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{ "accepted_answer_id": "8", "answer_count": 6, "body": "Assuming the world in the One Piece universe is round, then there is not\nreally a beginning or an end of the Grand Line.\n\nThe Straw Hats started out from the first half and are now sailing across the\nsecond half.\n\nWouldn't it have been quicker to set sail in the opposite direction from where\nthey started?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T20:37:08.823", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "1", "last_activity_date": "2022-05-12T10:37:24.403", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-17T19:06:38.957", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "21", "post_type": "question", "score": 83, "tags": [ "one-piece" ], "title": "The treasure in One Piece is at the end of the Grand Line. But isn't that the same as the beginning?", "view_count": 98252 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI think that the One Piece, being at the end of the Grand Line, simply refers\nto the fact that to get to the \"One Piece\", the legendary treasure talked\nabout by the last Pirate King, you will need to travel to the \"end\" of the\nseas. In this case, that means traveling through the most remote/dangerous\nplaces so that only the worthy can get to it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T20:47:29.397", "id": "7", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-26T12:50:40.920", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-26T12:50:40.920", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "32", "parent_id": "1", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nNo, there is a reason why they can't.\n\nBasically the [New World](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/New_World) is beyond\nthe [Red Line](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Red_Line), but you cannot \"walk\"\non it, or cross it. It's a huge continent, very tall that you cannot go\nthrough. You can't cross the [Calm\nBelt](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Calm_Belt) either, unless you have some\nform of locomotion such as the Navy or [Boa\nHancock](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Boa_Hancock).\n\nSo the only way is to start from one of the Four Seas, then to go the [Reverse\nMountain](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Reverse_Mountain) and follow the\nGrand Line until you reach _[Raftel](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Raftel)_ ,\nwhich supposedly is where One Piece is located.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T20:47:52.167", "id": "8", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-06T19:21:04.703", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-06T19:21:04.703", "last_editor_user_id": "1528", "owner_user_id": "15", "parent_id": "1", "post_type": "answer", "score": 73 }, { "body": "\n\nLuffy's dream is to be the Pirate King. By definition in One Piece itself, the\nPirate King is someone who most freely wanders in the Grand Line. Surely,\nfinding One Piece is a necessity to become the Pirate King, but is not an\nenough condition.\n\nLuffy loves adventure by nature. He doesn't want to find One Piece so easily.\nIf he wanted so, he could have asked Rayleigh its location in Sabaody\nArchipelago arc. When Usopp asked it, he shouted him and asked Usopp to stop\nasking for it. And he said, if he were to learn its location, or even learns\nif it existed or not, he would quit being a pirate at that moment.\n\nLuffy simply wants to follow steps of the former Pirate King Gol D. Roger. He\nwant to experience a good adventure. He wants to fight strong opponents. He\nalways chooses the hardest path.\n\nIf finding One Piece was his only goal, he could have of course spent his time\nlearning cliff climbing skills instead of wasting his time in the sea. Then he\ncould finally climb that huge wall of Red Line and search for Raftel there.\n\nOne more thing to note is that the Location of Raftel is unknown. Even\nShirohige didn't know it. Remember that, in a flash-back during the war in\nMarine Headquarters, Gol D. Roger asks Shirohine if he wants him to tell the\nlocation of Raftel.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:00:44.390", "id": "17", "last_activity_date": "2022-05-12T10:37:24.403", "last_edit_date": "2022-05-12T10:37:24.403", "last_editor_user_id": "65721", "owner_user_id": "18", "parent_id": "1", "post_type": "answer", "score": 29 }, { "body": "\n\nWell, if Luffy chose the the easy way, he'd die, because much stronger\nopponents are trying to get One Piece. Plus, Gold Roger said to go get One\nPiece, so he must have left a guardian or something. It wouldn't be that easy\nto become pirate king.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-05T18:03:50.727", "id": "4637", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-05T18:09:49.790", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-05T18:09:49.790", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "2158", "parent_id": "1", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nIn addition to [Alenanno](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/15/alenanno)'s\nanswer, it should be pointed out that the location of the One Piece isn't what\nis important, but **the journey is what is important**.\n\nIf there were such an item as the _One Piece_ located at Raftel, the Marines\nwould have been able to get it already. In episode 315, it was pointed out by\nCoby that the Marines' ships can cross the _Calm Belt_ , and coming from North\nor West Blue, they would be able to just go to Raftel without doing the\ncomplete journey around the world.\n\nThere are also lots of other ways for the World Government or the Marines to\nreach Raftel (e.g. Kizaru could use his mirrors, Kuzan could build an ice\nstairs, Fujitora could literally fly over there, ...). So if it were as simple\nas going to Raftel to get the _One Piece_ , the World Government would have\ndone so already, displaying whatever treasure it would be and trying to end\nthis _Great Age of Pirates_.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-30T01:35:09.063", "id": "15362", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-17T19:11:11.720", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "1", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nThe One Piece is indeed at the end of the grand line but even Big Mom has had\ntrouble finding it. The reason for this is that one cannot find Raftel without\nbeing able to read the Poneglyphs, specifically the four red Road Poneglyphs.\nEach of these leads to an island and the midpoint between those four islands\nis the location of Raftel. One Road Poneglyph is held by Big Mom, one by\nKaido, one is on the moving island of Zao, and one is missing. Thus you can\nsee that someone would have just as much trouble finding One Piece if they\ncrossed the Calm Belt or the Red Line as they would doing things the\nadventurous way.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-07-13T18:10:31.453", "id": "47816", "last_activity_date": "2018-07-13T20:46:00.803", "last_edit_date": "2018-07-13T20:46:00.803", "last_editor_user_id": "41439", "owner_user_id": "41439", "parent_id": "1", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "33", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn the middle of _The Dark Tournament_ , Yusuke Urameshi gets to fully inherit\nGenkai's power of the _Spirit Wave_ by absorbing a ball of energy from her.\n\nHowever, this process turns into an excruciating trial for Yusuke, almost\nkilling him, and keeping him doubled over in extreme pain for a long period of\ntime, so much so that his Spirit Animal, Poo, is also in pain and flies to him\nto try to help.\n\nMy question is, why is it such a painful procedure to learn and absorb this\npower?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T20:39:40.780", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-20T03:31:39.187", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-26T17:02:31.570", "last_editor_user_id": "247", "owner_user_id": "26", "post_type": "question", "score": 14, "tags": [ "yu-yu-hakusho" ], "title": "Why does absorbing the Spirit Wave from Genkai involve such a painful process?", "view_count": 2591 }

[ { "body": "\n\nSpirit Energy is a part of one's life energy, like an extension of one's soul.\nWhen Genkai transfers her spirit energy into Yusuke to teach him the\ntechnique, it is incredibly painful for him to receive such an overwhelming\namount of energy/soul at once because his body takes time to adjust to the new\nlevels of energy.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:22:12.437", "id": "33", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-20T03:31:39.187", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-20T03:31:39.187", "last_editor_user_id": "88", "owner_user_id": "52", "parent_id": "2", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "148", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nIn Sora no Otoshimono, Ikaros carries around a watermelon like a pet and likes\nwatermelons and pretty much anything else round. At one point she even has a\nwatermelon garden and attacks all the bugs that get near the melons.\n\nWhat's the significance of the watermelon and why does she carry one around?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T20:42:47.447", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "3", "last_activity_date": "2020-05-07T03:36:46.550", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29", "post_type": "question", "score": 12, "tags": [ "sora-no-otoshimono" ], "title": "What's the significance of the watermelon in Sora no Otoshimono?", "view_count": 4924 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI believe there is no significance.\n\nIt is just a character trait that she really likes watermelons. Probably for\ntheir smooth and round shape.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-12T06:26:09.120", "id": "148", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-17T20:11:01.917", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-17T20:11:01.917", "last_editor_user_id": "29", "owner_user_id": "115", "parent_id": "3", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom what I understand of the anime, she likes being patted on her head by her\nmaster. Since patting something round reminds her of the times her master pats\nher, she may simply be reliving that memory.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-01T19:16:03.963", "id": "2280", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-15T21:01:55.043", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-15T21:01:55.043", "last_editor_user_id": "29", "owner_user_id": "1407", "parent_id": "3", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nI think Ikaros likes watermelon not just because it is round and reminds her\nof herself when she is being pet, but she also is in a situation where she\nmight be under a lot of stress without even knowing it (she is trying to get\ntaken back to her original master), and this is her way to cope with it.\n\nBut this is a more realistic theory, so this probably isn't even close to the\nidea the producers had when making this decision.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-09-13T17:34:38.563", "id": "42312", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-13T18:07:56.870", "last_edit_date": "2017-09-13T18:07:56.870", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "35618", "parent_id": "3", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIs there any particular software or software family specifically designed for\nmaking anime?\n\nAre they drawing all the frames of motion scenes, or does a software\nautomatically generate them? For example, consider a soccer player kicking a\nfootball. Let the duration of the scene be 0.5 seconds, and let the frame rate\nof the video be 24 fps; that makes 12 frames in that scene. Do they patiently\ndraw all those 12 frames manually for that scene which takes only half a\nsecond?\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T20:44:46.870", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "4", "last_activity_date": "2018-01-01T00:43:31.463", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-22T12:44:58.107", "last_editor_user_id": "111", "owner_user_id": "18", "post_type": "question", "score": 11, "tags": [ "anime-production" ], "title": "What software is used for making anime?", "view_count": 20711 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt depends on a few different things, including the content, the style, and\nwhen it was made (i.e. did the technology exist to do it one way vs. another?)\n\n[Here's a GREAT example of multiple anime styles used in a single show\n--](http://youtu.be/YibyPAsCCJE) we go from \"high quality\" level animation for\nthe transformations, to the more \"western\", flash-friendly style the show is\nnormally in, to a rather garish live-action explosion at the end. These all\nrequire different approaches.\n\nIf you pay attention, you can also spot where the characters aren't moving\nmuch in certain points in the video (like where Panty & Stocking are standing\nstill under the \"disco\" lighting), so they can get away with only drawing the\nframe once even though the scene goes for much longer.\n\nWhen \"tweening\" between keyframes (to produce moving animation like your\nsoccer ball example), yes, those have to be hand-drawn -- or at least hand-\nchecked, even if a computer is used to extrapolate between keyframes! Using\ncertain animation software like\n[Flash](http://www.adobe.com/products/flash.html), [Toon\nBoom](http://www.toonboom.com), or 3D modeling software like\n[Blender](http://www.blender.org/) may take out some of the work, but none of\nthat software can compensate for a bad animator, or replace an artist at the\nhelm.\n\nThere's plenty of shortcuts animators use, but the computer never draws the\ncartoon for them -- they still have to do that part themselves!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:29:39.617", "id": "38", "last_activity_date": "2018-01-01T00:43:31.463", "last_edit_date": "2018-01-01T00:43:31.463", "last_editor_user_id": "37396", "owner_user_id": "41", "parent_id": "4", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "11", "answer_count": 6, "body": "\n\nIn several episodes of DB:Z and DB:GT, using SSJ3 form is shown to be _very_\ntiring for the user and burns up energy very quickly, compared to\nSSJ1/2/enhanced/mystic/etc.\n\nHowever, when DB:GT rolls around, SSJ4 form, while as tiring as all other\nenhanced forms, doesn't seem to put as much strain on the user, nor does it\nhave a time limit, as with SSJ3.\n\nIs there a distinct reason for this in terms of power drain, or how the body\nhandles the transformation, or is this perhaps something overlooked when GT\nwas created?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T20:47:21.890", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "6", "last_activity_date": "2017-10-08T19:07:14.397", "last_edit_date": "2016-08-22T03:44:55.933", "last_editor_user_id": "3028", "owner_user_id": "26", "post_type": "question", "score": 25, "tags": [ "dragon-ball-z", "dragon-ball-series", "dragon-ball-gt" ], "title": "Why is SSJ3 shown as tiring to maintain, but SSJ4 is not?", "view_count": 9125 }

[ { "body": "\n\nDon't forget that GT is a filler, it wasn't created by the original creator,\n**[Akira Toriyama](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Toriyama)**.\n\nThere is a very high probability that is was overlooked. Also if I remember\ncorrectly, SSJ3 wasn't shown as tiresome in Dragon Ball GT.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T20:55:53.410", "id": "11", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-11T20:55:53.410", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "6", "post_type": "answer", "score": 22 }, { "body": "\n\nIn SSJ3 form, the energy output is huge, in contrast to the SSJ4 form. The\nproof is written in this article from [the Dragon Ball\nWiki](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Saiyan_3). The reason behind that\nis not known, as far as I know.\n\n> In Dragon Ball GT, Goku's child form caused him to have trouble using Super\n> Saiyan 3. His small body could not handle the energy output of the\n> transformation, and he could only hold it for one minute. [...] It was after\n> this fight that Goku discontinued the usage of Super Saiyan 3, as it was\n> heavily outclassed by the raw power and minimal setbacks of Super Saiyan 4.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:40:46.080", "id": "44", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-25T18:52:30.450", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-25T18:52:30.450", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "47", "parent_id": "6", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nThis is how I remember it:\n\nGoku leveled up to SSJ3 on the other dimension and never really planned to\nreveal it because he didn't want to show it on front of Vegeta. At this point\nhe would have made up his mind if it comes to fighting Vegeta on the\ntournament he would resort to Mystic saiyan mode to deal with him.\n\nTurns out Vegeta ends up dead and Goku in desperation to buy time for Trunks\ndecides to show case SSJ3 to Buu and I believe it's the difference between the\ndimensions; I mean, the time it takes to generate the same power in this\ndimension could be entirely different I presume and also on the aspect that\nGoku didn't spend time on that mode, because he could have been practicing\nextensively on the Mystic mode for the tournament and so it took quite a toll\non his energy levels when he uses it first time.\n\nWhen he uses it on the second time with Kid Buu. He seems to have a grasp on\nthe energy levels and fights for a longer time until the point he uses a\nKamehameha way in desperation to finish off Kid Buu and also holding out so\nVegeta can fight him causes him to suffer towards the end as well. Also the\nfight happens on the Kai's planet which becomes another different dimension\ncompared to earth also I think that might have aided him a lot because thats\nwhere Gohan reaches ascension trained by Supreme Kai.\n\nI believe it's the changes in the environment primarily taking a toll on\nGoku's body. As for SSJ4 I haven't seen Dragonball GT (primarily for the lack\nof Bruce Faulconer's theme :P) but as from the images I think the tail helps\nthe body to handle the power levels differently because I somehow synonymize\nthat to a controlled transformed Mode.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-12T03:15:59.013", "id": "137", "last_activity_date": "2017-05-24T01:08:20.630", "last_edit_date": "2017-05-24T01:08:20.630", "last_editor_user_id": "3028", "owner_user_id": "104", "parent_id": "6", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nThe reason for this is because Super Saiyan 3 form was to fully maximize the\nki of the user.\n\nThe Dragonball Wikia states :\n\n> Where the third stage of Super Saiyan's purpose was 100% utilization of\n> physical stamina, the purpose of the Super Saiyan 3 transformation is to\n> increase the utilization of ki, and as a result, the transformation rapidly\n> consumes the energy of the user. This notably leads to extended levels of\n> fatigue, even long after powering down.\n>\n> However, with the enormous power, there are some very serious setbacks\n> stemming from the rapid use of ki energy. When the then-deceased Goku showed\n> Babidi and Majin Buu the form, he cut his remaining temporal revival energy\n> in half, and in the anime when he shows his power to the excited Trunks and\n> Goten, his energy was completely dissipated, forcing him to return to Other\n> World.\n\nAs far as Super Saiyan 4 the wikia states :\n\n> Unlike the Super Saiyan 3's strain due to the utilization in ki, this form\n> does not require as much energy consumption as Super Saiyan 3's, allowing\n> the user to stay in the state at a much longer duration. It also appears\n> that the form makes the individual larger in height and muscularity.\n\nEssentially Super Saiyan 3 maximizes the ki output while Super Saiyan 4 is a\nmore powerful transformation which does not drain the user as much as the 3rd\nform does.\n\nAlso Super Saiyan 4 is not actually a canon form because it was not developed\nby Akira Toriyama.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-13T21:08:50.817", "id": "6891", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-13T21:08:50.817", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3317", "parent_id": "6", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nWell, the Oozaru (Great Ape) form is portrayed to require no particular\nthreshold of energy, as even the low class warrior infants are capable. Heck,\neven Gohan did it when Vegeta made the fake moon. \nAnd SSJ4 is definitely something that draws power from that hidden ability:\nfrom the tail and the hair draws in the power of the great ape Oozaru.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-17T08:59:14.740", "id": "8721", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-17T11:32:48.050", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-17T11:32:48.050", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "4529", "parent_id": "6", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's because in gt goku was a kid & his body couldn't take the strain like his\ngrown body did... So whenever he turned to ssj4 & & went back to his grown\nbody form he was now accustomed and didn't burn energy as fast\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-08-04T22:05:10.107", "id": "35586", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-04T22:05:10.107", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27538", "parent_id": "6", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "6467", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nEdo Tensei is a technique to revive the dead, and bind their souls into living\nbodies. However, after releasing the technique, all of the dead should get\nback into being dead.\n\nHow can Madara still stick around even after the Edo Tensei had been ended? I\nam not sure if it was something that we needed to think about and figure out\nby ourselves or is it yet to be revealed?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T20:51:17.307", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "10", "last_activity_date": "2018-12-20T18:03:22.010", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-20T18:09:17.177", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "32", "post_type": "question", "score": 18, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "How can Madara still stick around even after the Edo Tensei had been ended?", "view_count": 92815 }

