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Why was the Third Hokage not revived at his prime? Why was the Third Hokage not revived at his prime? He could be much stronger because it was believed that he already surpassed the previous Kage of Konoha. At that point, he knew all the techniques in Konoha. <Q> There are a couple of possible reasons for this, though as far as I know, it hasn't been explained in the manga. <S> The first possible reason is that Sasuke hadn't mastered it well enough to bring him back at his full power. <S> As is stated on page 10 of chapter 620, if the summoner doesn't have full mastery of the summoning, the reincarnated individual might not be brought back with the full power they had in life. <S> Also, according to here : As a downside, the reincarnated seem to retain any permanent body damage and physical limitations they received during their lifetime. <S> This could include aging. <S> The First and Second Hokage also seem to appear the same way as they did whenever they were shown in flashbacks. <A> All of the characters have been reanimated in their most iconic form, we've always known Third Hokage as an old man. <A> Madara is a weird case though. <S> He hadn’t awakened his rinnegan until he was very old, yet when he was resurrected he was young again with his new eyes in tact. <S> His most iconic form is him young with eternal MS not old with rinnegan. <S> Lol that makes me think of what would happen if Donzo was brought back by Kabuto, would Donzo have his arm full of eyes back working at full capacity?

Maybe how a person is resurrected is purely based on their summoner’s skill, the more skilled the more powerful the resurrected person is.

Why are romantic events sometimes called "flags"? Anyone familiar with dating sims and romance visual novels will recognize the term "flag" in that context. In these games, when you are presented with choices which affect how the other characters view you and potentially change which route you go on, it's called a flag. "Raising a character's flags" essentially means that you make choices that improve your standing with that character and which are more likely to put you on his/her route. This terminology is quite common even outside of visual novels in anime. For instance, the manga The World God Only Knows (a parody of the dating sim genre of games) uses the term frequently, and the manga chapters are numbered as flags (e.g "flag 53"). I've seen it in many other anime and manga as well, both in Japanese and translated into English. I was not able to find any reference for the term used in this way in either English or Japanese. The term "flag" doesn't seem particularly romantic or descriptive in this context. There are other terms, like "affection points" (a slightly different system) which are easy to understand, but "flags" is at least as common as any of those. What is the reasoning behind the terminology "flag" in this context and where does it originate? <Q> The terminology probably comes from programming . <S> With most visual novel games the terminology "flag" and "counter" go hand-in-hand. <S> In the background of a game, there are various variables, the most notable ones are the "global" and "local" variables. <S> These variables usually what counters and flags consists of. <S> Local variables are usually a point counter that resets every time you start a new game. <S> So let's say you have this character, Y. <S> If you give Y a present, Y's "affection" counter will increase with 2 points. <S> By the end of the game, if this counter totals 12 points or more point, you will get that character's "good" end. <S> Global variable are typically flags created by the game to remember certain things. <S> So if in a game if you chose to leave your house without checking the stove, you active the "unchecked stove" flag. <S> Later in the game, the flag is checked and if has been activated, if will trigger the event where your house has burns down and you have to move in with a friend. <S> A global variable flags are persistent, so when you start a new game they are not reset like local variables. <S> They typically are used as bookmarks to mark progress and be used as save points, so you don't have to replay though everything again. <S> Let's say that there is this other character named Z. <S> If you get one of Y's good end, you'll active the Y's good end global variable flag. <S> During your next playthrough at some point dring the game, the game checks for this flag has been activated and if has, you get a new choice that allows you to access Z's route. <S> This is typically done to control player progress in the game as Z's route might spoil story elements in Y's route. <A> This is purely conjecture. <S> I suspect that flags are effectively the same as booleans in computer programming which can have values of either true or false . <S> In vexillological terminology, flags would either be raised or lowered . <S> This makes things easier to understand and visualise when used in dating sim software. <S> Furthermore, the existence of a number of dating sim software engines which abstract a lot of the code into a more accessible format also probably helped make such terminology mainstream. <S> I can imagine that walkthroughs and the like which were created by people in the business regularly used phrases such as trigger the flag which hastened matters. <S> Excellent question. <A> In the visual novel/RPG Megadimension Neptunia VII , the in-game codex, Nepedia has the following entries: 1 Flag (Programming Term) <S> If the requirement's cleared, one says "the flag is true" or "the flag's been raised. <S> " When it's not met, one says "a false flag falls." <S> 2 <S> Flag (Derivative) <S> 1 <S> Originally a programming term, it's come to be used to mean "progress in a relationship," "omen of disaster," and other divergent meanings. <S> A famous flag is "speaking optimistically and holding onto hope when things are dire." <S> Since most die after this, it's known as a "death flag." <S> 3 <S> Flag (Derivative) <S> 2 <S> When a flag doesn't go as expected, or when a person stops the outcome themselves or ignores it, it's known as "breaking the flag. <S> " Those who do this excesivelly are called "Flag Crushers." <S> The usage has diverged from the meaning, and programmers in nations outside Japan say using the word breaking isn't right. <S> 4 <S> Flag Item <S> In Gamindustri, once in a great while, the usually intangible concept of "flag" materializes into an item. <S> The item is categorized as a "Flag Item", and one receives beneficial functions by obtaining one. <S> Previously, adventurers and scouts raised and lowered it within dungeons to their benefit. <S> However, as it's much more convenient as an item, most people pull it out and carry it away now, so you rarely see one in the wild. <S> I think the last entry refers only to this game specifically, but the first three entries are more generally. <S> Still, it is a in-game encyclopedia, and in a game that's overflowing with satire so take it with a grain of salt.

The term "Flags," from their use as landmarks, is used in programming to mean a requirement to process an action.

Why could the dragon not bring back Goku after he fought Frieza? After Goku fought Frieza and the planet blew up, everybody on earth thought Goku was dead. So they used the dragon balls to wish to bring Goku back to life, but the dragon then told them that Goku was still alive. They then asked the dragon to teleport Goku back to Earth. The dragon then said no, because Goku did not want to. So why would the dragon listen to Goku, who was not making the wish? <Q> Porunga is not able to relocate someone against their will as stated in the Porunga Wikia . <S> Its his limitation. <S> As Shenron has his own limitation like granting only one wish, not able to resurrect the same person more then one time. <S> Porunga has his own limitation of not relocating someone without his own will. <A> I am not sure about this, but I have two theories. <S> Goku is much stronger than Shenron and Shenron was simply too weak to teleport Goku against his will. <S> Here is another discussion about this topic. <S> I did not read everything <S> so I don't know if they got a real answer. <S> Sorry that I don't comment your question, <S> but I don't have enought reputation. <S> So I "answered". <A> Maybe because Goku/Kakarot was going to come back in due time anyways. <S> So the dragon let it slip by like when the dragon had to check if he could make a certain wish. <S> Maybe the dragon only does stuff that can't already happen naturally.

Shenron is generally not able to grant wishes which are against one specific will.

What is the formal term for energy in Dragon Ball Z? In Bleach, the term is "reiatsu". In Naruto, it is "chakra". However, all I ever really heard in DBZ is "power level". Is there a more formal descriptive term for the source of their powers or the energy they give off? <Q> It can also be spelled chi or qi . <S> The same term is used for a concept in martial arts , though naturally Dragon Ball's version is quite a bit different from this. <S> In the English dubs, this term is never used, and "energy" is used throughout the series. <S> According to Toriyama, there are 3 components of ki, namely Genki ( <S> 元気, roughly meaning Energy), Yūki (勇気, Courage), and Shōki (正気, Mind). <S> Ki also can be positive or negative. <S> The various charge up and transformation sequences are all done in order to increase one's ki. <S> Dragon Ball Wiki has more information on ki in the series. <A> Power levels measure their strengths alone. <S> Ki measures the energy they have, and to do certain attacks they need to focus their ki, <S> like when Gohan was teaching Videl how to fly, she pushed her ki to the bottom of her feet to fly! <A> In Naruto, they refer to energy or ki/chi as chakra, but they don't go into detail about the human chakra energy system, but yes, they're basically the same thing. <S> It's all energy, just explained differently. <S> An interesting relation to DBZ - 7 dragon balls, 7 characters <S> , Goku's grandfather gave him the 4 star dragon ball, or it could be seen as the heart chakra. <S> Google "chakra" and learn about the human in-built energy system. <S> It ties in body function with human emotion and fundamentally gives us both life and existence. <S> Shaolin monks use energy in their system of fighting, integrating both body and soul with the focus of their energy through fighting. <S> It's not too dissimilar from DBZ (although DBZ takes to another level, well, <S> because they can :P). <S> Anyhow that's my 2 cents.

The original Japanese term is ki (pronounced the same as "key", written as 気).

What is the origin of the title "Ghost in the Shell"? The anime series Ghost in the Shell has a Japanese name which can be transliterated as "Mobile Armored Riot Police"; from Wikipedia : Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊 Kōkaku Kidōtai ? , literally "Mobile Armored Riot Police") It's clear to me that the English name of "Ghost in the Shell" is far, well, cooler than "Mobile Armored Riot Police". But why was this particular name chosen? What are its origins, and what significance does it have in the series (if any)? <Q> Within the show, the word "Ghost" is used to refer to someone's consciousness while a "shell" is the cybernetic body, much like the situation with Major Kusanagi. <S> The Wikipedia page Philosophy of Ghost in the Shell has a lot of insightful concepts to add to this: Referring to the Laughing Man and Puppet Master : <S> Yet, as those criminals are revealed to have more depth than was at first apparent, the various protagonists are left with disturbing questions: "What exactly is the definition of 'human' in a society where a mind can be copied and the body replaced with a synthetic form?" <S> , "What exactly is the ' ghost ' —the essence— in the cybernetic ' shell '?", "Where is the boundary between human and machine when the differences between the two become more philosophical than physical?", etc. <S> More specifically with the original film, there's this article : <S> The director has the main character state “Who am I?” <S> The Major, the Main character, wonders if she is a real person or a program. " <S> Major Motoko Kusanagi barely exist in her original human form, retaining only a small portion of organic grey matter inside an almost totally robotic, titanium body or"shell." <S> (Dan Dinello, page 276, Anime and philosophy) <S> The title of the anime supports this, “ Ghost in the Shell ” likely refers to the phrase “ A shadow of your former self .” <S> The main character has a cybernetic mind and body, which leads her to question her existence, whether or not she is still alive. <S> If one states that the difference between a human and a machine is that the human has a soul, what then, is a cyborg, such as the Major? <S> “ <S> A lot of these concepts and themes are tackled within the manga/anime. <S> See also, <S> the in universe origins of the terms "Ghost" and "Shell" . <S> I don't know if these terms were invented by Masamune Shirow or if he borrowed them from SF tropes. <A> Masamune Shirow has stated that he had always wanted the title of his manga to be Ghost in the Shell, even in Japan, but his original publishers preferred Mobile Armored Riot Police. <S> He had chosen "Ghost in the Shell" in homage to Arthur Koestler's The Ghost in the Machine, from which he also drew inspiration. <S> Shell rather than Machine because, well, system shell is becoming the second body for many of us even today. <A> The phrase "Ghost in the machine" comes from the famous/infamous philosopher Gilbert Ryle in his work "The Concept of Mind". <S> The phrase is meant to describe the dualism of Rene Descartes and how he tried to find the relationship between the mind and the body, the mind being the ghost and body being the machine, this being "the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine". <S> Ryle criticized this position for thinking that the two are of the same category. <S> If these two are not in the same category, then trying to find a relationship between the two as if they were must fail.

I am not sure how the name got to the staff of Ghost in the Shell, the user Anatoly Roschenya says that Masamune Shirow wanted to pay homage to Arthur Koestler's book "The Ghost in the Machine".

What's the difference between Haineko and Senbonzakura? What's the difference between these two shikai ; Rangiku's Haineko and Byakuya's Senbonzakura ? They both seem to have the same abilities. <Q> For Matsumoto Rangiku's shikai: When released with the command "growl" (唸れ unare?), the blade dissolves into ash. <S> In combat, Matsumoto can control the movement of the ash, and cut anything it lands on by moving the hilt. <S> The ash is also solid enough to be used as a shield to block enemy attacks <S> For Kuchiki Byakuya's shikai: ... <S> Senbonzakura's blade separates into thousands of slender, petal-like blades.... <S> While the blades are too small to be seen by the naked eye, they reflect light in such a way as to appear as cherry blossom petals. <S> Byakuya can control the blades at will thereby allowing him to shred opponents at a distance and break through almost any defense. <S> While Byakuya can control the blades with his mind alone, using his hands allows him to do so more effectively, making the blades move twice as fast. <S> Byakuya can control the blades of his with his mind, while Matsumoto needs to move the hilt. <S> The ash can be used as a shield while Senbonzakura cannot. <A> Senbonzakura can be used as a shield as proven in Byakuya's first fight with Ichigo in season 3. <S> Though at the time Byakuya was using bankai, he made a shield by gathering all the fragments in front of him <S> so he probably can do the same thing in shikai. <A> A lot of people on various forums like to nit pick at the details, but in essence they are very similar. <S> Both Shikai transform the blade of the sword into smaller substances that are used for offense and defense. <S> However, in Matsumoto's fight against Apache, SunSun, and <S> Mila Rose <S> , she changes Haineko's form from a dispersed cloud of ash to an ash tornado with her empty hand. <S> The fact that Byakuya controls senbonzakura with his mind might just be due to the fact that he is a stronger and more experienced shinigami and partner to his zanpakuto. <S> Just for the sake of the viewer/reader I wish would release a list or booklet or something along those lines of the zanpakuto and their abilities. <S> I'd love it if he would say what their Bankai would be if they ever reached that level. <S> I really wanna <S> know what Urahara's Bankai is and especially Yoruichi's.

While Byakuya is able to control Senbonzakura telepathically, Matsumoto controls Haineko with the hilt of her sword. There seem to be a few main differences, though they are very similar.

How was summoning jutsu created? How did the summoning begin in Naruto? Summoning was a jutsu that not only required lots of jutsus, but also required a blood contract (probably from a village of animals since all of the summoning animals are sentient). How was this accomplished when the animals were far away? <Q> According to naruto.wikia.com: <S> Though there doesn't seem to be an explanation as to where it actually originated from/how it began, it would make sense that someone at some point decided that they wanted to summon an animal and attempted it. <S> They were teleported to the home of the animal, where they then made a blood contract with them. <A> It was probably created by Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki (Sage of Six Paths). <S> We all know he created Ninshuu and was a monk who travelled and explored. <A> Its possible that the animals where the ones who invented summoning jutsu. <S> We can see that they are capable of using summoning jutsu

In the anime, it was shown that if a user attempts to summon an animal without first signing a contract, the user will be teleported to the home of the animal they have a natural affinity for.

Why does Kakashi Hatake always wear a mask? Since his childhood as depicted in manga/anime, Kakashi always wore a cloth mask covering his face, making only eye(s) and a portion of forehead visible. What was the reason for this? <Q> I have collected a few reasons, which are actually assumptions.. <S> Because he was an ANBU. <S> All the members of ANBU wear masks for various reasons. <S> (hiding their identity, their feelings, expression, and so on, making them merely fighting robots) Since his childhood days, he always was looked down on by the villagers because his father sacrificed a mission in order to save his comrades. <S> This resulted in a huge loss to the village (maybe in terms of reputation and economy). <S> He wanted to hide himself. <S> Moreover, people could easily mistake him for his father since they look similar <S> (one example: Lady Chio attacking Kakashi Hatake because she mistook him for his father Sakumo). <S> He tried to hide himself with his mask, though people vaguely remember it since a generation has been passed. <S> Though all the above reasons aren't really valid now (in both the anime and manga), Kakashi still wears mask, for which the reason is unknown. <S> Just an idea Kishi had. <S> And here is a piece of information from a blog: <S> In an interview <S> the question, " <S> Why does Kakashi wear a mask?" was asked. <S> Kishimoto's reply was that he saw ninjas as being "mysterious" or something, so in his character design he made Kakashi wear a mask, but he didn't do that with other characters because it's too difficult to get their expressions down when you can't see their entire face. <S> Blog link: [click here] <A> In the Rock Lee spinoff manga and anime, Kakashi says he wears a mask because when he reads ecchi ecchi paradise, he has nose bleeds :) <A> I've been wondering this myself, and I've watched enough Naruto to make formulate a pretty well-thought out guess. <S> Kakashi has always worn the mask, before even joining the ANBU and all the tragedy in his life. <S> At first it was probably nothing to serious, just a regular mask. <S> But he didn't start to wear it "religiously" until his father's death, maybe it is the only thing left to remember his father, or possibly to just honor him by wearing the mask he gave him. <S> Or I could be totally wrong. <S> I speculate that the mask has a connection to his father because he would have had no reason to wear it in the first place. <S> it would make sense if he had started to wear the mask in his teenage years after the death of his father, Minato, Obito and Rin to mask his pain and emotions, and to represent his stone cold stature. <S> Only time will really tell. <A> I think Kakashi wore a mask as a little boy because his dad, Sakumo, made him. <S> What I mean by this is that Sakumo was pretty famous as a ninja and almost everyone knew him, as a result of that he was afraid someone was going to hurt his kid to get revenge or something. <S> So he wanted to protect Kakashi by making him wear a mask every time they got out of their house like that no one would know how his face looked like. <S> Also he trained him like that he would be strong incase <S> he was not going to be there to protect him. <S> I think this because we already know Kakashi never had his mom as a little kid <S> nor he remembers seeing her. <S> That means she had to die when he was born or when he was just months of being born (or maybe she just left, but that is not my point). <S> Since she died, Sakumo did not want to loose another person he loved, so he made Kakashi wear a mask. <S> Than after Sakumo died Kakashi felt ashamed of his father, so he decided to keep wearing the mask like that noone would know he was Sakumo's kid. <S> But still some people knew because of his hair. <S> Than latter on Lady Chio mistook him for his dad, somehow. <S> Also he is pretty handsome (shown in the picture below), so I don't think he wore a mask to hide his face because he was soo ugly. <S> Because he's not.

But he wore the mask since a young child before any pain entered his life, so it leads me to believe the mask could only have to do with something between him and his father, perhaps because of influences of the ANBU , or history of Sakumo (kakashi's father), or out of sheer honor, or maybe something completely different, that's just my observation . I believe that his father wanted him to be in the ANBU and started fundamental training for it at a young age, like hiding your emotions with a mask.

Why do rocks start flying when high levels of chakra are being used? When people in Naruto begin using high levels of chakra--such as when Naruto's Kyuubi chakra comes out, rocks or other pieces of the terrain begin levitating, as shown in this picture: Some of the rocks are circled to make them clear. Why does this happen? <Q> The nerd in me says: Specifically, in the case Naruto, the anime goes out of their way to explain the chakras of the body. <S> They even go as far to explain the flow of energy through the chakras. <S> As such, as they draw energy into their chakras (both from inside and outside their body), debris (rocks in this particular case) also have that "draw" motion upwards. <S> Furthermore, since the movement of energy creates heat (evident in what happens later in the series when Naruto generates too much energy and he burns himself - trying not to spoil here), it stands to reason that the air around him would also heat up - so debris again would already with the added chakra pull + the hot air above it + color air below it, would help to lift it off the ground. <S> Similar to a hot air balloon ( hot air balloons explained ) <S> The adult in me says: Dramatic visual effects. <S> There is no rationale behind it, just a common theme you see in animes. <S> But it's fun to make up reasons why! <A> <A> Using basic real world physics and a force I would assume. <S> Basing this answer on comments above, if you notice power usually surges upwards or in strong bursts be it controlled (calm) or wildy (in rage etc) , be it in the form of chakra, reiatsu or ki . <S> It is more than likely that the ground is not as stable or firm as harder ground or not able to handle the force of the energy or there are loose bits around, thus it breaks up and goes upward (or flying madly away) . <S> Drifting a bit from anime, on several occasions when Superman was about to fly , as he crouches on the ground, you can see the energy being exerted from him as small rocks slowly begin to rise and streams of air being pushed away, so it doesn't just apply to anime or Naruto and Dragon Ball Z as you said you saw it in Astro Boy. <A> What I feel is that all these concepts have been created by keeping Chakra and the concept of Aura in mind. <S> What is an Aura? <S> According to the Wiki Aura is a field of subtle, luminous radiation surrounding a person or object (like the halo or aureola in religious art). <S> The size of an aura could be increased or decreased and it totally depends on the life force of the person. <S> What is chakra? <S> According to the wiki Chakras are part of the subtle body, not the physical body, and as such are the meeting points of the subtle (non-physical) energy channels, called nadiis. <S> Nadiis are channels in the subtle body through which the life force (prana), or vital energy moves <S> Now if we consider that in Naruto when he increases his chakra, i.e. his life force increases which indirectly increases his aura dramatically (because of the immense chakra of kurama).So what we can say is that, natural substances like rocks and stones that come into the influence of the aura, react to the life force of the user (here its Naruto). <S> As we've seen in many anime's (for example DBZ) <S> [In DBZ we can call chakra as their energy] <S> Here you can see the aura of Goku clearly, its direction is pointing north (upwards).So what we can conclude is that, the aura (at least in anime) moves upwards. <S> With this theory, I can say that whatever natural object that comes under the influence of an aura with strong life force, MOVES UPWARDS! <S> So the greater the aura and force, the more heavier objects would levitate.

Though I don't recommend to reason such things since most of them are just pseudo-science, in this case of levitating rocks, I think it's because the strong streams of chakra sent out from the character caused strong twists of wind, which crack the floor, then the chakra flows upwards (positive energy in anime all tend to flow upwards), drawing the air and rocks up with it. Despite the reasoning I made, I tend to believe it's just a kind of visual effect that commomly used in animes to make a better visual impact and emphasize on how strong the power of this character/technique is.

Why did Cell and Frieza keep their bodies after they died? I thought only kind people who have great achievements could keep their body in hell or heaven so that they can continue to improve; Kami said that when Goku died the first time. But why did people like Cell, Frieza, Dr. Gero (and this one can't even fight!) keep their bodies? What's more, Baby didn't show up in hell. Why did all of this happen? And why did Chi Chi keep her body when she died? She was sent to heaven in a flower ground with some other people when Goku was fighting Majin Buu. <Q> That's an inconsistency introduced by the anime. <S> They introduced them in fillers, to be able to make more chapters from the manga. <S> As with other fillers, that was inconsistent with the more coherent manga. <S> In the manga, only a few warriors are allowed to have their bodies in the alterlife. <S> Other souls were shown as little clouds. <S> Specifically, evil souls were punished, purified and removed of any memory before reincarnation. <A> It was also the case for Raditz and the Ginyu Force. <S> It puzzles me too and there was never a definitive reason given. <S> I think it's because they are strong fighters when compared to the other 'normal' people who go to the Other World. <S> For example, when Raditz died, King Yama told Goku that Raditz was unruly and he had to subdue him. <S> He also said that he was going to send Cell down below, but he would have liked that so he gave the stamp of approval to stay above. <A> I don't think it was ever really explained, not in the anime at least. <S> At first I thought it was <S> just all hell-goers kept their bodies, but you'd think there'd be a lot more down there. <S> It's gotta be something along the lines of what iKlsR suggested: skilled and well-trained fighters. <S> Regarding Baby, that's in GT <S> and it's probably better to not consider him when figuring it out simply because you can't determine if it's 100% canon or not.

I don't think there is a definitive answer for this, though it is likely due to the fact that they are all strong fighters.

How far along is the anime compared with the manga? Episode 596 came out today, and I am having a hard time placing this in the manga's time-line. Around which chapter would the anime be right now? And would watching the anime spoil the manga for me? <Q> If you want to start reading the manga from where the anime is right now, the last thing you see in the anime is Luffy grabbing Caesar (episode 597), which corresponds to Chapter 670, page 19. <S> The last manga chapter right now is Chapter 709 (710 will be coming out either today or tomorrow), so the anime is about 40 chapters behind the anime. <S> If you translate it into arcs, the anime right now is in the Punk Hazard Arc <S> and the manga is in the Dressrosa Arc . <A> One Piece Anime is quite far behind the manga right now (about 50-75 chapters). <A> It is really far behind. <S> Probably in term of year, it could take more than a year (approx. <S> 52 eps) for the anime to catch up with the manga. <S> In addition anime have filler episode sometimes between an arc, so it could be left more behind.

The manga is now in the Wano Arc, while the previous Punk Hazard arc just started in the anime (as of this answer).

In One Piece, does a Devil Fruit reappear after the user dies? In chapter 702, we see Ace's Devil Fruit 'Mera Mera no Mi' being showcased as the prize of the event held in the Colosseum. The announcer of the event mentions that the "fruit is reborn." Does it mean every Devil Fruit has that ability to be reborn once the user dies, or is it an artificial Devil Fruit made by Doflamingo's factory? <Q> Taken from the One Piece Wiki on Devil Fruits : <S> When a Devil Fruit user dies, their ability is reborn into another fruit of the same kind. <S> Instead of growing from a plant, the ability simply regenerates inside the closest appropriate fruit, as seen when Smiley "died" and the Sara Sara <S> no Mi, Model: <S> Axolotl transplanted itself into a nearby apple. <S> Another characteristic of a Devil Fruit's growth is that the stem becomes noticably curlier than it was when the fruit was not endowed with the ability. <S> So, in other words, the Devil Fruit "respawns" when the user that had it dies. <A> I'm not sure why Robin's answer was not accepted, but it has indeed been long confirmed that Devil Fruits re-appear after the user dies . <S> On the other hand, whether artificial Zoan fruits re-appear has not been confirmed at the time of writing. <S> In chapter 676 , it was the first time we could see a fruit re-spawn. <S> When Smiley dies, we can see the nearest apple change form into the Salamander fruit, model Axolotl , which was the fruit that was injected into the poisonous H2S gas, creating Smiley . <S> It seems like at least all pirates related to Donquixote Doflamingo know about this process, as Caesar put a bag of apples on the sledge on purpose, commented that he will meet Smiley again. <S> When Luffy and Franky were interrogating one of Doflamingo's underlings, he revealed that the Fire Fruit would be put up as the price for the Colosseum contest. <S> He then confirmed that a fruit can exist only once and that they are indeed reborn, making this Fire Fruit, Ace's Fire Fruit. <S> The Devil's fruit... <S> It is said two of the same kind can't exist at the same time. <S> However... It appears that when an ability user dies, that Devil's fruit is reborn somewhere in this earth! <S> Fire fist Ace's Fire Fruit was unknowingly, brought back to this world after his death... <S> And is now in possession of the young master! <A> Do you remember ceaser? <S> In one of episodes of smiley, you could see him eating a giant candy that made him turn to purple, near him there is a wagon that soldiers wanted to ride, but it started melting. <S> Moreover, at the wagon there is a bag full of apples and one of them turned into purple, <S> I think it's a devil fruit, but I don't know who it's user is. <A> The devil fruit was smiley devil fruit because when ever a devil fruit eater died the devil fruit will be reborn to nearby fruit that is how the apple became a devil fruit in episode 602 in one piece.

In chapter 703 , it was then finally confirmed that Devil Fruits do indeed re-spawn after a user dies .

Who is Saber extending her hand to in the ED of Carnival Phantasm? In the ED, we see each character (that appears in the show) is connected by (the proximity of) a hand. Right as the ED of Carnival Phantasm ends, we see Saber extending her hand to someone , but we never see who that person is. Was the identity of this hand ever revealed? If so, who is it? <Q> That arm could be the arm of Kiritsugu Emiya. <S> In the picture the characters are connected to thier masters. <S> The masters of Saber would be Shirou Emiya and Kiritsugu Emiya. <S> It could also be the arm of Irisviel van Einzbern, who wasn't the real master of Saber but some sort of stand-in, while Kiritsugu was doing his dirty work. <S> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate/Zero#Characters <A> However, it credits a Pixiv user <S> so chances are that it ain't official. <S> Nevertheless, there are some bases for such an assumption: <S> Irisviel has a connection to Saber (being the stand-in Master during Fate/Zero) <S> the arm looks feminine Despite Logan M's comment <S> Fate/Zero characters do appear in the Ahnenerbe party after the credits , even Iris. <S> So it stands to reason that Irisviel is the most likely candidate. <A> This is an interesting question, but without an official source to confirm the answers, they can only remain as speculations. <S> Saber's friendly gesture towards the unknown person shows a moderately close affinity between them, so again it can't be Kiritsugu because Saber dislikes him and would have shown an anxious face like Bazett's if it's his hand that is reaching out to her. <S> I think Saber is extending her hand to her male archetype counterpart: Prototype Saber from Fate/Prototype , which was released as a twelve minute anime segment released with Season 3 of Carnival Phantasm . <S> It makes sense to reveal only the hand because we don't even know of the existence of Prototype Saber until after Ayaka Sajou has called Ahnenerbe in the final segment of the last episode, so the hand serves as a good lead-in to Fate/Prototype .

While Irisviel von Einzbern fits all these bills and is indeed a very likely candidate, the size of the hand seems to be slightly larger than that of Saber and about equal to that of Shirou, which suggests a hand of a delicate man over a hand of a delicate woman. If you pay attention to the forearm of the hidden character, it is not covered in sleeves, nor is it decorated with anything, like a wrist band, so Kiritsugu is out. There's a zerochan image suggesting that it's Irisviel:

How could Madara free himself from the Impure World Resurrection technique, while Tobirama can't? In Chapter 591, we see Madara Uchiha free himself from the influence of Kabuto's Impure World Resurrection/Reincarnation technique (Edo Tensei) , saying that he was able to do this because he knew about the technique's seals . However, in Chapter 620, we see the inventor of the Impure World Resurrection technique, the second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, wanting to be free of the technique , but was stopped by Orochimaru. How was it that Tobirama was not able to free himself from the Impure World Resurrection technique , despite being its inventor and knowing all about the technique and its seals, but Madara can? Credits: Linked images are from Mangastream 's scanlations. <Q> When Madara frees himself of the Edo Tensei, he performs the seal. <S> But in the case of Tobirama, you can see that in the first attempt he only tries to crush the wall. <S> Also in the next page you can read this: <S> Hashirama <S> : You increased the restraining power using my cells. <S> Tobirama: <S> Now that I sense better, his body is almost made of my brother's cells. <A> If you remember, Orochimaru perfected his jutsu, so when he uses it, it's at maximum strength (as demonstrated in both the fight with the Third Hokage and the restraint of the Second Hokage). <S> Now the reason for Madara getting released was that Kabuto didn't know how to use the jutsu well, as seen by the lack of control over the reanimated and the fact that it takes a huge amount of chakra to be able to have utter control (which Orochimaru had <S> but Kabuto lacked). <S> Another reason is the fact that Kabuto released the Edo Tensei, which basically gave all the reanimated the chance to perform the hand signs and stay, as Madara said to Tsunade. <A> Madara was released from Edo Tensei and he used it then again on himself. <S> He couldn't free himself, Kabuto just let them go very loose. <S> It is impossible to break the "chain" from the summoner and so, when the summoner restricts the movement, the summoned can't do anything against it. <S> For further information on how Madara is still there after he was released please refer to this question . <A> Clue 1: <S> Hashirama: <S> You increased the restraining power using my cells Clue 2 <S> Hashirama: ahahaha! <S> He used my cell to amplify the restraining properties of the edo tensie. <S> Like Hashirama, who can move freely while on Orochimaro's edo, Madara has the cell of Hashirama to cancel/negate the amplification to the restraining properties of Kabuto's edo + the knowledge of edo's seal. <A> That's because you seemingly need to know and perform the technique itself, on yourself. <S> Orochimaru blocked Tobirama's movements, not allowing him to perform the hand-seals necessary to activate the technique.

So Madara was able to free himself because no one restrained him before he performed the seal; in the case of Tobirama, he tried to destroy the wall first and Orochimaru was able to restrain him with the increased restraining power he has.

