Why is illumi after alluka? Why is Illumi after Alluka's power? Does it have something much more powerful than just creation n destruction.

Alluka's power can grant any wish.
In return, Alluka will request (After granting said wish) 3 requests, with their difficulties adjusted to how complicated/strong the wish is. (Not sure how to word this)

If three requests are granted, you may wish again. If three requests are denied, people die. The number of people increases as I've said before. The people who die, die by order of closeness to the target. (Minimum 2 people)

Thus, if they were to harness Alluka's power, it would be mindboggingly useful, and would make the Zoldick family as strong as they can only imagine.
But if someone were to abuse it and fail the requests, the results would be devastating for them. (And Illuka believed that Killua wanted to bear the requests of his wish)

Illumi also believed there are rules they are unaware of, and only Killua knows of, and again, he is correct, and this would make anticipating and controlling Alluka much harder. Thus, he intended to destroy her.


Why did Sting and Rogue kill their father dragons? Why did Sting and Rogue kill their father dragons? Is it to become third-generation dragon slayers, or what?

MASSIVE SPOILER ALERT

I apologize for not able to give any specific details or chapters of where it's from, but in the manga of Fairy Tails, when Natsu's team first faced off Sting and Rogue, they were informed that Sting and Rogue killed their dragons to become a proper Dragon Slayer. Later on when it's the crisis of magic disappearing (with all the giant faces), 5 Dragons showed up and saved the day. It was then that

   Shadow dragon and the white dragon told everyone that they encouraged Sting and Rogue to kill themselves because 1. they were sick anyway, 2. to hide their existence from Acnologia (the Dragon Slayer who became a Dragon himself), 3. hopefully they would become stronger and more confident from killing them.

Chapter 413 shows the dragon destroying the faces and if you read from around there you should be able to find what you're looking for. The information I have given might be a bit off but hope it helps.


Will I miss anything by watching Dragon Ball Z Kai instead of the other series? I've read that Dragon Ball Z Kai is an HD remaster and recut of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. However, Kai has 98 episodes while Dragon Ball has 153 and Z has almost 300.

If I watch only Dragon Ball Z Kai, do I miss anything I would get by watching the other two series? And is anything censored in Kai that is not censored in the others?

First off, Dragon Ball Z Kai doesn't include anything from Dragon Ball, which is the story of Goku as a child. Secondly, the main difference is that Kai lacks the filler content of the original Dragon Ball Z, and stops at the end of the Cell saga.

By filler I mean content not originally in the manga. Some (like myself) enjoyed the filler, while others thought it to be extra fluff. Kai is more faithful to the manga than the original anime was. In some cases though, this could affect how some see the development of characters. For example: In the original DBZ, one of the most intriguing, and perhaps touching, moments is Gohan surviving alone in the wilderness. The challenges and events he faces, as well as the people he meets, all influence the person he becomes later on. Much of this was cut in Kai, and so, unless you've already seen DBZ, it might seem a little choppy.

By ending at the Cell saga, it ends in the place where the original author Akira Toriyama wanted it to. In doing so, you miss the two-three seasons that came afterward.

The are also other small differences between the two, including different music in some cases, and new scenes added/redone in Kai.

As for censorship, some scenes where updated to fit the new standards of Japanese Television. In American productions of the anime (namely dubs), there could have been further censoring. I can't remember the name of the company at the moment, but one went so far as to make the character Mr. Popo blue, to lessen claims of racism.

Given the facts, you can make up your mind as to which you will watch, but in my humble opinion I would go with the originals first, and later on, if you want, you can look into Kai as an abridgment. As someone who has personally watched both, I must say that I only enjoyed Kai because I was able to fill in the details myself. If I had never seen DBZ I doubt I would have felt this comfortable.

I hope I helped! :)


Song playing in Naruto episode 114 when Choji survives the fight? Which soundtrack is playing in Naruto season 5 episode 8 titled "Good-bye Old Friend…! I'll Always Believe in You!" (when they chase Sasuke and the Sound Village's ninjas) when Choji survives the fight and remembers moments of friendship?

The song's name is Kimimaro's Demise (also known as Choji's Theme):
Sources:
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTqWX6Vc1Fo
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_S-axfok8g (Piano Cover)


Did Jiraiya meet Naruto by chance? According to the Naruto Wiki page on Jiraiya, he

  "left Konoha so he could follow Orochimaru's movements, as well as those of "Akatsuki", an organization which Orochimaru had eventually joined."

Orochimaru was at Konoha during the Chuunin Exam Arc, making his first appearance (as far as I remember) during the second phase (in the Forest of Death).
Jiraiya made his first appearance between the preliminaries and the finals (in chapter 90).
There is a fairly short period of time between these two appearances.

We quickly see that Jiraiya knows who Naruto is, as he is trying to control his chakra to walk on water (in chapter 91). He first notices something when he sees Naruto trying to walk on water:

We then have a full confirmation that he knows who he is:

In this chapter he also notices that there is some weird overlaying of seals, which he deduces was Orochimaru's work.

Now, my question is:
Did Naruto and Jiraiya meet by chance, as Jiraiya was tracking down Orochimaru's movements? (in which case Jiraiya only knew who Naruto was after seeing the seal in his stomach)
Or did he know who Naruto was before having seen him trying to walk on water, and tracked him down? (possibly to protect him from Orochimaru, and in which case he would've been watching over Naruto since his parents died)

It probably depends on how far you are with the series:

  Jiraya knew who Naruto was from the beginning, Minato talked with Jiraya and made him his godfather, he also told Jiraya they are going to name him Naruto. So he knew about Naruto and watched over him from birth and started training him later on.

They didn't meet by chance, he already knew about Naruto and the seal, he knew about the 4th's seal, that's how he knew it had been tampered with by Orochimaru.
I think this is the case, Jiraya said he was getting research for his book, but I think Jiraya, being his godfather, tracked him down to begin his training.


Is "Attack on Titan" taking place in the past or in the future? According to the prehistory timeline on Wikia,

  1003 B1: As a young girl, Ymir Fritz gains the power of the Titans from an unknown source, becoming the Founding Titan. With her powers, she is able to turn her subjects into Pure Titans.

  The Fritz family comes into power as the royal bloodline of Eldia, destined to remain unbroken for the next 2,000 years.
  990 B1: For unknown reasons, Ymir Fritz dies 13 years after inheriting her power. Her "soul" is split between Nine Titans that are inherited by nine Subjects of Ymir, with the Founding Titan belonging to the Fritz family and the eight remaining Titans leading clans subservient to the Founding Titan. Those who inherit the power of the Titans are destined to die after 13 years as Ymir did due to a phenomena called the "Curse of Ymir."

  The Nine Titans wage war against the nation of Marley, the dominant nation of the land, taking control of the continent and establishing the empire of Eldia. Eldia conquers countless other civilizations as well using Pure Titans as cheap weapons of mass destruction. This results in massive casualties and entire cultures being wiped out.
  Unknown: Eventually, in-fighting breaks out between the various Eldian families for control over the eight Titans, but the Fritz family, using the power of the Founding Titan, maintains balance.

  The Ackerman family, an Eldian bloodline resulted from the Eldian Empire's fiddling with the Subjects of Ymir, becomes the sword and shield of the royal family, remaining close to Eldia's king for generations.

  Eldia becomes allies with Hizuru.

When the Titans arrived on Earth, what year is it?

Let’s say in my opinion, Attack on Titan takes place currently in the year 2350...

Also, "X" stands for "when Titans arrived":

Prehistory (Beginning of time until Zero Before X)
990 years Before X - the Great Titan War begins
Zero years Before X - the Titans arrived

History (Zero Before X to 835 After X)

743 Years After X (2243) - the Great Titan War ends
835 Years After X (2335) - Eren and Mikasa are born in Wall Rose

The story of Attack on Titan (835 to 854 After X)

845 Years After X (2345) - Wall Maria is invaded by the Titans
850 Years After X (2350) - Attack on Titan takes place
851 Years After X (2351) - Wall Maria is set out for the First Time
854 Years After X (2354) - The Future of Attack on Titan


What is Naruto's family tree? I've been trying to figure out how far Naruto's heritage can be traced back. We know his parents, but seeing as we've met other Uzumakis, I figured that there might be at least some other idea of his heritage past is parents. How far/out can his family tree be traced?

There actually is somebody who try'd to get all the main characters a place in one big family tree on deviant art it is a bit outdated thou as it last updated in 2011.
I advice on downloading the picture as its really hard to read otherwise

Due to some quotes through out the manga there is also a theory floating around that Naruto has some blood ties with the senju clan.

We know that the first Hokage's wife is Mito Uzumaki so this does make some sense. Some of those theorys can be read on narutobase

And one of the most commonly accept of them would be that all descend from the Uzumaki clan to begin with.

Although there are loads of theory's and tons of rumors going about, we cannot provide a definite family tree of the people beyond Naruto's parents. As most of the theory's are still only based on small quotes such as above

For a proper time line to be set up we most likely need the parental details from either Karin or Nagatos parents, as they all descend from the Uzumaki clan

Edit:
Warning contains content shown in the manga up to chapter 670. Read with care as you might be spoiled

Breaking news on the family tree of naruto, in chapter 670 at page 11 the sage of the six says

  You are my son Ashura's

With this and the up following pages we can confirm that Naruto is a descendant of Ashura, which is the younger brother. The creator of the Senju clan. So Naruto is in fact of the senju blood line.
And to be even more accurate, He is the reincarnation of Ashura.


Which animation style is used in Kingdom? I've been watching Kingdom and Kingdom: Season 2 for a while now and I can't help but be a bit distracted by how differently it is animated compared to most anime these days.

Which animation style is used to achieve this more 3D-like feeling? And why did they pick this over the usual animation style?

The series uses CGI, notably a combination of 3d objects with 2d illustrations (more so in the Second season then in the first). This has been common practice in the industry for a while (both to improve quality and save on labor). Most production use cel shaders or rotoscoping the model to mask the disconnect between the two dimensions.

