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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.

 

In the original Patapon, we command our Patapon army by using sequences of drum beats which corresponds to different commands. We command an army consisting of up to 3 different Patapon squads. Selections includes the shield wielding Tatepons, the spear using Yaripons, and archery-based Yaripons and even the horn playing Megapons which attacks using sound SFX particles.

spoilerUm actually ... You can control up to 4 different Patapon squad, 3 attacking squads and 1 flag bearer

 

After a botched water tank trick, Angier's and Borden became bitter enemies. The two began one-upping each other with their magic tricks. The story ultimately surrounding the trick, "The Transported Man", initially introduced by Borden, in which the performer appears in two wardrobes on opposite ends of the stage. Angier implemented his own version by using a body double at first, and later improved it by using the teleporting machine which he comissioned Nikola Tesla to invent. It was later revealed that Borden's trick was much simpler, using his twin brother.

spoilerUm actually ... The machine is not a teleporting machine. It is cloning machine, and the trick amounts to Angier killing (either himself or his clone) after appearing on the other side.

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The Violet Evergarden follows the story of a post-war child soldier Violet trying to become an Auto Memory Doll, a ghostwriter for illiterate clients. Violet attends the Auto Memory Doll Training School in order to become a true doll. However, she initially failed the test because she lost both her arms in the war, causing her to struggle using her mechanical prosthetic arms to type using a typewriter. She ultimately succeeds after support and help from her fellow doll trainee, Luculia.

CorrectionUm actually ... Violet doesn't struggle with the typewriter. She was very adept at the typing, but was unable to reflect the client's feelings in her writing, due to her inability to fully understand emotions. And that is the also the reason she failed initially

 

In the Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai light novel series, we follow Sakuta as he meet various teenagers suffering from Adolescence Syndrome, a phenomenon which causes various effects to its victims and those around them.

These includes:

  • Mai, the bunny girl senpai who starts becoming invisible and incorporeal to everyone, to the extent of becoming completely wiped from people's memories
  • Tomoe, a first year student who traps Sakuta in a time loop
  • Nodoka, the younger sister of Mai who swapped bodies with Mai

CorrectionUm actually ... The light novel series is called Rascal Does Not Dream. This is because each of the events as highlighted are different volumes, but have different titles.

The list are as follows:

  • Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai
  • Rascal Does Not Dream of Petite Devil Kohai
  • Rascal Does Not Dream of Logical Witch
  • Rascal Does Not Dream of Siscon Idol
  • Rascal Does Not Dream of a Sister Home Alone
  • Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl
  • Rascal Does Not Dream of His First Love
  • et al

The anime series adaptation is titled Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai, but it actually adapts the first 5 volumes of the novel.

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In A Certain Scientific Railgun, we follow Mikasa, a level 5 esper who controls electricity. Together with Kuroko, a Level 4 teleporting esper, they attend the prestigious Tokiwadai Middle School. Despite being one of the strongest in Academy City, she is acquainted with quite a few level 0 characters. These includes Ruiko and Uihara in her clique, and Touma as a love interest.

CorrectionUm actually ... Uihara is actually a level 1. Her ability preserves the temperature of the object in her hands, which she used to keep a box of taiyaki's warm.

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