How are mangaka affected by Golden Week? This week, I was talking to friends and congratulating them for having Golden Week, but it turns out that despite it being Golden Week, they have to work their asses off even more than usual, just because it is Golden Week. So it made me wonder what kind of holiday it is and why some (eg: Manga writers) can take a break, while others cannot. What is celebrated on Golden Week and by whom?

Alright! This is one question I have asked before and I will give the perspective for manga artists and such.

Golden Week is a week at the end of April and beginning of May. This week has a series of many national holidays strung together.
April 29, May 1 (Mayday), 3 (Memorial Day), 5 (Children's Day) are all holidays. In the previous decade it made no sense for the factory workers to start and stop the plant every alternate day and so the week was announced as Golden Week and observed as holiday.
However the normal offices usually keep the days which are not holidays as working days.
For manga writers, this is not a real holiday as deadlines do not take into account this Golden Week.
Also during this period all the leisure activities spike up. The film industry gets huge revenues during this period and makes major releases during this period (I am from India, people do the same for big festivals here too :D). So manga being a top entertainment source, I assume the mangaka have to work hard to keep deadlines in this week.
So for budding mangakas, this is a crucial time as most new mangas and a whole bunch of releases happen at the same time.

Some fun facts:

It seems that this time of the year is very pleasant and along summer. So people use this as their vacation period and travel a lot.
Even though offices observe working days in between the Golden Week, employees usually use their PTO (aka vacation days) and take the whole week off.
Golden Week is another holiday observed in China, but it's completely different and started in 2000.

SOURCE: Baku-man for giving insight into mangaka's life, my brain for storing some of the info, and google :D


Would it be possible for this Titan Shifter to survive from decapitation? Major Spoilers Below. You have been warned.

So apparently in the latest chapter, Chapter 119,

   Eren's head just got blown off with a sniper rifle by Gabi.

Given everything that was presented about Titan shifters in the manga, would it be possible for him to survive despite this? I have an answer below but I'd also like to know what other people think or if I somehow missed something from the manga.

Throughout the manga, there have been instances where Titan shifters were able to survive fatal wounds.

Reiner, for example, in Chapter 78, survived even though half his head was blown off by transferring his consciousness to the nervous system of his titan's body.

Zeke, in Chapter 113, survived a direct explosion from a thunder spear, albeit he was severely wounded.

With, this there is a chance that

   Eren may still survive.

I think it's safe to say that it's highly unlikely he used something similar to Reiner. Why?

As far as I know, it was never shown that he has a similar ability to Reiner who can transfer his consciousness to his titan. Also, at that time,

   he was focused on running towards Zeke so I doubt he had time to transfer his consciousness somewhere (to his nervous system, for example), if that's even possible.

There is still regeneration to count on, even if there was no precedent or no known account in the manga where a titan shifter survived after his whole head was separated or blown off from his body, apart from what happened to Reiner. We also know that in Chapter 103, regeneration kicks in as long as the user has the will to live.

With this, I think that titan shifters can survive even fatal wounds like decapitation due to their innate ability of regeneration, so long as they have the will to live. Although the possibility of this being fatal to them cannot be ignored too since there's no precedent presented in the manga yet.


Can I find these details about Android #17 in any manga or spin-off anime? I just found out that Android #17 became a park ranger after the events of cell games. He is also said to be married to a zoologist and have a few kids. He also went to meet Krillin and Android #18 for one time.

So are these details are available in any spin-off manga or spin-off anime?

Android #17 is seen as a Park Ranger in an episode of the Buu Saga, when Goku was making the Genki Dama to defeat Buu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nadz-fsWYsU

Edit: 13/04/2017 . Now they are also revealed in Dragon Ball Super


Did Vegeta ever talk about the super saiyan 5 in Dragon Ball GT? In this video Vegeta talks about super saiyan 5 in Spanish Vegeta says

Kakaroto, miserable, you can turn into super saiyan 4 or super saiyan
5, do what you want, I dont intend to stay with my arms folded

Did he say the same in the japanese version, or was this an invention of the spanish or western translations?
Did Vegeta ever talk about the super saiyan 5 in Dragon Ball GT?

