What is the Japanese release date of Evangelion: 3.0+1.0? Has an official Japanese release date for Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 been announced?

There's no official announcement, any date not published by Khara is only rumor. The most recent news related to this is that Hideaki Anno was working on Godzilla and in Decemeber, Khara was recruiting more staff. The recruiting could be related to other projects, like the Animator Expo. In other news, Shuichi Iseki posted some pictures that looks like Khara is moving to a new location (maybe). There's no confirmation that all the recruitment and perhaps moving to a larger space has anything to do with the Evangelion movie. So some speculation:

It has to do with Eva, so maybe the movie isn't done yet
It has to do with something else that's not Eva, so maybe the movie isn't done and they're not going to finish it or

The movie is done but delayed for some other reason.


Can any character's magic hurt Kotodama devil? At the end of episode #119 , everybody was surprised Yami could hurt Kotodama. Before that Yami said something like "for some reason, my dark magic can hurt him" and Kotodama said Yami's dark magic can interfere with the other world.

Before Yami, Litch and Asta with their anti magic swords could hurt him. I'm not sure if the first magic emperor, Yuno and Patolli could hurt him with their magic.

Why Yami's magic was special? Can any character's magic hurt Kotodama devil?

To answer this question, I'll have to delve into SPOILER territory -- be warned !

First off, just so you know, the Kotodama Devil's true name is Zagred. Zagred was immensely powerful -- and his atypical, magical biology tremendously helped him to power through enemy attacks. Every character who has been able to hurt him or impede him in some way have been connected to his native underworld.

Asta used anti-magic to negate his attacks and slash through his magic-enhanced defenses. His anti-magic powers stem directly from an unnamed demon, so it stands to reason that Asta can hurt Zagred.

Yuno exploited Zagred's magic emissions to enhance his own wind spells and attune them to the Kotodama Magic's "wavelength".  He basically used Zagred's own power against himself.

Lemiel, Patolli and Licht were able to hurt Zagred because they were all tainted in some way by underworld magic. Lemiel had been sealed by a demonic spell from Secre, and both Patolli and Licht had been resurrected by the demon's spell. Their corruption allowed them to strike at Zagred.

Yami's Dark Magic is known to be linked to the Underworld. In Chapter 246, Dante tells us that Dark Magic is necessary to create the Tree of Qliphoth along with William Vengeance's World Tree Magic. The hows and whys haven't been explained yet, however.

In theory, any other character who has been tainted by demonic magic or who is able to use demonic magic in some way (by reflecting it like Yuno, for example) can hurt the Kotodama Devil. Since other devils will intervene in the story, we will no doubt discover new ways to hurt them as Black Clover progresses.


Why do the senshi get a manicure before they get gloves? In the anime series Sailor Moon (or, Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon) the senshi have a unique henshin, or transformation sequence. Especially later on, these are animated with the senshi receiving a manicure before the transformation sequence begins.

Here's Sailor Mercury (Mizuno Ami) starting her henshin sequence by raising her hand:

Then she gets her manicure and her star wand transformation pen activates:

As you can see, her nails are clearly blue in the second screencapture. Yet, at the end of her henshin sequence, she's clearly sporting gloves:

So: Why do the Senshi receive a manicure before putting on gloves?

There is an official answer to this. Takeuchi Naoko, the mangaka seems to have made this decision, not the animation staff. She points out the characters' nail polish in the Settei Shiryoushuu (Materials Collection) art book, and on the Sailor Mercury page she shows her own 8-frame frame-by-frame sketch1 of Sailor Mercury's transformation sequence, including the frame which includes her comment (fan translation from the original Japanese): "6. 'Make Up!' Next, she covers her face with her hands, and her nails become instantly manicured, shining bright blue."

In Takeuchi's early concept art for the characters (also shown in the same artbook), neither Sailor Mercury nor Sailor Mars wore gloves2 as part of their sailor soldier uniforms so, in their cases, their manicures would have always been showing (whereas Moon, Jupiter, and Venus were originally gloved).

The fact that Takeuchi wanted to highlight make-up in the series is the reason that the characters use the phrase "Make Up!" - which was apparently important enough to be specifically mentioned in the Sailor Moon Crystal opening theme song "MOON PRIDE" by Momoiro Clover Z.

1 Source: http://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_materialscollection/materials007.png
2 Source: http://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_materialscollection/materials002.png


Do One-For-All users have different training experiences? While training his successor, All Might is often surprised by Midoriya's abilities (or lack thereof) to control One-for-All. He notes things like, "I guess you can only use 5% of this power right now".
Were All Might and previous users just more adept in adapting to this Quirk?

Yes, the other successor's for One-For-All where handpicked by the previous users among the most fit to use the quirk. Gran Torino mentions that even though Toshinori/All-Might was born quirkless, he possessed great resilience and endurance to maintain One-For-All power.

Midoryia had no previous training nor did he had good constitution or muscle strength to keep up with One-For-All's great stress upon the body. That is why All-Might has those often remarks about him.


What determines Remuneration in Darker than Black? What determines the nature of remuneration in Darker than Black?

Is it something ironic?  Similar to one of the contractors smoking even though he hates the thought of smoking.  Or is it some other way?

What determines the nature of remuneration in Darker than Black?

Since it's unclear how exactly does one become a contractor, it's also unclear how is his payment determined.

  Is it something ironic? Similar to one of the contractors smoking even though he hates the though of smoking.

No, not necessarily. this wiki says:

  Remunerations are typically difficult for the Contractor and range in severity from irritating to painful. However, there have been a few contractors who enjoy their remuneration and at least one who uses it in conjunction with his or her own ability.

For example, Bai's (Hei's sister) obeisance was sleeping, which is neither painful, nor shameful/irritating/etc. Another example is April, whos obeisance is alcohol drinking, which she actually enjoys.

However in general it looks like that obeisance is more likely to be unpleasant to the contractor.


In the Zoldyck family is something known about the grandmother and the grandgrandfather? it is known that there are 10 members in the Zoldyck family. But do you know something about the grandgrandfather and the grandmother? Zeno Zoldyck is the grandfather. But father of who he is? From the father or mother of Killua. I think it's from Silva Zoldyck (the father) But in the episode Gon, Kurapika and Leorio go to find Killua, Killua's mother calls him father. Then how to know who the father really is?

Zeno Zoldyck is the father of the Silva Zoldyck. It is clearly stated in this family chart which in the HxH wiki. In the family tree, Maha Zoldyck is the grandfather of Zeno, also he is the oldest living person in Zoldyck Family.

There are no mentions about Zenos' wife (mother of Silva). Below image shows the family of Zoldyck but Zenos' wifes' image is missing there also. Also, Kikyo is the only women that have mention and appeared in the HxH from Zoldyck family (apart from Silvas children). I think that mainly because of they joining Zoldyck family from the other families.


Can Boruto awaken Tenseigan? I heard that Tenseigan can be awakened by those having both Otsutsuki and Hyuga blood lines. Boruto has Otsutsuki blood from Naruto (A descendant of Hagaromo Otsutsuki) and Hyuga blood from his mother. Can he awaken the Tenseigan?

At the moment it is possible, due to the Uzamaki clan being very vaguely related to Hagaromo (It has been a lot time for dilution of the bloodline). So he could end up with the Tensaigan, but it would be much more likely for the Tensaigan to appear in the theoretical children of Boruto and Sarada, due to Sasuke's bloodline having the optical powers of Hagaromo. So to sum it up, Boruto could end up with the Tensaigan some time in the foreseeable future.


Did Orichimaru use the real bodies of the First and Second Hokage against the Third on the rooftop? I just wanna know if it was the real bodies, if so, wouldn’t they be like skeletons??

Orochimaru used the bodies of Zaku and Kin to summon the Hokage.
The jutsu basically recreates the body of the reincarnated person at the time of their death using the body of the sacrifice.

  To actually perform the Impure World Reincarnation, the DNA of the person to be reincarnated is smeared on a special scroll. Once the scroll is activated, the remains spread out in the form of a special seal with the living sacrifice in the centre. Then dust and ash encase the sacrifice's body, giving them the same appearance that the reincarnated had at the time of their death; the process is apparently painful for the sacrifice.

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Ladybug theme song identification Ladybug PV. The anime is probably Miraculous Ladybug, but can anyone identify the title of the song used in this PV?

You are right. The anime is indeed Miraculous Ladybug. Now, there's a little issue with the title and the lyrics of the song.

According to the Ladybug PV wiki site,

  The song that plays with it is a test song titled Ladybug PV Song without true lyrics, having English-like gibberish, lyrics can be found here.

Then they also state what Gao already said in the comment.

  The song in the video is titled Ladybug by Noam Kaniel and you can find the lyrics to it here.


How does Starlight Breaker work? Most of Nanoha's attacks consist of emitting some beam or ball of energy through her body or Raising Heart and firing it at the enemy. For instance, here's Divine Buster:

Presumably she just uses her own magical energy for this. But Starlight Breaker is an exception to that. The energy seems to gather up and fire at the energy from thin air. Different versions depict it differently, but it always seems like the energy isn't coming from Nanoha directly (except the little bit that she uses to initiate the attack). Here's the movie version, it's especially apparent in the upper left corner:

Is this just a visual quirk of the attack, or does it actually work differently from her other ones? And if so, where is all that energy coming from?

The starlight breaker actually gathers energy from the surrounding area - either left behind by Nanoha herself, or by other mages/combatants.

So it basically works like this:

Gather energy from the surrounding environment into a ball.

Nanoha hits the ball, which fires it.

Typically in a battle, all the mages will leave behind excess energy as a result of using their spells. So the starlight breaker is most powerful near the end of a long battle when a lot of energy has accumulated.

That said, Nanoha is not the only one who can use the Starlight Breaker. Reinforce does it near the end of Nanoha A's - mainly because she gains the abilities of those who's linker cores she has captured.


Why has no one except Bakugo figured out that All Might passed his powers to Deku? I have been watching Boku no Hero Academia for a while now and in my opinion, Midoriya's smash, "power type" way of fighting is so unmistakably and obviously similar to All Might's fighting style.
During the Tournament arc, Battle Trial arc, the 2nd movie (the 2018 movie) and in multiple other occasions, Midoriya has done smashes with the same name and technique as All Might, but yet his classmates don't seem to catch on.

I'm just really curious as to why that is. Cause if All Might has done a smash with the same name and very similar effect (in terms of destructive power and technique), then Midoriya doing the exact same technique should make it obvious that there's a pretty deep connection I guess.