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom what I understood, if you know the Edo Tensei technique yourself, and\nyou're resurrected, you can _use it on yourself, after the technique was\ndismissed by the original caster_.\n\n> So actually, what Madara Uchiha did was use Edo Tensei again, using the\n> original sacrifice Kabuto gave him, so that he is now the new caster, and he\n> revived himself. Like Madara said on **Chpater 591 page 17** , there is one\n> risk to the technique. _If you know the seal, you can release the summoning\n> contract itself._ Basically, freeing you from the caster's control. Madara's\n> soul wasn't bound by Kabuto anymore, but by himself.\n\nTell them not to use forbidden jutsu so lightly next time.\n\n", "comment_count": 15, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T20:58:12.290", "id": "15", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-14T14:11:15.153", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-14T14:11:15.153", "last_editor_user_id": "122", "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "10", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nWhen Edo Tensei ends, the summoned soul is freed from the Edo Tensei's\ncontrol, and then the soul ascends to the pure world (afterlife). However,\nthere is a small \"grace period\" between the two. During this grace period, the\nsoul can act freely.\n\n> During that grace period, Dan used the Reika no Jutsu to go meet his\n> girlfriend. Itachi shared his memories and feeling with Sasuke (though\n> granted he had been freed from the Edo Tensei's control long back). Most\n> other shinobi stood around doing nothing significant. \n> However, during that grace period, Madara released the Edo Tensei's\n> summoning contract itself. As such, his soul is no longer bound to \"ascend\n> to the pure world\" and can continue to stay in the impure world.\n\nHe could have done the same thing even before the Edo Tensei was released, if\nKabuto had let him, and the effect would be the same. Also, if others knew the\nseals and chose to use them, they would be able to stick around too.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-14T13:40:16.563", "id": "2478", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-14T13:45:35.657", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-14T13:45:35.657", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "10", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nFirstly, the most important thing to know is that anyone, who knows the Edo\nTensei seals, can free themselves from the contract, if given the opportunity.\nNow, there are multiple ways that one can be unrestricted in Edo Tensei form.\nThese are their opportunities:\n\n 1. The grace period when one's soul is released (Example: Dan meeting Tsunade)\n 2. The revived person is strong enough to withstand the Edo Tensei (Example: Hashirama not under Orochimaru's control)\n 3. The controller allows the revived person free movement (Example: Madara being revived by Kabuto)\n 4. Some other force is able to place a stronger control over the revived person (Example: Kotoamatsukami being used on Itachi)\n\nIn Madara's case, Kabuto had claimed to revive him in a form stronger than his\nprime. Madara questions Kabuto's ignorance of his prime state and then Kabuto\ngives Madara full control of his own body in order to demonstrate his\nabilities.\n\n**After Kabuto gave control to Madara, Madara was able to use the Edo Tensei\nseals to free himself.**\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-20T18:17:50.593", "id": "6467", "last_activity_date": "2018-12-20T18:03:22.010", "last_edit_date": "2018-12-20T18:03:22.010", "last_editor_user_id": "32", "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "10", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "22", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nI originally thought that the only surviving members after the Uchiha massacre\nwere Sasuke and Itachi, but more and more seem to be revealed. Is there a\ncanonical list of surviving members of the Uchiha clan after the massacre?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T20:56:15.090", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "12", "last_activity_date": "2018-03-16T18:38:49.033", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-11T21:42:46.997", "last_editor_user_id": "22", "owner_user_id": "22", "post_type": "question", "score": 14, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "List of surviving Uchiha", "view_count": 25271 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe following:\n\n * **Uchiha Itachi** \\- Who performed the massacre. Was killed later by Sasuke (according to his plan), then reanimated, eventually to die again (permanently, this time).\n * **Uchiha Sasuke** \\- Who was spared by Itachi in hopes of making him strong. Still alive.\n\nThat's about it from the traditional ones.\n\n * **Madara Uchiha** \\- Who was dead during the massacre, was also later reanimated.\n * Uchiha Obito also survived the massacre, in fact, he helped Itachi execute it (as Tobi).\n\n### And also\n\n> [Sarada Uchiha](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sarada_Uchiha), Sasuke's and\n> Sakura's daughter, also counts for the purposes of this list.\n\n", "comment_count": 8, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:05:56.557", "id": "22", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-19T22:22:02.660", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-19T22:22:02.660", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "12", "post_type": "answer", "score": 20 }, { "body": "\n\nItachi Uchiha \nSasuke Uchiha\n\nSpoiler:\n\n> Madara Uchiha - he was alive during the obito flashback but not sure if he\n> was still alive after the clan massacre. Obito Uchiha - Tobi turned out to\n> really be Obito.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:07:39.073", "id": "24", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-11T21:20:08.687", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-11T21:20:08.687", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "32", "parent_id": "12", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\n**Disclaimer** : most of the Uchihas mentioned below are alive currently. In\nthe Naruto series, only Sasuke, Itachi, and Obito were still alive. In the\nBoruto, Sasuke and Shin, another introduced Uchiha. The other ones are Uchihas\nthat were introduced (as alive, duh) in the Naruto and Boruto series.\n\nYes, all of the above answers are correct:\n\n 1. Sasuke Uchiha\n 2. Itachi Uchiha (dies in the fight against Sasuke)\n\nand ( **SPOILER** ):\n\n> 3\\. Madara Uchiha (saved Obito who was under the tree in the 3rd Shinobi\n> World War, probably died soon afterwards) \n> 4\\. Obito Uchiha (unintentionally fakes his death, dies in 4th Shinobi\n> World War)\n\nBut there are still a few more that weren't introduced properly:\n\n 5. Shisui Uchiha (Danzo took one of his eyes, Shisui entrusted his other eye to Itachi, then suicided)\n 6. Fugaku Uchiha (Sasuke and Itachi's father)\n 7. Mikoto Uchiha (Sasuke and Itachi's mother)\n 8. Indra Otsusuki (not really an Uchiha, but the ancestor of all Uchihas)\n 9. Izuna Uchiha (Madara's brother, Madara took both of Izuna's eyes out)\n 10. Shin Uchiha (unknown until Boruto, experimented on by Orochimaru)\n 11. Other people like Baru, Naka, Naori, Rai, etc. Uchiha (important characters in the Uchiha Clan's war history).\n\nLook, there are many Uchihas but most are irrelevant or not important to how\nthe history of Naruto and others were affected.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-25T02:48:35.173", "id": "40037", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-25T02:48:35.173", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "31773", "parent_id": "12", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "658", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nRan's birthday is usually seen as something important in the anime and manga\nand is talked about a lot. Yet, throughout the entire series of 660+ episodes\nand 70+ volumes, it has never actually happened.\n\nWhy is Ran's birthday so important to the plot?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T20:56:41.787", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "13", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-16T13:36:03.083", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-16T13:34:03.663", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "25", "post_type": "question", "score": 11, "tags": [ "detective-conan" ], "title": "What is the significance of Ran's birthday?", "view_count": 2083 }

[ { "body": "\n\nOfficially, neither the birthday is revealed, nor has it really played a role\nin the plot.\n\nHowever, Aoyama said in an interview, that there is an \"obstacle\" preventing\nhim from revealing Ran's birth date, but since the birthday hasn't passed Ran\nis 16 right now\"\n\nThe interview, quoted from [Detective Conan World's\nforum](http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/346-birthdays/?do=findComment&comment=288267):\n\n> 蘭の誕生日教えて！→差し支えあるので今は言えない。でもまだ誕生日来ていないので蘭は現在16歳。\n>\n> Tell me about Ran's birthday! → Since there's an obstacle, I can't tell it\n> for now. But since the birthday hasn't passed, Ran is 16 right now.\n\nI think that a future volume will be about her birthday, so everything else\nwould be wild speculation.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-18T14:57:03.690", "id": "658", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-16T13:36:03.083", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "13", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "20", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn both the Death Note manga and anime, it is stated multiple times by Ryuk\nthat once you use the Death Note, a human can go to neither Heaven nor Hell.\n\nHowever, it is hinted in an additional movie that encompasses part of the\nanime that Light was reincarnated as a Shinigami.\n\nIs it then possible to say, that any humans that use the Death Note do not go\nto Heaven nor Hell because they go to the Shinigami Realm?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T20:57:10.447", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "14", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-14T20:56:14.707", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-14T20:56:14.707", "last_editor_user_id": "19294", "owner_user_id": "26", "post_type": "question", "score": 49, "tags": [ "death-note" ], "title": "Do people who use the Death Note become Shinigami themselves?", "view_count": 21090 }