Sorry for the short answer, no, Vegeta didn't talk about Super Saiyan 5


Did Hinata really confess to Naruto? When Naruto and Hinata were fighting Pain in Konoha, did Naruto hear Hinata's confession or was it just in Hinata's mind?

You can look up in Manga chapter 437, page 12, where Hinata has her own Crowning Moment Of Awesome.

Yes he did ;)


What is the point of cutting the same manga panel in two? This is hard to put in words so let me illustrate (these are excerpts from two separate mangas):

What do these cuts accomplish? Usually in comics each panel shows a different scene.

The primary reason for doing this was to draw the reader's eye up towards the sky, towards the billboard. A side-effect is that it also looks more visually interesting than a single unbroken scene would have. The blank space between the panels gives your brain something to do, as it mentally fills in the gap.

So, we can assume this is done in order to make the manga more visually appealing and interesting to look at. Other times, this could be a random or artistic choice.
(source)


Are the scenes in the opening theme content from later episodes? The episode 629 of One Piece is out with a new opening theme. The opening shows scenes from dressrosa arc ( which I have read in manga ) which will be covered in the future episodes ( in the range of 30-40 future episodes ).

Are these episodes have already been produced and scenes cut from these episodes are used in the opening or are these short scenes are made just for the opening theme?

If future episodes are produced before hand then roughly how many episodes are produced in advance?

Typically the OP and ED are handled separately (sometimes by different studio). The studio/team that created the OP/ED are usually credited.

The animated content in the OP and ED are usually done exclusively for their respective themes. Sometimes you'll notice stylistic differences between the animated content of the OP/ED and that of the actual show.

When anime is localized sometimes the licensor doesn't have access tp (or chooses not to pay for) the original creditless OP/ED themes so they remix the opening and add their own soundtracks to it. Sometimes to better fit their target audience (in regards to the language) and probably at same time not have to pay to license the songs and/or edited to fit within their broadcasting lot (i.e. more commercial time).


What is this manga with Naruto, Luffy, Goku and Ichigo as characters? I recently found this on the internet they say its gonna replace naruto since naruto shippuden ended , Can any one tell me the name is this boy or anime title ?

He's Midoriya Izuku from new manga Boku no Hero Academia

The beginning of the story is kinda like Naruto but set in the modern day school with bunch of people with special powers, but this boy has no special power.


Who taught Tsunade her medical jutsu? The greatest medical ninja should have learned it somewhere.

  Tsunade's skills extend beyond the typical medical ninjutsu. She earned fame during the Second Shinobi World War for being the only person able to make antidotes for the poisons of Sunagakure's Chiyo. Similarly, she can make sleeping potions that are undetectable to even the most skilled ninja. She is knowledgeable enough to perform autopsies and examine damage on a cellular level.

Source from Narutopedia.

There's no background information explaining how Tsunade became a medical-nin or how she learned medical ninjutsu. She didn't have a medical specialist mentor. Maybe she did have one, but there's no source or background information to prove it.

There is a possibility that she learned medical ninjutsu all by herself, as she often read other clans' medical books to solve particular problems.


Do real-life schools have maid cafes at their school festivals? In anime and manga where the setting is a school, there often is a school festival event. In such events, many would feature the students running a maid cafe - for example, Hanasaku Iroha.

Does this also often happen in real life? Do students in Japan also make maid cafes for their school festivals?

Here are some data points, none of which I can verify the veracity of.

According to a user on chiebukuro, some class at his school ran a crossdressing cafe, and some of the boys who would look decent in a maid uniform were put in a maid uniform.
In this chiebukuro question, one user reports that they will be running a maid cafe at their school festival, and another user reports that she and the rest of the girls in her class dressed as maids for her class' cosplay cafe.
This thread (beware: Japanese blogcancer) contains posters reporting that they had run maid cafes at their school festivals; some of those posters report having attended boys' schools.
In this Twitter conversation, the replying user reports having done a crossdressing cafe where all the boys dressed as maids.
Over here, one writer indicates that they have never actually seen a maid cafe being run at a school festival, but would not be surprised to come across one.

My conclusion: school festival maid cafes exist, but they appear to be quite rare. School festival maid cafes clearly show up more often in anime than in real life. (Unsurprisingly - you can dress cute anime girls up in maid outfits and they can't complain; real life people not so much.)