So why has no one else figured out?

Bakugo wasnt the only one to notice similarities between Midoriya and All Might.
Asui pointed out when they were traveling in a bus that Midoriya quirk was like All Might's in season 1 episode 9. Later in season 2 episode 10, before fighting with Midoriya , Shoto Todoroki told Midoriya than since his father was Endeavor who wanted to defeat All Might, if Midoriya had something from All Might (One for All?) he had more reasons to defeat him. The difference between them and Bakugo are

As pointed in another answer, Midoriya told Bakugo he received his powers from someone else
Bakugo noticed the enemy of All Might was All for One who had the hability to transfer quirks.
Bakugo knew All Might met Midoriya (who was quirkless at the time) (and him) when he was captured by a monster in episode 2 or 3 of the first season. After that Midoriya started to show All Might's powers.
Bakugo saw that Midoriya was crying when All Might consumed all his powers and said "Now is your turn" to the camera.

So in conclusion Bakugo and several others noticed similarities between Midoriya and All Might, but only Bakugo was exposed to additional information who made him conclude with almost certainty that All Might transfered his powers to Midoriya


Why are the protagonists generally seated by the window? I've noticed that in some anime the protagonist is seated by the window in the classroom. More specifically, the protagonist is generally on the second seat from the back (or sometimes on the very last seat).
I don't know if this happens in every anime, but it seems to happen on at least some.

Top: Tomoko from Watamote (left), Touma from Index (right). Bottom: Light from Death Note (left), Tenma from School Rumble (right).

Why does this happen?
Does it have something to do with character conception or mood setting?
Is it a plot device or something else?

While backbenchers are common throughout the world, windows seats are similarly favoured by just about everybody in most situations. People want and prefer window seats be they in classrooms, trains, or aeroplanes. In anime, these seats additionally facilitate a few things (some of which have been covered in other answers):

The character can look out of the window to act bored.
The character can look out of the window to see other characters outside.
The character can easily exit the classroom by way of the window.
The character can easily enter the classroom by way of the window.
It reduces some of the artwork. When focussing on the character, the artist will not need to bother drawing and animating additional characters on either side. He can simply focus on the main character and draw a window or a wall as background. This saves time and money.

That said, I think that there's a mild case of confirmation bias in the question. There are plenty of anime where the protagonist is not seated by the window. Offhand, I can name Makunouchi Ippo in Hajime no Ippo, most characters in Lucky Star, the characters in Hidamari Sketch, and so on.


Does the super saiyan god return to Dragon Ball Super ? (possible spoilers) So there are rumours that the super saiyan god (red) is going to return to the Dragon Ball Super anime series. There is a text from a japanese magazine which supposedly says so, and even though I can't assert it's true, I indeed can read "super saiyan god" written in japanese in the text.

Can anyone confirm it or deny it by reading what the japanese magazine says in this text? (or through other source?)

It's been confirmed by a Dragon Ball Super writer, Super Saiyan God will return to Dragon Ball Super.


Ghost in the Shell: Who's Marcelo? Exactly who was Marcelo? In Ghost in the Shell SAC episode 7, we see that the major and co were chasing after him to know exactly what business he had entering Japan, but they never explain what happens, more specifically why did Sec9 allow him to just roam freely. Isn't he a notorious drug lord?

The episode starts with the words of a correspondent: "Marcelo Jarti, leader of the Jenoma democratic revolution, as well as military advisor to the current administration, was attacked in Panan City today". He was visiting and the shooting was pretty serious, so he was assumed to have been killed. Section 9's agents are seen confirming his identity in the beginning of the episode.

Major Kusanagi says:

  "Leader of the democratic revolution. Legendary hero. He and the current chaimran were the cenral figures in the revolution commanding the guerrilla war and leading it to victory. But after the revolution, he showed no interest whatsoever in politics, and backed the State Council chairman from behind the scenes, remaining true to his principles, staying a mere soldier. <…> The SAS and Delta Force have been behind five assassination plots against him, but he's miraculously survived each time. Nobody in his country doubts that he's their ̈„Immortal Hero“."

Then the guy with the scanner confirms that the signs of Ghost are present in Marcel's behavior. That doesn't absolutely prove his authenticity, but only says chances are high it's really him.

Director Aramaki of the Section 9 then briefs the team about the mission:

  In the past five years, Marcelo has come to Japan 12 times <…> Foreign Affairs Section 1 had been unable to ascertain his activities in-country. <…> They want us to find out why Marcelo has entered the country so often.

Bato responds: "He's a South American drug lord, isn't he? Something to do with that, maybe?" Major Matoko says it's unlikely that his interest is in making a drug deal, since he trades the classic drugs, while most of the Japan has switched to virtual drugs.

But then Marcelo is indeed seen with some drug traders. And after the investigation reveals that there are clones of Marcelo that look very life-like due to his subtle personality traits being copied over to them, it makes the same external appearance as the Ghost, making everyone think that clones are the real thing.

Marcelo is found dead and for some time now his clones have been keeping up his legendary work. Revealing the fact of his death to the public and other organizations could stir up a lot of trouble, so the Section 9 leaves things as they are for now.

The cybercrime case is closed, but what about the drug business? I don't know for sure, but I have a theory. It's likely that Marcelo's clones have been killed more than once during drug deals, but authorities decide to go with "he's alive, everything is fine" info every time because maybe they're interested in continuing the drug deals. Possibly they have a way to trace Marcelo's movements and ambush drug lords like that.


What was the first anime to feature an OP/ED that was not performed by a Japanese group/artist? I noticed a few animes in the 00s feature Western opening and closing themes.

For example:

Ergo Proxy's ending theme is Paranoid Android by Radiohead
Speed Grapher's opening theme is Girls on Film by Duran Duran.

Both of which are pretty big names.

But, most anime usually have an artist/group performing the songs that hails from Japan.

When did a track from the West first appear as an opening or ending to an anime?

In your eyes by Samantha Newark in Project A-Ko (1986)

The earliest use of an English song as an opening in the Japanese version of an anime I can find is In your eyes by Samantha Newark in Project A-Ko (1986), however, English songs were fairly common in versions dubbed for North America and Europe, often getting complete song rewrites instead of translations.

See the differences between Dragonball Z's English and Japanese openings for a good example of this.

Later on, however, when they stopped shipping new openings with anime (around 2000, for memory), English songs became more common, sporting names like Radiohead (Ergo Proxy, 2006) and Oasis (Eden of the East, 2009). An early and particular favourite of mine is Serial Experiments Lain's opening, Duvet by Boa (1998).


Which S Class heroes can be hurt by firearms? In Episode 123 of the manga is revealed,

   Pig god can't be hurt by firearms

We know other S Class heroes can't be hurt by firearms, such as Zombie man. But we see an S class rival as Garou in his first stage, someone who is capable to defeat the weakest S class heroes, having to divert a large amount of bullets from a gatling gun and having his hands bleeding from that. Is it known which S Class heroes can't be hurt by firearms, and if there is any who can be damaged by them?

The one hero that comes to mind is King. As mentioned here, King is actually weak. He has no special abilities whatsoever, aside from being a video game expert.

It is no overstatement to say that he is the weakest among all the heroes in the Hero Association. He's just a normal person and like any normal person, getting shot by firearms would severely hurt or incapacitate him, depending on the type or where he would be hit.


Did Tsunade's abilities come from the fact that she was descendant of Senju and Uzumaki? It is said that Senju shinobi received physical strength from the Six Path of Sage. The first Hokage's wife was from Uzumaki clan. Are these the reasons why Tsunade had monstrous strength and was able to use sealing techniques?

I would say partly yes and mostly through training. She developed Chakra Enhanced Strength which allows her to increase the strength of her attack tremendously. It's proven that through training even Sakura is able to show such strength in her attack.

  It should be noted that unlike Sakura, Tsunade herself already possesses incredible raw strength, capable of crushing stones in a single hand with nothing but pure muscle power. This strength is later increased to monstrous levels, when Tsunade uses this technique, allowing her to perform feats like lifting and swinging Gamabunta's tantō, creating giant craters and fissures in an area by simply striking it with either her heel or finger, destroying Madara Uchiha Susanoo's ribcage and its sword, and sending opponents flying with a flick of her finger with relative ease.


Which are the magic system of YGGDRASIL? Acording to Magic Caster link from the Overlord wiki:

  All tier spells in YGGDRASIL could be categorized in four great systems of magic, each one with some exclusive spells and characteristics; at the same way, magic casters are categorized by the system of magic that they use. Magic role players gain access to this systems through specific job classes like:
  (...)

That means that magic casters are one of the four magic systems in YGGDRASIL. I'm looking for the another three... Which are?

I've seen the first, second and now seeing the third season of the anime, but I don't have any problem if you need to make a spoiler of the novel or manga.

No spoilers, perhaps I even misunderstood the question, but here are the 4 types:

Arcane: these are simply elemental magic like Lightning and such
Divine: these are healing type magic that can be used to heal themselves or their allies
Spiritual: these contain abstract magic
Alternative: as the name implies, these are every other magic


Why does Takuto break Wako's seal at the end of Star Driver? The final episode of Star Driver is somewhat confusing to me. While it's clear what events took place, I don't understand why some of the characters did what they did.

Specifically, why does Takuto decide to break Wako's seal to unleash the cybodies into the normal world?

For the entire series:

The Glittering Crux Brigade seeks to break the seal of all 4 maidens to achieve the 5th phase.
Takuto was pretty much fighting against them for the entire series to stop this process.

So why, in the final episode, does he "change his mind" and break Wako's seal?

(Note that is it implied that Wako actually allows Takuto to break her seal.)

It was because he wanted to save Sugata

Sugata wanted to seal Samekh with him forever, meaning he wanted to sacrifice himself. And Takuto wanted to save him, that's why he broke Wako's seal. Takuto's only chance of saving him was to break Wako's seal to unseal the Zero Time. Wako wanted to save Sugata as well that's why she allowed Takuto to break her seal, agreeing both without a single word (which was just amazing for me!).

I hope I answered your question clear. This is purely based on my understanding of the ending. :)


What color does Reimu's eye have? I have seen Zun's artwork in both games and manga. Sometimes he shows that reimu have red eyes and sometimes she have dark brown eyes.

[Ignoring PC-98 games where she have purple eyes]

So what eye color does Hakurei Reimu have by default?