How does the Mangekyo Sharingan blind its wielder, and why are some wielders not blinded? A disadvantage of gaining the Mangekyo Sharingan is that it leads to blindness over time. Source: Chapter 385, Mangashare/Binktopia scanlation We have seen Madara, Itachi and Sasuke, all wielders of the Mangekyo Sharingan, use Susanoo. All three have gone blind or have worsened eyesight at some point*. Itachi and Sasuke have also been shown using Amaterasu which makes the eyes bleed afterwards. Danzo Shimura, Obito Uchiha and Kakashi Hatake, also wielders of the Mangekyo Sharingan, on the other hand, have never used any of the above techniques and have never shown any sign of blindness*. Why didn't they go blind or have worsened eyesight? What causes the blindness effect of the Mangekyo Sharingan? How does the Mangekyo Sharingan eventually blind its wielder? *Please correct me (or suggest an edit) if I'm wrong. Also, please feel free to suggest edits adding what chapters the events mentioned above happened, so question answerers can review it. <Q> An original Mangekyo Sharingan puts a strain on the eye. <S> That strain causes the user to gradually go blind. <S> Another person's eye doesn't (for some reason) produce the same strain. <S> So the user's vision is intact. <S> Let's review the list: <S> Itachi - Awakened his Mangekyo on his own, going blind. <S> Sasuke - Awakened his Mangekyo on his own, gone almost completely blind, then took Itachi's eyes, and got his vision back. <S> Madara - Same as Sasuke. <S> Kakashi - Remember that the eye didn't originally belong to him. <S> His Mangekyo is more similar to an Eternal than a normal one. <S> Obito <S> - Presumably, it's because Obito has a high concentration of Hashirama Senju's cells. <S> These constantly heal the eye, preventing it from going blind. <S> Danzo - Same as Kakashi <S> , the eye didn't belong to him. <S> Although using Sishui's eye did put a huge stress on his chakra and body. <A> So if someone was born half Senju or half Uzumaki and half Uchiha it is possible that one gains a pseudo-eternal mangekyou. <S> 6 paths chakra also has some effect in the same way. <S> Body of the Sage = <S> Senju or Uzumaki Eyes of the Sage = <S> Uchiha Eyes plus Body of the sage = <S> a balance in visual and physical prowess plus a chakra reserves that surpasses either bloodline. <S> I have made several OC's where this is the case. <S> as for canon evidence. <S> Obito Uchiha <S> , half his body was grafted from Senju DNA his chakra was already mixed with it to the point when he awakened his mangekyou with it he could perform a combo of wood style and kamui which proves to be very deadly. <S> that aside after that his eye suffers no bad side effects as opposed to Kakashi even after repeatedly using it for over a decade. <S> That is because the chakra used in that eye is a combo of Senju and Uchiha chakra it heals his eye just as fast if not faster than the damage caused. <S> His right eye was still in his body and his right side is what was grafted onto him with Senju dna. <S> Obito Uchiha is the only canonical evidence of this being the case. <S> 6 paths chakra has also been known to negate and heal the side effects of mangekyou overuse as explained in Indra Otsutsuki's case and Kakashi after gaining both mangekyou in his eyes via Obito possession power up. <S> Kakashi hasn't gone blind because his eye isnt actually his so side effects are less severe plus every time he uses it, it KO'd or killed him, like in pains arc. <S> Unlike most, I have watched the entire anime and read the entire manga. <A> My guess is it places too much stress on the Optic Nerve, with the Eternal Mangekyou simply not using the Optic Nerve at all but rather a self genjutsu to transmit directly to the brain. <S> The reason it needs to be a close relative's is because their chakra needs to be similar enough that it won't be rejected but different enough that the chakra forming the genjutsu won't simply disperse back into their chakra network. <S> Though it's not as if I could test that theory, given it's fictional.

The ocular muscles are placed under a constant strain due to the unique chakra the Mangekyo consumes.

Has anyone ever gotten hurt in Girls Und Panzer? In the world of Girls Und Panzer , tankery (Sensha-do) is a school activity, and during practice and competitions, they appear to be using live ammunition. Has anyone ever gotten hurt (or killed) doing Sensha-do in the manga? It seems really dangerous: There's even a flashback scene where a tank driven over mud next to a river falls into the river, and the girls inside almost drowned. Or is it just that in this world, tanks and large shells simply aren't that dangerous? <Q> I don't believe there has ever been a death of a character due to a tank-related incident. <S> However, this is largely due to safety precautions taken by the officials in charge of the tank activities. <S> (And also, a bit of anime physics.) <S> From the (fan-)translated Rules of Panzerkraft : 3-02 Supplemental Equipment   <S> Furthermore, for the safety of the participants, the crew compartments are required to be fitted with League-approved armored mantles as an added safety measure. <S> 3-03 <S> Usable Cannons   <S> All rounds are to be League-sanctioned live ammunition; production of your own warheads or charges is not allowed. <S> 5 Prohibited Actions   a) Using unregulated equipment or parts   c) Firing directly on humans <S> Note the usage of controlled armor, rounds, and a rule that you may not fire at a human. <S> (I think there's an incident where one girl has her glasses broken, but that's it.) <A> From the Manga. <S> The tanks are coated with high tech materials that prevent penetration by rounds. <S> This is referred to briefly in the anime, when someone says something like, "the tanks have carbon". <A> Even if the shells are training or powder, it's still a metal shell, no matter how brittle. <S> Fired by novices (first episode) at like 500mph toward a tank where a girl who is outside the tank as a spotter. <S> No one dies in the entire series and it would be weird to make a cute girls doing cute stuff anime <S> get bloody and tragic.

So, it does appear that the tank warfare is dangerous to people, but the safety measures in place are enough that the direct warfare does not cause any fatalities or serious injuries.

What happened to Maria and Mamoru? I know that Maria and Mamoru escaped the village and erased their tracks, making it impossible for even their own friends to locate them. The Bakenezumi (I do not know the canon transliteration) even assisted their escape by preparing fake remains for the villagers to find, so as to convince them of Maria and Mamoru's death. However, the Bakenezumi are later shown to have possession of their daughter. How is this possible? Could it be that Maria and Mamoru were captured by Squealer and forced to have a child? In fact, the ethics committee later commented that the remains they found matched entirely to the DNA records of the village. Does that mean that the remains really belonged to Maria and Mamoru, and they were killed after they were deemed to be of no use? Does the novel explain this? I apologize if i jump to paranoid conclusions, but this possibility sounds too scary. <Q> Although it was not explicitly stated in the Anime. <S> The following sequence of events was strongly implied and was part of Squealer's master plan. <S> Squealer helps Maria and Mamoru escape. <S> Furthermore, he lets them stay and live with the colony. <S> Squealer waits for (or sweet-talks) Maria and Mamoru into having a child. <S> Once the child is born, Squealer (and/or his fellow rats) kills Maria and Mamoru. <S> They take the child and raise him/her. <S> ("him" in the Novel, "her" in the Anime) <S> Squealer then takes the bones of Maria and Mamoru and gives them to the ethics committee. <S> When Squealer says that he will prepare fake remains for the villagers to find and that it will "take some time". <S> He really means the actual remains of Maria and Mamoru and that it will "take some time" for them to have a child. <S> The sole purpose of this was to get a human child that could be raised into an Akki* and used against humans in Squealer's pursuit of world domination. <S> * <S> I use Akki for short. <S> But they really aren't. <S> In reality, the children raised by the rats will believe themselves to be rats, thus attack inhibition and death-feedback will apply to rats instead of humans. <A> If we consider that everything said and implied make sense (story most likely don't imply anything without a purpose), we could even propose a darker possibility. <S> While it's obvious that they were both killed, we can't be sure about when. <S> I would say the rats could have used brain surgery as they did for their queen to dispose of Maria after she went pregnant. <S> (It's implied "what if they did it to human ? <S> ") <S> We don't know if the council got the full squeletal or not. <S> If not, they could have disposed of some of the body parts without killing them in order to give evidences to the council before the 10 month needed to give birth. <A> I think its pretty obvious that Maria and Mamoru are dead if the etheics comittee found the remains had their DNA in it.. <S> Not to mention that squeeler managed to take their child from them.. <A> The (short/long) answer. <S> Maria and Mamoru stayed in squealers colony. <S> In the time that they stayed there, they began to get closer to one another. <S> Since the child is about 9 years old, they must have been together for just about three years. <S> I’m not entirely sure how long they stayed in squealers colony, but from the manga and the implications of the anime. <S> Maria and Mamoru clearly had a child, and weren’t entirely trusting of squealers colony. <S> From what was said in the manga. <S> Mamoru, at the time, wasn’t there to protect Maria after she had her child and was tricked and killed. <S> By the end, Maria and Mamoru make there way to the heaven kotatsu with Shun & Reiko. <S> After a few years Messiah (Maria & Mamoru’s Child), arrives in heaven and sits down in the Kotatsu with his cold mother. <S> In the end, they all joke in heaven about how long it’ll take for Saki to come join them. <S> Note: this is an Omake added at the end of the final chapter.

Upon Mamoru’s return, he was also killed and their child was stolen by Squealer.

At what point in the timeline does the Steins;Gate movie take place? The new Steins;Gate movie, Steins;Gate: Fuka Ryōiki no Déjà vu , is set to come out in Japan on April 20 th this year. Wikipedia says it is "based on the video game and anime series", but does not say whether it replaces the series, or if it's before, concurrent, or after the existing series. When will this new movie take place in the Steins;Gate timeline? <Q> Now that the movie is out, we can definitively say exactly when it takes place in the series. <S> According to Wikipedia : The film takes place in August 2011, one year after the events of the anime series. <S> Having seen the film myself, I can confirm this. <S> For obvious reasons, it's only compatible with the true ending of the VN (the one which the anime followed most closely). <S> It is worth pointing out that this is not compatible with the official non-canon sequel <S> Steins;Gate: <S> Hen'i Kuukan <S> no Octet . <A> This is the translated story description: Okabe Rintarou—a self-proclaimed "insane mad scientist" and chuunibyou college student. <S> With a coincidence, he created the "D-mail" with his friends, a mail that can be sent to the past. <S> This led him to a cruel future resulting in the death of his friends, despite how many times the past was being changed (the shift of worldline)... <S> Then a daylight appeared before the despaired Okabe, a future that no one will die, the worldline called "Steins Gate". <S> After crossing timelines and solving all the mysteries, Okabe had finally arrived at the "Steins Gate". <S> But being crossed so many worldlines, Okabe's mind has begun to severely "overload"... <A> According to Wikipedia: The movie, featuring an original storyline taking place after the events of the series, is titled Steins;Gate: <S> Fuka Ryōiki <S> no Déjà vu (劇場版 シュタインズ・ゲート <S> 負荷領域のデジャヴ Gekijōban Shutainzu Gēto Fuka Ryōiki <S> no Dejabu? <S> , lit. <S> Steins;Gate <S> the Movie: <S> Loading Area of Déjà vu) and is scheduled to premiere in Japanese theatres on April 20, 2013. <S> That Wikipedia page cites this , which says: The sequel to the 2011 Steins;Gate television anime series will open in at least 30 theaters across Japan. <S> To summarize, the movie takes place after the anime series.

The events in the film occur in August 2011, a year after the ending of the anime where Okabe is ostensibly on the Steins;gate timeline.

What is the meaning of the title of Fruits Basket? The title of "Fruits Basket" seems to imply that there is some basket with fruits in it which is somehow relevant to the story. However, I imagine that a story about a literal basket of fruits would not be very interesting. What is the significance of the title? Is it referencing a literal basket of fruits or is it symbolizing something else? <Q> The Fruits Basket is a game where a player is assigned to one fruit (any fruit as long as it is a fruit). <S> Tohru was assigned by her friends to be the onigiri (rice ball, which obviously isn't a fruit), so she was left sitting alone because onigiri won't be called since onigiri isn't a fruit. <S> Reference here . <A> The fruits basket is metaphorical, not literal. <S> It represents how Tohru feels like an outsider in her family, at school and with the Sohmas, in the same way that an onigiri doesn't belong in a fruits basket. <S> In the manga, she is often represented as an onigiri. <A> It is a reference to a Tohru played in her childhood where everyone is given a name of a fruit. <S> However, some of the kids, who were pretty mean to her, labelled her as a rice ball (onigiri) <S> so the name of her "fruit" was never called out and she wasn't able to participate. <S> This also symbolizes how isolated she was as a child. <S> Also, in the manga, sometimes when one of the 12 zodiac speak, you can see a small picture of their specific animal when their face isn't in the panel. <S> In Tohru's case, we see a small picture of a rice ball instead. <A> Some anime titles are literally meaningless, however fruits basket is not one without meaning. <S> Tohru is like an outcast, fruits basket is like a musical chairs game, except it uses fruit names and Japanese kids play it. <S> In this anime, Tohru is like outcast by the group and called onigiri (not a fruit), and thus she was left out. <S> Thus the title would seem to be about how Tohru is different or outcast, and maybe finds her happiness with different people. <S> Fruits Basket game

It is also a metaphor on how Tohru can't belong to the Souma family as an onigiri won't belong to a Fruits Basket.

What happens if a Devil Fruit is destroyed? We know that if a Devil Fruit user dies, their fruit reappears (see In One Piece, does a Devil Fruit reappear after the user dies? ). However, this doesn't answer the question of what happens when the fruit gets destroyed without being eaten. I don't know if that's even possible, but I imagine so with sufficient effort. If a devil fruit is destroyed, would the fruit reincarnate in a nearby fruit (the same as when the user dies), or would it be destroyed for good? <Q> So destruction by power, physical force and or being eaten could be considered as being the same. <S> That being said, I would think the same thing would happen in any instance of it being 'destroyed' , it will 'respawn' and take on the form of it's closest 'relative' . <A> The only way you can get a canon answer is from the source. <S> Yet, seeing as there is no way to just destroy anything, this situation is completely void, since it would never happen, and would have no reason to. <S> Since canon won't happen, here's some speculation: Since nothing can be destroyed, whatever remains of the fruit (and there will be remains) will be eaten by bacterium. <S> After the bacteria dies, the fruit will be reborn. <S> So, I guess iKlsR was as right as you could hope for. <A> This question has been already answered here: In One Piece, does a Devil Fruit reappear after the user dies? <S> In summary, when the ability user dies, the ability reborns in another fruit.

I don't think you can separate destroyed and being eaten , eating a devil fruit in One Piece pretty much destroys it.

Is the Fruit of Grisaia an actual fruit? Having played a fair bit of -LE FRUIT DE LA GRISAIA- ( Grisaia no Kajitsu , literally "The Fruit of Grisaia"), I have to admit that the title has confused me more than anything else. It seems to have very little to do with the plot of the VN, at least so far. What is the meaning of the title? Is it titled after an actual fruit, and if so what is the fruit? Also, what significance does it have to the plot? <Q> According to this interview with Front Wing Producer, President, and CEO, Ryuuichirou Yamakawa: 山川 　 <S> 絵画の画法でモノトーンで書く手法を「グリザイユ」というのですが、これを少し、いじって『グリザイアの果実』つまり「灰色の果実」という意味が込められています <S> The word "grisaia" is a corruption of the French term used in art, " grisaille ," a method of painting in monochrome or near-monochrome, typically to resemble the appearance of marble sculptures. <S> The fruits refer "guilt" the heroines bear, as described by the story synopsis of the game: ── <S> その学園は、少女達の果樹園だった <S> 。 <S> 外敵から隔離された学園にやってきたのは、生きる目的をなくした一人の少年 <S> 。 <S> 守るべき物を見失い、後悔と贖罪のみに費やされる人生の中で、その少年に残されたのは首に繋がれた太い鎖と、野良犬にも劣る安い命 <S> 。 <S> そして少年は、その学園で少女達と出会い、新たな希望を見つけ出す <S> 。 <S> ─ <S> ─その少女は、生まれてきたことが既に間違いだった <S> 逆らった罪 <S> ── <S> ── <S> 生きながらの死 誰も守ってなんかくれない─ <S> ─ <S> ─ <S> ─そして生き残った罰。 <S> そこは、少女達の果樹園 <S> 。 <S> 彼女達は、後悔の樹に実った <S> 懺悔の果実 。そんな少女達に、俺はいったい何が出来る… <S> ？ <S> それは、一人の少年が夢見た永遠の希望 <S> ── <S> That academy – used to be the orchard of young girls. <S> A lonely boy, who lost his purpose to live, came to that isolated-from-the-foreign-enemies academy. <S> Lose sight of things that should be protected, he spends his life in living day by day with regret and atonement. <S> His life is cheaper than a stray dog when that heavy cangue still around his neck. <S> And then at that academy, the boy finds out his new hope in encountering with these girls. <S> ──That girl, who being born was already a mistake. <S> Who defied the sin── <S> ── <S> Who died though she’s living. <S> Who no one will protect── <S> [Note: translation corrected] <S> ── <S> and who being punished for surviving. <S> That place is the girls’ orchard. <S> The trees of regret bear the fruit of repentance of those girls. <S> What on earth can I do for these girls...? <S> That is the eternal hope which the lonely boy dreamt... <S> Each heroine is represented by a fruit: <S> Yumiko = grape <S> Suou = cherry Michiru = <S> lemon <S> Irisu = <S> strawberry <S> Sachi = <S> apple <A> Considering that the subtitle for it is in French, I'm making a logic jump by guessing "grisaia" <S> is just a conjugation/grammatical form of the word "grisait" or something close (I don't know french at all, but <S> then again it could be a classic case of the Japanese tripping up with a foreign language). <S> According to google, grisait means something between "intoxicate" and "fascinate" in french, so I guess the VN's title was going for "The Fruit of Intoxication"? <S> Sounds fairly plausible at least... <A> Grisaia is a bastardization of the French term Grisaille which refers a method of painting in monochrome. <S> Grisaille in Japanese is グリザイユ or gurizaiyu and the only difference in Japanese between Grisaia (グリザイア) and Grisaille is the last sound (yu in grisaille and a in grisaia). <S> The reason for the name and why the end is changed won't really come up until the third and last game in the series though.

So literally it's meant to be "the gray-colored fruit" or something like that.

When did people start calling "manga" as "mangos"? I've heard a lot of people jokingly spell "anime and manga" as "animus and mangos". I don't really know what an animu is, but I know that a mango* is a pretty delicious fruit: While those do look delicious, I don't see much connection to manga. It's probably just a silly misspelling that someone thought was amusing, and it caught on the same as any other meme. When did this "misspelling" originate, and is it actually a misspelling or is there some deeper reason behind why "manga" are sometimes spelled like this? *Technically, the correct plural for mango should be "mangoes" but I'm willing to chalk that up to bad spelling on the internet. <Q> It has nothing to do with the fruit. <S> They are derogatory versions of their associated words to make fun of the way they are mispronounced in English (with the "a" vs "ah" sound). <S> Unfortunately, I don't have any references. <S> Lurkmoar has a page dedicated to the anime/manga board on 4chan. <S> EDIT: <S> Just to clarify, I think people started using the "animu" and "mango" terms on /a/ <A> The joke is to make fun of Americans saying 'animes and mangas' seeing as there are no pluralization for these words, other fans joke that they are saying animus and mangos. <S> And this is what an <S> animu / animus is: Noun: animus <S> The basic impulses and instincts which govern one's actions. <S> A feeling of enmity, animosity or ill will. <S> (Jungian psychology) <S> The masculine aspect of the feminine psyche or personality. <A> Mango is a native fruit from the Philippines and is called Mangga in their language, which also has the same pronunciation of Manga (the Japanese comic book). <S> and it started to be viral in memes.

So I think Filipinos started to call Manga as mangos (real plural spelling is mangoes ), being it the plural of Mangga

What is the meaning of the title "Bad Apple", and which characters appear? The original video for Bad Apple!! is one of the most well-known Touhou videos. Here's the original, together with English subtitles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzEUeWnV73U Why is the song called Bad Apple? There is an apple in the video but I don't imagine that's why. It matches the lyrics decently, but it still seems like a strange name for a song. Also, all of the characters in the video are black and white silhouettes. Which characters are represented and in what order? <Q> The song "Bad Apple" was originally the stage 3 theme from Touhou 5 Lotus Land Story. <S> The popular version by Alstroemeria Records is a lyrical remix of that. <S> Because Elly was the boss for stage 3, she makes an appearance towards the end of the video despite being a minor character. <S> There isn't any real explanation in the game as to why the song would be called "Bad Apple". <S> Many original Touhou music pieces have names that don't really match the plot in any way, and as far as I know ZUN has never specifically explained this title. <S> However, it is true that the popularity of the remix may be in part because it casts the series in a somewhat darker and more serious tone than the ordinary moe artwork, as the name would suggest. <S> As for the characters, I'll list them in order of appearance. <S> The times correspond to when they first appear, and the names link to the relevant articles on Touhou Wiki. <S> 0:00 <S> Hakurei Reimu <S> (博麗 霊夢) <S> 0:15 <S> Kirisame Marisa <S> (霧雨　魔理沙) 0:28 <S> Patchouli Knowledge <S> (パチュリー・ノーレッジ) <S> 0:36 <S> Remilia Scarlet <S> (レミリア・スカーレット) <S> 0:45 <S> Izayoi Sakuya <S> (十六夜 咲夜) 0:50 <S> Flandre Scarlet <S> (フランドール・スカーレット) <S> 0:58 <S> Konpaku Youmu <S> (魂魄　妖夢) <S> 1:03 <S> Saigyouji Yuyuko (西行寺　幽々子) <S> 1:11 <S> Onozuka Komachi <S> (小野塚　小町) <S> 1:18 <S> Shiki Eiki Yamazanadu <S> (四季映姫・ヤマザナドゥ) 1:25 <S> Fujiwara <S> no Mokou <S> (藤原　妹紅) <S> 1:32 <S> Kamishirasawa Keine <S> (上白沢　慧音) <S> 1:39 <S> Yagokoro Eirin (八意　永琳) <S> 1:45 <S> Houraisan Kaguya <S> (蓬莱山　輝夜) <S> 1:51 <S> Prismriver Sisters (プリズムリバー三姉妹), from left to right, Lyrica, Merlin, and Lunasa 1:59 <S> Chen <S> (橙) 2:00 <S> Yakumo Ran (八雲　藍) <S> 2:01 <S> Inaba Tewi (因幡　てゐ) <S> 2:02 <S> Reisen Udongein Inaba <S> (鈴仙・優曇華院・イナバ) 2:05 <S> Inubashiri Momiji <S> (犬走　椛) <S> 2:07 <S> Kochiya Sanae <S> (東風谷　早苗) <S> 2:11 <S> Kagiyama Hina (鍵山　雛) <S> 2:12 <S> Yasaka Kanako (八坂　神奈子) <S> 2:15 <S> Moriya Suwako (洩矢　諏訪子) 2:22 <S> Yakumo Yukari (八雲　紫) 2:27 <S> Hinanawi Tenshi <S> (比那名居　天子) <S> 2:36 <S> Shameimaru Aya <S> (射命丸　文) 2:41 <S> Ibuki Suika <S> (伊吹 萃香) <S> 2:48 <S> Alice Margatroid <S> (アリス・マーガトロイド) <S> 2:54 <S> Kawashiro Nitori <S> (河城 にとり) 3:02 <S> Kazami Yuuka (風見　幽香) <S> 3:09 <S> Elly (エリー) <S> 3:20 Hakurei Reimu , PC-98 appearance 3:24 Kirisame Marisa , <S> PC-98 appearance <A> As Alana has already suggested, the generally accepted theory is that the title comes from the saying "One bad apple spoils the barrel" [1] , [2] , but I do not know whether this has been "officially" confirmed by ZUN himslef. <S> AFAIK the only thing ZUN has <S> explicitly stated about this song is that it is like his older composing styles, but since it fits the stage, it should be okay. <S> But then again, ZUN never reveals everything about his works. <S> It's also worth noting that this video is based on a very-quickly-made sketch (MS Paint stuff) by someone else. <S> The original "author" uploaded the "storyboard" saying "I want to see a video like this. <S> Somebody draw it please? <S> " This storyboard remained mostly unnoticed until more than a year later, when somebody with an ability on the level of drawing cool silhouettes came and uploaded the famous video. <S> The original "author" never said that the video should be in black & white, but it works very well. <S> Although the choices, the order, and the timing of the characters' appearances in that video follows the storyboard almost exactly, the comparison ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkHFbIIQ9Tg ) can be quite amusing. <A> Two of your questions have already been answered correctly (1 and 3). <S> To answer question 2, I believe the song is called 'Bad Apple!!' <S> and the lyrics describe someone who is a "Bad Apple", or someone bad to the point of being worthless, and the singer in the song wishes to change, and have her hateful heart go from "Black" to White". <A> My theory about the meaning is that the song is telling us that we have to make a choice in our life. <S> A very heavy and deep choice. <S> The choice gives us two options. <S> We can have a clean and pure heart, or a very dark heart. <S> It tells us to think hard, and don't choose right away. <S> Either way we choose we will still feel agony and joy. <S> I don't know for sure if it's the real meaning. <S> It's just the message I feel from the song. <S> I honestly don't care what the real meaning to the song is because they both are pretty good meanings. <S> Either way I will still listen to the song because it's a great song. <S> Tell me what you think it is. <S> I really would like to read your thoughts you guys!

because of how the lyrics correspond to the old saying "One bad apple", which refers to a rotten person, someone who is all around bad, etc. The song tells us either choice we make that we will both lose and gain something.

Why does Ryuk love apples? It is often seen in Death Note that Ryuk loves apple. Why is that? Do all Shinigami (Death Gods) love apples, is it the only food for Death Gods or does he just love apples? Also.. Is it to signify the apple as the forbidden fruit? <Q> If I remember correctly, Ryuuk said that apples in his world were dry and awful, but in human world they were "Juicy." <S> This is most likely the reason why he enjoys apples. <S> There's also probably some hidden meaning to it. <A> From the wiki Apples are Ryuk's favorite food and probably the only thing he eats. <S> Ryuk stated that apples are an addiction for him, like alcohol or cigarettes for humans. <S> Ryuk exhibits symptoms of withdrawal if he goes without eating apples for a while. <S> These symptoms include contorting his body into uncomfortable positions and desperation to the point that he will take orders for one (i.e. looking for hidden cameras in Light's room). <A> As Kai already mentioned : Ryuuk said that apples are dry and awful in his Shinigami Realm, and that the ones in the human world are juicy. <S> If I also remembered correctly, he let Misa have a bite of one of these apples from the Shinigami Realm <S> and she mentioned that it tasted like sand. <S> To answer the second part of your question: It is Ryuuk who loves apples. <S> Another Shinigami, called Sidoh, does love chocolate instead of apples. <A> I think the writer chose apples because they have both mythical and religious values , like in Adam and Eve's story or Newton and gravity. <S> Apples are native to the Mediterranean where civilization began, they have been cultivated for thousands of years and that's why they have such big attention.

He likes apples from the human world because they are "so juicy" .

Why do many anime OPs and EDs have onscreen lyrics? I have noticed that much, but by no means all, of the anime that I've seen has had lyrics onscreen during either its OPs, EDs, or both. Why is this so? I know karaoke is fairly popular in Japan, so do people actually sing along while they wait for their shows to start? Perhaps it is done to promote the songs licensed for the openings/endings? Some examples of what I'm talking about include: Shirokuma Cafe      Pokémon         Dragonball Kai      Doraemon Note: Emphasis mine in all of these images. As a bonus if you could include some information on these side issues, that'd be great: Is this exclusive to anime, or does it appear in other forms of Japanese media (e.g. music videos? OPs of live action dramas? etc.) Why are they almost never included in licensed English versions? What was the first anime to include them? Perhaps this is a slightly broad question, but I assume there must be some general consensus on the matter. Does anyone have an explanation for this phenomenon? :) <Q> I think this is only common among shows aimed at children. <S> All of the examples you gave were shows which are, at least partly, aimed at children. <S> Having karaoke for the song helps the younger viewers sing along, and also has some educational benefits in terms of learning more advanced characters. <S> If you watch anime targeted at older viewers, they rarely have karaoke. <S> It's also notable that those anime aimed at younger children are using only very common kanji that even children would probably know, and is giving furigana. <S> Those aimed at older children tend to have more complex kanji and sometimes omit the furigana as well. <S> This isn't apparent from just the exam <A> I think you hit it on the nail with the Karaoke connection. <S> Karaoke is extremely popular in Japan, so offering song subtitles is something of a no brainer. <S> Also, OPs and EDs are an integral part of an anime franchise, both as an identity and as a source of sales. <S> This could lead to increased loyalty for the title and increased sales for its merchandise, especially musical ones. <A> Some music animes or Idol animes such as Love Live gather fanbases that love to sing along. <S> This is also done when an anime is dubbed (the op/ed is some times given an eng translation along with karoake words. <S> Other animes seems to have no reason.

Putting the lyrics in plain view makes singing along with the songs a lot easier, which in turn makes them stick to a listener's brain.

Why does Naruto have whisker marks? Why does Naruto have whisker marks on his face? Does it have anything to do with the kyuubi inside him? Is it to signify that he is the host of the kyuubi or is it just a plain birthmark? Was it ever explained in the anime or manga? <Q> They're not actually whiskers. <S> Yes, this has to do with the kyuubi. <S> When Naruto was influenced by Kurama prior to birth, he gained the whisker marks: <S> — Naruto Uzumaki, Naruto Wiki <S> The reason Naruto's mother did not have them is because these are as a result of prolonged exposure (being in the womb) rather than the beast simply being sealed within the host. <S> Both of Naruto's kids, Bolt and Himawari, have two whisker marks on each cheek, neither of them is a Jinchuuriki <S> but both are the children of Kurama's Jinchuuriki, which implies that this is an inherited trait. <A> Naruto got the whisker marks from the nine-tailed fox while he was in his mom's uterus because they were both inside her at the same time and while naruto was in her uterus, the nine-tails probably had a little of his power given to Naruto. <A> There has never been a canon stated reason for the whisker marks in the story or by creator Masashi Kishimoto himself, so the acquisition of the whisker marks is still undetermined. <S> However, there are popular fan theories, like the other answers people have given here, for example. <S> Due to the fact that the only explanations so far have been fandom speculation, the wiki citation given in one of the other answers has since been removed from his wiki page for lack of confirmation or sources to back it up, if that clears up any confusion.

They're whisker marks , just marks on his face that resemble whiskers. Naruto's most prominent physical characteristics, however, are the whisker marks on his face that he gained from Kurama's influence on him while he was in Kushina's womb.  

Who's inside the third coffin that Orochimaru tried to summon? In the battle between Sarutobi Hiruzen and Orochimaru during the Chunin Exams, (on the rooftop where the Sound Four sealed them in a barrier) Orochimaru summoned the two previous Kages. He also tried summoning another coffin but Hiruzen successfully stopped it. Who was inside that third coffin? It can't be the Fourth Hokage right? Because that time, he was still under the Shiki Fuujin Seal. <Q> As can be seen on this image, it was indeed the 4th Hokage that Orochimaru tried to summon. <S> The kanji that appears in that coffin is 四 , which is the kanji for 4. <S> However, unlike you said in your question, Hiruzen did not stop this coffin. <A> Orochimaru tried to summon the Fourth Hokage. <S> The coffin did not open, because (as you already said) the Fourth Hokage was already sealed. <S> Orochimaru tried to summon him anyway, and failed. <A> There is a way to be the Fourth, but very unlikely. <S> In the anime, probably in the manga as well, Kabuto taught Obito Edo Tensei. <S> He got Danzou's bodyguards to show an example. <S> He kills one of them, take his DNA and start the ritual. <S> After it's complete, the dead guy is standing there, but he's not moving. <S> That makes me think that only the body was there, and not the shinobi's soul or mind. <S> As we saw in the Chikara filler arc, Kabuto tried to use some of the Akatsuki members but failed, saying that it was not enough time to use it yet. <S> That could mean that between successive the ritual, there is a cooldown time, maybe the time for his mind or soul take control of the host. <S> Considering this, the most probable thing is that it was the Fourth, but the ritual was made not so far in the past. <S> Orochimaru did complete the ritual, and had Minato, but he couldn't use him right away. <S> He tried to summon him on the fight, but because of the Shiki Fuujin, the host was not taken over by Minato's soul or mind. <S> Either Orochimaru didn't know about the sealing or didn't know about the cooldown time. <S> Minato died protecting the village, but many didn't know how. <S> Orochimaru maybe didn't know he was sealed, and that made the coffin to failed and he being surprised in the fight. <A> I see a lot of pro Fourth Hokage for who's in the coffin throughout all the Naruto posts. <S> Personally, I believe this could have been Madara . <S> Maybe originally in the series, it was meant to be the Fourth by how the first two were former Hokage, but as for current timeline, it was established the Fourth was trapped by the Death Seal so he could not be revived without the ritual Orochimaru had to perform much later in the series. <S> However, Kabuto did have Madara's coffin in the war which is probably a good indicator that it was probably <S> the 3rd coffin Orochimaru was going to use and why the 3rd was afraid of it. <A> Orochimaru, one of the legendary sanin might knew that the souls trapped by reaper death seal cannot be summoned. <S> So, there was no 4th hokage. <S> However, the kanji on the coffin reads 4. <S> It might be possible that there was 4th kazekage who was killed by orochimaru before the invasion on konoha. <S> Fortunately, hiruzen able to stop it by performing some hand seals. <A> Yes, it was the Fourth and it didn't fail because he was already sealed, as later on (much later) <S> Orochimaru summons the Fourth and the Third to fight in Chapter 329, I believe (not certain which episode). <A> The coffin said 4 <S> but it never specified <S> it was a hokage. <S> We were all under the assumption that it was a hokage because of the first and second, but it could have easily have been the kazekage.

