Is Blood-C set in the same world as Blood+? I know that Blood-C was produced in-part by Studio Production I.G, the creators of Blood+, and it has a lot of similarities to Blood+, such as the appearance and name of the characters and the name of the manga/anime/film. Are they set in the same world or in some sort of parallel universe, or is Blood-C something like a reboot of Blood+?

Blood C

Blood+

As given on Wikia :

Saya Kisaragi has long hair that are similar to that of original Saya Otonashi, respectively of Blood+ in 1863 early version of Saya and 1972 Vietnam War in scenes only.
Despite major dissimilarities other than that they are different personalities, between the two Saya's of Blood+ and Blood-C, such as their backstory and traits for the character; they share the similar plot differently. For Example Saya Kirasagi sings when walking around town and the Other Saya Otonashi plays the cello but badly judging from the reactions of other characters.
Somehow Saya Kirasagi remains in mystery where she come from despite of her origins, unlike Blood+ Saya Otonashi comes from a chiropteran mummy
Saya never calls a sword in the series except in the opening when she mind controls her cover of the sword even as Tadayoshi Kirasagi gives the sword , before battles like Blood+ Saya from Haji and The Last Vampire from David.

It seems to be of a parallel or a totally different world because of the various differences shown in spite of the similarities introduced to make it of a series.


Where is the war against the Edo Tensei people being fought? I'm at around chapter 588 at the moment, and they're currently fighting against the shinobi who have been reincarnated by Kabuto. They seem to be fighting over a wide stretch of land that looks like it could be most places that isn't the desert. I can't remember if they said where they were fighting, but does anyone know approximately where (in relation to the various villages) they are fighting?

If we are to follow the images and information we are given. It should be somewhere in between the Lands of iron and an island in the Land of Lightning
This is the current ninja world map.

source of image

Below a piece of the tactic explanation showing a piece of map

Looking at the 3 borders in the tactics. Taking the angle shape, and the information that it is between the lands of iron and the floating turtle.

This would be the most logically location for it to be occurring


Did Griselda really die? At the end of episode 6 she appears next to her tomb and both main characters seem to see her.
So either there really are ghosts in SAO or she was alive, and if she was alive, why didn't she appear anywhere else later, etc? The story was left open so ambiguously that now my brain is bleeding.

Quote from the 8th volume of the Sword Art Online Light Novel (translation from baka-tsuki):

  Shocked, I turn to look behind, and what was in front of my eyes——
  [...] it's impossible for supernatural phenomenon to happen.

  So is this a bug in the server I see? Or is it an illusion in my breath?
  Not far away, [...] there...was a translucent female player giving off a slightly golden light.

  [...] However, after a while, she extends her right hand over to us to seemingly hand something over.

  Asuna and I reached our right hands out, and as we felt the warmth, we clasped onto it tightly. This warmth entered our bodies, lighting the fire within our chest. We opened our mouths and said out the words the form within us.

  [...]

  Asuna's words rode through the night wind and reached the female swordsman. The transparent face showed a large smile——

  And in that instant, nobody was there.

  We put our hands down and remained spaced out over there for quite some time.

It was described pretty clear that Grimlock killed Griselda. Why she was still visible wasn't explained, but because she disappeared without a trace, it was most likely just an illusion or some kind of hidden feature. She's definitively dead ;).


What makes New-Types different from "old-types"? In God Eater, Lenka and Alisa are both apparently "New-Type" God Eaters. Two questions about that:

What makes someone a New-Type? That is, is that how you're born, or can you be made into a New-Type by some sort of surgery/magic/etc.?
Why are New-Types so prized? What can they do that "old-types" can't?

The weapons utilised by the God Eaters, the God Arc(Jin-ki) are split into new types and old types. New types having the ability to transform between a gun and a sword and can convert the Aragami it eats into energy for more bullets. Old types are just Jin-ki that only has one form, a gun is a gun, a sword is a sword.

New types are called new types cause they use a new type Jin-ki. They are the same as normal God Eaters biologically with no other modifications on them whatsoever. They are made into God Eaters by injecting Oracle cells into them, same as the old types. Its just that they utilise a newer weapon.
The God Eaters that can utilise new Jin-ki are prized as to use the weapon you have to be compatible with a Jin-ki to utilise it and those that are compatible with the new types are rare so they are highly prized due to their higher battle prowess with new type Jin-ki.


Why did Sasuke need to activate sharingan to perform chidori? Chidori can be very well used without activating Sharingan. Sharingan is only needed to nullify the Tunnel Vision Effect and to save yourself from enemies counter-attack.
But it seems Sasuke has a knack for both. Every time he resolves to use Chidori he lights up his Sharingan. Against a formidable opponent, it is fairly understandable to use both to avoid any chances but why such extra precaution against a simple rock? It's not like Sharingan is for free, we're all aware of the considerable chakra cost for the red eyes then why does he need to do it?
I've noticed it now twice, in Boruto

Episode 61
Episode 157

Why did Sasuke need to activate Sharingan to blow up the stationary boulder using Chidori?

Very simple, without vision chidori isn't efficient, Sasuke and all users can't hit their opponent, and they're an easy blank for them. That's explaining by Kakashi and Minato in the Manga and Anime. That's the same with the rock, he needs to verify no one is on the road, and verify no one is trying to hit him.
Source: Chidori (Overview - Second Paragraph)


What actually happened with sword maiden and her goblins? In Chapter 29, the sword maiden seems to "know" something that she didn't share with Goblin Slayer's team.

What is it? Is the goblin brought by the sword maiden? Did the sword maiden betray all the adventurers? They mentioned something about no rat quests. Why? Is it related?

If the sword maiden knew that and didn't tell the adventurers wouldn't that mean the sword maiden risk the adventurers' life unnecessarily? Isn't that betrayal.

What is it? Well, the following conversation happened on the same chapter, Chapter 29:

Goblin Slayer: You knew everything, didn't you?
Sword Maiden: What do you mean 'everything'?
Goblin Slayer: The cause and the extent of the goblin nest in the sewers. Maybe even who's behind it.
Sword Maiden: Yes...Yes, I did.

Contrary to the other answer, the Sword Maiden did not tell Goblin Slayer's party that they were doing a rat-related quest. Rather, it was implied that they were doing a goblin-slaying quest from the very beginning and that they were already told so before arriving in the water town. From Volume 2 Chapter 2 of the light novel:

Sword Maiden: Goodness. Who might you be...?
Goblin Slayer: We've come to slay the goblins.

If the Sword Maiden knew that and didn't tell the adventurers wouldn't that mean the Sword Maiden risked the adventurers' lives unnecessarily? Isn't that betrayal?
The Sword Maiden, as it was eventually revealed, is traumatized by what happened to her. She still fears the goblins. She said this herself:

After all, if goblins attacked, I’m sure I would just…break down weeping.

Why did she blame the murders on the goblins, when they were just underneath the town? It was revealed that she wants to pin the blame on them because she wants to instill the same fear she had of the goblins to the townspeople. Personally, it would be much simpler if she told Goblin Slayer's party everything since it still concerns goblins and he would not deny the quest.
She probably thought of hiding these details due to the expectations she had of Goblin Slayer. This might be proven by the existence of the ballad about Goblin Slayer, which she heard. Dwarf Shaman revealed to him that 'when word of your doings gets around, everyone will want you to slay their goblins for them!' People would expect someone as strong and capable if his/her deeds are sang and spread as ballads, and Sword Maiden probably expected Goblin Slayer to easily deal with them.
Are the goblins brought by the Sword Maiden? Did the Sword Maiden betray all the adventurers? No, she did not betray them nor bring the goblins. Remember that she was once captured and tortured by goblins. Goblin Slayer noted that the way they (the women) were killed could not be possibly done by goblins. Also, in Volume 2:

Goblins are cowardly, cruel, brutal, and not very smart. It would probably never occur to them to linger in human territory to vivisect and devour their prey. Their unfortunate captives were always taken back to the nest, to be diligently stripped of their virtue there. Or, if the prisoners were numerous enough, the goblins might simply toy with them until they died.

Volume 2 of the light novel explains this properly, I suggest reading it if you have the time. To, again, quote from there:

Sword Maiden was quite aware of the movements of the Evil Sect, against which she herself had once stood. When she had learned of the ghastly rituals of living sacrifice they were performing, she had a good idea of what they wanted to achieve.
Revenge on her.

The goblins were most likely just a tool used by the sect. Aside from revenge, it was also hinted that they plan to do something with the Gate Mirror, albeit it was not specified.
They mentioned something about no rat quests. Why? Is it related? When Sword Maiden asked why Goblin Slayer suspected her to be hiding some information, he told her it was for a number of reasons. One being that he didn't think the encounter with the white alligator was not planned, simply because it chased them away but attacked the goblins, and another being the town having ruins yet there were no maps, rat-killing quests, adventurers nor patrols underground. He said it was impossible and that there had to be something standing guard down there, leading him to the conclusion that the white alligator was a familiar, guarding the ruins.


Can Sasuke's Amaterasu go through windows? I am not sure on whether you need to just see the object you want to cast it on, or if there must be a physically clear path to it.

Can the Amaterasu go through windows?

Yes, Amaterasu can pass through clear glass.

To quote the wiki

  Amaterasu produces black flames at the focal point of the user's vision.
  - chapter 390 page 3

The focal point of a users vision is located at the back of the on the retina as seen on the image below.

This means that whatever is being 'seen' by a user at that time, will be cast ablaze. Comparable to how you can either focus on something beyond a window, or if the window is dirty, the window it self.


Haki against Jewelry Bonney I have seen so far that Jewelry Bonney can alter someone's age by touching them. So I'm just wondering how could you fight against that kind of power with Haki. Could Armament Haki defend the user from her power when she touches him?

There has been no proof of this yet, so I'm basing myself on Sugar's power and speculation. She has a similar power, where she can alter a person's body by touching them. We have seen Sugar turn a lot of Haki users into toys, so it is safe to say that Jewelry Bonny could also turn Haki users into babies.