I do not have enough information to address the question of chronology - that is, which came first? Anime school festival maid cafes, or real-life ones? While it is well-established that maid cafes were first observed in real-life Akihabara (c. 2001), I don't know whether they propagated from there to otaku media, and then from otaku media to real high schools, or whether high schoolers replicated Akihabara's maid cafes in real life, and otaku media then picked up on them. My gut-feel is that the former is more likely, but either explanation seems plausible.


Who is the yellow-haired character in opening of Midnight Occult Civil Servants? I recently watched the series Midnight Occult Civil Servants (Mayonaka no Okaruto) on Crunchyroll.  The opening includes several seconds of a yellow-haired character who did not appear in the anime.

You can see sort of a ribbon of sand floating at his eye line.  The main character, a reincarnated high spiritual power human with red hair, has a gift to understand and speak in Yokai languages, called Ears of Sand.  My guess is the yellow- and red-haired guys are somehow related.  My guess is that the yellow-haired dude is from further in the manga than the anime goes.  Who is he?

Haven't watched the anime but taking a look at the art from the manga volume covers, to me it looks like an artistic preference in the color used in the opening scene rather than a new character.

Here's a comparison of the anime and the manga covers:

This is especially noticeable in Volume 3's cover. There's no green-haired character yet the cover art and the opening sequence also features the characters with green hairs and an overall color of green (not sure what term this is called in art). This leads to me to conclude that the opening scene you see was probably trying to copy the volume's majority of one color in the art in the scenes it portrays.

That said, I think that's the red-haired guy, Miyako Arata, if I'm correct.


Is there any way to kill Alucard? I'm pretty sure that people have tried every way possible to try it, but still he remained alive and kicking.

In Hellsing Ultimate: Episode 2, when Luke Valentine says he will prove that Alucard's immortality is a myth, Alucard replies that there is no such thing as immortality.

I did not really understand whether there are any limits to his so-called immortality, or maybe nobody knew whether there were any? Is there a way to permanently 'kill' Alucard?

After the final episode, when Alucard returns after consuming Schrodinger and killing every other soul in his consciousness, he is, as described by Schrodinger, everywhere and nowhere, both alive and dead but at the same time neither. He can exist wherever he wishes, and thus theoretically speaking, he could exist inter-dimensionally, as well physically and consciously, implying that no, he cannot ever be killed. He will exist forever.


Will Made In Abyss season two feature the same producer as OST? With many people highly recommending (Crunchyroll Anime Award-winning) the anime soundtrack alongside the song 'Tomorrow' receiving over 4.2 million plays on YouTube, do we know if Kevin Penkin has been announced as the producer for season two?

Based off this tweet by Kevin Penkin himself from the 8th of August, I would say yes.

  When you @miabyss_anime recording session becomes Accidental Renaissance Art.


What is the song Muse performs on the rooftop of A-rise's school? What is the song Muse performs on the rooftop of A-rise's school?

It was to qualify for the idol tournament, I think, and they wore blue dresses.

The song they perform in season 2 episode 3 on top of A-RISE's school is "Yume no Tobira".


Does the Parappa the Rapper anime actually have any rapping? I watched the Parappa the Rapper anime several years ago, given that it was one of my favorite video games. However, I quickly discovered a fatal flaw: there was no actual rapping!! The producers instead decided to make it a children's show. How do you make an anime about a rapping dog with no actual rapping?!

I only watched a few episodes before I dropped it. But if there actually is some rapping somewhere in the show, it would at least be worth my time to watch that. Does Parappa (or anyone else) rap at any point in the series?

The anime is about Parappa, not about rapping. So there's no really rapping, if I remember correctly.


Who is Araragi supposed to look like in this scene? I'm watching one of the Monogatari episodes - Mayoi Jiangshi 2 (Second Season episode 8).

In this scene the style Araragi is drawn with changes radically, as does his hairstyle.

The fact that the bloody eyes and seemingly explosive hair look so distinctive makes me feel like I'm missing a reference here.

This could possibly be a reference to the very obscure series The Soul Taker. The main character, Kyousuke Date, cried blood in few episodes. Here's a picture of him:

It's not an exact match, but Akiyuki Shinbo, the director of The Soul Taker, also worked on the Monogatari series, which made me think of this. (Source.)