A notable examples with less distinctions in recent anime are Berserker from Fate/Zero:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7OYPb3fTP0

and the new Code Geass series:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOYerOT_Wpc#t=48


What series is this depiction of Araragi Karen referring to? In episode 8 of Nisemonogatari, we briefly see Araragi Karen drawn like this:

This looked a lot like some anime (or possibly a character from an anime or manga) I'd seen within the last ten years or so while in Asia, so I have the feeling this drawing style was supposed to allude to something. (Possibly Dr. Slump? I'm not sure since I don't think I ever saw the anime, and I could easily have mixed it up with something else.)

That said, this also looks "generic" enough that's possible that this is only a shift in drawing style. But then right before this image, there's a drawing of Karen that looked  like (to me anyway: I have a feeling I'm wrong about this) an imitation of the titular character of Chibi Maruko-chan, so I'm not sure:

Moreover, I remember seeing something that looked very much like a parody of Peko-chan in an earlier episode, though unfortunately I don't remember which one it was:

Is this (the first image, I mean) supposed to be an allusion to some other anime series, and if so, what is it referring to?

Many of the slapstick moments in the Monogatari Series are depicted in a way that closely resembles the art style of Doraemon. In fact, I vaguely remember a scene where the protagonist of the Monogatari Series, Koyomi Araragi, complains about too many Doraemon references.

The whole Doraemon series is very extensive with a myriad of movies and specials and not to mention the second season which sports a whopping 1787 episodes.


Can an anime be in English only? I was wondering if it's legally possible for an anime to be spoken in the English language only. Sure a Japanese dub can be optional, but in terms of main dubbing, can anime have English as the main dub?

I know such anime may not even exist, but I'm wondering if there's any law or regulation preventing anime from being dubbed in English only. And when I say anime, I mean actual made-in-Japan anime, not anime-styled cartoons produced anywhere else.

There is absolutely no law that specifies that an anime can only be in English.

I will state that this is incredibly rare, given that most anime are actually made in Japan for a Japanese audience (hence why they're in Japanese), but given that the Afro Samurai anime was released in English-only, and it and its original manga source work was originally made in Japan, this only goes to demonstrate that there can be no law against this.


How is the title of "National treasure" attained? Ushio Hinomaru is one of the "National treasures", with the special title of "Onimaru Kinutsuna", along with a bunch of other very strong wrestlers, but at how was the title awarded?

Because Hinomaru ghosted at some point but still retained the title, How was that possible? How does it work and is it a lifetime kinda award?

I've yet to read this but I think I found the answer. Hinomaru is someone who has the title 'National Treasure' because he

  has the potential to become a yokozuna. (Wiki)

Yokozuna is the highest rank in sumo. 'National Treasure' is more like a moniker or an informal title rather than a formal one that can be obtained. It is not an official rank but a nickname and since only those with a potential to attain the highest rank are given this nickname, then whether or not he ghosted, he still has the potential to become yokozuna, hence he was able to keep the 'title'.


Did Daichi and Hana survive? Yes, here we are fans of confusing anime endings, for one more episode of "Did them survive?" [1] [2].

So, did the love doves Daichi and Hana survive the explosion of the (huge) ego block of Robin Goodfellow (formerly Puck)?

My question comes in 2 parts. For the 2 possible situations. What happened to the 2 of them after the explosion occurred.

If they died, then how did it happen?

If they did survive, how was that possible?

Try to get sources and references to the anime, if not make your speculative point plausible and very airtight, thanks.

After doing a bit of research, it seems that they both did survive. In the same regard as to when Daichi fired the Boostedmagnum at the debris, supposedly killing Teppei, Daichi's Livlaster pulled the two into the same place, that Teppei was taken that let him survive the blast. It isn't very well explained, but I believe that the little girl with blue hair is Daichi's Livlaster in human form.


Does Kojou Akatsuki have two kids? Does the fourth progenitor, Kojou Akatsuki, have two kids — one with Himeragi Yukina and another one with Asagi Aiba?

Well, when I saw the last episode it did not seem like that to me. However, many sites like Wikipedia claim so.

Can anyone give me definite evidence? (if possible with pictures)

So to answer your question,

   yes, Kojou has 2 kids.

According to Wikipedia and from what I remember,

   Yukina and Kojou has a kid that looks a lot like Yukina except for a few minor differences like the eyes. Yukina's kid, Reina, has Kojou's eyes and can also summon familiars like Kojou. Not much is known about Moegi, Kojou's kid with Asagi, except that she sent Reina back in time to chase a man-made magical beast that I believe attacked Kojou and Yukina.

You can read more about it in these links:

http://strike-the-blood.wikia.com/wiki/Reina_Akatsuki
http://strike-the-blood.wikia.com/wiki/Moegi_Akatsuki


Is there such thing as a "Host Club" from Ouran High School Host Club? I was recently watching Ouran Host Club and it seems to centre around, how should I describe it?

  Listening to girls talking about themselves and watching the girls go distraught in love over guys

But what exactly is a host club? I have never heard of such a term in my life. Is it real?

In Japan, a "host" (ホスト hosuto) is a male worker at a club whose job is to entertain a female clientele. The clubs at which hosts work are called "host clubs". Host clubs (and their cross-gender counterparts, hostess clubs) are not really found outside Japan or places with a large Japanese diaspora as far as I know, so it isn't surprising that you wouldn't have heard of them. See the Wikipedia article "Host and hostess clubs" for more details.

Having never actually been to a host club, I'm not in the best position to evaluate the one depicted in Ouran, but based on my secondhand understanding, the Ouran Host Club is sort of a less-seedy version of what you'd see at an actual host club.

That said, I'd bet you any amount of money that no actual high school in Japan (or anywhere else for that matter) has a host club. The very idea of a school allowing minors to do something of that sort is ludicrous, which is part of what makes Ouran so funny.


Which series is this girl getting robbed and tied up from? I have seen this picture online quite a lot lately, and I have been wondering which series it comes from. I tried searching but did not find any results.

This is a original piece of art (pixiv) made by 柳田史太 (NSFW) This piece of art is said to be based on
Tezuka Rin, from the katawa shoujo series

After a simple reverse image search only came up with allot of 9gag/reddit and similar results. I decided to first identify the character, after some cropping. And a few failed search results I came to know that the character was based of Tezuka Rin, from the katawa shoujo series

Shortly after with a bit help of comments given on both 9gag and reddit I managed to find out that it was a original piece of art made by NSFW pixiv artist: 柳田史太 or as she is also known Humitan

The image is based on a simple word joke Hand-Tie(hentai). And also seems to be a word play, as "rob" and "Tie a Knot" is said to be pronounced in the same way. (can't confirm this as I don't speak the language)

I also seen some messages floating around that the image has been featured in manga order a few years back. But so far I have not been able to find it in there.


Which version of One Punch Man is more expanded, the webcomic or the manga? So, I've been reading the One Punch Man webcomic after Garou defeated Tank Top Master. I haven't read the manga but only small segments which appear in Youtube reviews and things like that. Which version of One Punch Man is more expanded, the webcomic or the manga? Am I missing something by reading the webcomic only, or are manga readers missing something by reading only the manga?

The webcomic is the original.  The manga is the adaptation of the webcomic, and the anime is based on the manga.  The webcomic is noticeably further along.  The anime, including the most recently aired episode from season 2, does not even put us at chapter 50 of the webcomic.  The Garou arc ends in the webcomic at around Chapter 97, and currently extends to chapter 112.

The manga, however, begins to add a great deal more content not present in the webcomic at around the chapter 50 mark.  The basic idea is still the same, but a lot of additional fights and sub-storylines get added.

   There's a tournament story coming up that you can see several characters and scenes from in the season 2 opening.  No such thing exists in the webcomic, nor do many of the characters that appear in the tournament, including the characters that are the most important to the storyline.

So, yes, the manga is the more "fleshed out" version.  ONE cooperates with creating (or at least approving) the new storylines and expanded backstories that appear in the manga, but Murata adds his own little take and spin on things in the end. My understanding is that everything in the manga can be considered canon at this point.

Some people prefer the one over the other, that said.  There are two major points of contrast.

The webcomic has a crude simplicity to its art style.  There are a few scenes here and there were you can see the mangaka actually does have greater artistic skills than you might otherwise have come to believe.  This was the result of ONE originally not expecting it to take off in the way it did, and so approached it in a very relaxed style.  Some feel it adds to the charm, and at times accentuates the comedy and certain character attitudes in ways a more refined artistic style perhaps could not.  On the other hand, the manga is drawn by Murata, a highly skilled professional manga artist, capable of producing exquisitely detailed art. He approaches the task with a great deal of fun, often live-streaming as he draws new chapters. He was a fan of the webcomic who proposed the idea of him doing the art on a manga adaptation to ONE. Early in the manga there are scenes where he is clearly just reveling in the story and world and not worrying about forcing the story forward.
Pacing will be different. The manga version often drastically expands existing fights and backstories, or adds all new ones, while also introducing a whole host of additional monsters and heroes.  The Boros fight in the webcomic is much shorter than it is in the manga, and Saitama never gets launched to the moon in the webcomic, for example. Some enjoy getting all of these extra details, while others may wish it would just move on to the next plot point. You can expect the manga will stay in this more heavily detailed but slightly more meandering style, as it is done in part to try to stop the manga from catching up to the webcomic too quickly (the webcomic has had multiple long hiatuses in its history, including one that only ended this month).


Why does Bakugou drag Kaminari into the bushes and what did he do to him there? I don't understand why he drags him off to the bushes to get him to discharge and go into derp mode. Bullying? To recharge the expensive night goggles? To give the rest of the class something to laugh at?

Can any easy assumption be made to what he did to him in the bushes to force discharge?

Because he wanted to distract the class. That was bagugos money, not kaminari’s. He just overcharged kaminari because he was a good and funny distraction while bakougo paid kirishima back. This display of kindness seemed weak to bakougo and he didn’t want the rest of the class seeing it.


Can users exchange their Sharingan eyes? Does the donor of the Sharingan eye have to die so that it could be used by another user, or could they just exchange their eyes so that they do not go blind over obtaining the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan?

There is no evidence to suggest that the eye "donor" has to die to donate his eyes for awakening the recipient's eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. While it seems to be theoretically possible to exchange eyes, it just so happens that in both the known instances of activating the eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, the donor died shortly before or after the transplant. Hence, the idea was left unexplored.

Izuna gave his eyes to Madara when he (Izuna) suffered a life-threatening wound, but it seems that he could have given his eyes to Madara earlier if he wanted to. However, since Madara loved his brother, they probably did not even think about that option.

