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How did Toshinou Kyouko's personality change?
In episode 11 of the first season of the anime, there was a flashback where it was shown that little Toshinou Kyouko was nothing like the current Toshinou Kyouko — she was quiet, shy and even had less presence than Akaza Akari. Yet, the current…
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How do souls age in Soul Society?
How do souls age in Soul Society?
People cannot die of old age resulting in the Captain Commander keeping his position for a thousand years.
There are some souls who look like kids and some who are adults. In the manga, the makers flashbacked…
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What's the meaning of 'slice of life' animation?
I recently joined this manga and anime forum and stumbled across this term numerous times. People reviewing different parameters of animes and calling that a "typical" slice of life anime.
Is this pretty common sort of anime?
What does this mean?
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Is there any real world equivalent measurement to a Gomu Gomu?
So we all know that Luffy ate the Gomu Gomu no Mi Devil fruit and I found in the Gomu Gomu no Mi's wiki page that Luffy is able to stretch a length of 72 Gomu Gomu's. So is there any real way to turn 72 Gomu Gomu's into a real world measurement of…
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Series where girl will creep people out whenever she tries to smile
I forget if this is an anime or a manga, but it has a girl who, whenever she tries to smile, creeps out everyone around her. However, she can smile when not told to, and this smile is quite nice.
In her class, there is a male and female top of class…
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What are the "Angels" called in the original Japanese version?
The entities attacking Nerv and attempting to reach Lilith are universally referred to as "Angels" in the English dubs, subs and translations of the NGE manga.
In Japanese, the opening song ("Cruel Angel's Thesis") does refer to tenshi (天使) which…
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Confusion about the naming of Aldnoah Zero's OST/opening/ending song titles
I have a couple of very closely related questions regarding composer Hiroyuki Sawano's choices in naming Aldnoah Zero's OST/opening/ending song titles.
I will be referencing the tracklist for Aldnoah Zero's OST (link here), in addition to some…
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If you had two automail arms, could you still use alchemy?
So, say someone in the Fullmetal Alchemist world lost both of their arms.
Could they still preform alchemy with their automail arms? Is there a way to adjust the automail so you can use alchemy?
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What does the position of "theme song assistance"(?) entail?
Over the past 3-4 years, I've been noticing a number of anime that credit a person named 外村敬一 ("SOTOMURA Keiichi", it seems) with 主題歌協力 - something like "theme song assistance". This credit, when present, usually appears on the same overlay as the…
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Were Judeo-Christian religious references part of the "Akira" movie's original dialogue?
The animated Akira movie (not the manga) contains a number of explicit Judeo-Christian religious terms, in addition to the overall apocalyptic themes. The most prominent of these (from the 2001 dub) are:
When the citizens of Neo-Tokyo see Tetsuo…
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What are all the aspects of the Love Live TV series that were voted on by fans?
On the ANN article announcing Love Live's TV series, they report the following: (emphasis is my own)
The anime studio Sunrise, the music label Lantis, and ASCII Media Works' Dengeki G Magazine developed Love Live! School idol project as a…
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Can users exchange their Sharingan eyes?
Does the donor of the Sharingan eye have to die so that it could be used by another user, or could they just exchange their eyes so that they do not go blind over obtaining the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan?
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Just who knew Arturia was female when she was King?
Originally, I thought Merlin, Lancelot, Guinevere, Morgan le Fay and Mordred were the only people who knew Arturia was female when she was king.
While reading up on Kay's profile on the Wikia, I read that he knew she was a female and vowed to keep…
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Is the circle-script used in Rokka no Yuusha decipherable?
In Rokka no Yuusha, we see a number of instances of a fictional script consisting of glyphs inside circles. For example, from the introductory narration:
These are probably too low-resolution to be readable. However, in episode 3, we get a…
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What is Kaworu implying at the end of RoE: 1.01?
I've rewatched Rebuild of Evangelion: 1.01: You can (not) advance, and something struck me.
At the very end (so spoiler):
Kaworu is on the moon, looking at Shinji, and say "You're the third again, Shinji"
Is the "again" a sign that what happened…
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