How did Naruto call Shikamaru and the others during Obito's fight? Alert: This post contains spoilers. If you are not up-to-date to Naruto's manga, don't read it.

At chapter 651 of Naruto's manga, during the fight against Obito, Naruto called Shikamaru, Lee, Ino, Kiba and the others to join the fight and help him:

But what kind of jutsu did Naruto use to call them? Is he using the abilities of Yamanaka's clan or his own Kyuubi's chakra has this kind of power too?

I think the answer can be the combination of the two:

Mind Body Transmission Technique from Yamanaka
And Naruto's Chakra present to them.

My theory is that Ino consistently connecting them using her Mind Body Transmission Technique from the start. And since they have Naruto's chakra, they even share the feeling not just the picture (or the message) they want to convey to everyone. Also I remember on Chapter 645, Naruto is in combined Sage and Kyubbi mode. Naruto's Biju mode is so powerful that he can sense the "dark feeling/hatred" from something or someone.


Is Garp the only Vice Admiral to have a customized ship? After watching One Piece for about 500 episodes I noticed that I have only seen Garp with a customized naval ship. The theme of his ship is a dog theme like the mask he was seen wearing early on in the series. I was wondering if there are any other personnel within the Navy that have a customized ship instead of the standard design. (Canon only)

Garp's Ship:

So far this is the only ship which has been shown to be customized to have the customized figurehead of the dog.

  It first appeared in Chapter 91 and Episode 68. It was last seen parked outside Dawn Island, but since Garp resigned from the Marines, it is unknown if he still has access to the ship.

Hina's ship on the other hand is a similar to a normal Marine Ship, albeit with an unusual coloring. It first appeared in Chapter 171 and Episode 127.

Source: One Piece Wikia: Marine Ships


Where can I watch My Hero Academia Season 3 for free? I'm looking for a legal streaming site where I can watch the whole My Hero Academia series for free. But for now, season 3 is enough.
Edit: I'm from India.

you can find all 4 current Seasons on Crunchy Roll. I believe they are all English Subbed however only checked one episode of Season 3.

Be aware that Crunchy Roll does employ Geoblocking on some series. i am in Australia, not using a VPN and am not being blocked so availability might depend on where you are and current licencing agreements


Was the Blood from Gara's Sand Coffin always black? in Episode 34, "Akamaru Trembles: Gaara's Cruel Strength!", when Gara goes to use his Sand Coffin Justu the blood that explodes out is shown to be black

when i first saw this i figured this is a censored episode as some versions of Naruto censor out the blood (ie. coughing up blood ends up being coughing up saliva). but then in Episode 50, "The Fifth Gate: A Splendid Ninja is Born" when Gara goes to use Sand Coffin on Lee's Arm and Leg, Shikamaru recognises the Jutsu and we see a flash back of Gara using Sand Coffin in the Forest of Death (a repeat of the scene from the 1st screenshot), but when Lee's will make him get up to continue fighting, we see his arm and leg covered in blood

so was blood from Gara's Sand Coffin always black in the anime? as in any version of the anime, subbed, dubbed, 4kids, original japanese version. if it was always meant to be black (and not censored) why is the blood black?

Yes, the blood was always black, so inside your red blood cells there is oxygen, so when the blood cells die they release oxygen and the oxygen makes that blood a dark red that looks black.


Does Aqua wear panties? The goddess Aqua, who meets Kazuma after his terrible death.
The question is, does Aqua wear panties?

If there is, G-strings, the very tight ones? Is there any mentions about these in the novel?

Yes, Aqua does wear panties.

In the first volume of the light novel her panties are shown, in all of their striped glory.


What's the meaning behind S.A.D. and Smiles? From the Punk Hazard arc, we have learned that Vegapunk had created a unique substance called S.A.D., which is one of the few things needed to create Smiles, artificial Zoan Devil Fruits.

So basically we have (a joker) using sadness to create smiles. I doubt Oda named both objects that way accidentally. So does anybody know if Oda has ever mentioned what the symbolism is behind S.A.D and Smiles?

The substance is just "SAD" not "S.A.D". Considering that Caesar Clown is the only person in the world who knows how to manufacture it, and he uses it to create artificial fruits that he calls "smiles", it was just an appropriate name to fit into the theme. Clown, smiles, sad, etc.