Itachi's eyes were transplanted to Sasuke after Itachi's death, but again, he perhaps could have given his eyes to Sasuke without dying. He could not do it as he was pursuing other plans.

Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan can only be obtained by receiving eyes from close relatives. It is relatively rare for one person to achieve the Mangekyo Sharigan, much less for two people from the same family. Moreover, the Uchiha clan massacre eliminated whatever little possibility of that happening, so the idea of exchanging eyes has been left unexplored.

It is also possible that the author did not think too deeply about exchanging eyes and other possibilities, given that there are only two known instances of awakening of the eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.

Note This answer is based on events covered up to Chapter 624.


Was the main protagonist Shin in the manga Kingdom a real historical figure? As the question suggests, I wanted to ask if there really was some commoner like Shin in Kingdom who became one of the greatest generals of Qin Dynasty in reality or according to the Warring States-era history?

Yes he was. He was based off Li Xin.

Here is a great resource describing many of the similarities / differences: link


Are the Gantz movie sequel to the anime series? Gantz anime isn't finished, but I want to know what's the deal with films.

Are they a sequel to the anime? Do they tell the whole story from manga, or what?

The Gantz film series is indeed based on Hiroya Oku's manga series, Gantz. However, they are a substantial amount of differences between the movie series and the actual manga. Some of these differences are listed belowGantz 1There are only two aliens in the second mission.
Kato never went to high school, because he was in Juvenal Hall for killing his abusive father.
Most characters don't appear at all.
Tae is chasing after Kurono early on.
Kurono doesn't start off as a jerk, nor very bad ass at all. Instead he avoids conflict, and acts more as a suit wearing intellectual.
Kishimoto committed suicide not because of her mother's bullying, but because her boyfriend left her for someone else. No mention of second Kishimoto.
Gantz isn't as rude or interesting.
When the missions are over, people are teleported to their homes.
Suzuki joins the team during the first mission.
During the first mission, Kurono is teleported out, holding his suitcase, and apparently forget that he left it laying on the floor of the room.
Kurono jump down to help Kato move the drunk off the tracks, but instead reaches for Kato to help him get back up. Somehow Kato pulls him down to him, and they get hit then.
The hundred point menu does not have the option for a superior weapon, only the options for exiting with a memory loss or reviving someone from the database.
When the timer ran out during the Thousand Arms Buddha mission it reset instead of returning them to the room.
They fought with Thousand Arms Buddha before the Giant Statue Buddha, for some reason he was a tiny figure which grew into a giant statue. No explanation of what happened to Thousand Arms Buddha after he beat the Giant Buddha Statue.Gantz 2: Perfect Answers
Thousand Arms Buddha revealed to be a shapeshifter duplicate of Kato.
Vampires are called Men In Black and not shown to be vampires.
Akira Kurono is not a vampire.
Previous Tokyo Gantz Team members are different from Gantz/Minus, except Nishi
Reika is replaced by Eriko Ayukawa, who is a previous Gantz team member instead of a new member, and doesn't like Kurono.Source


Is there any explanation for "Tequila" in the Kuragehime eyecatch? Kuragehime has my favorite eyecatch of all the anime I've seen:

Kuragehime Eyecatch

It's very amusing, but the "tequila" is pretty irrelevant to the show. Tequila isn't in any way relevant to the plot. It seems to be just a random word that they chose to use.

Is there any explanation for why they say "tequila" in the eyecatch, or is it just a random non sequitur for comedic effect?

Although it can't really be confirmed ( or has not been confirmed yet )

  It's a reference to a song from the 70's, which was mostly instrumental but contained one single lyric repeated throughout: "tequila." I guess the style was similar enough to the miniature music bit in that eyecatch to make the reference clear to everybody old enough to get it.
  source1

Not sure which tequilla song they reffer to as there are about 20.


How does Nerve Gear work? When I watched SAO for the second time, I started to wonder: how does Nerve Gear work?

In SAO, you have all five senses with you, and also when you use the Nerve Gear, you close your eyes. So, how is it possible for the nerve gear to do all this?

Lastly, how does Nerve Gear kill someone?

In SAO, you have all five senses with you and also when you use the nerve gear, you close your eyes so how is it possible for the nerve gear to do all this?

It connects to your brain, transmitting signals of what you do in the virtual world. You close your eyes because nerve gear transmits visual data too.

NerveGear not only simulates sight and sound, it also simulates taste, smell and even touch. In other words, it can completely immerse players in a virtual world. However, its true potential lies within the fact that it doesn't just send virtual sensations to the user. It intercepts and manipulates the signals sent by the user's brain.

When using NerveGear, all the signals sent by the brain are blocked an processed so that they only affect the avatar in the virtual world. This immobilizes the user's physical body. So there's no risk of running into walls in the real world while playing in the virtual one.
NerveGear only has one method of input. It is shaped like a helmet that covers most of the user's face. Inside, millions of signal units generate electromagnetic waves to stimulate out brains.
Nothing the user "sees" and "hears" in the virtual world actually comes from our eyes and ears. Everything is manipulated directly in the respective parts of our brain used to process each of the five senses.

Lastly, how does a nerve gear kill someone?

It uses electromagnetic waves to "fry" your brain.

If these things are attempted, the signal sensors in your nerve gears will emit a strong electromagnetic pulse...
Destroying your brain and stopping all of your basic bodily functions - basically, instant death.


Is it necessary for Amestrians to die for the transmutation circle? Throughout FMA: Brotherhood, fighting has been breaking out, having been orchestrated by the Homunculi to power the giant transmutation circle that makes up Amestris. In most if not all of the fighting, it seems to be that the Amestrians are suffering great numbers of casualties. The fighting at Fort Briggs, for example, was orchestrated so Fort Briggs would be weak so they could be massacred. It is necessary that Amestrians to die for it to work and that is why it is being set up so they are on the losing side, or is there some other reason, like it is easier to make the Amestrians lose?

No, it doesn't have to be Amestrians.

In fact, the fighting at Fort Briggs was orchestrated so that there were casualties. Kimblee was told by Pride that he simply had to create the blood crest. Kimblee knew that Briggs was stronger than Drachma, so he lied to the Drachmans and told them that Briggs was vulnerable, resulting in their entire army being destroyed.

In most of the other wars, in fact, Amestris was victorious. You have to remember that Amestris started as the green area in the map below.

They colonized the rest of the area around them (numerous existing places, some are listed in the Fullmetal Alchemist Wiki's article on Amestris) to enlarge the country for Father's ultimate purpose, in order to gain the amount of souls necessary. These victories often resulted in the deaths of far more innocent people and opposing armies than Amestrians.

So, to answer your question directly, no, it is not necessary that it is Amestrians who die for the transmutation circle. In fact, Drachmans, Ishvalans, and many others have been the victims of bloodshed for the hundreds of years prior to the Promised Day.


Is there a reason for the notches on the blades? In Attack on Titan, the blades used with the 3D Manuever Gear have notches in them similar to those found on craft knives:

Certain knives like the one above come with snap-off points so that when the blade dulls, it can be removed and replaced by a fresh and sharp piece. However, a utility like this seems redundant on the 3DMG blades as a shortened blade would be extremely ineffective at removing a Titan's neck, not to mention that the blades seem to be used and discarded as a whole piece.
Additionally, The wiki page on the blades themselves gives no mention of the notches.

So is there any reason for the notches to exist aside from looking cool?

The blades were very prone to breakage [picture needed]. The vertical maneuver gear has even a spare blade storage built-in [picture needed], and in at leat one occasion one soldier was left without blades [chapter ref needed] and a companion had to share blades with him.

The notches make sense since the blades break so often even a short and less effective blade had a chance of scoring a kill and you could take the most out of a blade before it becomes completely useless.

Also, the resources inside the walls are scarce. Making the most out of the metal available also made sense.

I have no access to CR manga ATM, and cannot search for manga images. Will add the references later today.


An anime where a boy, who can eject fire from his finger, saves a girl from black-suited men In the anime, the girl was sitting on some boxes of wood as the boy with fire powers passed by. The boy noticed the girl and adored her singing, and he approached the girl. When the girl finished singing, she started talking to the boy.

However, suddenly, evil men in black suits came, and they had some powers. They wanted to take the girl away, but since the boy was of a certain clan, with his awesome fire powers, he ejected fire from his finger, frightened the men, drove them away, and saved the girl.

It was aired around the same time when Kekkaishi, Slam Dunk and Japanese Classic Horror was shown on Animax India in 2010.

If anyone is looking for the same anime, I just got the name of it from Google.
It was Kaze no Stigma. However, the story remains incomplete as the author of the light novel series died in June, 2009.


Does anyone know what's written on the Funtom's Bitter Rabbit ear? I am making a plush toy of Funtom's Bitter Rabbit from Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler) and noticed there's a tag on one of the ears, but I couldn't find what was written on it.

What is it?

According to the official merchandise on Square Enix store,

it's Funtom.Co[...]. There are 2 possibilities:

FUNTOM.COMPANY
FUNTOM.CORPORATION

Considering the rest of the spaces, I'd believe it's FUNTOM.CORPORATION since for half of the tag's length, FUNTOM.CO takes 9 characters, and RPORATION also takes 9 characters.

There's a Wikia entry on Funtom Corporation, but I'm not sure if it's the official translation, since the name in Japanese is ファントム社【しゃ】, with 社 usually translated as company.


How can Oga be separated from baby Beel? In the most recent chapters (Ch. 232), Oga is finally completely separated from Beel. I do recall minor incidents in the past where they were separated as well, but in the very beginning, Oga would get shocked if he was a too far of a distance away from Beel.

When did this change and what allowed them to separate?

I think it depend on Baby Beel maturity. As long as Beel world's is wider, The Range become larger either. In Baby Driver Chapter, It extended to 15 meter and 8 centimeter and more.


How come Alphonse can do alchemy in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood? In Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, how come Alphonse can sometimes perform alchemy, and at other times it seems he can't? Also, early on the show, wasn't it said that he lost his ability when he lost his body? And if he can do alchemy, why isn't he a state alchemist too?

