism of achieving EMS. Therefore if the person is closely related to the one who he would take the eye from, then there is a greater percentage of activating EMS.
Hope I have answered your question now
**IInd EDIT**
Thanks [Krazer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/63/krazer) for the updating the title of the question.From the title,I can come to a conclusion that no evidence as of now being cited related related to working of sharingan once it is transplanted.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: After quite some searching I came to the sad conclusion there is barely any information available on how the 2 eyes get fused. Then again we can make some educated guesses thanks to some of the shown footage in the anime.
In episode 136 Itachi shows Sasuke how Madara got his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan (EMS). Showing the following picture
With this image we can deduce that the old eyes are not removed from the body, meaning there are 2 pairs of eyes in the body from that moment on. The most plausible reason to pass would be that the 2 eyes fuse in a similar way as to an artificial limb getting attached to a body. This would also explain the reason for blood ties as your body might reject people who are not directly blood linked.
This would also answer your first point, as the eyes fuse it does not matter whether the begin point was the blind eye or the still functioning eye as they will become one after all
How do the eyes exactly fuse? and how do they put 2 pairs of eyes in a body to begin with? Guess this is a sort of anime magic which is not really uncommon in Naruto to begin with (small sample **(careful contains spoilers if not up to date with manga)**
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Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_4: I think the sharingan transplanted to the new user recognise the bloodties and therefore grants the new user some new abilities like the perfect Susanoo
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_5: You are all wrong I'm sorry lol the mangekyo awakens a chakra in the brain after a tragedy or loss of love ect that chakra is transferred to the ocular receptors from the brain which is why the eyes change shape and color so therefore when you transfer eyes the new eyes have the old host power engraved in the and you sharingan is written in your brain so it fuses with new eyes it was all staed in old Naruto episodes not sure exactly one
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2014/02/20 | 648 | 2,325 | <issue_start>username_0: In episode 350, we see that the Third Hokage took on to take care of Naruto. But towards the beginning of the anime Naruto is seen to be living alone.
Did Naruto live with the Third? If so, why did he leave there?<issue_comment>username_1: There is no canonical answer for this.
Naruto lived alone as a child.
As for who took care of him while he was a baby, no one knows.
The people that took care of him in his childhood were people like the Sandaime, Iruka, and the ramen guy. However, they did not fulfill the roles of parents. The closest person Naruto had as a parent was Jiraiya.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: Third Hokage promised Kushina, when she was dying, that he would take care of Naruto, and he did.
Whole villagers knew that a monster fox was inside Naruto. This news also spread to the other villages. If it weren't for the astute care of the Third Hokage, other villages would have kidnapped Naruto and would have absconded him out of Konoha.
The Third may not have sheltered him at home, but he did keep an eye for Naruto. That is what taking care means.
Besides, Iruka and others were there too. However, the main role was still played by the Third.
Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_3: He probably had a caretaker to take care of him. But she probably got irritated at his energy and left when the series started. Thus the we see Naruto has no caretakers. The third and Iruka did watch him and gave him money as we see in episode 350, the third says to Naruto:"here is this months fee."
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_4: We've seen that the concept of orphanages and adoption exists in the Ninja world. Case in point **Kabuto** who we know grew up in Konoha's Orphanage.
For further reading, <http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Konoha_Orphanage>
So in my opinion, though not supported by any canon information, it is reasonable to assume baby Naruto would've been taken cared of in the orphanage. Unknown to him, he was guarded by Anbu from direct orders of third Hokage who kept a personal eye on him.
We know for sure that once he was big enough he started living alone. Since I am speculating I'll go further and say this can also be because the adults in Konoha hated Naruto and no one was ready to adopt him as their own.
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2014/02/20 | 2,163 | 8,272 | <issue_start>username_0: After quite some research, I've found this picture, and I've added/completed the combinations. As you can see, I've found all of the combinations (even if some of you wouldn't agree with me), but I have absolutely no idea what should be put as the combination of Wind and Earth...
I forgot to mention that there is one style, the Crystal Release, whose origins are unclear to me. It may be the response to the question, but I've got no proof or source to claim it.
<issue_comment>username_1: The effect you are asking for is not yet known, just like how some of the others in the chart are not confirmed or not complete (such as Blaze, Storm and Explosion).
The chart is set-up with the current knowledge we have of the techniques and filling in the blanks by deducing what could be in the slot. Most of them might actually prove to be accurate, but until this is confirmed in either the anime or manga we won't know for sure.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: There is no known technique that can be derived from the combination of Earth and Wind release but what I have is a theory:
The combination of Wind and Earth **can be** the following:
* **Swift Release** - an advanced nature Kekkei Genkai that can be used to
move at virtually instantaneous speed, granting the user an advantage
over opponents with more strength than speed, such as users of Chakra
Enhanced Strength. This nature therefore renders the user
invulnerable against most taijutsu.
* **Steel Release** - an advanced nature
Kekkei Genkai that can be used to make one's body virtually
indestructible by turning it into black steel.
I don't include Magnet release because I have a very minimal evidence that the user of this style (Toroi and the two Kazekage) has Earth and Wind release. On the other hand, since [Hiruko](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Hiruko_(missing-nin)) is the only ninja I know that has a Earth and Wind type elements release, he can combine the two elements to form a new release like the two I mentioned. I also presume that the technique/release is also a Kekkei Genkai.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_3: I just read your question and saw your graph. Got to say, nice work.
Though, I would make some changes:
* Blaze Release: Should be an advance version of Fire release, not a combination of Fire and Lightning release.
* Magnet Release: This is my own opinion, but I think this is more of an Earth and Lightning release.
As for your actual question, I would fill in the blank in the diagram with Sand Release. Let me explain my choice:
I know that Shukaku has the Magnet release, but the Mizukage proved that even a regular shinobi can have more than one Kekkei Genkai, so why not a Tailed Beast? Also there's the fact that the Third and Fourth Kazekage used their Magnet release to mimic Shukaku's sand. Although sand does have *some* magnetic minerals inside of it, these minerals will just slide past the rest when they come in contact of an actual magnet. So, in conclusion, my theory is that the Kazekage couldn't manipulate sand because it's not a magnet type element.
One may argue that the reason why the Kazekage didn't manipulate regular sand is because iron sand and gold dust is heavier. However, I would say that regular sand is more versatile and plentiful. There are oceans of sand, and they are not completely made out of metal. Sand is a mixture of all types of minerals that have been broken down to the size of a grain. In fact, Gaara himself once said that he uses his sand to dig underground, find the hardest minerals, crush them, and then mix them into the sand to make it stronger. Sand release makes more sense for Wind and Earth combination, since it's a product of weathering and erosion. So instead of being a magnetic type element, it's a deposition type element.