It was the fact that the 4th Hokage was sealed with the Shiki Fuujin that prevented that summoning . It could have been the kazekage that Orochimaru killed and impersonated during the exams.

What happened at the end of Wasurenagumo? So at the end of Wasurenagumo , we have Mizuki: With the spider girl and Shu. Spider girl makes Mizuki fall into the giant spider, Shu doesn't seem to care, then we're back in the city and the spider girl is with Shu and she looks like Mizuki now (or other way around?) So did, Mizuki die (and Shu didn't care)? Was there an ulterior motive for killing Mizuki, who seems to have simply been at the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong person? <Q> The shopkeeper said it was over if he got caught in the web, which happened. <S> You could see the blue glare under the guy's eyes, which means he wasn't himself anymore. <S> He snapped out of it before because the girl got hurt, but after he got caught in the web again he was being controlled(?) again. <S> So maybe the spider-girl is now manipulating Suzuri and he's thinking she is Mizuki <A> Yes, Suzuri was caught by the web after Mizuki fell into the lake. <S> Because, if you did notice, at the scene where she let Mizuki fall from the web, the spider-girl looked more mature and grown up. <S> So she probably cut her hair to look like Mizuki afterwards <S> but I doubt that the girl with Suzuri at the ending was Mizuki. <A> Judging by the monster-wife the older shopkeeper seemed to have at the end, the story was more of a "Selkie" story. <S> The Spider-mom would attack the village if not given a sacrifice, until the monk sealed her in the lake. <S> The Spider-girl would take control of people using her webs, and force them to walk into the lake to feed her mom. <S> It seems that Suzuri was originally going to be sacrificed, but the Spider-girl had A <S> : Fallen for him, or B: wanted to repay his kindness and thus fed Mizuki to the Spider-mom and took her role as Suzuri's companion in Mizuki's form. <S> Lots of legends, both Japanese and European tell of women that were originally spirits, animals, or both, that can take on human form to be the wife of a human, such as Selkies or the Legend of the Swan. <S> Usually the myths end with the spirit wanting to return home, either leaving the husband or in some versions taking him with them. <S> As aficionados of old books, legends and myths, the two book-sellers would be familiar with these legends, as hinted at with the older man's "Wife" seen in the last few shots. <S> Whether there was any romantic reasons for the Spider-girl staying with Suzuri doesn't matter; most likely, she was using him to eventually find more food for her trapped mother. <S> It's mostly left up to the viewer what the Spider-Girl's intentions were and why she is staying with Suzuri in Mizuki's form. <A> All the answers before this are pretty spot on. <S> "Don't fall in the web". <S> Both Suzuri and Geppou were "ensnared"/infatuated in some way by monster people; Suzuri by the Spider girl and Geppou by an unknown one (slime/mist?) <A> well I don't think so, cause the spider girl is more likely a youkai which means some spirit ghost creature. <S> I believe the girl at the end is Mizuki transformed or possessed by the spider girl. <S> Just the last frames make me believe <S> its likely so, its starts as Mizuki grow longer hair changes hair colour and so on.

My guess is that she was eaten or whatever by the spider-mum and the girl who was with Suzuri was the spider-girl.

Why can't Rock Lee use ninjutsu or genjutsu? Why is Rock Lee unable to use ninjutsu or genjutsu? <Q> He simply has no talent whatsoever for it . <S> However, since he decided to be a great ninja nonetheless, he had to excel at Taijutsu. <S> Taijutsu - it was the only bright spot for Lee who was told unequivocally that he had no talent for being a shinobi. <S> 1 <S> Ordinarily, the inability to perform both Ninjutsu and Genjutsu would mean that life as a ninja would be impossible . <S> But in Lee's case, his closeness to Gai as his Sensei, made him somewhat 'inherit' his hard-working resolve as well as his training habits, which combined (also with Gai interest in Lee) have allowed him to fulfill his dream. <S> Lee's case is similar to Naruto's, in that they both achieve greatness through hard-work, rather than natural talent. <S> Some people are naturally gifted toward some types of technique, like Neji or Sasuke, while others may never have any talent and thus not be fit to become a ninja. <S> Lee's case is the latter, but his determination was what drove him to not give up , becoming an excellent ninja at Taijutsu. <S> He differs from a regular person, most likely, in sheer will, since (as I've said before) not every person is fit to be a ninja . <S> 1 <S> Naruto: <S> The Official Character Data Book <A> You must have noticed that not all in the Hidden Leaf village are ninjas as they don't possess those skills to manipulate their and others chakra. <S> Hidden Leaf in the Shinobi village of the Fire Country and yet not all are ninjas. <S> In the Shinobi Allied Forces, around 30,000 shonobis were there which included ninjas from all 5 nations' villages. <S> So you get the idea that among a population of millions only 30,000 were fit to be ninjas. <A> If I recall correctly it has something to do with the lack of physical development in his "chakra coils", meaning he couldn't produce or control chakra like an average ninja can.

In the Naruto universe, only a few are born with the talents of Ninjutsu and Genjutsu.

What happened to Konohamaru's parents? It is known that Konohamaru is the grandson of the Third Hokage. Asuma is shown to be one of the Third Hokage's sons, but he is clearly named as Konohamaru's uncle. Are Konohamaru's parents ever shown and is their lack of appearance ever explained? <Q> In Boruto Oneshot it is revealed that Konohamaru's parents were elite jounins part of the Anbu. <S> It is not specified if they are still alive or not. <A> They weren't mentioned. <S> My guess is that they were alive and well, but just weren't important enough to be mentioned. <S> Much like how Jiraiya's parents weren't mentioned (though Jiraiya did make a remark about them being alive, while Orochimaru's weren't). <S> If they had been dead, we can assume it would have affected Konohamaru's personality in the same way it affected Naruto and Sasuke. <A>

Konohamaru's parents were never mentioned, neither in the anime, nor in the manga. Maybe his parents died on a mission, or they were still alive and simply never mentioned.

Why doesn't Kakashi use his copy ability that often? Kakashi is known as "the copy cat ninja". The Ninjas from the other countries call Kakashi the Copy Cat Ninja because of his Sharingan and how he uses it for his advantage (Copying moves). But he does not use his power to copy very often (or at least not anymore). It is only shown around 3-4 times that he actually copies and uses it against somebody. Why does he not use this power more often? <Q> What everyone was saying was partially correct. <S> The Sharingan is a kekkei-genkai made for the Uchiha Clan. <S> Since Kakashi isn't native to this clan, he's only able to use his Sharingan after once in awhile. <S> As said before, he used it in the beginning of the series and was out for about a week or two from using too much chakra. <S> Consumption of all of your chakra will cause you to die. <S> Now with his Mangekyo Sharingan, he cannot use it much. <S> The example that comes quickly to my head is when Kakashi and Naruto were chasing Deidara during the Gaara Retrieval arc. <S> Kakashi specifically quoted that, "We have to end this soon. <S> I can only activate the Mangekyo probably one more time." <S> In the current manga, he can only keep up with using his Mangekyo Sharingan with the help from the Kyuubi's aura/chakra. <S> It consumes way too much chakra for him . <A> All the comments are correct but the truth is that his body isn't built for Sharingan. <S> He uses it because it was implanted as a gift from a dying friend <S> but there's more to Kekkai Genkai than just the gift. <S> It's sort of like the Hyuga clan with the Byukaggan. <S> If you notice there's a network of veins that support their eyes. <S> If their eyes were stolen it's likely this network of veins wouldn't exist in the new user and therefore might strain the user's body. <S> In the same way Kakashi's body isn't built for extended Sharingan use. <S> Sure, he can use it more than someone who had it newly implanted <S> but he's not an Uchiha. <S> Where Sasuke can use it for very extended periods of time and even strain it Kakashi can not. <A> The answer might be even simpler than we though. <S> Kakashi is the copy ninja, he is the one who has copied 1,000 jutsus. <S> Why doesn't he used the copy ability of sharingan? <S> Here's why. <S> He has copied the jutsu already, thus no need for him to copy it again. <S> The jutsu is not copy-able, such as the Hyouton Kekkei Genkai. <S> He can copy it but the jutsu is not worthy of being copied. <A> Hence he could copy 1000 techniques and not show it because there are no perfect enemy he could use his techniques on.

Even if he copied it, he can't use it due to not having enough chakra to perform it. Actually Kakashi copies techniques but not everything because only few of them are compatible.

How does Charmander breathe fire? Charmander is a small lizard-like Pokémon. It is a fire-type Pokémon, and is capable of breathing fire. How do Charmander and its evolved forms do this? Is there any biological basis for it, and is it ever explained in canon? <Q> I don't think our known biology can be applied to Pokemon. <S> Blastoise has cannons, for instance, and Pikachu can shoot electricity (is not the same be able to create electricity to shock predators that attack you and actually shooting it). <S> I mean, we could make theories about how they can do all those things, but the designers just didn't think about it. <S> It would be an interesting pastime, but pretty pointless, because they would be just that, theories. <A> It might hard to elaborate with a canonical explanation. <S> The only things I can think of are: Charmander might store methane gas in his stomach, like other living things do. <S> His stomach might be specialized for compressing gases numerous times (enough to breath fire ) <S> Methane is lighter than air, so it can be presumed to be one of the reasons that Charizard can fly. <A> I read an article a while back which theorized that Pokemon were beings composed of energy rather than matter. <S> This also explains how they can be stored in computers and Pokeballs. <S> See this video <S> it's not the original article that I read <S> but it covers the basic idea.

His throat or digestive system might include something that can make sparks, which would bring the fire from his belly.

What are all of Rin's cats that have names? Of all the cats that have names, which cat is given which name (provide a picture or a description of its features)? How did Rin come up with these names? <Q> Rin names her cats after famous people. <S> These are the ones I know of (collected from TVTropes , the Little Busters! <S> Wiki , Wikipedia , and other sources): <S> Dorj (a nickname of Asashōryū Akinori ): <S> Gates ( Bill Gates ): Unknown appearance. <S> Fabre ( Jean-Henri Fabre ): <S> A rather chubby cat. <S> Einstein ( Albert Einstein ): Unknown appearance. <S> Lennon ( John Lennon ), on the right: Tezuka ( Osamu Tezuka ): <S> A shiny, blue (female) cat. <S> Schumacher <S> ( Michael Schumacher ): Unknown appearance. <S> Hitler ( Adolf Hitler ): <S> A spotted cat. <S> Audrey ( Audrey Hepburn , I think): Unknown appearance. <S> Jackie ( Jackie Chan ): Unknown appearance. <S> Aristotle ( no first name ): Unknown appearance. <S> Isoroku <S> ( Isoroku Yamamoto ): <S> A small, grey kitten. <S> Cobain ( Kurt Cobain ): Unknown appearance. <S> Fedor ( Fedor Emelianenko ): Unknown appearance. <S> Hokusai ( Katsushika Hokusai ): Unknown appearance. <S> Yusaku, or Matsuda <S> ( Yusaku Matsuda ): Unknown appearance. <S> However, you will notice how many are labelled "unknown" above; these are ones whose appearance I'm unsure of. <S> These appear to be all of the cats she's named, but as she does not always name them directly or identify which one is which, determining their actual appearance is not always possible <S> *. <S> * <S> If I discover more appearances, I will add them upon discovery. <A> The following list is mostly from TVTropes , with a couple of extras added in. <S> Note that all of them are named after famous people in history. <S> Lennon, Dorj, Hitler, Audrey, Kobain, Tezuka, Gates, Einstein, Fedor, Aristotle, Hokusai, Jackie Chan, and Matsuda. <S> It is well-known that Lennon is the white cat which is often on her shoulder, and Dorj is the particularly fat cat which is occasionally confused for a seal. <S> However, most of these are going to be difficult to identify. <S> They may not be described anywhere individually. <S> Because of that, a complete answer is likely to be very difficult. <S> Also, Rin seems to get more cats every time the series is adapted, so a complete answer may be very difficult. <S> The above list only includes ones which are present in the visual novel. <A> Other names were mentioned, and many more cats were shown onscreen, but we weren't told which was which, not even in the case of Dorj. <S> As for the visual novel, this neta collection lists these twenty names for Rin's cats: <S> Lennon <S> Einstein <S> Akutagawa <S> Aristotle <S> Irfan Audrey Guts <S> Gates <S> Cobain <S> Jackie <S> Schumacher <S> Tezuka <S> Hitler <S> ( Isoroku ) <S> Fedor Fabre Hokusai Mendelssohn <S> Yuusaku <S> Miles <S> Dorj

In the anime, only the following four pet cats of Rin can be identified with a name: (I put the episode number when we first learned of their identity in parentheses): Lennon (ep 1): Isoroku (ep 2): Fabre (ep 4): Tezuka (ep 20):

Why kill instead of question? When the crime coefficient of an individual rises high enough, the Dominators are set to kill them when possible, seemingly by exploding them from inside. This causes some problems: The police lose their chance to question their suspect, possibly hampering ongoing investigations (including information on Makishima). It is ethically questionable to destroy someone's body; Japanese culture would probably want an intact body for a proper mourning and funeral. Of course, maybe the Lethal Eliminator just looks cool enough, but are there better explanations? <Q> The police lose their chance to question their suspect, possibly hampering ongoing investigations (including information on Makishima). <S> The premise in the series is that Sybil can identify any criminal with a simple mental scan, and most of the city is scanned constantly for stress levels and such. <S> Hence, killing off a criminal won't hamper any sort of investigation, because all criminals are found just in time. <S> In other words, there is no such thing as organized crime, because the rigorous scanning measures always detect everything in the city. <S> ... <S> Which is of course flawed. <S> Individuals like Makishima can't be detected. <S> However, as we learn later in the series, such "criminals" have a special role in the system, so we can ignore them. <S> It is ethically questionable to destroy someone's body; Japanese culture would probably want an intact body for a proper mourning and funeral. <S> Sybil has crafted a peaceful society by making objective, calculated decisions. <S> It has determined that an individual with a criminal coefficient greater than 300 has no salvation, and is only a danger for everyone else. <S> I think it is a key feature of the series to display a society that is culturally different from ours. <A> The idea behind a Dominator is two fold: First <S> the most common reason for the kill state is that the person is no longer capable of rehabilitation. <S> Their psycho-pass is so far gone that rehabilitation is a waste of time and means and Sibyl sees it as pointless, thus elimination. <S> Second, Sibyl has an agenda. <S> Sibyl can seek to silence a specific person for it's own sake or for another reason. <S> On the flip side of the coin Sibyl can also choose to keep someone alive that it knows is evil for it's own purposes. <S> It is usually the first case as the number of people Sibyl truly has interest in <S> is very small but Sibyl is by no means objective. <A> The Sybil system has largely replaced most of the cultural values and critical thinking. <S> Later in the series a way to circumvent the system is found, and someone begins to mercilessly beat a woman to death on a crowded sidewalk. <S> No one cares or even flinches. <S> The only problem the system detects is that the woman is under a great deal of stress. <S> It kindly suggests she chill out. <S> Since it reports no real problems, people just curiously look on, if they bother at all. <S> We could argue that our instincts would lead to some reaction, but in this story they are completely unphased. <S> The loss from instant execution is the price paid to have such assurances that you are safe and do not have to think. <S> In our world, execution is performed on extreme criminals after sufficient evidence has been found. <S> Sybil was a way to get that evidence business handled in a second, rather than months or years. <S> As a side note, part of the motivation for the 'bad guys' is the torpor and ennui caused by this state of non-criticality and predetermined lives. <A> In the Psycho-Pass universe, they don't care as much about catching guilty people, they care more about eliminating people (either by death or rehabilitation) who they see as a threat to their society. <S> It's also established that in their society has been going on so long that people are so unused to crime (outside people that have identified by Sybil), that they are very unlikely to commit a crime or even really comprehend it. <S> This is shown by the fact that "normal" people have no idea how to deal with any sort of crime if they were to witness one. <S> That implies to me that crime, despite how much its shown in the show, is supposed to be very rare, and most people are pretty incapable of committing one. <S> People believe that the Sybil system will generally catch people before that point where they are in a mindset where they are capable of committing a crime, and therefore they do not have time to commit a premeditated crime like organized crime. <S> So I assume that most have the most likely erroneous belief that because of these factors, things like organized crime do not exist, and therefore investigations aren't all that necessary anyways. <A> Psyco-pass is a dystopia and AI controlled society anime. <S> In story of this category, All human was dominated by AI. <S> The world of Psyco-pass is controlled by AI (Sibyl System).AI will decide everything include who should be killed. <S> The police lose their chance to question their suspect, possibly hampering ongoing investigations (including information on Makishima). <S> If police side people (like protagonist) know something, nothing changed. <S> Because AI decide the penalty instead of human. <S> It is ethically questionable to destroy someone's body; Japanese culture would probably want an intact body for a proper mourning and funeral. <S> Right, Japanese have funerals with body. <S> Maybe that scene was created for emphasize how AI is cold and dark side of AI controlled societies.

Lastly, people believe that Sybil will inevitably catch anyone who has committed a crime eventually anyways, since they believe those people will always have a high crime coefficient.

Is Ika Musume the only humanoid squid creature? In Shinryaku! Ika Musume (Squid Girl), the protagonist is a strange creature called Ika Musume who looks almost like a young girl, but has a number of strange squid-related abilities, such as spitting ink and using her hair as tentacles. She is also intent on invading humanity. Are there any similar squid-like humanoids in the series, or is she the only one of her kind? <Q> As far as I know, she's the only squid-like humanoid shown in the series. <S> Though there is a miniatured version of her that appeared on people's dream, mostly Sanae's ( source ). <S> The first syllables of her name spell out 'tako' (たこ?), meaning octopus. <A> It was implied during the playing house episode that she has parents that are like her as she said that she was mimicking her father when she said "I want shrimp!"Also in the manga when she was talking to the school children with the teacher who is jelous of her about sea creatures, she pretty much said that her species lives deep in the ocean where there isn't any light from the sun <S> and they communicate by flashing their bioluminescence. <S> I also like to think that their species isn't big on specific names, so <S> I think it's funny to call her dad <S> "Ika oto-san" <A> I don't think she's alone, Kozue implied that at the end of season one. <S> And besides, There would have to be more so that ika could have been born.

In the last episode of Squid Girl, she met a girl named Kozue Tanabe which is implied that she also comes from the sea, as she has a hat similar to Squid Girl's and makes statements that indicate she isn't human.

Does every ninja become a jonin? In Naruto, a number of ninjas have become jonin, such as Neji and Kakashi. Does every ninja who becomes a chunin by definition become a jonin if they live long enough, or do some remain a chunin forever? <Q> No not everyone will become a Jonin. <S> As you may have noticed, some ninja like Naruto don't even become Chuunin. <S> Naruto is a rare example however. <S> In order to become a jonin, a ninja must be extremely skilled. <S> Jōnin are generally able to use at least two types of elemental chakra, some genjutsu, and above average taijutsu skills. <S> They are usually also appointed to A and/or S ranked missions alone while those under the Jonin rank usually go with a team, or not at all. <A> If you think about this from a real world military viewpoint, it is like asking if every recruit becomes a commanding officer. <S> The answer is no . <S> Also as related, keep in mind that not all academy students become Chūnin , so that might apply here too. <S> And as per the wiki <S> It is as of yet unknown what one has to undergo to become one. <S> It is mentioned that jōnin are appointed, however there was mention of a Jōnin Exam in the anime's Kurama Clan Arc. <S> When a ninja becomes a jōnin, they may be assigned a three-man genin team to supervise. <S> And then there is also this guy.. <S> Kosuke Maruboshi <S> who even though by choice , has been a genin for over 50 years. <S> This could also apply to your question. <A> Some become Chunin, some become Jonin. <S> No one knows how they become Jonin, but in the Anime both appointments and exams are mentioned as a way to become Jonin. <A> I know it's like a ranking. <S> You have to undergo an exam or a test to be one ranking higher... <S> I don't know if this sequence is correct: genin, chuunin, jonin... <S> In the 1st episode of naruto shippuuden, it is known that naruto is the only one that's still a genin, others were chuunin and jonin. <S> There are other ninjas that maybe are still on the same level or ranking.

Only power- and skillful ninja will become Jonin.

Why do Lala's inventions always turn out to be defective? Lala's inventions in To-Love-Ru are always defective, mostly the cause of problems in every episodes. But why are Lala's inventions defective when Peke once explained (Motto To-Love-Ru Episode 6 "Night Tutor" to be exact) about how universally genius Lala is? <Q> Looking at the list of Lala's invention on Wikipedia page of To-LOVE-ru - Japanese version ), or a less complete list on To-LOVE-ru Wikia , most of Lala's invention has caused some sort of trouble as seen in the source material. <S> There are a number of inventions which are created and used right away without testing. <S> For example, unnamed drug in chapter 54 of original series, given to Rito when he disguises as his father during Mikan's house visit. <S> There are a number of inventions which explodes, or activates too easily, or not idiot-proof. <S> There are a number of inventions which has unwanted side-effects. <S> For example, Pyon-Pyon Warp-kun usually only warps living things, leaving the person naked after warped. <S> However, there are a number of inventions which are mostly stable, such as Peke, D-Dial and the expansion to Rito's house. <S> She is a genius in the sense that she can quickly create a working proof-of-concept. <S> However, since she is not making a product, she doesn't feel a need to make her inventions practical, safe-to-use and idiot-proof. <A> The inventions are a plot device. <S> If they weren't defective or otherwise used in the wrong way, there wouldn't be that much to tell. <A> According to Wikipedia : Although Lala appears to be somewhat air-headed, she is well known on Deviluke for her genius-level intellect and enjoys making all manners of inventions, often prompting some disastrous effect or another. <S> As far as I recall, the defects in Lala's inventions tend to be side-effects rather than anything else. <S> For instance, personal teleportation device being an undressing personal teleportation device instead. <S> So it seems coherent to me with her being depicted as both an airhead and a genius.

My theory is that all of Lala's inventions are work-in-progress or proof-of-concept , and the more an invention is used (which is equivalent to testing), the more stable it is.

Was there ever a Pokemon game based off the Orange Islands? Did they ever release a Pokemon game dealing with the Orange Island League? I was thinking and I remembered that each Pokemon anime series followed the same route as the games as far as getting the badges, but I wanted to know if they ever released a Pokemon game that dealt with Ash's adventures in the Orange Islands. If they did what is the name of the game? If they didn't, why not? <Q> There is no game located in the Orange Islands. <S> Perhaps the closest game would be Fire Red/Leaf Green where the player could explore Sevii Islands. <S> There are arguments that this was inspired by the Orange Islands, but I haven't found any proof. <S> There have been player modded games fitting in with the Orange Islands - Example , but no official release. <S> Reference <S> According to this answer on another site , the Orange Island plot was half-hearted and this probably meant that there was no real push for a related game on that end. <A> By the end of the first season, Pokemon: Gold and Silver (Johto games) was still unreleased so the anime had to create a filler arc involving the GS ball and the Orange League to stall time. <S> The Pokemon anime is based on the games and therefore could not go straight ahead and do the Johto saga if the game it's based on isn't released yet. <S> The Orange Islands is probably loosely based on the Sevii Islands from FireRed and LeafGreen but still debatable. <A> Some romhacks have been made/are under construction about them though.: <S> Pokemon Orange Islands (Complete) <S> https://forum.silphco.io/threads/pokemon-orange-islands.69/ <S> Pokemon Orange https://forum.silphco.io/threads/pokemon-orange-hoty-2017.67/ <S> Pokemon Naranja: https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=54546

There are no official games made by Nintendo about the Orange Islands.

What are the transmutation circles in Fullmetal Alchemist based on, if anything? The transmutation circles in Fullmetal Alchemist always looked familiar to me, but I could never place my finger on why. What, if anything, are they based on? <Q> This site has a note about "Squaring the circle" , describing a utilization of circles: <S> Attributed to Michael Maier , a German alchemist from the 17th century. <S> That gives you the generalized "simple" transmutation circle: <S> I don't know of a complete list of them <S> but some of them can be seen in Annibal Barlet's works or other symbols from the 17th century . <S> The inscriptions themselves seem to mostly come from George Ripley's 12 Gates . <A> Circles are a relatively major thing in alchemy. <S> Ouroboros symbols were sigils in alchemy dating back to Cleopatra, and they depict a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. <S> The symbols in the circle are mostly alchemic symbols. <S> The one on the the bottom left on the outside looks like the symbol for iron ore or the symbol for male. <S> Going clockwise from that is what looks like either copper ore or female, a symbol I can't identify, one of the symbols for regulus, another symbol I can't identify, and sal-ammoniac. <S> ( Source ) <S> Some Renaissance alchemic images have circles with words in them. <S> Squaring the circle was another major part of Renaissance alchemic ideas. <S> It was believed that this symbol plus a man and a woman in the circle was all that was needed to create a philosopher's stone . <S> A full explanation can be seen here . <S> The Seal of Solomon is another similar image. <S> According to here : <S> In alchemy, the combination of the fire and water symbols (up and down triangles) is known as the Seal of Solomon. <S> The symbol is representative of the combination of opposites and transmutation. <S> By combining the alchemical symbols for fire (upwards triangle) and water (downwards triangle), the alchemical symbols for earth and air are also created. <S> The downwards facing triangle is divided along the center by the base line of the opposite triangle. <S> This is the alchemical symbol for earth. <S> Conversely, the upwards triangle divided by the base line of the downwards triangle is the alchemical symbol for air. <S> The Seal of Solomon is all that is unified in perfect balance; the Spirit Wheel. <S> It's seems to be pretty much a compilation of different alchemic elements. <A> Yes, those are the symbols for the four base elements. <S> But there are also two more very important parts to the circle. <S> The center point which represents origin, time and growth, as well as an outer circle that represents the womb, the ether and protection. <S> There are many more aspects and details to Solomon's circle than that. <S> In fact, for such a simple symbol it is quite complex.

The symbols used in some of the more complex circles are old alchemic symbols or variations of them.

How does Jigglypuff not fall asleep from its own song? Jigglypuff's song is seen to be extremely effective in putting people and Pokemon to sleep, but how does it not fall asleep from its own singing? Shouldn't it at least fall asleep after it's done? <Q> At first: As kuwaly mentioned, normally no one falls asleep while singing a lullaby. <S> That's most likely the reason, but there are other possible points: <S> Like in the game, Pokémon using Sing aren't affected by the attack. <S> This was most likely done to make this move usable, and was copied in the anime so the viewers aren't confused. <S> Some of the Pokédex-entries suggest, that you need to look in the eyes of Jigglypuff to be affected. <S> As a Jigglypuff can't look itself in the eyes, it can't fall asleep. <S> You can read the entries on Bulbapedia . <S> I also think I remember other Jigglypuffs falling asleep, too, but I'm not sure. <S> That would mean, that Jigglypuffs aren't immune to the singing, but just aren't affected by their own attack. <A> This can be answered well with typical concepts of biology. <S> While no species (to the best of my knowledge) is known that can send other individuals to sleep by singing, practically every species produces some kind of natural products that are fatal or unpleasant to others. <S> Consider, for example, tetrodotoxin known as the poisonous ingredient of pufferfish or fugu. <S> Tetrodotoxin acts by inhibiting nervous sodium channels and thereby inhibits nerve signal transfer. <S> This should affect all higher vertebrates that rely on nervous signaling. <S> It is not produced by the fish itself but by numerous bacterial symbiontic species. <S> They are not the only species to use this toxin as a defence mechanism; among others, so does the rough-skinned newt . <S> Naturally, it is interesting that all species harbouring these bacteria seem immune to tetrodotoxin. <S> However, even more interesting is the fact that the common garter snake , a natural predator of the rough-skinned newt, has also developped some immunity. <S> This could be traced back to a modification of said sodium channels that render them immune against tetrodotoxin. <S> A similar mechanism could and should be acting with respect to jigglypuff’s song. <S> Potentially, one could assume that singing was either a method of self-defence (a sleeping predator cannot attack jigglypuff) or an attack method (a sleeping victim cannot run away). <S> In any case, if jigglypuff were able to sing itself to sleep, that would be evolutionarily very unfavourable since it would present an easy target. <S> Therefore, evolution probably selected those jigglypuffs who were able to withstand their own singing (and possibly also those, who enjoyed other jigglypuffs’ singing). <S> This gave them an advantage in survival. <S> The exact mechanism by which jigglypuffs’ singing does not sing themselves to sleep would have to be researched by pokémon researchers in the pokéworld. <S> However, I present the hypothesis that their nervous system reacts to the stimuli in a different way than other animals, humans and pokémon, possibly due to a different, yet to be discovered signalling molecule mutation. <A> To whoever said you needed to look into its eyes, the Neon City episode in the anime had people falling asleep when they weren't looking into Jigglypuff's eyes. <S> Maybe all Jigglypuff have different songs and ears, so the user of the song can't hear itself sing.

What I think is that Jigglypuff can't hear itself when it sings.

Is Black Rock Shooter the only anime soundtrack that features vocaloid singers? Black Rock Shooter 's opening theme is sung by Miku Hatsune. Are there any other anime soundtracks that incorporate a vocaloid singer (or a similar synthesized voice program) such as Miku? <Q> It's probably going to be pretty rare for anime soundtracks to be featured with a Vocaloid singer, since the talent tie-ins and money for making anime want to promote their in-house talent so they want to use their own (live) singers. <S> You can see a lot of famous vocaloid producers get hired for their music but instead of the vocaloid voice track, they use in-house talent for the voice: ryo(supercell) <S> gets hired by Sony Music to make Bakemonogatari's ED, "Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari" , but sung by Yanagi Nagi kz(livetunes) gets hired by Sony Music to produce the song "Irony" for Oreimo , but sung by ClariS Toku-P had one of his existing Vocaloid songs "Color" used for the Freezing OP , but sung by MARiA 40mP also had one of his Vocaloid songs "Evidence" used for one of the Fairy Tail OPs , but sung by DaisyxDaisy source <A> Jon Lin's answer is good, so I don't think I have anything to add in that direction. <S> As he says, using Vocaloid singers for songs of full-length anime (rather than animated music videos) is rather uncommon. <S> It sometimes happens that a Vocaloid singer will be used in early stages of production, but by the time they are ready to release the song it's usually done by a live singer, which is generally more profitable. <S> I only know of <S> two instances of Vocaloids being used other than in <S> the Black Rock Shooter shows (which you mentioned). <S> Both of these were atypical. <S> The ending of episode 13 of Akikan! <S> (the final episode) used Miku (as Mikkuchu Juuchu). <S> However, each episode of Akikan! had the same song (Koisora Recycling) sung in a different arrangement by Nomiko, sometimes with guest artists, so Miku wasn't really the focus. <S> Meguriau Sekai, a 15-minute low-budget independent anime, has an insert song by Miku called Wish <S> : Kutsuhimo o Musunde. <S> I was not able to find this song anywhere, though if you can find the anime it plays from 12:00 until the end. <S> This was very likely done to keep costs low. <S> The anime only has one voice actor, and licensing a professional musician would probably have been beyond their budget. <S> I searched for any other anime with Vocaloid songs, but I was not able to find any for the top 10 or so most popular Vocaloids. <A> Paprika , a 2006 anime movie, has a theme song called "The Girl in Byakkoya" by Susumu Hirasawa which was sung by Vocaloid LOLA . <S> It's considered as the first anime movie to use Vocaloid in its OST. <S> The last track, "The Girl in Byakkoya", features three spoken lines in Vietnamese. <S> The soundtrack is significant for being the first made for a film to use a Vocaloid (using the Lola voicebank) for some vocals. <S> From Wikipedia article of Paprika <S> You can listen to the song and download it freely on Susumu's official website . <A> Episode 6 of Watashi ga Motenai <S> no wa <S> Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui was sung by Miku, but it's kinda sad that it was only for an episode. <S> And it seems like it wasn't even an original song, I think, but just a cover. <S> Not sure, though.

If there are any others, they are low-budget independent productions like Meguriau Sekai, since a high budget show using Vocaloid songs would probably be notable enough that it would be documented in many places.