But could they transform a Haki coated body? Well, Haki allows a user to touch the real person underneath, bypassing the Devil Fruit's power, so I would speculate that Haki would prevent someone from turning them into toys or babies, because the power would not be able to reach the victim.


Is there any "real life" episodes in Log Horizon? I was wondering if there is any episode in Log Horizon set outside the game, similar to some episodes found in Sword Art Online, or is it entirely set inside the game?

Log Horizon has no episodes that are completely outside the game.
There are very short scenes on the subject every now and then, but a complete episode would require that they get back to their world, which, hasn't happened in season 1 or 2.


Can the Titans swim? I have only seen the anime and haven't read the manga, but a question came to me:

Can the titans swim?

We know that they are abnormally light and strong for their size. However, the fact that they evaporate after dying kind of suggests that they are formed of some sort of compact water vapor, so should we expect them to melt when they come into contact with water? It's not like they disappear when it rains... Or maybe they can't swim because they're too stupid

Because, if they can't, this place in Paris could've been a possibility for humanity.

From http://www.parisetudiant.com/etudiant/sortie/l-ile-seguin-et-les-berges-de-la-seine-boulogne-billancourt.html

If you take a look at the official closing theme of Season 2 of Attack on Titan you see the following:

  Titan emerging from the water.

But the way that they emerge it suggests

  that they actually don't swim but cross bodies of water by walking along the bottom.

Also from the scene we can derive that

  if titans can walk along the bottom of bodies of water this implies that they either have no lungs or do not require oxygen for survival which is something that was actually discussed on Anime Stack before.

And finally we can see that

  water does not harm them in any way whatsoever.


The Extent of Senzu Bean Healing They're supposedly some form of magical super food, right? Not like some all-cure medicine, as they can't cure ailments nor healed over wounds. It's like they super charge the body's natural healing or something. But, given that they also state to be able to sustain someone for a weak, if we assume the magic isn't just to sustain a body, but to magically produce all the needed nutrients for it to sustain itself for so long somehow, then could a Senzu Bean cure malnutrition and restore the body to what it would be like normally?

The Senzu Beans are mainly used to replenish Physical Health and Energy instantly.  However, during the android Saga, the senzu bean was capable of healing him despite Dr. Gero literally ripping his torso apart. Also, in future Trunks Timeline, it was implied that Future Gohan wouldn't have lost his hand if he were to have eaten the Senzu Bean himself instead of giving it to Trunks. Even in the latest Tournament of Power arc, Vegeta had a black eye after his fight with Jiren which was instantly cured on taking a Senzu Bean after getting eliminated. Hence, with regard to the first part of your question,It is not an "All- Cure medicine". It was stated in the Android Saga that Goku had died on account of having a heart virus and that there was no cure available at that point in time. So that implies that the Senzu Bean is definitely not a cure-everything drug.With regard to the second part of your question,I believe the Senzu Beans wouldn't necessarily cure malnutrition or per-say make a person Healthy. It would only reset the person back to the exact state he was at before receiving any injuries.This answer is very hard to determine considering the fact that these Senzu beans are mainly consumed by Fighters who all are Physically Fit and ideally follow good Nutrition. At the same time, the rules of Malnutrition applied to Humans would be significantly different compared to other races like the Saiyans(Since they produce a massive amount of energy and in turn have a massive appetite, and we see Goku and Vegeta pig out on food and are yet relatively healthy). Hence the one person I would like to consider under the mentioned circumstances is Yajirobe. Yajirobe is definitely a lot unhealthier in comparison to the rest of the Z-Fights and has excess body fat. So ideally, if a Senzu bean is capable of restoring a Mall Nourished Body to it's normal state, it should be able to restore Yajirobe to a more healthier state which clearly doesn't happen.Then again, the probability of finding an individual in the Dragon Ball Universe suffering with Malnutrition is pretty low considering the obvious theme/setting of the show. So one cannot state a definite answer with regard to the same.


Why is it (almost) always a 10 years gap? What is so special with 10 years intervals? It seems there is something special in anime and manga about 10 years gaps. They seem to me that they will become a different person in 10 years.

Yes, I know people age and a decade is a long time. I can think of the me 10 years ago, and he was something of a mess.

But why is it always 10 years? not nine or eleven, 10... always 10. The list is enormous:

My wife is Wagatsuna-san: the MC can timeskip 10 years, to a time when he is married with the eponymous girl.
Horimiya: in ch10 Izumi remembers his old self 10 years ago.
Orange: the letters from their future selves is from 10 years ahead.
Bleach: - ch 685 has a 10 years time skip.
Dragonball: ch 518 has a 10 years timeskip.
Soushin Shoujo Matoi Matoi's mother saved the world 10 years ago.
Strike the Blood when Minamiya Natsuki lost her memory, she was turned into 10 years younger version of herself.

I am sure I've seen other 10 years intervals in other titles, the list could go on and on.

What is so magical about the 10 year gap?

This question reminds me of a typical case of Confirmation Bias.

  Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses, while giving disproportionately less consideration to alternative possibilities.

We all see a pattern in everything and try to rationalize new information to fit in our current hypothesis. OP's comment is in perfectly in line with this.

  I really got past the up/down vote angst phase. I will keep adding more and more references of 10 year gaps as I find / remember them.

I've already put this in comment, but wanted to write a more complete and coherent answer. No, there is nothing special about the 10 year gap/interval and its increased usage can be attributed to some of the other factors that make the number 10 appealing. Such as

  Probably because it's a nice round number and because the protagonists of anime are so often teenagers. You can show some event that shaped their lives happening when they were 6 or 7, then go forward 10 years to when they're 16 or 17, right in that magical anime protagonist age range. Plus it's long enough for the characters to have changed dramatically in the intervening time, especially given their youth; a person will be very different at 7, 17, and 27, but not so dramatically different at 27, 37, and 47 - Torisuda

It gives an optimum room for character development while also being an easy number to deal with. As I also mentioned systems such as metric system and Decimal system were adopted just because of their "ease of use". Though there don't seem to be that many advantages of choosing the "10 year interval". But if we look at a more broader sample, we see that the "10 year" is not THAT common.

The sample I chose is TV Tropes - Time Skip, Anime and Manga
It has a total of 56 entries. But some series have multiple smaller time skips as well. Since I compiled this list pretty quickly, please feel free to point out any mistakes!

This is as I expected!! Smaller timeskips are more because of multiple in a single series, while larger are rarer but still quite spread out.

Example: Dragonball has the following time skips

  Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z had a number of time skips during its run. This happened after every major story arc. The original manga ran for eleven years, with about three times that amount passing in-story. This amounted to no less than seven time-skips lasting a year or more. The most notable was the five year gap between the end of the 23rd Tenkaichi Budoukai and the arrival of Raditz (which marked the end of the first Dragon Ball anime series and the beginning of the more sci-fi oriented Dragon Ball Z), and the seven year skip back into a more comedic (but still dramatic) tone between the Cell and Majin Buu arcs. The finale itself was ten years after the Buu arc.

In fact, I can easily make a case for a "special 7-year gap".

  Claymore has a 7 year Time Skip in the manga. The anime ended before it could reach that point
  Fairy Tail got a 7 year Time Skip after the S-Class promotion arc.
  There's a 7 year gap between the events at the end of Gundam Build Fighters and the start of its sequel, Gundam Build Fighters Try.
  Diamond Cut Diamond starts off with the show of Esper Shounen and the accident that led to it being cancelled, then jumps ahead seven years to start off the real plot of the old Esper 9 members being killed off.
  Dragon Ball has a 7 year gap between Majin buu and Cell sagas.
  Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann had a seven-year time skip between its second and third arcs.


How is new the saiyan in straitjacket from the Dragon Ball Heroes anime called? They released a new Dragon Ball Heroes trailer of the new anime and there is a saiyan in straitjacket. Is it known from the videogame or some japanese magazine how this saiyan is called?

The "evil saiyan"'s name is Kanba/Cumber.

You can find multiple news site talking about it today.
For example comicbook.com and otakukart.com.
They all reference this tweet.


Why do Both Tanjiro and his Dad have the same scars? I realized when I watched demon slayer that both Tanjiro and his dad both have scars on their foreheads, and I don't know if this applied to his dad but Tanjiros scar is always changing shape and size. Does tanjiros forehead scar have to do with anything about Tanjiro's dad being able to use the fire god style? If you have any info on Tanjiros scar id also like to know that.

Tanjiro told that, although the scar looked like a demon hunter mark, it hadn't been one until he mastered the mark, as wiki summarizes it:

  He also has a scar on the top left of his forehead, which he received
  when he protected his younger brother from a falling brazier. The scar
  originally looked somewhat like a graze until his fight with the Hand
  Demon during the Final Selection, after which it develops into his
  Demon Slayer Mark.


What's the name of the insert song in Charlotte episode 5? Does anyone know the name of the song that plays as Yu puts the headphones in and gets transported to the grassy field in his mind? The time it starts is just after 9:30.

The song you're after is called 'Clouded Sky', and is performed by the band 'ZHIEND'. It is an insert song in episode 5 of the anime.

The scene where the song in question plays is viewable here.

The full song can be listened to here.


How can we sort manga (by genre) within Crunchyroll's manga utility or mobile app? I've been considering getting a Crunchyroll membership primarily for the manga rather than the anime. Looking on their site, Crunchyroll does not have anyway to organize and parse through their manga library other than alphabetically. They do not have a way to search by genre or anything like that.

Is the mobile app for Android any better? Does it have sorting?

With the Crunchyroll Manga app, you have the ability to sort...

...and sort by a specific genre you're looking for.

The kicker here is that the genres you may be thinking of might not be the same ones that Crunchyroll supports.


What would Light Turner's "Conditional" Entry in the Death Note actually do with the canon rules in the Netflix Americanized Live Action Death Note Movie. we have this exchange near the end where Light Turner is confronting Mia

  What?
  What did you do?
  You put my name in it, didn't you?
  It was if you took the book.
  I thought I could convince you not to.
  Are you kidding me, Light?
  -You put my name in the book! I got mad.
  -Are you kidding me?!
  You said you love me!
  I thought you wouldn't take the book!