I found the answer. It seems like she appears have brownish-red eyes, but red by default according to most of the Zun works. Also, the brown eyes were actually a bit red, just that it mostly appeared brown if you don't look closely.


Which episode is spoofed in this section of opening sequence? Apparently, the opening sequence in Azumanga Daioh spoofs different situations throughout the series. I can't recognize which episode this is from. (Click for full size image.)

Do you know which episode this animation spoofs?

It's from Episode 13, "Tactics without Guard / S / Midterms / Formation / Ability", specifically the Midterms / Formation portion.

Even more specifically, it's the 'Idiots' / 'Numbnuts' / 'Bonkuras' formation discussed when comparing midterm grades to the others (where their combined scores add up to 103, but Chiyo's and Yomi's are of course much higher).


Who drew the Monogatari Series characters? I really love how the Monogatari Series characters are drawn, so I want to look for other art from him/her.

Here's an example of some Monogatari Series characters (clockwise, from top left):

Senjougahara Hitagi (three times), Araragi Tsuhiki, Gaen Izuko

My avatar is also one of the characters from the Monogatari Series; does anyone know who drew it?

This is art made by Akio Watanabe based on Vofan's original concept arts. The same staff have been used for all current series so far.

  The anime adaptation of Bakemonogatari aired between July 3 and September 25, 2009 on Tokyo MX. The series is part of Kodansha's Nisio Isin Anime Project and is produced by Shaft, directed by Akiyuki Shinbo with assistance from Tatsuya Oishi, written by Fuyashi Tō and featuring a character designs by Akio Watanabe based on Vofan's original concepts Source


Could a swordsman with Haki cut up Buggy? If Buggy can't be cut by sword, he would be unstoppable in Wano. Buggy has the Bara Bara no Mi, so would a swordsman using Haki be able to cut him?

The Strengths and Weaknesses section of the wikia explains his power as follows:

  The fruit's major strength, as demonstrated by Buggy, is that the user becomes permanently immune to damage from being cut or pierced, regardless in what manner, be it vertical, horizontal, or otherwise. Instead of being wounded or even killed from such attacks, the user's body simply becomes sliced into pieces. In this state, the user is still alive and can control his sliced up body. They can then manipulate the sliced up pieces to either reattach themselves back together or execute unique attacks.

Haki enables physical attacks to connect with Logia users, whose bodies usually prevent the hit. In Buggy's case, even normal attacks do hit him, but the damage is never fatal.

It's a gray area until we get a proper confirmation from the author, but since  Buggy was unscathed when Mihawk was using his Black Blade (assumption being it always has a layer of Armament Haki on it, even if weaker than his max), it is reasonable to conclude that Armament Haki might not help.

That being said, there is also a corresponding list of weaknesses that would easily prevent him from being invincible. The simplest ones being seastone/sea water, immobilizing via a strong Conqueror's Haki attack, and any sort of elemental attack. Wano will be filled with swordsmen, but we have seen hints of a new class of attacks, such as Kin'emon 's use of fire with his sword attacks, and Brook's ice powers. These should deal enough damage to keep Buggy from being OP in Wano.


Does Hisoka conjure cards? It is seen in anime that Hisoka hurls many cards, yet he never runs out of cards.
He was never shown to buy, borrow or steal a deck of cards either.
Moreover, he gets his cards out of nowhere in his hands (he never slips his hands into his pockets or his clothing to fetch cards).

So does he have the power of conjuring cards?

Similarly, does Illumi have the power of conjuring needles, and does Gotoh have the power of conjuring coins?

Or do they (i.e. Hisoka, Illumi and Gotoh) belong to the category of Emmiter?

Those are real Cards, Coins and Needles.

Chalk it up to Anime trope that he doesn't run out of Cards. Also its a logical fallacy to assume Hisoka doesn't buy/borrow/steal cards since its not shown. The seemingly cards out of nowhere is a nod to the "Magician" theme of Hisoka.

Hisoka carries with him a normal Deck of cards and uses Nen (Shu(?)) to make it razor sharp enough to kill. Similarly Gotoh and Illumi can use Nen to fashion deadly projectiles.

One of the examples I can use here is that of Gotoh vs Hisoka fight.

   Hisoka was able to fire back the coins used by Gotoh, if they were conjured he would've simple "unconjured" them instead of shooting them down. This I think proves the coins were real

This is a common trope in many Anime or Manga where the characters have seemingly endless supplies of "anything" they may need. Kunai and Shuriken in Naruto never seem to run out, Duelists in Yu-Gi-Oh never run out of cards etc.


Is the Fruit of Grisaia an actual fruit? Having played a fair bit of -LE FRUIT DE LA GRISAIA- (Grisaia no Kajitsu, literally "The Fruit of Grisaia"), I have to admit that the title has confused me more than anything else. It seems to have very little to do with the plot of the VN, at least so far.

What is the meaning of the title? Is it titled after an actual fruit, and if so what is the fruit? Also, what significance does it have to the plot?

According to this interview with Front Wing Producer, President, and CEO, Ryuuichirou Yamakawa:

  山川　絵画の画法でモノトーンで書く手法を「グリザイユ」というのですが、これを少し、いじって『グリザイアの果実』つまり「灰色の果実」という意味が込められています

The word "grisaia" is a corruption of the French term used in art, "grisaille," a method of painting in monochrome or near-monochrome, typically to resemble the appearance of marble sculptures. So literally it's meant to be "the gray-colored fruit" or something like that.

The fruits refer "guilt" the heroines bear, as described by the story synopsis of the game:

  ──その学園は、少女達の果樹園だった。
  外敵から隔離された学園にやってきたのは、生きる目的をなくした一人の少年。
  守るべき物を見失い、後悔と贖罪のみに費やされる人生の中で、その少年に残されたのは首に繋がれた太い鎖と、野良犬にも劣る安い命。
  そして少年は、その学園で少女達と出会い、新たな希望を見つけ出す。

  ──その少女は、生まれてきたことが既に間違いだった
  逆らった罪──
  ──生きながらの死
  誰も守ってなんかくれない──
  ──そして生き残った罰。

  そこは、少女達の果樹園。
  彼女達は、後悔の樹に実った懺悔の果実。そんな少女達に、俺はいったい何が出来る…？
  それは、一人の少年が夢見た永遠の希望──

  That academy – used to be the orchard of young girls.
  A lonely boy, who lost his purpose to live, came to that isolated-from-the-foreign-enemies academy.
  Lose sight of things that should be protected, he spends his life in living day by day with regret and atonement. His life is cheaper than a stray dog when that heavy cangue still around his neck.
  And then at that academy, the boy finds out his new hope in encountering with these girls.

  ──That girl, who being born was already a mistake.
  Who defied the sin──
  ──Who died though she’s living.
  Who no one will protect── [Note: translation corrected]
  ──and who being punished for surviving.

  That place is the girls’ orchard.
  The trees of regret bear the fruit of repentance of those girls. What on earth can I do for these girls...?
  That is the eternal hope which the lonely boy dreamt...

Each heroine is represented by a fruit:

Yumiko = grape
Suou = cherry
Michiru = lemon
Irisu = strawberry
Sachi = apple


Looking for a fantasy anime movie Watched it around end of 80's - beginning of 90's.

It's about two nations constantly fighting each other.  One lives in a valley with huge levee, another in a forest. Those from the forest are the "evil" ones, if I remember correctly. Also, there is an airship flying at night, with souls of the dead people, and all those souls look like birds. The protagonist lives between the two fighting nations, together with his wife or sister (don't remember exactly). At the end he helps the forest guys and destroys the levee. His wife/sister dies as a result.

You're most likely thinking of the Windaria movie, based on a novel of the same name, by Keisuke Fujikawa.

In the movie, when people die they turn into red light shaped like birds and fly to an airship in the sky over the ocean.

It might also go by the name Legend of Fabulous Battle Windaria and Once Upon a Time, Windaria. The English version by Harmony Gold was rescripted and altered to include renamed characters, revised plot, and a happier ending among other things.


Goku SSJ Berserker in Dragon Ball Heroes? According to this video (in spanish) Goku SSJ Berserker a magazine has showed a capture of a Dragon Ball Heroes card and it states Goku is going to achieve the super saiyan berserker form. Is this true? Can anyone read the japanese text showed in the video and/or the magazine and say if this is true?

I can't read the japanese text but it appeared in the manga already


How could spirit bomb kill Majin Buu? How could spirit bomb kill Majin Buu when Frieza wasn't much affected by it?

All of us know that Majin Buu was far stronger than Frieza.

The spirit bomb against Majin Buu was simply far more powerful than the one used against Frieza.
The strength of a spirit bomb depends on the amount of energy the user can gather.
During the fight against Frieza the energy comes from Namek and some nearby planets. At that point the population on Namek was quite decimated so there wasn't much energy from there.
Against Majin Buu the energy came from the strongly populated Earth, the Other World, New Namek and the rest of the surviving planets of the sector.

Source : Dragon Ball Wiki articles regarding the Spirit Bombs against Frieza and Majin Buu.


Why would Mori Summer use the same incantation as Tyrant Eye? In episode 4 of Chuunibyou demo koi ga shitai, when Mori Summer was fighting Mjolnir Hammer for the possession of Mabinogion, Mori Summer used the incantation,

  Reality, be rent! （はぜろレアル！）
  Synapse, break! （はじけろシナプス！）
  Vanishment, this world! （バニシュメントティスワルド！）

This is the same incantation as what Tyrant Eye uses to transform (henshin). Mjolnir Hammer and Dark Flame Master also uses the same incantation. If I remember correctly, Sophia Ring SP Saturn VII also uses the same incantation. This is understandable since Sophia Ring SP Saturn VII was friends with Dark Flame Master and went to the same school if I remember correctly. Tyrant Eye came into existence due to Dark Flame Master. Mjolnir Hammer is servant to Tyrant Eye. So them sharing the same incantation is perfectly understandable.

However, Mori Summer who went to a different school and has no connection whatsoever with them, except Mjolnir Hammer, was using the same incantation. Why is that? Is there an in universe explanation why Mori Summer is using the same henshin incantation despite coming from a different branch of chuunibyou-ism?

TL;DR: Rikka probably taught Nibutani the incantation before she headed off to battle Dekomori. The incantation probably does not come from Shichimiya, since Shichimiya uses a different incantation in her battles against Rikka in season 2. Moreover, Nibutani most likely never did battle as Mori Summer before, so it makes sense for Rikka to have taught her the incantation to start her battle with Dekomori.

