Can a guild mark be forcefully applied? The What exactly is a guild mark? question made me wonder about this aswell.

Can a guild mark be forcefully applied on somebody? Or is it a process of mutual acceptance. Or maybe even like with the celestial spirits, a contract?

Gajeel, a former Phantom Lord member, joined Fairy Tail after the defeat of his former guild. Also,

  Moved by Makarov's mercy and compassion, Gajeel accepts his offer.

Juvia, like Gajeel, was a former Phantom Lord member. She joined Fairy Tail after the defeat of her former guild.

  Juvia goes to the newly renovated Fairy Tail guildhall to meet with
  the guild's master, Makarov Dreyar, now prepared to ask him for guild
  membership.

Lucy Also joins the guild on her own accord.

From the above examples, we can see that each character of the story joins the guild upon the mutual agreement of the Guild Master and him/herself.

Yukino, upon her loss she was forced to strip and asked to erase her guild mark, thus banishing her from the guild. She was very disappointed with this.

  After failing to win, Yukino faces the anger of Sabertooth's Guild
  Master, Jiemma. Displeased by the failure of Team Sabertooth on the
  second day, Jiemma throws grapes at Yukino's head and forces her to
  strip, telling her to erase her guild mark, thus banishing her from
  the guild. She is later seen standing outside Honeybone Lodge, the
  current lodging of the Fairy Tail Guild for the duration of the games.

Laxus:

  As he informs the Thunder God Tribe of his expulsion, Bickslow tries
  to convince him otherwise, but Laxus tells him not to take action.
  Laxus watches the Fantasia parade before he leaves and realizes that
  everyone, including his grandfather whom he despised, is still looking
  out for him. Laxus leaves the parade realizing what a fool he was,
  smiling but shedding tears of regret.

A member is excommunicated from the guild at the discretion of the Guild Master as we can see in case of Laxus and Yukino.

Also, as Sp0t mentions, no guild would forcefully apply on anyone their guild emblem to reveal their magic. When someone joins the guild, he/she is privy to the working of the guild and also some secrets. Why would a guild master force someone to join and out these critical information at risk? As we have seen that Gajeel was used to counter spy on Ivan which was devastating to the Raven Tail Guild.

So I would say that a member joins a guild with the mutual agreement of the Guild Master and him/herself.

P.S: there is always a possibility where a character is blackmailed to join a guild, but if we blind side the "blackmail" part we can say that he agreed to join the guild. The agreement may not be completely mutual, but nevertheless it's mutual (ugh... I know it's complex). But I doubt that such an agreement can be beneficial to the guild.


What meaning is there behind the World Martial Arts Tournament logo? Everybody knows the World Martial Arts Tournament, which has a logo that you can see in flags, on the wall, in the arena, and at a lot of places during the tournament.

But what does the logo exactly mean? What language is that?

Here is the logo:

I found some references here:

http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/World_Martial_Arts_Tournament
http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_symbols
http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Master_Mutaito

Budou (武道) is a Japanese term describing Japanese martial arts. Budou consists of the kanji "bu" (武, ぶ), meaning "war" or "martial," and dou (道, どう), meaning "path" or "way."

The tournament is called the 天下一武道会, "Tenkaichi Budoukai," which can literally mean: "(Best) Martial Arts on Earth (Under the Sky) Tournament."


Why wasn't the Susanoo used? During their fight with Kaguya, Obito, or even Sasuke didn't use their Susanoo which could have protected them from Kaguyas "Bone Ash" jutsu.

Same is the case when Sasuke fought Madara (Tobirama was lying on the ground paralysed and Sasuke jumped from above to attack Madara). Sasuke could have used his Susanoo, but he didn't.

Was this just a loophole on the writer's part? Or is there a reason behind it?

Kaguya can absorb all forms of ninjutsu, which rendered Susano'o useless. Sasuke only uses techniques like that on people who dont absorb jutsu, like Naruto. Plus, there would be no need to use Susano'o on Madara's Limbo Clone because physical attacks do not work on it. When he had chances to use Susano'o against Madara's Limbo, he didn't understand how the jutsu worked and might have felt there would be no need for its use. They have recently been putting Sasuke in situations where he doesn't need to use his stronger jutsu, like Kagatsuchi or Susano'o, which is why his fights have started taking way longer than they should be.
As for why Obito can't use it, there is literally only one manga panel that completely sums it up.

Obito had already given Kakashi his left eye by the time he awakened Mangekyou Sharingan, thus couldn't use Susano'o. Obito is later seen to get back both of his Sharingan, but since he awakened it before he had both, I guess the eyes could no longer be seen as a "vessel" for Susano'o to be used.


Why does Eimu wear a different uniform? When Eimu joins the class, she has a different uniform from everyone else, which I figured was acceptable because she was coming from a different school.

However, she stays in the school for quite a bit of time (and we see that she even owns the uniform in episode 5 or so). Why then does she continue to wear the blue uniform the entire way through the show?

Much like this question, this is most likely to be part of the Transfer Student Uniform trope that features in a few anime.

TVTropes page

  New Transfer Students in places where school uniforms are a cultural default setting often wear their old ones until the school can provide them with a new one. In fiction, this shows the newcomer or outsider. When they get the current school uniform, this indicates they've been assimilated. If the student is meant to be a Fish out of Water, they will keep their old uniform throughout the series. In Japanese media, even rebels don't choose to abandon uniforms entirely; in American media they will do this even if the new school doesn't have uniforms. Compare the Non-Uniform Uniform.

Thanks to @Jon_Lin


Can you release your zanpakuto if you are mute? So, this sounds like a stupid question I know but in the bleachverse 'names' are very important and you can only unleash the power of your zanpakuto if you can call out its name. Therefore, if a shinigami is mute, will they ever be able to achieve shikai/bankai? If so then how? Only one case that I know of is for shinigamis who have already achieved bankai to be able to release their shikais without a command.

Answers based on LN are welcome, but if you are citing from a dubious source or a source whose canon status can be question, please specifically mention it. I am mostly interested in an answer based on a  canon source.

Yes.

Ichigo does it here when he fights Grimmjow

And again when he fights Ulquiorra for the first time in Las Noches

So yes, you can conclusively silently activate your Bankai.

The only other disability I can remember reading of, is Tosen's Blindness. Not only can he wield all of the blade's powers, but it actually adapts to him and his Bankai blinds (among other things) his opponents. No canon source can answer this question about a mute shinigami, none has ever been shown.

Names are important, yes, but it is more about knowing than actually yelling them. Otherwise, top-tier Shinigami fight strategies would be to silence your opponents.


When did Uchiha Madara actually bite Hashirama Senju? After reading this question, I realized that the time Madara acquired Izanagi, was the same time he got the DNA of Senju Clan from Hashirama. However, after an extensive review on their fight (Episode 626), I can't see where and when Madara bit Hashirama. It said in the wiki that:

"...To use Izanagi to its full potential, users must also have the genetic traits of the Senju, who are also descended from the Sage.."

Now, the question is when and where did Madara bite Hashirama?
How come Madara activated Izanagi (I assume on its full potential) just right after he acquired the flesh/blood from Senju?

I haven't been keeping up with the anime (too many fillers...), so I don't know whether this manga chapter has been covered or not, or if you are even close to it. This was actually shown in one of the manga chapters quite recently.

If you don't mind spoilers, here are links to a few pages from Naruto Chapter 681:

Madara bites Hashirama

Madara uses Hashirama meat

According to Narutopedia:

  In the past, Uchiha clan members used this technique during an important battle that they had to win at all costs. However, they soon started to abuse the abilities granted by this technique and as such Izanami was created as a way to punish the abusers of Izanagi.

So, I am guessing that the Uchiha must have performed some experiments. Maybe as long as you have the both trait in body you can use Izanagi immediately, and Madara was aware of this. Since Madara clearly must have bit onto the meat, he must have swallowed some blood, thus having the Senju trait in his body. This is an assumption, though.


What card game are the gang playing in the hotel in "Rivals and Arrivals"? The players appear to pick cards from each other hands, hoping to match them together and stick the other players with the joker. Apparently if you're stuck with the joker you lose.

What game is this?

The name of the card game is Old Maid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_maid_(card_game)


What is the conflict between Sea and Devil Fruit? We all know that Devil Fruit users weakness is the sea. But I wonder what is the conflict between sea and devil fruit? Why is the sea became the devil fruit's weakness?

"I once heard that all the Devil Fruits are the Sea Devil's incarnations. If you eat one you'll gain a special ability, but you won't be able to swim."
  ~Shanks to Buggy in Chapter 19, page 14

It seems that the Devil Fruits may be a physical manifestation of the devils of the sea as they try and give their powers to others, so the sea, in turn, hates all that partake in these powers and tries to weaken Devil Fruit users whenever they foolishly fall into its grasp.


What is the purpose of characters shouting out the name of their attack? It seems to me that in a lot of anime (Naruto, Dragon Ball, Gurren Lagann, and Digimon are four that come to mind), characters or creatures who perform an attack tend to shout its name, almost as if necessary to perform such an attack. This seems very counterintuitive—telling your opponent that you're about to use a fireball would open you up to being blocked very easily.

Why do anime characters tend to shout the names of their attacks? (Bonus points: Has this spread into Western animation?)

According to this forum post:

  It's a tradition where it was intended for young audiences to yell the attack names with the character. The tradition began with Mazinger Z, which is considered the first Super Robot anime. The producers of the show felt that if the main character, Kouji Kabuto, shouted out the attack names each time the mecha did them, then it would give the target viewers, who were aged around 3 to 10 at the time, the ability to literally join along in the fun.

  The logic behind this is if the kids were to directly interact with a show they already liked, then they'd like it even more and would stick with the show in the long run. Needless to say, the strategy worked, and literally all other mecha anime in the 70's (sans First Gundam in late, late '79) copied the trend.

  Thus, the tradition was born and still anime shows, regardless of whether they are mecha themed or not, use it, regardless of their target audience.

Also, It seems that it was also done to make the shows feel more intense. Something about the characters yelling their attacks just makes the action better.

Usually it's hinted at that the characters are only calling out the attacks in order to channel energy (much like how the characters in Harry Potter have to say the incantation for a spell in order to cast it), because if the attack names are removed then it will just be a bunch of grunts.. which seems pretty boring. ;)


Is anime1.com a legal site for watching anime? Other anime streaming sites are blocking my IP because I'm Iranian while anime1.com isn't. I wanted to know if it's legal to watch/stream anime from this site. Thanks.