This doesn't mean that Gaara is weak compared to his predecessors. Since it's lighter, it's also quicker and more likely to be easier to control. Also, it's easier to produce, you can turn just about any kind of rock into sand. On the other hand, you can't turn sand or just any kind of rock into iron or gold without going through a molecular process. While his father used the gold dust to way Gaara down, Gaara could simply use his sand to gather the dust, take the infected sand, and bury it before making more sand from his environment. Of course, this all depends on who's better with their ninjutsu.
Therefore, I firmly believe that Earth + Wind = Sand.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_4: This is just a pure speculation, but, if you have a chunk of Earth, and you separate it into very small pieces and let it fly using Wind release, wouldn't that end up as Sand? Or at least sand-like. So I think the combination of Earth and Wind is Sand Release.
This fits as Yamato explained before, that since he can use Wood Release, he can also use Water and Earth release. Shukaku can use Wind Release too and sand is pretty much Earth, so for Sand Release he uses both Wind and Earth release.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_5: Magnet Release is a combination of Earth and Wind. Gaara's father has Wind, Water and Earth natures. Wind and Water creates Ice. Water and Earth creates Wood. Therefore, the only possible combination left for Magnet Release is Wind and Earth.
Blaze Release is not a combination of Fire and Lightning. It's just Fire. Sasuke creates the black flames of Amaterasu with his left eye and controls them with his right eye, so it does not come from a combination of natures, but just a Mangekyo ability.
Swift Release is combination of Wind and Lightning, since both elements can be used to increase one's speed.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_6: wouldnt it be crystal style? Since that's the only one not shown and sasuke doesn't use fire or lightning for his blaze style he uses his left to shoot the flames and the right to control them
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_7: **Wind Release** and **Earth Release** make **Magnet Release**. Take a look at the [*combined nature transformation relationships*](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Nature_Transformation#Combined_Nature_Transformations) image taken from wikia. The image is kinda small and blurry, don't mind if I modify your image to match wikia's image.
Well, the question has been answered, but I bet you still arguing about what's the replacement of **Blaze Release** and the old **Magnet Release**.
**[Blaze Release](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Blaze_release#Blaze_Release)** is a **Kekkei Genkai**, but it doesn't work with mixing one type of elemental chakra with another, like mixing **Fire Relase** and **Lightning Release**. In fact, it's a highest level **Fire Release** Ninjutsu, only acquired through wielding the *Mangekyō Sharingan*.
**[Fire Release + Lightning Release](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kirin)** wasn't an official combination of *Ninjutsu* of forming a *Kekkei Genkai*, but it can be used in conjunction with **Lightning Release** to alter weather conditions to create an extremely powerful **Lightning Release**, the ***Kirin***.
**[Wind Release + Lightning Release](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Wind_and_Lightning_Release:_Typhoon_Lightning_Spiral)** wasn't an official combination of *Ninjutsu* of forming a *Kekkei Genkai*, but it doesn't mean that the combination hasn't been used in *Naruto Shippuden Franchise*. In the game *Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution*, Naruto forms a wind-natured *Rasengan* and Sasuke adds his *Chidori* to the sphere, forming ***Wind Release Lightning Release: Typhoon Lightning Spiral***, a type of *[Cooperation Ninjustu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Cooperation_Ninjutsu)*, which means a collaboration of two or more *Ninjutsu* to create a new *Ninjutsu* with a greater strength.
**[Crystal Release](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Crystal_Release)** though, **Earth Release** may be a presumed component element. For more information, go click the hyperlink.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_8: Earth plus wind equals weathering swift and dark don’t come from weathing and neither does steel but Crystals can be a result of weathering so wind and earth is crystal
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2014/02/20 | 700 | 2,533 | <issue_start>username_0: I haven't been watching RWBY for long, but is dust like magic in RWBY, because I am not sure. Please give some answers.<issue_comment>username_1: **EDIT**: I have updated the answer to incorporate what was revealed in the segment on dust in Season 2, Episode 4.5
Dust is a natural resource used as an energy source, much like coal or gas but more potent.
It comes in crystal and powdered forms that can vary in colour, potency and effect.
In episode 2, Weiss identifies *Fire*, *Water* and *Lightning* attributed Dust, each having different properties. I think it's safe to assume the last element is *Air/Wind*.
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Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Also, there is a form of magic coming from the Maidens of the Seasons, as described in Volume 3 and the World of Remnant: The Four Maidens. This is the only confirmed magic in RWBY as of yet.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_3: Honestly Nobody knows, there's dust and Semblances, but then there's Magic (with a capital M) which is what the Maiden powers are and supposedly what Raven and Qrow's bird powers are, which makes Magic sound lame
The only rule to what a Semblance can't be is transformations, which is an arbitrary rule that we wasn't told
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2014/02/21 | 1,486 | 4,964 | <issue_start>username_0: Madara compares his Susanoo with the Tailed Beasts. We also know at one point of time, the 3rd Raikage had a chakra level comparable to that of a Tailed Beast. However, the difference in power of Madara's Susanoo and chakra level of the Third Raikage is huge.
So how do we comprehend the power level of Madara's Susanoo?<issue_comment>username_1: Let's take a look at some instances where Madara manifested his Susanoo's power:
1. It can summon 2 meteors simultaneously which resulted to complete chaos.
2. His clones can summon Susanoo with ease.
3. His Complete Body - Susanoo is gigantic.
4. It can take down 5 Kages easily.
[**Tengai Shinsei**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tengai_Shinsei)
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Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_2: Madara's tempestuous god of valor strength is comparable to that of the bijuu as it has very humongous chakra output.
one single swing of madara's susanoo can level or alter the continent.
if his susanoo can level mountains in a single swing of his blade then what would happen if madara put maximum power in his susanoo??
What if his(madara)susanoo had gone fullburst or full on??! Give a thought on that ..well ,"comparable to that of a bijuu "is too much but... OVERWHELMING\*!!