Alphonse can always do alchemy, throughout the whole show. The only times he cannot perform alchemy are the same times that Edward cannot;

   When Homunculus uses his ability to seal off alchemy temporarily.

Now, in the beginning of the show, he does not perform alchemy often because he needs to draw transmutation circles to be able to. Drawing transmutation circles takes time, and is not often practical in fights or other scenarios that need quickness, especially if he does not know the proper circle (they can perform more basic transmutation simply, and both Al and Ed are geniuses, but they are still shown studying often). He is however, shown transmuting items throughout the show, both before and after

   gaining the ability to transmute without a circle, like Ed does.

In fact, Alphonse has a particular ability (at least in the Anime) that no other alchemist is shown to have. He can transmute without physically touching the transmutation circle.


Is it possible that Itachi knew the truth about Tobi being Obito and not Madara? Since Itachi Uchiha always said complete truth, is it possible that he himself knew the truth about Tobi being Obito and not Madara?

Itachi clearly knew that Obito was the true leader of the Akatsuki, and he also knew of and feared Obito's (Sharingan) abilities, hence placing his own Mangekyo Sharingan on Sasuke and setting it so that Amaterasu activated when in the vicinity of Obito's Sharingan. Additionally, Itachi also had knowledge of his grudge against Konohagakure, which is why he confronted Obito/Tobi/Madara before the Uchiha clan massacre. However, Itachi never clearly states his knowledge of Obito's true identity, and also, Obito states during his first encounter with Sasuke that Itachi clearly knew more than he let on. It is never stated if Itachi knows that Tobi is Obito, but he clearly knew a lot about Obito.


What is the extent of Bartolomeo's Devil Fruit power? Bartolomeo has quite a strong Devil Fruit.
In the Colosseum...

   ...he could block every punch with his Barrier fruit. He was really bored in this fight and had no problems at all.

 For your information, the "King Punch" he blocked from "The Fighting King" Elizabello II is said to be more powerful than a Yonko. Elizabello II - Wiki

So my question is, can he really block everything?

Can it block beams, like the Slow-Slow Beam from Foxy, and shock waves, like what Whitebeard created with his Gura Gura Fruit?

Wikia claims it is unknown at this point whether the barriers have a damage limit and I agree on this. There has been no proof yet of something that could damage the barriers. So as of writing (chapter 788) it would seem that the barrier would indeed be indestructible.
The strongest things we have seen the barrier block are:

King Elizabello II's King punch, which could allegedly take down an entire fortress. (chapter 709)
Hakuba's slashes (chapter 773)
Gladius' full body rupture (chapter 773)
The Birdcage (chapter 788)
Chinjao's Haki imbued drill (chapter 788)

The only limitations we have seen so far are:

It cannot block sound (chapter 742)
It has a surface area limit (chapter 754 and 757)
Only one barrier can be produced at the same time. (chapter 773)

As of now it does not seem like he would be able to block the slowbeam from Foxy, as that would consist of pure waves similar to sound or light. On the other hand, the beam from Franky would probably be blocked. Similar to King Elizabello II's King punch, it also seems that he would be able to block Whitebeard's shock wave.

Additionally, Oda has answered this question himself on the Volume 77, Chapter 773 SBS, saying Bartolomeo's barriers are indeed limited to one at the time and have a maximum capacity of 50.000 Bari-Bari or 500 Pickle-Pori-Pori-Bari-Bari's.

Reader: Oda-san, hello~. About Bartolomeo, he said something about how his barriers have a limit or whatever, so how many Bari-Bari's worth is its maximum capacity?                                               P.N. Hoichael Jackson
Oda: Great question. There is in fact a limit to the space his barriers can cover, as well as how many barriers he can put up at a time. He can only hold up one barrier at a time, and they say that this one barrier can cover up to 50 thousand Bari-Bari's!! Amazing! 1 Bari-Bari equates to roughly 100x that of 1 Bori-Bari-Bari, so in other words, his barrier capacity is just about 500 Pickle-Pori-Pori-Bari-Bari's.
(Translator's Note: Bari, Bori, and Pori are all Japanese sound effects that roughly translate to 'crunching'.)


Why didn't Sasuke use Amaterasu on Kaguya? Amaterasu is powerful. Sasuke just had to secretly, when Kaguya was busy with Naruto, cast it on her. She would have burned to hell.

But why didn't Sasuke use Amaterasu on Kaguya?

Given she be the first to wield chakra, Kaguya can absorb any technique; including the Amaterasu

  As the first person to ever wield chakra, she can absorb any technique that she encounters

However, towards the beginning of Naruto's and Sasuke's battle with Kaguya, Sasuke did use the Amaterasu on Kaguya to distract her

  To create an opening, Naruto convinced Sasuke to attack Kaguya with Amaterasu, which allowed him to get close to her and use his Sexy: Reverse Harem Technique. The technique was successful in distracting Kaguya long enough for Naruto to strike her

You can see this occurrence on Youtube


Why does Naruto's headband change color? In Naruto Part 1, Naruto's headband was blue. In Naruto Shippuden, his headband was black. In one of the movies, it was red. A shinobi's headband symbolized who you are loyal to, so is there any significance to the headband's color, and if not, why was it repeatedly changed?

As Kuwaly state, there does not appear to be any significance in the color of their Headband's strap. The most common of all colors are either the blue or black

Navy Blue: The most common colour of forehead protectors. Many ninja keep this colour for the entirety of their ninja career.
Black: The second most common colour of forehead protectors. Some, such as Naruto Uzumaki, even switch from blue to black after the timeskip

Now the reason to why they change colors can be due to either

They do need to be replaced from time to time, especially after difficult training
They simply out grown of them, and want to change the color

In Shippuden episode 6, when Naruto is talking with Iruka over ramen, Naruto says to Iruka

The cloth on the precious Headband you gave me got all tattered

So given that information, Naruto changed his headband due to the fact that it was simply torn and needed to be replaced


What happened at the end of the movie? I haven't seen the original series of Captain Harlock, however I recently watched the movie during our most recent Weekend Anime Extra.

I feel like I followed along with the plot pretty well, and understood where the story was the whole time... That is until we got to the last few minutes and everything I knew just went out the window. So, it seems everyone just came back to life and the legend of Captain Harlock is going to continue, but why?

Basically, I'm looking for an explanation of what happened at the end. Why did everyone come back to life?

Basically, Harlock activates the detonators each time and he dies, and logan is replacing him. At this point if you didn't understood, logan is harlock. Although this time, he did not activate the detonators by seeing logan (his younger self) eager for life and merelly having the same dream harlock once had for earth and humanity. At this point, he's steping back in command allowing logan to lead arcadia and the crew. That's why you see 2 of them in the end, and that's why the crew revived and the dark matter came back.

The movie gave you a big hint at the start by saying:
"Far, far in the future... Or perhaps, the distant past..."

Hope it solved the trouble you had with the ending.


Who finds the letter at the end of Gakkougurashi? At the end of Gakkou Gurashi, a person finds one of the letters that were carried by the balloons.

Who was that? Is it someone random or is it someone we know?

She appear only in manga. She's Touko Deguchi. She's an university student.

From Wiki:

  Touko made a cameo appearance in the anime, where she picked up Yuki's letter

She appear in manga (Chapter 37). After the School Life Club left the school, they decide to go to university and Touko is one of the main character in this arc. She's the leader of their group.

In manga the letter was found by someone else, not her.


In what episode of Naruto did the chief turn out to be evil? I watched an episode where Naruto met a girl who could see the Kyubi inside of him but I can't find the episode.

Who knows the episode where that happened?

In episode 216, Sakura tries to assassinate Sasuke. Naruto and Kakashi stop her, and Sasuke flees, leaving the red-haired Karin behind. She becomes a captive, and, while being carried back to the Hidden Leaf Villages, senses Kurama (9-tailed beast) inside Naruto.

Is this what you are referring to?


About the artworks used in the Elfen Lied opening scenes (contains nudity) The anime Elfen Lied is notorious for its one of a kind OP, featuring the mesmerizing theme song Lilium composed by MOKA and performed by Kumiko Noma, as well as sequences of art porn, a homage to Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt. The idea to pose the characters as in Klimt's artworks came, as far as I know, from director Mamoru Kanbe, who continued this idea in the OP of Sora no Woto. (In my humble opinion, the OP of Sora no Woto is rather bland, and seriously, Klimt with Kalafina?)

This is a self-answered question and a modest attempt at unraveling the sources of and the symbolism represented in Elfen Lied's OP scenes. Other answers and/or suggestions are welcome.

The Elfen Lied OP Code

This original analysis is built on previous works by Anime Afterglow, 莉露兜 and 知日部屋. For the meaning of Kaede's hand gesture that was once popular in manga, see What's the significance of the 'w' finger position in Elfen Lied and In the opening of the Elfen Lied anime why does Nyu/Lucy have her fingers positioned in a certain way? All names and dates of Klimt's artworks are taken from the Klimt Museum.

The Elfen Lied OP animation is sequential storytelling beginning in medias res:

   Kaede sheds her tears as she and Kouta embraces. (Episode 13)

  os iusti meditabitur sapientiam et lingua eius loquetur iudicium — Psalmi 36:30

  The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment. — Psalms 37:30

As the vocal sets in, we have a zoom out shot of Kaede hugging a mannequin (dummy). A close-up view reveals an uncomfortable suggestion that it is a headless dummy. If you still don't know what to make of the headless dummy, take a look at the surrounding black ravens: they signify death.

   Lucy killed Kouta's father and sister, thereby killing his feelings for her. Now, only death awaits her as the armed forces are soon approaching.

In the background, we can see ripe cereals ears, which are ubiquitous in Klimt's artworks presumably as phallic symbols, decorating the Tree of Life. The Tree of Life grows through reproduction and evolution, and bears its fruits, the ravens (deaths), that rest on its branches. Is the human race at the end of one of those branches? Or is it the Diclonius?

Stoclet Frieze — The Fulfillment (1905)

  beatus vir qui suffert temptationem quia cum probatus fuerit accipiet coronam vitae — Iacobi 1:12

  Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life. — James 1:12

From here on is a flashback to the very beginning of the story of Elfen Lied, when Kaede was first conceived as a child. The first appearance of the title can be seen behind the rustling ripe cereal ears.