[ { "body": "\n\nNo.\n\nHumans who die don't go to Heaven or Hell (because neither exists).\n\nThey go to [Mu](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Mu) (Which means, nothing).\n\n> **Death Note, Volume 12** , page _188_ , has these two rules in regards to\n> \"Mu\": \"All humans will, without exception, eventually die.\" Also, \"After\n> they die, the place they go is MU (Nothingness).\"\n\n* * *\n\nBasically, there's nothing after death. Shinigami are a different species.\n\n", "comment_count": 8, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:04:04.697", "id": "20", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-06T19:37:27.560", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-06T19:37:27.560", "last_editor_user_id": "1528", "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "14", "post_type": "answer", "score": 41 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "524", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn Eyeshield 21, Deimon wins the game against Oujou that gets them into the\nChristmas Bowl but they're never shown actually playing in the Christmas Bowl.\n\nIs there a manga that went with this anime that shows the time between beating\nOujou and playing professional football or are we just to assume that they\nwon?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:00:30.097", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "16", "last_activity_date": "2016-10-28T01:17:29.120", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29", "post_type": "question", "score": 9, "tags": [ "eyeshield-21" ], "title": "Does Deimon win the Christmas bowl?", "view_count": 12104 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is in fact an Eyeshield 21 manga, which continues the story further than\nthe anime. The anime ends on chapter 239 of the manga, while the manga\ncontinues to chapter 333. The manga doesn't go as far as professional\nfootball, but the last chapter does end with a similar scenario at the college\nlevel.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-16T00:31:19.773", "id": "524", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-16T00:31:19.773", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "183", "parent_id": "16", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "21", "answer_count": 4, "body": "\n\nAt the end of the last episode of Cowboy Bebop, Spike collapses. It's not\nclear, but it looks as though he may be dead. Is there a way to know whether\nhe is alive or dead (something in the background, comments from the director,\na continuation in the story in the manga, etc.)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:01:35.350", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "19", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-19T20:35:00.747", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-11T21:40:56.077", "last_editor_user_id": "36", "owner_user_id": "36", "post_type": "question", "score": 49, "tags": [ "cowboy-bebop" ], "title": "Do we know what happens to Spike at the end of Cowboy Bebop?", "view_count": 53656 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to Wikipedia:\n\n> However, in an interview, Watanabe stated, “I’ve never officially said that\n> he died. At this point, I can tell you that I’m not sure if he’s alive or\n> dead.”\n\nThe link to the source is\n[here](http://mrsspooky.net/bebop/TheDailyTexan.pdf). Though it's very hard to\nlook at it, unfortunately.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:05:06.750", "id": "21", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-24T16:29:30.270", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-24T16:29:30.270", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "25", "parent_id": "19", "post_type": "answer", "score": 34 }, { "body": "\n\nShinichiro Watanabe has stated:\n\n> I've never officially said that he died. At this point, I can tell you that\n> I’m not sure if he’s alive or dead\n\nHe decided to leave it open-ended, so, even with the many hypothesis on the\ninternet, I guess the real answer is to ask yourself.\n\nSource is the same as in Rapptz's answer:\n<http://mrsspooky.net/bebop/TheDailyTexan.pdf> at the top of page 5.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:09:37.480", "id": "25", "last_activity_date": "2016-04-25T07:31:56.287", "last_edit_date": "2016-04-25T07:31:56.287", "last_editor_user_id": "43", "owner_user_id": "43", "parent_id": "19", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nIn [this more recent interview](http://youtu.be/Y4Z1uvexzrQ?t=7m15s) to\nShinichiro Watanabe by Red Carpet News TV on MCM London Comic Con 2013, around\nminute 8 he says:\n\n> I've never actually said whether he is alive or dead in that final scene.\n> That's up to the person watching to decide. I think that people who watch\n> that and think that Spike is asleep are probably right. Just sleeping.\n\nAlthough he still leaves the matter up to the viewer's interpretation, he\nseems to suggest that he is more likely to be alive. \nLater on on the interview he also states that Spike is his favourite\ncharacter, but then again, that does not mean he can't die at the end.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-26T18:23:47.080", "id": "3918", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-19T16:52:05.247", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-19T16:52:05.247", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "19", "post_type": "answer", "score": 18 }, { "body": "\n\nI feel it was made pretty clear when the star winked out at the end. Spike\ndied. Based on the quotations posted above, however, it seems the creator is\ngiving you permission to believe that Spike is alive if you want to.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-09T02:02:39.817", "id": "26510", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-09T02:02:39.817", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18409", "parent_id": "19", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "20707", "answer_count": 4, "body": "\n\nIt seems as though a lot of anime go through a production cycle where they put\nout a series that seems fairly popular, but ends long before the manga's\nstoryline does. Obviously, a big reason for making anime is to get people to\nbuy the original manga, but if the anime series itself were turning a profit\nit's tough to imagine (from my American viewpoint, anyway) that the producers\nwould abandon it, when it could easily continue (given its proven popularity,\nvoice actors lined up, storyline set, etc.)\n\nIs there an overarching reason? Do many anime not turn a profit?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:06:36.670", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "23", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-12T20:53:18.520", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-06T06:12:04.197", "last_editor_user_id": "16253", "owner_user_id": "36", "post_type": "question", "score": 34, "tags": [ "anime-production" ], "title": "Do anime usually lose money?", "view_count": 6219 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAnime is much bigger in Japan. There are lots of mangas that were given a shot\nat anime adaptation, but they didn't get a following and eventually got\npulled. In my opinion, the manga has to be popular in Japan first before the\nnetwork heads start to export the anime officially.\n\nThere are other reasons aside from profit. Take Gintama for example; I can't\nbe sure if they were pulled off air because of profit (which I doubt) or\nbecause the network wasn't happy with the show's direction.\n\nSo, yes, the big reason why they get pulled off air is because the anime\ndidn't make enough profit. It's a competitive market.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:19:01.717", "id": "31", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-12T20:53:18.520", "last_edit_date": "2017-01-12T20:53:18.520", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "28", "parent_id": "23", "post_type": "answer", "score": 18 }, { "body": "\n\nYou have to remember that **it's far cheaper and easier to produce a manga**\nthan it is to produce an anime -- it takes fewer people to produce a manga,\nwhich means less money is needed to pay for production, even if you pay\neveryone involved a huge salary (and you usually don't).\n\nMore investment means more risk, so if an anime doesn't turn a big enough\nprofit fast enough, it may not warrant further investment.\n\nYou can keep a crap manga going a lot longer than a crap anime, if only\nbecause the bar for financial security is that much lower.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:56:48.023", "id": "57", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-11T21:56:48.023", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "41", "parent_id": "23", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nNote it doesn't need to produce losses: it just needs to produce less than\nalternative.\n\nStudios have limited resources: they often can produce maybe two series in\nparallel, sometimes not even that. Expanding on that is costly, and may well\nbring serious losses if all \"pipelines\" aren't filled with profit-generating\nproducts.\n\nSo, if the managers notice a new, promising series - obtained a sure-fire\nscenario, and a different one is nearing end of season 2, with dwindling\naudience, they must decide what to produce: season 3 of the old thing, which\nwill almost certainly produce less cash than season 2, following the dwindling\ntrend, or maybe the new and revolutionary thing for which TV networks have\nalready lined up, and earn much more. Or, potentially, hope that hiring a\nbunch of animators and getting them a new studio with equipment will cost less\nthan combined profits of the two shows. Which it rather won't.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-16T14:34:10.743", "id": "2016", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-16T14:34:10.743", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "126", "parent_id": "23", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 }, { "body": "\n\nOn their own, Yes.\n\nObviously this is a fairly blanket statement and is hard to qualify because of\nsecrecies in company financials, but I think it's reasonable to assert.\n\nI also realise I'm not directly answering your question about dropped manga\nadaptions, but addressing the question broadly. I think most points probably\napply to that situation also, but these are some of the reasons in general why\nanime fail/return losses:\n\n# Anime as a loss-leader\n\nAnime is often used by companies as a promotional tool for their other\nmerchandise. This is often the case with children's mecha shows - They will\nwatch the show on TV and then potentially buy the DVDs, toys, albums, etc. As\nan interesting side note, since about 1990 children are more likely to buy\nhero toys than villain toys - hence several combining mecha shows.\n\nAnother example as to how shows act as advertisements is low cost harem anime.\nWhilst not immediately as obviously merchantable as a show like Gundam or\nPower Rangers, The large female cast that the protaganist has to choose from\nhas the potential to have their own figurines, body pillows, etc.\n\nThese mean that anime doesn't have to turn a massive profit (or indeed a\nprofit at all) - that's up to the sales that it inspires.\n\nThe evolution of anime itself is deeply associated with advertisement, even\nsince its inception when it was used solely for advertisement rather than as a\nstandalone medium. In Hayao Miyakazi's biography \"Starting Point\" he mentions\nthat one company in particular was known to contribute a third of their target\nanime's total cost (Note that this was at an earlier point in history). This\namount would typically be around 90% of a successful toy company's advertising\nbudget.\n\nThere's a stereotype of otaku in Japan that they buy 3 copies of any one\nDVD/Book - \"one to read, one to collect, one to lend\". The consumers of anime\nin Japan, whether children (A good market worldwide) or otaku are very keen on\nmerchandise and spending on a franchise. It is the combined revenue streams\nthat the anime creates, combined with the show itself which usually lifts the\nshow into profit.\n\n_**This is the main reason why an anime would be turning a loss.**_\n\n# Relying too heavily on emulating success stories\n\nThis is a big one too. Once a very successful show hits the market (for\nexample Evangellion, Akira, K-On!!, Pokémon) many clones will follow.\n\nThe same phenomenom can be see in bookstores - The amount of romance vampire\nbooks in stores went from 0 -> many after Twilight's success. Similarly 50\nShades of Grey did the same for erotic romance for women.\n\nThere is only so much capacity in the market for cloned shows, and more than\nlikely none of them will be as successful as the original. This often leads to\na situation with a few big winners and many losers.\n\n# Too many blockbusters\n\nThe ideal time to release your amazing anime series is to pick the season that\nhas the highest viewing rate of your target audience. Hence, shows that target\nthe same audience may be heatedly vying for the same audiences attention.\nUsually one show will win, and the others will lose by a sizeable margin.\n\nThere have been several media studies that have shown that usually only one\nfilm/series occupies a viewers fanaticism at one time period. This is what has\nlead to the yearly _blockbuster_ summer and Christmas successes in Hollywood.\n\n# Things go wrong, often\n\nWhen you are still animating episodes whilst the first ones are airing, any\ndelays can set the whole show back. What usually happens is that recap\nepisodes are shown, animation quality drops in the latter episodes and\npotential postponements of episodes in the worst of cases. These things\ntransfer to the quality of the production and hence affect the impressions on\nviewers, which then affect sales, and so forth.\n\n# Tight budgets\n\nThis kind of fits into the previous item, but when budgets are tight (which\nthey usually are for anime) studios cannot afford to replace sick animators,\nredo scenes that don't fit well, etc. Another problem with tight budgets is\nthat studios often have to outsource animation to cheaper countries like China\n- which in itself has problems of communication issues.\n\n# Subsequent seasons\n\nAnime that are received well in their first season often announce another, or\nseveral new seasons. The problem with this is that each season the audience\ndwindles - Viewers become less and less likely to stick with a show as the\ntime investment increases. It's a difficult call to make for the directors to\nstop the broadcasts before the series starts to become loss-making.\n\n* * *\n\nAnd just as a final note, I don't believe there is one over-arching reason.\nEach studio is different, has different priorities, objectives, revenue\nstreams, etc.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-08T18:29:30.653", "id": "20707", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-18T20:03:03.523", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "23", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "689", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nThere are a few places in _Mobile Suit Gundam Seed_ where Kira Yamato faces\ncertain death, is presumed dead by all the other characters, then miraculously\nreappears in a later episode. I'm curious about one particular incident, for\nnow: His duel with Athrun and the Aegis.\n\nAthrun sets the Aegis to self destruct, attaches it to Kira's suit, and bails\nout to avoid the explosion. Kira is apparently trapped in the deadly blast,\nthough. Assuming he's not cloned or something like that (which the humans &\nCoordinators of Seed almost certainly have the technology to do), he somehow\nmanaged to survive and escape from that situation.\n\nHow did Kira survive when the Aegis self-destructed at point-blank range to\nhis own mobile suit?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:09:44.893", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "26", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-12T04:35:14.617", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-13T22:42:19.257", "last_editor_user_id": "44", "owner_user_id": "44", "post_type": "question", "score": 12, "tags": [ "mobile-suit-gundam-seed" ], "title": "How does Kira Yamato survive the Aegis' self-destruct in Mobile Suit Gundam Seed?", "view_count": 18796 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThis incident is analogous to a similar situation in ZZ Gundam. An important\ncharacter dies in a situation where their later reappearance seems impossible,\neveryone angsts, they return and Tomino doesn't bother explaining anything.\n\nFirst, a short review of the battle. Spoilered, because it is not vital to\nunderstanding the answer:\n\n> At dawn, as it passes by an island cluster, the Archangel is attacked by the\n> three surviving Gundam frames. Soon, the flight system is damaged, and a\n> hard landing is made on one of the islands. Meanwhile, Kira has destroyed\n> Duel's leg, forcing Yzak into the water and out of the fight. La Fraga\n> shoots down Buster, and the frame crashes near the Archangel, immobilized\n> and pinned down by one of the ship's turrets; Dearka surrenders. Kira,\n> fighting Athrun away from the ship, receives backup from Tolle, who is\n> promptly shot down. Witnessing his friend's death, Kira enters SEED mode;\n> and so does Athrun. Finally, a severely damaged Aegis clings to the Strike;\n> as the machine powers down, unable to deliver the finishing blow with its\n> cannon, Athrun starts a self destruct sequence, and jetpacks away. The\n> Archangel, detecting a second attacking squad, is forced off the island\n> without the time to start a rescue operation; they send Orb a request to\n> perform the search, and leave as soon as their engines are repaired.\n\nTimeframes have all been taken from the show, side materials may provide more\naccuracy. Anyway, a review of the facts: This battle takes place around a day\nafter the Archangel leaves Orb (the first attack is right after they leave the\nneutral territory; the second, on dawn of the next day). The Reverend is shown\nto live nearby, most likely on the same island. The Aegis' self destruct timer\nis ten seconds. The Strike's cockpit is open due to damage from the battle:\n\n\n\nMy theory? Kira escaped as well. He likely acted quickly: from his seat, he\ncould not only see Athrun flying away; he could also see his cockpit opening\nbeforehand. This is the last scene we see where Kira is present, and at this\npoint, he has had two to four seconds to figure things out - he probably fled\nimmediately after (we see him with a look of realization shortly before; he is\nalso in SEED mode, presumably more aware than normal).\n\nThe power of the explosion is significant - Athrun, found by Orb either later\non the same day, was flung by the blast, incapacitated before landing or due\nto it, and lightly wounded - and that was even though he employed the best way\nto escape, starting at the earliest possible moment and with a jetpack.\n\nKira's wounds are more severe - the next time he is shown, he is lying in bed\nin one of the colonies. I have no idea how long it would take to transport him\nthere; but unless the Reverend used his priestly powers, it probably took at\nleast a week. His awakening in Lacus' presence is implied to be his first one\nsince he was found - yeah, in comparison to that, Athrun walked away with just\na few scratches.