Firstly, I dispute this piece of evidence:

If I remember correctly, Sophia Ring SP Saturn VII also uses the same incantation. This is understandable since Sophia Ring SP Saturn VII was friends with Dark Flame Master and went to the same school if I remember correctly. Tyrant Eye came into existence due to Dark Flame Master.

The first time we see Shichimiya battle is in season 2 episode 3 Tsuigeki no… Maou Mahou Shoujo ("Magical Devil Girl… in Pursuit"), when she challenges Rikka at the latter's school. The incantation Shichimiya uses at that time is different from Rikka's. The subtitles I've seen is translated as

"Sing, cherubim! Descend, seraphim! Physical linkage!"

Perhaps someone knowledgeable in Japanese can identify the precise incantation; however, it is doubtless a different one from Rikka's, especially as the scene cuts between Rikka and Shichimiya as they each deliver the corresponding lines of their incantations.
The same thing happens the second time Shichimiya and Rikka battle, this time in episode 9 Namiuchigiwa no… Kyuukyoku Ougi (Rizouto Rasuto Rizouto) ("Ultimate Mystery… on the Shore (Resort Last Resort)"), when Shichimiya confronts Rikka at the beach about the latter's resolve.
However, in the movie Take on Me, when Shichimiya and Rikka are about to battle at Aomori, Shichimiya responds to "Reality, be rent!" with "Synapse, break!" and both chant "Vanishment, this world!" together, before their battle is stalled by Kumin. But this instance can be chalked down to the director's creative decision; I would say that it's clear from the instances in season 2 that Shichimiya usually uses a chant different from Rikka's when going into battle.
Moreover, while it is true that Yuuta received his name "Dark Flame Master" and his attack "Be engulfed in the flames of darkness and disappear!" from Shichimiya, as he reveals in episode 3, he does not mention anything about the incantation. In fact, I think the only instance when Yuuta prepares an incantation of any sort is when he shows Rikka the Unseen Horizon right at the end of season 1. In that instance, he used Rikka's incantation, but I would hesitate to say that that shows that he was familiar with Rikka's incantation before meeting her and getting to know her at the new school. So, while it is true that the Tyrant's Eye came into existence due to the Dark Flame Master, who in turn came into existence due to Sophia Ring SP Saturn VII, I don't think this provides any link between Rikka's incantation and Shichimiya's incantation.

How then does one explain Nibutani's use of the same incantation as used by Rikka and Dekomori in her fight with the latter? My reading of that episode is as follows.
Recall that Rikka was present when Yuuta was about to offer his advice to Nibutani about how she can get Dekomori to hand over the Mabinogion. The scene cuts away at this point, but it is reasonable to assume that Rikka was present during Yuuta's suggestion to try and defeat Dekomori in battle. I surmise that Rikka might have stepped in at some point and taught Nibutani the incantation that she and Dekomori use to enter battle.
After all, Nibutani has possibly never done battle before during her phase as Mori Summer. In season 2 episode 3, when Rikka is practicing her attacks against Kumin—who is playing the role of a provisional magical girl—ostensibly to defeat Shichimiya the next time they battle, Nibutani interrupts them and points out that Kumin is more of a sentou shoujo ("Battle Girl") than a mahou shoujo ("Magical Girl"), and she goes on to add:

In the first place, magic is supposed to make people happy. The spirits who manipulate magic were always thoroughly pure of heart. They never resorted to brute force…

Her explanation is dropped midway, but her non-violent approach as Mori Summer is clear, not only from the above explanation, but also from her general demeanour and actions as Mori Summer: having priestess-like accessories, singing choir songs, talking to the birds, communing with Nature, etc. All of these point far away from a battle-oriented chuuni persona.
So, my guess is that when Yuuta guided Nibutani to face Dekomori in battle, Rikka offered Nibutani her incantation to kick things off.


In the Dreamworld, why was Minato and Kushina like how they were when naruto first met them In the Dreamworld, Naruto sees his mom and dad again. They both seem normal and like how we see them when they were sealing the nine-tails into  Naruto. WHy didn't their personalities change? Shikamaru turned dumb, Kiba became a cat lover so wouldn't that make Kushina have a gentler mom personality and Minato to be a terrible ninja?

Based on your description of Kiba being a cat lover, I am assuming you are referring to the Road to Ninja movie. While some characters do contain alternate personalities, not everybody's personalities changed in this world

  The majority of the movie takes place in an alternate dimension known as the Genjutsu World, where almost the entire cast has different personalities and behaviours compared to their actual selves. Despite this, however, some still possess their own personalities and behaviours.

This Genjustu World was created by Tobi's Limited Tsukuyomi in hopes to capture Kurama. While Minato's and Kushina's personalities did not change, their roles change with Sakura's parents

  The illusion is a prototype of the Infinite Tsukuyomi and was influenced by both Naruto's deep desire to have parents and Sakura's desire for freedom from parental control. Their desires, in turn, create a scenario where Minato Namikaze, who never became Fourth Hokage, and Kushina Uzumaki are alive and Sakura's parents, Kizashi and Mebuki Haruno, died defending the village


Do Seiyuu use stage-names for their anime works? What I mean by this is not the alias they use when they do H-Games. What I mean is whether they use a stage-name when doing anime works.

It all started from a little question I had in mind, "Is Hanazawa Kana really Hanazawa Kana?" Usually people in the entertainment industry use a stage-name to avoid mixing up their personal life and their public life. An example for this is the actor Hiro Mizushima, who is not really Hiro Mizushima by birth. His birth name is Saito Tomohiro. Does the same hold true with the seiyuu profession?

I also noted that Mizuki Nana's birth name is Kondo Nana. But is she just a rare case or are most seiyuu like that (that is, using a stage name)?

I looked up each of the listed "major" and "popular" male and female seiyuu at Hitoshi Doi's Seiyuu (voice actor) Database (Doi's database has been collecting seiyuu information since 1994 and hit 50,000 entries in 2001).

Although this is not a representative sampling of all seiyuu, out of these 20 individuals recognized as "major" and "popular" by Doi, 4 (or possibly 3) are using a stage name (if 4, that comes out to 20%):

水樹奈々 (Mizuki Nana), who you mentioned, born as 近藤奈々 (Kondo Nana)
[山口勝平 (Yamaguchi Kappei), born as 山口光雄 (Yamaguchi Mitsuo)
優希比呂 (Yuuki Hiro), born as 露崎照久 (Tsuyusaki Teruhisa), debuted in 1988 under the name 結城比呂 (Yuuki Hiro = same pronunciation but different kanji for the surname), changed his surname to 優希 in June, 2007.
堀江由衣 (Horie Yui), born as Horie Yoshiko according to Hitoshi Doi, but he does not know her original kanji nor does the Japanese Wikipedia page mention a name change

Based on this small sample, 1) seiyuu can choose stage names and change stage names after debut, but the majority go by their real name, and 2) those who do adopt a stage name may likely adapt their real name (change only the surname or given name but not both).

To check for more individual cases, the Japanese Wikipedia page of each seiyuu lists the real name under 「本名」 (honmyou = real name) in the profile box on the right side, if the person has a different real name.

花澤香菜 (Hanazawa Kana) is her real name.


Is there some type of connection between Mavis and Zeref? In opening 10 of Fairy Tail at 1:15 we see Mavis and Zeref walking towards each other. When their lines of vision meet, a look of deja vu appears on their faces, indicating that they have meet before. Do they know each other and what is their connection? Did they once love each other? (That's the speculation on my part.)

Please watch the opening of Fairy Tail, Number 10 here first before answering my question so you have a better understanding on what I am asking in my question.

Answers are appreciated.

I think Zeref and Mavis had a thing. You know how Zeref said one day, that he realized the meaning of life and stopped all of his bad ways? Well, I think that day was the day Mavis died. Possibly killed by Zeref himself. He may have felt terrible and realized that he needed to be stopped. So as he awaits Natsu to get stronger, he stays near Mavis, enjoying her presences till the day comes.


How did Boruto learn the shadow clone jutsu? Who taught Boruto the shadow clone Jutsu? In the anime, episode 36 Kakashi asks if Boruto's father (Naruto) taught him the jutsu, but he replied no. If Naruto didn't teach Boruto, then who did?

I think it's most likely Konohamaru, as in Boruto the movie, before Sasuke takes Boruto as his pupil, he already knows how to preform that jutsu. And in Boruto episode 36, he states that his father didn't teach him the jutsu.


Do Servants retain memories of their past Masters? I have recently started watching the Fate series but I watched it in the order of Fate/Zero then Fate/Stay. But, thats's not the thing that concerns me. While I was watching Fate/stay, this question kinda popped into my head.

Do Servants contain memories of their past Masters?

People keep telling me to read the visual novel but I can't find it online. I would really appreciate if someone could answer the question for me!

A Servant that has been summoned and then returned to the Throne of Heroes will not remember their first summoning during any subsequent summonings. Under normal circumstances, each time a Servant is summoned, it is actually a copy of the Servant derived from the Throne of Heroes that manifests into the world, and changes to that copy do not affect the version of the Hero stored in the Throne of Heroes. (Servants have copy semantics, so to speak.)

However, in Fate/stay night and Fate/Zero, Saber and Gilgamesh do not follow this general rule.

Gilgamesh remained in the world from the start of the 4th Grail War until at least part way through the 5th Grail War, and hence has memories of this entire time period (but he would not have memories of other summonings).
Saber, having not yet died at the time of her summoning to the 4th and 5th Grail Wars, was not copied from the Throne of Heroes in the first place. She retains continuity of memory between the two wars. (Saber has move semantics, if you will.)


How much older are Obito and Rin than Kakashi? I've been doing a lot of research on this topic, but I have found little clues. People say that Obito and Rin are about 4 years older than Kakashi, but I don't think that's true.

People keep saying that it's proven in the manga and the show, but as far as I know that is not true.

That's completely wrong. If they were indeed 4 years older than Kakashi, they should have been a lot taller than him when they were part of Team Minato.

Anyway, it's not said exactly how old they are, but judging by the fact that most ninja students become a Genin or get graduated at the age of 12, and since these are the birthdays of the characters:

Rin is born on November 15
Obito is born on February 10
Kakashi is born on September 15

there are some scenarios we could come up with (imagine the world of Naruto being 2005 and 2006):

All three of them are born in the same year, making them all the same age (12) and making their age order like this: Obito>>Kakashi>>Rin, making Obito 7 months older than Kakashi and 9 months older than Rin, while Kakashi being 2 months older than Rin.
They are born in different years: making it look like if Rin is born in 2005 and the other two in 2006, then it's Rin>>Obito>>Kakashi, making Rin only 13 years old, while Kakashi and Obito are 12, and are 10 months and 3 months younger than Rin, respectively.