Notice here the horns on the female dummy whom we may identify as Kaede's mother. Despite being a human, she gave birth to the 'Queen' Diclonius and therefore is the true originator of the virus. The mysterious 'blemish' on the mother's abdomen may be tied to a manga-only plot:

   After Kaede's mother committed suicide, her abdomen was cut open and her ovaries and womb taken by Chief Kakuzawa.

However, this is not certain as the information was only revealed almost a year after the airing of the last episode of the anime, in Volume 11 of the manga, which was released on August 19, 2005.

The phallic symbols (which almost lit up completely before dimming again) around the private area of both the unconscious Nyu and Lucy, the Eve of the Diclonius race, allude to

   Professor Kakuzawa's unsuccessful attempt at raping Lucy/Nyu.

We can make one-to-one correspondences between the females in The Three Ages of Woman and Kaede, Lucy and Nyu. Out of the three, only the cuddling one is making the hand gesture, so she is Kaede, as she is the only one out of the three asking for forgiveness. Then the unconscious one is Nyu, and the facepalming one is Lucy.

Another possibility is that the baby girl is Nyu, the young woman is Lucy, the fertile Queen of the Diclonius, and the old woman is Kaede, who lost her favor with Kouta.

On a related note: Gustav Klimt uses circles, triangles and squares in his artworks, as does the famous Sengai Gibon, who might have had an indirect influence on him because Klimt also studied Japanese art profusely, but I don't have a source to cite for this. Sengai is well-known for his Circle, Triangle, and Square painting, the base of design for the Circle-Triangle-Square Garden at Kenninji, the oldest Zen temple in Kyoto.

  In Zen Buddhist philosophy, the Circle, Square and Triangle represent these three elements [ten-chi-jin 天地人] and their relationship to each other: the square signifies Earth, the circle refers to Heaven, and the triangle is man, or the potential of humankind to stand on the Earth and reach toward Heaven – both physically and metaphorically. — Spirit of the Man: Mario Uribe

  Sengai left the painting without a title or inscription (save for his signature), however the painting is often called "The Universe" when referred to in English.

While we don't know what Klimt had in mind when he drew those circles, triangles and squares, the workings of the universe do seem to be personified by The Three Ages of Woman and also Nyu, Kaede and Lucy. Isn't it interesting that the Fates also come in threes?

Bottom: The Three Ages of Woman (1905)
Top: Adam and Eve (1917), altered to look also like Medicine (1897) (image)

Then comes an interesting sequence of introductions to three important characters in the series: Yuka, Mayu and Nana, of ages approximately 19, 13 and 7 respectively (according to Wikia). In other words, from elder to younger, from least unfortunate to most unfortunate, and in the order of first appearance in the anime. It is curious to see three females of different ages (adulthood, adolescence and childhood), each getting their own portrait shots, make their appearances in The Three Ages of Woman scene, out of all scenes. Is this incidental or intentional?

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907)

The origin for Mayu's portrait is not without much contention. It had been suggested to be Lady with Fan (1917), Portrait of Ria Munk III (1918) and Portrait of Serena Lederer (1899), but I concur only with the suggestion that is The Girlfriends. The two women, possibly lesbians, in The Girlfriends are close to each other just as Mayu is close to Nana whose portrait appears immediately after hers. The fact that Mayu prefers to be with girls lends more evidence to Mayu's artwork being based on The Girlfriends. However, instead of a naked Nana, we have the recurring phallic symbols in the background, which tell us some backgrounds about Mayu:

   She was subject to rape and sodomy by her stepfather.

The Girlfriends (1916)

  Mäda Primavesi was, by her own account, an independent, assertive young girl, qualities amply captured in this portrait of her at about nine years old. — The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The age and personality of Mäda Primavesi indeed fit Nana's. It is the director's sympathetic portrait of a very real and willful little girl.

The lyrics sung just before Yuka's portrait, "beatus vir qui (blessed is the man)", refers to her good luck, while the lyrics before Mayu's and Nana's, "suffert temptationem (that endures temptation)", signals the pass in Mayu's and Nana's life challenges and in their resisting the temptation to give up and die.

Portrait of Mäda Primavesi (1912)

  kyrie ignis divine eleison — ΚΑΤΑ ΜΑΤΘΑΙΟΝ 20:30–31

  O Lord, Fire Divine, have mercy on us. — Matthew 20:30–31

Kyrie eleison is a common name of an important prayer of Christian liturgy. The "ignis divine (Fire Divine)" line is added as a trope because "kyrie eleison" is too short.

  A specialized use [of a trope] is the medieval amplification of texts from the liturgy, such as in the Kyrie Eleison (Kyrie, / magnae Deus potentia, / liberator hominis, / transgressoris mandati, / eleison).

The prolonged singing of a single syllable of text while moving between several different notes in succession is called melisma. As a side note, quoniam is used in the song in favor of quia because it means the same and sounds better.

This is the only artwork with moving characters: Kouta turns his face away from the viewer and kisses a dummy. Take notice of the human-like dummy Kouta is kissing: judging by her height and bust size, she is around 10 years old, clearly someone from his childhood memories. Is she child Yuka? Or is she child Kaede whom child Kouta treated as a human being?

The third and last scene of Kaede forgoing the hand gesture, and this time she is Kaede herself, not Lucy or Nyu. Ironically, Kaede finds her own fulfillment (not) in the event of The Fulfillment where she still had the hand gesture and where Lucy fulfilled her own desire and duty to kill humans, but in that of The Kiss. You could imagine the dummy kissing Kaede is God or the hypothetical Kouta who loves her / would have loved her in a different universe.

The Kiss (1908)

   Kaede's realization that Kouta had cheated on her by going out with Yuka drove her into a deep pit of sadness and madness.

The Three Ages of Woman (1905)

Fire Divine! Kaede was engulfed in a burning rage for revenge! The background is the same as Mayu's. This scene, the only other that looks like the one where the title is first shown, also marks the end of the flashback.

This and the first scene (tear drops) are the only two non-filler scenes without any known reference to an artwork. The two scenes both serve as section stops (almost perfectly at the 0:00 and 1:00 marks in the 1:30 long OP) that fade to black in similar ways, and therefore this is the end of the story of Elfen Lied.

  Oh, quam sancta, quam serena, quam benigna, quam amoena! Oh, castitatis lilium.

  O how holy, how serene, how kind, how pleasant! O, lily of chastity.

  — Ave Mundi Spes Maria

From here on, the scenes are all about depicting Elfen Lied the work. The lyrics in this last section may also be a praise of the series.

Originally, Klimt named his work Water Serpents I as a pretext to show the feminine body in an erotic context without fearing censorship. The anime is certainly challenging and pushing the boundaries of censorship with its gore and nudity.

Water Serpents I (1904)

The last scene may have borrowed ideas from Water Serpents II (1904), but ultimately this is just a 90 degree rotation of The Fulfillment, with a slight change in Kaede's head and hands.

Stoclet Frieze — The Fulfillment (1905), altered to look like Water Serpents II (1904)

If you count the number of unique dummies that have appeared in the OP, and the number of artworks referenced or the number of appearances of Kaede, Lucy and Nyu, you get these numbers.

Walter De Maria once said,

  "Every good work should have at least ten meanings."

In this regard, Elfen Lied is a good work of art.


Shisei's double irises The character Shisei Kaburagi in Shinsekai Yori has double irises. At the same time, he is (one of) the most powerful telekinesis users.

After watching the anime, I haven't found any reason why he has double irises, nor why they help him (if they do).

Is this explained in the manga?

This is probably not explained in the manga, because the manga is... well, not great.

Kaburagi Shisei's eyes are mentioned in the novel, though. On page 666 of the one-volume edition (book V, chapter 3; right before Hino Koufuu is slain), we have:

  切れ長の非常に大きな目は、澄みきっていた。顔の造作も整っており、ハンサムと言ってもいいくらいだ。その異様な眼球を別にすればだが。

  鏑木康星氏には、片目に二つずつ、合わせて四つの虹彩があり、薄闇の中で、ぎらぎらと琥珀色に輝いていた。これは鏑木家に代々伝わる特異な遺伝的特徴で、一般人とは隔絶した呪力の証なのだという。

Roughly translated,

  His unusually-large, almond-shaped eyes were limpid. His face was so well-sculpted, I might even have called him handsome - save for his bizarre eyes.

  Kaburagi Shisei had four irises - two in each eye. They shone through the darkness, glowing the color of amber. That peculiarity was genetic in origin, and had been passed down the Kaburagi lineage for generations. They were a testament to the fact that his cantus was on an entirely different level than that of the common people.

So I guess it's just some sort of genetic weirdness in his family, probably a benign phenotypic side effect to whatever mutation makes people of his family particularly powerful PK users.


Why didn't Eren Yeager saw the Key before in Attack on Titans? In the first season of Attack on Titan,  Eren remember something his dad told him about the cellar under their house, when he saw the key, and he transform into a Titan and stopped a canon fire.

We first saw that key with Eren's dad. While he was leaving he said to Eren something like "Be good and you will get this when I get back". Then when the Titans attacked and Eren went to Wall Rose we see the Key in his neck.

I wondered how it got there, but the flashback scene suggest that his dad erases his memory.

But I was wondering, the key was with Eren for the past 5 or so years. If a look at the key would make him remember everything, why didn't it happen during that time?

I am now half way to season 1, and haven't read the manga so if spoilers are there please put a spoiler tag

He is sure to have seen it before, but like most things, he doesn't just automatically remember everything about an object just by looking at it, especially when he has amnesia in regards to those memories. People set alarms to remind them to do things all the time, but there is never a guarantee that the alarm going off will actually remind them to do the task.

Two potential ideas come into play here then:

The amnesia is strong, and its only broken when he shifted into a titan. By doing so, the memories were no longer forgotten, and so the key could then remind him.
The amnesia is like most amnesia, strong enough that it takes time or extraordinary events to break it. Erin had both. After years, he suddenly wakes up after believing he died, with severed limbs regrown, and cannons pointed at him with people asking if he is a Human or a Titan. That is an incredible stress, adrenaline rush, and also directly related to the memories forgotten around the key. Upon seeing his fathers key after thinking about him being a Titan, he then remembers his father talking about the key and titans, as well as the drug that was injected into him, which is what caused the amnesia to begin with.