You might want to see this post: How can I tell if a site is Legal? It lists legal sites for streaming anime and reading/buying manga.

Is anime1.com legal? Nope. An immediate indicator that a site is illegal is if it's laced with ads that are usually irrelevant to anime/manga in general. anime1.com's anime pages are almost filled up with ads and clicking on anime episode links results to pop-ups.

'You can also check the site information to confirm if they have a valid certificate and connection type,' as mentioned by @Rumplestiltskin. If a green padlock is present, that site is most likely secure and a 'Connection is secure' message will pop out whenever you click on it. This helps you avoid 'really dangerous anime-scam sites.' anime1.com does not have this so be wary of sites like these.

Clarification: I just want to clarify something since people seem to misunderstand. The check for valid certificate is not a way to check for a site's legality. It is just for security purposes. There are many ways to check for a site's security but that, I think, is outside the scope of the question.


Which episodes of Sailor Moon Crystal are Ittou Asanuma in? I believe that Ittou Asanuma's first appearance in Sailor Moon Crystal is in episode 15 when Makoto introduces him to Usagi and friends, that he does not appear in episode 16, and that his famous scene with Makoto from the manga is in episode 17. Is he in any other episodes, or did he only appear in those two 2 episodes?

I do not recall Asanuma appearing in the first half of the show. It's of course possible he might have appeared earlier as a background object, similar to how the Curtis couple in Fullmetal Alchemist shows up in the background when Winry arrives in Central before they are formally introduced, but there are assuredly no explicit appearances up until episode 15. (If he did show up before then, it would be unsurprising for me -- as someone not that invested into Sailor Moon -- to have missed it, since I would not have known of Asanuma before episode 15.)

Thus:

Episodes 1-14: no explicit appearances
Episode 15: Makoto introduces Asanuma
Episode 16: no appearance except in the preview for 17.
Episode 17: Asanuma asks Makoto about her identity and tells her he wants to protect her.
Episode 18: Asanuma is briefly shown standing in front of a building right before the half-way mark, thinking of Makoto, and then at the fortune-telling meeting being brainwashed along with some other characters (Naru-chan, Sarashina from Rei's school).
Episode 19-25: no appearance: apart from two brief instances where Usagi and some of her friends return to the 20th century, these episodes are entirely set in the 30th century.
Episode 26: short appearance in a still towards the end, after characters return to earth.


Why didn’t Rem die when she killed the criminal to save misa when she was in higuchi’s car? Shinigamis die when they kill a person to save an another person but what I don’t get is don’t shinigamis already do that on like daily basis?? They always kill people to get their remaining life span so if any person is saved in the process shinigamis don’t die. And also, Rem killed that one criminal when she was following higuchi and misa was trying to make him think she has the eyes. Wouldn’t that also count as saving misa and Rem should did for doing that?

Shinigamis die when they kill a person to save an another person but what I don’t get is don’t shinigamis already do that on like daily basis

the difference is intent, the intent being to extend someone's life.

  If the god of death decides to use the Death Note to kill the assassin of an individual he favors, the individual's life will be extended, but the god of death will die.

Source: Rules of the Death Note/Manga Chapter Rules > Volume 4 > How to use XVII (Point 1)

  If a god of death intentionally does the above manipulation to effectively lengthen a human's life span, the god of death will die, but even if a human does the same, the human will not die.

Source: Rules of the Death Note/Manga Chapter Rules > Volume 10 > How to use LVIII (Point 2)

when Shinigami kill normally they will always affect people's livespans however if their intent is to extend a human's life then they are going against their very purpose

  Shinigami can also save other humans they care about if that person is about to die; however, the purpose of a Shinigami is to end life, not to give it. Any Shinigami who goes against this will be killed

Source: Shinigami > General information > Nature and abilities (2nd paragraph)

in Season 1 Episode 21 "Performance" Misa's life wasn't in danger of being killed by either Kyosuke Higuchi or Ginzo Kanabochi. the purpose of killing Kanabochi was to make true Misa's claim to Higuchi that she was the second Kira


What are these sea behemoths in One Piece? The crew escapes from these behemoths shortly before arriving on the island chain with Bellamy.

These are shadows, not monsters. These are explained by the fact that Sky Island is so high up in the air, the distance that the shadow is travelling is very far, making shadows cast very large.

Here you can see the same effect where Luffy's shadow is seen:


Why weren't Kise and Midorima able to get in the Zone? According to the anime,

  The Zone, in this state of extreme focus, all unnecessary thoughts disappear and the athlete becomes absorbed in his play. Only those who have practiced and practiced, earn the right to stand before the door and it'll open up.

Since it's shown that Kise and Midorima have practiced more than Aomine and were the members of Generations of Miracles, they were still not able to get in the Zone.

Why?

Kise

   has already been shown to enter the Zone in the fight against
 Jabberwock. (Read: Kuroko no Basuke: Last Game)

During his state, he can freely copy all moves including moves that he wasn't capable of using, which were moves by Generation of Miracles-tier.

   He used the Zone in conjunction with his Perfect Copy Ability amping
 up all the skills he currently has.

It is stated in the manga that those who have a passion for the game can enter the Zone. This is shown that even though it appears that Murasakibara had shown a dislike for basketball, that he also, indeed loves to play basketball too. This is one of the pre-requisite to enter the zone.

Knowing Midorima, he can't enter the Zone as he is as of now. He thinks of basketball as nothing more than just a game that he's good at. There's a probability that he can enter the Zone considering he is already is a GoM. All he has to do is to have strong passion/love for Basketball.


Is it possible for Gohan to transform into a super saiyan while in his ultimate form at the same time? Please I would like to know if it is possible or stated in any official resource.

When the Old Kai used his Unlock Ability to released Gohan ultimate form, he actually released his full potential.
Meaning, this is the best that Gohan could get at this time been.

Although it's only my opinion and not an official resource, Gohan could not transform into super saiyan not only because it's a weaker form, also it's because a new individual form entirely.
And that's why he didn't transform into a super saiyan when he reached this level at the first place.


Who is this in Fairy Tail? I am wondering as I cannot remember seeing her before in Fairy Tail. Can someone help? Am I missing something?

This is Cosmos, who first appears in chapter 307 of the manga. She is one of the Garou Knights. The image that you have is a colored image of her from Deviantart by SeireiART.

She has plant magic, which is why the Deviantart picture of her refers to her as the Flower Executioner. In chapter 308 she creates a giant flower.


Which Akame ga KILL! manga should I read if I want to continue the storyline of the anime? I saw there are various manga with Akame ga KILL! in their names.

The ones I have found are:

Akame ga KILL!
Akame ga KILL! Zero

Which one should I read if I want to continue the storyline of the anime?

Akame ga KILL! Zero is a sort of prequel which tells the story of Akame when she was a part of the government's army, how she was trained and so on. The anime is following the Akame ga KILL! (non zero) manga and from what I can recall is close to chapter 48 of the manga as of episode 18.

So, if you want to follow the story of the anime read the first title you posted, the Zero version is a prequel which introduces some characters which may or may not be met again in the principal storyline.


What are those devices in Ghost in the Shell they use to arrest suspects? What are those devices in Ghost in the Shell they use to arrest suspects? It seemingly causes them to be paralyzed from the neck down.

I think I saw in mentioned in the manga, but not the anime.

It is in chapter three of the manga:

Apparently in the manga, it renders them unconcious, but their bodies can still be moved, but in the anime, they become temporarily quadriplegic.


How fast is the Female Titan? In season 1 episode 12, we see The Female titan give chase to the Special Operations Squad and Eren. We also know that the horses to bred to run at 70-75 mph per hour, but it was shown late that the female titan sped up and was about to catch them before they ran past the traps set for her. So what speed does she run at if she's faster than the horses?

Its never told in the manga how fast is every titan, what is the maximum speed of every titan. but there are another 2 titan that have high speed Cart Titan and Jaw Titan, yeah these two are part of Nine Titan just like Female Titan.


Are the new fighters' names a pun on something? In Dragon Ball series, most names are puns on something. Saiyans are named after vegetables, Gods of destruction are named after alcohol beverages, Bulma and Bura are names of girl clothes, etc.

Now it's been revealed in a Jump magazine (Japanese magazine) that the last 2 members of Universe 6 are

   Namekians, and their names are サオネル (Saoneru) and ピリナ (Pirina)

Are these names a pun on something?

According to the wiki page, they are named after mollusks.

Saonel's name could reference snail, while pirina's name come from pilina


What do vampires have to do with the phase of the moon? I've seen a few animes that linked a vampire's powers to the phase of the moon. Where does this idea come from?

Are there actual Japanese myths about vampires that this stems from? Or something odd that got mixed in when the Western myth was translated into Japanese? Something else?

Full moons are traditionally 'spooky' and are often associated with mystical creatures from the 'darkness'.

Midnight during a full moon is called the Witching hour and is when these many of these creatures gain their full strength.

An obvious example of this is werewolves who transform under the full moon, but witches and other beings are affected also. A Halloween night (or Samhain as it was called in Ireland, where Halloween originates) with a full moon is when creatures abilities are at their most potent.

It is thought that this association was caused by the reactions that normal animals have with changes in the moon. (Birds get restless, dogs bark a lot, etc - much like how animals can predict earthquakes)

Bringing this back to vampires in particular, they also are affected by the phases of the moon. A full moon (and being well fed) will mean that their strength is at their fullest, whilst a moonless night could influence their desire for nourishment through blood.

You should also remember that in many tales of vampires, they cannot go out in the sun. The association could stem from simplifying the moon to be the 'opposite' of the sun.

TLDR: The moon is often used as a general source of power for many mystical creatures. But vampires are also known (outside anime) to be associated with the moon.


Why exactly does Kyoko attempt to save Sayaka? In episode 8 of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, we see Sayaka transform into a witch, and in that episode and the subsequent one (at least in the second half of it) we see Kyouko's attempt to save her.

Why exactly does she seem so determined to do this, given that she'd talked earlier about living for oneself? (e.g. Perhaps out of sympathy for Sayaka's situation or a change of heart? Or maybe because of her "goals", which don't seem to be very well-specified when referred to in episode 9?)