If you mean the current timeline, obviously Rin is dead, but Kakashi was 26-27 years old in part 1, and 29-31 years old in part 2, same for Obito. This will automatically make Rin 29-31 years as well, if she was still alive.


Where did the God Tree come from? Ever since I finished Naruto Shippuden, something has always bugged me. I understand Kaguya supposedly came from a dimension of Otsutsuki warriors, but I can't just believe that the seed for the God Tree came from a random meteorite. It had to have been created by someone or something.

Is it possible to find out who created it or if it was created in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations?

So from what I read, the God Tree landed on Earth from a meteorite several millennia ago. Basically landed before man kind. It also said that people were praising it like a sacred pillar from the gods but in reality it was slowly killing the earth by draining the natural chakra in the soil, rocks, water, and air. It also said that every thousand years, the God Tree produced a 'Chakra Fruit' which humans were suppose to stay away from. Members of the Otsutsuki clan searched through dimensions in search of the God Tree so they could eat the chakra fruit and obtain powerful chakra for themselves. It also said that once Kaguya Otsutsuki ate the God Tree's chakra fruit, she enslaved part of the humans population with the Infinite Tsukuyomi and bound those affected by the God Tree with it's life transforming them into White Zetsu. When Kaguya had her two sons, Hagoromo and Hamura, they were born with their own chakra, so she merged herself with the God Tree to take back their chakra and becoming the Ten-Tails itself.

I gathered this information from

http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/God_Tree


How did Natsu manage to kill Silver Fullbuster (Gray Fullbuster's Father)? In Tartoros Arc of Fairy Tail, Gray was given Ice Devil Slayer magic. His father then said, "Do you know why I learned ice devil slayer magic? It's because END is a fire demon." Gray said "I swear one day I will kill END". Why and how did Natsu kill Gray's father when he was still living?

Natsu didn't kill Silver; in fact, nobody directly killed him. Silver was already technically dead for the entire span of the series starting from the time when Deliora destroyed Gray's home; he was just kept in a "living state" with Keyes' necromancy curse. Silver died (for real) because Juvia killed Keyes, causing the necromancer's power keeping Silver "alive" to disappear, which finally lead to Silver's death.


Why has Sakura Yamauchi never had a pancreas transplant? Why has Sakura Yamauchi never had a pancreas transplant in the "I Want to Eat Your Pancreas" anime? Why didn't doctors suggest this?

I haven't seen the animated film but I assume her condition is the same as the manga which is Pancreatic cancer, it's mentioned on page 20 of chapter 1 on the first page of her "Infirmity Novel" (a journal she's keeping about the progression of her disease). As @paulnamida mentions in a comment and a bit of Googling around a pancreas transplant is occasionally done for people with Type 1 Diabetes but not for Pancreatic cancer. Usually Pancreatic cancer is discovered too late to be treated as it is more difficult than most cancers to detect in its early stages due to its symptoms being mistaken with those of other illnesses more common than cancer. By the time it is detected it has often already started to spread to other parts of the body which makes a transplant of just the pancreas futile. If the cancer had been caught early enough (which the story seems to imply it wasn't) and has yet to spread to other parts of the body then it can be treated by surgically removing part of the pancreas via Whipple Surgery which would not require a transplant to be done anyway.


Did Gilgamesh know about Sakura? Early into Fate/Stay Night, there is a scene where Shirou sees Sakura and another man:

In the Unlimited Blade Works Route, we confirm this other man is Gilgamesh. When Sakura talks to Shirou, she says that the other man was a foreigner and she couldn't understand him. However, we can see from the image that that may not be the case.

Since Gilgamesh has been tainted by Angra Mainyu's corruption of the Holy Grail from the previous war, and Sakura is a "Black Grail" Vessel with a deeper connection to Angra Mainyu than the "White Grail" Vessel (Ilya), did Gilgamesh already know about Sakura?

To complement Anon153's answer, here's a relevant quotation from TYPE-MOON Wiki:

  Gilgamesh is one of the antagonists in each scenario of Fate/stay
  night. He first appears before the start of the Fifth Holy Grail War
  around Sakura's house. He identifies her as “the other Grail” and
  comes to tell her “Go die right now.” It is just a suggestion rather
  than a command, as he believes that the matter will develop into some
  sort of entertainment regardless of the situation. When questioned
  about the encounter, Sakura just claims that he was asking for
  directions and that “It was English” in order to hide the truth.

And source referenced is as follows (Citation Note 14):

  Fate/complete material III World material - FAQ with Nasu: General Questions about Fate, p.130
  Q: Prior to the start of the Holy Grail War, what was Gilgamesh doing around Sakura’s house?
  A: Yes. He came to tell Sakura to “Go die right now”. It is rather a suggestion than command. Regardless the situation, from the King’s perspective, this matter will develop into some sort of entertainment. As a result, what Gilgamesh said was not a command. Sakura’s reply “It was English” was a convenient excuse to hide the truth.


When will Oda finish One Piece? Did Oda say when he will finish his work One Piece? Why has it been going on for so long?

Most of the time the ending date of a serialized manga can't really be known until the last few chapters, alternatively the start of the last Arc of the series.

As long as Oda enjoys drawing it and it keeps being a cash cow for both him and Shueisha it'll likely keep going, but last year Oda said that as of now the story is about 65% done. Doing the math it should be going for about 5 more years. But of course this is just a very rough estimate, it will depend on the length of the future arcs, while there's also the possibility that Oda will decide (or will be forced) to add filler arcs.

As for why it's been going for so long, there are two reasons:

Oda enjoys doing it (and didn't die yet)
It's a cash cow for Shueisha (so it hasn't been cancelled)

On a side note, One Piece isn't even that long, there are ongoing series with over a hundred volumes out there.
The longest running Shounen Jump series, Kochikame finished last year, it was running for a solid 40 years and has 1960 chapters in 200 volumes.


What are Elements and Maken? Most of the superpowers in the series seem to be related to two concepts, namely Elements and Maken. There are exceptions to this, like Himegami's Shikigami, but Elements and Maken are both referenced frequently, and they seem to be how most of the characters fight.

However, neither one was really explained, at least in the anime. It isn't really clear to me what either term means, and how they're related. It is clear that every character has a Maken, which is basically a unique ability or power, but there's a lot that's still confusing. For instance, for some characters, their Maken seems to be an item that they use in combat, while for others it's a power inside them. Haruko's Maken is said to be contained in a different dimension, and it opens a gate to the real world, and seems to almost be a living thing.

What are Maken, and how do they work? Also, what is the relationship between Elements and Maken?

As per the article on Wikipedia:

However, he learns that the school is for students who possess magical and spiritual energies called Elements and who wield crafted weapons known as Makens.

Elements are: magical and spiritual energies
Makens are: crafted weapons
Also as mentioned on TVTropes:

..... where the only students admitted are those who are able to control a source of energy found in all living things called "Element". Manipulating those "elements", they are capable to perform common psychic ability like psychokinesis..., to enhance their physical abilities and to be able to use magical artifacts called Maken. These Maken give the users specific and varied abilities, like superstrength, turning one's body into steel, manipulating water...
There are two types of Maken, external and internal. External Makens look like normal weapons and add-ons, while internal maken are embedded inside the user's body. Since they are powerful artifacts used by ancient gods, students normally do not have true (i.e. original) Makens, but only use imitated Makens that are forged by resident Maken-smith Gen Tagayashi.

So Makens are the way to use the energy within the so-called Elements.


How does Jigglypuff not fall asleep from its own song? Jigglypuff's song is seen to be extremely effective in putting people and Pokemon to sleep, but how does it not fall asleep from its own singing?

Shouldn't it at least fall asleep after it's done?

At first: As kuwaly mentioned, normally no one falls asleep while singing a lullaby. That's most likely the reason, but there are other possible points:

Like in the game, Pokémon using Sing aren't affected by the attack. This was most likely done to make this move usable, and was copied in the anime so the viewers aren't confused.
Some of the Pokédex-entries suggest, that you need to look in the eyes of Jigglypuff to be affected. As a Jigglypuff can't look itself in the eyes, it can't fall asleep. You can read the entries on Bulbapedia.

I also think I remember other Jigglypuffs falling asleep, too, but I'm not sure. That would mean, that Jigglypuffs aren't immune to the singing, but just aren't affected by their own attack.


Is "Snow White with Red Hair" manga available in color? Is Snow White with the Red Hair manga available in colour? Or is it only in black and white?

There doesn't seem any colored version of Snow White with Red Hair manga.

The list of the published printed manga on Japanese Wikipedia only listed 1 series, which doesn't seem to be in color (just a normal black & white).

Googling 赤髪の白雪姫 漫画 カラー版 (Akagami no Shirayukihime manga COLOR ban, "Snow White with Red Hair" manga colored version) also didn't give any convincing proof whether there's a colored version of the manga either.

Searching on eBookJapan (Japanese) also didn't list any digitally colored version.


Name of an anime show I am trying to recall a show from my childhood.

I've watched it sometime before 2000/2001, but it could have been from many years before that.

I really don't remember the story, but

It was about a school girl (which anime isn't ;) )
She traveled to some kind of fantasy world (I don't remember if she traveled back and forth, or if the school-time was flashbacks)
There was a water well that had something to do with this traveling
She had skills in shooting arrows
The title screen or the commercials screen had two dice on it - I clearly remember the dice
I think the title was like "foul-play" or "role-play" (again the association with dice) or something, but I am very vague on it.

This sounds like Inuyasha, based on a manga by Rumiko Takahashi. The girl in question is "Kagome Higurashi" and her male counterpart is a half-demon named Inuyasha. She also shoots arrows that are tipped with a special jewel shard. She travels back and forth from the fantasy world through a well in the back of her temple.

More info:

Wikia
Anime News Network
My Anime List


Why didn't Makishima spread the video of the Sibyl system? In episode 17 Makishima is handed Gu-sung Choe's phone with a video that shows the the Sibyl system's true form.

An episode earlier Gu-sung Choe said that if this video were to go public it would be the end of the country.

After Makishima escaped the aircraft he could have uploaded this, why didn't he? It would have been much easier instead of trying to poison all food supplies.

