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open Biology of pokemon Anime
How pyroar generates a temperature of 18,000 degree Celsius biologically and how it heat sac is structured chemically and biologically that allows them to create this effect and how this works and what materials is it body made of that allows them to create this effect and how it heat resistant tissues are reinforced with some materials (please tell material name) that allows them to withstand this much heat and what compounds are mixed that allows them to create this much heat?
openToo many redirects? Anime
I'm currently reworking the franchise page for Ghost in the Shell because the current is kind of a mess. I've been making redirects for the installments that we don't have yet, but I didn't stop to think if this might be excessive.
So far I've made:
- 3 redirects for the sequels to the original manga:
- 4 redirects for the sequels / tie-ins to the '95 movie:
- 6 redirects for installments in the S.A.C. subseries:
- Anime.Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex The Laughing Man
- Anime.Ghost In The Shell SA C2nd Gig
- Anime.Ghost In The Shell SA C2nd Gig Individual Eleven
- Literature.Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex The Lost Memory
- Literature.Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex Revenge Of The Cold Machines
- Literature.Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex White Maze
- And 2 for the Arise subseries:
So 15 new redirects total. If this is too many, I'll put some of them on the Cut List. There are a few that I think we should definitely keep though.
openFanworks with same titles Anime
What should I do when I come across a fanwork I want to create that has the same title as another?
openThe Film of the Series trope question Anime
Do Anime in general, with Non-Serial Movie films, qualify for The Film of the Series, even though they're non-canon, based on Canonical List of Subtle Trope Distinctions for The Film of the Series:
"The Film of the Series uses a different cast and is usually out of continuity, unless it's a years-later sequel."
I was going to include Film.Dragon Ball Evolution on the list.
I'm not sure whether to list them or not.
open Pokemon biology Anime
How groudon Pokemon generates shimmering heat biologically?
Edited by BaltimoreopenUnbuilt Trope again Anime
(NSFW)
Few days ago, I removed this Monster Musume entry from UnbuiltTrope.Anime And Manga (originally a two bullets entry).
- Animal-based species are given the strength of their respective animals to match, and examined realistically as well. With the exception of Rachneranote who does know her strength and Lalanote who is fundamentally no different than a normal human outside of her being headless, Kimihito's monster girls frequently have trouble holding their strength back, which results in him getting injured. Should any of them not hold back any of their strength, such as during a full moon, their strength could literally kill him.
My reason is that this one is a plain Deconstruction. As noted in the work page, Monster Musume is Bleached Underpants of Living with Monster Girl (and I would like to add that it's also know as My Life with Monster Girl), itself is fanwork of Monster Girl Encyclopedia, an escapism porn (we used to have pages for it, but it got cut by P5 for lolicon content). In that work, it's noted that monster girls' strenght or pointy bodyparts will never harm their husband thank to their innate succubi mana. Oyakado deconstructed it since Living with Monster Girl with two strips showing how sex with monster girls can leave their mates with scars and marks (I don't think I can provide a link here, am I?).
Today, Tehrannotaur add it back. Claims that "unbuilt trope is that the trope was played with (this includes deconstructed) before it was popularized (and in some case the epitome itself played with that trope). While monster musume wasn't the first monster girl-centric series, it popularized the genre".
But as noted, this one is direct deconstruction to its parent work. It pick an element (monster girls can't accidently harm their husbands) and potray it as how it should be (originally when they get too excite during sex, then Bleached Underpants version expand it to everyday life).
In other words, this isn't the case of "the work that popularized the genre use a trope in unusual way", it's "the work that popularized the genre deconstruct the older work, but the later work follow the older one". Not unbuilt, just a plain deconstruction.
Edited by Kuruniopen Information misunderstandings within group Anime
A entire group aren't on the same page with information when everyone thinks the other is. A couple aren't aware of the information while another is but only vaguely, one guy knows it exists but not in clear detail, one is completely aware of the information while another is only partially aware. A whole mess of misunderstandings...
open"The Hidden Dungeon Only I Could Enter" Character sheet "vandalism?" Anime
Hi, I just wanted to report that the picture for the character "Olivia Servant" has been replaced with the poster image from the film "The Nightmare Never Ends." I'm not sure what to look for in the history page for who specifically may have made the edit, but it's a bit unsettling to click expecting one thing and getting another. Just wanted to let anyone know who can fix it.
openDeleting without context Anime
Tropers/Lucky-Seven-Leaf-Clover keeps deleting this entry from the And the Fandom Rejoiced sub-page for Gundam, with no explanation as to why;
- Gundam Build Divers is getting a sequel? Wasn't the original widely hated-wait, the Main Protagonists Gunpla has a gimmick similar to the AGE Gundams? Another of the Main Characters pilots a Gunpla based off of the Walking Dome Mobile Armor?! And the SD Gundam rep this time is based off of the Gundlander series?! This might be worth checking out after all!