Episode 7 paints the picture of Kyouko's background. Basically, Kyouko is all alone having lost everyone important to her including her family. So she's in despair and desperate to find comfort somewhere.

After hearing Sayaka's story, Kyouko started to identify with her. So they effectively formed a friendship. Episode 10 reveals that this friendship is formed in multiple timelines.

So when Sayaka becomes a witch, Kyouko felt the obligation to save her - her one and only friend.


What was the favor Brovada mentioned in the Chimera Ant Arc? In the Chimera Ant Arc, Reina and Brovada return home and Brovada says he did it for a favor. What was the favor and who did he do it for?

Ikalgo (the octopus) had a chance to kill him when they were beneath the palace, but couldn't bring himself to do it. It was never clear if they actually had this discussion but I'm guessing bringing Reina home was returning the favor for not killing him. That's what the flash back showed as he said he returned the favor, too.


Why do the summoned Servants all belong to different classes? In the Fate universe, is there a reason why the Servants summoned in each Holy Grail War belong to different classes?

Using relics and additional incantations during the summoning ritual, Masters have some degree of control over the Class (e.g. Matou Kariya's additional incantations to choose the Berserker Class) and exact identity of the Servant.

What would happen if two Masters both tried the same Class using an incantation (e.g., Berserker), or even used (part of) the same relic to summon the same Servant? For example:

   What would happen if Waver Velvet had only stolen part of Rider's (Iskandar) cloak, unbeknownst to Kayneth Archibald, and both Masters tried to summon Rider?

I think you answered this yourself:

  Using relics and additional incantations during the summoning ritual,
  Masters have some degree of control over the Class

The keyword here is "some". The Servants are summoned by the Grail, even though the Masters have some sort of control of what they are trying to summon. This wiki states (it has a reference too, but the reference is in Japanese):

  The Three Knight classes are the only Servants who will definitely be
  summoned according to the framework of the Holy Grail War, allowing
  for variation in the rest of the classes. More than one version of the
  same class cannot be summoned, even if all the Masters were to use the
  variation in the summoning chant to get a Berserker-class Servant.

So apparently in this case, the Grail will summon a Servant based on it's compatibility with the concrete Master, much as it has happened with

   Caster's master Ryuunosuke Uryuu


Why did L trust the handcuff so much? Episode 20

  L: If I die, as long as I have this (handcuffs), you'll share the same fate as me

Okay, excuse my language, but what is up with that? It's just a handcuff, you'll be able to chainsaw it or something!

If L thought that far and actually made the chain indestructible (Maybe he used titanium or something!?), we would have probably been able to pick it.

IF (highly unlikely) L actually took every precaution, L's body is not going to be as strong as the metal.

So why did he trust it so much? Was it a bluff/joke?

It was indeed a bluff made by light

   He had Rem write in the death note before the following fake rules that were going to prove that Light and Misa were innocent under any accusations as being Kira, "If the owner of a Death Note does not use the notebook after 13 days time, he or she will die" and "If the Death Note is burned, torn up, or otherwise rendered useless, any people who have touched the Death Note will die". With Light and Misa having no contact with the death note for more than 13 days, since they were both confined, and neither of them had died, that would prove to L that neither of them were Kira. L agreed and he finally took the handcuffs off of Light.

Following this info it would mean as long as Light is bound to L he could not use the notebook. Meaning he would die after 13 days, this would render the book useless so L would die as well as he touched the book before hand.


One Piece song on episode 548 at around 5:12 What's the song that plays in episode 548 at around 5:12? I've been searching for it everywhere, but I just can't seem to find it.

The song seems to be from the One Piece Original Soundtrack by Kouhei Tanaka (田中 公平) called "Sakusen kaishi ~ osowa reru mura ~" (作戦開始 ～襲われる村～)

Here is a youtube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ANaEsE5bdI


Why 'glowing green sweat' is visible when lee opened the third gate? As I understand from the wiki, glowing green sweat will be visible after opening the seventh gate (Gate of wonder/Gate of shock). But, why it was visible for Rock Lee, when he can open only  5 gates.

Ref : http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Eight_Gates

The Anime does not always pay attention and replicate the same details from the manga.

The wiki is based on all Manga information whereas the pictures are generally from the Anime.

The author of Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto, primarily focuses on his manga while he let's other people create the Anime. From time to time, the makers of the Anime don't follow every little meticulous detail that Kishimoto has illustrated in his manga. In this case, the Anime Rock Lee starts glowing green early as a graphic effect even though he isn't supposed to yet.

Another example of this is when Danzou uses Izanagi. In the manga, he can sacrifice an eye for a 1 minute duration of the skill. In the anime, each blow he receives from Sasuke requires an eye sacrifice.

As you can see, the Anime isn't very diligent in their Naruto facts.


What happens to Yusuke's spirit/power equipment? Started watching Yu Yu Hakusho on blu ray now, about 10 years after I first saw it as a kid.  Wondering what happens to Yusuke's various power equipment. I recall in the first few episodes he needs some kind of ring/band that helps recharge and focus his spirit engergy for spirit gun... then it just goes away, at least in season 1. Does he still have them?

They're still around. Botan mentions both the Communication Mirror and the Demon Compass during the Chapter Black Saga.

The devices start to lose their usefulness as the series turns into a fighting series. Being able to track a demon or have X Ray vision aren't terribly useful in a fight against Toguro or Sensui. As for the ring, apparently it makes Yusuke severely exhausted after he uses it; I recall him passing out after he uses it against Gouki and needing to be picked up and brought home by Boutan. He needed it early on when his own spirit energy was fairly weak, but later on, after he trains with Genkai and starts to gain power, the tradeoffs of the ring become more of a liability than a benefit. Presumably he still has it, though, he just doesn't use it because it's not helpful.


How exactly was Kyousuke able to defeat Kengo's father in a kendo match? In Little Busters!: Refrain, we saw exactly how Kyousuke was able to get Masato to fight with only one hand and eventually defeat and befriend him. However, when it comes to how Kengo was recruited into the Little Busters, it wasn't played out in as much detail as Masato's. Specifically, I'm referring to this scene:

There's no doubt that Kyousuke had used some dirty tricks on Kengo's father, but I need more explanation on what was Kyousuke holding and what tricks he pulled to overcome my disbelief that a kid could defeat a kendo master in a kendo match, fair or not. Was it ever explained in more details in the visual novel?

Neither the anime nor the visual novel shows how exactly Kengo's dad was defeated. However, in the visual novel, Kengo's dad wasn't defeated by Kyousuke alone - he was beaten when Masato, Kyousuke and Rin went up against him at the same time.

Source1 and Source2


What's the name of the song and artist in Freezing Vibration episode 4 at about 9minutes in? In Freezing Vibration episode 4 a girl with headphones fights another girl to a tune that has muffled singing and a piano playing. It occurs about 9minutes into the episode.

Can anyone tell me the name of the artist and the song?

The girl is Charles Bonaparte and the song is called: Vent Debout - Masaru Yokoyama

The song is found on Freezing Vibration OST volume 2 track 17. As found on wikipedia page
And the actual song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtbKHkvK_Oo

It is first heard in freezing vibration episode 4, when Charles debut's her combat skills in the fighting form that she calls "Typhon Tempest".


What was Ayu's third wish? In 23rd episode of Kanon 2006 anime, Yuuichi goes to School Ayu visited and met her there. Yuuichi offered to grant her third wish.

   She wished for Yuuichi to forget her, but he declined to grant that wish because he is not able to.

Ayu then realizes what the third wish is, but we only see her mouth moving.

What did she wish for?

The simple answer is that we don't know.

However, in Episode 24, Shiori makes a guess (based on a feeling) of it being, "I want my dearest person to always be smiling."

   "For that to happen, everyone around that person has to be having a happy life, too." Which brings her to the conclusion that such a wish triggered all the miracles happening around Yuuichi, such as all the girls getting better, including Ayu herself.


Why are ogres so strong? As far as I know Ogres and Karmic demons are regular humans who (explained in conventional terms) have suffered and become full blown Sociopaths and heavily depressed individuals, respectively, who use all their might in throwing and restraining, again respectively, all their power at those surrounding them, but one way (consciously) or another (unconsciously) it goes out and hurts others.

My first question is: Does this affect anybody or just a few?
The Second question is more a set of questions than anything:
If just a few, then who? Talented/powerful people?
If everybody, then does that mean that the world was filled with Ogres and Karmic Demons before the current order came in to place? If so, when why did the false Minoshiro (whatever that means) forgot to mention it? Or did I forget to watch it in the 3 times I watched the episode?

But the one thing that bothers me the most, which is basically based off all the previous questions is my third and last question: Why the hell are Ogres so goddamn powerful?

I mean, look at the Messiah, child of Maria and Mamoru, taken off them by Yakomaru.
The first and only human kid the rats get in their hands on, breed to adolescence (which is when they get their powers) and turns out to be a killing sociopath with powers as immense as the most powerful dude in the village. This case essentially brings up all the previous questions I asked, which if you didn't notice, is driving me mad.

So, does anyone have any answers?

There's a few subtleties that aren't easy to pick up. Which is normal. From the New World is a very deep show and it isn't easy to get everything - even after rewatching it multiple times.

  As far as I know Ogres and Karmic demons are regular humans who
  (explained in conventional terms) have suffered and become full blown
  Sociopaths and heavily depressed individuals, respectively, who use
  all their might in throwing and restraining, again respectively, all
  their power at those surrounding them, but one way (consciously) or
  another (unconsciously) it goes out and hurts others.

Correct so far.

  My first question is: Does this affect anybody or just a few? If just a few, then who? Talented/powerful people?

It's fair to say that everybody could become an Ogre. The determining factor seems to be the person's mental and psychological state of the person.

Power is not a factor. But depending on how you define "talent", it can be. For example, if you can't control your Canti, then you may turn into a Karma Demon.

  If everybody, then does that mean that the world was filled with Ogres
  and Karmic Demons before the current order came in to place?

It wasn't filled with them. Ogres were rare. It was mentioned at one point that there only like 20 recorded events of them over several hundred years.

It's only in case where a person is going through extreme stress and or innate desire to hurt do that have any chance of becoming an Ogre.

  But the one thing that bothers me the most, which is basically based
  off all the previous questions is my third and last question: Why the
  hell are Ogres so goddamn powerful?