Where do I pick up from after finishing the Deltora Quest anime? I think that I am not the only one that watched Deltora Quest anime (or should we say TV Show, doesn't matter).

I watched it once, a long time ago, on TV, when I didn't have internet. It was a lot of fun and holds a lot of memories.

The thing is, I watched it again around year ago, and I almost cried of happiness when I saw that's line of books, and there's a lot more to it.

Where can I read those books online ? I want to know what happened after the TV show. Any help ?

The first 8 books were adapted into a 52+13 episode series by OLM.

Please note that the 13 episodes after the 52 episodes are original and not part of the original novels.

The Deltora Shadowlands (3 books) and Dragons of Deltora (4 books) series are where you can continue from. Depending on your location, you may order them from online book distributors (in physical or e-book format) or see if they are available in your local library in electronic format.


Code Geass season 1 episode 7, there is a song playing at 16:56 In Code Geass season 1 episode 7, there is a song playing at 16:56. I can't find the song no matter where I look.

It's "Stream of Consciousness" (track 4 from the first OST). Here is a thirty-second extract from the beginning of the track: https://clyp.it/qupf3tgv.


Has there been a anime that used its OP as ED and/or vice versa? Running along the list of unanswered questions, I came along the question about different EDs each episode. And I wondered, has there been an anime that actually switched its OP and ED during the runtime of the show? And if so, which one(s) would that be?

This is not uncommon - a number of shows will have a first episode with no song at the beginning, and with the OP at the end of the episode. I'll pull in some examples of this later.

There are also somewhat more unusual cases like Madoka (as Memor-X points out in the comments), in which "Connect" (usually the opening) was used as the ending song in episode 10.

But, for a particularly amusing example of this, look at Hanamonogatari. In the Monogatari series, OPs are always sung by the voice actors, and EDs are sung by other singers. Hanamonogatari's OP was "the last day of my adolescence" (by Kanbaru Suruga / Sawashiro Miyuki), and the ED was "Hanaato -shirushi-" (by Kawano Marina).

Since Hanamonogatari was broadcast as a continuous ~2-hour long special, the OP and ED each only ran once - but the ED was played at the beginning, and the OP was played at the end! Imagine that!

(I think this is because the OP visuals and lyrics are spoilery for Hanamonogatari, whereas the ED visuals/lyrics aren't? But I'm not sure about that.)


How did Light went unnoticed by his dad? When Light's father was in deathbed, he looked at Light and confirmed that Light wasn't Kira by his Shinigami eyes since he was able to see his death date.

The only way his death date can become visible is if he doesn't have ownership of a death note with him at the current moment. If Light did not have any deathnote with him at that point, how he was able to keep his memory? And if he had a death note with him, why was his death date visible to his father?

it was because Light didn't own the Death Note that was on his body, concealed by his clothing.

When the Kira Task Force got the Death Note from the New Kira in the Yotsuba Group, when Light touched the Death Note his memories returned however Kyosuke Higuchi was still alive and had ownership of the Death Note. with his restored memories Light remembered the details of his plan and used the scrap of the Death Note in his watch to kill him

  Light also touches the Death Note while inspecting it, thereby regaining his memories of being the real Kira. Light then uses a Death Note scrap hidden in his watch to kill Higuchi.

Source: Kyosuke Higuchi - Appearance (last paragraph)

as he was holding the Death Note when Higuchi died Light became it's owner. After this Light gave up ownership of the Death Note but kept it on his body so he could retain his memories

  Soichiro makes the Shinigami Eye Deal with Ryuk, allowing him to gain the Shinigami Eyes. Using the eyes, he is able to learn Mello's real name, though he is fatally wounded by Jose, one of Mello's gang members, and their bomb. Because Light has given up his Death Note to make his lifespan is visible while keeping one on him to prevent his memories from being erased, Soichiro dies happily believing that Light is not Kira.

Source: Soichiro Yagami - Plot (2nd Paragraph)

So for one to have their memories from their ownership of a Death Note they don't need to be the book's owner, they just need to be physically touching it.