This is in spite of the fact that this doesn't break any rules about posting on And the Fandom Rejoiced.
openCross Ange Anime
I just watched Cross Ange and checked over the trope page, and I think it needs some serious cleanup. Some tropes are character tropes instead of plot tropes and there are references to anime and video games that average Americans may not even know and the YMMV page is very opinionated and full of knee-jerk reactions, even by YMMV standards. I think these pages were developed back when the show was still broadcasting and could use a rework now that it's been years since the show ended. What do you say?
openEdit War Over... Anime
...ellipses on Manga.Tomo Chan Is A Girl between ~Hammer Of Justice and ~Beiahnu
On Aug 15th, ~Beiahnu put the space back, and added more such spaces to the page, edit reasoning "Suspensive periods require a space between words."
Aug 18th 2020, ~Hammer Of Justice deletes the spaces with the edit reason "No spaces after ellipses. It looks bad. I will fight to the death on this point." Later the same day, ~Beiahnu again adds the spaces with "https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/ellipses.html - "An ellipsis is a set of three periods ( . . . ) indicating an omission. Each period should have a single space on either side, except when adjacent to a quotation mark, in which case there should be no space." - Believe me, this is the worst molehill you've chosen to defend."
Normal editing resumes until yesterday, Apr 7th 2021, when ~Hammer Of Justice deletes the original "problem... he" space. No edit reason. Same day, ~Beiahnu restored the source with the edit reason "Already warned not to do that. - https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/ellipses.html - "An ellipsis is a set of three periods ( . . . ) indicating an omission. Each period should have a single space on either side, except when adjacent to a quotation mark, in which case there should be no space."
There is no discussion on the page at all.
Edited by sgamer82openDefinition of MagneticHero? Anime
A user named Edgar 81539 deleted two instances of Magnetic Hero from the character page of the anime Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club. His contention seems to be that a character needs to directly persuade others (probably vocally or through direct interaction) to join their cause in order to be considered a Magnetic Hero.
However, in my interpretation, it does not seem evident that direct interaction is needed. I think that if a character performs an action and does a deed, and this is enough for say, some witnesses to follow the character's cause, that character can count for the trope if a large number of the cast was won over this way. My view is that the character just needs to be instrumental in causing many people to follow them or their cause through persuasion, but said persuasion does not strictly need to be through actually interacting with said character. As mentioned, I believe that if a character say, gives a speech or does a deed in view of at least a sizeable portion of this cast, and this sways them to follow this character, then that is enough for the character to be counted as a Magnetic Hero.
It is with that line of thinking that I would use to justify the inclusion of the trope on two characters' sections of the page, but that user seems to think this is trope misuse. I also came to my interpretation through looking at examples listed on the Magnetic Hero page along with the page's introduction, but that user seems to think that said examples on the trope page are also misuse. If so, then several examples on the trope page, which seem to line up with my interpretation, are also misuse, which I find improbable. Hopefully, someone can clear this up
openEdit War over spoiler in character sheet Anime
Characters.Gundam Build Divers Re Rise
On Mar 26th 2021, Gairyuki covered a couple of character' name and their VA with spoiler tag. I removed them citing Handling Spoilers (no spoiler above examples line) as well as sent them a PM to that page (I didn't use the notifier, so the wiki link work).
Today, they put it back.
open What to do when a character's gender identity is not explicitly stated? Anime
Title. There's an edit war happening on Stop Hibari Kun over the gender of the title character. One side says the author always intended them as male, and the other side says there are signs that they identify as female. What should be done here and in the future over disputes like these?
openMore thing from Unbuilt trope, almost 40 years too late Anime
This is on UnbuiltTrope.Anime And Manga
- Mushoku Tensei. The first volume was published in 2012, just before the massive explosion of the Isekai genre. Many view the series as one of those that served as a Trope Codifier for many of the tropes in said genre. However, the series either Deconstructs or at least Justifies many of the common tropes in the genre.
- To start with, the main character is, much like many Isekai protagonists, both a Hikikomori and a NEET. However, unlike many other works, the Light Novel actually addresses that this lifestyle is both unhealthy and fairly tragic. The main character (before his reincarnation) is an overweight loser who is considered to be the Black Sheep of his family. He's spent his entire adult life sponging off of his family and when his parents die, his disgusting habits, combined with the fact that he didn't attend their funeral, prompt his remaining family members to kick him out of the house and essentially disown him. On top of that, the Light Novel addresses the fact that many who live this lifestyle have serious underlying psychological issues, and those issues carry over with him into the next world. None of this is Played for Laughs, by the way.