\n\nBut where did he escape? If he had a jetpack, the answer is clear. Even if he\ndidn't, there's yet one place he could have fled - behind the Strike. You see,\nwhen the Aegis latches on Kira's machine, we are shown a shot of both; the\nStrike is standing. Later, during the rescue operation, the Strike is shown\nmostly intact - the outside layer of armor is partially melted, as well as the\nexposed cockpit, but the machine itself is fine. The blast has toppled it over\n- it is only a question of whether Kira was lucky to be hiding in a place\nwhere he would be crushed or not. In any case, the torso and the power pack of\nthe Strike form a neat bomb shelter.\n\n\n\nDid he have a jetpack then? Probably - Federation pilot suits seem to come\nequipped with a retractable unit, just like ZAFT-issued ones.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-19T08:41:22.780", "id": "689", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-04T05:55:06.857", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-04T05:55:06.857", "last_editor_user_id": "180", "owner_user_id": "180", "parent_id": "26", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nWhen Aegis exploded Athrun was pushed instead of absorbed into the blast and\nkilled, Kira may have gotten out of the Strike but was then pushed by the\nblast, but more severely than Athrun as he was closer.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-05-22T08:00:48.450", "id": "32260", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-22T08:00:48.450", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24217", "parent_id": "26", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn episode 25 of Valkyria Chronicles, Maximilian shoots (and it is strongly\nimplied that he kills) Jaeger:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qyj0L.jpg)\n\nYet during the credits of the final episode (26), Jaeger is clearly seen\nwalking in the background at the train station:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pVEsm.jpg)\n\nWhat's the deal here? Did Jaeger not get shot? Or did he get shot but\nsurvived? And if so, how in the world did he escape from the rest of the\ncrumbling fortress?\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:10:15.923", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "27", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-16T16:39:59.630", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-07T02:51:47.907", "last_editor_user_id": "16253", "owner_user_id": "17", "post_type": "question", "score": 14, "tags": [ "valkyria-chronicles" ], "title": "How is Jaeger still alive at the end of Valkyria Chronicles?", "view_count": 1333 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI guess it's kind of a cameo. It really looks like Jaegar was killed and no\nsource can be found that he survived. Because of that, all we can do is\nspeculate - And I think, that it was just a cameo like \"Hey, it's over, let us\nshow him again!\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-21T12:22:35.913", "id": "745", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-21T12:22:35.913", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "27", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nI haven't seen the anime, but in the game (which the anime is based off from),\nJaeger was defeated by Squad 7 during Chapter 17 where Squad 7 attempts to get\nback to Randgriz. But on the way, they find's Jaeger unit has barricaded the\nGreat Vasel Bridge while Jaeger now commands the improved Lupus Regnum.\n\nAfter his defeat, he doesn't return to Maximilian and his whereabouts are\nunknown. I read that there is a mention of him in _Valkyria Chronicles 3_ but\nI haven't played it to confirm. He doesn't fight for the Empire but for the\nfuture independence of Fhirald (under Empire control), so having seen the\nGallian Militia continuously get the upper hand against the superior might\nEmpire and even not using their new Valkyria as the Empire did, he probably\nsaw that the Empire was not the way for him to gain independence for Fhirald\nand that it was possible for Fhirald to get its independence on its own.\n\nAs for the scene at the end of the anime, it could be the writers forgot about\nJaeger's fate in the game, remember it and made a cameo for him at the end. I\nhaven't seen him getting shot in the anime so I'm not sure how much of a\npossibility there is that Maximilian was mistaken that he was dead.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-17T02:55:07.010", "id": "11317", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-16T16:39:59.630", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-16T16:39:59.630", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "27", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nLet's say you want to extract texts from the visual novel for the purpose of\nlooking up the word in the dictionary, or feeding them into a machine\ntranslator. How would one go about accomplishing this?\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:12:10.927", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "28", "last_activity_date": "2016-04-01T20:54:32.587", "last_edit_date": "2016-04-01T20:54:32.587", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "37", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "resources" ], "title": "How do you extract texts into a text format that you can copy and paste from visual novels?", "view_count": 2975 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are some software, such as [Anime Games Text\nHooker](https://sites.google.com/site/agthook/) or [Interactive Text\nHooker](http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showthread.php/208860-Interactive-Text-\nHooker-new-text-extraction-tool), that are especially made for this purpose.\nSome people use them together with automated translation tools.\n\n[An AGTH tutorial](http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showthread.php/59189-AGTH-\nTRANSLATOR-AGGREGATOR-ILLUSTRATED-GUIDE), and an example screenshot of how it\nlooks in action: \n\n[An ITH tutorial](http://www.craneanime.com/2011/01/tutorial-ith-interactive-\ntext-hooker.html), and an example screenshot of how it looks in action:\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:19:09.090", "id": "32", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-11T22:02:39.810", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-11T22:02:39.810", "last_editor_user_id": "38", "owner_user_id": "38", "parent_id": "28", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "70", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nTo explain, I want to know whether it is more efficient to produce anime or\nmanga, and why.\n\nAnime:\n\n * Needs to be made frame by frame\n * need people to record voice.\n\nManga:\n\n * Needs lots of paper\n * has to be printed.\n\nBy more efficient, I mean which one has more profit and takes less time to\nmake.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:15:32.163", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "29", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-03T16:06:31.267", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-20T12:15:27.103", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": null, "post_type": "question", "score": 23, "tags": [ "anime-production", "manga-production" ], "title": "Is anime production more efficient than manga production?", "view_count": 1846 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIn term of human resources as well as production costs, manga is thousands of\ntimes more efficient than anime.\n\nThe personnel involved in a manga production (the chain is very little):\n\n * Mangaka\n * 4 or 5 assistants at best\n * Graphic design staff (logos, covers, general branding of a series is often externalized)\n * Series editor\n * Chief editor\n * Printing staff\n * Distribution staff\n\nAnd the materials needed is minimal, since the drawing stuff, while not cheap,\nis lots of times cheaper than all the needs to make an anime.\n\nIn the anime production the staff needed is lots of times that amount, since\nthe editors (here named \"producers\") and distribution staff are part of large\ncommittees, and the production staff (director, animation staff) is very\nlarge, too. So, only in staff and time the costs are way bigger, and the\ndistribution and marketing expenses are significative.\n\nSo, in the end, I think that manga is way more efficient than anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:36:45.403", "id": "43", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-03T16:06:31.267", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-03T16:06:31.267", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "31", "parent_id": "29", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nA production is only as productive as the people that make it up.\n\nManga production happens at a much smaller scale compared to [anime\nproduction](http://washiblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/anime-production-\ndetailed-guide-to-how-anime-is-made-and-the-talent-behind-it/).\n\nFor anime production, on top of publisher front costs, you have to get your\nstaff, sponsors, script, character/set designers, broadcasting rights, and\nadvertising ready before the production even starts.\n\nTypically only half the budget allocated to an anime is used by the studio in\ncharge.\n\nManga production can vary greatly. Some authors are interested in creative\ninput from their assistants, while others only ask them to assist. Some\nartists like do to as much of the work themselves as possible, others have\ntheir assistants fill in most of the page while the artist only draws the\n\"name\" (a kind of storyboard for manga) and main characters.\n\nAnime are usually created and broadcast at a loss while profits are made from\nDVD/Blu-ray and merchandising sales. Most mangas are produced at a loss, their\nviability access by their rank in their parent magazine's reader survey polls\nand takubon (volume) sales.\n\nGenerally, it takes around [8,000,000 to 10,000,000\nyen](http://d.hatena.ne.jp/makaronisan/20060719/1153219520) to make a \"30\nminute\" episode anime, while it takes only about 2,000,000 yen to produce a\nweekly serialization, because it typically takes 2 months for a tankoubon can\nbe compiled, at a 100-page monthly production rate.\n\nOn top of that you have to factor in rent for the studio, and payroll (pay +\npensions) for that staff which typically is composed of 1 chief-assistant + 2\nor 3 assistants + 1 background artist, typically a group of 4 to 5 people.\nDifferent authors/artist get different rates depending on the publisher and\nthe experience/fame of the author/artist.\n\nMost animators are [contract employees to a production\nstudio](http://motoz5.cocolog-nifty.com/animator/2006/12/post_41df.html).\nTherefore they do not get benefits, pensions, or vacations. Because many\nproductions employ so many animators for their tween animations it can be hard\nto keeps track of who's who and doing what.\n\nA well managed small anime production can sometimes be more efficient than a\nlarge high budget manga serialization, but the opposite can be true as well.\nIt usually comes down to who is an change and how the work trickles down.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T22:43:42.713", "id": "70", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-21T04:45:38.590", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-21T04:45:38.590", "last_editor_user_id": "102", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "29", "post_type": "answer", "score": 18 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "191", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI'm kind of a fan of time travel stories, so I got a little disappointed with\n_Steins;Gate_.\n\nAccording to\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel#Time_travel_in_fiction),\n\n> Time travel themes in science fiction and the media can generally be grouped\n> into three categories: immutable timeline; mutable timeline; and alternate\n> histories, as in the interacting-many-worlds interpretation.\n\nWhen they explained timelines in the show, I got the idea of the timelines\nbeing alternate, but then we got all of this \"Alpha/Beta timeline\", and that\ngoes more with the immutable timelines, with some alternate-difficult-to-reach\ntimelines.\n\nAnd at the end, Okabe couldn't change the beta timeline, except if he cheated\nhimself (which would make the timeline mutable)...\n\nSo, did the scriptwriters just cherry-picked things as they felt it could add\nmore drama? (For example, I was telling myself all the time: if Kurisu dies in\ntimeline beta, and Mayuri dies in timeline alpha... wouldn't the solution be\ngoing to timeline Gamma?!)\n\nAm I missing something?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:22:36.507", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "34", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-16T16:52:39.897", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-16T16:49:28.680", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "43", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "steins-gate" ], "title": "What time travel category applies on Steins;Gate?", "view_count": 5267 }

[ { "body": "\n\n_Steins;Gate_ mainly works with mutable timelines with an infinite amount of\nworld lines and borrows many time travel concepts, primarily the black hole\ntheory, to mix into the story.\n\nIn _Steins;Gate_ , the time travel theory consists of mutable timelines and\nalternate timelines. However, Okarin is the only one that is aware of the\nchanges in the mutable timeline. For everyone else, their memories are only\nfrom the timeline that they're in. Also, there are some events that cannot be\nchanged in the mutable timeline and are limited to the current timeline,\n\n> such as Mayuri's death.\n\nHowever, there are alternate timelines, revealed as attractor fields. The main\ntimeline changes to another alternate timeline when there is a major event,\nand yet Okarin is the only one that is aware when this happens.\n\nSo there are limits to changing the past in the current timeline and can only\nbe changed with a major shift to one of the other alternate timelines.\n\nTo clear things up, the current timeline follows the rules of a mutable\ntimeline. The past can be changed to some degree and people's memories change\naccordingly. If there are enough of major changes in the current timeline, it\nconverges into an alternate timeline which has different limits to changing\nthe past.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-12T11:55:37.507", "id": "191", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-16T16:52:39.897", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-16T16:52:39.897", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "28", "parent_id": "34", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "142", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nAs anyone who has seen Lucky Star will remember, most of the references to\nother anime and manga are censored. The most obvious examples of this are\nreferences to Gundam or Sgt. Frog (both of which are notably Sunrise shows).\nPresumably this is done to avoid KyoAni getting sued. This also explains why\nreferences to Haruhi and Full Metal Panic weren't censored (as far as I\nremember). Interestingly these instances of censorship probably could have\nbeen removed in the English release since it was licensed by Bandai, but I\ndon't know if they actually were, so this question might only apply to the\nJapanese version.\n\nHowever, there are still a few cases of references which weren't censored\ndespite no obvious connection between the Lucky Star team and the source. The\none that immediately comes to mind is To Heart, which is referenced several\ntimes. To Heart is associated with VN studio Leaf as well as animation studios\nOriental Light and Magic and AIC, neither of which have anything to do with\nLucky Star (KyoAni and Kadokawa). I can't find any connections between them,\nbut of course that could be oversight on my part, and I didn't check all of\nthe individual staff members.\n\nIs there some connection that I missed? Barring that, what sort of policy\nwould a studio typically use for references like this? Would they try to\nobtain permission for all of the references, or just bleep the ones that seem\nrisky to them?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:23:45.537", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "35", "last_activity_date": "2018-12-18T01:59:08.167", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "post_type": "question", "score": 18, "tags": [ "lucky-star" ], "title": "Why are only some of the references censored in Lucky Star", "view_count": 4465 }

[ { "body": "\n\nA major concern might be whether they has consent from the references'\ncompany.\n\nAn example would be **Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai** , they\nshow some vender's H-GAME cover in Kirino's H-Game pill, which have offended\nthose companies and the production studio later apologized. (If I remember\ncorrectly)\n\n## Updated: 2013/12/26\n\nI found something interested when investigating a recent news, I'm not sure\nit's relevant or not though)\n\n<http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1312/20/news095.html> (Japanese):\n\nA recent episode of **Yuri Danshi** in Japan was said to infringe the\ncopyright of some manga. (Hidamari Sketch, A Channel, Golden Mosaic)\n\n I thought\nthis should be in the range of fair use (just like quoting sentences from\nanother book), after checking \"Fair use\" the Japanese Wikipedia, it turns out\n\"Fair use\" doesn't exists in Japan's copyright laws. You must have consent\nfrom the author.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-12T03:30:43.083", "id": "141", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-25T13:37:59.167", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-25T13:37:59.167", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "106", "parent_id": "35", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nNot sure if this is just a random connection or actually the reason, but\nhere's the connection between Lucky Star and ToHeart:\n\nLucky Star's manga and anime are published by different branches of Kadokawa.\nThe ToHeart manga was published by MediaWorks which was owned by, you guessed\nit, Kadokawa.\n\nI don't know if every single branch of Kadokawa is allowed to mention a work\nin every other branch, but there is at least this connection. If someone\nbought Lucky Star DVDs and saw ToHeart mentioned and then decided to go buy\nthe ToHeart manga, that's a double win for Kadokawa.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-12T04:18:53.117", "id": "142", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-12T04:18:53.117", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "107", "parent_id": "35", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nMainly due to copyright reasons and the animes not belonging to the animation\nstudio.\n\nIf they decided to un-blur them they would have to give copyright claim for\nall of them or get permission from other companies.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-12-18T01:59:08.167", "id": "50125", "last_activity_date": "2018-12-18T01:59:08.167", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43938", "parent_id": "35", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "45", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nDoujinshi seem to represent usually works of amateurs, but that is a\nsubjective measure. What is the objective difference between both works?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:26:07.177", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "36", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-02T13:41:21.423", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-02T13:41:21.423", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "38", "post_type": "question", "score": 24, "tags": [ "terminology", "doujinshi", "manga-production" ], "title": "What is the difference between doujinshi and manga?", "view_count": 64379 }