See my answer to this question: Where do "fiends" get their abnormal strength?


Does Wendy Marvell have a couple? If not, why? Fairy Tail has ended, but I realize that Wendy doesn't seem to have a relationship with a man as a couple.

I think it's logical because she's too young to get a couple.

Is my reasoning true? Otherwise, is there any reason why she doesn't have a couple?

[Potential spoilers for the end of the Fairy Tail manga (chapter 545) below.]

Simply put, Wendy is not shown nor implied to be in a canon romantic relationship at the end of the series.

The reason is simply that the author chose not to officially pair Wendy with anyone. However, we as fans of the series are entirely free to headcanon as we like!


What factor led Zoro to accept Luffy as Captain? Why does Zoro respect Luffy? When they first met, he wasn't really pleased about Luffy.
Zoro was always quite a loner, even now in the crew.
Does he accept Luffy as his captain because of his dream? Or because he is stronger than him? (even though their strength is similar, I think Luffy is still stronger)

On Thriller Island, we saw how big his support for his captain was, when he took all the pain, to save them all!

I just rewatched the beginning and it makes is surprising clear.  At that time everyone knows who Zoro is, it is implied Zoro could kick Luffy's ass, and everyone looks down on Luffy until they get confused by his devil fruit power.

Zoro is a demon.

Zoro is however a very honorable demon.  He signs (figuratively) a contract to torture himself to protect someone he views as innocent from someone he views as completely dishonorable.  He follows that contract twice: once to honor the efforts of the girl he was protecting after the vermin mistreated her; once when the vermin clearly broke their contract.

He, while powerless, signs a contract with Luffy.  As long as Luffy frees him and supports (or more accurately does not get in the way of), Zoro's dream to become the worlds greatest swordsman, Zoro will be part of Luffy's crew.  Even when Zoro finds out that Luffy doesn't really have a crew at all, he shows a ting of apprehension but no willingness to break his contract.

As time continues, Zoro increasingly grows to respect Luffy above and beyond the requirements of his contract. He will not leave Luffy, however, unless his contract is broken.  This would have likely occured if Luffy was not strong enough to proceed into the New World and provide Zoro the opponents he needed.

I guess when you make a contract with a straight shooting demon, expect him to follow through in incredible ways.


Who of Aizen's Arrancar were Vasto Lorde? When Harribel is killed, during her flashback Apacci comments saying that Harribel was a Vasto Lorde.

So I am wondering who of Aizen's Arrancar were Vasto Lorde

It was implied that top 4 of the Espada were all Vasto Lorde level as they were far superior combatwise than a Soul Society Captain. However, out of the four, only Tier Harribel was confirmed as a Vasto Lorde.


Devilman manga and novels reading order I have found many mangas and some novels about devilman and got confused about it and don't know where to start so can anyone help me about it.

Ok, if we are going to go into Devilman and the reading order for it, we have to get into semi-spoiler territory for the ending of the original manga, so you are gonna be warned.

Keep in mind this is predominantly for the manga, which forms the baseline you need to have to get into this series.

Start with the original Devilman series, which ran for 5 volumes. The series ends, with a time loop, and I won't go into circumstances, but it is barely touched upon in the Netflix Crybaby Adapation.
Shin Devilman is a side story that happens sometime in between the main series, before Akira is betrayed.
Devilman Lady is a series that has to deal with fallout from the events of the original series timeloop and the aftermath of it, but that comes closer to the end of this storyline.
Neo Devilman, Amon: The Darkside of Devilman, and Devilman: Strange Days are "what if" and side stories that pertain to OG, SHIN, and LADY storylines.
Lastly, we have Demon Knight, which is a prequel to Devilman, and finally Devilman Saga, which partially concludes it.

Go Nagai's other series, Violence Jack, also has ties to Devilman as well, but I won't go into that.

Ultimately, the order would be OG, SHIN, LADY, SAGA, JACK. Everything else (Neo, Amon, Strange Days, Demon Knight) can be read later.

These answers were provided from my knowledge and a bit of fact checking from The Devilman Wikia


Is "Noise" an initialism? In episode 1 of Symphogear G, shortly after Maria summons Noise to the concert hall, we get a shot of a rack of TVs showing news stations from around the world reporting on the event.

In many of the languages shown (including English), the word "Noise" is set as "N.O.I.S.E.", suggesting that it's actually an initialism (I'm guessing in English).

Is it? If so, what does it stand for?

In the ja.Wikipedia article of Symphogear, the term Noise is spelt as ノイズ, fully in Katakana. There is no mention of the acronym N.O.I.S.E. at all in the whole article.

The official website of Symphogear and Symphogear G also use the spelling ノイズ to refer to Noise, and there is also no mention of the acronym N.O.I.S.E. at all in the explanation of the term.

In contrast, you can find various terms spelt in Latin characters from the official websites and Wikipedia, such as F.I.S., S2CA, LiNKER, Anti_LiNKER, and S.O.N.G.

Currently, there is no evidence that N.O.I.S.E. is an abbreviation of a longer phrase. It is probably a stylized word in order to clearly differentiate it from the common noun "noise" for viewer from English-speaking countries (both in-universe and in real life).


Where is this girl in a maid uniform holding a cat from? I ran into this picture while on the internet. This was referred to as a fictional character, and judging from the art style it's probably from an anime or manga.

Where is this character from? I tried running a Google Image Search but for some reason nothing useful came up for me. Or is this just some fan-made original character?

This image is of (spoiler warning in links) Solne and Koma from the 2005 visual novel/eroge Ouka by Carriere. As far as I know, there's no anime or manga adaptation. They also appear in the original game Shinkirou (which Ouka was an expanded remake of), but the character design in the image matches Ouka's. As you can probably guess from the image, Solne is one of the main characters in the game, while Koma is the cute mascot animal (she's not actually a cat).

The plot from vndb:

  The last descendant of a line of mystical protectors, Yuuya Furusaka has received the twin blessing of Life and Death, and now his touch has the power to save lifes or destroy them, although at the price of, respectively, his own life or his own soul.
  But maybe the key for his salvation is hidden in one of the girls around him...

In case you're unsure it's the same character, if you look at the full version of this image, you can see the Carriere logo in the lower left corner. Modified versions of this image have been used for some of their merchandise, e.g. this ZIPPO lighter.


Why is anime sold in such low episode count per volume? I've noticed in a lot of anime series that the episodes are sold in silly spans. Sometimes, 4-5 episodes are sold at a silly price. Why are volumes grouped together like this? It can't be good for sales.

In short, They sell them for that much because that's how they've determined that they will make the most money.

the net marginal cost of producing the CDs is high Sometimes they don't expect to sell very many copies of the dvd in the first place, and they have to sell them at a higher price to cover the overhead.   The more dvds that they produce and sell, the lower the net marginal cost of producing them.
People who do want to buy the dvds will pay that much for them Sometimes the fanbase is strong enough and small enough such that those who will buy the dvds will pay any amount for them, and the number of people who would pay $20 for the dvd, but not $50, is relatively low.  in this case, it makes sense to sell the dvd for $50.


When does the Dragon Ball Super Broly movies occur in the series Which episodes of Dragon Ball Super does the Dragon Ball Super Broly movie come in between? So if I was to watch Dragon Ball Super to make sense of the story in the movie which episodes should I have watched?

The Dragon Ball Super Broly movie is set after the Dragon Ball Super series. The movie is made in a way where you don't really need to have any prior knowledge of Dragon Ball Super or even Dragon Ball in general(Although, having knowledge with regard to the same would definitely help).With regard to your main question, if you were to watch the Dragon Ball Super series before, it doesn't really make a significant difference with regard to plot. It would mainly help you realize the level of strength of the characters and the antagonist and maybe a few small details.However, in conclusion, you don't necessarily have to watch the series to understand the movie.


Why do almost all anime series have a "going to the beach" episode? Not many anime have a dedicated episode for going to the cinema, concert, amusement park, circus, football match, camping or any other activities. But, almost all of them spare at least one of their episode for a "trip to the beach" episode. The characters sometimes travel a long distance and/or struggle among hardships for this trip.

Is is just for fan service (showing boobs and bikinis)?
Is it related to a strong cultural interest?
Or, is this because of a psychological project of the Japanese government for encouraging Japanese youth for swimming? (This reminds me of USA TV series: In almost all shows, it is a must that at least one episode must be dedicated to a gay character, one episode for a Jewish character, and all good working computers are Apple (except for the ones which get hacked or broken).)

So, what does make beach so special in anime?

Is is just for fan service (showing boobs and bikinis)?

Mostly yes. Occasionally there are plot points or setting circumstances that require a scene be on a beach (legitimate reasons that is, like a romantic beach walk with an imprtant conversation, rather than poor excuses for bikini parades)

For example, the Pretty Cure franchise has one Beach Episode per season, but, it's not for fanservice. The girls never wear swimsuits and they don't swim at all. [TvTropes]

Sometimes it is used as a 'breather episode' to let the audience take a break from the intricacies of the plot.

  Is it related to a strong cultural interest?

Many Japanese will travel to the beach on a trip during the summer. This is common in many modern cultures. However, the Japanese have their own beach traditions too, like smashing watermelons at the beach, which is not common in the West.

  Or, is this because of a psychological project of the Japanese government for encouraging Japanese youth for swimming? (This reminds me of USA TV series: In almost all shows, it is a must that at least one episode must be dedicated to a gay character, one episode for a Jewish character, and all good working computers are Apple (except for the ones which get hacked or broken).)

I think you're over thinking this a little :P If the Japanese government wanted to encourage youth to swim - they wouldn't be targetting the otaku demographic, which are stereotypically stubborn basement dwellers who don't go outside much


Why is the kamehameha so widely used? Is it the best ki blast beam? There are tons of different beam attacks like the Masenko or Galick Gun, why does everyone seem to go for the Kamehameha instead? Going as far as to have Cell use it as his ultimate move instead of the Final Flash he witnessed not so long ago, is it the best ki blast beam? Why? Buu also copied it as soon as he saw it, he didn't seem to bother with the other beam attacks

Well, the answer to the same would be very opinionated and not factual. Some of these may be interesting reasons why the same is popularly used.