Why does Tetsuo say "I am Tetsuo" at the end of Akira? At the end of Akira , there is a massive power release; then: Tetsuo manages to gain full control over his powers, and these abilities end up creating a new Big Bang in another dimension. After this event, Tetsuo says the following: "I am Tetsuo." Why did he say this? What meaning does it have? <Q> Testuo (probably like Akira before him) finally gains full control of his powers, and uses it to initiate the creation of a new universe. <S> This is the real Tetsuo, he is saying. <S> His essence without the limiting shell of his mortal body. <S> The pure energy of his being distilled into a pocket universe. <A> I think I may disagree a little here, since one of the main themes of the film is evolution and the main subtext is about puberty, (Tetsuo being unable to "control his body" and his inability to "ride Kaneda's bike") <S> I think Tetsuo simply reached the next step in our plane of existence. <S> Like Akira, Tetsuo has accepted his role as a superior being; however, since he is aware of the damage that he creates (told through dream sequences, and Kaneda's exploration of his psyche), he is also partly human. <S> He is aware of any and all change around him, including the change within himself. <S> He undergoes a total metamorphosis, completing his evolutionary destiny. <S> By recognizing that he is a supreme being with mortal qualities, he comes to accept himself thus his statement, that he's neither the experiment known as #41, nor is he the resentful boy, he is and has always been, Tetsuo. <A> "I am Tetsuo" is a great and memorable line, but albeit a tricky one to decipher. <S> I believe the intent is to serve two points to the audience, anything further might be reading too much into it. <S> The first point serves to inform to the user that Tetsuo is still "alive" (as in he' still out there), but not necessarily in a physical sense. <S> The second point serves to point out to the audience the individual entity know as "Tetsuo" still exists. <S> Not as part of Akira or as a new merged entity, but as Tetsuo in one form or another. <S> Though this doesn't necessarily doesn't explain or foreshadows anything, it's a reminder to the audience that somewhere in the vastness of space of that world... <S> Tetsuo is out there. <A> This directly correlates to the ending of the manga when Kaneda is trapped inside the energy wave as Akira engulfs Tetsuo to keep him from getting too out of control. <S> Those pages talk about the initial genetic testing on humans which led the test subjects towards a new step in evolution. <S> The conclusion being the possibility of creating a new universe via the powers granted through genetic manipulation and high doses of experimental drugs over subsequent generations of test subjects. <S> Ultimately, the power talked about in both the film and the comic is "the power". <S> It is the power that drives physics, chemistry, and all of life. <S> It is the power to both create and destroy. <A> I do not negate or confirm whether he has created a new universe or just come to terms with his pubescent angst... <S> I would say it is just as likely that he is merely coming to terms with death ? <S> But, what is the difference? <S> That is the beauty of the story. <S> It could be all three... <S> I mean, creating a new universe and now becoming its god, that's insane. <S> Not to say impossible, but in our view it would be the same as death. <S> I am curious about the puberty undertones, I can see that <S> but I have to say undertone , no more. <S> I feel that Akira is social commentary at it's peak and puberty <S> may be a theme, but not the main one. <S> I like the idea of a new universe <S> but I feel that it is not obviously stated. <S> Yet I cannot deny that it is a great analysis of the ending. <S> So, having never read the manga, because I am a cheap jerk or whatever, I feel that Tetsuo dies. <S> He dies, only in our eyes. <S> It is a perfect ending. <S> We do not know what comes after death, and I agree the theme is about the Star Child, human evolution, 2001 Space Odyssey, etc. <S> So all these interpretations are essentially the same ending. <S> AMAZING. <S> I don't know. <S> AKIRA! <S> Every time I watch it I am blown away. <S> Tears. <S> Amazed. <S> Or as Kei said, "Fantastic." <A> I believe that Tetsuo had created a new world to inhabit as a higher power and not in a firey passion but in a benevolent society. <S> Perhaps he had just said I am Tetsuo to to hint at his conciouaness thrives on.

In effect he is now the creator god of this new universe, and he proclaims this at the end: "I am Tetsuo" It is due to he and Akira moving on to another plane of reality and creating a new universe.

How does the automail work? An automail must be a masterpiece, as the user seems to be able to use it as a fully working arm/leg/... It seems however, that it's no regular artificial limb. What's so special about an automail? How does it work? Are there any drawbacks? <Q> @kuwaly 's answer covered most of it, but here's a bit more information as well. <S> What's so special about an automail? <S> It's basically a prosthetic limb which has been optimized for fighting. <S> Its name comes from auto- <S> (as in "automotive") and -mail (related to armor). <S> They were originally designed to give more freedom of motion to uses of prosthetics, but were soon fitted to combatants who had lost limbs. <S> There is nothing extraordinarily special about these limbs except their versatility and wide variety of uses. <S> Additionally, this type of technology did not exist in the real world during the time <S> Fullmetal Alchemist is set (early 1900s). <S> How does it work? <S> There are dozens of little parts to it, but it is largely composed of motors, tubing, and the external metal covering. <S> Here's a couple images of its components (click to enlarge): <S> It has no internal power source; it draws its power directly from the impulses of the nervous system to run the intricate motors and other mechanics inside it (and of course, to control which ones activate when). <S> So, when the synapses are sent, each part contracts with its motors, giving free, versatile movement. <S> Are there any drawbacks? <S> Of course—otherwise, why wouldn't people just cut off their limbs? <S> ;) kuwaly mentioned three major drawbacks: It is painful to have installed <S> (nerve connections are painful—in real life, too). <S> It creates a reliance on an automail mechanic for tuneups and fixes, and mechanics can make mistakes! <S> There are two drawbacks that weren't mentioned, though. <S> One is that it is quite painful during pressure changes; recall that when Ed went to the field with Pinako to dig in the rain (2009 anime), he was actually forced into vomiting due to the aching pain of the pressure system. <S> The second is that the material can work against you; iron and steel can cause issues like frostbite when in cold areas, and are also quite heavy. <S> (Some alloys alleviate this issue, though.) <A> There's a pretty good description here . <S> They were originally created to be weapons but then became sophisticated enough to use as a prosthetic limb. <S> There are a few major drawbacks to automail. <S> The first is that it is incredibly painful to install, as shown when Edward's automail is being installed. <S> The reason for that is that it is being connected directly to the nerves, which send pain signals to the brain. <S> The second is that they break. <S> Edward's has shown to break. <S> They can be transmuted by the wearer, which is an advantage because they can be changed into weapons and then back when needed, but theoretically, they could also be transmuted by an enemy who could get their hands on them. <S> Another drawback is that they are reliant on the person who is constructing them. <S> They can also conduct heat, being made of metal, so when it's very hot out, they will irritate the skin because they'll become hot. <S> Automail can also be incredibly expensive. <S> The God's Model automail (shown below) has a price tag of 10,000,000 of whatever money they use. <A> I think an explanation can be that in the Fullmetal Alchemist universe, there exist materials capable of converting neuron synapses <S> (message signals from the brain) into mechanical waves, which are received by the circuitry in the automail and respond in its accordance. <S> The automail limbs must be made to function as a real limb and its machine parts are made to provide the same contract and relax mechanisms as the muscles in our body. <S> It's just like in Inception with the dream-machine. <S> Different universes, different rules.

It is prone to breaking (just like a bone or limb). To summarize it, automail is a prosthetic limb that connects directly to the nervous system and requires no external power because it uses the electrical signals from the brain as its power. As shown by the time when Winry forgot a screw, if the person who builds/installs it screws up, the automail can break or fall apart.

What happened to the Kyuubi's chakra after Orochimaru releases the Dead Demon Consuming Seal? We know that when the Kyuubi attacked Konoha, the 4th Hokage sealed half of the Kyuubi's chakra using the Dead Demon Consuming Seal and half within Naruto. When Orochimaru sliced the stomach of the Dead Demon Consuming Seal "Reaper"/Shinigami (Chapter 618), all things that was sealed in it was freed. So what happened to the half of the Kyuubi's chakra that was sealed? Why didn't it return? <Q> It is possible that it is the gift that Minato is referring to when the kages and Sasuke's group are about to go to the battlefield. <S> From chapter 627, page 16 <A> The latest chapter (631) shows: Minato cloaked in the Kyuubi chakra , in the same manner that Naruto is when using it. <S> This suggests that the half he has sealed away in himself is still there, in him and he has full use of it. <A> We don't know what happened to it. <S> It might be possible that it was released, and it might also be possible that it's sealed within Minato (if you remember, he sealed it within himself before he died). <S> I'm guessing that it won't go unnoticed, but I'm guessing we'll just have to wait and see.

As of the current chapter (630), it is still not known if the Kyuubi's chakra was released from the Shinigami's stomach.

How does a Claymore move up in rank within the Organization? How do Claymores advance in ranks within the Organization? We see many kills during the whole TV show, but Claire never advances in rank. <Q> It is worth bearing in mind that the TV show only covers the first 7/8 books, and it might be addressed later on in the story. <S> As far as I could find however, the ranking system seems to be done by generation rather than reallocating ranks when someone dies. <S> You can see claymore occasionally contest someone's position in the manga, but it doesn't seem to be an official thing. <S> Ranks by Generation <S> Claymore warriors No. 1 through 47 are ranked on their baseline Yoki potential, strength, agility, intelligence, sensing and leadership. <S> A warrior's rank rises and falls according to the warrior's strength in relation to other warriors. <S> Claymores are known to belong in different eras/generations, marking the time they joined the Organization, but not all Claymores who are active at the same time belong to the same generation. <S> This is because Claymores never age beyond their physical prime. <S> It's unclear as to when a generation changes, as some claymore survive more than one. <S> We can see on the linked site that one generation's order has changed. <S> The old generation (旧世代) (Teresa era テレサ時代). <S> No. 1 - Teresa <S> No. <S> 1 and 2 - Rosemary <S> No. 2 <S> - Priscilla <S> No. 2 and 3 - Ilena <S> No. <S> 3 and 4 - Sophia No. <S> 4 and 5 - Noel <S> No. <S> 5 and 6 - Elda Recalling Priscilla who was a newly created claymore who shot up through the ranks to become number 2 <S> , I would imagine that in exceptional cases such as these, the organization would alter the ranks, but mostly it would be left as is until the next generation comes around and new claymores are assessed <A> Claymore are ranked based on their combat ability. <S> Their ability is taken from a number of factors such as strength, Yoki, and intelligence to name a few. <S> Now, just because a Claymore dies, it doesn't mean others will go up in rank. <S> It is entirely possible that the newly created Claymore takes the exact rank of the one that died or awakened. <S> The reason that Claire never advances in rank is because she is only one quarter Youma since she was created with Teresa's remains and it is said that she'll never achieve the potential of a regular Claymore that is one half Youma. <A> Clare being <S> 1/4 Yoma surely indicates that she has full potential to house 3/4 of human energy mind being amongst the 1/4 Yoma. <S> Most Claymores, in a sense, have it rough, you might say, as they are all equally assessed in the middle of battleground between lethal killer and calm human, exceptions such as Teresa and Priscilla (before becoming aggravated by Teresa) are able to house full 100% human control within their means of reach of fighting, until they begin to access Yoki. <S> Clare is an exception to being discussed over ranking! <S> This Claymore Universe may indeed need to stop entirely placing Clare on a parallel comparison to the other Claymores, as this is why: She became a Claymore to exact her spiritual bond connection to the physical beings of herself and Teresa's physical being, therefore she has no hatred whatsoever towards Yoma or Claymores . <S> Only Priscilla, not Priscilla the Awakened Being, just Priscilla as an Entity, which qualifies Clare to have a unique case within the organization, as all other Claymore Creation stories, involve traumatic events with Yoma or Yoma Awakened Beings that cause them to choose to exact revenge (offensive) or <S> protect themselves (defense), from the Yoma beings. <S> The fact she took in 1/2 already Yoma Potent Flesh versus 1 whole piece of Yoma flesh, deems the obvious we know, 1/4 Yoma in Clare. <S> This alone should not even begin to have a place in conversation over ranking, as with her fact she had 1/4 Yoma, <S> means she has more Human Energy Control, which finalizes the logic behind her consistent ability to awaken far many more times than her comrades did, and with seeming ease reverts back more frequently, which wouldn't be possible with any half bred as by that many awakenings they would have by then surely lost their 50% control. <S> Clare needs to stop being judged. <S> She's practically Teresa's daughter, that in itself gives her enough credit to be called a Badass Warrior. <A> I think comparing Clare's baseline overall power, speed and combat ability, she's no match to either Teresa or Priscilla, or even the top 10 or say top 20 of Claymores. <S> But in a half-awakened state, it is possible that she can beat Priscilla and all the other strongest Awakened Beings, nothing more to say about all the Claymores from rank 2 to 10. <S> Her powers are specifically developed to fight Awakened Beings. <S> And her greatest strength is her ability to develop a part of her body or skills to match the power of the Awakened Being she fights with, e.g. Rigaldo. <S> As with Teresa, I think she is the strongest of them all, that is a special status relegated to her. <S> We'll never know the extent of her powers when she became awakened. <S> I think that Clare, if she fights with Teresa in her awakened state, would be able to find a way.

Claymores typically only change rank by challenging and defeating a higher ranked Claymore or when a Claymore dies or awakens.

What happened to Gyro? In Episode 80 of the 2011 anime, they showed Gyro's back story then a clawed up chair. Was he killed or was he eaten? It wasn't clear what happened to him. <Q> but he is later reborn as a Chimera Ant... and the first to keep all of his human memories and break free of the Chimera Ant Queen's control. <S> Additionally, The Chimera Ant King, Mereum, cannot be Gyro, because Gyro was shown leaving the hive at the same time that Gon was training to defeat Knuckle, in Chapter 204, before Mereum was born. <A> He escaped while the queen was dying and supposedly went to Meteor City to start his empire again (according to the manga). <S> I think they might have him return in the future as a super villain or something, because in ep 79 or 80 it showed his back story and his thoughts on humans. <S> He wanted to bring evil in his human form, so why not in his chimera ant form? <A> Gyro was not re-born as the Chimera Ant King, Meruem. <S> Gyro was killed and eaten by the Queen, turned into a Chimera. <S> But he re-gained every single one of his memories and fled to Meteor City to rebuild his Empire. <S> It says so in the manga and on Gyro's Wiki page. <S> http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Gyro

Gyro is killed and eaten after the Chimera Ants invade NGL. According to the manga, he became a chimera ant and had all his human memories intact.

What is a vocaloid? I don't really understand what a vocaloid is so, what is a vocaloid? Is it an anime? If not, how is it related to anime? Is it a singer? If so, is it a real person (because someone told me that some are but mostly are just machine-created voices)? <Q> Vocaloid is a piece of software used to model a human singing voice. <S> Users can create music with the software by putting in a backing track and giving the Vocaloid program a set of lyrics to sing. <S> While many Vocaloid (And similar software) mascots are anime-styled, there are no actual animes that include them as a main role. <S> There have been some fan-based mangas however - Chibi Miku-san <S> (A 4-Panel manga) and the previously mentioned Hatsune Mix <S> Vocaloid Merchandise also overlaps a bit with typical anime merchandise, including figurines, plushies, bags, etc. <S> More Info Vocaloid was a significant breakthrough in music technology, the software now offers a cheaper alternative to professional singers and the versatility of getting harmonics and etc exactly perfect to the way the composer envisaged it (rather than adapting it to suit a singer's voice). <S> It also was a significant breakthrough for hobbyist musicians, making a lot more songs feasible without leaving the home. <S> This was especially important for the ones who can't sing :p <A> Vocaloid is a singing voice synthesizer. <S> In other words, a piece of software that enables users to synthesize singing by typing in lyrics and melody. <S> One of the better known vocaloids is Hatsune Miku . <S> At the moment there is no anime with vocaloids. <S> There is only a manga called: Hatsune Mix . <S> The only relation I can futher find for vocaliods with anime is: Hatsune Miku performed her first "live" concert like a virtual idol on a projection screen during Animelo Summer <S> Live at the Saitama Super Arena on August 22, 2009. <S> At the "MikuFes '09 (Summer)" event on August 31, 2009, her image was screened by rear projection on a mostly-transparent screen. <S> Miku also performed her first overseas live concert on November 21, 2009, during Anime Festival Asia (AFA) in Singapore. <A> Vocaloid is a program that produces singing voice, it is not an anime. <S> As to how it is related to anime, there are a few anime which have vocaloid singers. <S> You can also see this question for a bit more explanation on that aspect, which I think are well detailed. <S> The significance of Vocaloids in the anime industry is probably similar to how significant robotics is used in assembly lines, in the sense that depending on how you use them, you can be making more savings. <S> But you first need to know how to effectively use them, and this often comes with an initial significant investment. <S> Once this is overcome however, things should be easier onwards, as long as you can continue innovating the outputs.

Vocaloid songs are all created by the software, although sometimes they may star some actual singers too, but the term Vocaloid is referring to the software.

Is there any jutsu that Naruto won't be able to master without the Kyuubi? I'm just curious if there is any jutsu that would be impossible for Naruto to learn or master without the powers of the Kyuubi inside him? If there is, which is it and why won't he be able to learn/master it without the Kyuubi? If there's none, then I guess Naruto is actually a smart ninja. <Q> Well, here are <S> some of the jutsu Naruto probably can't (or will be near impossible) to learn without Kurama: <S> Techniques from elements other than Wind - Naruto's natural chakra affinity is towards wind, while he can train in other elements, he probably won't be able to learn some of the other elements. <S> (Actually has nothing to do with the Bijuu <S> , that's kinda <S> what happens to everyone) <S> The Bijuu Dama - a Bijuu specific technique (the nuclear-warhead like black sphere). <S> It's possible that using Kurama's Yang element chakra (sealed within Naruto), he'll be able to do something . <A> most of naruto jutsu really on bijuu.even the rasenshuriken (his only futon jutsu), without kyuubi heal ability, naruto arm would be disabled to cell level after the first try. <S> If naruto hadn't kyuubi power (strong seal, fully isolate kyuubi from naruto like a high secured living storage scroll) <S> naruto would be a outcast nobody (his strong own chakra level come from the seal convert and mix kyuubi chakra with his own) <A> Naruto was able to do multiple shadow clones (thousands of shadow clones) WITHOUT KURAMA or any other natural energy source. <S> This is when he stopped taking karuma's help (Ep 52) and started learning rasenshuriken on his own. <S> I guess most of the guys are getting it wrong here. <S> I understand that kyuubi is the main reason behind his healing <S> but you can't forget the uzumaki clan healing abilities and the level of chakra they possess. <S> Naruto was able to maintain clones without kurama chakra and yamato was there to stop going kurama mode when naruto's chakra is completely depleted. <S> I guess without kurama, Naruto can always learn different jutsus using multiple shadow clones with his OWN massive chakra level (20 years of training in just a week). <S> LETS GIVE NARUTO A LITTLE CREDIT HERE!!

Tajuu Kage Bunshin - Even though Naruto naturally has massive chakra reserves, he wouldn't be able to make as much copies without the Kyuubi Chakra Pool.

Is Brook able to drown? It is known that the Yomi Yomi no Mi fruit will only revive its user once, and also that Devil Fruit users can't swim, so I was wondering... What would happen if Brook falls into the ocean? I mean, even if he's alive, as a skeleton he has no lungs, so he should just be unable to go back to the surface, shouldn't he? <Q> He's just a skeleton obviously, so he's not really breathing, however, when his body gets drowned slowly by the sea water, his strength begins to fade away (Chapter 493, page 7) <S> : <S> And from this scene, I imagine if he falls into the ocean, like all Devil Fruit users, he will be powerless and be unable to resurface unless helped. <A> I imagine it would work something like this: As a Devil Fruit user, he'd be rendered weak by the submersion. <S> But we've also seen instances of Devil Fruit users' powers being somewhat nullified by submersion in seawater (specified since I have no idea if it applies to bath water, pool water, etc.). <S> For example, Luffy was unable to stretch himself in the Arlong Park arc, but his head was still brought above water by third parties. <S> Similarly, in the Enies Lobby arc, Chopper's rampage was stopped when Franky threw him into the sea, transforming him back into little Chopper. <S> Just a thought. <A> Like all devil-fruit users, Brook won't be able the move if he is fully submerged underwater, that's a fact. <S> But will he drown? <S> We've seen Jack the Drought Mammoth guy got trapped in the sea floor still alive but unable to swim himself up waiting for someone to rescue him because he was a fishman-human hybrid. <S> We don't know whether Brook will drown or not, because during fishman island he was wearing an oxygen bubble underwater, meaning he somehow breaths. <S> Otherwise, he wouldn't need it since he was fully submerged in water anyway <S> (episode 538). <S> I always theorized that Brook had invisible organs that could not be touched or felt since he eats and poops and that requires organs to breakdown his food and give him energy like all living things. <S> If my theory is correct, then Brook will drown underwater <A> As a skeleton, he has no lungs to drown with. <S> As a Devil Fruit user, he cannot move underwater. <S> You can make theories about how he works all you want, but as far as we've seen, there is no proof that he can die unless you destroy his skeleton, and even then we've seen him pull his head back on using his spirit. <S> However, we've seen Luffy attack people while his limbs are underwater (Fishman arc) using Haki to protect his stretchy arms, so I'd assume that if Brook ever learned full-body (or full-skeleton?) <S> Haki, he could not only survive the ocean, but even walk about underwater unharmed. <S> Swimming I doubt, as he has no flesh to move the water out of his way with. <S> But would he survive? <S> Most certainly. <S> So to sum it up: Brook COULD survive underwater for five or ten years in paralysis, or indefinitely (or as long as Haki lasts) with full-body Busoshoku Haki.

My thought was that since Brook can't drown, as he has no lungs, the fact that he was submersed in seawater would nullify his Devil Fruit power and his soul would leave his body at the bottom of the ocean. It is known fact that skeletons decompose in salt water, it just takes five or ten years to accomplish.

Why can't Devil Fruit users swim? I've only seen bits and pieces of One Piece , but I know that Devil Fruit users (people who have eaten a Devil Fruit) can't swim. I never understood why, though. How does this work? It doesn't seem to give arm or leg disabilities, so what would keep them from being able to swim? <Q> It is said that the Devil Fruits are the fruits of Sea Devil, so even if most of them provide a great power, they're cursed. <S> Quoting <S> One Piece's wiki : <S> The sea rejects the new Devil Fruit user and they become helpless while submerged in water <S> Also, Oda said in SBS that Devil Fruit users are vulnerable to all types of water, not just salt/sea water. <S> Basically any type of "standing" water (ocean, lakes, rivers, etc) will affect them, while "moving" water (rain, waves, etc) won't. <S> Overall, I'm not saying the problem is the sea or something inside the users, what I'm saying is that it's both . <S> And as to why users are affected by Seastone/Sea-Prism Stone/Kairoseki, as stated by Smoker: It gives off a wavelength that is the same as the sea itself <S> Basically it's a mini solid piece of the sea <S> so that's why Devil Fruit users are affected by that as well... <A> To add up to the other answer: "A person who has devil fruit power, experiences lack of energy when gets into water! <S> " <S> With that means, the user lacks minimum energy to show body movements, otherwise could swim!The person due to no body movements starts synching down.. <S> It's also evident that, person doesn't lose the power immediately but constantly.. <S> The long he stays in water, more he'll become helpless.. <S> Devil fruit side effects section in wiki base is worth reading: http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Devil_Fruit <A> so they will make us can't swim <S> that's why people who ate a devil fruit can't swim same as <S> kairoseki (sea stone) kairoseki is lik a sea ice but won't melt <S> and that's why devil fruit user's can't swim!!! <A> Maybe its because the devil fruits have some sort of origin with the fishmen. <S> I mean, come on. <S> Fishmen are already ten times stronger than a normal human, so maybe someone in the past thought that such power would be too dangerous if it fell to the hands of fishmen. <S> That's why those who eat it couldn't swim. <S> Maybe it started out as a feud in the past of the "ancient weapons"- the objects capable of destroying the world. <S> Look at "Noah", the big ship at fishman island. <S> Maybe it played a part in the devil fruits. <S> Or maybe it's connected to the adam wood and eve tree something which franky stated. <S> This is just a guess though <A> My opinion is that because water as a weakness is commonly seen as a demon/devil weakness Hints the name devil fruit and that that the user's soul is the polar opposite of the sea which in turn would create a struggle between the 2 and water ultimately wins seeing as how devils fruits are rumored to be a part of the sea causing its wielder to constantly be drained of their power or in cases of sea stone causes their power to drain just enough so that they cant use their power. <S> this is purely speculation but it is also a very likely theory all things considered

In my ideas... I think that it's because the devil fruits are the body of the sea devil so if we ate one we can't swim because we have the power of the seas like we are stealing their powers

What is Juha Bach's motivation? For everything Juha Bach is doing in the current Bleach manga, what is his reason for doing so? Also according to the Bleach wiki his official name is "Yhwach" with no reference to Juha Bach though, so I also wonder about that. What is his canonical name? <Q> He now holds Hueco Mundo. <S> Should he gain control of Soul Society, there would be no power considered great enough (in his mind) to threaten the Quincy race again. <S> This seems to be my assumption. <S> Although i'm sure there's some sort of connection that's yet to be revealed to us as well. <S> I speculate this connection due to the fact that Masaki's family is dead and there was no explanation given, unless we are to assume they perished in the Quincy genocides. <A> what is his reason for doing so? <S> It has not been revealed yet. <S> Though it is likely to come out towards the end of the arc. <S> What is his canonical name? <S> He is using and is mostly referred to by others as Juha Bach. <S> Though it appears that Juha Bach is a mistranslation of Yhwach (which appears to be the official name ), as @Zeno commented . <A> He probably wants to kill The Soul King and rule the world. <S> In one of the chapters. <S> he told his assistant to order the Sternritters to retreat so that they can wait for the Royal Guards to come. <S> Juha Bach is too smart to start a war all because of revenge. <S> He only cares about himself.

"Yhwach" may be a title rather than a name (basing this on the similarity to "Yahwe" - the Hebrew name of god), or a different pronunciation of the same name (in a different script/language).

Why do only people from the Uzumaki Clan get chosen as the Jinchuuriki for the Nine-Tails? Up until now, only people from the Uzumaki clan were shown to host the Nine-Tails: Mito Uzumaki Kushina Uzumaki Naruto Uzumaki were all shown as the Jinchuuriki for the Nine-Tails. Why can't people from other clans be hosts of the Nine-Tails? <Q> The answer pretty much lies on the skills and abilities of the Uzumaki Clan. <S> 1st: <S> Members of this clan were very knowledgeable in the art of fūinjutsu, and were both respected, and feared worldwide because of their prodigious skill. <S> Fūinjutsu are a type of jutsu that seal objects, living beings, chakra, along with a wide variety of other things within another object. <S> Fūinjutsu can also be used to unseal objects either from within something or someone. <S> 2nd: The Uzumaki Clan lives in Uzushiogakure. <S> The people of Uzushiogakure were noted to have notoriously long lives, so it gained the epithet <S> "The Village of Longevity" . <S> The clan's life force was the reason Kushina survived the extraction of her tailed beast, despite additionally just giving birth only moments before, though she was left severely weakened. <S> These two (as far as I know) are the reasons why they are a chosen to be jinchuriki. <S> And another thing, if you analyze the situation, as the parent or member of certain clan that possesses a Kyubi, it is more likely for them to give the Kyubi as an inheritance for the next generation <S> (Ex: Kushina to Naruto: <S> given also the fact that they have the required skill to do that) <S> Sources: <S> Uzumaki Clan Uzushiogakure <A> As explained by Motoi in Chapter 493, Jinchuriki are usually chosen among the spouses, siblings or close relatives of the Kage (and not just in Konoha). <S> This reduces the danger of the Jinchuriki betraying the village, and also serves to protect the Kage and display the Kage's power. <S> Mito and Kushina were primarily chosen because they were the wives of the First and Fourth Hokage respectively. <S> Them belonging to the Uzumaki clan was also a factor in choosing them over others, for reasons well explained by Christian Mark in another answer. <A> Because it was first put into an Uzumaki and it has been passed on from generation. <S> It was first sealed into Mito Uzumaki, then Kushina Uzumaki, and during the Nine-Tails attack, Minato sealed the yang-half of the Nine-Tails into Naruto while sealing the yin-half in himself. <A> The Uzumaki are best in fuinjutsu so their chakra and techniques are best when it comes to holding him down. <S> Not only that, others would die becoming the Jinchuuriki. <A> The reason only Uzumaki, is because the members of the Uzumaki Clan, such as Kushina, have a stronger life force and a longer lifespan, an example is that Mito Uzumaki survived since Konoha's Creation to the time of the Third Hokage. <S> It also explains why Kushina didn't die as soon as the Kyuubi was set free, due to this fact, Only Uzumaki were chosen to become the Nine Tails Jinchuuriki. <S> All Uzumaki have a great amount of Chakra reserves, and Additionally, have a large amount of experience in sealing techniques. <A> The reason is none of the above. <S> Mito wasn't chosen to be a host. <S> She sealed the nine tails in herself of her own accord when it was freed from Madara's control. <S> This is the reason that she, an Uzumaki, was the first Jin of the 9 tails. <S> Kushina was chosen because even among the Uzumaki clan, her chakra was said to be special and unique. <S> In Naruto's case, Minato chose his son so that he could be a hero, also selfishly, so that he and Kushina could see him when it's needed. <S> Only one Uzumaki was ever chosen and that was Kushina.

The Uzumaki Clan are the ONLY clan capable to holding down the Kyuubi No Kitsune because they have the proper techniques to bind the beast. So right now, Minato and Naruto are both Jinchuriki's of the Nine-Tails and that also means that Minato is the only non-Uzumaki member with the Nine-Tails inside him since his last name is Namikaze. Naruto becoming the Jinchuriki was not pre-planned, it was a decision the Fourth Hokage took during the battle against Kyuubi.

Why do red Saber and blue Saber look so alike? On the surface, red Saber (from Fate/Extra ) and blue Saber (from Fate/Stay Night ) look almost identical. Was it ever explained why they look so similar? What noticeable differences do the two have, aside from their abilities and attire? <Q> Saber is extremely popular character. <S> They are just "milking franchise" with character that looks similar to the original. <S> And by having little different personality, they make sure they gain interest of more people other than fans of original Saber. <A> @Templar627 makes an interesting distinction in his answer. <S> Personality wise, the Fate/Extra Red Saber is more of a hedonist that does thing overindulgently with much gusto (expressed by her somewhat lewd attire). <S> In the game dialogues and scenes, she is (implied to be) <S> very openly bisexual saying the only things she cares for is what is beautiful <S> ("Beautiful young boys are good. <S> Beautiful young girls are better. <S> My singular preference is beauty!"). <S> Red Saber can be loud and opinionated -- often butting into conversations, throwing around advice, and insulting your enemies as she sees fit. <S> Unlike her blue counterpart, she is vain, boisterous, and arrogant and speaks with all the regal proclamation of an arrogant ruler that is partially divine, not unlike Gilgamesh. <S> If you consider Blue Saber to be a tsundere, Red Saber would be the complete opposite. <S> She bold (her attire shows off her cleavage and back/behind and legs/leotard/panties) where the other is reserved, proud where the other is humble. <S> Red Saber seems to be a bit shorter at 150cm tall, compared to the 154cm stature of her Blue counterpart. <S> However Red Saber is bustier (B83/W56/H82) than her Blue counterpart (B73/W53/H76). <S> In Fate/Extra Material , Red Saber's backstory makes mention that her care for diplomacy caused Britannia's relations in Rome to improve during later years, essentially making her the person who built the opportunity for the legend of King Arthur to be born. <S> Perhaps why she Blue Saber looks so similar to Red Saber <S> is because her legend/archetype was based off Red Saber . <A> On the wiki-page for Red Saber , there is a little excerpt from a Q&A: <S> Q: Why are Red Saber and Blue Saber so similar? <S> Are they related? <S> A: They are very different! <S> They are different like Takashi Takeuchi and Arco Wada. <S> Or like buckwheat noodles and udon. <S> The model of King Arthur were said to be a fusion of two individuals, and one of them is the Roman general Artorius. <S> I guess there are some relationships. <A> Also, Red Saber is much more haughty and acts less humble than Blue Saber. <S> I don't think that it's ever really explained why they look so similar, but the wiki says they don't have any blood relations. <S> If you look at the wiki you can see that they are both extremely different despite their superficial similarities. <S> http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Playable_Saber_(Fate/Extra) http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Saber_(Fate/stay_night)

If I remember correctly, Red Saber as is much more hot blooded and much less proper, as compared to Normal Saber who is much more sedate and proper. Also, they are two different people, Red Saber is Nero while Blue Saber is Arturia.