Source: springfieldspringfield (sorry there's no names. reason why i hate the site)

this exchange and from what i have heard from other people suggests that Light Turner put Mia's name in the Death Note so that she would die only if she took the Death Note (though i don't know the exact wording he used)

however with the real "How to Use" rules of the Death Note from the anime and manga, if someone wrote such a conditional clause how would it actually work?

If the actual rules from the manga/anime were to be applied, then Mia's death would be certain once her name was written down in the notebook. Looking from the rules from the Death Note wiki,

  The human whose name is written in this note shall die.
  If the cause of death is written within the next 40 seconds of writing the person's name, it will happen.
  If the cause of death is not specified, the person will simply die of a heart attack.
  After writing the cause of death, details of the death should be written in the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds.

So, you can only add the causes and conditions of the death of the person. Essentially, this means you can alter the way a person dies, but not whether a person dies.

If the owner of the Death Note decides to write in a condition anyway, then one of two scenarios might happen:

The condition is ignored entirely and the victim simply dies of a heart attack.
If some part of the conditional clause may be used as a cause or condition for the death of the victim, then it will be applied (provided it is physically possible).

As an example, if Light wrote the following in his Death Note,

  Mia Sutton.
  If she takes the book, she commits suicide by jumping out of the Ferris Wheel.

According to scenario 1, Mia Sutton dies to a heart attack. According to scenario 2, Mia Sutton dies by jumping out of the Ferris Wheel (which is physically possible, since she was in a Ferris Wheel in that scene). I'm not entirely sure which scenario will occur, but I personally lean towards the second one.

As a side note, I actually caught the exact wording Light used for Mia's Sutton. According to the transcript from the same website you posted,

  Mia Sutton is killed when she accepts the Death Note from her
  boyfriend. As the Northwest Ferris Wheel mysteriously collapses... she
  pulls the page with my name on it from the note. And it is ultimately
  consumed by fire. Although her boyfriend lands safely in the water... Mia strikes the shoreline... dying instantly.

Notice Light used the word "when" and not "if" in the conditions for Mia's death, which presumably means he had every intention to kill her. This suggests that the Netflix version also did not allow the use of conditional clauses regarding a person's death.


Which chapter of the manga does Season 2 of One Punch Man anime end in? If you want to keep following One Punch Man story in the manga, after second season of the anime ended, you need to know which chapter of the manga the anime ends.

Which chapter of the manga does Season 2 of One Punch Man anime end in?

As stated here, Episode 24 of the 2nd season of One Punch Man is based on Chapters 83-84 of the manga. If you want to pick up where the anime ended, either you start reading on these chapters or proceed to the one that follows, which is Chapter 85.


Which book is referenced in My Neighbour Totoro, when the Susuwatari are introduced? The anime My Neighbour Totoro introduces small black soot sprites, apparently called Susuwatari.

Around 8 minutes 42-45 seconds into the movie (German DVD edition), when the family checks out their new home and the girls ask their father about the spirits while they are looking around the bathroom, the father identifies them as "soot sprites" and in response the older girl asks whether they are the same like "in the picture book" (or storybook).

I'd like to know what book she's referring to. Does it exist at all, seeing that the sprites were - according to Wikipedia - invented by the story's author/director Hayao Miyazaki.

I'm mainly looking for canon answers, or answers referring to traditional Japanese legends.

Based on quick research in Japanese, there's no official statement about the book used as a reference for Susuwatari (or Makkuro Kurosuke).
The only traditional Japanese legend mentioned on Japanese Wikipedia is Kesaran Pasaran, which refers to the similarity to its form, but the similarity only goes as far as a fluffy furball (not even black).

外観は、タンポポの綿毛や兎の尻尾のようなフワフワした白い毛玉とされる。
The exterior appearance looks like a white fluffy furball, similar to dandelions or rabbit's tails.
(From Japanese Wikipedia - Kesaran Pasaran)

Alteil Online rendition of Kesaran Pasaran

Regarding the book which "Makkuro Kurosuke" appears, it's never been stated officially. However, according to Yahoo! Chiebukuro (Japanese), some Japanese fans speculated that it was based from Little Nerino (translated as Makkuro Nerino in Japan), a picture book by Helga Galler.

Book cover of Little Nerino

Nerino, from あっちゃんたかちゃん's blog on Yahoo! Blogs (Japanese)


What song is this in Bleach Episode 51? I can't find the song that plays in Bleach Episode 51, around 6:55 after Tosen appears behind Komumura.

Opening     D-tecnoLife
Ending   Happypeople


Is kuroneko from Oreimo considered dandere? from Urban dictionary,

Dandere

  A dandere is a character archtype that entails someone being quiet
  which is usually associated with shyness. "Dan" comes from the word
  "danmari" which means silent and taciturn. "Dere" means to become
  "lovey dovey"

  Not to be confused with Kuudere which is a cool person that becomes
  lovey dovey. They are very similar in appearence and possibly
  behavior, but their underlying character reasoning is different. Being
  silent for the sake of being silent vs being cool

I have a problem placing her as a dandere because she sometimes acts playful as the image above (not antisocial). Am I correct considering her dandere ?

Yes, she can be considered a Dandere character.

A dandere character is one who is normally quiet and silent, possibly to the point of coming across as emotionless at times, but will suddenly become talkative and sweet and cute when alone with the right person if they manage to push the right button to get them to pour their heart out, revealing that they're actually just shy.
A dandere will be more or less a normal person, but, will not talk unless spoken to/required to. They will avoid talking because of their shyness, but if need be, they will speak. Also, a dandere tends to feel more power in numbers. If they're with a group that they're comfortable with, then the shyness factor of said dandere will very likely decrease if another, unfamiliar person is introduced at that time.

At the first otaku meeting of Kirino, Ruri (a.k.a. Kuroneko) was silent and passed her time with her cell phone, but later when Saori introduced them to each other, Ruri was talking (quarreling) with Kirino.

Ruri was comfortable with Kyosuke. She was talking normally with him and

 confessed her love to Kyosuke.

She also talks and enjoy herself when she is with members of Saori's circle and with school club.

These are, however, only some examples of her behavior. Throughout the entire series, there are many occasions where her character matches the description of a Dandere as stated above.


What are the differences of anime in 1990s and 2000s in terms of technology used? What are the main differences between anime in the 90s and in 2000s in terms of technology used (like on twos, on threes, etc)?

This is a fairly tough question to answer, as most changes did not just apply to Anime, but to how movies, series and even advertisements as a whole, and the way they got made.

It is however an interesting time period you picked, considering the economic slump of the 90's, which they only started to recover from in 92

  A slump in advertising revenue, dwindling birthrates, and the popularity of alternative forms of entertainment like video games and cell phones have led to sluggish prime time ratings and a decline in the number of anime since the peak in 2006... ...The Japanese anime industry is at a turning point. - Nippon, 2013

Rise of 3D animation and CGI

All though 3D animation was already existent around the 1940's. It had a 'said' breakout year in 1991. As more and more studios started to adapt the technology, we can slowly see it replace older, more Traditional Animation techniques throughout the 90's and during the beginning of the millenia.

Due to these changes, there where also significant advances in the field. Such as the 2000 breakthrough in capturing the reflectance field over the human face, being the final breakthrough to making digital look-a-likes of actors, Or the 2001 Motion capture, photorealism, and uncanny valley.

The later of which was applied on the 2001 Japanese-American Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, which was the first photorealistic computer-animated feature film and remains the most expensive video game-inspired film of all time.

Besides obtaining a first in Photorealistic computer animation, Japan can also claim the title for being the first in using cel-shaded animation, with Appleseed.

  "innovative use of out-of-the-box animation software to create Hollywood-style effects at a tiny fraction of Hollywood budgets."
  Mark Schilling, The Japanese times & Toshio Suzuki president Studio Ghibli

Death of traditional animation

Traditional Animation, also known as hand drawn animations, or cel animation.

During the 90's as more and more studios started to adapt digitalized animation, the art of traditional animation started to slowly die out. Some studios dived straight into the deep, leaving traditional animation behind almost immediately, while others started by mixing the digital and traditional ways.

This would continue till FujiFilm, one of the major cel production companies, announced they would stop cel production, leading to a industry panic, hastening the switch to digital processes

Around the early 2000s most studios left behind traditional animation for the more modern, digital animation.

There was however 1 exception to this, Sazae-san. But even though it was the sole survivor, they also gave in to the modern age in 2013. When even they said goodbye to cel animation.

  "It's the culture of Japan. We want to continue making the paints even if that cuts into our profits."
  Taiyō Shikisai head Shigeji Kitamura

http://www.nippon.com/en/features/h00043/

begin 90's turning point facial animation
Historically speaking, the first SIGGRAPH tutorials on State of the art in Facial Animation in 1989 and 1990 proved to be a turning point in the field by bringing together and consolidating multiple research elements and sparked interest among a number of researchers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_animation


Why did Yukine stop stinging Yato? Some people are unable to control their natural urges, so if Yukine was thinking that way and stung Yato, why is it after the whole issue he stopped stinging? And if he continues to feel that way, what then will happen to Yato?

How did the stinging just stop?

well, he basically learned his lesson; his character changed a lot after the whole incident (Hiyori helping him afterwards is a big reason too); He is, afterall a teenage boy~

if he would continue to "sting" Yato... [Spoilers avoided] (you should see season 2 if you haven't already, since it covers that in the anime with Bishamon)


Are any animation studios open to the public for tours? There are lots of anime fans all over the world, and Japan does promote the industry to boost tourism.

However, I am unaware of any animation studios that allow visitors. I'm sure a lot of visitors would like to peek inside and see what it is like - perhaps not the working areas, but the general surrounds & going-ons.

I have noticed one tour group doing such a trip - but for the traveller who goes without a guide group - are there any options?

Studio Ghibli museum
The Studio Ghibli museum in Tokyo is open to public tour, for me and probably for other regions too, you have to book three months in advance to purchase tickets.