How many of the members of the 104th corps are titan shifters? So far

   Eren, Annie, and Ymir

have been shown to be titan shifters. From an Attack on Titan wikia I know also

   Reiner and Bertolt are also titan shifters

How many more are known to be titan shifters from the manga? Are there more titan shifters than humans in that division?

Those are the only ones inside the walls.

   there are nine titan powers, Eren currently possesses the attack titan and the founder titan, Reiner has the armored titan, Berthold has the colossal titan and I don't know what is Ymis's titan. there is also a beast titan power that is in the Marleys hands and is said to possess the ability to change regular Eldians into mindless titans using his spinal fluid and then the beast titan is able to control them. and also Anne had the female titan and is now crystallized.


How do saiyans get the evil saiyan form? Cumber and Turles in Dragon Ball Heroes are able to get an "evil saiyan" form with a red aura.

What do saiyans have to do to get this form?

The Evil Super Saiyan form is a level of Super Saiyan is a form used by Saiyans who's hearts have been tainted by darkness. Any Saiyan to achieve this form immediantly gains access to its other five levels. The first known Saiyan to achieve this form of Super Saiyan was Turles
The form increases a Saiyan's power by five times as much as the regular Super Saiyan form would. This goes for the other levels of Evil Super Saiyan as well. (For example, if one were to use Evil Super Saiyan 2, it would increase the user's power by fives times that of a regular Super Saiyan 2.)
Credits : https://ultradragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Evil_Super_Saiyan


What are the other # Areas of the Holy Empire of Britannia? At the start of Code Geass Japan has just been conquered by Britannia and renamed Area 11. After Prince Clovis's death we are introduced to Princess Cornelia, learning that her Knights had just established another Area for the Empire (I do not remember the number) before leaving to take Clovis's place in Area 11.

I am wondering what each of the Areas are (ie. Area 11 is Japan), if they were conquered in the order they are numbered and if they were all also conquered while Charles Zi Britannia was Emperor.

An Area is a nation or group of nations that has been conquered by
  Britannia and made into a colony. Each Area is designated with a
  number, and its people are referred to by that number.

...

  Areas are numbered in order of conquest, though only a handful are mentioned by
  name

United States - Disputed (considering the timeline, the United
States doesn't exist in this world) In addition, Britannians make
several mentions to the "Homeland" suggesting that there's a part of
their empire that isn't an Area. Since the original colonies that
Britannian nobles fled to after losing Great Britain were in North
America, it would make sense that at least part of the United States
as well as possibly part of Canada, would be the "Homeland".
Canada and Queen Elizabeth Islands
Mexico
Greenland
Iceland
South America
Hawaii and Midway Atoll
Falkland Islands
New Zealand
Indochina - Disputed (Indochina is shown as a territory of the
 Chinese Federation)
Japan
Philippines
Cambodia - Disputed (While Britannia seems to have connections with
 Cambodia, it was never called an Area) In addition, Cambodia is
 considered a part of Indochina.
Papua New Guinea
Southern Pacific Islands
Korean Peninsula - Disputed (Shown as a territory of the Chinese
 Federation)
Indonesia - Disputed (shown as a territory of the Chinese
 Federation, especially taking part of the uprising)
Middle Eastern Federation
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Spain

Source


Would Misa get back her Shinigami Eyes? So I was watching Death Note, and at a certain point Misa loses her Death Note, her memories, and her eyes.  What would happen, if she gets her Death Note back for some reason? - would her shinigami eyes come back?

No she doesn't, this is show later in the series which going by how the question is worded, indicates that the evidence to this would be a spoiler.

 in Episode 24 when she retrieves the Death Note that Light buried as apart of his grand plan to exonerate Himself, Misa (to save himself from Rem) and to kill L.

 After Misa recovers the book her memories return, however she had forgotten L's real name which she saw back when she was at University with Light and L and so makes the eye deal again

 "After the Task Force says goodbye to Misa, Light orders Misa to recover the other Death Note he had hidden and buried at a particular site a few months earlier. Misa goes to the site and regains her memories, while also finding a slip to write down the true name of "Hideki Ryuga," only for her to have forgotten (later revealed to have also been planned). Returning from the Shinigami Realm, Ryuk greets Misa, who makes a second deal for the Shinigami Eyes in order to find out L's true identity (and also trading a human apple for a Shinigami one, which Misa finds sandy). Misa and Ryuk then return to the headquarters and reunite with Light out front, where Rem notices via a security camera that Misa has again halved her life, and now has less than a month to live."