Why are the royal guards so powerful? In the latest episode 85, Pitou easily killed Kite even though Killua said Kite is as strong or stronger than a Nen Master. I thought chimera ants had nen similar to that of humans. How come they are so strong? <Q> Before the royal guard was born, the chimera ants became aware of humans with 'excessive life force' (a.k.a. nen ) and the queen ordered them to hunt down any nen users that were in the area for her consumption. <S> We know that there were hunters in the country at the time, like Ponzu and Pokkle's group etc. <S> We can assume that the queen consumed these hunters and the royal guard inherited the nen abilities. <S> The rest of the chimera ants are receiving (as of episode 85) <S> their nen abilities the regular way - through the "baptism" which awakens nen in a person. <S> This is how most humans acquire nen abilities, as was probably the case with Kite. <S> The overwhelming strength of the royal guard can be attributed to <S> : They are born able to use nen , unlike human most nen users who are "baptised". <S> This gives them an advantage because their understanding and ability to use nen is innate, not learned through years of training and study. <S> Chimera ants are insects by nature and are usually brutal, savage, and cruel. <S> This leads to more menacing battle auras, which can hinder the fighting ability of a human opponent if the aura is intimidating enough. <S> For example, Pitou's aura was menacing enough to scare away Gon and Killua. <S> Chimera ants also have the properties of any animals or humans that were eaten. <S> This means that any member of the royal guard is going to have incredibly fast animal-like reflexes, the intelligence of the best humans, and the strongest muscles between animals/humans. <S> The combination of these means that the royal guard is going to be significantly stronger than most average hunters. <S> Kite was also at a disadvantage because he lost his arm protecting Gon and Killua before he fought Pitou. <A> Since Pokkle didn't get eaten before Pitou was born, and since he is mentioned as the first "rare human" they've encountered, the Queen shouldn't have eaten any humans with Nen-abilities before conceiving the Royal Guard. <S> Out of Pokkle's group, none of the four members were eaten by the Queen and there has been no mention of other "rare humans" before the Royal Guard was conceived. <S> How they still managed to be born with such strong Nen-powers is a mystery, since, as they say themselves, the "rare humans" are worth 1000 normal ones. <S> So just to achieve the level of a normal Nen-user, the Queen would have to eat 1000 normal humans, and for the Royal guard to be dozens of times stronger than that, she would have needed to consume close to a hundred thousand humans for each of the Royal Guards. <S> The population is certainly big enough to provide that many, but given the time she had to eat that much, and subtract all the food that went to make the foot soldiers, captains and squadron leaders, not to mention the King himself, there is no way she had the soldiers to procure, let alone <S> eat, that vast amount of humans. <A> So, in conclusion, pitou is as strong as she/he is because pitou had lots of time to evolve and is at near the pinnacle of evolution only underneath the king.

I think that the reason why the royal guards were so powerful was because one, The chimera ants evolve at a rapid rate and considering the amount of time for the chimera ants to evolve to the rate of pitou, it should be an easy feat.

Who are these characters in the bookstore? In Episode 16, when Kagami, Tsukasa, and Miyuki decide to visit Konata at her part-time job, the latter asks them to pick up the latest release of a couple of manga. At the bookstore, they are served by a character who doesn't appear to be the "standard" extra seen in the series. Even after the three girls leave the cash register, the shot lingers on this character who is joined by her sister. All this seems to suggest that this is something of a cameo performance or a hat-tip to something else. Who are these characters? <Q> Actually, they are the Miyakawa sisters Hikage and Hinata (left to right, respectively). <S> They are the main characters of the Lucky Star spinoff manga (and anime) <S> Miyakawa-ke <S> no Kuufuku <S> (The Hunger of the Miyakawa Family). <S> They make cameos in episode 12, 16, and 24. <A> Miyakawa from Miyakawa-ke <S> no Kufuku - also known in english as "The Hunger of the Miyakawa Family". <S> Hinata works in Gamers part-time to fund her doujinshi buying habits. <S> In addition to their cameos in episodes 12, 16, and 24 in Lucky Star as mentioned in a previous answer, There are corresponding cameos of Konata and Kagami in Miyakawa-ke no Kufuku, at episode 5 and 7. <S> There's never any signal from the shows that the girls know each other and it appears to be purely coincidental that they bump into each other on occasion. <S> The do live in the same area which would account for this. <S> Summary from ANN : <S> The manga is based on the Lucky Star Moe Drill game series and centers around big sister Hinata Miyakawa and little sister Hikage Miyakawa's impoverished daily life at home (due to Hinata's wasteful habits) and Hikage's life at elementary school. <S> The show started to air in April 29, 2013, 5 years after the first episode of Lucky Star was aired on April 8, 2007. <S> The original manga of Miyakawa-ke was first published in 2009, (while Lucky star continues publication slowly but surely) so it's unknown as to whether these characters were meant to have such significance, or whether they were only chosen afterwards for the spin-off. <A> According to the list of Lucky Star trivia on ANN , it could be based off of Usada Hikaru (also known as Rabi-en-Rose) from Di Gi Charat. <S> It's hard to find pictures of her non-transformed self, but I managed this one: <S> As you can see, the hair color and eye color match and <S> she also wears glasses. <S> But that's pretty generic, so here are the further similarities. <S> When Usada transforms into Rabi en <S> Rose (her magical girl identity) <S> , she has bunny ears. <S> The girl in Lucky Star has a bunny hairpin. <S> Also, the original Di Gi Charat series is set in a store called Gamers. <S> Guess where that Lucky Star scene takes place? <S> A Gamers store. <S> It's a little "censored", but you can tell that it's supposed to be Gamers.

As well as the Konata & Kagami, the shopkeeper of Gamers and Akira Kogami also cameo in Miyakawa-ke. The characters are Hinata Miyakawa (at the cashier) and Hikage

Why does Shanks already have his scar at the beginning of One Piece? In this image of Shanks from Luffy's hometown, Luffy was still quite young. However, it is said that he got his scar from Blackbeard. Did he get his scar when Blackbeard was still a part of Whitebeard's crew? Because I think that when he got this scar, Ace was already after Blackbeard and the commander of 2nd division, but at this time, Ace and Luffy were still young. <Q> The story of the origin of the particular scar (left eye) is told in Chapter 434 / Episode 316. <S> By the time Ace and Luffy have grown up, Shanks is one of the Emperors. <S> The conversation hits a more serious note as Shanks points to his scarred left eye. <S> One of Whitebeard's crew gave it to him, Marshall D. Teach. <S> Shanks has known what Teach has been up to all these years and tries to warn Whitebeard of what may happen if Ace and Teach meet, he begs Whitebeard to stop the search. <S> When Whitebeard outright refuses and states he will teach Teach about morals, Shanks reacts by drawing his sword, stating the rampaging era will not be stopped. <S> Whitebeard and Shanks clash weapons, splitting the skies to the shock of both captains' crew members. <S> Source: http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Chapter_434 <A> Does he get his scar when Blackbeard was still part of Whitebeard's crew? <S> Presumably yes, as long as most of Blackbeard's activities happened as he posed as just another crew member of the Whitebeard pirates which Shanks deduced was his cover to how threatening he really is. <S> But to clarify more of your suspicions, this does mean that it took Shanks ( <S> at least) 10 whole years before he told Whitebeard this guy is sinister and strong. <S> The timeline is Shanks & crew docking at Luffy's village in Luffy's flashback from Episode of Luffy: Adventure on Hand Island . <S> There was episode 4 of One Piece that shows Luffy's past <S> but this flashback includes when/how he gets his scar & follows closer to Chapter 1 <S> : Romance Dawn Luffy is 19 in the New World (has flashback) -> <S> 12 years earlier caption -> <S> Luffy is <S> 7 & Shanks has scar. <S> The meeting with Whitebeard happens while the Strawhat Crew is in Water 7 when Luffy is age 17. <S> Shanks only met with Whitebeard once he knew Ace was hunting him down, not just to tell him about the scar which might explain his wait. <A> Shanks got his scar from Blackbeard the time he was with the Roger Pirates or before he created his own crew. <S> At the meeting (ep.434) with Whitebeard, Shanks said they have been fighting since then, means that Shanks got his scar before he became the captain of Red Hair Pirates. <S> Because, if you notice the flag of the Red Hair Pirates in chapter 1 or episode 1, the flag has a scar already. <A> Perhaps. <S> Before Whitebeard announced One Piece was real, he had a flashback of when Roger was still alive. <S> In that flashback, he commented on how there was a member of his crew named "Marshall D. Teach”, showing how Teach had joined before Shanks had his scars. <S> Coincidentally, at Roger's execution, Shanks had his straw hat pulled down over his eyes, not giving any indication of having or not having the scar at that time.

It's given to him by Blackbeard while still on Whitebeard's ship, as part of their crew.

Have there been any anime with actual product placement? In Steins;Gate, Dr. Pepper is mentioned several times as the "An Intellectual Drink, For The Chosen Ones". I've seen a lot of other shows that have stores or products with similar names to the real-life brand, so that the producers can avoid copyright issues. Even though the inclusion of Dr.Pepper wasn't asked for by the Dr.Pepper company, after the release of Steins;Gate the sales in Japan for Dr.Pepper shot up. ref . Have there been any anime where a company has paid for their product to be included in the show? <Q> Yes. <S> Sometimes it's a sort of "exchange" of product placement - the anime will show the brand in the show, and the brand will put something about the show on its products for a certain timeframe. <S> Code Geass: <S> Pizza Hut Rebuild of Evangelion Tiger & Bunny: <S> Various <S> I'm sure there are more examples <S> but these are just a few. <A> The Evangelion Rebuild films have had long lingering shots of a Lawson's convenience store. <S> Also, Misato’s fridge is stocked with Kirin beer. <A> Well, there's Tiger & Bunny which plastered product placement to the extreme of its real-life sponsors: <S> Each of the city's most famous superheroes work for a sponsor company and their uniforms also contain advertising for real-life companies. <S> The show features "sponsored" super heroes who fight crime, with their sponsors plastered all over them like NASCAR, and in some cases, even doing in-show commercials for the actual product (e.g. Pepsi). <S> Some of these in-show sponsors were actually sponsors of the show. <S> I don't know if these companies actually went to the producers to pay for advertising spots within the show. <S> It's probably more likely that it was a two-way street, working much like how anime get made in general, where the producers/studio will look for sponsors with an idea, and a contract and agreement is made. <S> So these companies went into it knowing how their product would be placed in the show. <A> Here. <S> This one's from Nichijou. <S> And yes, it's the real thing as is featured in the credit: <S> (0:59 in the ending 2 ) <A> Full Metal Panic has product placements of Budweiser and Heineken. <A> Great Teacher Onizuka features a Vaio laptop: <S> There are also Infiniti and Nissan placements in Ghost in the Shell: Arise <A> The Katsuhiro Otomo-designed Freedom OAV series is a particularly fun viewing experience for product placement, since it came into being as part of a Nissin Cup Noodles promotional campaign. <S> In it, remnants of humanity live in a lunar colony where -- incidentally and inexplicably -- Nissin Cup Noodles are a primary food source.

In addition to the other answers... The first episode of the new Ghost in the Shell: ARISE series features various shots of various ads for the Surface tablet and the device itself. When the show was adapted into a manga, all of the product placement was removed (for obvious reasons). In Macross Frontier movie, Ranka and Alto go into a FamilyMart convenience store as a plot point... The old Tiger & Bunny website (it's since been changed) listed all of their sponsors which had product placement: via archive.org .

Why are manga black and white? This question triggered my curiosity for this question. Why most of manga are black and white? Is this because of more cost if they add colors to it? <Q> There can be different reasons for that, let's try to imagine some of them. <S> Lower cost. <S> This is obvious (just compare the prices for black ink cartridges and color cartridges for your printer to see the difference). <S> Also, consider that the lower cost of production causes lower prices for the end product - so the readers will be more eager to buy manga. <S> Faster production. <S> Unlike comics in the US, for example, which usually comes out on a monthly basis, a lot of manga comes out weekly. <S> Manga artists usually don't have a lot of staff to help them, and sometimes even work alone. <S> Thus, they don't have enough time (and, not rarely, enough skill) to color their works well, because: <S> Coloring is completely different from line art. <S> Not all people that can draw good line art can color well, and vice versa. <S> If you talk about comics, there are usually at least two artists making them: one artist that draws line art, and another artist that is responsible for coloring (this artist is called a colorist ). <S> Believe me, coloring is hard . <S> And of course, that person also needs to be paid :P <S> It also somehow raises the interest of manga fans in watching anime (which is in color), but I doubt this is really a valuable reason, so think of it as of an interesting observation. <A> As an artist, I can say that coloring with high quality really requires a LOT of time and effort even for anime art styles. <S> It is nothing like a coloring book, because you really have to make it perfect or near-perfect for a public audience, and you also have to do shading and highlights (for most styles). <S> So, coloring is generally reserved for finer drawings like the the cover image. <S> Also, for manga that is to be published in a physical form <S> , it's more expensive to make full-colored pages, so colored pages are usually reserved for art books (which are expensive like $30-$100 range partially for that reason), or for a few special pages in the beginning of a manga (rarely). <A> Making manga is a lot of work. <S> It takes several hours to make 1 page of manga according to one of my friends. <S> So just imagine how long would it take to make the entire manga just in black and white. <S> They literally don't have time to color their work. <A> Because traditionally images were drawn Ink, especially in different colors, were not widely available or affordable. <S> As mentioned before the time needed for coloring was an important factor as well. <S> Why are webtoons colored? <S> Because it takes hours instead of weeks or months to color pictures with photoshop instead of a brush.

And also, the manga artists have lots of manga to make within certain deadlines and they are paid to make manga the best within that deadline. Coloring would take additional time and make it harder to release new chapters in time.

When does Son Goku learn to fly? In chapter 202 of the DragonBall manga, Goku floats into the air to see where his child is: Then when he is travelling along the green scale road, he flies a portion of the way there. He also flies to assist combatting the Saiyans after his training with the Lord of the Worlds. When did Goku learn how to fly, when previously he had only used Kintou for aerial movement? <Q> It was never shown, how he learned to fly, so that's pure speculation. <S> The DragonBall-Wiki has a possible explanation: <S> Source: Dragonball Wiki <A> The first time we see Goku fly is in Chapter 193, page 10. <S> Krillin, Master Roshi and Tien actually describe it as the Air Dance. <S> Since the first time he saw the Air Dance was at the previous tournament, we can conclude that he learnt in in between the 2nd and 3rd tournament, during his time training with Kami. <A> Goku learned to fly during the first tournament arc while he was fighting Jackie Chun. <S> Albeit, He flied by rotating his tail like a helicopter, which is a different technique than normal.

Goku likely learned how to fly from Kami during his long training at Kami's Lookout, as he was unable to do so before and demonstrated his abilities to conclude his World Martial Arts Tournament fight with Piccolo.

How are Chaos;Head, Steins;Gate, and Robotics;Notes connected? These series all seem to be connected, but asides from sharing the same production company and having the semi-colon separate their titles I can't see any relation between them. The plots seem to be completely disjoint. When I was looking up Chaos;Head and Stein's;Gate, I also found Robotics;Notes, but it too seems to not be connected. Can anyone explain the connection between these series for me? <Q> Chaos;Head and Steins;Gate exist in the same ("Science Adventure") universe, but on different world lines. <S> Chaos;Head <S> happens in <S> Shibuya and the events happen one year before Steins;Gate <S> Steins;Gate <S> happens in Akihabara <S> Robotic;Notes happens in Tanegashima Island and the events happen nine years after Steins;Gate <S> The events of Chaos;Head are consistent with the events of Steins;Gate within the Beta worldline, divergence ratio: 1.130426%. <S> Steins;Gate <S> and Robotics;Note exist on the "Steins;Gate" worldline, divergence ratio: 1.048596%. <S> ( Steins;Gate was also originally in the same worldline as Chaos;Head , which changed after Okabe sent the first D-Mail and passed to another worldline.) <S> There is a mention of "Knight Hart" which is the online persona of Chaos;Head 's protagonist Nishijou Takumi, in episode 4 of Steins;Gate . <S> In the Steins;Gate game, it's mentioned that this character was also looking for the IBN 5100 (the non-conical 8-bit version of the game gets more in depth into his motvations). <S> Kurisu explained the "Time Leap Machine" concept to Okabe using NOZOMI papers from Chaos;Head . <S> On big TV outdoors, FES's performance can be seen in the Alpha timeline. <S> Giving the right reply to Faris's mail earns the player Ayase's portrait and FES's music, sung by Kanako Itou, which include the Chaos;Head OP, "Find the Blue." <S> There's a Seira-tan cosplay cameo in Steins;Gate <S> as well: Robotics;Note connects the two series a bit more by revealing that the "Committee of 300" are the driving force between the major events of all three series. <S> Nae from <S> Steins;Gate appears as an adult in Robotics;Note . <S> Daru and Kurisu show up on the Twipo network in Robotics;Note as "DaSH". <S> In the VN game, Kurisu uses a tripcode . <S> In the anime, Kurisu posts in @channel under the handle " KURI_KAME " in episode 15 (about 2D and 3D limitations). <S> Daru writes the program that eradicates Kimijima Kou from Iru-o. <S> SERN (and their projects) is also mentioned several times in both Steins;Gate and Robotics;Note <A> There are also multiple Steins;Gate references in Chaos;Head, and there are multiple Steins;Gate references in Robotics;Notes. <S> These could be just for comedy purposes or they could be hinting at a relationship. <S> Robotics;Notes also takes place in the Steins;Gate Divergence Ratio 1.048596. <S> Other than that the Visual Novels of all three were created by 5pd and Nitroplus. <A> The phrase "Whose eyes are those eyes?" appears in both Robotics;Notes and Chaos;Head. <S> In the first episode of Robotics;Notes you can hear Airi say it. <S> It's the same phrase <S> Nishijo Takumi repeats almost every episode in Chaos;Head, because he feels like someone is observing him. <S> It's also one of Kishimoto Ayase's songs in Chaos;Head.

Steins;Gate, Chaos;Head, and Robotics;Notes all take place within the same universe but at different times.

Why is Wrath so human? As we know, the homunculi can heal themselves and don't age because of the philosopher's stone. However, Wrath doesn't seem able to heal and he gets older, despite being a homunculus. I always thought that's because he is a human who was turned into a homunculus, but Greed can also regenerate, even though he still has Lings soul and isn't 100% homunculus. Why isn't Wrath like a normal homunculus? <Q> When Wrath discloses his nature to Mustang, he describes what happened after the incident. <S> First, keep this quote of his in mind: <S> Now, consider that Father was attempting to put all of his wrath within one being; this would require that he removed not only any wrath from within himself, but also every single wrathful soul that composed him. <S> That means we now have a Philosopher's Stone made from dozens of wrathful souls. <S> What does wrath do? <S> It gets revenge. <S> Wrath states, <S> Countless souls have battled for dominance within me. <S> And only the most wrathful one survived. <S> This means that he had no healing powers because he basically had no souls to regenerate from; only one soul remains within his body (his own or someone else's), and it is not enough to both regenerate and sustain him. <S> He is basically a human with homunculus-level skills. <S> I also agree with Madara's conclusion that Father would want the public figure to age and appear human, so he may have been perfectly okay with Wrath being composed of only one soul. <S> Pride's disguise was already conspicuous enough; you can imagine the uprisings if the military leader was also accused of such things. <S> With regard to why he is different from Greeling, his soul was pushed aside from the infusion, whereas Ling's was strong enough to coexist with Greed's. <A> I believe it was done on purpose. <S> Wrath was intended to be a public figure, everyone knows the king. <S> So the king has to get old, or it would raise suspicion. <S> The king can't generate wounds in a flash of red lightning, or it would raise suspicions. <S> How they did it, I don't know. <S> But that's why I imagine they did it. <A> Wrath (in Brotherhood) was a human-based Homonculus. <S> He was born a human, called Fuhrer Candidate No. 12, and implanted with a philosopher's stone created from wrathful souls while in his prime. <S> His own soul, also a soul of wrath, overpowered the souls of the stone and took over, making him Wrath, earning him the name King Bradley and the position of Fuhrer of Amestris. <A> it is because with Wrath, as Bradley states, all the souls basically fought down to the last one remaining. <S> It was this final soul, of which was formed the homunculus "Wrath". <S> However, with Greeling: First, the Homunculus "Greed", was already a pre-existing entity, which Father puts into Ling's body. <S> Secondly, Ling accepts the pre-existing homunculus "Greed", without fighting down to the last souls, or last few souls. <S> Thereby, as someone else had stated, Ling and Greed coexisted together. <A> My theory has been that Regeneration costs a soul. <S> Goes to explain why Hommunculi can be killed when 'killed' enough times, and why the mannequin soldiers don't regenerate. <S> As mentioned above, Wrath is the lone surviving soul within him, one soul, which killed all the others. <S> The other Hommunculi have multiple souls cohabiting, which is why they're able to regenerate. <S> The mannequins were likely made from a single philosopher's stone with the souls being split evenly between the soldiers.

The Philosopher's Stone is created from the life force of countless human beings; it contains their souls.

Why is blood pink in Danganronpa? In episode two of Danganronpa, two characters die. On both cases the blood appears in pink, rather than red. Why is this? Is blood in the Danganronpa universe pink? Or is this supposed to be less shocking for the viewer or something similar? <Q> According to the Something Awful playthrough thread for the game: <S> Because of the intricacies of the Japanese game rating system, blood in this game is colored pink. <S> Rest assured, though, it is human blood <S> you will be looking at, and it doesn't mean our characters are secretly aliens or elves. <S> TVTropes also says the same thing: Many murder scenes are liberally splattered in Pepto-Bismol, thanks to the intricacies of the Japanese game rating system. <S> So it seems like making the blood realistic would have given the game a higher age rating, possibly restricting some of their target demographic from being able to purchase the game. <S> But the pink blood also goes along with the main artistic style of Dangan Ronpa. <S> Scenario writer Kazutaka Kodaka stated he desired to "...shake user's heart by showing a devastating accident in not devastating ways. <S> But, by some measure, it might be more shocking than showing a devastating scene." <A> To add to atlantiza's answer, Danganronpa is rated D (17+) by CERO , Japan's rating board for console video games. <S> That's the highest rating which does not carry additional legal restrictions as to where and to whom you can sell it. <S> Danganronpa is a console game, and it's very likely that the consoles would not have approved of it <S> had it been rated Z (18+), but including red blood would have likely pushed it over this limit. <S> Very few games rated Z ever get released, with the exception of a few violent games produced overseas where the ratings are less strict for violent content (e.g. in the U.S.). <S> Most visual novels are PC games, so they are rated by a different organization from CERO, namely EOCS. <S> EOCS doesn't have the same restrictions against displaying red blood, but most of them are guaranteed an 18+ rating anyway for inclusion of sexual content. <S> An 18+ rating from CERO has a much bigger impact in terms of sales than one from EOCS. <S> It's not uncommon for Japanese console games to not include blood at all to avoid getting higher ratings, but Danganronpa obviously didn't have that option <S> so they did the next best thing. <S> As for why they kept the blood pink in the anime, it is sort of iconic at this point. <S> The death scenes (so far) have all been very closely following the style of the game. <S> Changing it would probably turn off fans, and the pink blood does fit well with the art style. <A> It's because of its "psycho-pop" art style. <S> They used pink blood for their art style type, and also censorship probably. <S> Also, they coined the term "psycho-pop". <S> Also, fun fact, the blood at one point was planned to be red (it was in DISTRUST , the beta version) <S> but when Monokuma's art design was chosen, everything was changed, even the blood. <A>

Because of the intricacies of the Japanese game rating system, blood in this game is colored pink,but the pink blood also goes along with the main artistic style of Danganronpa. According to Wikipedia : The game uses pop art, a bright and colorful style, as a way to contrast the dark subject matter of murder.

What are the origins of alchemy in Fullmetal Alchemist? I noticed that in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, alchemy didn't exist until The Dwarf in the Flask came into existence. I also noticed is that the great teachers of alchemy were Father in the West, and Hohenheim in the East. So with this information, I think that if The Dwarf in the Flask was never created, then alchemy itself would never have existed. How were they able to obtain The Dwarf in the Flask? <Q> It was never fully explained, when and how alchemy was "invented", but it's known that Xerxes was one of the first countries to know alchemy. <S> The creation of the dwarf in the flask just increased the knowledge because it knew much about alchemy and helped the alchemists gaining knowledge. <A> As @looper says , alchemy did exist before the Dwarf in the Flask was created. <S> In fact, the man who created the Dwarf would later become Van Hohenheim's teacher. <S> I don't believe much of alchemy was ever used in Xerxes in general, but the king was a big supporter of it, enough that he would later bet his own life on it and ask for immortality. <S> It's also hinted that alchemy was what created aspects of the universe. <S> In the last few episodes of the series, Father absorbs the entity known as "God" (the Eye of God behind the gate) and gains the ability to simply create a sun in the palm of his hand, at a whim. <S> It is suggested that this very same power was once used, by either Truth or God , to create the stars and planets in the universe. <S> That would mean that alchemy has always existed, but was just brought to light by the Xerxians, and the word was spread by Father and Hohenheim during their travels. <A> I'm certain that the Alchemy used by Xerxes was far more spiritual in nature than Modern Alchemy and Alkahestry. <S> Mostly because the ability to transmute would have made digging the nationwide transmutation circle a much easier task than it was shown in the Xerxes flashback... and probably a lot bloodier too going by how they used slaves for their experiments. <S> Probably drew power from Blood to be honest, since it has the same sympathetic connections that seem to connect Tectonic Movements and the Water Cycle...

It already existed when the dwarf in the flask was created, as he was created using alchemy.

What is the in-universe reason for the name "Fairy Tail"? In Fairy Tail , the guild is named "Fairy Tail". While there does seem to be a range of ethnicities within the names (Natsu vs. Lucy), it just seems like an odd misspelling of "fairy tale ", which is a very specific thing that seems to be totally unrelated to the guild itself. What is the in-universe reason given for that being the name of the guild, if there is a reason given? <Q> From Makarov's history based on Wikia : <S> The guild was named 'Fairy Tail' as the eternal mystery behind whether fairies had tails or not, or if they even existed, was like an eternal adventure. <S> So I guess the guild's (Fairy Tail's) purpose is to have a great adventure as if they are solving the mysteries about fairies. <A> This is mentioned in Fairy Tail Zero . <A> Adding on to what other people that say about "Fairy Tail" means "endless adventures and mysteries", I also believe Mavis also meant the name was based of on Zera. <S> In Fairy Tail Zero , Mavis started to form a guild at the place (Magnolia) where Zera's dad and the Red Lizards guild have all been executed. <S> Mavis wanted to help the village to fulfill Zera's dream, by starting a new guild with a name related to her. <S> There was a scene where Mavis pointed out about Zera's hair looking like two tails and that Zera said that fairies would always be in Mavis' heart and where did Zera go? <S> Right back into her heart, referring Zera as the fairy with tails. <S> Now that you might have thought about it, Zera might actually been <S> the fairy Mavis has always been looking for.

The guild's first master Mavis loved the idea of fairies and often wondered if they had tails.

Why/How does Eren remember how to activate his Titan power? Eren's father injects him with the Titan serum years before he first uses it. So how is it that he remembers how to activate it? <Q> I don't know how far the anime is yet, so I'll put it into a spoiler. <S> The first shift is triggered when Eren gets eaten by one of the titans and hurts his arm. <S> To trigger the next one, he bites himself to protect Mikasa and Armin. <S> Apparently, also the will to accomplish something is needed to become a titan (kill the titans, save his friends) <A> Rober English when eren has to turn into a titan he has to inflict damage on himself and have a clear goal <S> so i'm guessing that when eren was a child he never had a goal like block the cannon or kill the titans <A> Its triggered by any injury that causes blood loss like Eren biting his finger but Eren must focus on a certain goal in order to trigger his titan form like for example kill all titans or it can be protecting Mikasa and Armin

The shift between human is triggered by any injury that causes blood loss.

What's the deal with Orochimaru and seals? During the chunin exams, when Orochimaru attacked Konoha, the Third Hokage managed to seal the hands of Orochimaru, rendering him incapable of using any jutsus. But later in the series we see that Orochimaru did use jutsus. For eg, during the battle with Naruto he uses the Kawarimi no Jutsu. Though it has not been depicted that he uses hand seals to perform Kawarimi no Jutsu, but I presume that a jutsu of that level needs a hand seal to be pulled off. So, Orochimaru had never lost his jutsus. Next, Sasuke managed to absorb Orochimaru into his body which was sealed off by Itachi using the sealing powers of Sword of Totsuka. How then is it possible for Orochimaru to be present in someone else's body and "pop out at will". So how is it that no sealing techniques work upon Orochimaru? How Orochimaru resurrected the 4 Hokages. <Q> There was only a part of Orochimaru that was in Sasuke's body. <S> I believe that the curse mark transfers a part of his chakra and thus a part of himself into the body of the target. <S> It was the part of Orochimaru that was inside Sasuke that was sealed away by Itachi using the sealing powers of Sword of Totsuka. <S> But a part of him still lived inside the others who carried the curse mark and his chakra was there with Kabuto, who absorbed Orochimaru after Sasuke killed his main body. <S> Remember that Orochimaru was very weak when Sasuke revived him that he had to absorb his chakra from Kabuto to become somewhat normal again. <S> And it is not true that Orochimaru couldn't be sealed. <S> The 3rd Hokage couldn't seal him just because he was too weak by then to pull Orochimaru with him. <S> And it is not that Orochimaru can pop-out at will from anyone's body. <S> Sasuke resurrected him. <S> He didn't pop-out at will. <A> Harikrishnan T's answer covers most of it. <S> I'll answer the part of how could he use Jutsu. <S> Hand seals are a form of technique to focus one's chakra, in order to perform a specific jutsu. <S> As you progress is proficiency and power, you can focus your chakra more and more innately, without the need for hand seals. <S> The example for this is that Zabuza required more than 40 hand seals to perform the Water Dragon Bullet, while the Second only required one. <S> As for the rest, I recall Kabuto doing the hand seals for him whenever he required a more advanced jutsu (such as the Summoning Jutsu). <A> Orochimaru had dedicated himself to the path of Kinjutsu. <S> This means that he is using mostly forbidden jutsu. <S> Because of his endless experimentation on himself to become even more powerful, he moved to a place above natural law. <S> He's living on a different set of rules than the rest of the ninja world, and so is his village (if there is anything left of it). <S> He sought immortality so that he could master every jutsu, even the science of creating jutsu. <S> As for being in different bodies and popping out of them, here is what I've observed from the manga: he infects a person with himself. <S> Look at Kabuto. <S> That was a serious infection. <S> The curse mark is another example. <S> Although the level and type of infection in Kabuto vs. Sasuke is inherently different. <S> He is "above" being sealed because he warped himself into a viral entity, or a "demon" as the 3rd Hokage called him. <S> Even the Nine-Tailed Fox could be sealed because he is a natural force of nature. <S> There is nothing natural about Orochimaru!

The curse mark is purely a technique developed by Orochimaru, and infects people with his power. That's why Orochimaru was able to use the most basic technique without the use of his hands (such as the Replacement Jutsu).

