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In the final episodes of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, after the protaganists lose the fight against Pucci, Emporio finds himself in Green Dolphin Street Prison. Emporio tricks Pucci into inserting Weather Report's Stand disc into his head, thereby granting him its powers. Using the stand to fill the room with pure oxygen, Emporio finally defeats Pucci. The season ends in a bittersweet moment where we see Emporio and Ermes hitchhiking a ride with Jolyne and Anasui, who are now a couple.

CorrectionUm actually ... Due to Pucci resetting the universe, the characters at the end are not the same as the ones that we've known throughout the story. They resemble their counterparts, but don't share their names. Their names are actually Eldis, Irene and Anakis respectively,

 

Chisato is an elite Lycoris, an agent of a government-sponsored all-female task force of assassins and spies made up of orphans. She has such great agility that she can dodge bullets at point blank range. Due her poor accuracy with a gun, she uses this skill to dodge enemy attacks while getting closer, allowing her to hit her shots.

spoilerUm actually ... She doesn't have poor gun accuracy. It is because of her insistence of using non-lethal rubber bullets which have a less predictable trajectory which requires her to get closer.

 

In Harvest Moon: Back to Nature, you have a choice of 5 bachelorettes. In order to woo a girl, you give gifts that she likes, and avoid giving ones that she dislikes.

Here are some gifts raises the affection of all of them:

  • Jewellery
  • Salad
  • Egg
  • Truffle
  • Toy flower

And here are some gifts that decreases the affection of all of them:

  • Chicken feed
  • Weed
  • Garbage
  • Stone
  • Fries Recipe
  • Lumber

spoilerUm actually ... one of the 5 bachelorettes (Popuri) gains affection (albeit a little) when given Weed.

 

In the Eternity Devil arc, Special Division 4 is sent into a hotel to kill the Eternity Devil who is said to reside in an hotel. After realizing that they are trapped in there, the team falls into disarray. The devil offers to release them if they feed Denji to him. Kobeni attempts to kill Denji to accept the Eternity Devil's offer, but fails. Finally, the devil was defeated when Denji jumping straight into its mouth, sawing through its flesh, finding its heart and destroying it.

spoilerUm actually ... Denji did not find the devil's heart. The devil's heart was inaccessible to the protagonists, and thus it was effectively invincible. However, it still can feel pain and thus was unable to bear the torment of Denji repeatedly attacking him for days, and ultimately revealed the heart to Denji to destroy.

 

Nichirin Swords are the main weapons used by Demon Slayers in the Demon Slayer Corps. They are forged by special sword smiths, each crafted to fit the Demon slayer's preferences and fighting style, such as:

  • a flexible whip-like sword for Mitsuri,
  • a thin stinger katana for Shinobu; gaining agility and compensating power by using poisons
  • a pair of dual teethed/serrated katana for Inosuke who prefers to saw through his targets instead of slicing
  • a pair of cleavers connected by a chain for Tengen, who whirls it for both offence and defence

spoilerUm actually ... Inosuke's katana is not serrated by design. Inosuke's katana was an ordinary Nichirin katana, but he modified it personally to be serrated, much to the dismay/anger of his sword smith.

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In Jujutsu Kaisen, we follow our high school protagonist Itadori Yuji, who are friends with the occult club. After the club unsealed the rotten finger belonging to the King of Curses, Sukuna, other Curses are attracted to it and swarm the school. Yuji swallows the finger to gain its power and saved his friend. Despite being required to exorcise Yuji immediately, Gojo noticed that Yuji has control over his body and thus gave an alternative proposal: postpone Yuji's death sentence until he consumes all 10 of Sukuna's fingers so that Sukuna can finally be eliminated together with Yuji. Thus begins the story of Yuji training under Gojo with the rest of his school mates while he participates in exorcising other Curses.

spoilerUm actually ... Yuji has to consume 20 of Sukuna's fingers because Sukuna has 4 arms.

 

In Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, we play as multiple different protagonist throughout history as they fight against the Ancient (that the player chose as the antagonist at the early stages of the game).