 Source: Revival > Synopsis (3rd Paragraph)


How different are the OVA and movie versions of Time of Eve? What does one miss out from not watching either versions?

Contents that are exclusive to the OVA

They are mostly shown at the beginning of the following episodes:

Episode 2: dori-kei commentary in the news
Episode 3: Koji leaves his room and the discussion about sexroids on TV
Episode 4: talk at Rikuo’s home about fuzzy logic and complaints at his dad’s office, and a short scene at the school with a girl classmate of Masaki making some cameo appearances

The ED song 「やさしい時間の中で」 is the vocal version of the piano piece played by Sammy at the Time of Eve. The epilogue following the ED has Naoko decorating Sammy's hair with flower petals.

Contents that are exclusive to the movie

Setoro reporting to Dr. Ashimori at the beginning of the movie
The first Time of Eve android customer seen by Rikuo and Masaki enters a room, which is later revealed to be Shiotsuki and Nagi's home
Sammy making her hair in front of a mirror
Sammy's chkdsk slideshow scenes following the events of episode 3 of the OVA
Sammy holding a sheet music and looking at the sleeping Rikuo before going off to play the piano at midnight
A different ED song with accompanying sketches of Nagi's past
Nagi talks to Shiotsuki in the epilogue


How did Issei steal Vali's power? I don't remember hearing that the Red Dragon could steal others' power and even use it. How did Issei steal Vali's power? Can the White Dragon steal others' power too?

Issei was able to use Vali's White Dragon Emperor power, Divine Divide, because Issei took one of the jewels in Vali's armor during their fight in Volume 4 and put it on his own. This allowed him to gain access to Vali's predecessors (past Hakuryukou) and their powers.

   I picked up the thing lying at my feet—a jewel of the [Vanishing Dragon]. Earlier, when I hit him, his armor was damaged and this thing flew out. His body’s armor seems to have restored the destroyed section including the jewel, though.
 ...
 I smashed the Sekiryuutei jewel that was on the back of my right hand into pieces, and drove into it the [Vanishing Dragon] jewel that I picked up before! —Your power of vanishing! I’ll transplant it into my Sacred Gear!

He managed to activate it right after he transplanted it into his Sacred Gear.

   A hit to Vali’s abdomen with my right fist! In my mind, Buchou’s breasts shook!
 [Divide!!]
 At the same time I activated the Hakuryuukou power I had just transplanted and felt the aura covering Vali decrease sharply.

As for the predecessors (refer to my first paragraph), one of the past Hakuryuukou indeed came to him later and helped him during his fight in Volume 10 of the novel.


What is the background song on Naruto Shippuden episode 333 at around 18:30? In Naruto Shippuden episode 333 at around 18:30, there's a background song playing.

What is the title of that song?

Song's name is Sen'ya (Many nights). It is from Naruto Shippuuden: OST II.


Where can find the full version of Dragon Ball Super's sixth ending? I am aware that the name of it is "Chachan Music" but when I look it up I can never find the full version.

If you want the full song legally you can buy the cd here :
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/VICL-37235

Or you can buy only this song on Itunes : https://itunes.apple.com/fr/album/chaofan-music-ep/id1173386575


In which episode is this scene with two Zoros? I recently stumbled upon a One Piece pic which left me dumbfounded. In the picture below you can clearly see that 2 Zoros appear at the same time, being a One Piece fan myself I wasn't able to remember when that happened. Does any of you guys in which episode (or special or movie) did this happen?

Thanks for your help as always :)

This appears to be an animation error from an earlyish episode when that was more frequent.  Specifically it comes from Episode 226 which is part of the Foxy Pirate Crew Arc.

In this scene Zoro is fighting Foxy the Silver Fox in (a bad) disguise to the left hand side of the screen and also (apparenly) calmly standing there watching the silly fight.