What is happening at the start of episode 12 of Steins;Gate? At the start of episode 12 of Steins;Gate , Okarin and Mayuri have time traveled 70 million years into the past. They are in an arid desert environment which appears to be the inside of an hourglass. Mayuri says that you could say that they are just one of many versions of themselves, but you could also say that they were the originals. Shortly before dissolving into sand, she says that their wills will carry on to the versions of themselves in Akihabara 70 million years in the future. In the future, Okarin snaps out of a daze, like he does when he time leaps. Does that imply that Okarin remembers the incident? Was the incident symbolic? If this was one of Okarin's attempts to save Mayuri, why didn't it happen in the alpha/beta/gate timelines? <Q> Steins;Gate <S> sort of uses the many-worlds time travel theory referenced by John Titor . <S> There are many discrete worldlines, like parallel universes. <S> The worldlines exist independently. <S> Kurisu talks about this briefly in episode 22, shortly before Okarin time leaps. <S> This is why Okarin and Suzuha can use the time machine to travel to the past twice and not run into other time traveling versions of themselves; <S> both times they traveled to the past they landed in a different worldline. <S> When we see the scene from 70 million years ago, we are seeing a version of Okarin and Mayuri who have traveled to the show's current worldline from a separate worldline we didn't see. <S> They would have had to travel using Suzuha's time machine. <S> SERN's experiments and Okarin's nightmarish memory showed that sending physical objects through time turns them into gel. <S> The time machine appears to offer protection against this. <S> It is unclear why they traveled so far back into the past; perhaps the time machine malfunctioned. <S> Mayuri had to explain to Okarin that they were 70 million years in the past. <S> Suzuha also lost her memory when using the damaged time machine. <S> It is unclear why Mayuri retained her memory. <S> Perhaps her reading ability is quite strong; she displayed knowledge of alternate worldlines on multiple occasions. <A> James wrote , Steins;Gate sort of uses the many-worlds time travel theory referenced by John Titor. <S> There are many discrete worldlines, like parallel universes. <S> When Okarin leaps to the past, he is moving from one worldline to another; his actions do not affect the future in the worldline he leaped from, only the future of the one he is currently in. <S> The worldlines exist independently. <S> Kurisu talks about this briefly in episode 22, shortly before Okarin time leaps. <S> but this is actually completely wrong. <S> It is explained in the VN thoroughly that only one world line exists at one time - which would always be the one Okabe is at. <S> The other world lines are just possibilities that could exist, but they don't really. <S> In the VN, Kurisu argues with Okabe, saying that if this was the case, then Okabe was literally a God. <S> But frighteningly so, this is exactly the case. <S> Okabe's actions reconstruct the one and only world every time. <S> When Kurisu says that infinite world lines exist independently, she says it to make it easier for Okabe to sacrifice her. <A> The incident happened in the beta world line. <S> In 2011, just before the Third World War happens, Suzuha and Mayuri leapt into the past to August 21st 2010, to deliver the slap you see in Episode 23. <S> They then tried to return to the future, but with the lack of fuel (the time machine only had the fuel to travel 336 days), the time machine malfunctioned and they ended up 70 million years in the past. <S> This is the Mayuri you saw. <S> In 2025, after Okabe sent the Nostalgia Drive Mail (ND-Mail) to Episode 23's Okabe, he went after Mayuri and Suzuha in a time machine that was equipped to find other time machines by tracking the disruption in space-time continuum caused by Kerr Black Holes. <S> He eventually ended up 70 million years in the past and is assumed to have found Mayuri. <S> This is the Okabe you saw. <S> Whether the Okabe in the future remembers the event or not is uncertain though. <S> None of the material confirmed nor denied it. <S> But it is definitely not symbolic as it has happened.

When Okarin leaps to the past, he is moving from one worldline to another; his actions do not affect the future in the worldline he leaped from, only the future of the one he is currently in.

How do summoning jutsus work? Let's have a back drop on the story, the Third Hokage shows Jiraya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru his summoning technique. This intrigues Jiraya and he too tries to perform the jutsu without making a blood seal with an animal. As a result he is teleported to Mount Myoboku, where the Toads live. He trains there for some time. Here lies my first question, until later into his training Jiraya had not made a blood seal with the toads, so how did he get to mount Myoboku to undergo his trainings? The reverse kuchiyose should only work when there is a blood seal with the animal. Going to Mount Myoboku on foot is a long and tiresome journey, so this possibility too is cancelled out. So, in order to go to Mound Myoboku did he use the kuchiyose no jutsu every time? My other question is what decides which animal a shinobi is to bond with? There is a wide range of creatures that one can choose from, but certainly there must be some sort of compatibility to be worried about. What made Jiraya decide a toad summon would be best for Naruto? Has anything that can substantiate the above points been mentioned in the manga? <Q> Nope, it isn't explained at all. <S> The background you described is 100% filler and was never described in the manga, so using the Summoning Jutsu without a blood pact doesn't necessarily teleport you randomly. <S> As for which animal is suitable for which. <S> Jiraiya seemingly decided to give Naruto the frog contract because he had the contract himself, (not to mention that Naruto's father, Minato, also had a blood contract with frogs). <S> I don't think there's a requirement of any sort, but that's just guessing. <S> The entire technique is cloaked in mystery. <S> See my answer on this other question: How to summon a different animal using Kuchiyose? <A> The summoning jutsu is similar to time-space ninjutsu in that it connects two dimensions together for instant travel. <S> For this to happen one must make a blood contract with a summons. <S> How this takes place is unknown and unexplained, but it was stated that jariya found the hidden entrance to mount Myoboku and trained there. <S> It can be assumed that after his training he acquired a contract with the toads. <S> He then made a contract for minato and later naruto. <S> Other people may have been able to make contracts like this as well as orochimaru was seen finding the entrance to the cave of the snakes. <S> How tsunade made a contract with the slugs is unknown (and wether there is more than one slug). <S> On the question of compatibility there does seem to be conscious decision when picking a summons, however it does not inhibit a signing of a contract. <S> Jariya happened to have fire which worked well with the toads oil and naruto happened to develope wind nature which happened to work well with the toads water <S> but this was found out some 2.5 years later after he signed the contract. <S> And minato seemingly had no natures yet he still has a contract. <S> I would say that it strongly influences a decision to make a contract seal but does not dictate a sealing. <S> And on the basis of jariya's movements between mount Myoboku and the real world it can be assumed that he made a contract upon his first stumbling upon the mountain, and from the on used the reverse summoning to go back for his training over the years. <A> Just like how every shinobi has a unique nature for Ninjutsu. <S> Not ALL summonings need contracts, in Sasukes and Madaras case they can summon animals without contracts. <S> Sasuke simply placed his hawk under genjutsu and bound the hawk to servitude probably after finding it in an unknown location. <S> Jugo probably lead him to it. <S> Madara found the Nine Tails during his journey around the 5 Great Nations. <S> And put it under a simple genjutsu bounding it to a contract for summoning. <S> Maybe sasukes summoning isnt genjutsu bound but his summoning can't talk AT ALL. <S> Only kishi could explain.

All shinobi have unique summonings.

Why wasn't a Uchiha asked to control the Nine Tails during its attack? Madara or Tobi had controlled the Nine Tails to attack Konoha during Naruto's birth. But there were other Uchihas in the village such as Itachi's father. So, the village could have made use of them to defend the Nine Tails by controlling it using their sharingan. Why didn't they do that? Another question: Why were the three sannin not seen during the Nine Tails attack? <Q> Not to mention, the Uchiha weren't exactly trusted at the time, following the Second Hokage's rule. <S> As for the three sannin, it wasn't explained anywhere, but it isn't hard to imagine them being at a remote mission and out of the village. <A> Why no other Uchiha in Konoha was asked to take control of the Nine Tailed beast? - <S> To control the nine tailed beast you need to be a shinobi of very high caliber. <S> Being an Uchiha is just not enough to be able to control the nine tailed beast. <S> Tobi had Hashirama's cells (in the form of Zetsu) infused in him that allowed him larger chakra and better control of the Nine Tails. <S> Where were the three sanins? <S> - it has not been mentioned anywhere in the plot where they were, so all we can do is guess about their whereabouts. <A> An Uchiha needs to have awakened the Mangekyu Sharingan in order to control the Kyuubi and Madara and Tobi were the only two Uchihas who were able to achieve this followed by Itachi, Kakashi and Sasuke. <S> About the three Sanin, Jiraya was most probably training with Nagato and Konan, Orochimaru had defected from the village and Tsunade had left the village because she was unable to bear the trauma that came with death of her brother and lover. <A> TLDR: <S> The Uchiha Clan were distrusted by the village leadership and were ordered to not engage the Nine-Tails. <S> They also feel that they are being suspected to be what actually caused the Nine-Tails incident. <S> Indeed, after the Nine-Tails' attack, the Konoha Police headquarters (which sustained heavy damage) and the Uchiha Clan houses were ordered moved to the outskirts of the village, too far from the village center, despite Fugaku Uchiha's protest. <S> (Fugaku is the head of the Uchiha Clan, and Itachi and Sasuke's father.) <S> The location also can be easily spied upon from several vantage points as noticed by Fugaku, adding to feelings of distrust between the Uchiha Clan and the Konoha Council, culminating at the Uchiha Clan massacre. <A> Another reason might be that: Not all Uchiha's are as powerful as you think. <S> And not all of them are lucky enough to Awaken the mangekyou. <S> They were a proud clan but not all their members were as strong as Madara or Itachi. <S> Those 2 were like prodigies in their own ways. <S> Also, I doubt anyone at that time knew an Uchiha could control the Kyuubi. <S> It was probably only Minato and Kushina that knew about the masked man and his Sharingan. <S> No one else saw him and lived so it makes sense that their minds didn't think about it. <S> In madara's case, It was probably a classified information that he fought by controlling the 9 tails. <S> It makes sense that the higher ups would classify that type of information as secret cause they wouldn't want other Uchihas to go researching into how to control the Kyuubi. <S> As for the 3 Sanin, It makes sense to believe that they were on a mission, probably that timeline could fit into when Jiraiya was training nagato and his crew (Yahiko and Konan <S> , This is just a vague guess btw). <A> Only an Uchiha with the mangekyou sharingancan control the nine tails. <S> Obito had obtained it after Rins death plus he had Hashirama cells to fall back on. <S> The leaf village was not aware of fugaku having the mangekyou sharingan or else they would have feared him even more plus his people would have pressured him to attack the village. <S> To answer your question the leaf village feared that the Uchiha would done how gain control of the nine tails so that’s why three weren’t called to assist during the attack. <S> It was stated by the Uchiha that they suspected this. <S> The Sannin were always away on missions doing their own thing. <S> They weren’t such a great asset to the village only Tsunade after becoming hokage. <S> In conclusion the Uchiha clan were always being discriminated against and treated like trash <S> but then the leaf is surprised when they retaliate. <S> The third hokage was the worse leader Kohona ever had. <S> Yes naruto always forgave sasuke for his treachery but at the end sasuke changed. <S> Danzō never did and he let Danzō get away with everything. <S> He even ordered a 13 year old kid (Itachi) to kill his entire clan including his parents. <S> He just used Danzō as the darkness he could never represent as him self.

As for the Uchiha, the nine tails was already being controlled by Tobi at the time, so I doubt anyone would be able to control him on top of that. As per Itachi Shinden , the Uchiha Clan (which was the Konoha police force during the Nine-Tails' attack) were ordered by the village leadership ( Konoha Council ) to protect the civilians in the village and not engage the Nine-Tails. Uchiha Clan members believe that this was because they are distrusted by the village leadership. If they were in the village they would have surely come for help, and since they were absent from the battle, we can only guess that they were out of the village on some mission.

Is the city in which Fruits Basket is set ever identified? Fruits Basket appears to be set in a real Japanese city. Is it ever explicitly stated which one? If not, is it possible to deduce which one, or at least which part of Japan it's supposed to be? (I'm more interested in the answer vis-a-vis the manga, but if there's a clue in the anime, that would be fine too.) <Q> It does not state their location in the anime or the manga. <A> I always thought it looked more like Kyoto personally. <S> Especially with all the mountains so easily accessible. <S> But it could well be Tokyo and the mountains too. <A> So, after having done some work and trying to find some landmarks, i believe that Fruits Basket (2019) takes place somewhere near Tamagawadai Park half between Yokohama and just at the edge of Tokyo. <S> The skyline when they are on the roof looking at the city and the specific blue bridge in season 1 episode 23 give the best references as to where they are, from what we currently know about the anime. <S> I noticed the bridge since i've been cycling in that specific area before. <S> Check out the pictures that Yokohama Expat has on his blog. <S> https://reywatjapan.blogspot.com/2015/07/wilderness-in-tokyo.html

It is however commonly believed that Fruits Basket takes place in a more rural area of Tokyo Japan.

Why is Monokuma's body half-black, half-white? Monokuma's body is half-white, half-black. Is there any reason for this? Does each half represent something? Furthermore, if each colour/half represents something, does the fact that his over-sized bellybutton is white and overlaps the black half mean that whatever the white part means prevails over whatever the black half means? <Q> As you can see, all but the last characters match in Japanese. <S> Presumably that's why he's (almost) totally white and black (monochrome). <S> As for whether the different sides mean something, in the original game when he talks to you, which side is mostly facing you changes depending on what he's saying. <S> When he's saying things that are especially violent, suggestive, or otherwise evil/despair-inducing his black side is primarily visible. <S> When he's pretending to be a nice good headmaster bear, he'll be facing you with his white side, often holding a flower. <S> A lot of the time for just ordinary talking he'll be facing strait-on. <S> This is very obvious in the game, but somewhat less obvious in the anime as it seems to be hard to animate the switches. <S> I do not think that the fact that his belly button is white is in any way significant. <S> Here are images of these three cases from the game. <S> He makes a lot more expressions in the strait forward position, such as his angry or nervous expressions, but for brevity I've only included one: <S> This answer may be incomplete, since it doesn't give an in-universe reason for Monokuma's color scheme. <S> If any reason exists, it would likely be explained in the prequel novel Danganronpa/Zero <S> *, which I haven't read. <S> * <S> As a note, if you want to avoid having the ending of Danganronpa spoiled, I would not recommend looking for information on Danganronpa/Zero, as it will spoil nearly everything. <A> Quite simple, actually. <S> When you finally meet the true Junko Enoshima in the last trial, she says something to the effect of "Hope and Despair are like two sides of a coin, they can never be separated. <S> " <S> The red eye represents evil and bloodshed, which makes a lot of sense. <S> The belly, that's just for show... <S> or maybe it's foreshadowing for the end. <S> (SHSL Hope FTW!) <A> The reason why is probably because black and white are opposite colors. <S> It shows how Monokuma is evil, but he kept them in the school for entertainment and so they could live. <S> Maybe it shows how he's good and evil. <S> I heard that the white side represents hope and the black represents despair. <S> Also when I think of hope, a light type of color pops into my head like the color white or a light pink. <S> When I think of evil, despair, or loss of hope, I think of a darker color like black or a dark purple. <S> THIS IS A THEORY <S> WHY HIS COLORS ARE THE WAY THEY ARE. <A> I will give you some spoilers to ask your question: Junko and her sister had 2 plush bears: her sister had a white bear and Junko had a black bear. <S> When Junko was thinking on a design for her robot, she remembered their bears and fused them together in a drawing. <S> She liked the design and called him Monokuma. <S> Hope you liked the spoilers! <A> in despair girls junko says in the last cutscene before izaru destroys Shirokuma and Kurokuma <S> she says "they're pretty much the same white despair black hope in the end <S> neither one <S> but I guess that works" so the black means hope and white <S> means despair

She designed Monokuma in a way where Hope (White) and Despair (Black) were two sides of a coin, or bear. Monokuma's name (モノクマ) is a pun on the word monochrome borrowed in Japanese (モノクロ, or sometimes モノクローム).

Who was the Supporter of the Seleção in Eden of the East? It seems like this was never really addressed. This piqued my curiosity primarily because the supporter was stated by Mr. Outside to be one of the Seleção, and it seemed odd that one of the Seleção would willingly facilitate the game by enforcing its rules. Furthermore, the Supporter would have nothing to fear from breaking the rules of the game, so it would seem logical for him/her to pocket the money and do with it as he/she pleases. So that would seem to indicate that the Supporter is someone in league with Mr. Outside. But who was the Supporter? All the evidence seems to indicate that it was Number XII, but can anyone confirm this? <Q> Technically, every player in the game is the supporter, and every player is not. <S> Because the concept that a player may be officially designated the supporter would create a situation of impunity (who watches the watcher?), and players are told that even the supporter may not know that is there role, it makes much more sense that the players all can fulfill this purpose. <S> There is a point at which one player will look at the actions of another and feel they are self-serving, and decide they need to put an end to them. <S> They may try to confront the other party, use their funds to hinder or redirect them, or destroy their efforts. <S> But in the end, if they come to believe they have a moral out in the role of the supporter, and virtually unlimited funds to get them out of the legal trouble, the societal justice impulse could kick in, and they may kill the player. <S> There is also a possibility, based on the nature of Juiz, that Juiz may also help fulfill this role. <S> There may be certain conditions or thresholds that will trigger actions by the long arm of the concierge to take actions against misguided players. <S> This is not evidenced (that I can remember), but it is also possible that Juiz may indirectly responsible for a player acting in the role of the supporter, by ensuring that actions that would trigger them to retaliate will come to their attention. <S> Alternatively, self-serving players may be fed information that will cause them to act offensively to another, instigating retaliation from the offended by the information they, in turn, are delivered. <S> Also, keep in mind that a player overtly acting as the supporter would be seen as a threat to every other player, and would almost certainly become a target themselves, since transactional data becomes public upon use. <S> All theoretical, but there may be something there. <S> Pleasure to serve. <S> Nobelesse oblige. <A> The supporter is never revealed because there might not have even been one. <S> When No.9 was given a phone he is told by Mr. Outside that "the supporter might not even know he is the supporter". <A> It's possible that it's Seleção No. 8, since we don't know much about him (or No. 7) <S> but at least No. 8 seems to be familiar with Mr. Outside. <S> It's possible that Mr. Outside is the Supporter, being the one who judges is the money was used correctly or not. <S> But seeing as how it was revealed that Hajime Hiura actually wasn't killed by the Supporter in the The King of Eden movie and that the "proper" use of the money can seem to be anything (including covering up murder or firing missiles at Japan), it's possible that there is no Supporter <S> and it was just something Mr. Outside made up in order to keep all the Seleção in check and suspicious enough of each other <S> so there would be no collusion. <A> The supporter could be 7 or 8 as they are never seen doing anything or Mr. Outside AKA no. <S> 12 (AKA Ato Saizo) could be the supporter. <S> Most likely he just would wipe the memory of the person. <S> At the end of the game he does wipe all the other alive player memories but 9 keeps his possibly due to him already having wiped it twice. <S> Then he asks the next person he picks up the question he uses to select them. <S> Then 9 hits him with a slipper (lol) <A> It is Juiz. <S> No. <S> IV, in episode 3 was sabotaged by juiz making sure the text message went to his wife instead of his mistress.

It's not confirmed who the Supporter is, it's left open to interpretation.

Are Kurenai's eyes some sort of Doujutsu? Since the start of the series, after the Sharingan and Byakugan had been revealed, Kurenai's eyes seem kind of different from normal eyes and more like the Doujutsu. During the attack of the Nine-Tailed Fox on Konoha, her father appeared for the first time in the story. He too possessed similar patterns in his eyes. So is it some kind of Doujutsu, do her eyes have special abilities similar to the Sharingan or Byakugan, etc.? <Q> Actually they are not ke-ke-genkai. <S> In this wiki at the latter part said that: Although her eyes are very distinct, they are not a dōjutsu . <S> Being a by-product of specific kekkei genkai, dōjutsu are not classified as one of the major jutsu types. <A> I like to think it's a form of doūjutsu that is very very weak <S> and I only enhances the users genjutsu skills from 100% to 110%. <S> Kurunai and her father are both very skilled genjutsu specialists so it would make a little sense. <A> They are not related to sharingan in any way. <S> The are simply because of their genes. <S> Like we have green eyes , brown eyes and stuff. <S> There never has been any canonical opinion about it in anime or in manga. <S> Even so, the manga is coming to an end and still there is no hint of having any powers or any affiliation with the sharingan. <S> P.S: I mistakenly posted my view on a question labelled duplicate.

Dōjutsu (瞳術; English TV "Visual Jutsu"; Literally meaning "Eye Techniques") are genetic ninja abilities that utilise the eyes, granting the wielder ocular abilities.

Why weren't the four Hokages reincarnated by Kabuto in the Shinobi war? In the anime, Kabuto reincarnated Asuma, Dan, Hizashi etc from Konoha to battle against the allied Shinobi forces. Earlier, Orochimaru reincarnated the 1st and 2nd Hokage to battle against the 3rd. Why didn't Kabuto reincarnate the four of them to fight against the alliance? Couldn't they be reincarnated again or wasn't that part of Tobi's plan? <Q> Actually, Kabuto can't revive the 1st and the 2nd Hokage simply because Hiruzen Sarutobi (3rd) sealed them away using the Dead Demon Consuming Seal . <S> While the reason Orochimaru can revive the two is because he ripped the belly of the Demon (Shiki Fuujin) who consumed their souls in Naruto chapter 618, page 4. <A> That's because Edo Tensei can only reanimated souls that are in the world of the dead. <S> The four Hokages were sealed in the death god's stomach. <S> That's why they were only revived after Orochimaru released Shiki Fuujin. <A> The last time first and second hokage were reincarnated, they were sealed using the death reaper seal by the third hokage. <S> The 4th hokage was sealed along with the nine tailed fox using the same seal. <S> One of the pre-requisites of the reanimation jutsu is that the target shinobi cannot be sealed. <S> However, later Orochimaru shows that the souls trapped in the death reaper's belly can be realesed, and thus reincarnated each of the hokages.

Since the 4 hokages were sealed, kabuto was unable to reincarnate either one.

Why is the nine tails afraid of Madara? In a recent episode of the Naruto anime, the reanimated Madara tries to summon the nine tails but fails since it's sealed inside Naruto, later when Madara attacks with his Deep Forest jutsu the nine tails tells Naruto,"I'd rather be controlled by you than by Madara" and shares some of its chakra with Naruto to defeat Madara. Is it really afraid of Madara or is there some other reason? <Q> I don't think that it's fear <S> per-se, more like... hate. <S> The nine-tails prefers to help Naruto voluntarily than be forcefully controlled by Madara (or Tobi, for that matter). <S> Manga Spoiler: <S> The bijuu have feelings, and hate being treated as weapons, ever since the Sage of Six Paths dies, Kurama has known nothing but ignorance from humans. <S> (Like when Madara yells at him to obey, or when Hashirama tells him that he's too dangerous and he must seal him.) <S> So helping Naruto was the better option. <A> I think it was because that Madara was the one that made him destroy something that he didn't want to <S> I mean come on <S> he was basically <S> Madara's mind controlled slave . <S> Watch harshirama vs Madara <S> and you'll see why the nine tails or kurama attack the leaf village or at first tried to attack it until harshirama stop Madara by accepting his challenge to fight Madara which harshirama managed to first separate the kurama and Madara with a contact seal Justsu which freed kurama from Madara's sharingan which made kurama blind and did'nt know what was going on until he woke up and found himself locked away in the hashirama's wife mito uzumaki the first jinchuriki. <S> kurama was with until she became ill <S> and so they decided to find another what they called vessel for the nine tailed fox which happened to be kushina Uzumaki <S> the mother naruto uzumaki and the wife of minato namikaze or in other words naruto's dad and the fourth hokage which he stopped the real attack of the nine tailed fox where it was not Madara <S> but it was another uchiha named obito <S> that made the nine tails attack the village <S> and then when he Lost control of kurama , kurama started attacking because of what they are treating him as but luckily naruto's dad or the fourth hokage managed to stop kurama's attack and planned to seal him in naruto on the break of death he managed to complete the seal and said his last goodbye to naruto until those times where over that's where naruto was kurama's jinchuuriki for already 16 until the attack. <S> So guess old memories are coming back to kurama of the times of how he was treated and he was not scared of Madara <S> he was very angry at him and managed to help and encourage naruto by giving him some of his power to counter the deep forest Justsu and write now from naruto and kurama having a lot of issues while naruto was growing up and similar backgrounds on how they were treated they finally became friends , partners for a reason not just because they were alike to each other <S> it's because they both wanted one and that is to protect and save the world they live in <S> and that's why he is not afraid <A> Nah, I don't think Kurama is afraid of Madara. <S> I think what he meant by "I'd rather be controlled by you than by Madara" is that he didnt want to be fully controlled by his user (he wanted to have a say in decision making). <S> Kuruma probably wouldn't like to be manipulated like a puppet. <A> 9 tails fears being controlled by Madara because he likes his current host. <S> Plain and simple. <S> The Uchiha have a past with him as well, as depicted in shippuden episode 2 when Sasuke uses his sharingan to explore Naruto's mind. <S> On a side note, the Jinchuriki (all demons as well) are beings that thrive via personal gain. <S> A demon will not present itself to a human unless it wants or needs something that can be taken or given freely from the human. <S> Perhaps 9 tails believes Madara is just another <S> (1)manipulative asshole with the (2)last name Uchiha. <S> 2 reasons not to go with him.

Another reason could be that e believes Madara is weak >:p and unworthy of his acquaintance.

What is the difference between No jutsu and Ninjutsu? Aren't Kage Bunshin No Jutsu or Kuchiyose no jutsu of ninjutsu type? Also please state why Kabuto told Orochimaru that Naruto isn't blessed with a technique and he relies upon the Nine Tails? He said that during Jiraiya/Tsunade fight with Orochimaru in Search for Tsunade arc. I hope Rasengan is a ninjutsu. <Q> First of all, jutsu (術) means "technique", "skill", "method", "trick" or "spell". <S> A ninjutsu (忍術, lit. " <S> ninja techniques") is one of the three types of jutsu that exist in Naruto. <S> This answer defines it as a term referring to almost any technique which allows the user to do something that they otherwise would be incapable of doing, including the usage of weapons. <S> As for "no jutsu" (の術): "no" (の) is a Japanese particle that, in this case, indicates possessive, and jutsu is explained above. <S> That means that the expression "... no Jutsu" means "Technique of ..." or "... Technique". <S> In that way, Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (影分身の術) is translated to Shadow Clone Technique and Kuchiyose no Jutsu (口寄せの術) is translated to Summoning Technique. <S> And yes, these two are Ninjutsu. <A> "No Jutsu" means technique of <S> so put that together: <S> Kage Bunshin no Jutsu means technique of shadow clone, which is a ninja technique http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutsu <A> The first part of your question has been answered by ton yeung. <S> As for why Kabuto said "Naruto isn't blessed with a technique and he relies upon the Nine Tails", it's because up until then Naruto had not shown any true signs of brilliance. <S> He was always up to stupid acts with some sparks of brilliance that looked more like flukes than intentional actions. <S> Even during the chunin exams, naruto had a "lucky fart" that helped him impact the battle to his favor. <S> Naruto is even termed as Konoha's most unpredictable knuckle head ninja. <S> And since most of Naruto's efforts had been mass usage of chakra (by which I mean, not effective usage of chakra) <S> Kabuto must have said that he relies on the Nine Tails to provide him the chakra.

"Jutsu" means skill or spell "NinJutsu" means ninja technique

Why the popularity of German? Second to English, German seems to be the most popular foreign language in anime. You see it in titles, names, and even quite a few characters are of German descent. For example, many characters in Shingeki no Kyojin appear to be German/have German names and there are a lot of German references. Elfen Lied is also German (translates to "elf/elvish song"). Is there a reason for this? <Q> Historically speaking, Germany and Japan have been on friendly terms since the 1930s (and even before), due to their shared militaristic ambitions just prior to the second world war (which led to their Axis Alliance). <S> After the Second World War, the economies of both nations experienced rapid recoveries; bilateral relations, now focused on economic issues, were soon re-established. <S> Today, Japan and Germany are, respectively, the third and fourth largest economies in the world, and benefit greatly from many kinds of political, cultural, scientific and economic cooperation. <S> As a result, there is a lot of cross-cultural sharing, which is why you see a lot of German outside of just anime as well ( for example , the Japanese word for part-time job (アルバイト) is based off the German word for work (arbeit). <A> From the perspective of someone from Japan, I suppose there are some reasons. <S> First, the saturation of English names. <S> Because there are quite a lot of anime/manga contents in Japan, it is really hard to find a new nice English name for a new character. <S> One handy solutions is to pick a German name. <S> Second, the ease of pronunciation. <S> Because Japanese language has only 5 vowels: "あいうえお", some European names are a bit hard to hear and/or pronounce for Japanese-speakers, though most German names are not really hard to pronounce. <S> Finally, Japanese just love Germany. <S> They (we) have learned many things like constitutions, medicals and chemicals from Germany. <S> They also love German products like BMW automobiles, artificial hearts, etc. <S> and believe Germans are hard-working, honest and industrious. <S> (Personally, I also rely on German middle-wares). <S> I guess past military relationships between Germany and Japan don't make Japanese love Germany, because Japanese regret WW2 and grieve what happened in Europe. <S> Years ago, a Japanese comedian said black jokes which affirm the Axis on TV (of course, he was just joking). <S> After that, he was heavily criticized and had to apologize in public. <S> Anyways today's era is wonderful because we all can talk about anime and manga here, isn't it. <S> See you. <S> ;) <A> This may supports your theory that an old affection for German ideas exists in Japan. <S> As a lawyer, I can add that the Japanese civil law is based on German law to a significant extent. <S> During the late 19th century, Japanese officials planned to westernize. <S> As a result, they established a strong scholarly exchange between the universities of Japan and Western Europe. <S> After the first attempt to adopt a French inspired system in 1893, Japan enacted a civil code in 1898 in the German fashion. <S> Just imagine, they voluntarily dropped core aspects of their legal tradition. <S> This does not happen often in world history! <S> I guess they were totally fascinated by German system... and probably by a lot of other things, too. <A> From a German POV: Shortly after the opening to Japan in 1853, the Norddeutsche Bund, a group of several Northern German countries (including Luxembourg) that was the pre-organisation of the late German Empire tried to make friendship treaties with Japan like other Western states. <S> Japan said no because the confederation was quite weak. <S> They made a treaty with Prussia though and started to have a scientific exchange with it. <S> Seeing the Prussia and the German states fight in several wars and at the end becoming united made them think of the new Germany Empire as a militarily strong country <S> and so, when they went to Europe and America to learn, they also went to Berlin. <S> The university system, school system, a lot of teaching books for medicine and other sciences, the constitution in the year 1889 and, of course, the military was inspired by the Prusso-German system and advised by German-Jewish advisors. <S> In WW1, Germany and Japan fought on different sides because Germany tried to gain power in China. <S> Then WW2 came and they became friends again, and since then, Germany and Japan were more-or-less friends. <S> A lot of German cities have Japanese partner cities, and since both countries had to build up their country, society, and economy again, there was a lot of economical exchange in the following decades. <S> :) <S> I think it also has something to do with the mentality of the countries; both have a strong working ethos, a relatively strict social system that builds on politeness and certain aloofness. <S> I suppose that these similarities paired with the exoticness of being Caucasian make the stereotypical German interesting and cool for the Japanese that write the manga. <S> Not to forget that our language is just really badass and beautiful and awesome. <S> ;) <A> In the old days Germany had al lot of fancy elite schools for the rich. <S> This is might be the reason behind all of those rich school elite anime with Germans in them. <S> In general I can only speak for myself and some other Germans. <S> We love Japanese culture and this might also be the case for some Japanese Manga autors this might be helpful <S> one of many sources

There were German war prisoners in Japan, but they were treated relatively well, which lead to some of them staying in Japan even after they were officially released (because in Germany, there was a financial crisis and a very political insecure situation at that time.)

What motivation did Hidan, Kakuzu, Deidara, Sasori have for joining the Akatsuki? The motivations of the following characters, have been were shown in the anime: Tobi/Madara and Zetsu wanted to capture and seal the Tailed Beasts for his Moon's Eye plan. Pain and Konan wanted to capture Tailed Beasts and use them to destroy the Five Shinobi Nations. Itachi wanted to make sure the Akatsuki didn't attack Konoha or capture the Nine-Tails. Kisame already had connections with Madara before joining Akatsuki. What motivations did Hidan, Kakuzu, Deidara, Sasori, and Orochimaru have to join the Akatsuki? <Q> As for the reasons, most of their background stories weren't clearly provided, so I am going to have make my answer with their character portrayal. <S> Hidan <S> - As for why he would've joined Akatsuki, I can only surmise that it's due to his obsession to fight and kill (primarily on the aspect <S> he was religious, he wanted to give more sacrifices to his god Jashin) and he could've seen that as bread and butter stuff of what Akatsuki was doing. <S> He probably would've joined to work for free just for the killing. <S> Kakuzu - Surely money. <S> That same obsession for money in fact even got him killed. <S> Deidara/Sasori - <S> Their ambitions to join Akatsuki is quite vague to me. <S> He probably ended up joining because of that. <S> As for Sasori, he, being a rogue ninja like all the others, probably thought it would be safer to be along with fellow rogue ninjas. <S> Orochimaru - One of Orochimaru's ambition was to live for eternity to learn all the techniques. <S> He knew the organization had stronger members and probably joined the organization to learn more about others and their skills. <S> It's probably also because of his hate he had for Konoha. <A> I can't find any evidence about others, but Deidara was recruited because of his skills and lack of regard while blowing things up. <S> By the time all of them joined Akatsuki, they were all criminals. <S> Akatsuki could have been posed as an opportunity to get all of them together. <A> In Naruto Shippuden: <S> Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 (a Naruto game), there are special contents from the creator of Naruto about formation of Akatsuki: <S> Kakuzu : <S> Pain (Nagato) was searching for elite ninjas in order to create Akatsuki. <S> During his search, Kakuzu was best choice, due to his immortality and power. <S> Kakuzu joined Akatsuki as it will assure him protection by forming a group, and opportunities for collecting money Hidan : <S> He was a experiment of his village, and a follower of lord Jashin. <S> He killed people to offer sacrifice to his lord, so he was a wanted criminal with a big price on his head. <S> Pain convinced him to join Akatsuki as it will protect him from the ninjas after his head. <S> Sasori : He joined Akatsuki because he lost a fight against Konan. <S> Orochimaru (ex-member): He joined Akatsuki to know and explore the jutsus of the members of Akatsuki <A> Hidan- Jason purposes. <S> Kakuzu - money. <S> Deidara- <S> he lost to itachi Uchiha. <S> Sasori- lost to konan

And it can be guessed that Orochimaru joined Akatsuki to gather more knowledge from the group. There is no motivation other than money for him, which was shown clearly in his fight with team Asuma. For Deidara, he was young and wanted to make a name for his art by blowing up stuffs, so Itachi challenged him to a fight, saying that if he was defeated, he would have to join Akatsuki.