It could be a combination of both as well. Regardless, the Drug caused the amnesia, for reasons that are probably spoilers for this question. That amnesia was clearly enough that just seeing the key was not enough to remember.


How common is it to use the lily flower/yuri 百合 to represent girls love in japanese anime? So I've seen some say using lilies is very common for author to show that a girl is lesbian for example.

However I've heard that the whole lilies= lesbian thing is not mainstream. So I was wondering, how common is this trope used really outside of the yuri genre

This is based on communications between Asian readers of light novel and mangas

Lily is commonly used to represent purity, innocence, especially in Asian religions. Lily in this case symbolizes tight and pure friendship between 2 females. They can be very close friends to the point of slightly flirtatious or look almost like couples but not necessarily sexual. It's more on the emotional bond rather than the sexual aspect that the West depicted it as.

It's not too common as a visual indicator but more as a genre/category of anime/manga/light novel. It started with 'Rose Clan' as a term for gay inclined readers of a magazine series so a writer start using 'Lily Clan' as a female counterpart t

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From history point of view:

Among the first Japanese authors to produce works about love between women was Nobuko Yoshiya,[9] a novelist active in the Taishō and Shōwa periods of Japan.
Yoshiya was a pioneer in Japanese lesbian literature, including the early twentieth century Class S genre.[22] These kinds of stories depict lesbian attachments as emotionally intense yet platonic relationships, destined to be curtailed by graduation from school, marriage, or death.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_(genre)#cite_ref-yoshiya_21-1


How does the Angel Beats special episode connect with the main storyline? In the special episode (Stairway to Heaven), the Battlefront has decided to commence a new mission: Operation High Tension Syndrome.

How is this story connected to the main timeline of the anime? Or do they have completely different and unrelated stories? Is this special episode considered canon?

The OVA is actually set between episodes 4 and 5 of the series. It's part of the main timeline, but it doesn't really have any effect on the overarching plot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Angel_Beats!_episodes


Can Rinnegan users fly or levitate? In the anime when Pain attacked Konoha, he levitated above the village before unleashing Almighty Push.

So my question is can Rinnegan users levitate?
If so, how? Constantly using small Almighty Pushes below his feet?

They can't.
In the manga, Pain's Deva Path jumps over the village and uses Shinra Tensei to destroy it. Notice the fluttering cape.

Even when invading the village, Pain's Animal Path is thrown over Konoha's protective sphere.

At no point does Pain, his paths, Madara or Sasuke fly or levitate through the Rinnegan.


Why does Pokemon have a six Pokemon limit? I was wondering why is there a limit?

Why does everyone follow it in the anime?

Even Team Rocket follows it, even though they are a criminal organization that steals trainers' Pokemon. Just because there is a custom in place, doesn't mean people have to follow it.

Is it discussed or shown in the anime?

The Pokémon anime is actually a little inconsistent in this. In episode 11: Charmander – The Stray Pokémon, Damian bragged about his collection of Pokémon and there was a large number of Pokéballs (more than six) in front of him. In episode 13: Mystery at the Lighthouse where Ash caught his Krabby, Misty told Ash that he could only have six Pokémon, and any more he caught after that would be sent back to whomever gave him his Pokédex.

Speculation: So, maybe if you have a Pokedex it forces you to only keep six Pokemon and people without one don't have to follow the rules?

  Why Does Pokémon have a Six Pokémon limit?

In early episodes, Ash talks about the rules of Pokémon battles that the Pokémon League set. For example, he tells Team Rocket it is against the rules to use two Pokémon at once. Presumably the six Pokémon limit is one of these rules. Most trainers will probably follow the six Pokémon limit because of the Pokémon League's rules, but it isn't clear why the bad guys would follow the rules. And in the anime, as evidenced by Damian, it isn't clear whether they do follow that rule.

Edit: In Pokémon: Black and White, catching a seventh Pokémon works differently than it did when Ash caught his Krabby. Rather than being transported back to a professor, the Poké Ball shrinks and won't open and Ash has to get to a Pokémon Center to transfer his Pokémon. This inconsistency is first seen when Ash catches a Sewaddle in Sewaddle and Burgh in Pinwheel Forest! and is seen again when Ash catches a Palpitoad in a later episode.


How is Johnny Joestar walking at the end of Jojo part 7 Steel Ball Run? I thought the corpse helped provide him use of his legs midway through the series. However, the entire corpse is taken by Valentine near the end and sealed in the vault, so how is Johnny Joestar still walking?

It's in D4C at the end of that arc, when Gyro uses Scan to find where in the sewer Johnny was hiding after being shot. He tells Gyro he was able to move his legs but didn't have the strength to stand yet, and Gyro then tells him how to use the stirrups on a horse to further enhance the spin since it doesn't take much strength to do, he just needs control.

He then admits when he's about to board the ship that he'd been building his leg strength up ever since discovering Act 3, and had just barely gotten to the point where he could and walk with some difficulty by the time he was boarding the ship at the end. And was somewhat disappointed that it was so slow and mundane, rather then a suddenly miracle.

As for the mechanics of how. He learned how to use the Spin to transfer nerve signals around the damage in his spine and into his legs, by-passing the issue, though it took time to build his leg strength back up to take advantage of it.


Order to watch the Danganronpa series? Is there a "Danganronpa 2"? This season there are 2 simultaneous Danganronpa shows, both of which are prefaced with "Danganronpa 3".  The first series in the franchise is "Danganronpa: Kibou no Gakuen to Zetsubou no Koukousei".

I'm not clear on if there is a second series anywhere, or if the number 3 was just added to the names of both the new series.

Wikipedia says

  A second anime series, titled Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School, began airing in July 2016. The series is split into two simultaneously airing parts; Side: Future, which serves as a conclusion to the "Hope's Peak Academy" storyline, and Side: Despair, which serves as a prequel to Danganronpa 2

which is clear as mud.  I am unable to find information on "Danganronpa 2", though I would expect one to be a prequel to the first series, and the other to maybe be a side story or a post story.

What order should I watch Danganronpa in?
For the current series, does it matter which episode I watch first from each of the simultaneous ones (the "Future Arc" started airing before the "Despair Arc")?
Does the Wiki page confuse "Danganronpa 2" with the manga/LN material?

I think what is being missed here is the second game in the series, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.

From the Wikipedia article:

  It is the second installment in the Danganronpa series, and a direct sequel to the 2010 game Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc.

It's the sequel to Danganronpa 1, adding to the DGR universe beyond the events of Trigger Happy Havoc, complete with a whole new set of characters, scenery, and more.

Danganronpa: The Animation is an anime adaptation of DGR1, AKA Trigger Happy Havoc, AKA THH. THH is the basis of the entire DGR story/franchise; it is the first game, but not the first event of DGR chronologically. Essentially all other canon media in the DGR universe builds upon the events of THH, so you'll want to start here. Either the show or the game will suffice, though I recommend the game.

DGR2's story is critical to both sides of the DGR3 animes. As per the wiki article, Despair

  tells the backstory of Hope's Peak Academy's 77th Class

which is the same class featured in DGR2. Even though 3/Despair happens chronologically before DGR2, I recommend playing DGR2 before watching 3/Despair. DGR2 tells the story of the 77th class, which is then given more context/backstory in 3/Despair. DGR2 does not have an anime adaptation, but it apparently has a manga.

The Future and Despair arcs aired simultaneously in an alternating fashion, starting with Future. Chronologically, Despair happens entirely before Future, but the intended watching order is actually the order in which the episodes are released; so, also in an alternating fashion starting with Future (source: wiki.) In other words, Future ep. 1, then Despair ep. 1, then Future ep. 2, then Despair ep. 2, so on and so forth.

So, to hopefully answer your questions:

All Series Watch Order:

DGR1/THH/Danganronpa: The Animation
DGR2: Goodbye Despair (game or manga)
DGR Ultra Despair Girls (game)

   A few characters from UDG appear in Future, so it may benefit you to play this first, but it's not a dealbreaker like not playing DGR2 is.

Alternate watching DGR3/Future and DGR3/Despair episodes, i.e. F1 -> D1 -> F2 -> D2... etc.
DGR3/Hope
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (game)

   IMO, V3's only strict prerequisite is DGR1 to get the full picture, but I recommend experiencing the whole series to be safe, if you can.

The DGR subreddit also has a good FAQ/writeup on this topic, including Supplementary Material.

DGR3 (Anime) Series Watch Order:

Alternate watching Future and Despair episodes, starting with Future.

A Note Regarding DGRv3:

The branding can be slightly confusing between Danganronpa 3 and Danganronpa V3. Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony is the third installment of the game series (and features a brand new cast separate from DGR1/2), and Danganronpa 3, as discussed above, is the anime split into two parts (Despair/Hope) and the last episode, Hope.


How could Kakashi make a Perfect Susanoo with only two MS when Sasuke needed a Rinnegan? When Sasuke first activated the Susanoo with 2 MS it didn't really resemble the Complete Susanoo. But when Obito gave Kakashi his eyes he activated Complete Susanoo. Why did it take so long for Sasuke to activate Complete Susanoo.

Once a user awakens the Mangekyō in both eyes, or the ability of both of their eyes, they are able to perform Susanoo.

Sasuke could make a "perfect" Susanoo once he got ability of both of his eyes. One probable reason why he didn't use it right away could be the fact that Susanoo does use up a lot of chakra and he might be saving his chakra.

  The Mangekyō Sharingan's abilities drain a considerable amount of chakra when performed.

Source

Mangekyo Sharingan


Does anyone know this song from Naruto Shippuden that plays in this video? I've been looking for the name of this OST, but I haven't had any luck finding it. It's the first one played here. It's also played on the 6:07 mark in episode 343.

It is an unreleased OST titled (for now) as "Konoha Peace Theme".

It is said that the soundtrack will be included in the Naruto Shippūden: OST III.


What did they use for their toast? In episode 17 of Kill la Kill, Kiryūin Satsuki brings out a toast to their success with what looks like a cup of sake. But, considering it is a school and they are between the ages of 16 and 19, they shouldn't be allowed to drink this yet, right? So what did they toast with?

This is likely to be a Sakazuki, which are  small to medium-sized ceremonial cups during a celebration, most commonly used at weddings and other special occasions such as tea ceremonies. The Yakuza are know for their particular initiation ceremony where the initiate exchanges Sakazuki with the Oyabun (Boss) as a vow of loyalty.