People would have gone so crazy about this (if it wouldn't be immediately "debunked" as fake by Sybil), and then everybody would be targets for execution or imprisonment.

Or it would not do anything at all. Remember how people sometimes would decide on their own that something that looks horribly wrong can't be real, because otherwise the above would happen, and so they just go on along, like it's a prank or something that doesn't deserve a second thought.

So the more effective way of thinking would not be a risky revolution attempt like this, but a behind-the-scenes action that would definitely do something, without relying on people's thoughts.


Can Izanagi help to escape natural death? As far as I understand Izanami determines the fate and Izanagi helps to escape the fate in cost of a Sharingan. Death is the ultimate fate of all of us. So can Izanagi be used to cheat natural death. Then a Rinnegan and Sharingan wielder can be virtually immortal!
Can Izanagi cheat natural death.

PARTLY SPOILER
Yes, you can use the Izangi to revive yourself after death. I don't know how, but Madara had implanted the Izangi in his eye before his death and used it to come back to life, for exchange for his right eye.


Whats the name of the instrumental soundtrack at the start in Mardock Scramble:The First Compression? As the title says what is the name/title of the instrumental song/BGM that is played during the first 4 minutes of the start of the anime movie Mardock Scramble: The First Compression?

The track that starts at 55 seconds into the movie and ends with the title card at 3:16 is called "Balot -The little girl in the huge city-".

It's the second track on the official soundtrack for the first movie and composed by Conish (コーニッシュ). (The first track on the OST is the one they used for the trailer)


Why did Yuno not die after her diary was destroyed by Aru? In episode 22 of Mirai Nikki after Aru kissed Yukiteru, a angry Yuno runs and attacks Aru who slices/breaks her future diary in half. I definitely heard the phone go static which indicates when a future is changing, so my question is why didn't she die?

Well actually I do not watch the anime, but I searched and found people said the anime pretty much the same with the manga. So, what happened was...

   Well, you know that the present Yuno is First World Yuno right? When she came to the present world (Second World), she killed the Second World Yuno, took her place in the present, and took her phone, and that made her having two phones. The phone that Aru destroyed was the phone that originally owned by Second World Yuno. Meanwhile, the real phone of First World Yuno was safe with her. That's why she didn't die.

For complete information, you can read Mirai Nikki's Wikia Page of Yuno. Read "The End Begins" and "The Final Battle" section.


Why is the "drinking milk" trope so prevalent in anime? Repeatedly I see that people in animes drink milk, often after bathing. Females tend to say that it helps to grow their chest. Is that true? But also male characters sometimes drink it, like Kurozuma Watarufrom.

Image from thedreamingotaku. Sanae Dekomori from Chuunibyou Demo Koi Ga Shitai in episode 5.

What is the meaning behind the drinking milk trope, what do people gain from it and why is it shown so often in anime?

There's probably no one answer for why they drink milk in general, but as far as the bathing, it's considered a traditional drink in Japanese public bath houses after a soak:

  There is usually a refreshment cooler here where customers can self-serve and pay the attendant. Milk drinks are traditional favorites and sometimes there is ice cream.

Most places don't know how the tradition started but it's been around for a long time and some people say that milk drinks (not just plain milk but also milk+coffee) taste particularly good after a hot bath.


Is there a map for the Death March's world? I tried looking for it online, but it got drowned in tons of scanlated pages, several SS of the anime, and a kumo-desu-ga-nani-ga map.

Is there a map of the Death March's world?

As Aki Tanaka commented, here are the best looking fan-made maps:

Auyugok territory map

Good luck understanding it :p


Is Kotodama devil the most powerful character in Black Clover? So, in the animated series, the elf leader, the first magic emperor, 2 magic emperor wannabes, and one elf leader wannabe are having a hard time fighting and trying to defeat Kotodama devil. Are there official stats for this character?
Is Kotodama devil supposed to be the most powerful character in Black Clover?

Although very strong, the Kotodama Devil isn't the strongest entity within the Black Clover verse.

No human characters have been described as being able to beat the Kotodama Devil in a one-on-one confrontation. However, another devil has been described within the universe as stronger than the Kotodama Devil.

   A devil named Megicula has been described as globally stronger than the Kotodama Devil by Lolopechka, the princess of the Heart Kingdom. Lolopechka is an extremely sensitive mage able to observe multiple remote locations at once (even in other countries) through ambiant moisture and her Water Magic (augmented by the Water Spirit, Undine). This makes her a credible source (Chapter 228, p.9)


Which demon slayer rank is needed to be able to defeat a Twelve Demon Moon Lower Moon? There are 10 demon slayer ranks, Tanjiro being the lowest was able to put some fight against Lower Moon Rui. Which demon slayer rank is needed to be able to defeat a Twelve Demon Moon Lower Moon?

I think it's not depend on demon slayer's rank like Tanjiro. He has abilities and skills adopt from his father and his experience and succeed from Sakonji Urokodaki's training. Higher rank than Tanjiro has only have more experience in battling with demons than him that's why they're high rank. Therefore, it depends on demon slayer's skills and abilities.


Song played in Tokyo Ghoul :re episode 4 The soundtrack starts when Juzu enters the Auction, attacks the ghouls and then looks up at the Madam (duration 09:40-10:52)

The soundtrack has not been publicly released as of yet. When the season is finished I assume we will know ;) (Though the ED and OP have been)

If my math is correct, the earliest it will be released is in 53 days and 4 hours (from when this is posted).

This is if they actually release the OST on that day, they might release it the weeks afterwards; who knows?


Which route is the Rewrite anime based on? I watched the last episode of Rewrite the anime. I am well aware that it is based on the visual novel of the same title. I have a question regarding the end of the anime. The end is rather unusual.

   At the end of the anime, Gaia successfully evoked Kagari's salvation. Humanity, including the main character, Koutarou, and the heroines are all wiped out too.

Because of that, I think that the ending is based on the

   bad end

route. Is that really the case? If not, then which route was it based on?

The rewrite anime is a "new" route which is basically an amalgamation of all the routes. It grabs events from all routes that are in the VN, plus some new content with Kagari (most probably inspired by the Harvest Festa fandisc, where Kagari has a similar personality).

Spoiler for Moon and Terra (i.e. second season)

   As for the ending, all of the routes that branch off from the common route are "bad" endings. In some, humanity is either wiped out or reduced to a state where it has no future. In others, even if there are no obvious bad effects, it is hinted that humanity has a few dozen years of survival, maximum. The ending of anime is closest to Shizuru's end, where possessed Akane instruments Salvation through Kagari, but a few humans are just barely able to survive. But they probably die off, unable to rebuild human civilization.

As for Terra:

   It is in Terra's route where humanity actually gains a future, thanks to the sacrifice of one random guy, which is central theme of the route (and the whole VN by extension).


List of surviving Uchiha I originally thought that the only surviving members after the Uchiha massacre were Sasuke and Itachi, but more and more seem to be revealed.  Is there a canonical list of surviving members of the Uchiha clan after the massacre?

The following:

Uchiha Itachi - Who performed the massacre. Was killed later by Sasuke (according to his plan), then reanimated, eventually to die again (permanently, this time).
Uchiha Sasuke - Who was spared by Itachi in hopes of making him strong. Still alive.

That's about it from the traditional ones.

Madara Uchiha - Who was dead during the massacre, was also later reanimated.
Uchiha Obito also survived the massacre, in fact, he helped Itachi execute it (as Tobi).

And also

   Sarada Uchiha, Sasuke's and Sakura's daughter, also counts for the purposes of this list.


Why is Princess Reiners called a monster? We got introduced to Princess Reiners in season 2, episode 1, and we were given flashes in the ending theme that she had a dark personality. This was later confirmed in episodes 9 and 10 when her brother, Prince Zanac, calls her a monster to her face. When she turned around, she had the anime crazy face, but didn't actually change form into a literal monster of any kind.

Over on the MAL forum for episode 12, they simply refer to her as a yandere. On the Wikia, they say she's a psychopath.

I always considered the anime crazy face to be a metaphor for viewers, not a literal change for other characters in-story. Aside from her dark personality / face twisting, and the fact that she plans out big, complicated, moves, I don't understand what the big deal is. Why would she be called a monster? How would anyone else in Yggdrasil would know that she is a "monster"? Or is she a monster in a literal sense?

Princess Renner belongs to the Human Race and doesn't possess any magical skills or powers such as other races. So the people referring to her as a Monster is just symbolic or figurative.
For the reasons why she is called a monster, it's mainly because she hides her true twisted personality and acts just the opposite way in public.
Aside from this, she's extremely observational, intelligent, and possess advanced intellect.
There is a time when she easily deciphers various locations of eight fingers from a document, and then we see Lakyus (leader of Blue Roses) saying that there is no one for whom the word genius is a better fit except the Princess.
Then during a meeting with Marquis Raeven and her brother Zanac, she says some interesting dialogs about Marquis

I wish for you, the hidden leader of the Royalty Faction, no, the one
who controls the Royalty Faction from the shadows, to lend me your
household troops..........

Both Marquis Raeven and her brother Zenac are terrified and Zanac says:

How do you, up here like a bird in cage, know all of that?

That is the reason why Zanac describes Renner as an unfathomable monster.
Some more quotes:

Why, Climb. Are you on your way to show your face to that monster?
To Climb warning about Renner: Listen, Climb. If you were a bigot then I wouldn’t have even bothered
to say anything. But I’m giving you a warning since she could be
tricking you. She’s a monster
To Renner: Is that so. This is your true face. What should I say when you were
young, it always felt like something was strange about you, but now I
know you’re not normal

So considering these characteristics, it can be said that she is the most intelligent human in the whole Overlord series and also gets on well with other superior races (for example, check her relations with Albedo in the other question regarding Renner). It's just natural for anyone to be terrified after learning her identity behind the mask she puts on as a saint. You would really call someone like that a true monster.
So in short, she is not a (former) monster in any literal sense. But her personality, intelligence, and mental disorder makes her one (symbolically)


What is a 通信{つうしん} from a manga publisher? I found this page with a short list of 通信{つうしん} from the publisher Tosuisha for its magazine Ichiraci, and I was wondering what exactly 通信 are. Here's an example cover of one:

There are several people listed as working on different sections in each book, the sections being

表紙 (cover page)
描下し２Pまんが (2-page manga)
キャラインタビュー (character interview)
燃えよ☆萌魂 (moeyo ☆ moetama)
キャラ日記 (character's diary)
すぺしゃる４コマ (special 4-koma)

The page also mentions exchanging Ichiraci back issues for points of some kind. (配布終了後のバックナンバーは、１１号～１８号まで各 ２ポイント で交換出来ます♪)

Does anyone know what exactly these are? I would assume they're some sort of mini-booklet distributed every month or so with special features of some sort for currently-running manga, but I'm hoping that someone else knows more.

