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How can Sebastian use "I am a butler and a devil" so casually?
To my ears, the Japanese means:
I am an akuma (demon), and a shitsuji (butler).
I guess it must have a pun meaning, too. On one occasion, a bad guy cried out "a-a-akuma?", but that's the exception: everybody seems cool after hearing it. How can…
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If there's only one of each fruit, how could Blackbeard recognize the "Dark Dark" fruit?
If someone had seen it before you'd think it would have been eaten.
And I also thought I remember a segment about no one knowing their fruit before they ate it. (I think it was with the CP9 arc)
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Why doesn't Greed harden fully?
Fighting the Elric brothers in an early episode of the FMA: Brotherhood anime, Greed eventually hardens his entire body, making him impervious to damage aside from directly transmuting his armored skin.
Later in the show, Greed has multiple fights…
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Is anime production more efficient than manga production?
To explain, I want to know whether it is more efficient to produce anime or manga, and why.
Anime:
Needs to be made frame by frame
need people to record voice.
Manga:
Needs lots of paper
has to be printed.
By more efficient, I mean which one…
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What is the source of Saitama's enormous power?
I have seen only the anime and not the manga. I am utterly curious about the ability and power of Saitama.
In the starting episodes, he mentions that he trained very hard and also details his training regime.
However, I am still curious to know: is…
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Are there ever any animals featured that aren't Pokémon?
Out of the Pokémon episodes that I have seen, I do not remember ever seeing an animal that wasn't a Pokémon. I have also not heard of animals being present in Pokémon.
Which lead me to wonder: Are there ever any animals that aren't Pokémon present…
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Is avatar Korra bisexual?
They were closer than they should have been and in the final scenes, it wasn't clear if they were just close friends or romantic interests.
A little google search and this is what happens:
There are sources that said the creators confirmed it,…
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How is the passage of time handled in Pokemon?
I stopped following the Pokemon anime a while ago, but I know the series has had Ash go through many regions, including retreading at least one of them. When Ash was about to get his eight badge, Misty mentioned that they'd been on the road for a…
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Are anime and manga subsidized or actively used by Japanese government to promote Japanese culture/relations internationally?
Around 2003-2005, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) produces some documents highlighting the importance of manga and anime to promote Japan culture and international/business relations overseas.
The now unavailable online issue of Jetro…
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Watching order for "Toaru Majutsu no Index" and related anime
I am slowly coming to the end of watching "Toaru Majutsu no Index" anime. There are a few anime series related to that world:
Toaru Majutsu no Index
Toaru Majutsu no Index II
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S
and some movies. But I…
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What is the joke behind "fork" and "spoon" keywords?
Christina decides a keyword which will make her believe Hououin Kyouma's story in the next time-line. That password is:
私が今一番欲しい物はMy-Forkであり。
My-Spoonはもうもってるし。
The thing I most want at the moment is "my fork".
I already have "my spoon".
She…
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Why does the ground shake when titans walk?
In the latest series, an experimenter told Eren that titans are very light despite their size. Why, then, does the ground shake when they walk?
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How were the walls in Attack on Titan built?
If I remember correctly, in Attack on Titan, it's mentioned or implied a number of times that humans built the walls to protect themselves from the titans. (Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on this.) If so then, how did they manage to get the…
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How are the bijuu adapted from real mythology?
I know that the nine-tails exists in many anime series (The notables are Naruto and Pokemon), as well as
His name, Kurama, relating to fox demons across different animes, such as Yu Yu Hakusho.
I also know that the two-tails is adapted from…
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What happened to Misa Amane in the last episode?
In the last episode of Death Note, the series, we see Misa Amane standing near the edge of a building. She incurred a lot of grief due to Light Yagami's death; after all, she was one of the most devoted to him. She went through continuous torture…
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