Madara's susanoo is destruction incarnate- indra otsutsuki had passed on his descendants a very powerful ability to those who had achieved mangekyo sharingan and attained the EMS..the susanoo is an abilty based on the user's chakra control as well as one's emotion.. Hence it is a very powerful technique..sasuke's susanoo is also another incarnate of highly catastropic calamity.. Every MS and EMS users who attaind and manifests susanoo is outright powerful..madara's susanoo is as strong as his chakra reserve & also powered by his emotions & battle experience-- that makes his susanoo stronger than sasuke's in terms of battle exp...madara's susanoo power level points> power- 9, def -10 , durability-9 ,chakra usage- medium,destruction capability-extreme\*\*
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_3: I believe madaras susanoo was strong but I also believe that when Sasuke obtained his, it was already past madaras level. Madaras may have leveled mountains but Sasuke took out multiple meteorites the size of mountains with ease, and his could also fly. Not to mention his wasn't only manifested from an EMS but also a Sharinnegan. Which was SO6P powered. Sasukes susanoo wins by a long shot. Madaras as of what we saw of him also couldn't use Amaterasu, which Sasuke is able to do as well as shape. Sasuke also could stream his chakra chidori through his susanoo and match the size of the chidori with his susanoos hand. Which is a massive chidori. Not to mention he created two of the most powerful techniques in naruto, his perfect tailed beast susanoo and Indras arrow, rivaled only by narutos giant tailed beast bomb rasenshuriken. Sasuke as an adult we can only imagine is more developed and stronger. His susanoo is much more refined.
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_4: We didn't really get to see Madara's Perfect Susanoo's true power, as he only Used it when the matter called for it... He never really pushed to use the perfect Susanoo, as seen when he said it'd be a shame to use it twice after being interrupted in the battle against the five kages, so we don't know Madara's full powers as yet, when it was crushed by the nine tailed beasts, he wasn't even in its perfect form so you can't really judge the power because Madara, was never really ushed to use it to that extent.
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2014/02/21 | 711 | 2,576 | <issue_start>username_0: When madara was revived, he lost his pair of rinnegan ,his reservoir of infinite chakra and not be killed ability (being an edo tensei).
So, I know why madara wanted to be revived, but my question is , how does the ability differ in these 2 cases?<issue_comment>username_1: An Edo Tensei cannot be a jinchuuriki, and so, he couldn't complete his plan by becoming the Ten Tails' jinchuuriki. That is the main reason he wanted to be revived.
Also, although very powerful, the power of a "real" Rinnegan is far superior to one of the reanimated "fake" Rinnegan. The "real" Rinnegan can summon and control the Gedo Mazo, use the **[Rinbo: Hengoku](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Rinbo%3a_Hengoku)** technique etc.
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_2: Because he knew that remaining in such an unimportant inefficient state couldn't accomplish anything remotely significant and it was kinda idiotic to still be in such an extremely weakening state for him since Madara had such an immensely glorious goal of the highest calibre to achieve. Also, actually in fact Madara himself is million times more vastly powerful in his fully-living body than in his half-dead paper-maché-like like living corpse state.
The real/living-vital Rinnegan he received is extremely far beyond thousand times more extraordinary powerful/capable than the half-dead Edo Tensei extremely weakened one.
It was like literally comparing the important significance of rarest diamonds to paper mache which is in shape of a common diamond and has some real microscopic pieces of common and rare diamonds inside. There is a lot of astronomical universal-sized difference here, both between real Rinnegan and Edo-Tensei Rinnegan and between Fully-Vitally-Revived Madara and the Half-Dead Walking Corpse Madara respectively.
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_3: As [mentioned by <NAME>ha](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/7639),
as an Edo Tensei he could not be a jinchuuriki of the Ten Tails wich was needed to activate the Infinite Tsukoyomi.
Second is that he wasn't near his full power and his Rinnegan had some abilities but not as much and powerful as the Rinnegan while alive.
While being an Edo Tensei, he released himself from any kind of control the emotions, adrenaline etc., became sustained like you don't give a crap about anything. Being an Edo Tensei you just cannot fight with full dedication and fighting spirit. It's like holding back is part of your nature.
Also the risk of being sealed while in his Edo Tensei state would always be a risk.
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2014/02/21 | 1,781 | 6,469 | <issue_start>username_0: On Fighting Festival arc (Laxus arc) in chapter 108, Natsu and Gajeel can't get out from the guild because of Freed's runes.
But the rule says that statues or people above 80 are not allowed to get out from the guild. So why can't Natsu and Gajeel get out?<issue_comment>username_1: Until now, it was never explained properly in FT.
Future chapter might give a proof of the reason, or it stays a plothole.
There are some theories, like "Dragons are extinct nowadays, Natsu was raised by Igneel hundreds of years ago and made a time travel (similar for Gajeel)" or "Dragon slayers are real dragon children (with longer lifespan than humans) with some kind of transformation magic applied" (this conflicts with Zirconis´ story, but it´s still possible he didn´t know or lied. Mashima likes trolling anyways)
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: I believe the rules were not all stated. This is somewhat a trick from Laxus. Laxus told Freed to prohibit Dragon Slayers from entering the fight and to trick them he told freed not to put the prohibition of the Dragon Slayers on the rule list.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_3: There have been many theories on this subject, in fact. Here are some that I believe are logical and ones that might help:
1. Natsu and Gajeel's Dragon Slayer Magic is very ancient, obviously over 80 years old. Maybe their magic's age prohibited them? (Personally, I feel that something's missing here.
2. Natsu and Gajeel (and Wendy as well) were raised by their dragons a long time ago- maybe over 80 years ago. Through the Eclipse Gate, they were transported to the future- July 7, year x777 by <NAME> (Lucy's mother), making it seem like their dragons disappeared as opposed to them leaving their dragons. (Of course, there are a lot of pieces missing in this explanation, but it seems logical if you think about it.)
3. Laxus knew that Natsu and Gajeel were incredibly powerful, or maybe he knew that the Dragon Slayer magic is very powerful. There's a chance that he didn't want them participating due to this and told Freed to incorporate this into the rules without telling anyone about it. (Maybe?)
Anyhow, I hope this helped, and I hope that Mashima reveals this in the future!!
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_4: I have a theory that you know how zeref is over 400 years old but if you look at the episode where natsu sees zeref zeref cries tears of joy saying saying you`ve grown natsu and we meet again so I think that zeref might actually be related to natsu and since zeref is 400+ maybe natsu is 100 and over since ive heard that zeref had and army of dragons maybe igneel and the other dragons slowed down time to where natsu and gajeel may look 17 to 18 but is probaly older than that but this is just a theory who knows im probaly right
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_5: I would like to add on to username_3's Answer:
In the most recent chapter of Fairy Tail, Chapter 400:
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Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_7: Based on Fairy Tail chapter 436, it was somewhat explained why Natsu can't past the barrier.