What anime does this girl greeting the KFC mascot come from? Hi guys/girls, I'm looking for the source of this Gif, can't find it anywhere, obviously its from an old anime, maybe someone who has seen old subbed things will be able to find it at glance.
Thanks.

This scene is from Miyuki, an anime adaptiation of the Manga by the same name written by Adachi:

Synopsis:

  Wakamatsu Masato lives with his step-sister, Miyuki, whom he does not have blood relationship with. Their father is always working oversea and left the two of them living by themselves in Toukyou. Miyuki is cute, nice, sensitive and very popular among guys around Masato. Masato has a girlfriend at school whose name is Kajima Miyuki, who is pretty and gentle, the ideal dream of every highschool boy.


Who are these characters in the end of the last episode's still? The two similar looking guys on the left are most probably Ginkaku and Kinkaku Ebisugawa brothers, and the tiger must be Yaichiro. But who are the three female characters? They don't look like any of the other characters in this show. Is this perhaps a reference to another P.A. Works show or its crew?

(click the image for full scale)

Going counter clockwise from the top left:

Kinkaku (upper, older brother)
Ginkaku (lower, younger brother)
Suzuki Satomi (Benten, as a schoolgirl she wears the blue blazer and has her hair up)
Yaichiro (tiger ver.)
The Mom (of the four Shimogamo brothers, house mother ver.)
Yasaburo (cross-dress ver.)

Kouji Kumeta, best known for the Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei manga, did the original character design for the series.


Why do some Anime have Loli Teachers? I've noticed that in some Anime, the teachers are very short/little, I mean they look like elementary school kids. The anime I'm talking about are:

Strike the Blood
Noucome
Toaru Majutsu no Index

I've heard same is the case with Doki Doki School Hours and Pani Poni Dash but haven't watched them so can't say for sure. My question is, why is it so? Is it to appeal to a larger audience, specifically lolicons? Or is there some other reason, because from where I stand, I haven't seen how their being small has had a role in moving the story forward in any way.

Ok, wall of text, so take your time to read.
First, these shows are aimed at teens. Since our society delegates the act of teaching children mostly to women (changing, but still), we have that the teacher is the grown female outside the teenager family circle that said teenager have the longest contact with.
In anime/manga this romantic/sexual tension is explored in several titles, like Onegai Sensei, KissXsis, and others.
So we can infer that several teenager boys have the hots for the teacher. Teenage girls ALSO have the hots for the male teacher, but I will restrain the answer to the boys' universe.
One sub-genre of anime characters regarding teachers is the Sensei-chan:

A common Japanese media character type, the female high school teacher who is fairly young, attractive, even cute, and on friendly terms with her students.
On the other hand, she is still unmarried, and very conscious about it, as well as about the lack of respect she gets.

Then we get another genre of anime characters, the Token Mini Moe:

The Token Mini Moe is a young or young-looking member of a cast designed to appeal to one of two predominant demographics. The first is those who simply find the character absolutely adorable and/or endearing and feel protective towards him or her. The character allows this sort of fan to act as and live out the role as an idealized older brother or sister (or parent) cheering their little sister on and helping her achieve whatever goals the setting deems important. The second are the Lolicons/Shotacons, who take an erotic or romantic interest in the character. Needless to say, these two groups are often at each other's throats over the character.

When the two (Sensei-chan and Token Mini-Moe) overlap, you get the kind of teacher you are asking about.
So it is a character designed to fill two roles at the same time. Depending on the needs, the Loli Teacher can appeal more to the Moe side or the Lolicon side


Who did Mirajane, Gildarts and Erza face off against to become a S-Class Mage? In the Tenrou Tree Arc, Gildarts told everyone who was moaning and groaning that he had to face the same thing as well when everyone was told that you had to face Erza and Mirajane which was...

  Fighting a S-Class Mage

So who was the S-Class mage that Mirajane, Gildarts, and Erza faced. Was it ever revealed in the manga or anime?

Looking at the past results on the S Class Mage Promotion Trial wiki, I would likely say that they had to fight the S-class mages present at that time (Eg: Erza had to fight either Laxus or Gildarts). It is not clear when and who Gildarts fought. It could have been Makarov, it could have been previous guild members or he could have shown his competence through other ways. It isn't really known how the previous tournaments went down. Remember that they don't have to win the fight to be promoted, like when Gildarts let Natsu continue the game or they might even get lucky like Gajeel. So the competition is not a power ranking.

Past Results

X???    Gildarts Clive
X778    Laxus Dreyar (Age 17)
X779    No Successful Candidate
X780    Erza Scarlet (Age 15)
X781    Mirajane Strauss (Age 16)
X782    Mystogan
X783    No Successful Candidate
X784    Trial Suspended


Does Kefura red ki means something more? In Dragon Ball, when a fighter changes his ki color usually means a transformation. The only exception I remember for this are Vegeta's different ki colors like the lilac ki color when he makes the Galick Ho attack, or the yellow color he gets at some point when he first fought Goku, or the light blue color he got a couple of times.

Does Kefura's red ki means something more or did she just get that color because she was performing a strange attack?

Well, Kale's ki was shown to be green in color during her transformations, when she transformed to her Berserker state and mastered LSSJ state. Also, Caulifla had a Ki base attack which was red in color. Kefla is a fusion of both Caulifla and Kale, so I wouldn't really think much of it. The colors don't really represent anything.


What is this manga with a female protagonist that changes genders and personalities based on the rings she wears? I have been searching for a while now (about a month) and I am trying to find a manga that has a female protagonist who changes gender and appearance based on how many rings of power she is wearing. Her personality also changes depending on the amount of rings.

She is a wizard and the manga starts in a devil school in which she is trying to obtain another ring.

As @Krazer pointed out, your description matches that of the Korean manhwa series PhD: Phantasy Degree, wherein the female protagonist changes genders each time a ring is removed from her finger, as well as each ring having its own "personality."

From the link above:

  A young, spunky, fearless girl named Sang is searching for the Demon School Hades. She runs into a group of misfit monsters who are all ditching classes from the same school. Sang convinces them to take her to the school ... and, since only monsters are allowed in, she 'monsterizes' herself by letting one of the misfits - a vampire - bite her. After the destruction of the Demon School Hades at the hands of the Madosa Guild in volume 3, she moves on to search for more of "Satan's Rings". She meets Chun-Lang, a young swordsman, who also has a Ring, and like Sang, can change genders.


Are any JoJo's anime related? I started with the latest one the one, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind and came to know that the anime is even older. Found many series dating back to 2012. So, as I started watching the 2012 series, I saw that it is a vampire genre. Vampire -> Stand. I don't see any connection.

I saw a YouTube video of the strongest immortal characters and there's a listing of a character from these anime. So, I don't want to miss any connection if there is one, as I am planning to skip the 2012 series because of its genre (vampire).

Are any JoJo's anime related?

Yes, they are connected. Just from Wikipedia about Season 1 (the 2012 series),

  The first season aired in Japan between October 5, 2012 and April 5, 2013, with episodes 1-9 covering the Phantom Blood arc, and episodes 10-26 covering the Battle Tendency arc. The first part follows a young man named Jonathan Joestar who becomes involved in a battle against Dio Brando, who uses the power of a mysterious Stone Mask to become a vampire. The second part takes place fifty years later as Jonathan's grandson, Joseph Joestar, faces up against the Stone Mask's creators, the Pillar Men.

while for Season 2,

  The second season, titled JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, adapts the series third story arc, Stardust Crusaders. Set in 1987, the story follows Joseph's grandson, Jotaro Kujo, and his companions as they seek to defeat DIO, who has placed a curse on his mother, using special abilities known as Stands.

as per the premise,

  JoJo's Bizarre Adventure tells the story of the Joestar family, a family whose various members discover they are destined to take down supernatural foes using powers that they possess. The story is split up into unique parts, each following one member of the Joestar family, who inevitably has a name that can be abbreviated to the titular "JoJo".

you can see that the series are connected directly by the fact that they follow the Joestar family, and Season 1 and 2 are connected beyond that just the bloodline as on the Stardust Crusaders Wikipedia page

   Joseph explains that the sudden appearance of Stands among the Joestar bloodline is caused by the nemesis of his grandfather, Jonathan Joestar: the vampire Dio Brando. Having succeeded in taking Jonathan's body after his assumed demise in the 19th century and resurfacing a few years prior, Dio has awoken his own Stand and recruited Stand-using assassins to kill Jonathan's remaining descendants.


How many times has Ash enrolled in Pokemon School? Throughout all the Pokemon TV series and movies, and anything else from the same canon/relevancy, what is the sum total of ashs enrollments in any kind of formal training regarding pokemon.

In the new-ish Sun & Moon series Ash enrolls in Pokémon School, to my knowledge this is the only time he formally enrols into any school or long-term training program.

Other appearances of formal education in the anime include:

The Pokémon Trainers' School where Ash gives a guest lecture
Pokémon Ninja School where he goes to learn Jujutsu (which doesn't really directly apply to Pokémon)
Pokémon Tech where Jessie and James went to school
The Pokémon Summer Academy where Ash enrols in the Diamond & Pearl era. I'd count it, but it's more of a summer camp / summer school thing that only lasts a week (or 4 episodes).


Why did Aizen kidnap Orihime in Bleach? I remember that Aizen kidnapped Orihime but I don't remember if it was explained well why this happened. I have several hypothesis but not sure if they are true:

Was it that the Hogyoku didn't work until Orihime cured it some how? Was there such a scene in Bleach that gives evidence to this? Why wouldn't the Hohyoku work? Wasn't Aizen already giving more power to his hollows even before Orihime?
Is that why Aizen needed her or was it something else? To Maybe torture her to distract the Shinigami and Ichigo? But it seems that at this point he didn't really thought Ichigo mattered so it doesn't seem convincing.
Or did he use her to heal his Espadas?
Or did he do that to lure the Shinigami and trap them to Hueco Mundo?