The list includes:

  1. 26 BC: Pious Augustus, a Roman Centurion
  2. 565 AD: Karim, a Persian swordsman
  3. 1150 AD: Ellia, a court dancer
  4. 1485 AD: Paul Luther, a Franciscan monk
  5. 1760 AD: Dr. Maximillian RoivasHis chapter takes place in 1760 AD
  6. 2000 AD: Alex, an university student

spoilerUm actually ... Pious is not a protagonist, but rather the antagonist after turning into a lich. You play as him at the start and it ends with you choosing which Ancient he will be corrupted by and thus setting the plot into action.

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Most Ghibli films have English titles are close in meaning to their original titles, some even are direct translations from Japanese. However some films have different meaning, or lost some meaning, in their English localizations.

  • The Cat Returns's title is "Neko no Ongaeshi"
    • "Neko": the Japanese word for cat
    • "Ongaeshi": the Japanese word for repayment, as with owed favour.
    • thus this means The Cat's Repayment, which better describe the plot of the film
  • Kiki's Delivery Service's title is "Majo no Takkyuubin"
    • "Majo": the Japanese word for witch
    • "Takkyuubin": the Japanese word for delivery service
    • the original title has no reference to Kiki, and was referring to the greater group of witches doing the deliveries
  • Spirited Away's title is "Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi"
    • "Sen to Chihiro": meaning Sen and Chihiro
    • "Kamikakushi": meaning mysterious disappearance or death of a person, explained to be done by gods.
    • which have the additional motif of the transition of Chihiro while she was working as Sen

spoilerUm actually ... Takkyuubin is not the Japanese word for express delivery, per se. Takkyuubin, also written as Ta-Q-Bin, is actually a trademark for the express home delivery service provided by Yamato Transport. Though nowadays, it can be synonymous with delivery services, such as how Band-Aid may be synonymous to adhesive bandages.

The generic Japanese word for delivery service is actually Takuhaibin.

The original title was inherited from the novel, but the novel mistakenly used the trademark in its title.

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In Hades, we explore Greek mythology by travelling through different biomes and fighting various bosses. Zagreus would fight and defeat them in the following order:

  1. In Tartarus: one of the Fury Sister, Megaera (or even all 3 of them when Extreme Measures is enabled)
  2. In Asphodel: the Bone Hydra
  3. In Elysium: Theseus, the former king of Athens, and Asterius, the Minotaur
  4. In Temple of Styx: Ceberus, the three headed hell hound
  5. On the "Surface": Hades, the god of the Underworld

spoilerUm actually ... you do not need to fight Ceberus in the Temple of Styx. Zagreus is tasked to retrieve a Satyr Sack to placate the hound to let him through.

 

In Super Mario World, we introduced to Yoshi, a rideable companion of the Mario brothers, available in various colours. While green Yoshi can only spit out the shells it ate, other coloured Yoshi's gain special abilities when consuming shells. Red Yoshi's spit out fireballs instead of the shell, blue Yoshi's gain the ability to fly while having the shell in its mouth and yellow Yoshi's can stomp the ground to create sand clouds which defeats enemies, also while having a shell in its mouth.

spoilerUm actually ... Green Yoshi's (and all Yoshi's in general) are able to obtain all the abilities above, but they need to eat shells of that colour.

 

In the Smash series, Pokeballs are one of the many items that can be utilized in the fight. After they are thrown, a Pokemon would emerge from the ball and perform its moves.

The list includes:

  • Staryu using Swift
  • Clefairy with Metronome
  • Mew with Fly
  • Magikarp with Splash
  • Ho-oh with Sacred Fire
  • Porygon with Tackle

spoilerUm, actually ... Magikarp is not a Pokemon that can appear from a Pokeball (as of Smash Ultimate). It is Goldeen which appears and uses splash.

 

The movie explores Puss's fear of death and finally overcoming it. To illustrate this, the movie personifies Death. We first see Death after Puss goes down to his ninth life, and proceeds to relaxes at the bar. Death is shown to be a wolf wearing a dark hood, who approached Puss with his sinister whistle. During this encounter, Death completely defeated Puss using his two sickles, causing Puss to flee in fear.

spoilerUm actually ... that isn't the first time we see Death. We see him in the cheering crowd as a cameo right after Puss defeats the giant. This references Death's quote that he is there for each of Puss's deaths.

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