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Reason for why Gajeel can't too has not been explained as the current chapter.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_8: For Natsu, on one episode Igneel did tell Natsu that he was always in Natsu's body and that tell us that well Igneel is definitely older than 80 years old and if he is in Natsu's body, Natsu's age would definitely be Igneel's age and same thing with Gajeel
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_9: The reason is that the dragons are sealed inside of hem. Their dragons are over 80 years old. The enchantment is not allowing the dragons to go through, not Natsu and gajeel. But since they are combined, that’s why they can’t go through either.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_10: natsu like all of the other dragon slayers, aside from laxus and cobra were born over 400 years before hand, but this isn't the reason natsu and gajeel were not able to leave. its because they had dragons in them who were atleast 80. dragons are immortal. so they don't age like humans. but natsu, gajeel and the others are not chronologically 400 years old. as chronological refers to a measurement of ones existence inside a flow of time. since they time traveled they are not 400 years old. the gate opened on one side and they entered it. while in the gate they were outside of time for 400 years. layla opened the gate in 777 which allowed them to leave. notice how zeref wasn't able to travel backwards in time using the ellipse gate, its likely because its not traditional time travel. its more like they left the flow of time and sat outside of time and space for those 400 years and when layla opened it they they could enter the modern world. so its akin to a stasis field where they are literally outside of time. zeref needed not only fairy heart but the time rift to travel backwards in time. this also creates a plot hole with future lucy and rogue going backwards in time. but that could easily be explained a way by the fact that future rogue and lucy came from alternate timeliens where the gate worked differently
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2014/02/21 | 1,081 | 3,903 | <issue_start>username_0: Fairy Tail has three legendary magic: Fairy Law, Fairy Glitter, and Fairy Sphere.
Can anyone outside of Fairy Tail learn and use these magic?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes and no, some of the Fairy spells are distinctive to the guild, and the skills that can be used by outsiders are not easily learned/taught. This makes the likelihood of Fairy spells being used outside of Fairy Tail very unlikely.
As for leaving members who know one or more of the 3 great spells, there is [a rule](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Fairy_Tail_%28Guild%29#Leaving_Fairy_Tail) which states:
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**Fairy Sphere, cannot be used by outsiders**
Fairy Sphere uses the Fairy Tail member mark (pair of wings mark) and the emotion of those who wield it to obtain magical power. Therefore, this spell can not be used by outsiders.
**Fairy Glitter, cannot be used by outsiders**
As it is a distinct spell of Fairy Tail, and the fact that it is sealed in the grave of Mavis and needs the approval of Mavis herself to use, it makes it highly unlikely that anybody outside of the guild members can/will ever be allowed to use this.
**Fairy Law, most likely can be used by outsiders**
It is also a distinct spell of Fairy Tail, but most likely, it can be used by outsiders.
We know for a fact that there has been at least one instance where an *outsider* knew how to use Fairy Law, since Laxus also knew how to use this skill. Another case is Precht, the second guild master of Fairy Tail, now known as [Hades](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Hades), who left the guild but could still use Fairy Law.
The likelihood of learning this skill outside of Fairy Tail is close to 0, making it not likely to ever happen.
Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: I don't know about the other two, but Fairy Law is actually based on the spell "Law" which Mavis used in *Fairy Tail Zero* (the story about how Fairy Tail was founded).
This is shown for the first time in chapter 10. Mavis learned "Law" from Zeref, so if we say that "Law" and "Fairy Law" are the same, people who are not in Fairy Tail can also learn this Spell (Zeref for example). If "Fairy Law" is a development of "Law" created by Mavis, probably only members of her guild can use this spell because no member of Fairy Tail would tell this secret to an outsider. "Law" on the other hand can be learned by people who are not in Fairy Tail too. The problem here is, that it takes ten years to master this spell (according to Zeref at least).
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_3: Any magic can be used by anyone, Fairy Sphere included. Mavis only required the guild members' emotions because she was a spirit and had no magical energy. All Three Grand Fairy Magics are simply uber-powerful light-based magic.
Not one part of the manga or anime does it say any form of magic is exclusive. The Three Grand Fairy Spells are simply based around light magic. Mavis learnt Law from Zeref in *Fairy Tail Zero*, used it too early and was cursed. She then altered and adjusted it (it was previously black magic) and created Fairy Law.
Zeref taught Mavis Law, so there's also a possibility that he is able to use any of the three spells. Mavis's main magic is light-based, including her illusion magic. Mavis said that she used the bonds and emotions of the guild and converted it into magic to cast fairy spells.
After that, it is clearly a light spell. Hence the reason when the spell was released, a butt tonne of light erupted from the water. With Fairy Glitter collects and concentrates the light of the sun, the moon, and the stars.
Fairy Law converts the user's magic into light that envelops everything. Hades had his own version that uses darkness as a countermeasure for Fairy Law since it's light.
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2014/02/21 | 1,097 | 3,996 | <issue_start>username_0: After the time skip following the Tenrou Island arc, a lot of Fairy Tail members quit.
So, my question is: how many members did Fairy Tail have before the time skip, and how many do they have after the time skip? How many of them quit?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes and no, some of the Fairy spells are distinctive to the guild, and the skills that can be used by outsiders are not easily learned/taught. This makes the likelihood of Fairy spells being used outside of Fairy Tail very unlikely.
As for leaving members who know one or more of the 3 great spells, there is [a rule](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Fairy_Tail_%28Guild%29#Leaving_Fairy_Tail) which states:
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**Fairy Sphere, cannot be used by outsiders**
Fairy Sphere uses the Fairy Tail member mark (pair of wings mark) and the emotion of those who wield it to obtain magical power. Therefore, this spell can not be used by outsiders.
**Fairy Glitter, cannot be used by outsiders**
As it is a distinct spell of Fairy Tail, and the fact that it is sealed in the grave of Mavis and needs the approval of Mavis herself to use, it makes it highly unlikely that anybody outside of the guild members can/will ever be allowed to use this.
**Fairy Law, most likely can be used by outsiders**
It is also a distinct spell of Fairy Tail, but most likely, it can be used by outsiders.
We know for a fact that there has been at least one instance where an *outsider* knew how to use Fairy Law, since Laxus also knew how to use this skill. Another case is Precht, the second guild master of Fairy Tail, now known as [Hades](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Hades), who left the guild but could still use Fairy Law.
The likelihood of learning this skill outside of Fairy Tail is close to 0, making it not likely to ever happen.
Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: I don't know about the other two, but Fairy Law is actually based on the spell "Law" which Mavis used in *Fairy Tail Zero* (the story about how Fairy Tail was founded).
This is shown for the first time in chapter 10. Mavis learned "Law" from Zeref, so if we say that "Law" and "Fairy Law" are the same, people who are not in Fairy Tail can also learn this Spell (Zeref for example). If "Fairy Law" is a development of "Law" created by Mavis, probably only members of her guild can use this spell because no member of Fairy Tail would tell this secret to an outsider. "Law" on the other hand can be learned by people who are not in Fairy Tail too. The problem here is, that it takes ten years to master this spell (according to Zeref at least).