Island society that hunts huge whale-like creatures I'd appreciate any help identifying this animated film. The main portrayal is of an island society that hunts huge whale-like creatures, using boats and harpoons. When a member of this society dies, he tumbles down an immensely deep hole, where he undergoes reincarnation into one of the whales. This film was from Japan and I saw it in the early 1990s, I think, on a VHS collection from some animation festival or other. It was in color and I do not remember there being any language in the film. <Q> I believe Skywhales is what you are looking for. <S> It is a British animated short film in 1983 directed and written by <S> Phil Austin and Derek Hayes , and it is included in the British Animation Collection Volume 1 DVD . <S> The scene where everyone returned from the hunt. <S> You can see a bunch of flying ships anchored on the port. <S> The main character died and went to throw himself down a hole inside a building. <S> As he dropped down the hole, he turned into cocoon, then emerged from it as a skywhale. <S> The characters in this animated film speak some sort of nonsensical language. <S> You probably mistook it for Japanese. <A> You very likely watched Macross Dynamite 7 : <S> During his journey, he stops on a planet named "Zola", which is inhabited by a race of humanoid marsupials called the Zolan. <S> While staying there, he becomes involved in a battle between galactic space whale poachers and the Zola Patrol (Zola's equivalent of a police force). <S> After being injured, he is taken into the care of a young Zolan girl named Elma Hollie, who has a sister, Liza, that works for the Zola Patrol. <S> Her father, Graham Hollie, is also a whale poacher. <S> Graham and his wife Maria Hollie, a very popular singer on Zola, would go hunting whales in their Valkyrie, and Maria would also sing to the whales while they hunted. <S> However, Maria lost her life and Graham lost an arm after encountering the legendary Great White Galactic Whale. <S> After the event, Graham swore revenge on the Great White Whale for taking his wife and his arm and underwent Macronization to become large enough to take it on . <S> It's not exactly reincarnation. <S> But it's close. <S> The OVA was released between '97 and '98. <A> Here is the short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ6qw1nh0tA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywhales <S> Regards. <S> Leopoldo Zambrano Enríquez.

A scene during the hunt, where the main character flew towards the skywhale and stabbed it with a harpoon. You can view this animated short on Youtube .

What exactly happens to a Titan's body after it is killed? I just started watching the anime and I haven't read much of the manga so I don't know if it is explained further on. We all know a Titan's body gives off extreme heat, from an encounter Eren had with the Colossal Titan and an episode where they learned this in class. In episode 6, when Mikasa killed a Titan, we saw the body still giving off heat.. ..and a few minutes later it was pretty badly burnt, unrecognizable in fact. Later in episode 7 when Eren in his Titan form attacks another and beats it to a pulp, we see that the process has somewhat accelerated? At first I thought the body eventually burned away but this one was different than the first. All of the Titan's flesh was gone. So, what exactly happens to a Titan's body structure after it is killed? Does the heat burn it up now that it cannot regenerate or what? <Q> In episode 15, "Special Operations Squad: <S> Prelude to the Counterattack, Part 2" where Zoe Hange has those 2 captured titans (which she named "Sawney" and "Bean"), she mentions that the Titans seem unusually light for how large they are, and that a severed arm of one of the titans weighed nothing, which allows such large bodies to move so quickly with great agility. <S> Though, at least so far in the anime and manga, there's no explanation to their physiology or <S> So, to summarize this completely unsubstantiated speculation: Titan's bodies are actually made up of some type of gaseous substance that weighs nothing While alive, with its "power source", the gaseous substance takes on the form of solid flesh-like material, but still incredibly light Without this "power source", the flesh returns to the gaseous state and evaporates. <S> This may or may not have to do with the extremely high body temperature that the titans have. <A> Because Titans are so big and they move with such speed and force they are constantly producing enough heat to burn flesh (remember when Hanji touched Eren's arm when he tried to pick up the spoon and it scalded her after a second?) <S> So when the Titans die, they stop regenerating and the heat begins to damage the flesh resulting in them burning. <S> At least I assume so <S> , it makes sense they are always repairing their bodies and <S> they're so hot they can burn people. <S> Plus, in the last episode of the anime, Eren bursts into flames increasing his body temperature to such a degree his Titan form is in overdrive, making him essentially a "Super Titan", but if you notice, he doesn't regenerate at all in this form because he's so hot <S> his regeneration can't keep the damage at bay. <S> Just a guess, but it would fit the idea of the anime. <A> Titans actually get their power from sunlight. <S> Major Zoe Hange says this as when she deprives them of light they seem to deactivate and can't do anything. <S> Annie didn't want to go into the dark because she couldn't transform in the dark area, and also Eren when he kept biting his hand <S> but there was no sunlight, he couldn't transform. <S> Light shines when the titan shifters change, and the light seems to come from the sky <S> so my guess is that it is sunlight. <S> Also the nape seems to be a solar panel because when cut the titans go out like light. <S> Blow out a candle and see what happens smoke goes out; the titans seem to be hard light manifestations. <S> So in conclusion titans are like fire and <S> the nape is like were they get their source. <S> Titans fade away when they die like smoke.

what exactly happens after they die, it's probably the case that their solid state is being maintained by their mysterious "power source" and that once the source of power is gone (and thus cannot regenerate), their physical bodies (sans skeleton) return to the form of some type of gas.

What is the meaning of "Forever Fornever" at the end of the anime series? The message "Forever Fornever" appeared at the end of the Yu Yu Hakusho anime series. What does this mean and/or what is this related to? <Q> There is no definite answer for this question stated by the artist himself <S> Yoshihiro Togashi <S> There for we are left to interpreted it as we like. <S> And there for there are allot of theory's of what this means. <S> One of the most popular being the one stated by Kakashi <S> "Forever will not occur," or in other words, "nothing lasts forever. <S> " I believe that Yu Yu Hakusho was by far one of the greatest anime/manga ever written, and the artist knew that everyone watching the last few minutes of the final show never wanted it to end. <S> But, since everything good thing must come to an end, the artist made it clear and simple. <S> I believe this is the only anime to end with a phrase for viewers to think about, rather then simply saying "the end." <S> Another very popular theory is him showing discontinuation of the series. <S> So no more different time lines, other endings. <S> Or any such things. <S> But just like stated in the begin there is no definite answer given by the author himself. <A> I wrote this on a forum , <S> You raise a very interesting question that I'm sure has perplexed many fans. <S> There have been a lot of discussions regarding it. <S> First of all, the words "forever" and "fornever" are complete opposites of each other. <S> A common thing I hear is people believe that it is a typo and <S> that is should state " forever forever ". <S> I personally don't think this is valid because the artist would certainly not screw up the last frame of the series. <S> Personally, I believe that it just simply means what is says:"Forever will not occur," or in other words, "nothing lasts forever. <S> " I believe that Yu Yu Hakusho was by far one of the greatest anime/manga ever written, and the artist knew that everyone watching the last few minutes of the final show never wanted it to end. <S> But, since everything good thing must come to an end, the artist made it clear and simple. <S> I believe this is the only anime to end with a phrase for viewers to think about, rather then simply saying "the end." <A> It's just a phrase. <S> Forever means that Yusuke's friendship will not end but other things will have to have a bound. <S> It's also known as a schmaltz, like leaving a caption to leave the audience feeling good. <A> <A> I think he used Kuwabara to explain the meaning. <S> When they are standing on the steps before heading to the beach, he talks about everything they all went through, and having that journey come to an end (Fornever). <S> Then Kurama explains they can always remember the journey when they need to (Forever).

Forever means that something will occur continuously, while fornever , not actually being a word in the english dictionary but rather a slang term , means thats something will never occur. Fornever as in saying all good things come to an end, and no matter how much we reminisce on the good times, it will end eventually. Forever, as in saying it will continue on in our hearts, and we will never forget this journey we went on with the characters.

Why wasn't Arlong in Impel Down during the Impel Down Saga? He was a known member of Fisher Tiger's crew and became a merciless dictator in East Blue. He had the highest bounty in East Blue at the time, and when Borsalino captured him, he was sent to Impel Down. So why was he not there during the big jail break? I doubt he got left behind, because Buggy did most of the freeing of prisoners. <Q> We currently have the following timeline of things happening to Arlong: <S> Arlong gets beaten by Borsalino (Kizaru) and sent to Impel Down. <S> Arlong had a fight with Jinbe and started the Arlong Pirates and went to East Blue and settled on Cocoyasi Island . <S> Luffy and crew follow Nami to Cocoyasi Island where Luffy beats up Arlong. <S> All of Arlong's crew get arrested (exception: Hatchan ) by marines. <S> I skipped a large chunk between points 3 and 4 because it's irrelevant. <S> You can find all of Arlong's history here . <S> At point 5 when they got arrested you would assume that he would have been sent to Impel Down again, but it is futher unknown what has happened to Arlong as it hasn't been shown or told in the anime or manga. <A> I'm not sure what happened to Arlong, but according to Hodi Jones he was killed by humans... <S> From chapter 634 And from the Anime Episode #554: <A> Arlong was released earlier on Jinbes request. <S> Source: <S> http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Arlong#After_Tiger.27s_Death <S> http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Impel_Down#Prisoners

Arlong is released from Impel Down when Jinbe became a Shichibukai.

What is the triangle-shaped headband these characters wear? I don't know what to call them, but I've seen these triangle-shaped things sometimes in anime: What does the triangle-shaped headband mean and what is it called? <Q> This triangle-shaped headband is called a tenkan (天冠, lit. " <S> heaven crown"). <S> In some parts of Japan, it may also be called a zukin (頭巾, lit. <S> "hood" and also used as a generic term), a hitai-eboshi (額烏帽子, lit. " <S> forehead headpiece"), or a kami-kakushi (髪隠し, lit. " <S> hair-hider") 2 . <S> Traditionally, the tenkan was one component of a traditional burial garment ( shini-shouzoku / 死に装束). <S> The garment also typically included a white kimono, these glove-things <S> ( tekkou / 手甲), and a particular style of boots called kyahan <S> (脚絆) <S> that I'm having trouble finding a good picture of. <S> There are a number of explanations of the purpose of the tenkan , including: <S> It must be worn to avoid offending Enma (a judge of the dead in Japanese Buddhist mythology; he's actually a derivative of the Hindu deity Yama) <S> It allows the dead to escape from hell <S> It functions as a signal that one was of high standing in life. <S> Notes <S> This answer is mostly a translation of the following article: <S> What's the triangular piece of cloth that ghosts wear on their heads? <S> (Japanese) <S> This seems like it may be a pun on 神隠し, or "spiriting away" (as in the Ghibli film 千と千尋の神隠し, or "Spirited Away"). <S> See also this question at Japanese. <S> SE. <A> There is no specific word for it. <S> It's typically associated with the white burial kimono, called a kyoukatabira . <S> This triangle-shaped white cloth item can go by multiple names, depending on the region and religion. <S> They have grandiose names such as tenkan/ <S> tengan <S> (heaven's crown) mundane is zukin <S> (hood or kerchief). <S> Several of terms are simple and descriptive, like hitai-eboshi (forehead hat), or hitai-kakushi (forehead-hider), kami-kakushi (hair-hider), houkan (diadem, only Buddhists use this word) and kami-kaburi (hair headdress). <S> The most basic term of all is probably sankaku <S> no (shiroi) <S> nuno (triangular [white] cloth). <S> There have been two popular theories on it's purpose/origin, both are speculative. <S> Some say that the dead have or need to ascended to a higher level, and thus the cloth item is placed upon their heads to show their new status, or to help them ascend. <S> Another theory suggests that that the sharp point of the triangle shape are a ward to deter evil spirits/demons from entering the corpse and resurrecting the it or preventing the soul from passing on. <A> In anime and manga it has been known to symbolize the dead, including zombies, vampires, and ghosts. <S> When you see this in anime or manga you know that the character isn't alive.

It's basically a headband, and can be generally referred to as a boshi (hat) or nuno (cloth). In anime today, I get the feeling that the tenkan basically serves as a signal to viewers that whoever is wearing it has something to do with death (or, more generally, with non-humanness, I guess).

Is there a canon explanation as to why Naruto still likes Sakura? What characteristic of Sakura makes Naruto like her? She was very useless in the original Naruto, and she is in love with Sasuke. Not to mention, she did not have anything traumatic in her childhood, unlike Hinata, who actually liked Naruto from the beginning. Also Naruto nearly unleashed the nine tails for Hinata, but still said Sakura was sort of his girlfriend. Did I miss something here? What did Sakura do to get Naruto to like her? I am only looking for canon answers. <Q> I don't think there can be a canon answer to this because it is not something shown/talked about in either the manga or anime. <S> However, when you were young what did your crushes do to get you to have a crush on them? <S> I know in my case, almost nothing. <S> They just had to be attractive. <S> My guess that is true for Naruto as well. <A> Naruto loves and desires Sakura because she is an average ninja girl. <S> Naruto wants all the leaf village to look up to him and select him as Hokage one day for one reason--- so that he will be accepted and respected by the leaf village. <S> Everyone must accept the Hokage, and most will respect the Hokage. <S> Therefore, a goal/milestone along that path of becoming Hokage is to get the most average ninja in his grade to "believe in him". <S> If he can convince the average leaf ninja to accept him, he will have achieved his life long goal of being accepted by the leaf village, rather than ostracised. <S> This is the original drive behind his crush on Sakura and his desire for her to love him. <S> Afterward, there is all the mutual experiences and mutual bonding from being in the same teams together through so much stress and trying times. <A> He liked Sakura for years, she wasn't a bad girl or anything <S> and she'd be willing to die for Naruto as well. <S> How many people fall for others just because they liked you? <S> While Hinata liked him, she really wasn't that close to him. <S> She was willing to die for him, but so were most of the Leaf. <S> Naruto isn't fickle, and Hinata wasn't really his type (he seems to like the tsundere and girl with back bone; if Hinata did have that back bone in the beginning, then she wouldn't have fallen for Naruto because the only reason she fell for Naruto was cause he was a fellow loser, except unlike her, he never gave up). <S> Also as a child, Sakura was ostracized (like Naruto but not to nearly the same extent) for something outside of her power and then was rescued by one person showing kindness to her and befriending her. <S> Another reason for Naruto to still like Sakura is because she will try almost anything to protect him. <S> While her fake confession was mean, she did it to protect him, and she was willing to try and kill Sasuke when he joined Akatsuki (an organization that wanted to kill Naruto). <S> While she couldn't kill Sasuke, it didn't exactly have to mean that she still liked him; it could just be because she liked him for 5 years <S> and then he became a part of her family <S> (Team 7) <S> so she couldn't kill him because of who he used to be <S> (before Itachi mind raped him a 2nd time, he was actually a pretty good kid, though he was anti-social). <S> So Naruto might feel that he still has a chance. <S> There could be a lot of reasons for Naruto to like Sakura and pick her over Hinata. <S> These are a few I could think of. <S> It's not like anything I'm shipping is possible anyways.

He really seemed to love Sakura even though she might not like him, so if he really cared for her, then it'd make no sense for him to quickly get over her.

What is inside the Gate of Truth? In FMA and FMA: Brotherhood, the Gate of Truth is shown to have an eye and a bunch of arms inside of it. The arms drag people into the gate during human transformation. I know that the creature sitting in front of the Gate is Truth, but what is inside of the gate (i.e. the arms and the eye)? <Q> The Fullmetal Alchemist <S> Wiki <S> says it best: <S> It is the source of alchemical knowledge and the entrance to God's domain, where no mortals are meant to tread. <S> As is stated in this answer , this is where mortals end up when they attempt human transmutation. <S> They pay a toll, and are granted access to all alchemical knowledge within. <S> While an alchemist is within this realm (the realm of non-reality), they will inevitably learn something about alchemy, and in fact anyone in the series who recalls this information gains the ability to perform transmutation without a circle. <S> In the 2003 anime, there are some differences. <S> Notably, the realm itself is the source of alchemical energy (rather than knowledge), and the Gate acts as a portal between that energy and the FMA universe. <S> You can read more about the differences on the FMA Wiki . <A> When truth announces who he is he is one or all or also known as god the universe or truth behind the door is nothing but not nothing <S> it is what you think it is a fragment of your missing mind... <S> Presented in one of the episodes <S> the door leads to many things presented in a cross over of Hitler and the Nazi war Edward Elric entered the portal or gate way what ever you wanna call it and entered our world when the Nazi War happened. <S> Regarding the gate way to truth that is truth the gate way takes different forms if you ever followed the story correctly it specifically states that Gate Way is a kinda door or portal to what ever your dreams can imagine. <S> The professor from the Germany side of the door talks among parallel worlds that are connected invisibally and can't be seen and in different dimensions there is another type of you that has <S> it's own personality. <S> Clearly though you can only do this by being in the Full Metal Alchemist world specifically the gate way can lead to many places. <S> ^^ <S> ' <S> That's why there is no point to the universe because everything is infinite just read the Manga and watch the show and decode what it is trying to say... <S> ALSO <S> An edit even though you have different yous in different dimensions supposedly the real you is in the Full Metal Alchemist World since other dimensions logically don't exist... <S> Who ever you are is not what you are but <S> what you are is in the FMA world... <S> Truthfully the show talks if you play god <S> it back fires <S> but also we already know everything because the answer to everything is clearly NOTHING. <A> The Gateway of Truth is the meeting point of infinity, which was theorized when the being inside of it describes himself as God, The Truth, and yourself. <S> Edward comes to discover that the gateway you see is actually your perception of the truth, explaining why Alphonse's and Izumi's gates look different. <S> You can also see all of Edward's memories when he was inside the truth. <S> However in the original Fullmetal Alchemist anime, the gateway is access to all universal knowledge, explaining why you can see John F. Kennedy and moments from World War II.

In the manga and Brotherhood , there are two things within the Gate of Truth: God, and all alchemical knowledge that has ever existed or will ever exist.

Why are many anime characters blond? There are a lot of blond-haired characters in anime, especially the old ones, like super saiyans, naruto, gundam series, fma, etc. <Q> It depends on the culture, status of life (family) and the flow of the story. <S> For example, the anime series of "Ikoku Meiro <S> No Croisee" is used to have most character's blonde hair because the main story is that people lived in Paris. <S> Some of the authors preferred to reflect it in the reality. <A> Honestly, Asian people just have a fascination with blond hair. <S> I once went on group trip that visited China, Japan, and Korea. <S> We had this one blond haired girl in our group <S> and she was basically the center of attention. <S> Everywhere we went, everyone wanted to take pictures with her. <S> Natives of their respective countries would randomly come up and ask for a picture together with her. <S> It was interesting because they didn't ask to take any pictures with the brunette. <S> And by seeing their lifestyles, one could see that they also try very hard to understand and imitate western culture. <S> They probably see or even sterotype blond hair people as the best of the western pop culture. <S> This is also probably why dying their hair blond is the second most popular dye (after orange). <A> Japanese with albinism actually have blonde hair and blue eyes. <S> Unlike the west where people are considered better looking who have a tan; in Japan whiter skin is considered pretty. <S> Due to this Albino people are considered a rare beauty by most. <S> Because they are such a rarity and the cultural association with the idea of "Karma," it has been suggested that if you are Albino, you must have very good Karma. <S> Anime just takes this concept to a new level. <S> Due some research <S> and you'll find some information on the subject. <S> It is hard though to find good sites in English. <A> A lot of Japanese find blond hair exotic and attractive. <S> Because of this, many characters will have bleached hair (like the japanese sometimes do) or have fully blonde sets of hair. <S> (Haikyuu!!) <S> Blondes however, are usually exchange students, foreigners or imbued with power - much like DBZ.

Given that Asian people seem to adore blond hair, it would also make sense for blond hair to be common in Anime, as Anime is a reflection on the author's ideal story. It's usually to make them stand out from the other characters

Are Homura's wings witch wings in the end? At the end of the anime where Homura is in a wasteland, she grows wings. The texture is almost the same as the art style that is used for witches and their lairs, so I'm wondering - at the end of the anime, was Homura becoming something of a witch/magical girl hybrid? Pictures of Homura's wings: <Q> The Rebellion movie seems to hint that Homura's wings in this scene were indeed witch wings, or rather, the beginning of Homura's transformation into a witch. <S> The biggest clue is the landscape. <S> The last time we see Homura in the series she is about to confront a bunch of wraiths in a desert landscape. <S> The Rebellion movie reveals that the Incubators tried to trap Homura and interrupt her witch transformation in order to draw out Madoka. <S> When the Incubators' barrier is broken, Homura is still in the desert. <S> Presumably, that's where her transformation began before it was interrupted, setting the events of the Rebellion movie in motion. <A> There is no definitive answer as to what exactly Homura's wings are, at this time. <A> If the 3rd movie is anything to go by, these are demon wings. <S> When Madoka is grasped and pulled in by Homura at the end of Rebellion, Homura rewrites the universe once again. <S> Here, she dons a pair of black wings. <S> When Kyubey asks who she is, Homura replies she is a demon.

If you assume the two deserted landscapes are one and the same, you would conclude that Homura was about to turn into a witch at the end of the series. It is possible that the third movie will reveal new information about the nature of her wings, but for now, there is no real answer to this question. Thus, it is probably safe to conclude these are demon wings.

Who is the magical girl who becomes Walpurgisnacht? Since witches are actually magical girls who, when their soul gems are fully tainted, become witches, that means that Walpurgisnacht was a magical girl. Since Madoka in two realities became a witch that could destroy the world/universe, that would mean there was a magical girl who was, at the time, much stronger than Madoka (before Homura's trips to the past compiling Madoka's fate and power). Which magical girl became Walpurgisnacht? Were they like Madoka, and had their fate compiled from overlapping timelines? <Q> There is no information about who it was that became Walpurgisnacht. <S> Official description from July 2011 <S> Megami interview with Urobuchi: <S> In the last episode we saw the "Walpurgisnacht", but what kind of witch is it specifically? <S> It has the destructive power to bring about natural disasters powerful enough to blow away an entire town, but originally it was a single witch. <S> It's a witch that has grown from the combination of countless other witches. <S> Walpurgisnacht combines with other witches in the same way two powerful tornadoes are able to combine and become larger. <S> It's essentially a "conglomeration"-type witch. <S> Because it's so powerful, it rarely shows itself. <S> See the Madoka wiki for more details . <A> An interesting question... a late answer... <S> I strongly disagree with the interpretation of Homura Akemi herself being the Walpurgisnacht witch. <S> The circumstances during her wish themselves prove that Homura's not the witch. <S> Homura wished to re-live the time period when she met Madoka for the first time and protect her, instead of it being the other way around. <S> She wished for this, only after Madoka (in the original timeline) died fighting the Walpurgisnacht witch. <S> So, it is evident that Homura was not even a magical girl at that point, so forget the possibility of her being the Walpurgisnacht witch. <S> Also note that the Walpurgisnacht witch cannot be Homura from the "future" either, because each of the altered timeline universes created by virtue of Homura's wish are independent of each other. <S> In actuality, the Walpurgisnacht witch is an amalgamation/(coalesced form) of multiple witches/familiars. <S> This can be supported by the scene where the witch disintegrates after Madoka's wish. <S> It seems to suggest that it had resulted from 32 individual magical girls/witches... <A> I did a bit of research, and found that Walpurgisnacht is the conglomeration of many witches into one. <S> Akemi Homura may be a key element in Walpurgisnacht since Walpurgisnacht appears out of nowhere. <S> This could possibly be time travel, and the witch that Homura turns into could have eaten/absorbed other witches until she became Walpurgisnacht. <A> All of the imagery associated with Walpurgisnacht is the same imagery associated with Homura specifically. <S> When Homura turns into a witch and fights Kyubey, the images of her upside-down smiling is exactly the same as Walpurgisnacht's entrance. <S> Walpurgis is a fusion of two gears with two magical concentric circles surrounding her. <S> Homura is always surrounded by gears, clocks, etc. <S> because she is a machinist and a time traveler. <S> Walpurgisnacht appears in every timeline at the exact moment that Homura gives up on her quest to save Madoka. <S> Bearing in mind that Sayaka's imagery was the same as a magical girl and witch (trains, music, swords, capes, mermaid transformation sequence, etc.), it would be logical that Walpurgis is either Homura or that Homura contributes the vast majority of Walpurgis' power with the inverse of her wish to change fate. <A> Witch form of Homura (Homulilly) was presented in the PSP game and it looks nothing like her witch form from Rebellion. <S> One can say that this means that depending on the circumstances witch form can change. <S> Plus, Madoka's witch form (Kriemhild Gretchen) also looks slightly different in different timelines. <S> Nutcracker Homulilly lacks top of the head and on the concept art for Walpurgis Night you can see that Walpurgis also does not have a top of the head. <S> Nutcracker Homulilly also has oldee-european style dress similar to dress that Walpurgis has. <S> Gears/clock theme that Walpurgis and Homura share, similar conical silhouette, two streak hair (braid on PSP Homililly, just streaks on Nutcracker and two-hat thing on Walpurgis), plus production notes that say that "Walpurgisnacht's and Kriemhild Gretchen's silhouettes are supposed to make a pair and they are meant to look like an hourglass". <S> All this pretty much cements Homura as Walpurgis. <S> Regular designs of Homura and Madoka are also make pair, with Homura being black and purple and Madoka white and pink (purple being basically pink with a lot black and gray added to it). <S> Also, facts aside <S> , thematically there is no reason for Walpurgis to be anyone else beside Homura. <S> If Walpurgis is Homura it creates dramatic irony of Homura fighting with herself and more <S> she grows stronger the stronger her enemy becomes. <S> And trying to save Madoka from her dark side Homura more and more corners Madoka into basically suicide. <S> From the literary stance Homura being Walpurgis makes perfect sense, especially after "Akumura" is created. <S> "Trying to fix everything you only make it worse and probably things would be better if you leave them alone" seems to be a theme with the series in general and especially Homura. <A> I'd assume it was someone who had a lot of ties of fate, maybe one of the queens of England, since her outfit would fit their attire. <S> I'd also assume it could have been the same situation that Madoka and Homura had, or she could have wished to be the most powerful magical girl of all time, and turned to Walpurgisnacht. <A> Basically, Walpurgisnacht is a Witch that is to be blunt like a Cluster of Witches <S> and it came to be from a single witch that was just either left to its own devices until no solitary Magical Girl could handle it. <S> That is to say she appears and at that point she also attracts Magical Girls to kill her as she is a reference to the gathering of witches. <S> She is never really explained <S> but we know she isn't Homura nor has she been seen as a Magical Girl. <S> We do know that she could be like Madoka and have made a wish so selfless it made a wish with a curse equally as big as her wish. <S> For example, a queen wishing for her countries prosperity and then she is hung or beheaded by the very people she made a wish for.

All we really know is that Walpurgisnacht is, in some sense, a fusion of multiple witches (or magical girls, I guess).

Other than Madara, who among the Uchiha Clan possesses or successfully awaken the Rinnegan? I'm just curious whether if only Madara possesses the Rinnegan and if not how many are there?What are the chances that Sasuke can awaken his Rinnegan? <Q> I just realized that the correct answer may be potentially wrong. <S> As we have seen thus far, Madara and Obito are the only 2 Uchiha to have used the Rinnegan. <S> Aside from them, Sasuke is the only other Uchiha clan member that is still alive, whom hasn't awaken the Rinnegan yet. <S> With that said, Sasuke is potentially capable of awakening the Rinnegan any second now. <S> Sasuke has bitten Karin many times. <S> Karin is an Uzumaki, which is a distant relative of the Senju. <S> That means Sasuke has Senju cells inside of him! <S> With the DNA requirements fulfilled, Sasuke can pull a quick one and activate Rinnegan stunning Madara, the Shinobi alliance, and all of us readers :) Updated with known Rinnegan users: <S> Madara,Obito,Sasuke,Sage of 6 Paths,Kaguya <A> Even Nagato's rinnegan was given to him by Madara before his death. <S> And so all the rinnegan shown belongs to Madara. <S> Sasuke will only be able to activate rinnegan if he has Hashirama's cells with him. <S> And i guess he currently don't have it. <A> As an updated answer, It turns out it was not as simple as we thought, though it took the Sage himself to explain it. <S> Based on the Musings of Hagoromo (the Sage of Six paths) <S> He inherited His rinnegan from his mother, which was then split to each of his children, Indra and Ashura. <S> It is the combination of their chakras that result in the rinnegan (Indra + Asura = Hagoromo). <S> The brothers however had a Feud, which somehow caused their Unique chakras to reincarnate into their decedents. <S> Coincidentally, they happen to be Uchiha and Senju respectively, which is where the initial confusion happened with only need Uchiha and Senju DNA. <S> This is shown best with Danzo, who had Uchiha and Senju DNA for Years, possibly around the time of Narutos birth, but does not have any Rinnegan eyes in that collection. <S> Eventually, the Chakras reincarnated into Madara and Hashirama. <S> Madara obtained the Rinnegan because he was Indras reincarnation and therefor had Indras charkra, and then he took on Asuras chakra from Hashirama, who was Asuras Reincarnation. <S> This mix (Asura and Indra) becomes the Sage of Six paths, with the Rinnegan. <S> Madara then gave both of his eyes to Nagato, since Nagato could not naturally obtain them. <S> Rinnegan appear to work like all other Dojutsu in that the eyes themselves retain their form even after transplanting, as Nagato could never undo them, they were permanently rinnegan. <S> After Nagatos death, Obito took his eyes. <S> Obito is unable to awaken the Rinnegan naturally because he is not Indras reincarnation, and so is still missing Indras chakra despite having Uchiha and Asura's charkas. <S> he had to implant the Rinnegan, which he could only implant one of due to their power. <S> This boils down to meaning that Only Madara and Hashirama could obtain the Rinnegan from the older characters, And the current generation of Reincarnations, Naruto and Sasuke as well. <S> Of course, if someone could implant Sasukes eyes and implement Narutos DNA, they could also obtain the rinnegan eventually.

So far as the manga goes, only Madara was seen to activate the Rinnegan.