Is there maybe another reason? Or are there multiple reasons combined? Aizen was smart so I am sure he had a reason to kidnap Orihime.

The answer lies in Ichigo's existence. At the end of the battle between Aizen and Ichigo, Ichigo noted that Aizen's sword is filled with loneliness. Before Ichigo, there was no one of the same level of spiritual pressure as Aizen. This is proved in the conversation between Ichigo and his father, Kurosaki Isshin, on episode 301 of the anime.

   Isshin: Let's go (after Aizen)

 Ichigo: Don't you feel it? There's no way we can fight such monstrous spiritual pressure.

 Isshin: As I thought, you really can comprehend his powers.

That wasn't the exact words but is pretty much what they said in that episode. And previously during the battle between Aizen vs Isshin, Yoruichi, and Urahara, Ishin said that when he slashed Aizen, he didn't feel anything. Aizen felt so empty. This is because Aizen's power is far above Isshin, that Isshin can no longer comprehend (Isshin also mentioned this to Urahara after he unleashed Getsuga Tensho towards Aizen). This is later proven by Aizen when he made a normal human vanish just by being near him without the man actually understand that going closer to Aizen will kill him.

Why Aizen kidnap Orihime? The main reason is once again, Ichigo. Deep down, Aizen believed that Ichigo can reach his level. And to encourage Ichigo's growth, Aizen kidnapped Orihime so that Ichigo would feel the urgency of getting stronger.

The other, less significant (from Aizen's point of view) reason is Orihime's ability, Shunshun Rikka, which can negates reality. Aizen was curious about it when he saw Orihime used it to restore wounds.

As for Ichigo saying Aizen's sword is filled with loneliness, it was mentioned in episode 310 at 8:30-10:30 of the anime.

As for Yamamoto, he certainly was regarded as the most powerful Shinigami, but Aizen doesn't seems like seeing him as his equal. This is my own guess though.


What exactly is a false minoshiro in Shinsekai Yori? I was quite curious to know what exactly a false minoshiro is.

For me, they seem to be some kind of bio-technology "machine" or cyborg or something of that sort, that has the capability of storing a lot of information. The reason I think they are not "naturally" occurring is because of the way they talk, which seems to be similar to machine speech. However, they also seem to be similar to living beings, because the false minoshiro was able to surpass the program denying access to its data in order to be spared by Saki and her friend. Basically, what exactly are they, and where did they come from? Is that ever explained in the anime or the novel?

The false Minoshiro (lit. ミノシロモドキ, minoshiro-modoki, monoshiro-mimic) they encounter identifies itself as "Panasonic Automotive Archive, Autonomous Evolution, version SE-778H Lambda." About 890 petabytes of data is stored within it using holographic memory; this includes all 38,242,506 volumes published in Japan since 2129 AD and 671,630 reference books in other languages. The novel describes it to be a sort of flying transportation and search engine.

Because it allows easy access to the large cache of information, the intellectual elite are afraid that this forbidden knowledge might get leaked to the general public through it, and have made it a taboo to touch or even speak to it.


What is Ms. Saotome referring to in her rant about the end of the world? During Ms. Saotome's rather-unhinged rant about the end of the world towards the beginning of the Rebellion movie, she says the following:

とある宗教の祭礼の日にあわせて、日食と月食が６回起こっちゃうという話です！
I'm talking about how on the festival days of a certain religion, six solar and lunar eclipses will occur!

Is this a reference to a real-world practice, or is this some sort of weird Madoka-universe eschatological thing?

After quite a lot of digging, I think I've figured out what's going on here.
Apparently, over the course of 2014 and 2015, there will be a series of four lunar eclipses ("blood moons") and two solar eclipses that occur on Jewish holy days.1 While the supposed eschatological consequences of this are not entirely clear to me, they are apparently dire. As reported in The Jewish Press:

There will be a string of four "blood moons" in the year 5775 [i.e. 2014-15 CE], and one of them will shine over the Passover seder. Whenever this happened in the past, enormous events took place in Jewish history.

Notes
1 For more information, see: Red Moon Rapture; FreeRepublic; The Jewish Press.


Why do some of the scenes in the 5th Episode of Attack on Titan differ when it was aired in Fukuoka? The airing of the 5th episode of Attack on Titan in Fukuoka (see top in the Youtube video below) had some noticeable differences from the original airing (see bottom).

Why were these changes made? Was it due to censorship or production issues?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jaRBxrzNMs

In the video you linked, the uploader also linked to a news post on the Attack on Titan anime's official website. This news post explains the situation. I've translated the most relevant part:

  各放送局のオンエアー日を極力揃えて放送しておりますが、 この度は制作上及び放送局納品期限の都合により、このような放送形態となりました。

  Although we tried our hardest to deliver the same product to
  each broadcasting office on the day of the airing, due to certain
  circumstances involving the episode as well as the broadcast office's
  deadline, the broadcast ended up like this.

Source: Attack on Titan news post

Seems like the staff were running a little too close to their deadlines and ended up not having the finished product for all stations. I think it would be safe to assume that stations that aired the unfinished version had stricter deadlines.


What is written on Kohinata's belt after Nanaka makes the changes? In chapter 239 page 11 of Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru, Nanaka makes the changes on Kohinata's belt.

I can't seem to find the translation for the Japanese text on the belt after the changes.

What does it mean?

At first I looked at Katakana and Hiragana alphabets to see if I could find a matching symbol for the first symbol but I was unable to.

I then went to the wiki page for Kohinata Minoru and found that the last two symbols in his name, matched the last two on his belt (those being 海流). Looking these up, I found that they mean "ocean current" (or Kairyū).

Working my way up the symbols in the belt, I saw that the second one closely resembled 向. When looking 向 up, I found that it meant toward (or Mukai).

Finally, the closest thing that I could find to the top symbol is ゆ. When looking this up, I get Yu.

Putting all of these symbols together, my best literal guess for what is written on the best is Yu kō kairyū, or Yukata ocean current. However, considering how closely a lot of the symbols on the belt match his Japanese name 小日向海流, my best guess would be that his name is what is written on the belt.

EDIT: Kuwaly showed me that the entirety of the Japanese name 小日向海流 is shown on the belt. Therefore, it is just his name that is written on the belt.


What are goku and Vegeta talking about? This is taken from chapter 6. What are they talking about?

As Goku said, they are talking about their wives being strong willed, determined, and being able to put up with them. In other words, they are talking about the qualities of their wives.

Goku made this comment after he saw Bulma slapping Jaco and telling him to hurry up.

Goku then says that he loves that about Chichi. He knows that she has to do all the things alone, since he's training all the time. Staying alone most of the time, looking after the family, earning, doing the household chores alone is a lot to ask from one's wife. He understands this and the statement can also mean that if she wasn't so strong willed, he wouldn't be able to train all the time and would have to help out with the chores... The fact that he's able to train 24x7 means a lot to him.

Vegeta's statement can also be explained by the fact that Bulma has had to go through a lot with Vegeta. She has had to put up with his ego and pride. If my memory serves me right, there used to be many quarrels between them during the Cell Saga in DBZ. But now, he even took out time from his training schedule and took Trunks and Bulma to the amusement park. This signifies that he has changed. To change someone to this extent is a great feat. And if Bulma wasn't strong willed, we may not have known Vegeta's family as we know it today, neither would have Vegeta changed to become so human.

Meanwhile, Piccolo is wondering whether that's the reason that Goku-Chichi and Vegeta-Bulma are together.


Where did Gary get these badges from? In Episode 63 of the Pokémon anime, it can be seen that Gary has ten badges, seven of them unknown.

The known badges are Boulder Badge (top left), the Cascade Badge (bottom left), and the Rainbow Badge (next to the boulder badge).

Where are the other seven from? And why are there ten of them? Every conference needs eight badges, all of them from the same region.

Besides all the official gyms, there are also unofficial gyms. After beating those, you will also receive a badge. Therefore, I think that those badges were obtained in one or more of the unofficial gyms. The one just right from the top left looks somewhat like the Coal Badge from Sinnoh though.

Unofficial Gyms in the anime:

A.J.'s Gym
Fighting Spirit Gym
Kaz Gym

... and many more.

There were 15 gyms in the Kanto region, that is one gym for every type, minus Dark and Steel types. This means they were not featured in the anime/game to prevent confusion, but still are considered official gym's.

  Anyways it would make sense that Ash only went for eight badges compared to a possible 15. Most of his badges in the first season were given to him without even finishing his gym leader battles plus the games only featured eight gyms so then changing it to a higher number in the anime might have been confusing for fans. Source


Can women be Makai Knights? We know that both men (e.g. Mendoza) and women (e.g. Ema) can be Makai Priests. And, of course, men can be Makai Knights (Leon, Alfonso, Germán, ...).

But can women be Makai Knights? In episode 24 of Garo: Honoo no Kokuin,

   Jiruba says that Germán's child with Ximena is going to inherit Zoro. This prompts Leon to ask Jiruba if that means that the child is a boy.

This seems to suggest that women cannot be Makai Knights. Is this in fact the case? Supporting information from the tokusatsu series would be very welcome here.

Taken from Garo wikia

  The Order required self-sufficient/independent warriors that's highly adept in martial arts (stronger than their priests and greater combat strength against Horrors), strong mental and emotional discipline (to handle their emotions, manage against potential dark energies, and see through illusions), and mastery over Soul Metal (due to its dangerous nature); creating a full-fledged Makai Knight is a lifetime of training. Because males are physically stronger than females, the order decided to exclude women from ever becoming a knight.

I'm not sure about other armors, but in Golden Knight's case, one day in every month, the knight won't be able to fight as Zaruba is taking the knight's whole day. Also, women has to face menstruation every month, and that menstruation didn't last just one day and disappear tomorrow. A female Makai Knight would be unavailable for more than one day a month, which is a totally bad idea. Thus, while technically they might be able to become one, it is undesirable.


What is the name of the song in episode 9 starting around 10:37? I have been looking for the song which plays at around 10:37 in episode 9 of Parasyte the Maxim. I couldn't find it in the OST.