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_3: Any magic can be used by anyone, Fairy Sphere included. Mavis only required the guild members' emotions because she was a spirit and had no magical energy. All Three Grand Fairy Magics are simply uber-powerful light-based magic.
Not one part of the manga or anime does it say any form of magic is exclusive. The Three Grand Fairy Spells are simply based around light magic. Mavis learnt Law from Zeref in *Fairy Tail Zero*, used it too early and was cursed. She then altered and adjusted it (it was previously black magic) and created Fairy Law.
Zeref taught Mavis Law, so there's also a possibility that he is able to use any of the three spells. Mavis's main magic is light-based, including her illusion magic. Mavis said that she used the bonds and emotions of the guild and converted it into magic to cast fairy spells.
After that, it is clearly a light spell. Hence the reason when the spell was released, a butt tonne of light erupted from the water. With Fairy Glitter collects and concentrates the light of the sun, the moon, and the stars.
Fairy Law converts the user's magic into light that envelops everything. Hades had his own version that uses darkness as a countermeasure for Fairy Law since it's light.
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2014/02/22 | 682 | 2,431 | <issue_start>username_0: After going through this [**link**](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/76/what-are-madara-uchihas-weaknesses), I came to a belief that sound genjutsu is far more superior to eye genjutsu.
After recalling the incident of the two Sage Toads' genjutsu and Kabuto's genjutsu, I felt that it was difficult for the Sharingan/Rinnegan users to concentrate on their battle.
So is my speculation true?
Some of the sound genjutsu techniques are listed here:
1. [**Demonic Illusion: Toad Confrontation Chant**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Demonic_Illusion:_Toad_Confrontation_Chant)
2. [**Temple of Nirvana Technique**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Temple_of_Nirvana_Technique)
3. [**Demonic Flute:Phantom Sound Chains**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Demonic_Flute:_Phantom_Sound_Chains)<issue_comment>username_1: It's not that sound genjutsu is superior. Sound genjutsu operates on a different sense, so that renders doujutsu (eye techniques) useless to escape from it, unlike with illusions that work on vision.
That makes sound based genjutsu more effective on Sharingan users, because they rely on their improved vision powers to counter most genjutsu.
Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Going off of Madara's answer, sound and smell, maybe taste genjutsu would be most effective, since it doesn't affect the eyes but rather other senses, of which no doujutsu provides advantage to. If Madara were to be blinded, he would still be able to use doujutsu, but his other senses would diminish. This is a time when Orochimaru would come with something useful as he is the Sound Village's leader.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_3: The sound base genjutsu can be more effective than eye contact base genjutsu cause we have seen might guy fighting itachi without looking into his eyes and no eye contact means no genjutsu but if sound base genjutsu is being used even a skilled opponents can not block or doge the sound waves completely plus its a sound base genjutsu so it depends on the air so it covers most of the effective areas.
Sound base genjutsu are really powerful but some of them cannot be performed simultaneously so this is disadvantage you have 1 shot if you miss that's all.
So in all manners and looking at the all points we can say that there are advantages and disadvantages of eye contact base genjutsu and sound base genjutsu.
That's what I think.
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2014/02/22 | 858 | 2,816 | <issue_start>username_0: I see a lot of fan arts like this one, a trainer challenging red. He always has a Typhlosion but I have never seen the other of his pokemon in any fan art. It seems like this place is Mt.Silver.
* Who is this trainer?
* What are his pokemon?
* Where is he originated from? Games, anime, manga?
<issue_comment>username_1: That would be the main character in Gold/Silver/Crystal. In Generation II he had no official name (and so was unofficially known as **Gold**), but was given a name in the Generation IV remakes to Gold/Silver, and was given the name **[Ethan](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Ethan_%28game%29)**.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: This character's name is Gold. Like Madara mentioned, he is the main character in Gold/Silver/Crystal. He is most likely from the Pokemon adventures manga (which I read).
The one facing him is most likely Red from the manga as well. I just do not remember him having a Lapras, but I do know that at the Deoxys arc of the manga he used all 3 of the Kanto starters at some point.
In the manga, Gold's team would be Sudowoodo, Ambipom, Sunflora, Politoad, Togetic and Typhlosion (as of Volume 43). He has a Pichu called Pibu, but it's more or less there for cute appeal.
This scene is most likely drawn to depict their training at Mt. Silver, or in the game where Red is like the "final boss" of HG/SS.
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_3: He could also be Jimmy from "Pokemon and The Legend of Thunder!" It was a three part episode/movie in the Pokemon chronicle series. Jimmy did have a Typhlosion, he also was shown to have a beedrill. He came from newbark town in the Johto region and chose a Cyndaquil as his partner.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_4: He is the main character in Generation II Pokemon Gold/Silver and the male character in Pokemon Crystal and their remakes in Generation IV HeartGold & SoulSilver, [Ethan](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Ethan_(game)). It's also known as Gold in Generation II.
He is also the main protagonist in [The Legend of Thunder!](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/The_Legend_of_Thunder!), known as [Jimmy](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Jimmy_(Johto)). Both Jimmy and Ethan is from [New Bark Town](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/New_Bark_Town) in [Johto](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Johto).
The image is more like Ethan from the game, because he fight [Red](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Red_(game)) where the player can fight him at the top of [Mt. Silver](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mt._Silver) after beating Elite Four and Champion and also have all 16 Badges from Johto and [Kanto](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Kanto).
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2014/02/22 | 1,346 | 3,468 | <issue_start>username_0: On first episode of The World God Only Knows Season 2, Elsie types something like a game, but her first try is wrong.
This is a picture of what she type:
What did it says? And how can she mistype that? It looks really different with the right one, which is 'kami nomi zo shiru sekai' (神のみぞ知るセカイ), but I don't know anything about Japanese so I might be wrong and Google translate didn't help much...<issue_comment>username_1: It is the Dragon Quest 2 log in screen (hence the DQ2 password).
The first thing she types in is a resurrection spell from the Dragon Quest series
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Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: [username_1's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/7641/25160) has explained about the origin of the screen: it is *Dragon Quest 2*'s password input screen.
As to why she mistypes, the input was actually part of a real, valid *DQ2* password that's famous for its effect (in short: [new game plus (Japanese YouTube link)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC4Yg85lU0o)):
```
ゆうて いみや おうきむ
こうほ りいゆ うじとり
やまあ きらぺ ぺぺぺぺ
ぺぺぺ ぺぺぺ ぺぺぺぺ
ぺぺぺ ぺぺぺ ぺぺぺぺ ぺぺ
YUUTE IMIYA OUKIMU
KOUHO RIIYU UJITORI
YAMAA KIRAPE PEPEPEPE
PEPEPE PEPEPE PEPEPEPE
PEPEPE PEPEPE PEPEPEPE PEPE
```
It needs proper spacing to understand the background of the password:
```
ゆうて い■みや おう■きむ
こう■ほ りいゆ うじ■とり
やまあ きら ...