Can a Rinnegan user use Mangekyou abilities? Since Rinnegan is an "upgrade" of Sharingan, then it should be possible that all the techniques of Sharingan will be carried away to Rinnegan like the Mangekyou. If not, then why? <Q> To put it bluntly, no, the rinnegan cannot use mangekyou abilities. <S> As you can watch in the anime, Madara can switch between Rinnegan and Sharingan because he awakened both. <S> Nagato only had the Rinnegan. <S> Basically, the Rinnegan isn't an upgraded Sharingan <S> , it's what comes next, but it's a completely different eye. <A> It is, since during Madara and 5 kages fight, Madara is able to cast genjutsu to raikage after looking into his eyes, though his eyes is seen as a sharinggan. <S> And he can still use Susanoo which is a Mangekyo ability. <A> A Rinnegan user can use the Mangekyō Sharingan abilities, if the user Has one eye with a Mangekyō Sharingan and one with a Rinnegan (as seen with Tobi). <S> Naturally awakened the Rinnegan after awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan . <S> (as seen with Madara). <S> If you look at the wiki page of Rinnegan (emphasis mine, not originally there in the wiki). <S> When Madara was reincarnated by Kabuto Yakushi to fight the Allied Shinobi Forces, Madara once again gained access to the dōjutsu (Rinnegan) ; his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan was able to transform into the Rinnegan at <S> will <S> (Madara awakened Rinnegan during the last days of his life) . <S> Based on data collected over the years, Kabuto Yakushi and Orochimaru theorised that because the Sharingan originated from the Rinnegan, it was possible for the dōjutsu to change into the Rinnegan as part of a "natural evolution". <S> This is supported by the fact he maintains his Susanoo while having his Rinnegan activated. <S> Upon reincarnation, Nagato also retained the Rinnegan. <S> Since Madara had awakened both the Mangekyō and Rinnegan in his life, he could switch between the two and use the abilities of both the dōjutsu's . <S> But in the case of Nagato, as he was implanted with the Rinnegan itself, he could not switch between them and hence, was never able to use those abilities. <S> This wiki excerpt should confirm it. <S> While the powers of the Rinnegan remain intact upon implanting them in a new person, like Nagato and Obito Uchiha, only one who "naturally" manifests the Rinnegan, as in Madara Uchiha's case, is able to switch between the Rinnegan and Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan; otherwise, the Rinnegan is always activated. <S> Tobi had 2 different eyes, one with the Mangekyō (his own eye) and the other with the Rinnegan (which he took it from Nagato's body after his death), and that's the reason why he could use the abilities of both but only with one eye for each of it. <A> While the powers of the Rinnegan remain intact upon implanting them in a new person, like Nagato and Obito Uchiha, only one who "naturally" manifests the Rinnegan, as in Madara Uchiha's case, is able to switch between the Rinnegan and Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan; otherwise, the Rinnegan is always activated. <A> The Rinnegan and Mangekyo Sharingan are two different eyes. <S> Completely different. <S> The Sage of Six Paths had the Rinnegan and divided his power to create the Senju and the Uchiha. <S> The Uchiha got the Sharingan and the Senju got really strong chakra and life force (chakra basically). <S> The only reason why Madara got the Rinnegan was because he put some of Hashirama Senju's cells in himself. <S> Thus bringing together the power that the sage had divided. <S> He then would attain the sage's eyes (Rinnegan). <S> He is able to switch between them. <S> The Rinnegan cannot use Mangekyo techniques and vice versa. <S> The reason why Nagato cannot switch between the different eyes is that they were transplanted into him in the Rinnegan form, and since they aren't his natural eyes, his control over them is limited. <S> A good example of this is Kakashi: he cannot change <S> the Sharingan Obito gave him into a normal eye. <S> That is why he covers it up when he isn't using it. <S> The one absolute thing I can tell you is that the Rinnegan and the Mangekyo Sharingan are two different eyes. <A> Given that the Rinnengan is the pen-ultimate version of the Sharigan, they can use its power without the need for the eye form itself. <A> Yes, it is possible however only if the rinnegan is with the original person for whom it is awakened. <S> But for him too he has to revert back to Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan to use its abilities, and if he wants to use abilities of sharingan then he has to revert back to sharingan. <S> An uchiha who has awakened his rinnegan has 5 types of eyes.. <S> normal Black pupils <S> sharingan <S> Mangekyou Sharingan Eternal mangekyo Sharingan Rinnegan <A> But Only If its the user who has awakened the Rinnengan .. <S> As You see in Madara's <S> And Sasuke's Case.. <S> As Sasuke Awakened his Rinnengan ( <S> In Left Eye) <S> By taking chakra from Hogoromo he could use his Amateratsu from his left eye ..

The Rinnengan User Can Use The Mangekyo Techniques..

Would a water manipulating Devil Fruit user be able to swim? If all Devil Fruit users in One Piece anime are not capable of swimming, what about a Devil Fruit user whose ability is to control water? Can such a person able to swim or evade the Devil Fruit's curse? <Q> Most of this answer is speculation as there is currently no answer to this question. <S> I think that the possibility of the "Mizu Mizu no Mi" existing somewhere in the One Piece universe is highly possible, since we have already seen multiple states of water being Devil Fruits: <S> Moku Moku <S> no Mi <S> (Smoke - Gas state) <S> * <S> Hie <S> Hie <S> no Mi (Ice - Solid state) <S> Yuki <S> Yuki <S> no Mi (Snow - Solid state) <S> * <S> I know this one is disputable <S> The only problem with the "Mizu Mizu no Mi" is that it will create a paradox. <S> Since Devil Fruit users are weak to water, if a Devil Fruit user transforms into water, he would be rendered powerless and transform back to his normal form. <S> But all in all, I don't think the person using this Devil Fruit will be able to circumvent the "curse" Devil Fruit users get from eating them. <A> The Devil Fruit Users are weak to the sea energy (think seastone), because the sea hates them. <S> If a "Mizu Mizu no Mi" exists, then it would most likely be fresh water ability. <S> This would allow them to use water, without being weakened. <A> The thing is that the Devil Fruit users only lose their powers through SEA water. <S> drinking water, fresh water and any other type of water would have no effect. <S> So it would be possible to have the ability and swim, if you are not in Sea water. <S> This was displayed in the Crocodile ARC. <S> Luffy dowses himself with regular water to fight Crocodile for the fact that the Sand gets clumpy and is not able to disperse. <A> TL;DR <S> , he'd have to use tricks to enable him swimming. <S> Devil Fruit <S> users are susceptible to all types of water, not just seawater <S> I'll assume this Devil Fruit will not be susceptible to fresh water. <S> This can be possible since the wiki always states the word "sea" as the weakness. <S> It has nothing to do with water. <S> For example, it's "seastone", not "waterstone". <S> We can say susceptibility of fresh water is a side effect which can be neutralized with the power of the fruit. <S> Logia Devil Fruits allow a person to create , control, and transform into a natural element or force of nature, depending on the fruit. <S> Let us also assume the fruit is Logia type. <S> If the fruit has the ability to create water, the fruit user could surround themself with newly created fresh water which is not their own body. <S> This way, there will be no direct interaction with the sea water and the Devil Fruit user. <S> With these assumptions, yes, a fruit user with such power will have the ability to swim in salty water. <S> Check <S> this answer for further details. <A> No. <S> The second he touched water or became wet, he would lose the ability to control it, allowing him to drown and die. <S> If he controlled water from a distance without touching it, then he could retain his devil fruit powers.

YES, they can swim Assuming the fruit eater cannot control the sea water (which otherwise would clearly goes against all the plot)

Why didn't Naruto help Nagato? When Nagato reanimated everyone who died in the village, Katsuyu was with him. Couldn't Naruto use Katsuyu to help Nagato, or is it for some other reason? <Q> When Naruto returned to Konoha, Tsunade ordered one of its smaller clones to stay in Naruto's pocket and keep him informed of Pain's abilities. <S> naruto wikia <S> First and foremost, Tsunade didn't intend to heal Pain from the start but just wanted to located naruto instead. <S> Even if Katsuyu implied to do, I think smaller clone are smaller in ability like healing and other. <S> Furthermore, Katsuyu's clones are extremely resistant to high amounts of damage, as seen during Invasion of Pain Arc. <S> Katsuyu is also able to absorb people into its body, thus protecting them from physical impacts like the large-scale Shinra Tensei using its own high durability. <S> naruto wikia <S> Aside from that , Katsuyu seem to absorb physical impacts only and it can't do nothing to chakra overexertion from as far as I watched. <A> As revealed by later chapters, Gedo: <S> Rinne Tensei is a Tensei Ninjutsu , meaning, it transfers the life-force of the user onto another (or others). <S> This was confirmed by Obito by saying that to revive Madara, he would need to throw his life away. <S> No amount of chakra in the world could have saved Nagato, just like Naruto's chakra didn't save Chiyo back then <S> (only helped her complete the technique). <A> 1st, Chakra IS Life Force <S> 2nd Nagato didn't have enough chakra at the time to revive the whole village as stated in Chapter 449 While Nagato died, it should be noted that it was when he revived a whole bunch of people, and when Obito said he die if used it on Madara (chapter 614) who was dead for over 17 yrs, both were extreme cases..... <S> it can be assumed that if you don't have enough chakra, then you'd die if you used Rinne Tensei and the more extreme the case but you could survive if you had enough chakra.... <S> going there, that could mean that the longer the person is dead, the more chakra it'll take to revive them, so if he took time to rest, then it'd have taken even more chakra to revive each person <S> then Nagato did his jutsu before Naruto knew what was going on <S> so once the jutsu was done and all, then Naruto couldn't help him while Naruto was able to help Chiyo, Pein's revival jutsu seemed to be even shorter than Chiyo's and Naruto didn't have <S> much of Katsuya and Tsunade used up almost all her chakra so she couldn't transfer chakra to Nagato even if she wanted to...

Probably, the Katsuyu in Naruto's pocket can't have enough chakra to heal Pain.

Did Saber recognize Illyasviel in Fate/Stay Night? In Fate Zero, Saber doesn't exactly meet Illyasviel, but she does see her, which is hard to forget because she looks pretty much exactly as her mother Irisviel, who was a good friend of Saber's. In Fate Stay Night, Saber runs into Illyasviel multiple times, and eventually Illyasviel ends up living with her in Shirou's house. But, as far as I'm concerned, Saber doesn't seem to "react" at all. By this I mean something like: "Oh boy, that's Illyasviel, damned Kiritusugu's daughter" "Whoa, she looks exactly like my good old friend Irisviel" "von Einzbern? That rings a bell" But it doesn't seem (to me) that Saber actually realizes this. Does Saber recognize Illyasviel? If yes, why doesn't she bring it up? <Q> Yes, Saber's (Arthuria) situation as a Servant is unique. <S> She is not a true heroic spirit, but rather an incomplete one <S> (See: <S> Fate/Zero novel, Vol. 2, Act 5, Part 1 <S> ): <S> As Saber - that is, Arturia - is an incomplete Heroic Spirit, she would not possess the knowledge that surpasses time and space one gains when one has reached the Throne of Heroes. <S> According to the Type Moon <S> Wiki: <S> The hero known as King Arthur is not currently classified as a Heroic Spirit, so she cannot be called a complete Servant. <S> She made a pact with the World as she was on the verge of death after the Battle of Camlann that will require her to become a Counter Guardian, a subcategory of a Heroic Spirit at the service of the World, after her death. <S> These pacts are normally done by those requiring the power beyond ordinary humans to become heroes during their lifetimes, but her wish instead came at the time of her death because King Arthur did not require support to become a hero. <S> Having technically not died yet, Saber cannot take on Spirit Form like most other servants because she's technically still considered alive. <S> This allows her to keep all memories of her search for the Grail, unlike Heroic Spirits don't keep their memories in order to prevent inconsistencies. <S> With that being said she most likely realizes the positions she is in and the recurring characters, but does not act upon it would complicate matters (singling her out as an irregularity, raise unnecessarily questions that may distract her master). <A> Saber recognized that Illya was a homunculus created by the Einzberns like Irisviel however Saber was never told Illya's name and assumed that Illya would grow normally during the ten years between Holy Grail War's so when Illya introduced herself Saber thought Illya was too young to be Irisviel's daughter. <A> If you pay close attention to <S> Fate/stay night: UBW , you may be able to tell that Saber recognizes Illyasviel. <S> When Illya first introduces herself, she says "Von Einsburn. <S> Sounds familiar, Rin? <S> " After she says that, Saber tilts her head down and sighs as if she is remembering something she doesn't want to think about. <S> Though this evidence still leaves much to be desired, Saber has never been one to submit to her feelings and often keeps them concealed within. <S> Therefore, she wouldn't likely say, "Oh my god. <S> You're Irisviel's daughter. <S> " even if they were alone together especially because I'd imagine that Illya reminds Saber too much of Irisviel, who is dead. <S> Honestly, if I were saber, I'd be acting the same way if I were in such a situation.

Heroic Spirits are those who have been removed from the time axis and placed on the Throne of Heroes, while Saber can still be considered living.

Where is Yoruichi's Zanpakuto? Since the beginning, we see Yoroichi does not wield a Zanpakuto, but isn't it strange? Isn't she a Shinigami and the Zanpakuto is so important for them? It's true that she has her own fighting style, but like Soi Fon, she has the same fighting style, but uses a Zanpakuto. There was some flashback moments when we saw younger Yoroichi wielding a Zanpakuto: I imagine she had Shikai/Bankai to become a Captain, so she should be stronger if she uses it in a fight. Maybe she has lost it or something? <Q> There are many THEORIES as to what happened to her Zanpakuto. <S> I'm not sure if I can ANSWER your question as definitely as you'd like, but I can list some possible answers. <S> It's up to you to find the one that you believe most plausible. <S> Or we can wait til old Tite Kubo gives us the answer. <S> She gave it up when she left the Soul Society. <S> Yoruichi is a part of a very honorable family, so it's almost possible that she would leave her Zanpakuto to symbolize the fact that she's leaving the Seireitei. <S> However , a Zanpakuto is a partnership. <S> It's doubtful that somebody could just leave their partner, especially if their Zanpakuto is an animate object. <S> Also, why would she have to give up something that important? <S> It was stolen. <S> It's not impossible to believe that after a particularly long bout with some Hollow, or another Soul Reaper, it was taken as a trophy. <S> Or even destroyed? <S> However , Yoruichi is an extremely amazing fighter. <S> She couldn't have lost unless she fought something on the level of the Espada. <S> She keeps it with her, but sees no point in using it. <S> This is what I believe. <S> That she just has it set aside and is waiting for an opportune moment to use it. <S> However , why wouldn't she have used it by now??? <S> You would think, with all the amazing enemies that have been introduced, she would've pulled it out by now. <S> Also , the only reasons she wouldn't use it is if It is too weak to make a difference in battle <S> and she sees no point in using it <S> Or, it is too STRONG <S> and she cannot properly control it <S> Or, she had a falling out with it, and she's not allowed to use it. <S> Those are just some theories. <S> I believe she wouldn't have gotten rid of it. <S> I think she would've done what Kisuke did. <S> Personally, I think we'll see it one day, along with her Bankai. <S> Sorry that I couldn't answer your question. <A> I however, personally think that one of the most overlooked and underestimated answers is that she simply doesn't like/want to use it. <S> Much to the same affect as to <S> why Sui Feng does not like using her Bankai. <S> (Said reason being that it does not conform to the style of combat the leader of the Stealth Force conforms to.) <S> One may also note that most of the unnamed members of the Stealth Force are typically shown with no Zanpakuto. <S> One must also take into account that Yoruichi is well regarded as one of the finest hand to hand combatants in Soul Society as well as one of the fastest and most proficient users of Shunpo. <S> Keeping these things in mind, perhaps her Zanpakuto would provide no benefit or even hinder her fighting style. <A> Yoruichi doesn't have her Zanpakuto because it is inherent to the current leader of the Stealth Force, which she is not. <A> In her fight with soi fon she throws a kunai. <S> She merged with it. <S> She is really the physical manifestation of urahara's zanpakto which is why he doesnt use it past shikai. <A> I believe it's more like Ise Nanao's case. <S> It's probable that it's a family something <S> and so she had to give it up for the next in her family to wield it

The story of Yoruichi's departure from Soul Society and her back story and Soifon's initiation state that Suzumebachi is the Zanpakuto given to all the reigning leader of the Onmitsukidō or Stealth Force. While there is no definitive answer at this point many of the theories out there are plausible.

If the anime came first, what is considered "canon"? In the case of many anime where the manga came first, things that are included in the anime but not the manga (such as filler arcs) seem to be not considered totally canon to the series, indicating that manga is generally what is considered to set canon. One example of this is the Quincy arc in Bleach. For series where the anime came first, such as Code Geass, is the anime then considered to set canon? <Q> What is considered canon is generally decided by the author(s) or license holder. <S> I think you need to get a better idea of the definition of canon. <S> the original work from which the fan fiction author borrows or a descriptor of specific incidents, relationships, or story arcs that take place within the overall canon <S> Wikipedia <S> ( Original revision where definitions came from) <S> So, to directly answer your question, if there was only a manga and anime, and the manga came first, then the manga is canon. <S> I say only, because many manga and anime are based off of light novels or visual novels. <S> In that case, the light novel or visual novel would be canon. <S> This is an assumption, because I think anime writers give up the rights to their work. <A> When a series is presented in several media, most of the versions will usually be said to be "based on" some other version, and whichever version is not "based on" anything of the others is canon. <S> Under normal circumstances, that one is the one that came first. <S> But this is only a general guideline. <S> Sometimes things get strange. <S> Consider Revolutionary Girl Utena , which has no fewer than four presentations: the manga, the TV series, the movie, and the manga of the movie. <S> The movie-manga is based on the movie, of course, but the other three are considered separate canons. <S> Sort of. <S> Like I said, Utena is strange. <A> Canon is whatever the rights holder (people who own the IP) says it is. <S> Canon is always changing. <S> Just look at the American comic industry, DC and Marvel are always retconning and reinventing the canon.

If the anime came first, then it will probably be whatever the license holder decides is canon.

Do Akatsuki rings have abilities? Each of Akatsuki's members wear unique rings. I guess Itachi's one can use genjutsu. But how about others? Can it be used as ninjutsu or genjutsu abilities? And why does Zetsu always collect those rings after each one of the members died. <Q> The rings do not have abilities. <S> They are simply used for the Akatsuki membership, which is why Sasuke's group Taka was never really considered Akatsuki. <S> They might have had the cloaks, but they didn't have the rings and the rings signify a true Akatsuki member. <S> Also, Orochimaru's ring was never replaced when he left the Akatsuki. <S> There have been 10 Akatsuki rings total as well as 10 members of the group. <S> Taken from Naruto wikia <S> Right thumb: "zero" (零, rei); worn by Pain. <S> Its colour is purplish-grey. <S> Right index finger: "blue," "green" (青, ao, shō); worn by Deidara. <S> Its colour is teal. <S> Right middle finger: "white" (白, bya); worn by Konan. <S> Its colour is white. <S> Right ring finger: "vermilion," "scarlet" (朱, shu); worn by Itachi Uchiha. <S> Its colour is >red. <S> Right little finger: "sign of the boar" (亥, gai); worn by Zetsu. <S> Its colour is green. <S> Left little finger: "sky," "void" (空, kū); worn by Orochimaru. <S> Its colour is slate blue. <S> Left ring finger: <S> "south" (南, nan); worn by Kisame Hoshigaki. <S> Its colour is yellow. <S> Left middle finger: <S> "north" (北, hoku); worn by Kakuzu. <S> Its colour is dark green. <S> Left index finger: "three" (三, san); worn by Hidan. <S> Its colour is orange. <S> Left thumb: "jewel," "ball," also the black king in shogi (玉, gyoku); worn by Sasori and >later by Tobi. <S> Its colour is purple. <A> Akatsuki thinks that the rings are very valuable for some reason. <S> You point out how Zetsu insists on collecting the rings of dead members. <S> It's also telling that when Orochimaru actually managed to take a ring away from Akatsuki, they didn't make a new ring <S> and they didn't replace Orochimaru . <S> It's almost like the ring is more important than the person in that position. <S> But as of now, we don't know why Akatsuki places so much importance on the rings. <S> They might have some kind of abilities, but if they do, we haven't seen them. <A> Potential Spoilers!!!! <S> Read at your own risk... <S> My theory is that the rings are what allow Pain to talk to them telepathically and for them to astral project onto the fingers of the statue. <S> When they preform the ceremony, there are at most two-four members physically present. <S> (often the team that captured the jinchuuriki) <S> My guess is that the black Kanji in the rings is the same as the rods used to control the six paths of Pain telepathically, which when the members concentrate chakra into the ring they connect to Nagato. <S> Also, it's probably time consuming to forge the rings and Nagato isn't exactly in the best of health at the point that members start dying. <S> As for Itachi's comment about other ways to cast genjutsu, you don't have to have a sharingan to cast genjutsu. <S> Take Kurenai for instance, she's a genjutsu mistress. <S> I don't believe Itachi relied just on his eyes and considering his failing eyesight and health, it stands to reason that he couldn't always use his eyes in excess. <S> Likely the whole pointing the finger thing is likely a distraction for a half seal he is using on his other hand or is the half seal in and of <S> it's self. <S> I hope this helps, Murakmi no Kitsune <A> Maybe the rings are to connect with the Gedo statue. <S> May be their seat on the statues fingers in also where their ring should be. <S> For example I think that Sasori's ring was in his thumb and he sat on the Gedo's thumb. <S> Another example Orochimaru's ring was still with him and the statues had a missing spot. <S> So Zetsu must have collected them in case of more member to make the extraction of the tailed beast quicker( <S> if they were able to find a new member whom was willing to join) <S> ps people are way to into Hidan being a new member and having a past

I do not believe that the rings have special "powers", beyond my theory they are what help them connect to Nagato telepathically.

What exactly happened at the end of Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi? Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi (神さまのいない日曜日) ended with more questions than answers: If Alice died instead of Dee, then why was Dee the one as a ghost in the real world? Furthermore, Dee has her body (in the outside world) in the final scene. How does Ai managed to "save" Alice? Yet at the same time she's standing in front of his grave. Running through the forums and it seems like I'm not the only one who's confused. What in the world happened? (no pun intended) The biggest and undeniable contradiction is Dee going from ghost to normal human. Does this mean that some sort of change of history caused Dee and Alice to "switch places"? <Q> Dee appeared as a ghost because her physical body was still stuck in class 3-4, while Alice had a physical body outside because he was already buried by a proper gravekeeper. <S> Therefore, his body wasn't in class 3-4 like Dee, and could appear normally since he was part of the world outside. <S> Dee has a physical body later on, because the world class 3-4 created had been destroyed. <S> Her physical body was released. <S> In Sunday Without God , by wishing for something really badly it somehow would be granted, like how Hampnie Hambart wished to die happily besides his family, or how Alice got the ability Buzzer Beater. <S> When Ai wished for Alice to be saved, God granted that wish, and so Alice could have a physical body outside class 3-4's world and continue to live his life. <A> My interpretation was that: This was a world where people frequently get special powers by wishing intensely. <S> Intense wishes can cause perfect aim with Buzzer Beater, special power to eat normally inedible objects, and even a giant time loop when 17 people wish all at once. <S> The fact that Dee appeared to be the ghost was probably part of the wish of those 17 people. <S> They wished for a world that would never be disturbed by reality, and their wish made Dee appear as a ghost outside, because that made their world less likely to be disturbed by reality. <S> In this story, God makes rules that are more like loose guidelines, and God breaks His own guidelines frequently. <S> The gravekeeper Scar wasn't supposed to be able to cry, but apparently she wished to be more normal and God transformed her - apparently into a normal woman. <S> At the end of the story, just before Ai was pushed out of the room, she was wishing with all her heart that she could find some way to save everyone. <S> I presume God granted her wish by breaking His own rules, as He had done many times before. <A> The reason for the scene where Ai was in front of Alice's grave with Alice standing beside her... <S> The original Alice had already died. <S> Then after class 3-4 wished for the incident to never happen (causing a time-loop to occur), Alice's soul was probably revived while his body was buried. <S> Alice of course had no idea he died. <S> So while he kept searching for a way to break the time-loop, he started to change <S> and then he met Ai. <S> Ai probably wished for the Alice she knew to come back to life. <S> Thus the original Alice was still buried and the Alice whom Ai knew revived. <S> [This is just my theory though.]

Ai saved Alice by wishing intensely.

How did the Sage of the Six Paths obtain his Rinnegan? It is shown that the Sage of the Six paths was the first to have the Rinnegan. Now for an Uchiha these are the stages of their eyes: Normal eyes Sharingan (activated after facing life threatening situation) Mangekyo Sharingan (activated after a very close person dies) Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan (activated after replacing theexisting Mangekyo Sharingan with another mangekyo sharingan) Rinnegan (conditions for activation have not yet been mentioned) All these stages have covered by Madara Uchiha, he took his brother's Mangekyo Sharingan to activate the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. Now if the same logic was to be applied to the Sage of the Six Paths, then whose Mangekyo Sharingan did he take for his own? He being the first shinobi should not have anyone to take a Sharingan from. <Q> Awakening the Rinnegan <S> I think you have misunderstood something here. <S> The Rinnegan was the original form. <S> It required no activation and was permanent to the Sage of the Six Paths . <S> His children, the Uchiha and the Senju inherited the two different feats: <S> The life force and physical energy went to the Senju <S> The visual prowess and strength of chakra went to the Uchiha clan. <S> This visual prowess manifested in the Sharingan as a visible component of the Rinnegan. <S> The Senju had some second components to the Rinnegan embedded in their DNA. <S> The problem now is that the possibility to awaken the Rinnegan (when they also have Senju DNA) is in every Sharingan user, but only "under the radar". <S> To activate the Rinnegan , it seems one must go through different stages: <S> The Mangekyou Sharingan and the <S> [Eien]{Eternal} no <S> Mangekyou Sharingan Madara accomplished this. <S> By implanting Hashirama's DNA to his cells when he was close to death, he finally awakened the Rinnegan. <S> It may also be possible to awaken the Rinnegan without undergoing the two higher stages of the Sharingan, but that is only speculative. <S> As of chapter 674 of the manga, the DNA of Hashirama (or moreover, Senju DNA) is not required to awaken the Rinnegan. <S> Sasuke awakens the Rinnegan, even though there is no actual explanation as to why. <S> It probably has to do with the fact that Sasuke is possessed by the reincarnated spirit of Rikudo's son. <S> Origin of the Rinnegan <S> If you read Chapter 646 of the Naruto manga, you can see <S> the Ten-Tails' awakening. <S> And when he opens his eyes, you should be able to notice that they have a similar pattern to the Rinnegan. <S> Actually, the eyes look like a Rinnegan with some Tomoe 巴 scattered in the circles of the Rinnegan. <S> We also witness the Ten-Tails' awakened form (the Tree of God), which uses a more complex form of the Preta Path when he absorbs the chakra of people he caught. <S> From this information, we can conclude that the Tree of God/Ten Tails was the original "wielder" of the "perfect Rinnegan" (well, it hasn't got a name yet), and that most probably, the chakra was not the only thing the Sage got at birth. <A> This question seems to be pretty complicated and is asking a lot of things, so I'm going to break this down piece by piece. <S> How did the Sage of Six Paths obtain his Rinnegan? <S> Well, we really don't know whether he was born with it or obtained it after birth. <S> What's important to know is that he was the first one that had it. <S> The stages/evolution of an Uchiha's eyes <S> Regular - <S> > <S> Sharingan (1->2->3 Tomoe) - <S> > <S> Mangekyou Sharingan - <S> > <S> Eternal MS - <S> > <S> Rinnegan <S> You are right about the progression, however you are mistaken when you ask <S> Now if the same logic was to be applied to the Sage of the Six Paths, then whose Mangekyo Sharingan did he take for his own? <S> He had the strongest and final form of the eye : Rinnegan. <S> When the Sage of Six Paths had two sons, his powers were split between them. <S> One was Senju and inherited the Sage of Six Path's body strength. <S> The other son was Uchiha and received the Sage of Six Path's ocular powers. <S> Keep in mind that both sons only received a fraction of what the Sage of Six Paths had. <S> This is why all Uchiha always bore the Sharingan, which is a younger eye form for an Uchiha and has a fraction of the power of the Rinnegan. <S> Thus when a person wants to awake the Rinnegan, the requirements are both body and eye. <S> An example of this is Uchiha Madara with the Sharingan and acquiring Senju Hashirama's DNA. <S> With both DNA from Uchiha and Senju, he can finally become a Sage of the Six Paths and obtain the Rinnegan. <S> And even while using the Rinnegan, Uchiha Madara is still able to use Mangekyou techniques like Susanoo, which confirms that Rinnegan is the final evolutionary state of the eyes. <A> I believe your grasp of the dojutsu is flawed. <S> Sharingan and Rinnegan are two separate jutsu, though one descended from the other. <S> The final stage that an Uchiha can hope to achieve naturally of their Sharingan is the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. <S> To achieve the Rinnegan, one needs to be born with the chakra of both the Senju and Uchiha as the Sage once did. <S> However, this can be bypassed by acquiring the DNA of one and introducing it into another. <S> In short, the Sage of Six Paths was born with the Rinnegan. <S> Seeing that it manifested itself naturally, he did not need to steal DNA (Senju) or eyes (Uchiha), as neither clans were present during his lifetime.

When one brings the DNA of an Uchiha and a Senju together, one can awaken the Rinnegan. The Sage of Six Paths did not have the Mangekyou Sharingan nor did he take the Mangekyou Sharingan from someone.

What language does Feitan speak when activating Pain Packer? In Hunter x Hunter , episode 97, Feitan activates his nen ability. What language is the vertical text on the right? <Q> According to the Hunter x Hunter Wiki : <S> Feitan's first language is Chinese; he speaks in sentence fragments in Japanese while switching to his native tongue when angered. <S> Given this, and the text is written in either Japanese kanji or Chinese (as @kuwaly beat me to pointing out), and the fact that there is a Japanese translation provided, I'm going to conclude that the text is written in Chinese. <S> (There may be some fragments of Japanese, but I somewhat doubt that.) <A> Preface: I don't know anything about Hunter x Hunter , so I have no idea what language <S> Feitan is "actually" speaking in the context of the show. <S> That said: the captions that accompany Feitan's speech are most likely not a real language . <S> I know Japanese well enough to tell you <S> it's not Japanese; a bit of gruntwork in Chinese and Vietnamese character dictionaries suggests it isn't either of those; and if it isn't Chinese, it can't be Korean hanja either, since hanja are mostly identical to Chinese hanzi. <S> It's possible that the script there is a more esoteric derivative of hanzi, e.g. Sawndip, but I doubt that's the case. <S> As evidence of this, we observe that the captions contain the character 々, found only in Japanese, as well as a number of other probably-untypeable characters, which are not found in Japanese. <S> Since the language must be 1.) <S> Japanese; and 2.) not Japanese, we are forced to conclude that language is not a language at all. <S> That said, the characters in the caption are very evocative of hanzi (particularly insofar as they appear to be built from standard Chinese radicals), and were probably consciously designed to appear Chinese while not actually being Chinese. <S> Note that some of the characters that appear are real characters in Chinese - in particular, 了, 下, and 乃. <S> The rest don't seem to be, though. <A> He speaks normal Japanese.. <S> But backwards. <S> You can see this clearly at 17:12 where the Japanese subtitles say "どうした" (do u shi ta) <S> and he says "tashiudo" (ta shi u do) which is what you would get if you read the hiragana backwards. <A> The characters on the right are gibberish that is written to look like Chinese. <S> As many have said, some characters used are viable in Japanese, some viable in Modern Chinese, possibly some viable as obscure ancient Chinese not sure, but mostly it's constructed from legitimate parts to form gibberish. <S> It's the equivalent of writing "angsk ville ast, arg be yous being <S> may kis dangeroust stranger ous" Kind of looks like English with some viable parts to anyone who doesn't know English, but is generally gibberish. <A> it's 100% Feitan talking backwards. <S> If you don't believe, you can watch the english dub aswell if you do not understand japanese at all. <S> I can clearly tell you it's not chinese because im a chinese myself. <S> In the english dub version, you can clearly hear them talking backwards.

It is entirely possible (as far as I know) that Feitan speaks Chinese, and that the captions are supposed to represent some variant of Chinese that exists in-show or whatnot.

Is Ichigo technically dead? When Ichigo is being trained by Kisuke his second lesson involves Ichigo's Chain of Fate being cut, and in order for him to avoid becoming a Hollow he has to become a Soul Reaper. After he gets out of the pit he was stuck in now with his own Soul Reaper Powers, Kisuke then begins his third lesson which is a fight. Between the start of the second lesson and the end of the third lesson there doesn't seem to be a point where they repair Ichigo's Chain of Fate (if it's even possible). So is Ichigo technically dead because his Chain of Fate was cut? <Q> I would say yes. <S> It does not interfere with the "not letting the main character die" rule, because the main part of the story plays in the world of the dead (soul society). <S> So I ask if the concept of "death and alive" even does apply to bleach? <S> He might be dead ever since he first became a Shinigami or, as you described, as soon as his chain got destroyed. <S> As for the time he is in his body and interacts with the world of the living, he might just go back into his body or as other Shinigami enter a Gigai (artificial body). <S> I sadly have no prove for this claim, it is my theory. <A> I personally feel that these are just certain events in the manga which make the reader feel that its happened. <S> But mangaka's are such beings that they can create their own logic and make dead people alive! <S> The writer is just creating such events that generate these kind of thoughts in the readers mind! <A> Looking at it in the most basic way: the answer should be no. <S> Remember, many people can see Ichigo (not just the special ones who can see the dead). <S> They don't show Ichigo getting into a fake body for his day to day life at any point. <S> Only leaving it for Kon in the earlier parts of the series. <S> Recall the 17 months after Ichigo did not have powers (around the Fullbringer Arc) that everyone could see and interact with him. <S> If that could happen, he should not be viewed as dead. <S> Take it with a grain of salt, remember that the author/creator Kubo Tite has been inconsistent with some things in the past and gets sloppy with his writing from time to time.

Logically if you think, then Killing the main person of a story which is going so great, can have a highly positive or negative impact on the sales of a manga.