[ { "body": "\n\nWell, if it's self published, it is called doujinshi. If it's by a manga\npublisher, it's manga. Note that this distinction makes no mention of relative\nquality...simply who is doing the publishing (and presumably paying for) the\nwork.\n\nWikipedia highlights this in the first paragraph:\n\n> Dōjinshi (同人誌?, often transliterated as doujinshi) is the Japanese term for\n> self-published works, usually magazines, manga or novels. Dōjinshi are often\n> the work of amateurs, though some professional artists participate as a way\n> to publish material outside the regular industry.\n\nNote, professional artists can produce doujinshi if they're self-publishing\nthat particular product.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:33:36.273", "id": "40", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-11T21:33:36.273", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "36", "parent_id": "36", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nDoujinshi just means you published it yourself, so the difference is that non-\ndoujinshi manga is published by a company, while doujinshi manga is a self-\npublished manga\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:33:42.773", "id": "41", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-02T13:40:49.427", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-02T13:40:49.427", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "43", "parent_id": "36", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nDoujinshi is closer to what we think of as \"indie/self-published\" comics\ncompared to manga. **Professionals can produce doujinshi as well as\namateurs,** and many mangaka will produce doujinshi on the side when they're\notherwise unable to produce a certain work for legal reasons.\n\nDoujinshi are often, but not limited to:\n\n * Fanart of pre-existing intellectual properties\n * Ecchi material\n * One-shots\n\nThe quality of any given doujinshi can vary as a result, since literally\nanyone can produce a doujinshi without any sort of editorial oversight.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:41:45.643", "id": "45", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-11T21:41:45.643", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "41", "parent_id": "36", "post_type": "answer", "score": 27 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "335", "answer_count": 8, "body": "\n\nIf you've seen much anime, you're familiar with the male character getting a\nbloody nose when he gets sexually excited. For example:\n\n \n\nMaster Roshi (Dragon Ball) and Umino Iruka (Naruto)\n\nHowever, when I mentioned this to a Japanese person (someone who was not a big\nanime viewer), she was confused, and adamant that a bloody nose would normally\njust mean that the person was excited in general, and it would not necessarily\nhave anything to do with sexual excitement.\n\nThis could (and seems likely to be) true for Japanese day to day real life,\nbut very different in anime, where the connection to libido seems very clear.\n\nIs there someone that can explain this difference? Is the \"bloody nose\" in\nanime just used to signify excitement, and it just happens to often (always)\nbe sexual excitement because of the plot? Or is it supposed to be just\nunderstood how a bloody nose is interpreted in anime is different from normal\nlife?\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:31:19.987", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "39", "last_activity_date": "2021-10-24T15:41:50.710", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-18T07:01:52.127", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "36", "post_type": "question", "score": 74, "tags": [ "tropes" ], "title": "Does the \"bloody nose\" trope necessarily imply a sexual situation?", "view_count": 45972 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime#Facial_expressions):\n\n> Male characters will develop a bloody nose around their female love\n> interests (typically to indicate arousal, which is a play on an old wives'\n> tale).\n\nIt has a reference in the end of this sentence that leads\n[here](http://www.umich.edu/~anime/info_emotions.html).\n\nI am not sure if these are reliable source, though...\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:34:35.687", "id": "42", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-11T21:34:35.687", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "39", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nThe bloody nose gag exaggerates the rise in blood pressure when people are\naroused, to such a degree that blood shoots out of the aroused character's\nnose.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:49:07.520", "id": "49", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-13T14:14:31.247", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-13T14:14:31.247", "last_editor_user_id": "44", "owner_user_id": "28", "parent_id": "39", "post_type": "answer", "score": 36 }, { "body": "\n\nAs far as I know, it comes from embarrassment more than arousal. Note that it\ntends to not be perverts who get bloody noses (at least not when they're\ndealing with someone other than their primary love interest). Instead, it is\nthe semi innocent/honorable hero/supporting character, the one who is not\nactively trying to look at a female's chest.\n\nWhen presented with this kind of situation, all of a sudden, they tend to\nbecome quite embarrassed. This embarrassment normally leads to the face being\nfilled with blood (blushing). BUT, to show an extreme case of this\nembarrassment, their nose bleeds instead from the excessive blood pressure\nbuildup.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:49:29.547", "id": "50", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-03T16:09:31.653", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-03T16:09:31.653", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "46", "parent_id": "39", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nGilles Portras, author of [The Anime\nCompanion](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1880656329), wondered the\nsame thing:\n\n> \"So I asked a few Japanese and got a variety of pseudoscientific, and\n> occasionally embarassed, explanations about humidity and blood pressure. But\n> the best response I got was from one fellow who simply recounted that when\n> he was a child he was told by his mother that if he stared at a pretty woman\n> he would get a bloody nose.\"\n\nIt's basically superstition, like if you sneeze once someone is saying\nsomething good about you. If you sneeze twice they are saying something bad.\nIf you sneeze three times, you have a cold.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-13T15:53:55.743", "id": "335", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-13T15:53:55.743", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "39", "post_type": "answer", "score": 49 }, { "body": "\n\nNo actual proof here, but...\n\nI would suspect that the anime writers just use bloody noses when they think\nit is funny, not taking actual Japanese beliefs or day-to-day customs into\naccount.\n\nIt is way more funny when heroes get bloody noses when they get an accidental\nlook than when perverts get a look (all the time).\n\nOn the other hand it is also funny when a pervert gets a bloody nose all the\ntime (in extremes). As already mentioned, Jiraiya is an example of this. Sanji\nis even a better example as his bloody nose becomes _life threatening_ at a\ncertain point!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T12:20:05.680", "id": "419", "last_activity_date": "2016-11-05T13:58:19.727", "last_edit_date": "2016-11-05T13:58:19.727", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "51", "parent_id": "39", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording [here](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Nosebleed), in\nanime, nosebleed mostly happens to a character being sexually aroused. It is\nan exaggeration of having high blood pressure when a real person is sexually\naroused.\n\n> In Japanese media, healthy young men that have no other sexual outlet will\n> often suffer nosebleeds upon seeing the naked female body, or even just a\n> pair of well-filled panties. It's probably a side effect of High Pressure\n> Blood in a body that's Overdrawn at the Blood Bank.\n\nAnd it is somehow a metaphor to this:\n\n> The nosebleed is, of course, a visual shorthand/euphemism for sexual\n> arousal. It is commonly interpreted that way for males and females, with\n> little trickles of blood indicating mild arousal, and gushing fountains of\n> blood indicating erection/extreme arousal in both sexes. It can also be\n> interpreted as shorthand strictly for erections in males. In that case, when\n> blood shoots from the nose explosively, and in ridiculous quantity, the\n> implication would be an ejaculation.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-25T08:42:08.600", "id": "3530", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-25T23:29:39.797", "last_edit_date": "2013-04-25T23:29:39.797", "last_editor_user_id": "88", "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "39", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nAs explained on [MedlinePlus Medical\nEncyclopedia](http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003106.htm):\n\n> Nosebleed can be caused by:\n>\n> * Irritation due to allergies, colds, sneezing or sinus problems\n> * Very cold or dry air\n> * Blowing the nose very hard, or picking the nose\n> * Injury to nose, including a broken nose, or an object stuck in the nose\n> * Deviated septum\n> * Chemical irritants\n> * Overuse of decongestant nasal sprays\n>\n\n>\n> Repeated nosebleeds may be a symptom of another disease such as high blood\n> pressure, a bleeding disorder, or a tumor of the nose or sinuses. Blood\n> thinners, such as warfarin (Coumadin), clopidogrel (Plavix), or aspirin, may\n> cause or worsen nosebleeds.\n\nTo answer your question, your Japanese acquaintance is right that in real\nlife, a bloody nose would normally just mean that the person was excited in\ngeneral, and it would not necessarily have anything to do with sexual\nexcitement. In my experience, though, it's usually due to the causes listed in\nthe bullet points, not due to high blood pressure. I would go with @ʞɹɐzǝɹ 's\nanswer that it is a superstition/myth that is perpetuated in anime and manga,\nwhich this [potentially NSFW\nvideo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUS74d4pC2c) debunks (rather\nunscientifically) in a light-hearted manner.\n\n\n\n\nScreenshots from the video. The big captions read \"Verification method: the\nwoman in front will get naked without warning\" and \"Will the nosebleed come\nout?\"\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-20T05:29:31.617", "id": "15199", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-12T10:40:36.020", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "39", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's possible that the response of the 'Japanese person' in one of the above\ncomments, that it's a sign of excitement in general, is probably correct. In\n'Black Clover,' the character Gauche Adlai exhibits the characteristic anime\nnosebleed over a little girl, Marie - but she is merely his sister, whom he\nworships, and nothing more.\n\nIn anime, not all nosebleeds are a sign of sexual arousal - but perhaps all\ninstances of sexual arousal are signified by nosebleeds.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-07-29T07:06:37.057", "id": "48114", "last_activity_date": "2018-07-29T07:06:37.057", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "41776", "parent_id": "39", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nI understand that one of them is actually the other. At first we are led to\nbelieve that Vincent is Ergo. But toward the end of the series, we discover\nsomething but I am not sure what it means: Ergo created Vincent to run away\nfrom himself. Also, in the beginning, when Vincent turns into Ergo, he loses\ncontrol and doesn't remember any of it. Later on he starts to control Ergo,\nbut at the same time he can talk with him.\n\nSo, basically, I don't understand which 'came first': Is Vincent Law Ergo\nProxy? Or is it the other way around? Or are they actually two different\n'selves' that 'reside in the same body'?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:44:49.020", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "48", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-04T04:42:54.897", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-07T00:33:13.780", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "49", "post_type": "question", "score": 8, "tags": [ "ergo-proxy" ], "title": "What is the relation between Ergo Proxy and Vincent Law?", "view_count": 9173 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to wikipedia under [Other Characters -\nProxies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ergo_Proxy_characters#Proxies):\n\n> Ergo Proxy is a \"clone\" of Proxy One, Romdo's creator and guardian, who was\n> created to help bring about the destruction of the human race because of\n> Proxy One's anger at humanity's treatment of and plans for the Proxies,\n> specifically Monad Proxy. Ergo Proxy often wears a white mask with elements\n> of both The Phantom of the Opera and a harlequin jester to differentiate\n> from Proxy One. Vincent initially has no control over his transformations,\n> changing into Ergo Proxy whenever another Proxy reveals itself, but is\n> implied to be in control of his abilities by the end of the series.\n\nRegarding Proxy One:\n\n> The main antagonist of the series, he is Ergo Proxy's original and true\n> self, and calls Vincent his shadow. He was first alluded to in episode 15\n> and is the one behind the events of the entire series, having created\n> Vincent and then sent him back to Romdo from Mosk to start his revenge plan.\n> Near the end of the series, Proxy One is revealed to be the one who fired\n> the thermonuclear missile Rapture, destroyed Amnesia to hide Vincent's\n> memories, and killed Donov Mayer.\n\nTo summarize, Vincent Law transforms into Ergo Proxy. Ergo Proxy is the proxy\nform of Vincent Law. He appoints Romdeau, his domed city, with a human regent\nand then gives himself amnesia, leaving himself in his human form (as\nVincent). Ergo Proxy comes first, though he is a clone of Proxy One.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-28T22:36:48.767", "id": "2200", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-20T03:46:37.863", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-20T03:46:37.863", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "48", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom what I understand, Proxy 1 and Ergo Proxy are two separate entities. A\nmiss conception, thanks to the English translation, is proxy 1 created\nRomdeau; this is not the case as Romdeau is described a flawed Dome in the\nsame way as its creator, Ergo Proxy, is a clone on Proxy 1 and hence a flawed\nproxy (also shown by the fact he can survive UV rays).\n\nThis is further backed up by the relationship between Ergo and Monad. Monad we\nare told loved Ergo proxy due to their opposing natures of life and death,\nthus she comes to Vincent AKA Ergos aid at the end of the series rather than\nto help forefill Proxy 1's ambitions for Ergo to destroy humanities chance for\na future on earth.\n\nVincent is therefore the human name of the being Ergo proxy while he has\namnesia due to the removal of his own memories to prevent him from becoming\nthe literal grim reaper on earth. Ergo Proxy was created a long time prior to\nthe series by Proxy 1 as a means of revenge on humanity.\n\nOf coarse I could be completely wrong but it doesn't really matter as the main\nfocus of the anime isn't the plot but the moral and theological questions\nwhich arise from the setting and premise of the series. In short its a\nfantastic anime whether the ending is ambiguous or not :)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-25T22:35:45.330", "id": "8261", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-25T22:43:01.020", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-25T22:43:01.020", "last_editor_user_id": "4258", "owner_user_id": "4258", "parent_id": "48", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nVincent Law is Ergo Proxy, who is Proxy 1. Proxy one divided himself into two.\nThat which is divided must become one. So Proxy 1 splits into 2, and one half\nleaves the dome, the other half remains. The half that leaves gets rid of\ntheir memory... who are they now? They are no longer the true Proxy Project\ncreation. They are now gaining self-awareness and forging a new identity.\n\nIt is perhaps because they rejected their imperfect origin that they decided\nto dump their memory, and become Vincent Law. Victory over Law. He has claimed\nvictory over the rules. He is no longer just a proxy. The amnesia effect\nallows us to follow him on his journey against the strongest enemy he'll ever\nface... himself. A journey we all must take if we strike out against what we\nwere planned to be and instead seek out our own destiny.\n\nSo Proxy 1 is Ergo Proxy... He is both one and the same, and he must embrace\nevery aspect of himself if he is to truly choose his own future. It's not an\neasy thing to do, but he has Re-l, or reality. He also has pino, and \"in vino,\nveritas\", or \"in wine there is truth\".\n\nSo moving forward with reality and truth, the lab project known as Proxy One\nwill eventually embrace that he is Ergo Proxy, and yet overcome his origins\nand finally reach happiness by redefining himself as Vincent Law, victorious\nover the laws his very cells were programmed to follow. He felt the pulse of\nthe awakening, and instead of dying, he awoke. He is the agent of death... or\nwas... not anymore... He is Vincent Law, and Vince is in full control as he\nsails off with truth and reality, and a new autorave who perhaps represents\nthe discipline he has finally achieved.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-04T04:34:06.753", "id": "43141", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-04T04:42:54.897", "last_edit_date": "2017-11-04T04:42:54.897", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "36455", "parent_id": "48", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "13263", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nIt was said that when a Shinigami saves a human with his Death Note, that\nShinigami dies, and his remaining life-span is transferred to the human he\nsaved.\n\nBut imagine the following situation, a Shinigami has accumulated 500 years of\nlifespan by killing a lot of humans. That Shinigami then kills someone for a\nhuman, to save his life, and dies.\n\nDoes that mean the human would gain 500 years to his lifespan?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:49:34.630", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "51", "last_activity_date": "2021-02-08T16:10:47.967", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "post_type": "question", "score": 30, "tags": [ "death-note" ], "title": "What would happen if a Shinigami with exceedingly long life-span dies for a human?", "view_count": 7805 }

[ { "body": "\n\nEssentially yes, they will become semi-immortal. They will have a long, long\nnatural lives but they'll still be vulnerable to death.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T22:21:12.493", "id": "65", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-13T05:23:16.463", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-13T05:23:16.463", "last_editor_user_id": "28", "owner_user_id": "28", "parent_id": "51", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nThe human would indeed gain 500 years to his lifespan.\n\n> Shinigami who die are reduced to dust, and their remaining lifespan is given\n> to the human they saved. [wiki](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Shinigami)\n\nIt is very unlikely to see that human live those 500 years though. Shinigami\nare lazy and don't want to be bothered with the human world too much, so the\nhuman would become an eagerly desired target for the other Shinigami. If they\nwould kill that specific human they would be able to gamble for 500 more years\nwithout having to be bothered with writing some new names.\n\nSo basically he would gain a lot of extra lifespan, but it wouldn't make him\nimmune to the power of the Death Note. [An example of this was seen with Misa\nAmane](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/11424/6166). Despite having gained\nthe lifespan of two Shinigami, she still only lived a couple of years after\ntheir deaths, because the Death Note had recalculated her lifespan over\nseveral occasions during the story.\n\n* * *\n\nAs mentioned by [Madara\nUchiha](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/27/madara-uchiha), humans with a\nlifespan of 124 years or higher can indeed not be killed directly.\n\n> You cannot kill humans at the age of 124 or over with the Death Note.\n> [XXIX](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_XXIX)\n\nThey could be killed indirectly by killing people that would result in his\nlifespan being recalculated, but as I mentioned Shinigami are lazy, so they\nwouldn't bother to do so intentionally, making him indeed semi-immortal :)\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-05T14:22:40.367", "id": "13263", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-05T14:40:19.060", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "51", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nI always wondered that. \nMy main thought is whether they continue to age normally or if their aging\nslows to match their remaining life span. I cant imagine a human who gains 500\nyears from the death of a shinigami could live for so long if aging naturally. \nWith some deductions, I have come to the conclusion that one who gains 500\nyears of life from a Shinigami would have to experience aging at a slower rate\nbecause their entire being has been extended in life by that 500 years. That\nmeans disease, accident oh, the shutting down of organs, could not lead to the\ncause of death until they used up those 500 years. So everything about that\nperson would either be slowed or halted in time until they can naturally die\nafter using the extra time. Aside from external factors such as usage of the\ndeath note before they hit the age of 124.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-02-08T16:10:47.967", "id": "61862", "last_activity_date": "2021-02-08T16:10:47.967", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "58719", "parent_id": "51", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "256", "answer_count": 5, "body": "\n\nI haven't watched Anime in many years, but recently I've had time to get back\ninto it. I've seen that one of my favorite series, Fullmetal Alchemist, has\ndone a series reboot. What I'm wondering is:\n\n**Does it present a lot of deep variations** (plot-wise, character-wise or\notherwise) **, or is it just the same series with updated art?**\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:52:50.980", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "55", "last_activity_date": "2020-08-22T07:43:01.020", "last_edit_date": "2016-01-18T09:29:06.353", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "61", "post_type": "question", "score": 132, "tags": [ "fullmetal-alchemist-series", "fullmetal-alchemist-brotherhood", "fullmetal-alchemist-2003" ], "title": "What's the difference between the FMA and FMA Brotherhood series?", "view_count": 983236 }