YUUTE I|MIYA OU|KIMU
KOU|HO RIIYU UJI|TORI
YAMAA KIRA ...
```
1. ゆうてい/ゆう帝 (*yuu tei*): Pen name for one of *Weekly Shonen Sunday*'s game introduction corner staff.
2. みやおう/ミヤ王 (*miya ou*): (same as above)
3. きむこう/キム皇 (*kimu kou*): (same as above)
4. ほりいゆうじ/堀井雄二 (*horii yuuji*): Yuutei's real name
5. とりやまあきら/鳥山明 (*toriyama akira*): *Dragon Quest*'s character designer
It's also parodied in *Dragon Quest 11* ([Japanese YouTube Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhUw1dXaX8o)) and *Gamers!* (light novel, volume 2, chapter 6).
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Source: [Dragon Quest wikiwiki (Japanese)](http://wikiwiki.jp/dqdic3rd/?%A1%DA%A4%E6%A4%A6%A4%C6%A4%A4%A4%DF%A4%E4%A4%AA%A4%A6%A4%AD%A4%E0%A4%B3%A4%A6%A1%C4%A1%DB)
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2014/02/23 | 803 | 3,166 | <issue_start>username_0: I've seen many series that just get discontinued, even popular ones. I'm talking about manga and light novel adaptations. Even though a lot of the story still remains left, and the first season gets critical acclaim. Some examples are *Kaichō wa Maid-sama!* and *Baka and Test*. Why do so many series stop after season one?<issue_comment>username_1: There are tons of reasons for animes to be discontinued. One of the most common ones would be lack of sales. A anime might become pretty popular, and watched a lot. But if the sales do not match, no second season will be made nonetheless due to money issues.
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The loss of sponsors is not uncommon which can lead to huge budget cuts, which sometimes lead to debt which first has to be covered for.
Keep in mind that studios use the Japanese sales numbers as reference point for sales, which differ quite a lot from European/American sales
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* No free time slot for broadcasting
* Lack of material (but you're talking about ones with story left to tell so count this one out partially)
* Lack of studios that want to take the job (happens more often then you think)
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Most anime series are produced to promote the source material (manga, light novel, etc.). Thus for the producers its more important if the sales of the source material were boosted by the anime adaption. So even if an anime is quite popular - it should be noted that even quite successful anime only sell between 3000 and less then 10000 (more than that is rare is considered a very successful anime) discs per volume - there is often no point in producing another season if the sales of the source material increased sufficiently.
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2014/02/23 | 502 | 2,088 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I started watching the One Piece anime and noticed some differences in the story line than were present in the manga, and I was wondering if there was a huge divergence in the anime over the manga like with Black Butler, or more like slight differences in plot like with Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.<issue_comment>username_1: The anime and manga closely resemble one another.
This is mainly because the mangaka, Eiichiro Oda actually actively participates into the animation process. So whenever they want a filler episode, they will contact Eiichiro Oda for confirmation, and he would either approve or reject it.
I believe the only deviations there were was some part in the beginning of the anime that did not totally follow the manga, and ace's tattoo. Which later on got adapted in the manga as well, so not sure how much that would count as a difference.
Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Well the one piece manga is the skeleton of one piece anime so there are some add ups in anime to make in more realistic and entertaining to the audience by modifying some of the portions of manga and the main difference between them is the approach of conveying the story to the readers and anime watchers .
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_3: The anime has lots of filler in between pages or they drag some parts out. The anime also has entire filler arcs that are not in the manga but they don't affect the overall story of one piece. I have not watched black butler or full metal alchemist so I can't compare them to one piece. I do know that it is still in the same place the manga is but just an arc behind. I know that the anime might leave false impressions in some places, for example when Luffy fought Doflamingo the anime made it look like king Kong gun had a hard time beating Doflamingo but in the manga it crushed him. Not worth to being caught up and watching one episode a week in my opinion but it is worth watching for the fights because animated fights are always better than looking at pictures.
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2014/02/23 | 626 | 2,511 | <issue_start>username_0: There was this one anime that used to air on Animax quite often when I was a kid. It was this story about a girl who was from a rich family (not too sure about that) who goes through some sort of tragedy and is then forced to work as a maid at an all-girls boarding school with a really strict and unreasonable warden. The girl was fair, she had long, black hair and she almost always used to wear this greenish dress. It was set in Europe somewhere (possibly old England). Drawing style was almost "cartoonish" (very little shading and all). If it helps, some of the anime's that used to air around the same time as this were Astro Boy, InuYasha, ExRider, Saber Marionette, Detective School Q, etc. Any help greatly appreciated. ^\_\_^<issue_comment>username_1: The anime and manga closely resemble one another.
This is mainly because the mangaka, Eiichiro Oda actually actively participates into the animation process. So whenever they want a filler episode, they will contact Eiichiro Oda for confirmation, and he would either approve or reject it.
I believe the only deviations there were was some part in the beginning of the anime that did not totally follow the manga, and ace's tattoo. Which later on got adapted in the manga as well, so not sure how much that would count as a difference.
Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Well the one piece manga is the skeleton of one piece anime so there are some add ups in anime to make in more realistic and entertaining to the audience by modifying some of the portions of manga and the main difference between them is the approach of conveying the story to the readers and anime watchers .
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_3: The anime has lots of filler in between pages or they drag some parts out. The anime also has entire filler arcs that are not in the manga but they don't affect the overall story of one piece. I have not watched black butler or full metal alchemist so I can't compare them to one piece. I do know that it is still in the same place the manga is but just an arc behind. I know that the anime might leave false impressions in some places, for example when Luffy fought Doflamingo the anime made it look like king Kong gun had a hard time beating Doflamingo but in the manga it crushed him. Not worth to being caught up and watching one episode a week in my opinion but it is worth watching for the fights because animated fights are always better than looking at pictures.
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2014/02/24 | 901 | 3,351 | <issue_start>username_0: When Lelouch ordered Suzaku to live, Schneitzels Avalon started blasting everything.
But how did everyone get to Kamine island?
How did the other Black Knights get out of that mess and not go to Kamine island?
How come Black Knights couldn't know where the other team has ended up, they were just next to each other?
How did <NAME> end up there?