As for the underage drinking, the legal drinking and smoking age is 20 in Japan. Typically it's socially acceptable to drink a little for celebrations.


Can people log into SAO after the initial trapping? Obviously in SAO anyone who was in the game on the first day was trapped inside. My question is, could someone on the outside a day (or whenever) later join in?

I would imagine it would be tempting for someone who had a significant other, child, someone, in the game or maybe they were depressed and thought SAO would lead to a better life.

I'm sure they would then become trapped themselves but is there anything stopping that initial jump after Akihiko Kayaba already trapped everyone?

There's no evidence to show that it wasn't impossible for non-trapped players to gain access into the game. What Kayaba Akihiko did was removing the "Log out" option and altering the game so that the death flag would cause the NerveGear to fry the player's brain.
Of course, whether it was possible or not on the basis of what Kayaba did to the game is one thing, the other factor to consider is the authorities.
When Kirito first entered Sword Art Online, he was on his bed. However, at the end of Aincrad arc, he woke up in hospital as seen where he wakes up and stumbles out to look for Asuna.

It was also mentioned that the NerveGear has it's own internal battery in it which accounts for 30% of it's weight, in the Novels it's revealed this battery has atleast 10 minutes of power in it being one of the conditions set to kill a player.

In the novel, Kayaba announces to the players that if one of the following happened: being disconnected from a source of electricity for 10 minutes, cut from the system for more than 2 hours, or dying in-game, the NerveGear would fry the player's brain, killing them in the real world.

Soruce: Episode 1 - Adaptation Notes (Point 2)
Kayaba also says how people outside the game were told to avoid forceful removal of NerveGears yet some chose to ignore this (though it doesn't imply he cared for their lives).

Having informed the outside world of the situation beforehand, [Kayaba] reported that friends and family members of some of the players had already ignored his warning, causing the death of 213 players, showing images of the SAO incident.

Source: Episode 1 - Plot (7th paragraph)
Also every trapped SAO player was moved to hospitals within the first 2 hours of the game starting as a respone to Kayaba's announcement to monitor their condition, and for those who didn't die in-game, to keep them from becoming under-nourished.

He also told them that his crime was being broadcast all over the world, with the location of each player, thus the authorities would be moving them into hospitals to put them in better care during the 2 hours he had allowed the players to be disconnected from the system.

Soruce: Episode 1 - Adaptation Notes (Point 2)
In the Novels, to which the anime does not mention, SAO was only released in Japan so the only players effected were Japanese. in the Wiki it says that after the SAO incident NerveGear had been seized and disposed as according to Japanese Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 121
all of this indicate that the Japanese Authorities were well aware of what was going on and would be in the public's best interest to prevent any more cases of players being trapped inside. in terms of the game the Authorities didn't need to stop people getting more copies of the game as only 10,000 copies were first produced and 10,000 players were trapped1

Only 10,000 copies were printed in the first batch of the game, and online sales sold out within seconds. Hard-core gamers waited in line for days to purchase the first few hard copies from many stores.
«Sword Art Online» officially started server service at 1 PM of November 6, 2022 and obtained infamy when the creator succeeded in trapping 10,000 people in the game, and making it so that death in-game would mean actual death for the player.

Source: Sword Art Online - Background
however on the NerveGear Wikia page it states there were about 200,000 players in possession of a NerveGear, so i assume that the authorities seized about 193,853 NerveGear during Death Game (3,853 from the player who died)

This next part is mainly speculation. However, Cardinal system, which could possibly corrected new players entering the game, since we didn't see outside authorities trying to help players in-game with clearing all 100 floors. though this could be them being cautious as effectively Kayaba was in control of 10,000 lives
It is also mentioned that Kayaba has a level of honor and fairness so i would assume that as he aided players to reach the 95th floor (where he would reveal himself as the final boss) he would also act on any outside interference against anyone in some way if they came up with hacks designed to help beat the game or attempt to back into the game itself.

Akihiko had a level of honor and fairness. He designed Sword Art Online to be a beatable game by anyone who had the skills. He never interfered with the players' progress to keep them from advancing through the game; in fact, as Heathcliff, he was actually fighting on the players' side, helping them clear floors. The one exception to this is the fact that he made himself invincible until his battle with Kirito, although this was necessary to survive the game until the 95th floor was reached, where Heathcliff planned to reveal his true identity and become the final boss on the 100th floor.

Soruce: Kayaba Akihiko - Personality (4th Paragraph)

1: the web version of the story which included the adult #.5 chapters says there were 50,000 players trapped


Can Dragonslayers eat their own magic? Early in the anime, Lucy asked Natsu if he could eat his own fire.  Natsu explained that it would be like Lucy eating one of her Celestial Spirits. While this tells us that Natsu won't do it, it leaves the possibility open.

Given how Angel treated her spirits, I could imagine a more evil wizard being willing to eat their spirit if desperate enough.  So, could a more evil dragon slayer eat their own magic?  Would it make them more powerful or just back to the state they were in prior to casting the spell?

I think they can, but they just wouldn't gain any energy like they would from other sources, so it's just completely pointless. There have been points with dragonslayers in pretty tight pinches, and I'm pretty sure one of them would have at some point eaten their own magic if there were any point in doing so/ if it's even possible.

I think Natsu was just making a bit of a stupid analogy when he said it was like Lucy eating celestial spirits, at no point has there been any suggestion that a dragonslayer's element is in some way alive, and he's more than happy to fire off bursts of fire that presumably must burn out eventually, I don't think ethics come into it at all, just practicality.


What do the half ghouls in CCG eat? How does CCG keep ghouls alive for so long in their prisons when they can only eat humans? The same goes for half ghouls in CCG. What do they eat?

Quinx squad keeps their RC level low enough they can eat regular human food. (Post time skip Urie is seen eating at some fancy dinner with I believe Matsuri Washuu if I didn't get the name wrong.) Additionally in very early chapters of :re Sasaki cooks food for Mutsuki. During Kaneki's flashback of his imprisonment after the events of V14 it's shown that some sort of slop is pushed through his door which he doesn't eat. Otherwise perhaps quinx are given RC repressants as well which could help with hunger. Kaneki notes in chapter 99 that he was using RC suppressants in his time with the CCG (albeit noting it had an effect on his hair color).

Exact chapter citations forthcoming when I have time.


Why is it that the swordsman's attacks appear to do nothing until they click the sword back into its sheath? For example, in One Piece, Brook, and sometimes Zorro, do some big attack with their swords, but the cuts are not shown until after they return their swords to the sheaths.

This trope is usually attributed to Fist of The North Star, after Kenshiro attacks someone he pauses and says "You are already dead". It is only then that they realise their defeat and the attacks are applied.

Reference.
Another Reference (TVTropes)

It's similar to how in Road Runner, Wilee Coyotee often runs off of cliffs, without realising the ground below him has stopped - he only falls when this is pointed out to him.

The usual rationale is that everything happens so fast that the character cannot register what is going on - and neither does their body.


Did Hijikata and Kondo kill Oboro? IIRC in the Farewell Shinsengumi arc Hijikata and Kondo attack Oboro and it seems they killed him. Later we see Oboro alive, which would make you assume he wasnt dead but wounded, but later Utsuro when he sees Oboro coughing blood tells him that if he keeps dying (or something like that) even he would die. Did Kondo and Hijikata kill Oboro and he resurrected kinda like Utusuro did when Gintoki chopped his head, or was Oboro just wounded and he never died of Hijikata and Kondo attack?

The fight you mention happens in episode 315. Hijikata slashes at Oboro's lower right abdomen and Kondo cuts at his left arm, and we see Oboro fall down. These are not necessarily fatal wounds, plus if you add the fact the Oboro has some of Utsuro's immortal blood inside him, it's actually probable that Oboro survived after that fight. He only dies later on in his final fight with Takasugi.


Is there a site which has lists of anime/manga/novels and has up-to-date information on release dates? I was watching Bodacious Space Pirates and finished it last night. I know there is a movie coming out in 2014 but it feels as if the anime was an adaptation of something.

I searched Anime News Network and it only has the anime and upcoming movie. I looked up on wikipedia and found the anime was an adaptation of the light novel series Miniskirt Space Pirates (ミニスカ宇宙海賊(パイレーツ) Minisuka Pairētsu). However it doesn't list the volumes that have been released or if any has been released in English, the same with the manga.

I am wondering if there is a site which has more complete information than Anime News Network or Wikipedia.

Baka Updates (for anime) and MangaUpdates (for manga) constantly update with newly subbed and translated series.

For a chart of all anime releases by season, check out The Cart Driver.

And last but not least, to keep track of all the series you have viewed, use My Anime List.

This answers the question in your title, however I don't know of any site that particularly keeps track of only English releases. Myanimelist does have the info on English series though, as it will tell you all the voice actors (Japanese, English, etc). This site is probably your best bet for all the information you would want from a series and it definitely has more than wiki and Anime News Network.

For your situation, however, there are currently no manga released as well as no English light novels. The only light novels that exist are in Japanese. Baka Tsuki was looking into translating it, but nothing has been done yet.

I should probably also add that light novels in general are usually not published into an English version. Translators like BakaTsuki will normally take on those projects and if they do translate the series, it is normally posted in the serie's respective wikia.


What was Sora Iro no Tane advertising? One of the earliest Ghibli works, Sora Iro no Tane or The Sky-Colored Seed, was an advertisement broadcast on Japanese TV in 1992.

This little green dude seems to be the mascot of the product, he seems to be a pig:

I can't find any information about what it was advertising originally, and I can't draw a logical conclusion from the show.

Does anyone know what it was advertising? And how were the animation clips relevant?

Sora Iro no Tane was a TV spot made for Nippon TV in 1993 to commemorate its 40th anniversary.

The creature is called "Nandarou" (lit. What is it?) and designed by Hayao Miyazaki himself.


How did they do for being able to retain Toichiro Suzuki for incarceration? Toichiro Suzuki supposedly is the second or first most powerful esper, depending on the source and interpretation. How did regular humans do for being able to retain him for incarcelation, if he at any moment can use his wide range of psychic powers to escape?