According to a search on jisho.org, 通信{つうしん} by itself can mean "correspondence," "communication," "transmission," "news," "signal," or "telecommunications."

However, further down the page (the third entry), there is another word that combines 通信 with 販売{はんばい} ("sales," "selling," or "marketing") to form 通信販売{つうしんはんばい}, which refers to any kind of mail order service (including shopping online and getting a delivery by mail).

Taking my best educated guess, these booklets are likely a promotional item or extension of the magazine distributed by mail, and 通信 is used as an abbreviation for 通信販売 (as that compound seems to carry the most relevant meaning to this question).


How did Fuu die in Naruto? How did Fuu die in the Naruto anime? Was she killed by the Akatsuki during the bijuu extraction or was it somewhere else?

When Fu was captured by the Akatsuki, her death shortly followed after the extraction of the tailed beast within her.

  Fū was subsequently captured, and had her tailed beast extracted from her body and sealed within the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, resulting in her death


Is Juvia a Water Dragon Slayer? Is it possible for Juvia to be a Water Dragon Slayer to be in Fairy Tail?

It's honestly making me feel like it and it's now a theory I'm asking myself now if Juvia could be a Water Dragon Slayer?

No, she's not a water dragon slayer. Here is why:

She never "eats" her element to power up, she only drinks water like normal people.
Not from any generation of Dragon Slayers:

Not a first generation Dragon Slayer. She has never learn her Magic from an actual Dragon.
Not a second generation Dragon Slayer. She has never had Dragon Lacrima implanted into her body.
Not a third generation Dragon Slayer. She has never both learn her Magic from an actual Dragon and had Dragon Lacrima implanted into her body.
Not a fourth generation Dragon Slayer. Not an artificial beings created from Dragon Lacrima. (From the movie)

None of her skill something like "Roaring Magic".
None of her magic use the word "Dragon" unlike all Dragon Slayers.
Never has seen to have motion sickness like Natsu.
Never has seen to have dragon scales.
When fighting Dragons, her magic didn't have any effect on them. (the only magic that can hurt dragon is Dragon Slayer magic).
Like I said in the comment, the premises is to have 7 dragon slayers in FT side and they are Natsu, Gajeel, Wendy, Laxus, Cobra, Sting and Rogue. There's no chance of an 8th Dragon Slayer.


Did Tomoe ever find out that the Yukiji that he fell in love with was Nanami disguised as Yukiji? In Kamisama Kiss, since the one Tomoe loved in the first place was Nanami disguised as Yukiji, he never actually loved the real Yukiji. But at the end of the anime, Mikage only told Tomoe that Nanami was a descendant of Yukiji, and I don’t think Nanami also told him that she was actually the one that Tomoe fell in love with 500 years ago.
So did Tomoe end up knowing that the Yukiji that he fell in love with back then was Nanami disguised as Yukiji?

Tomoe realized that the woman he fell in love in the past was never Yukiji, but really Nanami, who was actually the descendant of Yukiji and her child. The two then start a relationship to keep their promises of the past. It is explained in Kamisama Kiss: Kako-Hen that the “Yukiji” who Tomoe met was Nanami who was travelling back in time to save Tomoe. If Yukiji were to ever meet Tomoe, she’d try to kill him. Yukiji absolutely detests youkai, so there is no way that she’d ever love him as well.
Tomoe has been in love with Nanami this entire time, he just believed that she was Yukiji.
Source: https://kamisamahajimemashita.fandom.com/wiki/Tomoe


What is this anime that has a strange flying sun totem? I don't think the one I watched is a full episode or something. It should be a trailer, and I assume it is an anime because I watched it on a VCD of a magazine about manga/anime.

I watched it during 2000-2003 if I didn't remember it wrong. But it doesn't necessarily mean that the show is a 2000-2003 production. The magazine should be older than the month I watched it.

The background of the anime seemed pretty dark. I remember a flying sun totem (not sure if it flew by itself or was the face of something else) appearing in different places and in each place there are characters fighting. And the character on the sun totem's side (I assume) always won and killed the other -- an invasion maybe.

The flying sun totem looks a bit like this pic: abstract flare around the circle, and a face (but filled up the circle part in that anime).

Sorry for giving unclear information about the anime. The only thing that still impresses me is the strange flying sun totem.

Update:

The totem was in yellow or similar colors, and was larger than the characters.

Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge (1997–1998)

The world is a dark, brooding place populated by humans, but ruled in reality by powerful beings known as the Darkstalkers, and there is constant conflict between them as they try to determine who is the most powerful of them all. Zombies, vampires, werewolves - all of them compete in contests of strength and sheer will to attain their own personal goals.
All of this becomes moot when a race of Aztec robots called the Huitzil decide that humanity isn't worth saving, and start waging war on the world, while in the sky, a solar god from outer space plots the conquest of Earth. And the Darkstalkers must become unwilling allies in order to save the world.

The sun totem spits out Pyron, the boss of the series, who challenges every monster character and wins all battles until his defeat in the end. The background of the anime is pretty dark most of the time, as you can see in this screenshot of the sun totem:


Where can one learn about viewership ratings for anime? In the U.S., companies like Nielsen track viewership of television programs. What is the equivalent of this for Japanese television programs (and, in particular, anime), if any?

The closest thing you can probably find to something like Nielsen is Video Research. It's in Japanese (of course) but google translate does pretty well with the anime titles.

Also, there is this site which lists historical ratings that go back to 2000.

As for anime movies, DVD/BD rankings, there's Oricon.


What is that word that sounds like "assent" in No Game No Life? In the TV animation of No Game No Life, before every game, the players who join the game would shout out loud a word that sounds like "assent". I once thought it was assent, as the story make it seems like it is saying "I agree with the game contract under the 10 rules" (where the subtitles says the word means "swear under the 10 rules", which sounds no contradiction with the word "assent").

Until I watch the new movie No Game No Life Zero, which tells the story of where the creating of the game world we see in the TV animation.

In the movie, when the man sacrifice himself to let Riku runs away, he shouts a word that sounds like "assent". I thought, so this is the origin of the word, but I was wrong. When later Riku and the ghosts started their plan to finish the war, Riku corrects their pronunciation. According to the subtitles, the meaning was changing from "swear to the former brave" to "swear to the rules", but both words to me still sounds like "assent".

So what actually were those words they were shouting?

P.S. I was watching the movie in Hong Kong and the subtitles are in Traditional Chinese. The subtitle decided to show the meaning instead of putting the actual word in it.

The only word that closely resembles the word you're asking for is "Aschente". It's pronounced more or less like: "A-shen-te".

It means one pledges to the ten 'rules' made, and placed by the one true god Tet of Disboard. They state it at the start of every game that uses the ten rules.

(I've linked more about the ten pledges and such in the link above)


What does it mean by a manga series being licensed, how does it affect online readers, and how can I continue reading it? A while back I was reading Bleach on an online reader and I finished the chapter I was on. When I came back to read the next chapter, it said

  The series Bleach has been licensed, it is not available in [site name].

What does it mean by "licensed", and is there a way for a broke person like me to read the rest of Bleach? (Unfortunately, the library does not buy new ones anymore.)

The Bleach manga is being published in Weekly Shōnen Jump, which belongs to Shueisha Inc. - a major Japanese publisher.

In the case of MangaFox, Shueisha requested the removal of Bleach, Naruto and One Piece from the site (you can read more here), so I would assume something similar had happened to it as well. For the reference, the holder of the rights to publish Bleach in the USA belongs to Viz Media, which has also requested the removal of the series from some of the websites before.


How is Lola (a general zombie) able to do what she wants? During Thriller Bark Arc, it was shown that all general zombies are under the command of Absalom and all zombies must follow the orders of their commander.

Then how is Lola able to chase after Absalom even though he keeps telling her that he will not marry her? Also, Lola comes and saves Nami from Absalom even though they are enemies and Lola was given order to fight Straw Hat crew?

The answer can be found when Moria infuses Oars' body with Luffy's shadow, in Chapter 457. Moria is the Master of Shadows; when he is talking to a shadow directly, he has complete control over them. Therefore, it is during that time that he needs to give details directives to the shadows before he infuses the shadow in the Zombie's body.

For example, if he does explicitly state that the shadow should forget everything about his past, his personality might remain with the Zombie. Note that Luffy's personality remained at first because of the size difference between the shadow's original body and Oar's.

As Dr. Hogback states, they were not always aware of those rules and therefore made some mistakes with a number of Zombies (the only confirmed case is Cindy). We can however extend that theory to other Zombies which did not necessarily obey their masters perfectly, like Lola.

(For conciseness purposes, only part of pages 4 and 5 are shown.)


How could Piccolo blow up the moon, while Goku barely managed to leave a small crater? In Dragonball Z, when Gohan changed into an Ozoro, Piccolo found an appropriate solution, destroy the moon. Easy-peasy.

The real question is, when Goku used his Genki Dama (on two occasions, by the way), it never resulted in anything more than a relatively small crater. With all the power stored inside that sphere (easy above a billion, and over 9000), shouldn't it have caused a bit more damage? Piccolo managed to destroy the moon, easily, with power level of less than 1000.

Piccolo isn't the only character to blow up the moon in Dragon Ball. Master Roshi (disguised as Jackie Chun) destroys the moon at the end of the 21st World Martial Arts Tournament using the MAX Power Kamehameha, which takes considerably more effort than for Piccolo. In the meantime, Kami recreated the moon, so this isn't a plot hole.

However, it's a good question as to why the moon is so easy to destroy, while the earth is so much harder. Part of this can be explained since the moon is much less massive, but even then the numbers don't quite add up if we assume the Earth and Moon are the same as ours. Let's assume that physics in the DB universe is at least somewhat similar to our own, modulo spirit attacks and whatever else. Of course, this assumption might be wrong, but if you start changing how physics works, there's no reason why the moon can't be filled with TNT so that it explodes whenever anyone so much as looks at it.