Toriyama wasn't sure as to what to name his Kame attack and it was his wife who came up with the same and it was named after the Hawaiian King.
Also, the same attack is very iconic and it was introduced  even early in the Original Dragon Ball Series by Master Roshi which was immediately mastered by Goku in a few seconds. Unlike the other mentioned attacks.
Also, this attack has always been considered as a signature move of the main character Goku.
The Dragon Ball Franchise is indeed very popular and even those who haven't watched the franchise have an idea as to who Goku is. Hence it makes a lot more sense for people to remember the signature move of the main character.
Another fun fact is that Akira Toriyama did a lot of different poses until he finally decided on something which he considered cool and I think the hand movement made while launching this attack is also very iconic and popular and emulated by a lot of Dragon Ball fans. Hence this attack is easy to identify by simply looking at the hand movement which is probably why it is used a lot.

Source: Dragonball Wikia - Kamehameha


What's the symbolism behind the backgrounds shown in the opening sequence? In the opening sequence of Samurai Champloo, when Mugen and Jin are shown, the background is composed of pictures of roosters and aquatic animals, respectively.
Mugen has roosters for background:

Jin has fishes and octopus in his background picture:

What is the symbolism behind such background depiction?

Roosters are a traditional symbol of Shintoism, associated with the sun goddess Amaterasu. Shinto is a philosophy indigenous to Japan, and therefore thematically related to loyalty & nationality, like Mugen.

Jin's main fish is colored like a koi, the Japanese word for "carp". Koi are obviously symbols of Japanese culture, associated with love & friendship. Aquatic life is from the ocean, the realm of the storm god Susanoo, Amaterasu's sibling & counterpart.

Check out the story of Amaterasu & Susanoo, as it has obvious parallels to Mugen & Jin's relationship. Interestingly enough, they have a third sibling, Tsukuyomi, the god of the moon, who acted as a foil, kind of like Fuu. And Tsukuyomi's falling out with Amaterasu resulted from a conflict with the goddess of food... "Her stomach is like a cosmos unto itself!"


How does Goku's super saiyan blue kaioken compare with Vegeta's super saiyan blue evolution transformation? I know there might not be a conclusive evidence about which technique/form-transformation is stronger, but how do they compare over all? Are there any features of one which are known to be superior to the other (speed, endurance, stree that puts in the body, etc.?)

Well firstly, this question can't be answered with complete certainty as we haven't seen Vegeta utilize it to its full extent. However, based on episode 122 and 123, SSJB Goku was shown to be stronger than SSJB Vegeta, probably cause of the Multiple Zenkai Boosts throughout the tournament of power.Hence SSJB+Kaioken*20 Goku is a lot stronger compared to the time he initially used it against Jiren. Kaioken obviously puts a very heavy strain on the body. So even if Vegeta's new transformation happens to put a greater strain than SSJB, the probability of it straining the body more than Kaioken*20 is very unlikely. Hence Vegeta has the upper hand here.During the course of transformation, The Grand Priest stated that "Vegeta also broke through his shell". The also used here indicates that the grand priest is comparing it to Goku attaining UI. Based on episode 123, it's nowhere close to the power of UI Goku, however, based on the grand priest's statement and the spectators referring it to Vegeta's limit breaking power, I think it's fair to assume that it is going to be stronger than SSJB + Kaioken*20 Goku when used to its full extent.Finally, The Kaioken times 20 is just a 20 times multiplier. So to increase the power of the form, Goku will more or less have to increase his strength while utilizing SSJB. SSJB is all about ki control and utilizing God Ki. A superior form of SSJB must definitely have better Ki control and a better utilization of God ki. So Vegeta might very likely be able to get a lot stronger in his new form compared to Goku getting stronger in SSJB making Vegeta relatively stronger.Finally,this isn't a definitive factual evidence, however, SSJB + Kaioken is a powerup given to Goku in the Universe 6 vs 7 arc which was ages ago. The Universe Survival saga has seen a lot of characters being given massive powerups making them a lot stronger. It wouldn't make sense to give Vegeta a new transformation which is weaker than something Goku potentially unlocked a long time ago. Also, the ending shows Vegeta in his new form next to UI Goku, so I would think Vegeta's new form should indeed be superior to a form Goku attained a long time ago

Additional Proof: Spoiler

   The provisional title of episode 126 is "Surpass Even a God! Vegeta's life-risking blow!". This could perhaps be hinting that Vegeta's new transformation is also God tier just like UI Goku.


Why didn't Fuyumi and Hydra Bell fuse like their mothers did? From what I understand, When two opposite individuals (one from the human world and one from the demon world) touch each other, they are fused together to create one new individual that is made of the two of them.

So if Fuyumi and Hydra Bell are both the daughters of Nyen (Nene), why they didn't fuse when they touched each other?

The straightforward answer to your question is that Fuyumi and Bell aren't doppelgangers ("opposites") for each other, and so there's no reason one should expect that they would fuse with each other.

Sure, their mothers were doppelgangers, but that doesn't mean that their children - Fuyumi and Bell - should also be. For one thing, they don't look very much like one another, whereas their mothers (pre-fusion) totally did:


At what point did the Kurama stop sucking Naruto's chakra? While training with Bee, Naruto was warned about the dangers of the Tailed beast chakra mode. Bee mentioned multiple times that Naruto should be careful in how long he maintains the Chakra Mode because while he was using the Nine tails chakra, The Kyuubi was also absorbing his chakra at an equal rate. However, Naruto maintained the tailed beast chakra mode for quite a long time before he fought madara.

I'm really interested in the exact timeline when the Kyuubi stopped using up Naruto's chakra (So i can better understand just how large Naruto's chakra reserves are). Does anyone know exactly when the Kyuubi stopped taking his chakra back from Naruto?

I think it was somewhere between the conversation when Naruto said that he will take all Kurama's hatred and when Kurama heard him say that he doesn't regret being Jinchuuriki when he fought Tobi and other Jinchuurikis in the forest. Because till then at one point Naruto runs out of the Kuramas chakra so at that time he was still taking it from him. So definitely after real Madara showed up. I think.


What is "the pose" Eren did in chapter 89? Please do not spoil yourself the content of this masterpiece.

   In chapter 89, the first pages, Hanji says that Eren is doing "the pose"? What does she mean? Is that the same pose that Zeke (beast titan) does or what?

I figure out the meaning of this, after reading the next manga chapters.

If you are not up to date with the manga, please do not read below.

   The 'pose' Eren made is the posture of the Attack Titan, one of the 9 original Titans. Eren is lost in this time-crossing memory line of all the previous Attack Titan vessels. His memories sometimes are corrupted by interfering with the memory-line of the Attack Titan former vessels, and this pose is a signature posture of the Attack Titan.


Is there an explanation to the "exponential" growth of power levels in Z fighters? I haven't watched Dragon Ball in detail, but I think something like this has never been explained and it doesn't make sense to me at all.

It took all Dragon Balls for Goku to go from power level of 10 to a maximum of 950 in his fight against Raditz. However, in much less time than what took Dragon Ball to happen, he managed to get to 8000 in base form to fight Vegeta in relatively little time, and then to 300000 in base form in even less time to fight against Freezer, and so on...

It's obvious that if you get better training methods, you can improve faster. However, I think something like that doesn't make sense in this case even for an anime. I'd like to know if there's an in-universe explanation for this exponential growth in power level.

One possible answer is that Saiyans get way more powerful than before if they agonize (and survive). It's called Zenkai. This ability is found in pure Saiyan, half-blood and even Cell.

One example is when Gohan fights Cell, kicks him around, but refuses to kill him. This allows Cell to recover and get way stronger than before, making it very difficult to Gohan to kill him, even with help of other warriors, Vegeta and even dead Goku. In retrospect, Gohan could have single-handedly kill Cell, but he didn't do so at the beginning of their fight.

Not by coincidence, this "ability" make every fight involving Saiyan longer and with plot-twists.

Source: Zenkai - Dragon Ball Wiki


Why are so many names based on folklore and such Lately, I can't help but notice that a lot of the names of characters and techniques used in Naruto seem to be derived from folklore and/or based on gods and the likes. Some samples would be:

Izanagi - a deity born of the seven divine generations in Japanese mythology and Shinto
Jiraiya - originally known as Ogata Shuma Hiroyuki, is the title character of the Japanese folk tale Jiraiya Gōketsu Monogatari

So, why are so many of the names used in Naruto derived from such things?
And is this only common in Naruto, or does it happen in other series as well?

Kishimoto is just a fan of Japanese culture and mythology. He's used loads of references, from Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi and Susano'o, to Izanami, Izanagi and Kotoamatsukami, to the trio of Jiraiya, Tsunade and Orochimaru, to the Sword of Totsuka and the Mirror of Yata, among many others.

Many other mangaka have inspirations as well, not necessarily from Japanese culture, but from various other sources. A good example is One Piece, with many references. An example would be Usopp - taken from the Japanese word for lie (uso), Aesop (whose fable about the Boy who cried Wolf is the exact situation he's in when he's first introduced), and Pincocchio, as Usopp has a very long nose, like Pinocchio's, which grows longer whenever he tells a lie.


Was the world so technologically advanced thanks to Kyuube's race? It appears that Madoka's actions changed the world so much that the high-tech school and everything were no longer during the finale of the series. The Kyuube which contacted the girls wasn't seen by other people, so I wonder how the high-tech stuff came to be.

[...] the high-tech school and everything were no longer during the finale of the series.

I don't think this is actually the case. You're right that we weren't shown the school at any point after Madoka made her wish, but we still have very good reason to believe that humanity still reaped all the benefits from its relationship with the Incubators.
Recall the events of episode 11, following Sayaka's funeral, when Kyuubey explains to Madoka everything about the long relationship between mankind and the Incubators.

MADOKA: もしもあなたたちがこの星に来ていなかったら…
KYUUBEY: 君たちは今でも裸で洞穴で住んでたんじゃないかな。
MADOKA: If you had never come to this planet...
KYUUBEY: You'd probably still be naked, living in caves.

Clearly, the people of Mitakihara aren't living in the Stone Age after Madoka made her wish - and so I think it is best to conclude that mankind still benefited from their relationship with the Incubators in the final timeline just as much as they did in previous timelines.

