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Any manga series may benefit greatly from getting an anime adaptation, but something is often lost in the process. It's expensive and labor-intensive to turn manga into anime, and countless anime series fail to get renewed for later seasons to continue the story. This also happens with romance manga, and that can completely ruin the story.

Too many romance anime fall flat because the ultimate payoff -- the two leads declaring "I love you" and starting a relationship -- never actually happens. Such things typically happen at the end of manga romance stories, and if the anime doesn't get that far, then the manga's big payoff is lost and the anime feels too open-ended. Fortunately, several popular romance anime do reach the big "I love you," often with a final season or perhaps a movie to finish the story.

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Tech giant Microsoft has explained why playing the mega-hit music video for popular US-based singer, songwriter, actress, and dancer Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation” would crash certain models of laptops.

According to Raymond Chen, Senior Software Engineer, they discovered something bizarre. Playing the music video on one laptop caused a laptop sitting nearby to crash, even though that other laptop was not playing the video.

“It turns out that the song contained one of the natural resonant frequencies for the model of 5400 rpm laptop hard drives that they and other manufacturers used,” Chen said.

“The manufacturer worked around the problem by adding a custom filter in the audio pipeline that detected and removed the offending frequencies during audio playback,” he added.

Chen mentioned that he is sure “they put a digital version of a ‘Do not remove’ sticker on that audio filter.

The mega-hit “Rhythm Nation” was released as the...