Here's the episode I am talking about on Crunchyroll.

OK, I found a playlist someone posted on Reddit with the song I was looking for. https://youtu.be/CdOc3BAOKHo track 4, titled "LIZARD".


How is that mechanical soldiers and cursed children can be held by a couple of regular humans? Mechanical soldiers and cursed children are shown to have superhuman strenght. A cursed children of one kick can blow a Gastrea and a mechanical soldier (Rentaro) of one kick can destroy several floors. How is that we see then a homeless cursed children being trapped by 2 or 3 police officers or Rentaro being held by a couple of humans? Can their strenght can be deactivated somehow or something?

I'll answer this in two parts, the first part covering mechanical soldiers and the second part covering cursed children.
Mechanical Soldiers
No it is not possible to deactivate/remove a mechanical soldier strength remotely. This is easy to see from the fact that the only way to defeat Kagetane (who is also a mechanical soldier) or Tina was to beat them outright. In both cases their identity were known but there was nothing that could be done to stop them beside facing them on the battlefield.
It has to be mentioned that it might not be impossible that some mechanical soldiers might have a kill switch built in (though I have yet to find any mention of this in the light novels) but this is unlikely due to the same reasons that it is stupid to provide a back-door to a system you built. If you can get in sooner or later someone else will also figure out how to get in. Also, if you ever get captured it is very likely that the people who caught you will force you to disable your soldier which makes the chance of you being rescued unlikely.
The reason the police were able to restrain Rentaro is simply because he was holding back. Similar to our world it puts you in a very bad place when you beat up police officers who are restraining you. Rentaro (and by extension the Tendo Civil Security Agency that employs him) would not be able to continue doing business if he beats up police officers even if he was in the right.
Cursed Children
Cursed Children can be harmed/killed with Varanium weapons (see this question). While it might not be easy to hit them due to their abilities once they are hit they are as vulnerable as any human. Additionally Initiators are trained fighter whereas homeless Cursed Children are not. Then there is also the fact that the Cursed Children are already hated and feared (which is what

 leads to the bombing of the bombing of the outer district school)

so it does them no good to resist. They will most likely just be "put down" as most people do not look at them as human. Additionally it will simply incite further violence and hatred against their kind.
The following extract indicates that Varanium weapons do exist with the explicit goal of wounding and killing Cursed Children as well as the general response of Cursed Children when faced with violence

“Damn it, what a disgusting brat!” Facing front, Rentaro saw that the oldest man in front of him was holding a Varanium switchblade dripping with blood, his face twisted with hatred. It was a thin knife with a blade about twelve centimeters long; it was too short to fight off a Gastrea, so it was hard to think of what it could be used for other than to deliver a fatal wound to one of the Cursed Children. The beggar girl shook her head, still bent over on the ground. “I’m sorry, Mr. Civil Officer. Even though I promised…I deserve what I got, but I, I just…”
Kanzaki, Shiden. Black Bullet, Vol. 3 (light novel): The Destruction of the World by Fire (pp. 163-164). Yen Press. Kindle Edition.


Is there a name for when characters eyes are hidden from the shot when emotional? The eyes of characters in anime always disappear when they're upset or when they're going to get serious.

Is there a name for when a characters eyes disappear like that?

I have never known this by a specific name, but the closest you may come to is just 'hidden eyes'.

This is usually used to describe someone who is trying to hide their face because they're upset, hurt, not drawing attention to themselves etc. Other terms might be used for characters whose normal hairstyle obscures their eyes, regardless of the situation.


How did Luffy beat Katakuri? Since Katakuri can see the future, shouldn't speed and tricks be irrelevant? Did he just wear him out until he was susceptible to more emotions?

The fight between Luffy and Katakuri had many factors in play and has most of the fandom divided over its results. It wasn't a death match in the true sense, despite both sides struggling quite a bit. A lot of viewers are of the opinion that Katakuri was not truly defeated at the end, but rather chose to view Luffy as an equal and let him go.

In terms of raw power and control over the Devil Fruit, Katakuri outclassed Luffy by far. Even if Luffy could barely match the explosiveness of the attack with Gear Fourth, this places immense load on his body as Rayleigh mentions in earlier flashbacks. This is also why it comes with a time out.

In addition, Katakuri's Kenbunshoku Haki (Observation Haki) is at a level where he is able to see some moments into the future. This is what made him next to impossible to defeat.

However, there are always conditions associated with such extreme powers. In Katakuri's case,

   He needs to remain calm and collected for his haki to work. In addition, an opponent with mastery of the Kenbunshoku that matches his own would be able to counter him, since the future Katakuri sees can be altered by anybody. Source: Wiki

When Luffy fights Katakuri, he manages to trigger both these conditions. The first one happens when he interrupts Katakuri while he is eating donuts, though it does not last too long. After which Luffy gradually starts becoming better at using Kenbunshoku as the battle progresses, which prompts Katakuri to attempt to end the fight as soon as possible.

Apart from all of this, one must also recall that Luffy escapes in the middle of the fight using Brulee when his Gear Fourth runs out, and returns after his cooldown is complete. Katakuri could have easily knocked him out in this duration had he not escaped.

Thus, the results of the fight can be said to be more of a draw with Katakuri deciding to let Luffy be for now (since he considered him an equal by the end of the fight, and possibly realized that he would have to expend a lot of his power to deal with Luffy due to him never backing down), than a clear victory.


Were the other trainers from Pallet town ever revealed? We know four trainers started in Pallet town. Three with one of the three original starters and Ash with his Pikachu. Apart from Gary, were the other two trainers ever revealed in the anime? And was it ever revealed who got which specific starter Pokemon?

First, the things we know:
Ash got late and had to pick the reserve Pokemon Pikachu. The other 3 starter Pokemon already got picked, one of which was picked by Gary. At the end of the series, you could see that Gary picked Squirtle.

So the question is, who picked the other 2 starters and where were they mentioned?

Your question really inspired me to find a answer. I found answers on multiple sites.

On reddit

  In the series, Ash and co. encounter a Charmander that was abandoned
  by its owner. We might infer that the original owner was one of the
  other two Pallet Town trainers. In addition, the Bulbasaur Ash and co.
  encounter was raised in the Hidden Village, which the article linked
  states was a haven for, among other things, abandoned Pokemon. So it
  appears possible that the other Pallet Town trainers also abandoned
  his starter Pokemon.

On serebiiforums

  These two mystery trainers' sole purpose in the anime was to be a plot device so that Ash would miss out on all 3 standard starter Pokemon and get Pikachu.

  Gary got 1 of them (and it wasn't revealed until the very end of
  Johto) and for marketing purposes, Ash had to have Pikachu as his very
  first Pokemon...

  So they invented 2 other trainers to get the remaining Pokemon... and
  they were referenced a few times until after Ash got the Earth badge
  and returned to Pallet town. That was when Oak said that the "other
  two" gave up and flunked out. Thus writing them out of the show
  permanently... never to be referenced again.

So it seems that these 2 mysterious trainers were just there to lose their starter Pokemon after a short time, so Ash could find them and train during the series, the 4 most favorite Pokemon of every kid. (Squirtle came to him from the firefighter)

I think the 2 trainers weren't meant to have a big part in this series. They were just needed to give Ash the rare Pokemon everyone wants to have.

But this is just my personal opinion.


Why didn’t the heroes try to use Eri to rewind Nighteye to prevent him from dying? Nighteye was about to die and they had a girl who can rewind someone to their former state, make them younger or repair their injuries.

Why didn’t the heroes try to use Eri to rewind Nighteye to prevent him from dying?

There are multiple reasons behind this:

Quirk. As @Kerkhof & @ConMan said, she can't control her powers and could do more harm then good. We still don't know the extent of her quirk so she could turn in into a baby in 3 seconds if she loses control maybe.

Eri's state. After the fight with Chisaki, she is seen in a deep sleep/"coma" like state and they could do nothing to wake her up so she could'nt help even if she wanted to.

Time. We see in chapter 161 that Night-Eye dies moments after they are all rushed to the nearest hospital so even if Eri was conscious and healthy and even if they were able to find a way to use Eri's powers to help Night-Eye, it would've been a race against time and there were no assurances that they could do it.
Trauma: Everyone in knew how much Eri suffered. And how she blamed herself for everything. Seeing this people decided not to tell Eri about Night-Eye's Death. Because she is too small to understand/process all this. She might have even started hating herself or go berserk.(context: Anime)


Are the Cell juniors being alive from the manga bonus "special" drawn by Toyotaro supposed to be canon? So Toyotaro drew a Dragon Ball Super manga bonus "special" which he showed in the Jump Victory Carnival and where the Cell juniors killed in the Cell saga are supposed to be alive and living in 17's island. Is this supposed to be canon manga or promotional manga?

  .

This is canon.

   In the manga, After seemingly being killed by Gohan, the Cell Juniors managed to regenerate through their intact nuclei, and were tamed by Android 17 to defend Monster Island and not attack rangers.

Source


Why doesn't Kana's boss know about the Day of Flight? I'm currently rewatching Haibane Renmei. In episode 4, we see this exchange:

  Kana's employer: Hey, is Kana going away?

  Rakka: Oh, not at all. I didn't come to replace her. I'm just visiting everyone's workplace because I'm new. Kana loves it here. I can tell.

  Employer: I see. Well, with those wings of yours, they make me think she might just fly away on me one day.

  Rakka: They look fancy, but they don't actually work at all.

  Employer: I see. That's good, then.

It's quite clear from this exchange that Rakka does not know about the Day of Flight, which is probably to be expected, as she's a newcomer who does not learn about it until Kuu leaves.

However, what struck me as strange was that Kana's employer (who looks relatively older and who isn't a Haibane) seems to have no knowledge of it (as might be inferred from his question). It would appear that he is old enough to possibly have seen other Haibane disappear in the past. There are two obvious ways to explain this for me. However, I'm not sure if either of them is correct:

Beyond the trading that the Communicator does with the Toga, the normal townspeople don't have many personal interactions with the Haibane, so they wouldn't notice if one disappeared one day. The townspeople might have a basic understanding of how Haibane life works (so wouldn't be surprised to see the teenage Rakka appear as a "newborn" one day) particularly if they often interact with them, but they wouldn't be aware of the specifics.