Of course, if you look at the mechanics of the way the Incubators operate, I think this should be obvious, too - the way the Incubators help mankind advance is by allowing people to make wishes and use magic. This is true both before and after Madoka's wish. While some girls certainly would wish for mundane things like healing some dude's arm and do little of wider consequence, others would wish for and do things on a grander scale.
Some, like Madoka, would literally change the universe. Others would do great things to move mankind forward. During Kyuubey's episode 11 explanation, we see images of magical girls, some of which look very much like real-life figures, e.g. Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, etc., who indeed are known to have done great things. In fact, Kyuubey explicitly states:

KYUUBEY: 中には歴史に転機をもたらし、社会を新しいステージへと導いた子もいた。
KYUUBEY: Among them were those who changed history, and brought human society to a higher level.

The implication being, of course, that they were only able to do that thanks to the wish and the power of magic they were granted by the Incubators. In sum, yes - the world is only so technologically advanced thanks to Kyuubey's race.


Is there any scene in Naruto where anbu commits suicide? I cant find but Im sure there was a scene where Kabuto chases an Anbu and that Anbu commits suicide or something like that

You're probably thinking of the Body Elimination Technique, which makes it debut in filler episode A Shinobi's Determination

  An Anbu member seemingly manages to locate the general area of Orochimaru's hideout and sends a message to Konoha to notify Tsunade, before eliminating all traces of his body


What does this borderline ki first Krilin and now Goku get mean? In Dragon Ball Super episode 76 Krilin had an aura ki we never seen before, it was drawed surrounding very closely his body:

Now in the preview of Dragon Ball Super episode 98 we see Goku has the same aura:

What does this borderline ki first Krilin and now Goku get mean? It's the only 2 times we've seen this kind of aura in the entire Dragon Ball universe.

We got an answer to this question in the last episode(98). Basically its just a barrier that is used to protect them against posion, so it cannot make contact with their skin.
From this we can conclude that it had nothing to do with the aura Krilin has showed us in a previous episode.


Who is this guy that appear in Charlotte's OP? I wonder who is this guy that appear in Charlotte OP. He has short black hair, and it looks like he currently in the middle of a pond, full of blood?

I have never seen this guy on the Charlotte series, or am I missing somethings ?

I've never noticed that shot, but I'm just going to say that's the main character, Yuu.
That shot is probably foreshadowing what he went through in the latter half of the anime, such when

   Yuu went to gather the different abilities, but eventually drowned in all those powers and lost his mind. Even going off against military forces as far as I remember, and possibly killing people as well.


How exactly does the Sword of Akasha work? It has been said that its purpose is to kill gods, but how can it kill gods, or a god? I watched the episode, but I just don't understand it.

It seems like you missed (or did not get it yet, I am not sure when this is explained) what gods stand for.

   The Gods is the term referring to the "collective human unconsciousness", C's World, which is the source of the individual identities for all humans, living and dead throughout the Code Geass Universe.

How it works never really was explained as far as I know. Nobody knows how it was build either. but was 'accidentally' found by the British empire, and is exclusively owned by the emperor Charles.

So all with all it is.

   It is a weapon to destroy CHU, C's world, and with that destroying the geass and its powers all together, and all humans unconsciousness


Has the popularization of streaming anime changed the anime industry? Has the increasing availability of streaming anime on the web from providers like YouTube, CrunchyRoll, and NicoNico Douga affected how big label anime studios and publishers, both domestic and foreign, market and distribute content (e.g., how publishers can gauge which series to pick up or renew, find new original content, test the waters)?

I'd be curious to know about both the impacts from both official and unofficial streaming sources.

There's a really interesting article on Anime News Network that's part of a 3 part feature about the anime economy written in March 2012. There's some interesting notes about streaming in it.

There was a drop-off in DVD/BD sales because in most places outside of Japan, buying the physical media is the only way to watch something for the first time, since the majority of these shows don't air on TV like they do in Japan. Most people who buy physical media usually don't re-watch shows, so once on-demand options started popping up (in the U.S. ADV's Anime Network, which still runs as "The Anime Network"). Fewer people were buying physical media, even in Japan:

  The people buying anime DVDs are now mostly the ones looking to buy a specific show. Now that the logjam of liquidated stuff from 2007 has cleared and several shows from the past have gone out of print, fans are reminded that there's value in having a permanent copy of your own. Publishers are finding ways to boost this collector's value, with books and nice packaging, and ever so slightly bump their prices up. Most people watch the show for free, but the few thousand people who love it enough to collect make the whole venture profitable.

So the trend is leaning away from DVDs and BDs. It's something that's helped by services which provide streaming and on-demand access to anime. As far as the industry changes to make this happen:

  When it came to the actual logistics of delivering the final product, things worked pretty much the same way in 2006 as it did in 1986: the lab assembled the final show onto a broadcast quality videotape. That went to the TV network, and then the lab cut out all the commercial breaks and sent it the duplication plant for home video. And then, when all that was done, the licensor made up some presentation materials and a crappy looking VHS screener copy for overseas publishers to peruse. If they wanted it, the licensor negotiated a deal with them, signed a contract, and then called up the lab again. The lab made a copy of the masters and FedEx-ed them to the publisher. The end. This system was reliable, but extremely expensive and slow -- two things that online streaming, with its razor thin margins and gotta-have-it-now delivery schedule, make completely unacceptable. With episodes sometimes being finished only hours before they air, the only way to do a simulcast is to send the finished video to the streaming service digitally, as a file. But adjusting to a new, all-digital way of doing things has been a steep learning curve for licensors... and an expensive one.

So these shows are being licensed and streamed with ads. The ad money wasn't enough for the licensors so they demaneded a "minimum guarantee"

  And so, licensors have asked those companies to put their money where their mouth is. Now, each anime costs a licensing fee (or "Minimum Guarantee") of $1-2,000 per episode for simulcast internet streaming rights. Which is still not much, but at least it's enough to ensure that the whole endeavor will contribute SOMETHING to the show's profitability.Some licensors are still not convinced simulcasting is worth it. Some don't want to split up ownership of rights -- they don't want to have to deal with Crunchyroll AND Section23 AND Hulu, they want a single company to act as custodian for every line of business for a show, and if that means they miss their chance to simulcast, well, it's clearly not that big of a loss. Other licensors just aren't prepared for the mountain of approvals and other work that suddenly has to be done WHILE the show airs.

In comes subscriptions:

  The $6 or $7 per month that sites like Crunchyroll charge each user every month is way, way more than any viewer can earn for the site by sitting through ads. TV Tokyo recently announced that Crunchyroll had nearly 70,000 paid subscribers. If that number is accurate, that means, at $6.95 per user, that comes to $486,500 in revenue a month -- more than enough to keep the lights on and pay for the less popular shows. Clearly they're not getting rich on that kind of revenue, but if that's truly the sort of numbers they're doing (they wouldn't confirm for us), they're doing OK.Crunchyroll isn't alone in going this route. Hulu is trying to push more of their user base towards their $7-per-month Hulu Plus service, which adds access to shows on game consoles, networked Blu-ray players and smartphones. In Europe, France's Kaze Anime has slowly been developing their subscription service.

As far as how publishers gauge which shows to pick up, it's a little different than before:

  There are a few big problems yet to be sorted out. The first is with discovery: how do you get the non-obsessive fans, the ones who aren't up on each new anime season, to watch these shows? With a dedicated anime-only site like Crunchyroll or Funimation.com, it's pretty hard. The only people going to those sites are the ones who already know what anime is, and are actively seeking it out. Hulu and Netflix are great storefronts to entice new fans, but they're still not ideal marketing tools.Actually, it's almost impossible to do any sort of marketing for a simulcast at all. Since the agreements to simulcast a show aren't hammered out until the week the show starts -- or later -- how does a company start to generate hype for their new product? Unless an anime fan is REALLY engaged -- the sort of fan that reads ANN every day and stays on top of every new release -- a show can slip by completely undetected.

The old way of licensing, there's a time to see how well a show does in Japan, the ratings, some demographic information, and even more recently, a publisher can look at hype within its market about a show that's currently airing in Japan. But when it comes to simulcasting and streaming, you don't have that luxury, so it's a lot harder to pick properties to attempt to license. Different U.S. publishers treat this differently, between Crunchyroll, Sentai, Funimation, etc.

Crunchyroll doesn't have means to distribute and produce physical media like Funimation does, while Funimation often relies on other streaming services to handle it's licenses for streaming. The major change here is that it's harder to gauge which shows to license because it's done before the show even airs in Japan. The upside is that the Japanese property holders don't have the ratings to hold over the heads of potential licenses.

The other thing that article notes is that this is all a work in progress and it's still a very new paradigm for the Japanese studios and rights holders.


One Piece Episode 533 Music Name at 19:47 What is the music name...that plays in episode 533 at 19:47 min when Brooke runs to see Mermaid Princess

This song from One Piece Movie 9 is called The Doctor Living in Castle (Dr no Sumu Shiro). Here's the Crunchyroll episode link and YouTube song link for reference.


Where did Asuka think "Monaka" came from? In the bonus episode, the group of players who don't make the cut to play in the competition form a B-Squad named Monaka, after the first character of their three second-year members' names.

When they announce this name to the rest of the club, Asuka misunderstands and thinks the name has something to do with youth:

  Asuka: "Monaka". We're in the thick of our youth! Or something.
  Girl: No, we just took the start of the second-years' names.

Where did Asuka think they had gotten the name "Monaka" from?

Here is what Asuka said in Japanese:

なるほど…最中【もなか】。私達【わたしたち】は青春【せいしゅん】真っ【まっ】最中【さいちゅう】～的【てき】な？
I see... monaka. We're in the middle of our youth~ or something?

The idea is, 最中 (in the middle) is usually read as "saichuu", but also has another reading of "monaka". As for why Asuka connected it to "youth", it's a common idea that school life is related to youth life.

Monaka itself is actually a wafer cake filled with the bean jam. The origin of monaka is from 最中【もなか】の月【つき】 which has the meaning of "the shape of full moon".


Why is it when a character nimbly dodges attacks the aggressor will call it "running away"? I've seen this across several different anime, although I don't have a specific example right now.

Typically the attack will be a barrage of projectiles and the defending character (e.g. the main protagonist) hasn't landed a hit yet or otherwise hasn't revealed how much of a threat he is yet. I understand the translated term "running away" is meant as a jeer against the protagonist. However, the protagonist is still engaged in active combat, and I would think "running away" means attempting to disengage. In this case the taunt has faulty logic. I understand taunting does not need logic, it is meant to strike a nerve and make the target more predictable.