[ { "body": "\n\nBrotherhood is actually more faithful to the Manga. The first _'version'_\nfollows the Manga to some extent (about half the show) although it adds some\ndetails that do not follow the Manga.\n\n> The whole thing regarding the creation of Homunculus is completely different\n> in the first series. \n> The whole Ishbal incident is also different. \n> The role Hohenheim plays in the first series is rather ridiculous comparing\n> to his _'real'_ role. \n> And there is also no Father in the first series...\n\nMost of these different aspects I really don't understand.\n\nAs for the number of episodes: the _'reboot'_ actually catches up to the first\nversion rather fast (in about the first 4th) and then has _'new material'_\n(comparing to the first one, but actually it is just going according to the\nmanga) until the end of it. Brotherhood also has more episodes (64, compared\nto 51) .\n\nAlso, the animation in itself is rather different in Brotherhood (much better\nIMO).\n\nBasically, the first series is, in my opinion, rather poor when compared to\nBrotherhood.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:57:12.873", "id": "58", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-12T17:26:38.693", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-12T17:26:38.693", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "55", "post_type": "answer", "score": 32 }, { "body": "\n\nAs you've said, two animes were done:\n\n * _Full Metal Alchemist_\n * _Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood_.\n\nWhile they both start the same way, the first one starts to develop following\na whole different path than the Manga. This is because when it was being\naired, the Manga was not done yet, so the plot as well as the end of the anime\nare invented.\n\nThe second was done after the Manga ended, so it respects the original Manga\nmuch more. I watched both because I didn't know of this distinction. But I can\ntell you quite objectively, that even if the first one is not so faithful, it\nwas of very good quality, speaking of plot twists, unexpected changes in\nhistory and other similar devices.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:59:02.940", "id": "59", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-12T10:07:11.723", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-12T10:07:11.723", "last_editor_user_id": "15", "owner_user_id": "15", "parent_id": "55", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nThe new Fullmetal Alchemist series is completely worth it since it adapts the\noriginal manga from beginning to end. The previous series, while being really\ngood (in my opinion), diverges from the manga in the whole second half and\nends in a way that was not supposed to be. The new series follows everything,\nretells in just a few chapters what we previously watched and then tells a\ncompletely new story with a completely new end.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T22:00:23.697", "id": "60", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-21T00:45:23.513", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-21T00:45:23.513", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "31", "parent_id": "55", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nThere are a large number of differences between the two Fullmetal Alchemist\nanime, with far too many to list; therefore, I'll only cover the major ones.\n\nTo improve the flow of this answer, the following abbreviations will be used:\n\nFMAM = Fullmetal Alchemist (Manga) \nFMA03 = Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 (Anime) \nFMAB = Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood (Anime) \n\nThe reason for the difference is because FMA03 was created when FMAM was still\nin the early stages of its development. When an anime series is based on a\nmanga that is still in development, the anime is eventually going to reach a\npoint where it outpaces the manga, because anime episodes tend to be developed\nquicker than manga volumes. When this happens, either filler for the anime is\ncreated or changes to the anime's storyline and characters are made so that\nthe anime can continue to be developed. The latter is what happened to FMA03.\nFMA03's storyline started to diverge from FMAM's storyline after around 10\nepisodes because, at that point, the anime was starting to outpace the manga.\n\nOn the other hand, FMAB was created when FMAM was nearing the end of its\ndevelopment. This allowed FMAB's storyline to be more faithful to FMAM's\nstoryline because FMAB had a mostly-complete storyline to draw from FMAM.\n\nThe major differences between FMA03 and FMAB & FMAM are:\n\n# Storyline\n\n> Although both stories follow Edward and Alphonse, the overarching story is\n> considerably different between FMA03 and FMAB & FMAM. In FMAB & FMAM the\n> main antagonist was a character referred to as **Father** , a being of\n> incredible power who is capable of performing transmutation at will, and\n> without regard for equivalent exchange. His ultimate goal in FMAB & FMAM is\n> to steal the power of what he refers to as \"God\" and become a being of\n> infinite power and knowledge. \n> \n> The main antagonist in FMA03 is Dante. Unlike Father, she is just a normal\n> human being who created a Philosopher's Stone and has managed to live a long\n> time by transferring her consciousness into the body of other human beings\n> whenever she was nearing death. Dante's only motivation is to become\n> immortal and live forever.\n\n# The Homunculi\n\n> In FMA03, the **Homunculi** were the result of attempting to perform human\n> transmutation and failing. They could only be killed by destroying their\n> original body. \n> \n> In FMAB & FMAM, the Homunculi were created by Father, with each one\n> representing a different aspect of his personality ( **Lust** , **Gluttony**\n> , **Envy** , **Greed** , **Wrath** , **Sloth** , and **Pride** ; the seven\n> deadly sins). Each Homunculus is also powered by a Philosopher's Stone.\n> Unlike FMA03's Homunculi, FMAB & FMAM's Homunculi do not have an \"original\"\n> body that needs to be destroyed. Instead, either the Philosopher's Stone\n> powering them needs to be destroyed or its power drained (normally through\n> forcing them to regenerate multiple times). \n> \n> Another difference is the identify of the Homunculi themselves, with some\n> Homunculi from FMAB & FMAM not appearing in FMA03 at all and others having\n> their name changed. \n> \n> **Gluttony** , **Envy** , **Lust** , and **Greed** have the same name and\n> appearance in FMAB, FMAM, and FMA03. \n> FMAB & FMAM's **Wrath** (King Bradley) is called **Pride** in FMA03. \n> FMAB & FMAM's **Pride** (Selim Bradley) is not present in FMA03. \n> FMA03's **Wrath** is unique to the series. He was the result of Izumi\n> Curtis's attempt to revive her son. \n> FMAB & FMAM's **Sloth** is not present in FMA03. \n> FMA03's **Sloth** is unique to the series. She was the result of Ed and\n> Al's attempt to bring back their mother.\n\n# Hohenheim\n\n> In FMA03, **Hohenheim** is just a normal human being who was originally\n> Dante's lover; however, he eventually left her due to no longer sharing her\n> desire to have immortality at any cost. Like Dante, he created a\n> Philosopher's Stone and gained a long life by transferring his consciousness\n> into another person's body. His role in the anime is very minor, and he\n> becomes trapped on the other side of the Gate after a confrontation with\n> Dante that ended in failure. \n> \n> In FMAB & FMAM, Hohenheim was a human Philosopher's Stone with a seemingly\n> infinite supply of power. Although he was originally a slave, he was granted\n> his near-immortality by Father well before the events of the series took\n> place. Hohenheim is more significant in FMAB & FMAM, facing off against\n> Father at the end of the series. Unlike FMA03's Hohenheim, he dies at the\n> end of FMAB & FMAM after finally exhausting the power of his Philosopher's\n> Stone.\n\n# The Gate\n\n> The **Gate** is the largest major change in the series. In FMAB & FMAM, the\n> Gate is the source of all alchemy and also seems to be a source of infinite\n> knowledge. The Gate is also guarded by a being commonly referred to as\n> **Truth** , and who is responsible for taking the required tolls from\n> alchemists who perform human transmutation. Those who are capable of\n> performing alchemy have their own gate, and if that gate should be removed\n> (by sacrificing it to Truth), they will no longer be able to perform\n> alchemy. \n> \n> In FMA03, the Gate is still the source of alchemy, but it also serves as a\n> portal between the world of _Fullmetal Alchemist_ and **Earth**.\n> Furthermore, the Gate derives its powers from the souls of those who have\n> died on Earth and is what powers the transmutations performed by alchemists.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-12T18:37:45.790", "id": "256", "last_activity_date": "2020-08-22T07:43:01.020", "last_edit_date": "2020-08-22T07:43:01.020", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "62", "parent_id": "55", "post_type": "answer", "score": 120 }, { "body": "\n\nThere are quite a few differences, actually. The \"original\", or the \"first\none\" is an entirely different storyline from the manga. The manga was the\noriginal thing, so most people hate the first FMA series.\n\nA few differences between the two anime series are:\n\n * **The Storyline**\n\n> In the first FMA, it ends with Ed in London around the time of World War 2.\n> Al gets his body back and stays in \"their world\", while Ed is stuck in \"our\n> world\" with his fake right arm and left leg. Al is 10 (the age he was when\n> this chaos happened) again and has no memories of the last four years. But,\n> in Conqueror of Shamballa, he gains his memories when he goes back to \"our\n> world\" with Ed, after Ed brutally abandons him. Although, in Brotherhood, it\n> sticks to the storyline of the manga.\n\n * **The idea behind the Homunculi**\n\n> In the first FMA, the Homunculi were created from failed human\n> transmutations (explaining Sloth's appearance), while, in Brotherhood, the\n> Homunculi were Father's humane \"flaws\" that he extracted from his\n> personality and put into the \"artificial beings\". Ironically enough, his\n> wanting to become a god was awfully greedy, even after he'd rid of that\n> \"flaw\"\n\n * **The Homunculi's appearance**\n\nLust has a black dress in the first series, but in Brotherhood, she has a\nreddish-brown dress.\n\nGluttony, Envy, and King Bradley look the same. Sloth looks like Ed and Al's\nmother, while in Brotherhood, Sloth is a big (much bigger than Armstrong xD)\nbuff male with long black hair.\n\nIn the first series, King Bradley is Pride, instead of Wrath (in Brotherhood,\nhe's Wrath). In FMA, Wrath is a little boy (Izumi's son) with long black hair\nand he has Ed's real right arm and left leg. While in Brotherhood, Wrath is\nKing Bradley. In Brotherhood, Pride is King Bradley's son, Selim Bradley.\nWhile in the first series, Pride is King Bradley.\n\nIn the first series, Greed looks normal, but\n\n> since Greed takes over Ling Yao's (the twelfth crown prince of Xing) body,\n> Greed looks like Ling\n\n**FMA** :\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qmEq7.jpg)\n\n**Brotherhood** :\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PZItdm.jpg)\n\n(The blonde guy in the middle is Father)\n\n * **Who the Homunculi are** (... meh. It's pretty much explained in the aforementioned point, so I don't think I have to re-explain).\n\n * **Hohenheim's appearance**\n\nIn the first series, Hohenheim has a more round, smooth face. His glasses are\nbigger and more round. His hair and beard is a dirty-ish blonde color, and his\nponytail is lower. In Brotherhood, Hohenheim has a rectangle-shaped head. His\nface has more ...umm... say \"chiseled\" features. His glasses are smaller and\nnot as round. His hair and beard are light blonde, and his ponytail is higher)\n\n**FMA** :\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/I1G1a.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IuhtF.jpg)\n\n**Brotherhood** :\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DCWLbm.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DTuhom.jpg)\n\n * **The art**\n\n * **Al's voice**\n\n * **Rose's appearance**\n\nIn the first series, Rose's skin is brown. Her hair is dark brown with pink\nbangs. In Brotherhood, Rose's skin is very white. She has black hair with\nmaroon-ish colored bangs\n\n**FMA** :\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/azNqzm.png)\n\n**Brotherhood** :\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/misT5.jpg)\n\n * **Rose later on**\n\n> In the first series, she has a baby (an ugly one, at that. xD ), while, in\n> Brotherhood, she doesn't.\n\n * **There are a few new characters in Brotherhood**\n\nI had more in mind, but in the midst of typing, I forgot what the rest was. I\napologize.\n\nEven with the absence of the other differences I had planned to provide, I\nhope this helped.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-09-20T04:07:57.800", "id": "26008", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-20T20:42:06.717", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-20T20:42:06.717", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "17912", "parent_id": "55", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "138", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn order to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Anime Tenchou (who most notably\nappears in Lucky Star), ufotable animated a 10 minute crossover anime between\nTouhou and Anime Tenchou in 2010. ANN has a news release about it\n[here](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-09-24/touhou-project-anime-\ntenchou-get-anime-by-ufotable).\n\nI know that this was shown at Animate Ichioshi Bishōjo Matsuri according to\nthe news release, but I have not been able to find any information about a\ngeneral release. Was this ever released in any format to the general public?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T21:56:12.620", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "56", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-09T21:11:46.703", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-12T03:46:55.560", "last_editor_user_id": "107", "owner_user_id": "24", "post_type": "question", "score": 13, "tags": [ "touhou-project", "anime-tenchou" ], "title": "Was the ufotable Touhou anime ever released?", "view_count": 6131 }

[ { "body": "\n\nTo my knowledge, it has been released [but in a\ntheater](http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A1%E5%BA%97%E9%95%B7%C3%97%E6%9D%B1%E6%96%B9%E3%83%97%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%AF%E3%83%88)\nor the like and no one was allowed to record it in any way thus no one else\nhas seen it.\n\n> アニメ店長×東方プロジェクトとは、アニメ店長誕生10周年を記念して行われたコラボレーション企画である。\n>\n> [...]\n>\n>\n> アニメ店長誕生から10周年を記念し製作されたショートアニメーション（約10分）で、2010年11月20日に行われた”『アニメ店長』プレゼンツ!!アニメイト一押し美少女アニメまつり”にて初公開された。\n>\n> [...]\n>\n>\n> その後12月29日～31日にアニメイト一部店舗で単独イベント上映、2011年1月9日に全国アニメイト各店にて上映された。尚、DVD,BDの販売はなく（設定資料のみ販売）会場での上映限定での公開となった。\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-12T03:17:09.120", "id": "138", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-09T21:11:46.703", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "103", "parent_id": "56", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "66", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nVoice acting is one of the many things that can make an anime movie, OVA or TV\nseries successful or not, and some\n[seiyuu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_acting_in_Japan) gain their own\nfollowings or are treated like idols.\n\nWhat happens if, say, a major character's seiyuu has an accident, dies or\nquits before the production is finished?\n\nHas this ever happened, and if so, what were the consequences, measures taken,\nand reaction from fans to those measures?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T22:10:41.397", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "61", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-08T02:11:14.250", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-08T02:11:14.250", "last_editor_user_id": "16253", "owner_user_id": "38", "post_type": "question", "score": 20, "tags": [ "anime-production", "voice-acting" ], "title": "What happens when a seiyuu cannot continue working on a production?", "view_count": 683 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThis happens occasionally. The most recent example that I can think of is when\nKawaragi Shiho, the seiyuu of Nishizono Mio from Little Busters!, got\npregnant. In fact, this is very recent, as she just [gave\nbirth](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2012-12-10/voice-actress-\nshiho-kawaragi-gives-birth-to-healthy-girl) last Friday (December 7th). Of\ncourse Mio isn't the main character, but she's not a minor character either.\n\nIn this case, they just replaced her (with Tatsumi Yuiko). That's about the\nonly real option they have most of the time. Unless the problem is only for a\nvery short duration, the entire show is not going to be delayed for one\nseiyuu. If it happens well in advance and the character is pretty important,\nthey can probably work around it. Gotou Yuuko (seiyuu for Hiro from Hidamari\nSketch), who was on hiatus for a while this year for health reasons but is\nback now in Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb, is a good example of this. However,\nthis is a pretty atypical situation, and the other shows she was in mostly got\nreplacements.\n\nIn the end, unless the character is crucially important, it's very likely that\nthey'll get a replacement, since it's pretty much the only realistic option.\nIf something like this happens for a popular character in the off-season, it\ncan also affect the possibility of sequels (e.g. most shows with Aya Hirano\nleads probably aren't in the sequel market). It usually doesn't hurt the\nseiyuu's career too much if it occurs for good reasons e.g. health, but some\nimpact is inevitable.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T22:34:58.657", "id": "66", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-11T22:34:58.657", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "61", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nAs the series develops, it seems that Ergo Proxy has a growing number of\nphilosophical references:\n\n * The concept of Anamnesis in episode 11.\n\n * The Council/Collective figures.\n\n * All the events in episode 20.\n\n * Every discussion Vincent has with Ergo about the 'self' (especially episode 11)\n\n * And numerous others that I don't recall at the moment...\n\nWhich philosophical concepts/authors are referenced or portrayed in the\nseries?\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T22:12:56.637", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "63", "last_activity_date": "2021-07-17T06:00:02.317", "last_edit_date": "2021-07-17T06:00:02.317", "last_editor_user_id": "60264", "owner_user_id": "49", "post_type": "question", "score": 10, "tags": [ "tropes", "ergo-proxy" ], "title": "What philosophical concepts and/or authors are referenced in the series Ergo Proxy?", "view_count": 5638 }