However, given the limited number of places where Haibane can work (in episode 3), I'm not sure how true this is, since the people who work there would probably be slightly more familiar with things, even if the townspeople seem to outnumber the Haibane.
The Haibane are seen as somewhat separate: the employer earlier tells Kana:

  The clock tower in your home. Go repair that yourself. [...] We're not supposed to meddle too much in the Haibane's lives.

This might mean that the townspeople might not delve into the specifics of the Haibane's lives, and that the Haibane are responsible for themselves. However, this is more of a general statement than anything, as we see in episode 3 that the housemother isn't a Haibane. Moreover, this would only mean that the townspeople might not bother inquiring after the Haibane who have disappeared (even if they might not know why they've disappeared): it does not mean that they do not necessarily know that the Haibane -- or at least the Haibane outside of the Federation -- eventually "go away".

Is there a more satisfying explanation for Kana's employer's ignorance about the fact that the Haibane eventually "go away" than these? Or do I already have the best explanation we can get? (Again, I wouldn't expect him to know the exact specifics about the Day of Flight beyond that the Haibane eventually leave.) Alternatively, am I possibly just misinterpreting the exchange? (I could see the first line as implying that the boss does indeed have the Day of Flight in mind, but what he says afterwards seems slightly out of line with that.)

In episode 7, Reki states that she was despondent after Kuramori's disappearance. Nemu tried to cheer her up by doing research at the library to find an explanation for the disappearance. This explanation ends up being the "legend" about the Day of Flight at the library. Thus, information about the day of flight must be openly accessible.

In the same episode, Rakka tells the cafe owner that "Kuu has left us." In response, the cafe owner asks if Kuu has disappeared. After that is confirmed, he says, "But that's how you Haibane are, right?" Thus, Kana's employer is not an anomaly if he knows about the Day of Flight and other details about Haibane life. With the rest of the content in the exchange with Rakka then, it looks like Torisuda's suggestion (that the employer is aware of the Day of Flight on some level and simply didn't want to explain in detail) is relevant here. (After all, the details in his exchange seem too accurate for mere speculation.) It's still possible that he doesn't actually know, but what I'm trying to assert is that the scenario where he does isn't improbable at all.

However, it's worth noting that not all of the townspeople are familiar with Haibane life. In ep. 5, Sumika tells the presumably teenaged Rakka that she does not look like a newborn, despite being good friends with Nemu. Similarly, in ep. 8, a woman in the thrift store treats Rakka in a somewhat objectifying way, which might be grounds for assuming a lack of familiarity with the Haibane.

Thus, it must be then that the Haibane are "separate" enough that a number of people get by without ever having any meaningful interactions with them, while a small number do (and thus might be more familiar with Haibane life).


What are the scientific inspirations for Steins;Gate? You know how they mention the LHC and about how it could create mini black holes and stuff like the world-line ideas

Also how the 36-bytes limit works for a D-mail and the theories behind the time-leap machine. Where do you think they got that from?

The most unrealistic part of the time-leap machine is that they had to decompress that 36-byte message and put it back to one's head. And they just used a cellphone for that.

Regarding to compressing a huge amount of data to a 36-byte (288-bit) message - yes, it's totally possible. However there should be a decompressor which would also use a huge amount of data.

Using a black hole for "compression"? It's a joke. Actual compression doesn't work like this. It's all about making tables or "dictionaries". Here's a simple algorithm which can compress any amount of data to a 1-byte message (sometimes it can not):

Compressor: replace "apple" with "1", "orange" with "2", anything else with "3:anything else".
Decompressor: replace "1" with "apple", "2" with "orange", message like "3:anything else" with anything else.

See? It can compress 5-byte and 6-byte messages to a 1-byte message!


Did Arataka Reigen retain or unlock some psychic powers? At the end of the first season, Mob lent his powers to Arataka Reigen and after that he's able to see Dimple. Before when Mob's brother started to see Dimple, Dimple said this was because he was about to unlock his psychic powers. Did Arataka Reigen retain or unlock some psychic powers after Mob lent his powers to him?

As far as I know, not really.

At the end of episode 12 of season 1, Reigen says that the only thing he gained from that experience was the ability to see Dimple now, and that aside from that, not much has changed.


How can Hitoe touch Ruuko? During the events of Selector Infected Wixoss, it is revealed that when a Selector loses 3 battles...

   her wish is reversed. Hitoe, who wished to make friends, would therefore be unable to touch any potential or current friend without suffering from intense pain. She would also be unable to remember her friends or read any diary entry about them.

Interestingly, the very first episode of Selector Spread Wixoss shows Hitoe touching Ruuko without showing any signs of pain.

How is that possible?

It is likely that by obtaining a new deck containing an LRIG, the mental effects of losing three battles are not an issue anymore.

This is based on the reasoning that Akira was physically scarred, with her mental scarring coming from the physical and Ulith, whereas Hitoe was mentally scarred - it is also possible (this, by the way, is just an assumption) that her pain was not actually real, and only something her mind created. Knowing Mari Okada's work, this could be quite possible.

Assuming it is a physical issue, she did recognise that she had friends before, as well, and remembering that Yuzuki and Ruko were her friends may have broken the barrier that stopped them from becoming so when Akira beat her in the first season.


Why does Okita Souji did not appear? When Kenshin Himura arrives ten years ago after the Revolution, Basically, Okita Sōji  suffered from tuberculosis, as seen when he fought Kenshin in a flashback as well as in Trust and Betrayal, though he was still able to hold his own with the Battōsai. After that, Okita Sōji didn't appeared his character both Manga and Anime, is he already died before kenshin arrives in tokyo 10 years ago?

Okita Souji is an extremely well-known and well-liked historical figure in the minds of Japanese people, who generally know that he died of tuberculosis at about age 25.
He died on July 19, 1868.  The Meiji era started on September 8, 1868. In Rurouni Kenshin, Kenshin arrives in Tokyo in 1878.

In the same way that a historical fiction about Abraham Lincoln doesn't need to explicitly include the fact that Lincoln was assassinated since everyone already knows that, Watsuki-sensei did not need to give this detail about the timing of Okita's death within the series itself because the average Japanese person knows he was already dead long before Kenshin arrives in Tokyo.


Please help me identify this show about a time-travel romance similar to The Girl who Leapt Through Time. The show I am trying to identify shares some characteristics with The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, namely the elements of time travel and romance. The plot of the show that I am trying to identify involved a girl who was in love with a boy in her class. One day, she overheard the boy jokingly say to his friends that he preferred older women. The girl, not realizing this statement was a joke, somehow goes back in time in her current form, and subsequently, the rest of the world's people are a few years younger.

When the girl finds the boy's whereabouts, she realizes that he does not recognize her, in fact, the boy cannot sense her presence at all, if I recall correctly. She realizes that she has become a mere observer of the world of a few years past. Years pass, and it is revealed that the boy is still interested in pursuing a relationship with the girl, but is not aware of her whereabouts. I think, after high school, he goes abroad to study. The girl is unable to communicate to the boy that she is the person he is searching for, for the fear that the rift in space-time caused by her attempting to interact with the past world will destroy her, and thus, becomes heart-broken. She leads a sad, regretful life, never getting the chance to tell the boy her feelings for him.

The music video you mistook for an anime is called Owari no Sekai Kara, written by Maeda Jun and sung by Yanagi Nagi. Here is a page with the lyrics.


What is the "secret of this world" that the mysterious letters to Rin refer to? In various episodes, Rin receives mysterious letters attached to Lennon (レノン), a white kitten, offering to reveal the "secret" of this world, in return for completing certain tasks.

Who is sending these letters?

What is the "secret" these letters are referring to?

I haven't played the visual novel for a long time (8-10 months) but I'll try to answer as precisely as I can.

This "secret of the world" is the key of the anime/visual novel as you may already have noticed.

Warning, spoilers below

The secret of the world is revealed during Refrain in the visual novel, which is unlocked once you have completed all the other routes (including Rin2, which is basically Rin's route with a choice you can only choose when all the others routes (excluding Refrain of course) are completed, i.e {Komari, Kud, Kurugaya, Haruka, Mio, Rin1} in whatever order, then Rin2, and finally Refrain.

In refrain,

   you play as Riki who tries to gather Little Busters! "core" members (Rin, Masato, Kengo, Kyousuke) as when they were children to discover finally what the "secret of the world" you've heard of is about. In the last scene of Refrain, Kyousuke reveals that during the class trip, the car in which the Little Busters! members were fell from a cliff and as Riki and Rin were not ready to continue their life alone (they were protected by Kengo and Masato), the other members created an "artificial world" that is basically the first semester repeating again and again, freezing the "real world" in which they are all severely injured. Once Riki and Rin are strong enough to continue their life, the world that was created will disappear, with all the members disappearing one by one until they are the only ones left (you can search "Refrain last scene" on Youtube to see what it looks like). Of course it's Key so you'll get a happy end where Riki and Rin will do a good job and save all of them later.

To answer your second question, although I think you've already guessed it if you read the spoiler above, the culprit is

  Kyousuke ; Riki will see him attaching a letter to Lennon's tail, but I'm not sure when exactly, it was during Rin2 or Refrain

Hope that'll answer your questions :)


Is no one looking for Kaneki? In Tokyo Ghoul, during episode 1, Kaneki turns into a half-ghoul, and he is forced to abandon his old life, sans his good buddy Hide, though they do spend less time together.

However, we barely even get a glimpse of Kaneki's home life. We see him briefly in what appears to be an apartment or small home, but without roommates or family.

I think Kaneki is around 18, so it's possible he lives alone, but surely someone took care of him long enough to wonder where he is.

Why does no one seem to be looking for him?

In episode 12 of the anime, it is explained in detail.