Is it that tactical evasive maneuvers are considered cowardly and are disallowed in Bushido? I'm basing this guess off of an example in One Piece; When Zoro initially duels Hawkeye, gets struck and is about to lose, Zoro asserts that taking a step backward is equivalent to breaking his oaths and forfeiting his ambitions. This might not be the best example though since the characters, during combat, including Zoro, have no qualms against preserving their own life by dodging attacks, which is the context of this "running away" taunt.

Many people will accuse someone of running away in a fight if they do a lot to evade being hit by their opponent. Generally in a fight one can tell wether an individual is actually "running away" or just trying to avoid getting hit. Someone who does not actually want to be in the fight or is scared will generally keep running away with out making an attempt to actually fight back.

In the case of One Piece we see a lot of characters dodge and evade but that reason is to just avoid damage. Luffy for example will dodge a lot of attacks but he will make every attempt to inflict as much damage as he can on his opponent. He will even fight back when he does no damage at all. (i.e. Magellan)

Dodging and evading is not considered cowardly most characters will just call it so becasue they are fustrated that they have missed their attacks and wish to goad their opponent so that they may stop all of their evasive maneuvers.


What's the song in episode 479 when Naruto and Iruka are at the swing and a flashback plays? In episode 479 of Naruto Shippuden from 15:00 to 16:10, there's a song playing when Naruto and Iruka are at the swing and a flashback plays.

What's that song?

It's the song that played when Minato saved Kushina. When Cloud ninja had kidnapped Kushina, Minato found her by the strands of hair she left on the trail. This is the song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xR5FuBin_g&list=PLF7A13C44809B5893&index=100


What did Pegasus do with his left eye after the Millennium Eye was removed? Maximilian Pegasus (Pegasus J. Crawford in Japanese) had the Millennium Eye in his left eye at the start of the original Yu-Gi-Oh! series.

It was later removed by Bakura, and in later appearances like in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, his left eye is always covered by his hair.

What did he do with his left eye? Did he use a glass eye? An eye patch? Leave the eye socket empty?

I'd prefer an answer from the anime, but am open to a manga answer as well.

There are many things in the manga, that the anime either doesn't show or changes. Those who have read the manga know that Pegasus died after his millennium eye was removed by Bakura. However in the anime, Pegasus survives and he continues to live, going as far as making an appearance in the GX arc.

The Pyramid of Light novel, written by Junki Takegami, gives us a better insight on how Pegasus feels about the loss of his millennium eye. This happens when Kaiba shows up to ask Pegasus about cards that are capable of defeating the god cards. However Pegasus refuses to give Kaiba such a card and tries to lecture and warn Kaiba.

Pegasus- “A befitting heart is needed to handle power. Power without heart gives birth to tragedy.” Pegasus stroked his fair
hair up without the slightest hesitation and showed the hidden half of his face to Kaiba.

“Guh...” Kaiba took a gasp. The gaping opening in his eye socket was an unsightly reminder of where one of the
Millennium Items, the Millennium Eye, had once fit into.

“I first went in hunt for the Millennium Items with desires of meeting my lost lover. It was an act of folly brought on by
my innocence which was shameful even to me. Before long, controlled by the Millennium Eye, I sought dark
powers. It was no doubt on part of my feeble spirit. Therefore, to serve as a lesson to myself, I won’t put in an
artificial eye or hide this unsightly scar.” Pegasus smiled self-mockingly. “This is what those who abuse power
eventually look like in the end. Kaiba-boy, you want only power...and that is extremely dangerous.”

I also want to point out that the novel gives us a more detailed backstory of Anubis. It fits very well with the cannon story because in the novel, Anubis never met Atem or fought him. Aknadin wanted to ensure that his son Seto, becomes a king no matter what. Which is why he resorted to using another spell from the book that helped him create the millennium items,and created the Pyramid of light to counter the power of the millennium puzzle. During the ritual, he sacrificed one of his servants by turning him into a mummy. Aknadin replaced the brain, hearth and eyes of his servant with the ones of a jackal. That servant was Anubis, who was sacrificed against his will. Which is why Anubis wanted to kill both the Pharaoh and the reincarnation of the priest Seto. To exact revenge on Aknadin for turning him into a mummy, and become the king of destruction by defeating Atem. The story of the novel makes much more sense than the movie. In the movie, Anubis claims that he fought Atem back when he became a Pharaoh. This statement contradicts the cannon story because the day Atem became a pharaoh, was also the day he had to fight thief Bakura and in the following days, confront Zork. Atem died by sealing Zork away in the millenium ring while he sealed his soul in the millenium puzzle. There was simply no time for Atem and Anubis to confront each other back then. In any event. I hope you find what I shared useful and fun.


Rub a dub dub, Thanks for the grub Occasionally I've seen "itadakimasu" translated as Rub a dub dub, Thanks for the grub.

Most often it's used as an joking example of subbing/dubbing that doesn't stick strictly to the original Japanese script.

Where does it come from though? Was there a show that actually translated it as such?

HamtaroWarrior's claims that it doesn't have much to do with anime and that "It just seems to be a way to translate "Itadakimsu"." [sic] miss the point.

There is, in fact, a clear anime-related reason that "rub a dub dub, thanks for the grub" has become emblematic of over-localized translation: the abortive [gg] fansub of Toradora!! back in 2008 featured this very line as a translation of Minori's "itadakimasu" in episode 4 (around 08:52). This is an absurdly over-the-top translation choice, as any American could attest - Minori is certainly a cheerful and quirky character, but this goes well beyond that.

This was widely hailed as an innovation in trollsubbing on [gg]'s part, and was one of the factors that cemented their reputation as the leading trollsubbers of their time. I mentioned that the fansub was abortive - indeed, [gg] stopped subbing Toradora!! after episode 4, and I guess they decided to go out with a bang (all of the relevant blog posts I'd like to cite appear to have bitrotted out of existence, unfortunately). I emphasize this again - almost surely nobody actually thought that "rub a dub dub, thanks for the grub" was a good choice here. Rather, it was presumably chosen to get a rise out of its viewers (and succeeded quite well at it!).

It is as a result of this particular incident that images like this one exist (the "gg" column, at least). Likewise, the Sasami-san@Ganbaranai image in the question is a deliberate "homage" (if you can call it that) to [gg]'s Toradora!! subs of auld.


What do the oddly positioned letters in "Death Note" title mean? In the original Japanese Death Note title:

the first E is backwards (or, equivalently, rotated through 180 degrees)
the A and Ts are rotated 90 degrees anticlockwise, and
the N is rotated a few degrees clockwise.

Do any of these stylistic choices have a known significance, or were they chosen at random?

They're definitely not random. From an artistic perspective, this typographic choice accomplishes 3 things:

The 90 degree rotation of the Ts and the A form the shape of an arrow or a knife tip. The E in front of this "tip" is reversed to make sure this can be seen easily--the back of the letter forms an uninterrupted surface that the "arrow" is striking. If the E was the right way, it would look a little like a knife fighting with a fork, so kinda silly. Overall, the design has the letters of "Deathnote" form a weapon. This echoes the mechanics of the plot, where the letters you write in a Death Note are literally the weapon that kills someone.
The title has "death" in it, and the show in general has people being killed off. In fact, one of the main points is to see who is smart or lucky enough to survive. The typography cleverly suggests this theme. Some of the letters are already "horizontal" because of reason #1 above. Tilting the N slightly makes it look like the letters are keeling over one by one, connecting the typography to the theme of people dying off.
Why is N specifically chosen to be tilted? a) because it's in the middle of a 3 letter block, so for compositional reasons b) it also might be the artist being cute by hinting at the character N and trying to foreshadow his role by drawing attention to that letter.

So basically, one answer is that typography is being used as an artistic device in many ways to suggest themes in the show. There may be other, non-artistic reasons that I'm not aware of, so additional answers are possible. That's the beauty of visual art, it can do many things at once on many levels.


Which OST plays at 16:09 in episode 845 Recently, watched episode 845 of One-piece, I heard a music playing at 16:09, and I can't find it.

I think the track there is "The Ominous Flying Ship ~A Cyclone is Coming~".


Why did Tobi let Itachi remain in Akatsuki? Tobi was well aware of Itachi's true motive for joining Akatsuki. He knew that Itachi massacred his entire clan only for the village's sake.

  Then why did he let Itachi join the Akatsuki?

He was also aware that Itachi was trying to protect the leaf village from Akatsuki. So my next question is

  Why didn't he get rid of Itachi at least after they start to capture the tailed beasts?

He let him stay because a lot members of the organization had their own motives and knew they would betray the overall effort at some point or another.  They are all missing nins which means loyalty to an organization was clearly not on the top of their list.  Many were even there just to spy or further their own goals.  It didn't matter to him as long as he can use them to accomplish immediate goals.  And everyone of them thought they would eventually outsmart, control or win over the others as they are all excellent ninjas.

Pain/Konan revealed they never intended to go along with Tobi's original plan. Tobi was aware of this at least to some extent.  There was clearly mistrust between the two.
Orochimaru was a big time defector and they always knew he was there to spy on them and had his own agenda.
Kisame only went along with Tobi once he revealed he was the real Mizukage. Otherwise it seems like he didn't really have any loyalty other than it was what he was doing at the time.
His alliance with Kabuto, he knew he couldn't trust him but partnered with him anyways because of all the reasons listed above.

He also didn't think Itachi knew as much as he did or was good as he was (a testiment to how good a ninja he was).  Also he liked the idea of having extra Sharingans hanging around in case he needed them.


How many sets of armor does Erza have? I have been wondering this whole time since I recently started watching Fairy Tail.

How many sets of armor does Erza have and how can she make new ones?

It was never mentioned exactly how many equipment she has, but according to Fairy Tail Wiki:

Erza owns over 100 different types of armor, and over 200
different types of weapons.

A part of this equipment is stored in other dimension and the other part is placed at her room, as mentioned in the section The Knight (name of Erza's requip skill):

This Magic allows the user to store weapons and armors in pocket
dimensions and summon them during battle.
[...]
there is a limit to how much the pocket dimension can store, and as a
result, she leaves some of her armors in her room in Fairy Hills.

And answering your second question, Erza is an user of requip magic, in other words, she can summon weapons and armors during the battles, but she does not create them.
Here or here you can see the list of all weapons and armors that already appeared in the manga/anime.