What do you mean regular humans? The dialog between him and the person taking him away at the end of Season 2 Episode 12, as well as the non-standard binding on his hands strongly suggests that he's being taken in by an organisation that has their own supply of espers.

Additionally, at this point he has had his change of heart - he is turning himself in and going peacefully. So while it's still possible that he's strong enough to break free, he's choosing not to.


What is the necklace that Mirajane wears around her neck? In Fairy Tail when Mirajane isn't in her Satans Soul form and she looks like this in the picture below-

I notice that she wears some type of necklace around her neck. What/is there a sentimental reason/value behind why she carries around this necklace on her neck?

Here are some other examples...

and another here...

Answers are appreciated. :)

I was unable to find any in canon references from official sources but based on general opinion here it appears to be used for general decoration and serves no exact purpose.

There are no exact references on the necklace, so this would be the most likely answer at this time, since no new information has been released yet.


Why did Suzaku change sides? Suzaku was always Lelouch's enemy; they had the same goal, but different ways.

But when they met and killed Lelouch's father, he changed sides and became Lelouch's Knight.
Why did this happen? At that point, Lelouch had the Geass in both eyes. Could he now manipulate people more often?
Or did he just agree with Lelouch's plan to cheat the whole world?

TL;DR: He never changed sides.

Suzaku's allegiance remained with the Britannia Empire the whole series. After the events in C world that culminated with the Emperor's death, Lelouch became the new Emperor, and it was only logical that Suzaku would serve Britannia's Emperor, Lelouch.

Both Lelouch and Suzaku had the same goal: to restore Britannia and end the corruption. Suzaku wanted to do it by working WITHIN the system, Lelouch would do it by the fastest means available. That is why they were at odds before the Emperor's death. Once Lelouch became part of the system, that rivalry ended.

Also, Lelouch had already used Geass on Suzaku in the first season, by ordering him

  To Live!

that was triggered anytime Suzaku was at a risk of death, most of the time improving his combat edge.

Lelouch could use Geass more than once on an individual, only if Orange-kun used his Geass Canceler between uses. Happened only once in the whole series, with Shirley: he used it once to eraser her memory, then Orange-kun wiped that effect, and later while she was dying on Lelouch hands, he commanded her to live, but she was unable to carry that and died anyway.

Agreeing to the Zero Requiem plan suited Suzaku on several levels.
He would

Serve his Emperor's (Lelouch's) orders,
Avenge Euphemia (by killing
Lelouch),
Clear his slate with Karen (by being dead, or even if he
was unmasked as Zero afterwards, she would still be ok, I guess),
And stay in a position able to defend Nunnally forever.


Is there nudity in any of the Mobile Suit Gundam series? I heard somewhere that there is some nudity in some of the Mobile Suit Gundam series, is this true?  And if so, which ones have it and how sexual is it?

I want to watch the shows with my little brother and I just want to make sure there's nothing like that in it before we start it.

For the portion you're concerned with
IMDB states the following-

Some characters (including children) do appear fully naked in bath scenes. Breasts are visible on female characters, and penises are visible on two child characters in one bath scene. There is a scene where one male child character rubs the chest of a female child character, though this is more comedic than sensual.
There is implied to be a romantic interest between many characters on the show, but nothing sexual is even shown (or for that matter, hardly even implied.)

List of Bathing Scenes-
http://animebathscenewiki.com/index.php?title=Mobile_Suit_Gundam
For additional info you may refer to this link-
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0159172/parentalguide?ref_=m_ttpg


What is the motive behind the Titan Shifters' actions? Okay, so I read a bit of the manga, and I know a good amount of spoilers. But why are most of the titan-shifters trying to destroy humanity? Eren and Ymir are good, right? Why do some titan-shifters want to destroy humanity, and what are Annie's, the Colossal Titan's, and the Armored Titan's backstories and motives?

Since there isn't much revealed in the manga, this answer is going to be a speculative one.

It's known that the royal family has been trying to wipe out the titans. They prepare someone to become the "Carrier" of the Coordinate, but each time a new titan gets the power, they accede to the demands of the 1st king, that is to allow the titans to dominate human, i.e. Titan rule.

The primary motive of the Titan Shifters is to recover the Coordinate, unknown to the fact that only someone from the royal family can use it's powers optimally.

This leads me to think that

The ape titan, is somehow related to the royal family and wants to fulfill the 1st king's wish.
Or, he just wants to convert all humans to titans, thus creating an only titan nation and annihilating humanity.


Why does Edo Tensei Madara have Rinnegan? Edo Tensei restores a person the way they were at the time of their death. When Madara died, he was wrinkly and old. How come Edo Tensei Madara is brand new?
Rinnegan is not a kekkei genkai/tota. Why does Edo Tensei Madara still possess the Rinnegan when, at the time of his death, he wasn't possessing Rinnegan (because he implanted them onto Nagato)?
Madara lost vision in one eye due to usage of Izanagi, but after awakening the Rinnegan, was he able to restore his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan that he lost?

First of all, the Edo Tensei doesn't just restores the body at the exactly time of death, but it does it as if it was brand new, the body is kind like 'reborn'. We see it on how:

Edo Tensei Deidara had both eyes instead of his robot left eye;
Edo Tensei Sasori had a 'human' body instead of a puppet one;
Edo Tensei Nagato had his Rinnegans even tho Tobi had taken his eyes from his body;
Edo Tensei itachi had his Sharingans even tho they were transplanted on Sasuke.

Now when it comes to Madara, Kabuto had aprimorated the Edo Tensei Jutso so when he brought Madara back to life he was younger and stronger than he was when he died.

Here's the image after he showed everyone that he has a pair of Rinnegan. Kabuto mentions that he made modifications to the body.


Can a child inherit both their parents' clans jutsu? Can a child in Naruto inherit both abilities from his parents' clans?

For example, if Ino and Sasuke had a child is there a possibility for it to have both Uchiha's Sharingan and Yamanaka's mind transfer jutsu?

Yes, a child can inherit both clans' jutsu.

This was officially explained by Masashi Kishimoto(the creator of Naruto)
The child with an Uchicha and a Hyuga as parents will have both the clans' eyes.

While Inojin is not a good example as the techniques of his father Sai were taught to him.The Ninja art techniques are not passed via genetic inheritance.
Also, Ino's clan techniques are classified as Hidden techinques which use Yin/Yang release which are also taught/learned not passed via genetics.

A good example would be an Uchiha + Hyuga child as answered by Kishimoto himself -


What is required for a manga to get an anime adaptation? I'm reading Koe no Katachi and have been hoping for it to be animated. It looks like it's getting more popular. However, it makes me wonder what requirements should be fulfilled before they decide to create an anime based on a certain manga in general.

There is no written path, but there are several factors and steps that must happen for that:

Fanbase

The overall reaction to the manga, the volume of internet traffic it generates (fan-art, forums, discussions, fan pages, fan fiction, even porn of the main characters).
Are fans cosplaying as the characters even before anime?

Connections and reputation

The reputation of the mangaka. For example, I doubt any new manga by Rumiko Takahashi (for example) is NOT going to become an anime.
Who the mangaka and the manga producers/managers know. Sometimes the hardest part is to put your work in front of the right eyes. It's all in the pitch.

Possible merchandising and target audience

Can the manga become a toy line? Can you sell costumes of the main characters?
The target audience (gender, age, genre) spending power.

Series health and controversy

Is the manga series long enough? Are the arcs and plots interesting? Are the characters well developed and of enough depth?
Is there any group that will get grossly offended if the manga becomes an anime? Remember that printed media is pulled by the reader (you have to actively persuse the media) while audiovisual media is PUSHED into the viewer.

Competition and market mood

Is the manga a mecha manga, and it's on its peak during a new Gundam season and yet another Evangelion Retcon?
What was the reaction of fans to the animes of the same genre that aired in the previous seasons? Are they craving for more of the genre or had they have enough?

Releases and versions

Is the series already compiled into tankobon? Is it on Crunchyroll? Was it already translated (by fans or officially)?
Also, check if the manga is being pirated. It is a sad fact, but popular manga that will become anime is widely pirated, translated, fansubbed, etc.
Do some specialized Google searches for the manga series, its main characters and villains. Check the result count, and compare to other popular manga that already became anime.

After all of those factors, there are some things you can look for in specialized media to see if your favorite manga is really going to become anime:

Option: Did some studio or media company purchase the option for the IP? Options are commonplace in the Western media world, but it's becoming very popular around the world. Check the media and news for the option signing.

Rumors: Check some blogs (mostly in Japanese) for the titles they think will make next season (Dear Reader: suggest some blogs in the comments).

Wikipedia: The folks at the WikiProject Anime and Manga work really hard to keep their corner of the wiki fresh. If your manga series already have a Wikipedia page, chances are high.

As for your particular manga, I would say it certainly will become anime.


Who are these two students in the back of Itoshiki's class? In Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei s01e01 @17:37 there are these two peculiar students in the back right with a different art style and dark blue hair which stands out from everybody else:

Are they anyone special from another work by one of the staff, or is it a cameo from an unrelated title?

They are extras that were used in the Pani Poni Dash series, the series that Shaft worked on before the Zetsubou Sensei series. The director Shinbou is known for throwing in references and parodies of previous works.


What song plays in Code Geass R2 Episode 14: Geass Hunter? I started watching the second season of Code Geass and there's this one song that I am trying to find. It starts about 8:15 minutes in and it's when V.V. and Lelouch are talking to each other. I feel like its unreleased but it'd be nice to know if it's online or anywhere.

Answer separated from question

I FOUND IT ON YOUTUBE! Sadly, it is unreleased and it's not the best quality. If there's a clean version anywhere that'd be awesome too. While I do have the actual audio of the track, it still has the voices and everything.

Heres the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVWyHqlTDDI&list=PLClDieKmym5Df7m7B3cF9z6ot1yNiq7X0&index=6


Did the hero killer get deku's quirk Like because to pass down the quirk you have to have deku's dna and he licked his blood so did toga she got a little bit of his blood too?

No, Midoriya later on asks Allmight about the same issue and he is told that the quirk can only be passed down if the user wishes to and cannot be stolen
Source:
https://bokunoheroacademia.fandom.com/wiki/Vs._Hero_Killer_Arc#The_Origin:_All_For_One_and_One_For_All