And there is a scene were C.C is possibly talking to Marianne and there is a mention that she sent them there? Whats going on, seems like I missed something?<issue_comment>username_1: We see later on when Suzaku is remembering what he did when Lelouch ordered him to live what happened, Suzaku closed the cockpit of the Lancelot with Lelouch with him and went to escape, while i can't remember it entirely, he probably picked up Euphie on the way while Kallen chased after him knowing Zero was inside.
Because the Hadron Cannon was unfocused, C.C must have used the confusion to do something to the ruins remotely, possibly using the Thought Elevator, to send them to the island, it might have been area of effect as she probably was only targeting Lelouch but Suzaku, Euphie and Kallen was within the vicinity. C.C probably had planned that Lelouch would learn more of Geass, of Charles and V.V and of the Thought Elevator so that Lelouch would be prepared to grant her wish in the end.
How the Black Knight got out of the Avalon's attack, well as i said the Hadron Cannon was unfocused, it was still a prototype and Lloyd expresses how annoyed he is later on when Rakshata is able to perfect it by focusing the beams, because of the way the Hadron Cannon attacked and what we see it's assumed that the Black Knights retreated.
As for how they couldn't get in contact with Lelouch or Kallen, i'm quite sure what ever C.C did separated Suzaku and Kallen from their Knightmares and obviously they at the time were relying on their comms within the Knightmares so didn't carry radios, this is proven by the fact that the playback of Suzaku disobeying order was recorded in the Lancelot, the Britannian forces probably weren't aware of Suzaku or Euphie being on the island as they where there by chance on a separate mission investigating the ruins which Bartley suspects was the reason why Japan (and a number of other nations) was invaded in the first place.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: If you watch the end of the previous episode, and when Lelouch and Suzaku meet up, you'll note that there is a mysterious boy observing events, shown very briefly. It is this boy, who you are not yet introduced to, who is responsible.
Given what we know of him from later events, he probably sends them there to have the events screw Lelouch and/or Euphemia's plans up without being too obvious, but probably benefited from Lelouch's interaction with the Thought Elevator as well.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_3: I think the implication was that V.V. needed a Geass user to open the Thought Elevator and Lelouch was the closest one. Or he did for laughs, as C.C. assumed in Episode 19.
Although less likely, I personally like that other theory that the "impervious observer" C.C. was talking with is the [Caretaker of Spacetime](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Caretaker_of_Spacetime) that appears in *Code Geass: Akito the Exiled* OVAs.
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2014/02/24 | 533 | 1,705 | <issue_start>username_0: <NAME> is considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world of One Piece, but her sisters are totally different.
Are they blood related sisters?
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* just being different:- even in real life siblings have different traits which grow as they mature.
* different devil fruits:- we know that Boa Hancock ate [Mero Mero No Mi](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Mero_Mero_no_Mi) fruit (Paramecia type), and her sisters ate Hebi Hebi No Mi fruits (Zoan type), [Hebi Hebi No Mi, Model Anaconda](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Hebi_Hebi_no_Mi,_Model%3a_Anaconda) (Boa Sandersonia) and [Hebi Hebi No Mi, Model King Cobra](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Hebi_Hebi_no_Mi,_Model%3a_King_Cobra) (Boa Marigold).
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: They are blood related. Proof found on the [One piece wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Gorgon_Sisters)
I personally think Oda made them different from each other to make it more interesting for the viewers.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_3: The kuja go out and have sex with men, just to get pregnant. Then they come back and have the children. So the sisters probably have the same mom, but different dads.
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2014/02/24 | 808 | 3,106 | <issue_start>username_0: On chapter 515 they mentioned all Kuja Tribe women always give birth to females.
How is this possible? Is there any explanation about this?
<issue_comment>username_1: Unless the one piece author/s clarify the existence and origin of the Kuja tribe, there would be no accurate answer for this question. It happens most of the time in any anime and one piece is not an exception, let's just wait for any episodes where this tribe will be explain even more. For the meantime the succinct explanation of the Kuja tribe are as follows:
The Amazon Lily:
<http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Amazon_Lily>
The Kuja Tribe:
<http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Kuja>
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: No explanation is ever given beyond the word "mysteriously" but it isn't as ridiculous as it sounds.
In the real world, environmental factors such as the temperature and diet of the mother during pregnancy can affect the likelihood of a boy or a girl being born. Of course it rarely gets above 55-45 one way or the other, but in the unique environment of Amazon Lily it is possible that the odds of having a baby girl is completely overwhelming, to the point where no boy has ever been born on the island.
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_3: The most simple answer would of course be "Magic" or anime logic.
However, when we look at the issue from a logical standpoint, we don't need to look at the tribe, but at the foreign countries, since the gender of the newborn is determined by the winning sperm, which either carries a female chromosome (X) or a male chromosome (Y).
Maybe the males in the foreign country only produce female sperm. Sperm production is affected by enviromental factors but this is unlikely, there'd be reports of that foreign country having female births (unless their females travel and get impregnated somewhere else as well). Keep in mind it's entirely possible that those reports could exist but the reader never gets told of any of this.
Most likely is that the tribe actually gets males born, but they are promptly killed (and no record of them is kept), much like [real Amazon tribes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazons) did it.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_4: Actually this might not be true. There may have kids being born as boys but due to some reasons the boys did not lived. In short, the elders are trying to prevent from boys being alive. I believe this is somewhat similar to what happened with Vincent(Hiei from Yu-yu Hakusho) wherein he was an outcast because of the tradition of having only female to live in their village.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_5: Or maybe while they're out in the world, they did give birth to boys but was like 'oop! You're a boy; orphanage for you' and just only took home the girls. Remember, them getting pregnant requires them to leave the island OF WOMEN to go into the world OF MEN. So only people who left would know for sure. Who says they have to tell anybody they had a boy? Or that they were pregnant at all?
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2014/02/24 | 563 | 2,226 | <issue_start>username_0: How can they identify whether a student is an NPC or not? Is that because they act differently than NPCs? But what if the student doesn't remember anything (amnesia) and does everything and accepts everything as normal? In that case, can they tell the difference?<issue_comment>username_1: The only way for them to know that someone is human is if they deviate from how an NPC does stuff and if they don't recognize persons who have recently arrived in the Afterlife.
Basically if you live like an NPC then you must be an NPC. Hinata actually thought Ooyama was an NPC because Ooyama acted so normally that he was like an NPC which is why Hinata gave him a nickname of "<NAME>" in their first meeting (he only calls Ooyama by that name in his thoughts). However, when Hinata had a good conversation with Ooyama, Ooyama said something about dying which showed that he was a human who died.
Yurippe knew Hinata was human because he would always go to the school roof (if memory serves right) which is not something an NPC does.