I've made some approximations in the following calculations. I calculated the gravitational binding energy of the moon to be 1.2 * 10^29 J. That's the minimum amount of energy to blow up the moon so that it won't reform by its own gravity, so we can assume that the characters were using at least that much energy. That amount would be enough to knock 3.4 * 10^20 kg of matter off of the surface of the earth, which is roughly 0.006% of the mass of the earth. That doesn't seem like a lot, but if we assume a uniform density of the earth, that's about 1.6 * 10^7 cubic miles of matter, which corresponds to a cube where each side has length 250 miles. That's a pretty huge crater. So just saying that the moon is easier to blow up than the earth isn't going to cut it.

There are 3 ways to resolve this. First, the earth and moon in the DB universe could be very different from what they are here. Specifically, the moon could be larger and less massive, and the earth smaller and more massive than in real life. However, it takes quite a bit of stretching to get believable values, and that's ignoring the vast power difference between DBZ Goku and DB Roshi. If you push things that far, I wouldn't expect it to be consistent with everything else in the series. The second possibility is that the moon is somehow more vulnerable than the Earth to attacks. This is roughly what Alenanno's answer says. It's entirely possible, but as far as I can tell there's little indication of this in the series apart from the Genki Dama, so I don't know why other attacks directed at planets would not destroy them.

This leaves the third possibility, which is my personal choice: the producers weren't really thinking about it when they did this, and were more concerned with making things dramatic than making them consistent. As such, I'd call this a plot hole, but it's a pretty minor one in the grand scheme of things.


How does Giriko's 'Time Tells No Lies' Fullbring work? I have read the wiki on his power but it still does not make sense to me. I would argue that the way Giriko's Fullbring works is very inconsistent, but am hoping for a decent explanation. The first time we see his power, he attaches a timer to a box while training Ichigo. The next time we see it, he shoots projectiles at Ginjo. The third time, he uses a dial on his shoulder to get massive (big and green like hulk it seemed to reference).

Question: How does his power actually work? Is there some link to each of this uses that I missed? Can you give me an answer that is not full of loopholes?

Judging by the way he states it, he can create "contracts" with set time limits.
The contracts seem to extend to anything and everything with a spirit.

as the fullbringers state "Everything has a soul". he makes a contract with the box to trap ichigo inside, the next is the energy, he makes a contract with the air to fire it at rapid speeds (energy) at ginjo, then finally after he is wearing his fullbring he makes a contract with his own body to become "invincible" as he states...

"Time tells no lies"
ie, within this set time period everything I say is true.

I don't have much to back this up with, it's just as logical as I could think of.


Anime about a reunited friends who turn out to be each other's fiancee I would like to re-watch an anime but I can't remember the characters' names or the title. I remember some of the story.

The story starts with a guy at the subway station and he met a girl there who was lost. The girl said she was looking for her fiancé. The guy fixed the girl's sandals which were broken, then they went together to find the house of the girl's fiancé. They went to the address, but it was an empty lot. He took her to his home, where she showed the only photograph she and her fiancé had together. He looked at the photo and it was a photo of him and the childhood friend he was supposed to marry.

Sorry that there isn't a lot to go on.

Thats most probably Ai Yori Aoshi.

  Kaoru Hanabishi, a college student who lives alone, met a beautiful but bewildered girl dressed in a kimono at a train station. He volunteered to guide her way to the address she was looking for, which happened to be in his neighborhood, but turned out to be an empty lot. Not knowing what to do next, Kaoru invited the devastated girl to his apartment and asked for any additional clues to her destination. She supplied him with a photo of two children whom Kauru immediately identified as himself and Aoi Sakuraba, his childhood friend. It turned out that the girl in front of him is Aoi Sakuraba herself, his betrothed fiancee who came all the way to Tokyo to marry him. Her revelation was not only surprising but also reminded the deepest part of Kaoru's memory for why he left the Hanabishi family in the first place.

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Was the phrase "Zawsze in Love" generated using Google Translate? In chapter 216 of the manga, it was revealed that the title "Zawsze in Love" was actually a mistranslation from an translation program. It didn't specify whether it was done using Google Translate or any other translation program.

The first volume of Nisekoi was published in 2011. At that year, Google Translate was not as good as it is now. I don't know the quality of Google Translate's Japanese to Polish translation in 2011 since I don't use Polish and never learned it, so there was no reason for me to translate from Japanese to Polish. My question is, has the author ever mentioned what translation program he used so that he ended up with the phrase "Zawsze in Love"? Or did he generate the phrase himself and used translation program as an excuse in the story?

Note that I'm not asking about the meaning of "Zawsze in Love", which already explained here. I'm asking about it's origin.

At the time of writing, inputting 恋を永遠に (forever love) in Google Translate returned the exact phrase "Zawsze In Love".

Other, like 永遠の愛 returned a whole phrase in English, "forever Love", but some didn't: 愛を永遠に, 永遠の恋.

In the end, this can't be a definitive proof that the author used Google Translate or whether Google Translate gave this result at that time, since now anyone can suggest a translation and skew the result.

Update as of 2018: as stated before, Google Translate's results may change:

恋を永遠に ("Zawsze In Love") and 愛を永遠に ("forever Love") were replaced with "Miłość na zawsze"

making them more consistent.

Further reading: How Google Translate works - Latin.SE


Can you help me identify what supernatural anime with white-haired protagonist this is? It's supernatural and the main protagonist has white hair. He's a guy, wearing traditional clothes, and the setting is old. He solves mysteries in towns - mostly spirits. In one episode they went to a doll maker's house.
What anime is this?

I believe it's Tactics. Episode 5 features a doll-maker, and seems to fit your description perfectly.


Does the Rinnegan eye put more strain on the user? In the anime, it is shown that over usage of Byakugan and Sharingan eyes will cause the user to strain. Does that happen with a Rinnegan user?

They never mention strain of the Rinnegan in the manga so the following is conjecture

Nagato (and his puppets) seems to have the Rinnegan up 24/7. In flashbacks to the Sage of Six Paths he has Rinnegan up so I believe it does not cause strain like the other ocular powers


Why does Yui have a tail and shackles? During the series, I noticed Yui has a tail (which at times I think moves independently of Yui) and she also has a couple of shackles on her arms.

Now if her shackles were related to her life, it kind of makes sense since

   she is mostly paralyzed from the neck down

but that wouldn't explain her tail.

Why does Yui have a tail and shackles?

Using the Angel Beats Wiki heavily, Yui seems to be based off YUI the Japanese singer. This is noted in the wiki in the Trivia section:

  Her back story seems to be a reference to Taiyou no Uta, a movie that the singer YUI starred in.
  The title of the episode Yui disappeared in is "Goodbye Days" which is also the title of the main song YUI sings in Taiyou no Uta.

Since YUI is a pop rock music artist, Yui may be based off the, punk, rock dress style. This can be seen in various aspects of here cloths:

BDSM fashion, as she wears two halves of a handcuff,
Fishnet like black ribbons,
A chocker,
Black boots, and
Two cross-shaped barrettes.

Since punk rock was a rebellion against the system, and as they had transgressive sexual practices, some people wore more extreme fetish fashion, which Yui also has:

Garters on both legs,
'Demon' wings and tail, and
Cat teeth.

And so I think it's reasonable to assume she's based loosely off the punk rock style, which may be an easter egg about YUI being a rock artist.

An in-story explanation could be she wanted to dress however she wanted. This is as all, bar one, of her regrets are physical, which she couldn't do before she died (Angel Beats Wiki):

   As the series progresses, Otonashi was able to fulfill her regrets. He helps her by doing the German Suplex, playing 5-on-1 soccer game (Maradona) and playing baseball (though she doesn't hit a homerun). After telling Otonashi that her last regret was marriage, Hinata later helps her fulfill her last regret by proposing to her, and giving her a vision of what could have been had they met in the real world.

   Since she had to wear PJes since she was four till she was roughly a teenager, I think it's safe to assume she wanted a different, more expressive, change of cloths.


What is real identity of Kagari? Who is Kagari Shiina? What is her real identity? She looked so much similar to Kurisu Makise. Is she her daughter? Steins;Gate 0 ended without revealing her true identity, so I am curious.

Kagari is Mayuri's adopted daughter from 2036, in the Beta World Line (Divergence 1.129848%). She time traveled with Suzuha into the past, but got separated in 1998.

She is a war orphan and her true name is not known due to her family registry being destroyed.


What is that noise when an onsen scene opens up? Many anime and JRPGs have Hot Spring/Bathhouse/Onsen scenes and in many of these, when it opens up there is this sound of like something hitting hollow wood, an example of which can be heard at the 4 second mark in these video of Gamers

what exactly is this sound? and does this sound actually exist in japan? particularly in Hot Springs/Bathhouses/Onsen?

The thing which makes these sounds is a type of 鹿威し (Shishi-Odoshi) or scaredeer, it acts similar to as what a scarecrow does, and the sound it makes scares away the wild animals.

And as for what device specifically makes that sound in Japanese gardens and onsen, is 添水 (sozu).

From Wikipedia

  Sōzu is a type of water fountain used in Japanese gardens. It consists of a segmented tube, usually of bamboo, pivoted to one side of its balance point. At rest, its heavier end is down and resting against a rock. A trickle of water into the upper end of the tube accumulates and eventually moves the tube's centre of gravity past the pivot, causing the tube to rotate and dump out the water. The heavier end then falls back against the rock, making a sharp sound, and the cycle repeats. This noise is intended to startle any herbivores such as deer or boars which may be grazing on the plants in the garden.


Does having large chakra reserves for a child ninja indicate what one can achieve as an adult? Does having a large chakra supply for a child indicate one can potentially gain large chakra supplies for an adult? Does Rock Lee, have the potential for large reserves?

Strictly, no. It also has to do with training, but given that almost every ninja gets good training,  and some are just born smart like Sasuke, I think yes. Look at what happened to all the Jinchūriki, despite having those massive chakra reserves, they were killed ( but they had Akatsuki members as enemy, so uhh.?)

But it does gives a ninja a good head start if they have large chakra reserves, as that person, if dedicated enough, can practice and excel at any jutsu because they don't have to worry about depleting their chakra.

Just look at Naruto.He practiced and mastered every jutsu not only because of his incredible dedication, but also because he had Kurama's chakra as well.

Rock Lee doesn't seem to have an exceptional chakra reserve. However, he is an amazing Taijutsu user, having opened 6 gates while being a teenager is an incredible feat.

He might have even surpassed Might Gai, and that is saying something, considering Might Gai fought well against Madara.