[ { "body": "\n\nActually funny enough some of the robots in the anime are named after\nphilosophers...\n\nThe Ergo Proxy Wiki states in the Production section\n<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergo_Proxy>\n\n> It is set in the future. A group of robots become infected with something\n> called the Kojiro [sic] virus, and become aware of their own existence. So\n> these robots, which had been tools of humans, decide to go on an adventure\n> to search for themselves. They have to decide whether the virus that\n> infected them created their identity, or whether they gained their identity\n> through their travels. This question is meant to represent our own debate\n> over whether we become who we are because of our environment, or because of\n> things that are inherent in us. The robots are all named after philosophers:\n> Derrida and Lacan and Husserl.\n\nSo pretty much the whole anime is about self discovery and coming to terms\nwith their existence. One such philosophical / socialogical debate we take\nfrom the above mentioned quote is that of Nature vs Nurture. Are we who we are\nbecause of \"what\" we are, or is our \"self\" formed by our actions or the things\naround us. There's quite a few different philosophical undertones, the most\nprominent I think is the one I quoted above.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-14T19:24:35.390", "id": "6905", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-14T19:24:35.390", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3317", "parent_id": "63", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nbig spoilers. go away.\n\n> Cogito refers to - Cogito Ergo Sum - I think, therefore I am. also the word\n> is similar to 'Cognito' or 'Cognition', which all derive from the root for\n> 'know'. there's the whole daedalus/ikaros thing... oh i can't remember any\n> more ;p the whole series itself seems sort of highlander/the one-like.\n> asura/ashura is commonly used in anime, based on indian beliefs. let's not\n> forget 'The Rapture' lol ;p\n\nmore? decided to move stuff from other thread lol\n\n> pino = piano, the playing card soldiers of karos (karos = diamonds), the\n> russian miniatures. how everything works like 'clockwork'? - the wombs,\n> vincent's plan - gods trying to kill humans, while humans are trying to kill\n> the gods (at least raul).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-29T12:42:33.557", "id": "9999", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-29T14:55:23.663", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-29T14:55:23.663", "last_editor_user_id": "5055", "owner_user_id": "5055", "parent_id": "63", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's been a long time since I have watched the anime, but here's a quick\nrundown of some of the concepts I think the anime portrayed:\n\n**Absurdism**\n\nThe resulting conflict, called the \"Absurd,\" to find meaning and not being\nable to find any, at least, not in a humanely possible way. In other words,\nmeaning can be logically found, but not be achieved. This concept is shown in\nRaul's mental breakdown as he slowly loses any possible source of meaning in\nhis life. His adopted child, for example, could have been a source of meaning,\nbut as he loses that and Pino, he began to create the Absurd and the way he\nresolves this is through suicide. The are other examples of the Absurd, more\nnoticeable when they're talking about their Raison d'Etre. Others can handle\nthe Absurd in a different way, particularly the Proxies because they're not\n(normal) humans, although those like Re-L was able to handle it as well in the\nend. The way Ergo Proxy portrayed Vincent's journey can also classify this\nwork as an Absurdist Fiction.\n\nFor more: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism>\n\n**Mind-Body Problem**\n\nThis is more broad and can be divided into two subcategories: dualism and\nmonism or physicalism (also called Identity Theory). Dualism is where the mind\nis separate from the body and the latter is when the mind is the body. This\nissue is addressed when the robots begins to acquire sentience on their own.\nThe Cogito virus, which seems to be immaterial, is what gives the robots in\nthe series their free will, their \"mind,\" similar to how dualism says that the\nmind is immaterial and separate from the body. Yet, the experiences each robot\nhas is what makes them act different, which also depends on the body. The\nstate of mind of an intimidating military robot is going to be different than\nthat of Pino, where people are more likely to treat her like a child. This\nissue is also more notable between Ergo and Vincent.\n\nFor more: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body_problem>\n\n**Social Contract**\n\nThe anime briefly touched on this, but it's there. The legitimacy of Romedau's\ngovernment is questioned. Cities can be created and destroyed easily by the\nProxies, so it seems that the council is very powerless. More than that, no\none voluntarily enters these cities. Rather, people are forced to exist inside\nthem, either through artificial birth or through emigration (they were either\nto die in the harsh outside environment or live inside). In contrast, the\ncommune outside of Romedeau works the opposite, in a way. Thus the problem:\nwould you be willing to give up some of your freedom for comfort or would you\nrather have complete freedom?\n\nFor more: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract>\n\n**Existentialism**\n\nVery similar to absurdism. This problem is the question of where meaning comes\nfrom, if there is at all. It also deals with the issue of where existence came\nfrom, whether we existed without our bodies and how does it relate to our\nmeaning. Existentialism on its own is too broad, however, but it seems to me\nthat the anime touched on this as well.\n\nFor more: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism>\n\nThere's a lot of references on the other hand, so I'll only list a few:\n\n_Utilitarianism_ \\- Society should be guided so that everyone is equally\nhappy. Thus everyone in Romedau is given meaning.\n\n_Transhumanism_ \\- There was a scene where a city is run completely by robots.\nThis seems to be more of a jab on transhumanism rather than a support for it,\nas it shows there's no need for humans if everything is mechanized.\n\n_Divine Command Theory_ \\- Whatever the council says, it has to be good. Why?\nBecause they said so.\n\n_Übermensch_ \\- Nietzsche's idea of a perfect human and how human propagation\ngives meaning. The proxies aren't perfect, but it somewhat alludes to it\nconsidering how obscenely powerful they seem to be and that their mission is\nto perpetuate human society, if I recall correctly.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-12T18:15:30.043", "id": "14409", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-12T18:15:30.043", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "293", "parent_id": "63", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "297", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nHiro Mashima, the author of Fairy Tail, has a really similar drawing style to\nEiichiro Oda, One Piece mangaka.\n\nWe know that some well known mangakas had previously worked as assistants to\nothers (like Hiroyuki Takei and Eiichiro Oda himself, both worked with\nNobuhiro Watsuki), so I was wondering if Hiro Mashima has something in common\nwith Eiichiro Oda, since they had very similar styles at the beginning.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T22:15:56.970", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "64", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-22T03:57:30.183", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-08T20:15:23.517", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "31", "post_type": "question", "score": 18, "tags": [ "one-piece", "mangaka", "fairy-tail" ], "title": "Does Hiro Mashima (Fairy Tail) have something in common with Eiichiro Oda (One Piece)?", "view_count": 17618 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI have read that Oda and Mashima are good friends. However, not only has\nMashima never been Oda's assistant, but he has never been an assistant to\n_any_ mangaka. The resemblance of their artwork is due to something they share\nin common: Toriyama worship and obsession with _Dragon Ball_. More details on\n[this blog\npost](http://web.archive.org/web/20110707081343/http://activeanime.com/delreyblog/?p=129).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-13T06:05:41.390", "id": "297", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-13T06:05:41.390", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "64", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI know that the _Princess Tutu_ anime uses a lot of music and performances\nfrom the ballets _Swan Lake_ and _The Nutcracker_. However, does the anime's\nmain plotline -- of a princess who helps return the prince's heart to him,\nonly to die upon confessing her love -- closely follow either story? If so,\nwhat are the major deviations?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T22:36:35.703", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "67", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-01T21:07:18.900", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "princess-tutu" ], "title": "How closely does Princess Tutu follow Swan Lake and The Nutcracker?", "view_count": 407 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe story is loosely based on this, but it actually revolves more around\nbending the inevitable fate thrown to Ahiru (Tutu) by third side of the story.\nThe storyteller, if you prefer.\n\nThe ending of the anime is not same either, even though it uses the same kind\nof theme. IMHO the ending is most closely following the original story, if you\nlook the big picture.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-18T21:18:52.470", "id": "670", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-15T02:20:42.070", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-15T02:20:42.070", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "204", "parent_id": "67", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI know that _Saiunkoku Monogatari_ is based on a series of light novels. How\nclosely does the anime (both seasons) follow the original series? What are its\nmain points of deviation?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T22:38:54.803", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "68", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-25T17:18:26.977", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-19T21:34:50.920", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": null, "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "saiunkoku-monogatari" ], "title": "How closely does the Saiunkoku Monogatari anime series follow the light novels?", "view_count": 2185 }

[ { "body": "\n\n **Attention! Spoilers!**\n\n> _Are there differences between the novels and the anime?_ \n> In a word, yes. I try to note these in the summaries. In the first season,\n> the differences are relatively minor. Some minor subplots have been\n> eliminated, or switched around, and some scenes added or subtracted. In the\n> second season, although the major events and plotlines remain the same, some\n> of the foreshadowing for later events has been cut. For this reason, I\n> advise you to read the summaries from volume 9-10 on, if you are interested\n> in understanding the post anime events. I have also tried to do translations\n> of scenes that were altered or entirely cut from the anime which change our\n> understanding of the characters and political situation.\n\nSource: <https://saiun.wordpress.com/2007/08/05/frequently-asked-questions-\nabout-saiunkoku/>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-17T14:08:27.603", "id": "2053", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-25T17:18:26.977", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-25T17:18:26.977", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "68", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 9, "body": "\n\nIn my region, people don't know the difference between anime and regular\ncartoons. When they see me watching anime, or they hear about it somehow, they\nsay that I'm watching a regular cartoon and hence I'm being childish.\nSometimes, they even display sarcastic attitudes, so that giving a serious\nlong explanation wouldn't be possible.\n\nWhat effectively explains how an anime is different from a regular cartoon?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T22:39:03.647", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "69", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-30T03:01:16.753", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-14T04:08:00.183", "last_editor_user_id": "107", "owner_user_id": "18", "post_type": "question", "score": 141, "tags": [ "anime-production" ], "title": "What differentiates anime from regular cartoons?", "view_count": 144179 }

[ { "body": "\n\nMy personal argument:\n\nCartoons are _mainly_ produced for _kids_ , with topics about friendship, fun,\nexploration and similar things.\n\nAnime / manga and related media _mainly_ are produced for targets of _all\nages_ (except for Hentai and Ecchi series, of course). They can of course\ncontain the \"kids content\", but there are much more serious ones out there,\ne.g. ones about love, death, conflicts, and wars. They're simply much deeper.\nThe drawing and character art of cartoons is often vastly deformed /\notherworldly to emphasize the disconnect from reality and the fun part of it.\n\nAnother difference is the way characters evolve. In most comics I've read, you\nhave episodic experiences which are, at most, loosely connected, and so\ncharacters don't really evolve / grow up. I'm sure there are counter-examples\nout there, but I think we can agree that the characters are not the focus.\n\nFor most anime and related media, the characters are _much_ deeper. Of course\nyou also have the occasional counter-example here, but the characters get a\nmuch bigger focus.\n\nYou can think of anime / manga / visual novels / light novels as (Western)\nbooks / series / movies with regards to the content, except they're drawn (or\nhave illustrative content) instead of being filmed / purely in written form.\n\n* * *\n\nNote that there are examples of anime that look and feel just like Western\ncartoons (Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, for the \"look\" aspect, at least)\nand the other way around (Avatar - The Last Airbender, Korra).\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T22:46:28.370", "id": "72", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-18T07:55:17.620", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-18T07:55:17.620", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "20", "parent_id": "69", "post_type": "answer", "score": 31 }, { "body": "\n\nAnime and cartoon are both used to identified an animated production, the\nfirst made in Japan, the other ones in the rest of the world...\n\nIf we have to show more detailed difference I'd say:\n\n**Visual characteristics** \nAnime: Distinct facial expressions. Wide variation in physical\ncharacteristics. Physical features of characters are, on the whole, closer to\nreality than cartoons. \nCartoon: Characters usually have features that are not relative to the rest of\nthe body and therefore further from reality than anime.\n\n**Topics/Themes** \nAnime: concentrates mostly on life issues or things tied closer to human\nemotion. \nCartoons: are generally made to make people laugh and so is more comical.\n\n**Definition and Term:** \nAnime: English dictionaries define the word as ‘Japanese style of motion\npicture animation’. \nCartoon: was used as a model or study for a painting but is now associated\nwith caricatures for humor and satire.\n\n[Reference](http://www.diffen.com/difference/Anime_vs_Cartoon)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T22:48:55.477", "id": "73", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-11T22:48:55.477", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "77", "parent_id": "69", "post_type": "answer", "score": 18 }, { "body": "\n\nWe all know Anime is \"Japanese-style cartoons\", and this often makes people\nsay they are both cartoons. Yes they are, but this doesn't mean _there aren't\ndifferences_. Substantial differences.\n\nFirst of all, the **audience**. The main _objective_ difference is that Anime\nare not cartoons for kids, usually.\n\nSome Anime get censored when dubbed in foreign countries and they are rendered\nas quite childish (and this is sometimes really annoying), while the original\nholds some adult references, scenes containing violence and so on. While this\nis not true for all Anime, as some are really aimed to children, some of them\nneed a mature audience.\n\nAlso, the **characters** are treated quite differently. There is more growth\nin Anime characters as it develops for a whole series. For example, _Zabuza_\nin Naruto ends up being quite a likeable character because you go beyond him\nsimply being an antagonist.\n\nBoth Anime and cartoons treat **themes** like _life, death, religion, love,\nbetrayal, ethics, etc_. But cartoons really treat such matters quite\ndifferently. Just think about Disney-style cartoons: do they share anything\nwith Anime in terms of _how_ they treat these topics?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T22:49:07.073", "id": "74", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-19T13:23:03.443", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-19T13:23:03.443", "last_editor_user_id": "15", "owner_user_id": "15", "parent_id": "69", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nThis is a pretty difficult question, but I may have some tips.\n\nWhile _cartoons_ are meant to be watched by _kids_ , anime is meant to be\nwatched by _all ages_ : there is a series for everyone, for every theme, for\nevery age. From little kids, like Doraemon, for young kids like Pokemon, to\nteenagers like shonen series or teen-shojos, to more adult like seinens or\neven hentai. Everyone can enjoy something.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T22:49:10.267", "id": "75", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-11T22:49:10.267", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "31", "parent_id": "69", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nNo matter how you look at it, an anime is a cartoon. The main difference is\nthat an anime is considered a Japanese style of cartoons in the West.\n\nMany English-language dictionaries\n[define](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/anime) anime as \"a Japanese\nstyle of motion-picture animation\" or as \"a style of animation developed in\nJapan.\"\n\nHowever, in Japan, the term \"anime\" does not specify an animation's nation of\norigin or style. Instead, it serves as a blanket term to refer to all forms of\nanimation from around the world (both foreign and domestic). The word \"anime\"\nis loan word referring to \"animation\" or \"cartoons,\" adapted from the English\nword \"animation.\"\n\nTaking this from another perspective, in Japan, Disney movies are referred to\nas \"Disney Anime\", This refers to a certain style, not the genre as a whole.\n\nThe Japanese Wikipedia on \"anime\" [specifically\nnotes](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A1#anime) that:\n\n>\n> アニメーションをアニメと略せる言語は日本語に限られるため、日本国外で「anime」という場合は日本製の表現様式のアニメに対して用いられる。日本国内では、製作国や作風に関わりなくアニメが使用される。\n\nWhile in Japanese, \"animation\" was abbreviated to \"anime,\" Outside of Japan,\nthe word has been used only to refer to media considered \"Japanese animation.\"\nHowever in Japan, the country of origin and literary style (of the media) are\nnot taken into account when applying \"anime\" to it.\n\nWestern cartoons and anime can both vary in drawing styles, based on the\nstaff, budget, and character/set designs. Anime series are typically more\ndetailed than your average western show as there is more of an abundance of\ntechnically skilled artists overseas than there are available in the West.\n\nBoth can reach different age regardless of their initial target audience (\n_Avatar: The Last Airbender_ , _My Little Pony_ , and _Adventure Time_ are\nnotable examples).\n\nTypically western cartoons are more lighthearted when compared to Japanese\nanime. However, both can deal with more mature themes, in both a serious (like\n_Cyber 6_ , _Mighty Max_ , and _Dungeons and Dragons_ ) and humorous light\n(like _Futurama_ , _South Park_ , _The Simpsons_ , and _Family Guy_ ). There\nare western cartoons for mature adults just like there are 18+ anime in Japan.\n\nIf you ask the average person in your country and one in Japan, both will\nconsider them to be childish. The difference between anime and cartoons is\nvery subjective. It typically comes down to what you like and how you like it.\n\n", "comment_count": 8, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T23:00:37.730", "id": "81", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-10T21:00:22.473", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-10T21:00:22.473", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "69", "post_type": "answer", "score": 140 }, { "body": "\n\nThe difference is only subjective, depending on yours and your peers'\nperceptions. Keep in mind that MOST of the anime that is exported from Japan\nis actually aimed at children. (defining 'children' as extending through the\nteenage years)\n\n> When they see me watching anime, or they hear about it somehow, they say\n> that I'm watching a cartoon and hence I'm being childish.\n\nWalt Disney didn't think\n[Fantasia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasia_%28film%29) was for children\neither. Having watched the film several times, I'm inclined to agree. The\npoint is that although they have tended in that direction (with a few notable\nexceptions) in the western world, there is no particular reason to limit\ncartoon themes to kids.\n\n> **Sometimes, they even display sarcastic attitudes, so that giving a serious\n> long explanation wouldn't be possible.** What are the effective ways to\n> explain that anime is different from cartoons in these kind of situations?\n> Are there any clever sentences that will make an impact on people who don't\n> know about anime?\n\nI realize you only included this for context... but if someone is being\nsarcastic, it's not as if any real answer is applicable. This section of the\nquestion is also probably offtopic.\n\n* * *\n\nThe easiest method of convincing someone would probably be making them sit\nthrough a showing of Grave of the Fireflies... although that's not\nparticularly quick or clever.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T23:36:26.760", "id": "101", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-04T07:08:24.477", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-04T07:08:24.477", "last_editor_user_id": "191", "owner_user_id": "71", "parent_id": "69", "post_type": "answer", "score": 25 }, { "body": "\n\nThis question is really usual, especially when you are an anime fan. In my\nsituation, I don't want 'anime' to be called 'cartoons' because they are so\ndifferent for me. The following are the differences I think they have:\n\n * Anime targets a vast audience, from kids to adults, while cartoons \nmainly targets kids, with the exception of course of adults who likes to watch\ncartoons.\n\n * Anime tackles themes for kids, teens and adults and have stories that have depth, while cartoons tackles more themes that are for kids.\n\n * Anime came from Japanese productions, and cartoons came from US productions (or anywhere except Japan).\n\n * You can really tell if what you are watching is an anime or a cartoons by it's visual graphics (if you're an anime fan then, you'll know what I mean). You can notice that the characters from one cartoon show is very different from how cartoon characters in another cartoon show looks like. However in anime, you can notice some similarities on how they look like.\n\nI think the best way for you to explain is to let them watch a very good anime\nand have them watch some cartoons, then tell them, \"Saw the difference?\". Or\njust let them think what they want. I experienced what you experience a lot\nfrom my parents but I just let them say what they want or think what they\nthink. Respectfully ignore them. Just make sure that you don't disrespect them\nas you try to defend anime and that watching anime doesn't affect your\nattitude negatively.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T23:52:29.233", "id": "109", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-11T23:52:29.233", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "69", "post_type": "answer", "score": 20 }, { "body": "\n\nI don't want to get too subjective here, but there are some key aspects that I\ndiscuss with others:\n\n * Art style; there is a distinct difference in how characters in an Anime series are drawn as opposed to Western style series. (Occasionally, you'll get a shout-out to the Anime style, too.)\n\n * Target audience; there are a wide variety of audiences and an even more diverse demographic of consumers of anime than there are of traditional Western cartoons.\n\n * Theming; as much of a culture shock as it may be (which I'll get to in a moment), many Anime have themes that wouldn't make much sense in the Western world, such as 108 for the Buddist number of temptations man will case, 4 for death, white for death, etc.\n\n * Culture differences; there are _quite a few series_ that are tolerated, if not acceptable, in Japan, whereas in the Western world, they'd be censored in some way or not permitted at all, or merit whomever is a fan of it some very dirty looks.\n\nSome of the things that would cause controversy or be seen as \"unacceptable\"\nin Western animation would be homosexual relationships (yaoi/yuri), large age\ngap relationships, lolicon/shotacon (which is strangely _legal_ but heavily\nfrowned upon), and incest.\n\n**Western animation wouldn't touch _that_ with a one-hundred foot pole.**\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-14T07:32:09.317", "id": "406", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-14T07:32:09.317", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "102", "parent_id": "69", "post_type": "answer", "score": 16 }, { "body": "\n\nFirstly, anime in English tends to refer to Japanese content. However, as\nnoted in [this answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/81/2604), \"anime\" in\nJapanese just refers to _any_ animated content. That said, it's fine to have\nthis discrepancy -- similar things have cropped up in other English loanwords.\n(For instance \"Lied\" or its plural \"Lieder\" refer to 19th to 20th century\nstyled German language art songs when the words are used _in English_ , but in\nGerman, [\"Lieder\"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lied#History) seems to\nsometimes take on a more general sense.) **So in this sense, at the very\nleast, _in English_ , not all cartoons are anime, because not all cartoons are\nJapanese.** (Certainly it would be ridiculous for me to go around claiming\nthat _Spongebob Squarepants_ is anime to an English speaker.)\n\nIt is still unclear whether \"anime\" is simply a subset of \"cartoons\". The main\nproblem, which other answers have touched on, appears to be that in English,\n\"cartoon\" often suggests something intended for young children, which does not\ncover the content of a lot of anime. Certainly things like _Serial Experiments\nLain_ or the _Fate_ series are, by this connotation, not really \"cartoons\".\n\nHowever, even shows animated outside of Japan are sometimes denoted as\n\"cartoons\", even when their content or art style doesn't really fall into the\nareas of the average person's idea of a \"cartoon\". For instance, a\n[search](https://www.google.com/search?q=waltz%20with%20bashir%20cartoon&oq=waltz%20with%20bashir%20cartoon&aqs=chrome..69i57.3027j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#q=waltz%20with%20bashir%20%22cartoon%22)\nfor `waltz with bashir \"cartoon\"` suggests that at least a few writers in\nlarge newspapers ([1](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/movies/26bash.html),\n[2](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/war-death-and-\nanimation-cartoon-film-stirs-israels-conscience-1021732.html)) described the\nanimated film [_Waltz with\nBashir_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltz_with_Bashir) as a cartoon, and\nboth its subject matter (the 1982 Lebanon War) and [its\nstyle](https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=663&q=waltz%20with%20bashir&oq=waltz%20with&gs_l=img.3.0.0l10.112.1774.0.2505.10.8.0.2.2.0.116.635.7j1.8.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..0.10.654.qmuUDfV8Fy8)\nhardly resemble the likes of the average cartoon, both in content and style.\n(Compare to [_Arthur_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_\\(TV_series\\)) or\n[_South Park_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park).)\n\nThe same goes for\n[_Archer_](https://www.google.com/search?q=archer&oq=archer&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.839j0j4&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#q=archer%20%22cartoon%22),\nwhich is, at least in the English-speaking world, markedly more famous than\n_Waltz with Bashir_. I have not seen _Archer_ , but\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer_\\(TV_series\\)) suggests that\nit is hardly more appropriate for children than _Waltz with Bashir_.\n\n**So insofar as usage _in English_ goes, either:**\n\n * **Anime _is_ different from \"regular cartoons\", but _only insofar as \"regular cartoons\" consists of children's shows_ and also fail to cover other animated content like _Waltz with Bashir_.** Anything outside of regular cartoon-appropriate content is best either described with a different classification if this gives more information about the content (e.g. \"anime\") or a broader one (e.g. \"animated content\").\n\n * **Anime _is not_ different from \"regular cartoons\", because \"cartoon\" covers anything at all animated.**\n\nIn either sense, \"anime\" is really only about the fact that something was\nanimated (and marketed towards the Japanese).\n\nI am inclined to prefer the first view in terms of how I _personally_ use the\nword \"cartoon\" (so describe _Doraemon_ and [_Chibi Maruko-\nchan_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chibi_Maruko-chan) but not _Fate/zero_ as\n\"cartoons\") because of the connotations of \"cartoon\". However, I would\nconsider the second to still be acceptable (in the sense that I won't get\nupset about that view being taken) because it's obvious that people also use\n\"cartoon\" similarly \"inappropriately\" on other more adult-oriented shows that\n_are not_ from Japan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-18T02:47:47.373", "id": "22540", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-30T03:01:16.753", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "69", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "3052", "answer_count": 5, "body": "\n\nAt his current state, how could Madara possibly be defeated?\n\nAny physical attack/Taijutsu would be easily deflected by either:\n\n * The Susano'o \n * The Gunbai (war fan, which proved to easily negate a Bijuudama) \n * Shinra Tensei (which wasn't seen yet, but we have to assume he's capable of it).\n\n> And I'm not even starting to talk about the Rikudo mode.\n\nAny non-physical attack would be easily absorbed by the Preta Rinnegan path.\nThere aren't ~~m~~ any ultra-powerful genjutsu ninja who can hope to trap him\nin a genjutsu for more than 2 seconds. And in the offshoot that something does\nhurt him, he'd just regenerate. He's a zombie.\n\n* * *\n\nWhat weakness does Madara have that could be exploited to harm him? They'd\nhave to damage him badly to hope for a seal.\n\n", "comment_count": 9, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T22:51:49.787", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "76", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-04T07:31:28.820", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-30T13:53:25.823", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "27", "post_type": "question", "score": 13, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "What are Madara Uchiha's weaknesses?", "view_count": 6575 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThey mentioned in the latest chapter that Madara is vulnerable to Taijutsu.\nAlso, as grasshopper said, his overconfidence causes him to drop your guard\nwhen dealing with those he thinks are not able to harm him.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T23:02:40.570", "id": "84", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-24T20:14:22.747", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-24T20:14:22.747", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "22", "parent_id": "76", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\n> Currently the only combatants I could see do lasting damage to Madara would\n> be the recently resurrected Hokages. Currently Madara has the following:\n> full control of Hashirama´s cells, Rinnegan, an invulnerable body and an\n> infinite supply of chakra (courtesy of the Edo Tensei), the Eternal Mangekyo\n> Sharingan and the most powerful Katon of all time. Kishimoto has outright\n> said that he has no real weakness. The closest thing to a weakness he may\n> have is Taijutsu, but since it does no lasting damage it´s frankly as\n> useless as everything else one could use against him. Only an intervention\n> from the 1st-4th Hokage could possibly defeat him right now, as he is a\n> cocktail of the 3rd strongest person of all time and all the overpowered\n> abilities in the series.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-14T14:53:46.470", "id": "2480", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-04T07:31:28.820", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-04T07:31:28.820", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "1446", "parent_id": "76", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nIt does not seem like any of Madara's new abilities have a counter to sound\ngenjutsu, especially when boosted by Senjutsu / Sage mode. While sound\ngenjutsu and Senjutsu are both very rare, the manga has shown two examples of\ndifferent techniques of that type being effective against techniques that\nMadara has recently gained.\n\nThe two Sage Toads' sound genjutsu is effective against the Rinnegan. When\nJiraiya had them use it in his battle with Pain, it was able to easily\novercome 3 paths of Pain.\n\n> When Kabuto in Snake Sage mode used Tayuya's flute sound genjutsu, he was\n> able to immobilize both Sasuke and more notably, a Susanoo-wielding Edo\n> Tensei Itachi. The pair were only able to escape by using Sharingan genjutsu\n> on each other.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-26T21:37:43.453", "id": "3052", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-26T22:41:40.360", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-26T22:41:40.360", "last_editor_user_id": "1434", "owner_user_id": "1434", "parent_id": "76", "post_type": "answer", "score": 27 }, { "body": "\n\nChapters 622 and 623 hint at a possible weakness of Madara Uchiha.\n\nIn Chapter 622, it has been shown that Madara has issues with [being too aware\nof his surroundings, and being easily distracted or have an inability to focus\nproperly](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wjgyn.png). He also has [issues with\npride](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fwcJz.png), that he carried on until his\nadulthood.\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qbIuP.png)\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fwcJz.png)\n\nIn Chapter 623, the same possible weaknesses has been shown. [He even claimed\nthat he didn't have any weaknesses](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GuxX0.png).\n[[1]](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GuxX0.png)\n[[2]](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6hhrB.png).\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qQCsy.png)\n\nCredits: All images are from [Mangastream](http://mangastream.com/)'s\nscanlations.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-27T10:04:36.047", "id": "3061", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-13T01:40:16.690", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-13T01:40:16.690", "last_editor_user_id": "310", "owner_user_id": "310", "parent_id": "76", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nI know this is not an answer (but couldn't stop writing this), but seeing the\nquestion and recent chapter I believe Madara's weakness is:\n\n> Talk No Jutsu .... [**For your\n> reference**](http://konohalibrary.wikia.com/wiki/Talk_No_Jutsu)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-24T07:05:57.387", "id": "7662", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-11T09:52:42.750", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-11T09:52:42.750", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "3343", "parent_id": "76", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 6, "body": "\n\n_Detective Conan_ is a notoriously long-running series -- it's been running\nfor like fifteen years, and hundreds of cases have been solved. Conan has made\nfriends, received upgraded technology over time (cell phones!), and has\ngenerally \"kept up\" with its audience.\n\nYet, logically, time in-universe _must_ have passed, and Shinichi's continued\nabsence should be more notable than it is if he's been gone for more than a\nyear.\n\nHow much time has passed, currently, in the _Meitantei Conan_ universe?\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T22:52:03.777", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "77", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-07T01:11:22.253", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-28T08:47:28.080", "last_editor_user_id": "93", "owner_user_id": null, "post_type": "question", "score": 21, "tags": [ "detective-conan" ], "title": "How much time has passed in-universe in Detective Conan?", "view_count": 46386 }