Did Kazuki get a new body? In the Grisaia no Rakuen, it is revealed at the end of episode 5 that,

   Kasuki is still alive as part of the Thanatos system.

Furthermore in episode 8,

   She gets a body.

Questions are:

Is Kazuki's body in episode 8 her original body at the time of her "death" preserved through the years? Or was it newly grown in a laboratory?
Is there any hard evidence suggesting either?

Kazuki's body doesn't seem to have aged though it may be difficult to tell. Either way, that doesn't give any new information.

A cryopreserved body would retain the original age.
Likewise a body in a vegetative state would continue to age at the normal rate.
A newly grown body can be given an arbitrary look and age.

begin TL;DR:

   No.

end TL;DR.

When Kazuki was sold to make the Thanatos system, the system creators were faced with a dilemma:

   how to keep the brain alive.

Their original intent was to

   cut off the brain and hook the organ directly to the machinery

But then they would have to deal with a "little" problem:

   they would need to supply nutrients, oxygen, antibodies, leukocytes, and all sorts of stuff to the brain.

That would require additional machinery/technology, but then they realized that

   a human body already does all that, you just have to shove food and oxygen through the mouth and nose.

So they decided to ditch their original plan and

   just hook Kazuki's brain indirectly to the machinery, and keep the body intact in life support fluid (think of Evangelion's LCL).

About Kazuki's body not aging, she was 12/13 years old when the accident happened.

   Her body was not frozen. It was kept in a vegetative-comatose-ish state. In the visual novels, she is very debilitated when rescued by JB, and had to be carried out of Ichigaya by the German blonde.

Also a spoiler of future episodes, so don't read below:

   the hook in her hand (the one she injuried in the bus crash) is fake. Her arm/hand is fine and she thinks she is making a great pun, but Kazuki is running for worst sense of humor in a VN/anime character ever. Who gave her that grappling hand in the suspended animation chamber, it is stuff for another question.

According to wikipedia, females end puberty earlier than males, and reach an adult body earlier too:

  Maximal adult height is achieved at an average age of 15 years for an average girl and 18 years for an average boy.

So, we can assume Kazuki grew around two more year's worth since the accident. Her body frame was always petite and she was precocious in several aspects, why not puberty? She was around the same size as Amane during the accident, so maybe her growth spurt had already happened by then.

And to boot:

   She was sexually active since a very tender age. Her favorite food is Yuuji (eden ep.6), nuff said.

Probably that caused her puberty to have an early onset.


What's the meaning of A.T field that Asuka said in the End of Evangelion movie? There is a scene in EoA where Asuka's Eva sank into the deep down of the lake. Inside the Eva, Asuka was muttering words like these:

  I dont want to die, I dont want to die, I dont want to die

After that, Asuka's Eva "probably" went berserk. And she saw her mother figure, in her sight. And after that she said

  Mama, now I know the meaning of A.T Field. You were always protecting me.

Why all of a sudden her mother figure appeared and Asuka was able to beat the special force? Was her mother the Eva 02 itself? What's the meaning of "now I know the meaning of A.T Field"?

There's some info about this posted in the "Why are child pilots used" question, but specifically, Asuka's mom Kyoko has always been in the Evangelion.

In episode 22, we see the flashback of Asuka's mom having gone through a contact experiment similar to what Shinji's mom, Yui, went through with Unit-01. Similar to how Shinji's mom is "inside" Unit-01, Asuka's mom is "inside" Unit-02. I've put "inside" in quotes as it's probably not in a literal sense. Maybe it's their "souls" or "impressions" or something that's inside the Evangelions. It's not entirely clear why this mother-child bond is required in the show, although we do know the idea came from Sadamoto, the original mangaka. We also know it's somewhat an important functional requirement, until Gendo (and eventually Seele) managed to get the Dummy Plugs to work (e.g. Unit-03, Mass Produced Evangelion series from End of Evangelion).

As far as the "meaning of the A.T. Field", there's a good bit of speculation on how that all works. The first hint is from Kaworu during the end of episode 24 where he does a rather cryptic infodump on the mechanics of Evangelion, souls, and A.T. Fields:

Kaworu: Eva is made of the same body as me.
    Because I'm also born of Adam.
    When the unit doesn't have a soul, I can unite with it.
    The soul of Unit 02 is shutting itself up now.

Shinji: AT Field!

Kaworu: Yes, you Lilims call it that.
    The holy region that must not be invaded by anyone.
    The light of the soul.
    You Lilims are aware of that.
    Aware that the AT Field is the wall of the soul that everyone
    has.

So A.T. Fields are generated by a "soul" (again, probably not something that is literal), and a "soul" is inside every Evangelion, and in this case, specifically Unit-02, Asuka's Evangelion. I you also recall, Unit-02 was previously unresponsive after the immense psychic attack from Arael which affected both Asuka and the Evangelion (e.g. her mom). This made it possible for Kaworu to take control of Unit-02 during episode 24 and why he says that the soul has "shut itself up". Asuka has come to the realization that:

Her mom has been in the Evangelion this whole time
Her mom issues were all for naught because her mom has been with her this whole time, she wasn't alone afterall
That her mom was using her soul to create Unit-02's A.T. Field which was protecting Asuka

At that point, Asuka goes into kick-ass mode with/because of her new understanding; a renewed bond with her mother/Eva's soul, a new understanding of what the A.T. Field really is and probably an enhanced control of how to use it (as evidenced by her fight with the Mass Produced Evangelions)


Why did Frieza need the second transformation? When Frieza transformed the first time, he said his fighting power in that transformed state was one million. But when Piccolo comes to fight Frieza, after a little while, Frieza undergoes his second transformation. What was the reason?

Was Frieza bluffing when he said his fighting power in that transformed state was one million?
Did Piccolo become really very strong after his fusion with Neil that his fighting power reached to a level comparable to Frieza?
Was Frieza afraid of losing, as a result of which he thought transforming would be a good option?

And then, after a few episodes, Frieza undergoes another transformation after seeing the amount of power Gohan had. So did Frieza start to panic out?

Because Piccolo's power level was higher than his, as stated in the Dragon Ball Wikia -

  Thanks to his fusion with Nail, his power is slightly higher than that
  of Frieza's.Through much of the battle, Piccolo has the upper hand, but Frieza transforms again into his third stage, earning yet another power increase.


Why was the Osiris Egyptian God Card translated as Slifer the Sky Dragon? In the Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged parody, the names of the three Egyptian God Cards are:

Obelisk the Tormentor
Slifer the Executive Producer
and Mega Ultra Chicken

The second name is a reference to a producer of the Yu-Gi-Oh English dub, who is also called Slifer (Roger Slifer, to be exact). I thought that this was just a funny little coincidence that Little Kuriboh picked up on and made a pun out of.

But then, I looked up the actual names of the Egyptian God Cards on the Yu-Gi-Oh wikia:

Obelisk the Tormentor |     オベリスクの巨神兵 (lit. Giant Divine Soldier of Obelisk)
Slifer the Sky Dragon | オシリスの天空竜 (lit. Sky Dragon of Osiris)
The Winged Dragon of Ra | ラーの翼神竜 (lit. Winged Divine Dragon of Ra)

Huh? "Slifer the Sky Dragon" is called "Osiris the Sky Dragon" in the original Japanese. That... actually makes way more sense, because Osiris is an Egyptian God in real life. So, was Slifer an intentional reference to Roger Slifer made by the official translators?

I notice that most of the other languages use "Slifer" as well (including French, German, Italian, Spanish, etc.), and only the Chinese and Korean translations use "Osiris". What happened here? Why did the translators make this decision?

The name Osiris was changed to Slifer by 4Kids employee Sam Murakami, possibly due to religious symbol/reference.

According to Wikipedia,

  A god card in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game, originally named Sky Dragon of Osiris (オシリスの天空竜 Oshirisu no Tenkūryū), was renamed "Slifer the Sky Dragon" after Slifer by 4Kids Entertainment employee Sam Murakami.

which sourced the interview with Roger Slifer himself where he answered with

  As for Slifer the Sky Dragon, despite the rumors on the web, I did not name that character after myself, even though I was a producer on Yu-Gi-Oh at the time. What happened was this: Another 4KIDS employee, Sam Murakami, was our liaison with the producer of the cards. Some names of the cards had to be changed because there was concern their names would be considered demonic or sacrilegious or something here in the states. It never made much sense to me, but when you're broadcasting here in America, it's something that has to be accommodated. Anyway, Sam renamed a bunch of those characters after people on staff at 4KIDS. It just so happened that the one he named after me happened to be a "god" card and much more prominent than the others in the series. I attribute it to the cosmic forces in the universe trying to balance things for me being made a demon in Ghost Rider. And again, just to set the record straight, I wasn't even aware of it until after the names on the cards had been changed and it was too late to go back.

This is just another case of censorship that affects some cards (also refer to an unanwered question: Was Kazuki Takahashi involved in the modifications made in Yu-Gi-Oh! for reasons of censorship?)


What does Kurome say in AkaKill Theater Ep. 22? I was watching the Akame ga Kill ONAs, and in AkaKill Theater episode 22, Kurome is constantly pointing out that Akame doesn't get enough air-time even though the series is named after her and talking smack to her.
She then says something starting with Ba-, and is immediately censored. The dialogue goes something like this:

Run: We're just about out of time, so let's at least have a good-
Kurome: Sis. Ba-  * censored *
Everyone is stunned, the display in the back says  "She actually said it!"
Run: So I think, that's enough for today
Akame: (Super Pissed) Kurome, meet me outside

So what does she say?

According to this answer, Kurome most likely said something along the lines of "Sis, you are just like Bakabon" or "Sis, have you heard of Bakabon?" given the context.

  以前このスレで妹を斬るの回のアカ斬る劇場でアカメとクロメが話してて
  クロメが最後に何て言ってたのか？って話題があったが　あれは多分
  「お姉ちゃん　バカボンみたいだね」か「お姉ちゃんバカボンって知ってる？」
  のどちらかだと思う。

Tensai Bakabon is another show named after someone who, like Akame, didn't have anywhere near enough screen time for a title character, as it is

  Bakabon's troublemaker father who eventually steals the show and becomes the central character.

So essentially, Kurome is just mocking Akame for the fact that she was upstaged by a supporting character (Kurome herself), for the third time.