When all hell breaks lose in the campus and a person dismisses it as something normal, then that person is an NPC because anything weird that they see is supposed to be normal (at least, they think it's normal).
tl;dr
They act differently. Yes. They will still act differently (like by being curious). They can't tell the difference if they can't observe or experiment if the person will act how a non NPC would act.
For more info, read the light novel.
Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: There is one important dissimilarity the other answers didn't cover: the NPCs forget things they were told the next day, as revealed in volume 5 of the *Angel Beats! Heaven's Door* manga.
It should be noted that the NPCs do retain a record of the past activities done by the humans, as Yuri and her SSS comrades were denied participation in the Christmas party because they were labelled as problem students for causing a ruckus at the swimming competition. Also, the NPCs don't forget what they have experienced, like the principal was aware that he had been held as a hostage many times in the past.
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2014/02/24 | 442 | 1,411 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that the Pokemon anime has over 800 episodes, and One Piece has 600+ episodes, but I've heard that they are not in the top 10 of anime with the most number of episodes.
So what anime is longest?<issue_comment>username_1: [Sazae-san](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sazae-san) (still ongoing) holds the [Guinness World Record](http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/1000/longest-running-animated-tv-series) for the longest running animated television series at more than 7071 episodes. For a list of runner-ups, check [this list](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anime_series_by_episode_count).
Upvotes: 6 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: The longest series is 'Sazae-san'. It has 2255+7071+ episodes.
(The number '2255' is actually more accurate although it was achieved through bad math. There are actually [according to more recent numbers from [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anime_series_by_episode_count) wiki list] around 2390+ episodes. However, each episode consists of three separate stories/vignettes and can be counted as three separate episodes and that is where the 7000+ number comes from {2390 x 3 = 7170}. Furthermore, the [Sazae-san wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sazae-san) states it has aired every Sunday since 1969 so using your friend math you can see that 46 years x 52 Sundays per year = 2392 episodes)
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2014/02/25 | 383 | 1,254 | <issue_start>username_0: Itoshiki-sensei is always seen wearing a kimono whereever he is, except in episode six when he is in his hometown, wearing a shirt, but after that he change his clothes to a kimono again.
<issue_comment>username_1: The show uses a lot of traditional Japanese cultural imagery, including the characters' clothes. Wikipedia says the style is supposed to be taken from Showa period (most probably [1926~1989](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dwa_period) years, less likely [1312~1317](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dwa_%28Kamakura_period%29)).
It's a comedy and satire show, so naturally, the main protagonist would wear something noticeable as a traditional kimono. But because characters are usually seen in modern environment, things like this keep us from forgetting the older-timey setting.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: There's one episode (can't recall the number off of my head) where Itoshiki-Sensei exclaims that he's a "Bona-fide Japanese" (in one of the subbed translations I was watching) and it's possible he's not really fond of westernized shirts/clothes that much.
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2014/02/25 | 359 | 1,378 | <issue_start>username_0: The last time I've seen him was after the Five Kage Summit Arc. Since then, we haven't seen him. Despite him being a Jonin-level Shinobi, I can't remember him being on the battlefield, so my question is: why is it that this character (along with other Shinobi) isn't included by Kishi in this part of the anime?<issue_comment>username_1: Another Jonin level shinobi that is missing from the 4th Great Shinobi War is Kurenai (this maybe because of her pregnancy), Ebisu and Ibiki Morino too are missing and he too is of Jounin level.
Since nothing specifically has been stated about their absence we can only deduce that either
1> These shinobi have been dispatched on some special mission and that is not shown in the manga, or
2> These shinobi have been given the duty to protect the civilians that are not directly taking part in the war.
My two cent would be on the speculation that they are protecting the civilians that are not directly taking part in the war. These civilians need to be protected, and the generals need to dispatch a small group of quality fighters that would be able to defend them or move them to safety.
Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: In the episode where the leaf village is attacked ebisu is shown to be in charge of defending the village.
But I don't know where the rest are sadly.
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2014/02/26 | 1,108 | 3,707 | <issue_start>username_0: The Uchiha clan is descended from the Hyuuga, right? So then why is the Hyuuga clan not seen during the founding of the Konoha Village? How did the Uchiha awaken Sharingan, when originally they had Byakugan? How did they come into changing their name? Would an Uchiha be able to awaken Byakugan? On that note, what would happen if a person were to obtain byakugan, eternal mangekyou sharingan, and rinnegan?
EDIT (4/2/14):
So now Kaguya is shown to have Byakugan. It is evidence that Uchiha, Senju, and Hyuuga are indeed related. But how does the Hyuuga then come about?<issue_comment>username_1: The Uchiha are not a descendant clan of the Hyuuga. That was speculated by Kakashi in the very early stages of the series.
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Upvotes: 5 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: I don't want to say that this is fact but here is a theory. Kaguya possesses two bloodline traits the byakugan and another sharingan/rinnegan trait. Upon having her two sons she could have passed the two traits down separately (seeing that we have not seen the sage's brother this is possible). This would mean that the sage obtained his mothers sharingan/rinnegan eye which manifested as the rinnegan without the sharingan tomoe.
Upon the sage having his two sons he passed down his visual ability, albeit a weakened version (the sharingan), to his eldest and his physical energy to his youngest. It is, as we know, that only when senju and Uchiha blood mix do you acquire the rinnegan.
Pretty much what this theory states is that it is possible that the hyuuga clan originated from the sage's brother while the rinnegan and sharingan originated from the sage himself. This would mean that the byakugan and sharingan exist as two separate dojutsu from two separate bloodlines.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_3: It is theorized that the Uchiha and Hyuga clans are related. Kyuga was the first being to have all 3 dojutsu but it is unclear how she is related to the Hyuga clan. Some people believe that the Hyuga clan also came from Indra just like Uchiha did. For all we know Hyuga can be descended from Haruma as we don't know much about him or Hyuga origins. I made a Otsutsuki Bloodline tree just click on the hyperlink to see. [Otsutsuki Bloodline](http://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1TKzaEVwAVcmqedAr6P4SER_5pl6Dh7eR6-hr7-FQxO8/edit)
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_4: hamura his byakugan so its easy to say that he is indeed the hyuga ancestor. so this means that the hyuga are cousins to the uchiha, senju and uzumaki
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_5: As evidenced by *The Last: Naruto the Movie*, the Hyūga and Uchiha share a common ancestor: Kaguya Ōtsutsuki. The Uchiha are descended from the Sage of Six Paths and the Hyuga are descended from the sage's brother, <NAME>. Given that the divergence happened before either clan was founded, it would be inaccurate to say that the Uchiha are descended from the Hyūga.
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