His dad died before he was old enough to form memories
His mom died from "overwork" trying to support Kaneki and her younger sister
His aunt (which took advantage of his mom) is obviously not the responsible type

As far as the anime goes, Kaneki does not have any other family. As a result, anyone that would care for him is dead, so they can't go looking for him, and his aunt doesn't care about him, so she would not look for him.


Can we say the human race won The Great War in No Game No Life: Zero or Tet won? In the movie, the human race really tried so hard so that they can win the war but in the final moment, Riku finally summon the Star Cup but unfortunately his both arm were blast off... and then Tet finally show up and give a hand to Riku.

After that, Tet use his power to repair the whole world and made the world calm down for awhile. So basically it was Tet power that made the world peace for awhile but isn't the human race actually contribute more than Tet right?

If Riku didn't plan this, Tet wouldn't come out and help the human race right?

The main aim of Riku was to end the Great War so that they can live in peace. So basically the win condition is achieved at the end of the movie. Thus we can say that the human race won the war because:

Peace achieved.
Human race recognized (as exceed) and given the name Imanity by Tet.

Bonus:

There is a very hot debate about how Riku died and it's not %100 clear. Some even say "Riku actually become Deus before dying and created Tet unconsciously". However, it's pretty obvious that Riku didn't plan anything related to Tet. That's is why there is no clear answer to the question "who".


Why was Ueda Ryouhei appointed the head of the Yoshioka clan and not Seijuurou's son? I am reading the manga Vagabond. After the death of Yoshioka Denshichirou, someone named Ueda Ryouhei is appointed as the head of the family. Ryouhei then makes a decision that the school should fight Musashi near Ichijou-ji Temple outside Kyoto.

But according to an answer on History Stack Exchange, it was the 12-year-old son of Seijuurou's, Yoshioka Matashichiro, doing this. Is Ueda Ryuhei a fictional character that has replaced Yoshioka Matashichiro? If so, why did the author not show Yoshioka Matashichiro in his comic?

Vagabond is a fictionalized interpretation of Musashi's life adapted from Eiji Yoshikawa's Musashi. The novel is a dramatization and not really historically accurate, even though many people have started to take Yoshikawa's book as historical due to it's popularity.

Now why was there no mention of Matashichiro, the youngest of the Yoshioka brothers? It's better (commercially) to not to mention the fact that Musashi killed a 12 year old boy.


Was this samurai the inspiration for the blind general's character in One Piece? This blind guy's attitude, facial expressions, and facial structure look very specifically like the blind samurai general in One Piece, who can lift mountains with his Devil Fruit powers. They even, from this short scene, have nearly identical personalities.

Did this movie character inspire the One Piece character, or is there no known relation?

The blind samurai you're referring to is Zatoichi, and the blind Admiral in One Piece is named Issho, aka Fujitora. And yes, as revealed in SBS Volume 74, Fujitora was inspired by Zatoichi, and particularly his portrayal by Japanese actor Shintaro Katsu. Both swordsmen share quite a few characteristics, such as their blindness, proficiency with a sword, or their love of gambling.


Did Kakashi ever love Rin or at least feel anything for her? Well like the question says, Did Kakashi ever love Rin or feel anything for her?

I'm wondering if Kakashi ever loved or at least liked Rin. I'm wondering this because he got the Mangekyou after he killed her. The Mangekyou is initially awakened by the trauma suffered from witnessing the death of someone close to the user. Meaning someone you love deeply.

Also in the flashbacks that either Minato, Kakashi, or Obito have it shows that Kakashi was never rude or mean to Rin. Every time Kakashi was mean to Obito, Rin always tried to make him go easy on him. Than Kakashi always replied nicely to her, calming down his tone and speech pattern.

   When the people from the Rain village captured Rin and made her into Isobu's, Three-Tails, jinchuriki Kakashi went to rescue her. After he rescued her they tried running away. At one moment Rin told Kakashi to kill her. He quickly denied saying he promised Obito he was going to protect her. Later on, he was going to kill an enemy with his Chidori Sadly she jumped in front of him killing herself and traumatizing Kakashi. This made Kakashi and Obito, who was watching them, awaken the Mangekyou Sharingan.

So my question is if Kakashi ever feels anything for Rin, either loves her or at least cared for her.

As you already mentioned in your question,

  Mangekyo is, indeed, initially awakened by the trauma suffered from witnessing the death of someone close to the user. However, Uchiha have historically misunderstood this criteria as the user needing to be responsible for the person's death, and for that reason they developed the practice of killing their closest friends in order to gain the Mangekyō Sharingan.

But, it depends upon each individual and the amount of trauma felt by him/her whether the Mangekyo is "completely" activated immediately, as in the case with Obito, or after some time, as with Sasuke and Kakashi.

Obito loved Rin deeply, and thus the trauma suffered by him, on watching her die, was catastrophic. Thus, he "completely" activated the Mangekyo immediately. Rin was not just a team-mate of Kakashi but also a dear friend to him who remained with both Obito and Kakashi since their childhood.  So Kakashi too had a good bonding and a feeling of friendship with Rin, but he did not love her in the way as Obito did. That's why, Kakashi too activated the Mangekyo at the time Obito did, although "momentarily", and also because of his Sharingan's resonance with Obito's Sharingan (as both the Sharingan belonged to Obito originally), as is shown in Episode No. 345 of Naruto Shippuuden:

After this scene, Kakashi loses his conciousness owing to the stress put upon him by the activation of Mangekyo. However, Obito goes on to kill the Amegakure Shinobi (Ninja of the Rain village) because of his drive of emotions deeply centred around Rin, and his complete activation of Magekyo.

Thus, you can say that Kakashi had feelings of friendship towards Rin, but not the same as the feelings of love that Obito had.


Which heroes in One Punch Man defeated dragon-level monsters? Aside from Saitama, which other heroes defeated dragon-level monsters in One Punch Man?

Bang defeated

   Melzargard.

Child Emperor defeated

   Phoenix Man.

Other than that, Saitama defeated

   some of the villains here.


How is it possible for Obito to have his right Sharingan intact? When we see the old Madara talking to Obito after he was found, we can see that his right part of the body is destroyed and replaced with that artificial, Hashirama cells included "body", and we can also see that his face is in a pretty bad shape, too, but he's got his right Sharingan. How it happened, that his right eye came out harmless after that incident?

There's no actual reason given. It was stated that "Madara managed to save his eye".

It was also half-implied that his Mangekyo was awakened for a brief moment and allowed him to slip through the rocks (Madara said something similar to that when Obito awoke for the first time).


Who were the people in Asuna's flashback in episode 18? In the episode 18 of SAO II, there was a flashback of Asuna's trip to Kyoto. In it, she's seen talking to some guys. She declines that this is an arranged marriage, but there was no mention of who they were or what it was about.

Who were these people? Is this going to be significant to the story in any way?

Please remember to use spoiler tags when necessary.

Possible spoilers for future episodes:

   Well, in the light novel, Asuna's mum keeps on trying to arrange her a marriage (yes, even after the Sugou incident) to a rich guy, and not someone like Kazuto. She wants Asuna to be the high class girl she was born as, and to stay that way.

 So those were probably the random rich guys her mum wanted to introduce, there was also a scene where she was talking at a table... that might have been her cousin that her mum also tried setting her up with.

 But it's alright, Asuna ends up showing her mum her log cabin on ALO, and it happens to look like the home her mum had lived in as a child (as the mum was born to a middle class family), blah blah blah, emotional moment, Asuna's mum relents and tells Asuna to try her hardest to get the person she loves, and she readily agrees.

 And Asuna x Kirito fans lived happily ever after.


What anime is this blonde girl wearing a purple dress from? I have no idea who this is but the pic is awesome. Could anyone tell me who this is and where she is from?

That's Histoire from Hyper Dimension Neptunia (the game). This particular picture is from Mk 2 when she's reminiscing about the past with the Mascots after all the CPUs have been freed.

In the original game, she's the Tome that allows the world to be changed, but Arfoire (pronounced as "R-4") locked her away. In Mk 2, she is the Oracle of Planeptune and the one who sends IF and Compa to rescue the CPUs and Nepgear with the shareacite; however, there's only enough power to free Napgear.

She's also in V; however, I have yet to play that. In it, she's a child as most of V is set in an alternate past.


A Japanese manga about a magical door, a girl, and her father? I've been looking for a Japanese manga for a while. I can't seem to remember the title.

It's about a girl and her father who traveled to places via a magical door.

One of the stories is about a girl who didn't like vegetables and went to a world without vegetables through the magic door.

Another story is about a girl who was not satisfied with her appearance and obtained a knife which can change her face and body. However, she overused it and her face became scary.

Please please please let me know. Really appreciate your help. Thanks :)

Sounds like Another Door - Isekai Kaikitan.

  It's about a girl and her father who traveled to places via a magical door.

Yes, the girl and her father were on a journey to learn more about human behaviour. They approached humans in trouble, and offered them the "Door" which would lead them to the world they wanted or their ideal world where their troubles would be resolved. What lied beyond the door was different for each person.

  1) One of the stories is about a girl who didn't like vegetables and went to a world without vegetables through the magic door.

  2) Another story is about a girl who was not satisfied with her appearance and obtained a knife which can change her face and body. However, she overused it and her face became scary.

Yes, I remember this two stories were indeed in the manga, since I've read the manga multiple times (one of my relatives had a copy). I also cross-checked with my sibling, and she remembered it too. Below is the more detailed version of the two stories you remembered:

   1) What lied beyond the door was a world without vegetables where people only ate sweets. Eventually, her body weakened, because people from 'this' world needed more than sweets to keep their health. In the end, she realized how important vegetables were for her body, and she went back to 'this' world.

 2) What lied behind the door was an operation room to make her beautiful. The girl stole the knife and operated herself, thus didn't need to open the door anymore. As she became more and more beautiful, she entered the entertainment world. In the end, in a photo shoot (I forgot the exact context, but her image would be taken with camera), when she tried to smile, her mouth tore in both side, making her look like Kuchisake Onna/Slit-Mouthed Woman.

According to the link I gave above, no chapter was ever scanlated.