[ { "body": "\n\nTechnically the story plays out in real time, but realistically it is at the\nwhim of the author.\n\nAssuming the cases appear in chronological order. You'll notice that none of\nthe characters ever age or even graduate. There are many discrepancies the\nEisuke/Kir Arc alone has some serious and problematic time discrepancies. It\nstarts with the Nail and Snake Arc which took place a week or so after New\nYears and then continues to some cases later in the Clash of Red and Black arc\nwhich climaxing in a _certain_ person's death. Eisuke vanished around 18th to\n19th of December... so chronologically speaking a year should have passed...\nbut did it? Ask Gosho Aoyama.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T23:12:46.577", "id": "89", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-12T04:55:04.000", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-12T04:55:04.000", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "77", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nI don't believe a whole year has passed, there have been several plot holes in\nthe midst of it though. A good example would be using Holidays as a way to\ntrack time. The \"first\" actual Valentine episode was actually TV-only (Episode\n6), yet there is another Valentine case (Episode 266-268, Volume 33 files\n3-6). The Holiday that comes after it is White Day, which takes place March\n14th, one month after Valentine's Day, and they make references to the past\nValentine's Day as an excuse to give back gifts to the women of the show.\nHowever, the episode/volume that takes place during White Day is episode\n608-609 and volume 69 files 7-9. That's over 500 episodes and 36 volumes for\none month to pass in their time.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-12T01:48:16.303", "id": "127", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-12T04:51:04.630", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-12T04:51:04.630", "last_editor_user_id": "25", "owner_user_id": "25", "parent_id": "77", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nMy first theory is, in order to make sense of the Detective Conan universe,\nthe stories must overlap! So the only thing that's in order is the first\nepisode. From there, we have probably 5 cases going on at a time, and when he\nsolves one he goes on to another. Every day he has a case to solve, whether\nit's one from weeks before or not.\n\nMy second theory is that even if we say each episode represented a day, which\nit doesn't, at least a year would have passed based on the number of episodes,\nand Ayumi and the rest shouldn't be in grade 1 anymore. As a result, the only\nlogical explanation is time overlaps!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-04T03:04:29.507", "id": "3666", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-04T05:36:50.243", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-04T05:36:50.243", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "1735", "parent_id": "77", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nAlthough time has passed in the sense that the technology and other aspects of\nthe setting that are not directly related to the story have progressed, very\nlittle time has passed in the main story. Occasionally, they will make\nreferences to it having been months since a previous case or other reference\npoint, but these do not seem to line up much, if at all, and generally they\nare intended to indicate a time period for the individual case or arc, so that\nelements such as Ran's waiting for Shinichi seems to have actually been over a\nperiod of time. These indications, for obvious reasons, cannot always\ncoincide, and so it would seem that the author decided long ago to make the\nstory timeless. If you want a clear answer of the main plotline, so far it has\nbeen only for a few months, while the numerous side cases do not fit into this\nframework.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-08T23:25:13.343", "id": "11165", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-08T23:25:13.343", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6167", "parent_id": "77", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI would say that you have to look only at cases that are canon. And by that I\ndon't mean the ones that are in the manga.\n\nI mean canon as in something in the story line moves along and it's not just a\n'guess who did it'-case.\n\nThere are only in about maybe 300 canon eps where the storyline is moved along\nin 750-ish anime eps. And stuff like 'The Clash of Red and Black', 'Homles\nRevalation' and 'Jet Black Mystery Train' are many eps long but they are only\nover the span of 1-3 days each time. Plus many cases are 2-4 eps but happen in\na day or just overnight.\n\nThere are times where the characters will say it's been this long or that long\nbut they are few and far in bewteen.\n\nI would say that only about 6-ish months have passed since the start of\nDetective Conan.\n\nThe fact that tech in the show changes and the seasons change is simply\nbecause Aoyama-sensei the anime staff have been writing the show in real life\nfor many years.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-01T21:38:14.777", "id": "11594", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-01T21:38:14.777", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6452", "parent_id": "77", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIn episode 521, one of the canon episodes, the gang goes to some town to\ninvestigate a report that Shinichi solved a case wrong. That case happened \"a\nyear ago\" while Shinichi was still teen-sized. Hundreds of episodes have\npassed since then, but that gives you a floor for the time.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-17T16:13:03.827", "id": "16816", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-17T16:55:28.500", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-17T16:55:28.500", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "77", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 4, "body": "\n\nIf the various \"superpower\" ninja traits are considered \"blood traits,\" how is\nit someone like Kakashi, who is in no way related to the Uchiha clan, can use\nthe Sharingan Eye technique?\n\nMore fully: would transplanting work on _any_ bloodline trait power? If\nsomeone had a bloodline trait that worked on arms, could they just transplant\ntheir arm onto another person and then there would be two people with that\ntechnique?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T23:07:22.197", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "85", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-12T13:27:22.213", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "post_type": "question", "score": 13, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "How is it that a Sharingan can work when it's been transplanted?", "view_count": 4365 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm not sure about other bloodline jutsu, but the Sharingan's power lies\nwithin the eye. So whoever controls a Sharingan eye gains its powers.\n\nIt may be possible to gain other bloodine jutsu, but to determine where the\nactual jutsu is located within their body or even the chakra system is still\nspeculation. For now, we know that those jutsu that comes from eyes, Sharingan\nand Rinnegan are up for grabs, not sure about others though.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T23:12:05.167", "id": "88", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-12T12:47:11.007", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-12T12:47:11.007", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "28", "parent_id": "85", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nLet's disregard the fact that eyes in Naruto are considered less difficult to\nwork with than PnP displays. (Rin did it in a cave, without any medical\nsupplies, in a couple of seconds, and it just _worked_ )\n\nYour eyes contain your DNA, so our (the Uchiha) eyes contain the already\nawakened Sharingan, it's written into the DNA.\n\nIt also has the genetic information allowing you to activate the techniques\nthe eye holds (including Mangekyo).\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T23:14:37.643", "id": "91", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-11T23:14:37.643", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "85", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Sharingan being transplanted will work, as you've noticed with Kakashi.\nHowever it won't be as effective.\n\nSharingan original users, the Uchiha clan, can use the techniques with ease,\nbut Kakashi needs to rest more often. This is due to the fact that since he's\nnot an Uchiha member, these techniques will use up his chakra much faster.\n\nKakashi has it all covered, except in battles, because he cannot deactivate it\nand it would, like I said above, consume his chakra in vain.\n\nHe's not the only one that does a transplant. Also,\n\n> Danzo, Tobi transplants the Rinnegan and steals it and Sasuke receives new\n> eyes.\n\nI suspect the same would happen for other transplants but I have no examples\noff the top of my head.\n\n", "comment_count": 13, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T23:15:41.743", "id": "92", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-11T23:15:41.743", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15", "parent_id": "85", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nA non-Uchiha cannot advance their Sharingan. As seen with Danzo and Kakashi.\nThe only reason Kakashi had a Mangekyo Sharingan is because Obito saw Rin die.\n\nThis is explained by Tobirama when he tells about the Uchiha's brain, how\ntheir pain and hate change their brain physiology and functioning, allowing\nthem to turn that pain into the Sharingan. As their pain and hate grow, so\ndoes their power.\n\nIf a brain isn't an Uchiha brain, and thus does not have this special area of\nthe brain, then they will not:\n\nA.) Naturally gain a Sharingan\n\nB.) Awaken the different stages of the Sharingan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-12T12:54:56.710", "id": "21511", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-12T13:27:22.213", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-12T13:27:22.213", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "14409", "parent_id": "85", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 6, "body": "\n\nMost ninjas probably don't live very long by the nature of their work. They\ndie on missions, in wars, in raids, while being ambushed by other ninjas,\nduring testing, etc.\n\nHowever, the handful of ninjas we have seen (e.g. The Third Hokage, as well as\nTsunade and Jiraiya) who've lived past the usual lifespan seem to be of very\nadvanced age.\n\nDo ninjas have a longer natural lifespan that is simply cut short by the\nnature of their work?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T23:11:08.920", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "86", "last_activity_date": "2020-05-13T00:39:53.150", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-17T08:59:38.163", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": null, "post_type": "question", "score": 12, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Do ninjas have extended lifespans?", "view_count": 3544 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAs far as I know they all had lifespans that you'd judge as normal.\n\n * The Third Hokage, Sarutobi, was let's say around 30 when he was training Orochimaru, Tsunade and Jiraiya. He died at 68-69 years old, that's a reasonable lifespan. \n * Tsunade uses a special Jutsu that preserves her in a younger state, but she is as old as Jiraya. \n\n> Jiraya died younger than Sarutobi, around 54. His hair is not a proof of his\n> age, since it was white even when he was a kid.\n\nOn Tobi/Madara I won't say anything, since it's a yet-to-be-fully-revealed\ncharacter and wrong information might be given at this point.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T23:26:33.040", "id": "97", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-13T07:20:48.527", "last_edit_date": "2012-12-13T07:20:48.527", "last_editor_user_id": "15", "owner_user_id": "15", "parent_id": "86", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nNot really, no.\n\nThe oldest (probably) Shinobi alive was Madara Uchiha, and even that because\nhe awakened the Rinnegan, summoned the Gedo Mazo, and leeched on it for life-\nforce.\n\nWithout it, he would probably have died at 80-90, which is a reasonable\nlifespan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T23:28:32.973", "id": "98", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-15T10:04:45.197", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-15T10:04:45.197", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "86", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\n> The Third Hokage, as well as Tsunade and Jiraiya\n\nSarutobi Hiruzen was 69 old. When he died (following _NARUTO Hiden: Tō no Sho_\n), Tsunade has a special jutsu (as already mentioned).\n\n> Jiraiya died at age ~53, being 50 at his first appearance (plus the\n> training-time with Naruto (1.5 years, if I'm not mistaken, plus some story,\n> I think 53 would be right)).\n\nThe only one who had a very long life was...\n\n> ...Uchiha Madara who had the Rinnegan and attached himself to the Gedō Mazō,\n> with which he had a longer lifetime.\n\nAlso, Kakuzu had a long life, but just because he had the ability to swap\nhearts.\n\nAll in all, you could say, that with special jutsus, ninjas live longer, but\nother than that, they're normal people.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-12T12:58:41.537", "id": "198", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-17T09:01:33.220", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-17T09:01:33.220", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "86", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nSome ninja families do have extended lifespans like the Senju and their sub\nbranches like Uzumaki and Hyuuga.\n\nMost ninjas have average lifespans which seems long as it is rather\ncommendable for any of them to be able to survive that long. Also, this is\ncomplimented by the point that in surviving for this long, they manage to\ngather many accomplishments.\n\nGenerally, a old seeming ninja has just matured from all they have been\nthrough.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-11-20T17:12:43.543", "id": "27460", "last_activity_date": "2015-11-20T17:12:43.543", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19200", "parent_id": "86", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe anime and manga make it quite clear that normally ninja live only for the\nsame lifespan as all normal people do. There are exceptions though to this.\n\n * Having extremely high/dense chakra. The most notable here are the uzumakis who are renowned for this. Although the Senju are related to them I don't remember reading about Senju who grew older or had a dense chakra. The Uzumaki are the only clan mentioned that had this ability and a longer lifespan.\n * Cheating. The best example here is Orochimaru. He cheated death by taking on new bodies time and time and time again. Another one being the Akatsuki guy who stole hearts of his oponents.\n * One additional possibility is the faith of Jashin. The followers of that cult can gain immortality. Although it is not stated if this merely means undying by force or also undying by old age. Thus I count this only as a possibility.\n\nAside from these examples (and a quite old Madara Uchiha where it is never\nnoted if that was still a normal lifespan or an extended one) there are no\nninja who life beyond the natural lifespan.\n\nAs a note to add to the first point: Of note are here the sage of the 6 pathes\nwho lived VERY long, the tailed beasts themselves (effectively immortal) and\nthe mother of the sage of 6 pathes (his two sons I don't count as they were\nmore or less ghostlike from the descriptions and it is not known if they would\nhave lived longer than natural normally).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-11-22T08:26:45.257", "id": "27509", "last_activity_date": "2015-11-22T08:26:45.257", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13246", "parent_id": "86", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nMost ninjas don not live very long.\n\nEven the handful of ninjas we have seen (The Third Hokage, as well as Tsunade\nand Jiraiya) who've lived past the usual lifespan do not seem that old.\nBetween 50 and 70.\n\nDo ninjas have a longer natural lifespan that is simply cut short by the\nnature of their work? No, (For anyone born in 2017, average life expectancy is\n72.2 years and highest theoretical life is 104 years{one woman reached 122\nyears a man 116 years})\n\nInstead, shinobi seem to age faster than normal people and die younger as\nwell. this is most likely due to healing chakra speeding up cell division to\nheal wounds. The more they use healing chakra the faster they age the sooner\nthey die. The answer is a simple \"No\" except for special cases like Uzumaki\nwith amazing yang and chakra or natural energies like the animal sages who\nhave lives thousands of years ninjas do not have an extended lifespan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-05-13T00:39:53.150", "id": "57538", "last_activity_date": "2020-05-13T00:39:53.150", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "53300", "parent_id": "86", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "3209", "answer_count": 4, "body": "\n\nIn Full Metal Alchemist, who is the character (or the concept really) of\n**Truth**? What does he symbolize? What is his purpose?\n\nFrom what I guess, he's some sort of your inner God, because he seems to know\nyou better than you do yourself. He knows the best way to punish you, the way\nthat would hurt you the most. He must be tied with alchemy and alchemical\nknowledge, but _what_ is he?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T23:11:11.837", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "87", "last_activity_date": "2022-06-23T22:06:22.463", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "post_type": "question", "score": 26, "tags": [ "fullmetal-alchemist-series" ], "title": "Who the hell is Truth?", "view_count": 16116 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is you and it is the Universe. It is everything.\n\nWhen the Elric brothers train in the island, they realize the connection\nbetween the 'one' and the 'all'. They understand that everything is connected.\nI think that what they understand is **Truth** itself. They understand\nsomething that is in them and around them.\n\nSo basically, I don't think that **Truth** is a God (at least in the usual\nsense), but rather a sort of _law_ that runs everything. It is in you and\neverywhere around you. However, it materializes itself as a humanoid form in\nyour subconscious or whatever place that is where the gates are.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T23:21:08.380", "id": "94", "last_activity_date": "2021-07-12T08:34:46.467", "last_edit_date": "2021-07-12T08:34:46.467", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "87", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nTruth himself (itself?) states,\n\n> Who am I? One name you might have for me is the world, or you might call me\n> the universe, or perhaps God, or perhaps the Truth. I am All, and I am One.\n> So, of course, this also means that I am you. I am the truth of your\n> despair, the inescapable price of your boastfulness.\n\nTruth is a being that has no physical form, and a being that regulates all\nalchemical exchanges that take place. He essentially exists in order to\nprevent humans from \"playing God\" with alchemy; when human transmutation is\nperformed, for example, Truth intervenes as it is seen as an unfair\n(inequivalent) exchange.\n\nIn these ways, Truth is somewhat symbolic of God. It has also been compared to\ngods in other mythos, such as Hera, a Greek goddess who was known to\nvengefully challenge heroes.\n\n> Hera was known for her jealous and vengeful nature, most notably against\n> Zeus's lovers and offspring, but also against mortals who crossed her, such\n> as Pelias.\n>\n> — [Hera, Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hera)\n\nHowever, it is important to realize that\n**[Truth](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Truth) is _not_\n[God](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Eye_of_God)**. While it is certain that they\nare linked in some way, God is the entity that lies within the domain of the\nGate (the eye and mass of black hands that restrain his \"victims\").\n\n \n( _The Gate, Truth sitting in front, and God within it.\nSource:[Wikia](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/File:Gate.png)_)\n\nWhen an alchemist pays the toll and is forced through the Gate by Truth (and\nby God), they are shown all knowledge about alchemy. Their minds can only\nabsorb so much, but enough is clear that they are able to perform their\nalchemy without requiring a transmutation circle.\n\nSo, what _exactly_ is Truth? He is a vengeful, godlike being, who is linked to\nGod, and governs all alchemical exchanges performed by alchemists. He has no\nphysical form and exists only metaphysically within the mind of each\nalchemist.\n\n", "comment_count": 11, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-02T16:46:01.833", "id": "3209", "last_activity_date": "2021-08-07T01:03:30.467", "last_edit_date": "2021-08-07T01:03:30.467", "last_editor_user_id": "49915", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "87", "post_type": "answer", "score": 21 }, { "body": "\n\nIt doesn't make a whole lot of sense because it is, in essence, a deus ex\nmachina. It borrows from the concept of Dao, but by giving the thing the\nability to communicate it elevates it into godhood, but then it is very\nuseless at being a god, so all that remains is a deus ex machina there to tie\nup the loose ends without bothering to explain anything.\n\nLeaving people wondering what the hell this character is supposed to be is by\ndesign. And there is no answer, since it's just a plot device to finish the\nstory.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-07-12T22:09:54.693", "id": "64198", "last_activity_date": "2021-07-12T22:09:54.693", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22562", "parent_id": "87", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\n## I think to understand this we have to grasp the concept of the world of\nFullmetal Alchemist itself. Here's my take:\n\nIf we look inside ourselves and ask who we truly are, we'll soon realize that\nwe can't answer that question. If our answer is \"all interdependent parts of\nmy body\", we're still left with the question of who \"you\" in \"your body\" is.\nWe might argue it's our consciousness, but the same question still applies.\nThe answer is, it's not found only within us. We're not cut off from the\noutside world we move in, we're a part of it. Just like our organs are part of\nus. We need air around us to breathe, we eat other living organisms to sustain\nourselves and eventually sustain other organisms with ours after we die.\n\n[That's what the Elric Brothers discover on the\nisland.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1PShCL4cjQ) Everything we think we\nare is an effect of evolution in form of a single organism inside a much\ngreater, bigger organism. This organism, in turn, is also part of a bigger\norganism and so on. Our body, our society, the food chain, our planet, our\ngalaxy... On the highest level, there is only one, which is all.\n\n> **\" All is the world, one is me. One is all and all is one.\"**\n\nWe perceive ourselves as individuals but are ultimately made of a single,\ngreat everything, sometimes called the world or the universe, or god, or one,\nor all, or truth.\n\n* * *\n\nNow, if we break down this single everything back into its first components we\nare left with 2 forces, orientations, flows of the world, ways of behavior, or\nwhatever you want to call them. This was also the research of Scar's brother.\nThere are infinite words to describe these two fundamental opposites:\n\n 1. the good, the active, the living, the positive, the evolving, the creating, the growing, the forward-moving, the known, truth, order, god, humans...\n 2. the bad, the passive, the dead, the negative, the regressing, the destroying, the killing, the backward moving, the unknown, deception, chaos, humans, god...\n\n* * *\n\nGood is not \"good\", bad is not \"bad\". They just are, as a part of everything\nand are opposites that need and birth each other. The default state of things\nis that they fall apart. It's also the default state that they're being put\ntogether by the living though, that's us. There has to be both for either to\noccur. Because there is a set amount of energy. You cannot create something\nout of nothing, you have to pay an equal price.\n\nTo influence this flow of fundamental substances is what the anime calls\nAlchemy. There's Amestrian (inorganically oriented) and Xingese (organically\noriented) Alchemy. That which allows Alchemists to perform the transmutation\nis the Gate of Truth. Its existence is the fantasy element about Fullmetal-\nAlchemist. It allows individuals to transmute matter by studying its behavior\nand creating a formula for it, a transmutation circle.\n\n* * *\n\n## What's inside the gate?\n\nMy guess is that inside the gate there's the incarnation of the second\nopposite: death, chaos, the opposite of what the living experience, the souls\nof the dead. The original Fullmetal Alchemist confirms this by stating that\n[the energy used for transmutation is taken from the tragedies of this\nworld](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11nXBQ8CuxU) (likely referring to souls\nthat left their bodies after death).\n\n * Firstly this would explain why witnessing it gives you the ability to transmute without a transmutation circle that contains the matter's energy cycle. You have witnessed, integrated, and become a part of the cycle itself. As Edward says, he became something like a transmutation circle himself post-truth.\n\nAs a side note, Rose mentions, clapping your hands together is similar to\npraying to god. The concept of praying is to ask god (the world) for\nsomething, just like Alchemists \"ask\" the world to provide the energy for and\nexecute transmutation. Praying and Alchemy follow the same concept,\nAlchemy/Science is just more empirical.\n\n * Secondly, this would underline the great overarching story writing in Fullmetal Alchemist.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uPoet.jpg)\n\nWe know that [the dwarf in the flask came from the other side of the\ngate](https://youtu.be/9wLJAYBY4tU?t=105). That would mean he's an incarnation\nof chaos within order, of literal evil. He's the ultimate antagonist. All\ncharacters get the opportunity to unite and fight one ultimate evil and grow\nalong the way without it getting forced or with the need for a new antagonist\nafter each chapter. It's one concluded story that conveys its ideas clearly.\n\n[The moral of Fullmetal Alchemist is that we don't need the gate. There's no\nneed to be supernaturally gifted or perform alchemy. There's no need to become\nperfect or play god's duties. We should experience life and learn what it's\nabout instead of trying to go beyond it. Because that's the insurmountably\nscarce gift that was bestowed upon us. We're human. No more, no\nless.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiDqtDUxahc)\n\n* * *\n\n## Why is human transmutation forbidden?\n\nIn the first place, human transmutation fails. That is because there's more to\na human than their physical substance. There's their soul. Their\nconsciousness. The experiences that shaped them. Consciousness and who a\nperson is is something shaped during life experiences. You cannot transmute a\nsoul or a person's experiences. The world just doesn't work that way. It only\nmoves forward.\n\n**Transmuting a human is the biggest taboo because it goes against the very\nlogic of the world and the natural flow of everything.**\n\nIn the space of truth, after attempting the transmutation of his mother,\nEdward says his calculations for human transmutation weren't wrong, they just\ndidn't go far enough. What he might have realized is that you'd have to pull\nthe extinguished soul from the other side as well.\n\nThat is what the dwarf in the flask is. It is unknown how he has been\nextracted apart from the use of Slave #23's blood and Alchemy. We do know\nthough that he needed a body to walk in the world. The dots of Hohenheim's\nmaster transmuting life into death in the form of blood for an extinguished\nsoul could connect here. If this would be the case, the life -> death\ntransmutation direction of the cycle isn't forbidden because it follows the\nnatural flow of things.\n\n* * *\n\n## The lie of balance\n\nAt the conclusion of the story, the Homunculus gets punished by the truth. He\nasks the truth\n\n> \"what's wrong with seeking perfection?!\"\n\nWhat he didn't understand in trying to become the perfect human by cutting off\nhis sins is that perfection doesn't exist. Perfect balance equals nothingness.\n..If you try to reach the truth on your own accord, you get irony. Trying to\nbalance for yourself unbalances another part of you. It's just not your job.\nPerfection is moving forward as your imperfect self and letting the world\nbalance you.\n\nVan Hoenheim says during the trial with his master [\"if all is not included in\nthe one then one is nothing\"](https://youtu.be/xuaQNnuEDcA?t=222). Everything\nmust always exist. The meaning of life isn't to achieve balance. Neither is it\nto push an extreme. It's the process of balancing and unbalancing ourselves\nwithin the one just as much as it can handle so it gets thrown back at us with\nthe same intensity. Life balances itself out, always. Extremes breed opposite\nextremes. Balance breeds nothingness. The one that balances is the inescapable\ntruth, the felt reality.\n\nA real-life example would be:\n\n> Relationships likely become boring without some unbalancing playfulness or\n> complementary traits. They also fall apart if the partners are too\n> different.\n\nThis concept of \"not too much, not too little\" works in all areas:\n\n> How to learn. How to work. How to do sport. How we dress. How we raise our\n> pets. How we have a conversation. How we treat our friends. How we treat our\n> enemies. How we treat strangers. How we treat our planet. How we live.\n\nWe're all one part of the same energy and should treat others like they're us.\nBecause they are. The dwarf in the flask, Homunculus, wanted to split himself\nfrom the unity that is everything but simultaneously become everything too. He\nput himself before everyone, not realizing that he is one complement with\nthem. For this hypocrisy, he was forced to return to his origin.\n\n* * *\n\n## A note on religion\n\nOrienting ourselves towards the good, towards life, is what we, as living\nbeings, are made for and what brings us happiness and keeps unnecessary\nsuffering away. Everyone already subconsciously believes that. It's what our\nparents and experiences taught us. If we didn't learn to orient ourselves\ntowards life, we'd not be reading this. Because there are too many things in\nlife to consider though, religion, in theory, provides a simplified frame of\nreference to stay oriented towards the good, towards living.\n\nThis also explains the conflict between certain teachings of religion and\nscience. As science is able to more precisely explain the world, the unknown\nor god, the need for a deity fades. Both religion and empirical science are\nultimately an attempt to explain and simplify the same world to guide its\nbelievers towards the good, towards life. If religious (or even scientific\nleaders) become corrupted, they cling to and exist for power and control,\ndriving unity towards the bad. This is illustrated with Father Cornello.\n\n* * *\n\n## So, who is Truth?\n\nWith all these presuppositions in place, we can finally say who the truth is.\nIt is the watcher, judge, and incarnation of everything. One name you might\nhave for it is the World, or you might call it the Universe, or perhaps God,\nor perhaps the Truth. It is all and it is one, so of course, this also means\nthat it is you.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-07-13T08:40:54.230", "id": "64201", "last_activity_date": "2022-06-23T22:06:22.463", "last_edit_date": "2022-06-23T22:06:22.463", "last_editor_user_id": "61543", "owner_user_id": "61543", "parent_id": "87", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nAt the end of the anime _Aim for the Top! Gunbuster_ , Takaya Noriko and Amano\nKazumi must travel at sub-FTL speeds (that is, at speeds slower than faster-\nthan-light) to reach from the epicenter of battle to Earth.\n\nWhat is the ratio of their time dilation? That is, how long has it been for\nNoriko and Kazumi versus how long has it been on Earth?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T23:13:59.470", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "90", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-11T00:20:33.663", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "post_type": "question", "score": 4, "tags": [ "gunbuster" ], "title": "What is the time dilation ratio that Noriko and Kazumi experience?", "view_count": 1458 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe center of the galaxy is about 8,000 parsecs away from Earth. The Gunbuster\nwas heavily damaged while completing its mission, but was able to escape the\nblack hole. However, they had to have spent at least 33 days at sub-light\nspeed trying to outrun the blast while also trying to long distance warp back\nto Earth after finding suitable ethereal space for warp.\n\nSo 12,000 Earth years have passed. For Noriko and Kazumi only 33 days and a\nfew hours had passed.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T23:48:55.797", "id": "108", "last_activity_date": "2012-12-11T23:48:55.797", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "90", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\n_Gunbuster_ is one of my favorite series, and I remember learning of a sequel\nseries called _Diebuster_ , or _Gunbuster 2_.\n\nWhat is the relationship between the two shows? Does _Diebuster_ 's story\nrelate to _Gunbuster_ 's in some way? Do any characters cross over both shows?\nDoes _Diebuster_ refer to the events of _Gunbuster_ in any way?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T23:18:46.160", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "93", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-08T11:37:39.600", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-08T02:11:25.170", "last_editor_user_id": "16253", "owner_user_id": null, "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "gunbuster", "diebuster" ], "title": "What is the relationship between the Gunbuster and Diebuster series?", "view_count": 4237 }

[ { "body": "\n\nGunbuster was originally released as a six episode OVA in 1988. It's sequel,\nDiebuster, was also originally released as a six episode OVA 18 years later.\nTypically sequels are released around the time of the original so it's fresh\nin the minds of people. Without giving too much away the stories are somewhat\nbut not directly connected, since Diebuster happens ~12,000 years after\nGunbuster.\n\nTo take care of the time gap issue with Gunbuster, both series have been cut\ninto two movies and presented as a double-feature. The references to each\nother are subtle.\n\nFor an example if you didn't watch Gunbuster:\n\n * You wouldn't know that Nono appears in Gunbuster under a different name\n\n * The Diebuster ending only makes sense if you saw the ending of Gunbuster (takes place 12,000 years earlier)\n\n * You wouldn't understand the Solar System Defence System and why it was attacking\n\n * You wouldn't understand why the drive was removed from Dix-Neuf\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2012-12-11T23:24:55.657", "id": "96", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-08T11:37:39.600", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-08T11:37:39.600", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "93", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]