- The Main Character's perverted antics are also shown in a much different light. His obsession with sex is shown to be the result of his constant exposure to hentai and other pornographic material warping how he perceives women and sex, and it's also shown to make many of the female characters he interacts with deeply uncomfortable, even afraid to be around him. In fact, growing out of his attitudes and tendencies is a major part of his Character Development.
- In a similar vein to the above, the series is, like many Isekai works, set in a pseudo-Medieval European setting. A lot of works in such settings either tend to downplay or outright ignore the way that women were treated (or exploit it for Fetish Fuel), with even powerful women being little more than political bargaining chips who had very little autonomy in many regards to their own lives. In addition to that, many of the powerful men are very corrupt and often do at-best morally-dubious things. The Rudeus's new father is, while not without his redeeming qualities, still a philandering rapist who cheated on his pregnant wife with one of his former victims. His Uncle Phillip is a sceemer who offers to allow the 10-year-old main character to have sex with his 12-year-old daughter in exchange for the former's support in a coup he's planning, and his grandfather Sauros (and Phillip as well) both enjoy having at-best extremely-dubiously-consensual sex with their beastgirl servants/slaves. And keep in mind, these are the "good" members of the family. The higher-ranking ones who actually hold power are even worse than they are. And the series does not shy away from showing the psychological impact that living in this sort of society has on women.
- The Light Novel also justifies the protagonist being a prodigy-level genius with regards to magic. Because he didn't keep his old body when he started over in the new world and was reborn into the body of an infant with all his knowledge and memories intact from his previous life. Due to this, he has the intelligence of a fully-grown adult with the learning capacity and neuroplasticity of a child, granting him a massive advantage over other children. And even then, he still has to put in a lot of work in order to excel the way that he does.
The problem is Trapped in Another World anime is around for much longer. Examples include Aura Battler Dunbine (1983), Mashin Hero Wataru Series (1988), Mado King Granzort (1989), NG Knight Lamune & 40 (1990), Magic Knight Rayearth (1993), El-Hazard: The Magnificent World (1995), and The Vision of Escaflowne (1996)
(and personally, I suspect that its root can be traced back to Ultima II)
So the trope is already solidified before 2000 and the claim that a light novel from 2012 unbuilt it is just ridiculous.
Edited by KuruniopenBiased edits on page Anime
On the Sk8 the Infinity page, there was some biased information heavily favoring the ship Reki/Langa. I edited out that stuff last night and told them to add it to YMMV, because the ship isn't canon yet and might not become canon. So far all there's been is typical sports anime fanservice. Today someone added it back saying:
"langa's "ambiguously gay" isn't THAT ambiguous despite being placed under there for now (especially for anime which have to work around censors) so Power of Love fits (he essentially gasps and blushes when asked if he likes reki [question assumed by him], then realizes the "feeling" that makes him fly in ep9). if he suddenly goes "actually no homo bro" out loud in-series it'd be better filed under power of friendship. (unless tvtr doesn't list, ex., nge's kaworu under romantic tropes... he's only Very Heavily implied to be a love interest of shinji.) the power of love + mythical motifs is about his feelings, not reki's. ia the "romantic-tinged" was pretty ham"
I strongly disagree with this. Also another biased thing they put in the page was: "While it's It's apparent that Reki feels as if he can't reach Langa (and the star), unknowingly to Reki and Langa and the increasing tension that builds between them over it, for Langa, the star likely stands for Reki himself)."
For Langa the star didn't hold any significance. It was just a graffiti target on the wall that he could do a cool skateboarding trick with. Reki was the one who worked himself up about the star trying to reach it while Langa wasn't around.
Is there anything I can do? I don't want to be involved in an edit war, but this stuff is just flat out wrong. The user perona keeps edit warring and adding incorrect info to the page.
Edited by sakanoopenCreate funny page for fanwork help. Anime
I need help creating a funny page for a Fan Work Gem of the Eddy. Can you help?
open Vampire anime Anime
Its an anime that has this like vampire theme... There is a doctor? (brown hair) i remember he has like stubbles but he wears a long white coat... The main character has blue hair and they live in like a small town... there are vampires... It has this specific style with the hair of the characters being ribbon like and by that i mean the ends of their hair is like the tips of ribbons (W shaped)... I think the town is trying to get rid of the vampires and stuff
open Should Tsugumomo be cut? Anime
Given Tsugumomo's increasingly graphic sexualization of underaged and underaged-looking characters, should the main page and its offshoots be cut?
This is a trope that I have been wondering if it should exist. There's the infamous 7 Zark 7, the Narrator Lady from Maple Town, and Dizzi from Beyblade.