Could Goku actually be an earth "Prince"? Ok so in the Dragon Ball/DBZ/DBGT/DB Super universe, everyone knows that Goku and Chi Chi are married and that Chi Chi is the daughter of the Ox King. That technically makes Chi Chi the Ox princess. But am I crazy or wouldn't that technically mean that by marrying the Ox princess Chi Chi, that Goku is unofficially the "Ox Prince"? And what do you think Vegeta would do if he realized that Goku was also technically a saiyan "prince" (quote unquote)?

Well, Goku may be the Ox Prince but I don't remember being ever stated how big that kingdom is, or how wealthy.
As for Vegeta, he's a real prince, but of a now destroyed planet.


What does the original Japanese title of "Spirited Away" mean? The original title of the Japanese anime "Spirited Away" is "千と千尋の神隠し". I know that 千尋 is the name "Chihiro" and 神隠 means "spirited away", so the phrase "千尋の神隠" makes sense to me. But what is the purpose of the first "千" ("thousand")? What does the whole title mean?

The Wikipedia page has what you want:

  "Sen and Chihiro's Spiriting Away"

Here, the 千 refers to "Sen". As кяαzєя notes, this is the name Yubaba uses to refer to Chihiro.


Why are manhwa not animated more often? I notice there's some really good manwha out there on par with manga's: Ares, Witch Hunter, etc. (I realize the books I've stated maybe opinion based but in general there has to be a few out there that deserve animation).

Furthermore, South Korea is where the American companies normally go for their animations, e.g. Last Airbender, Korra, Transformers, so I know they have skills and the people to do it.

There seem to be a couple of related issues when it comes to this.

While there are a large number of Korean animation studios (~120), a lot of those studios do largely work contracted from Western companies.

Animated Korean characters have also been becoming more popular in recent years (particularly since about 2010, when the market share was about 28%). By 2014, the market share of domestic characters was 40%, which shows a massive increase. However, that still shows less than a 50% market share of domestic characters, indicating that within the country domestic animation is not as popular as Japanese and Western animation. A few Korean animated shows did become popular in East Asia in 2011 when the animation technique was improved, meaning that if that trend continues we may start seeing more animated adaptions of manhwa when demand increases for it.

Another thing to consider is that manhwa are still being adapted, just not generally into anime/anime-like shows. Instead, K-dramas and movies have been made from manhwa, and their success likely encourages Korean companies to continue making live-action adaptations rather than attempting the riskier shift of switching to animated adaptations. Should there be some major successful animated adaptations, that may change.


I need help identificating a gag manga that was serialized around 2003~2004 It's a comedy manga, published around the early 2000's or way before that. The protagonist is an old man (Shifu) with a really long bold head (he often shine it up as one of his "ultimate attack"). He has 3-4 students, I only remember 3 of them with one being a fighter, a ninja and a magician thief (Cased Close, Phantom Kid). I don't know if there are more or not, since I have only seen like 2-3 volumes. Oh, and they're all really poor to the point they'd attend a feast just to eat or they fight each other over a meal. Their reaction to jokes or some events look like they got hit by an upper cut. Also, they tend to play baseball, but always lose miserably.

Fat chance it's Kungfu Komang.

  A boy named Komang learns kung fu and meet many friends along the way.

From the images above, you can spot:

an old man with a really long bold head [you mean bald maybe?]
a ninja [dude with google above his head]
a magician thief (Cased Close, Phantom Kid) [dude with hat and tie in his neck]
a fighter [I think the one you meant by this is Komang, dude in orange suit]

Soooo long since I read it, the only thing I remember is that it's pure comedy, the old man was some kind of a master/teacher (for martial arts?), they all live together, and ruckus happened between them in every story.


Effects of writing the name of a person who has an identical twin with the same name in the death note I'd like to know what would happen in a situation like I'm describing.

If I renember correctly it was needed to both write correctly the name of the person to die and have his image on head.

But if that person has an identical twin with the same name I think those rules wouldn't be enough to determine which of them would die, although maybe with image it also meant the intent of killing that particular person I find that far fetched.

Maybe there are some other rules that would apply and would determine which of them dies, I don't renember all of them.

What would happen in that situation?

It would probably depend on two things. One of which is the fact that you would only be thinking of one face, not both. The way it works is if you thought of the first twins face, but wrote the name and though of the name belonging to the second, nothing would happen. Even if they had perfectly identical faces, you wouldn't be thinking of both, just one. Identical twins are two separate people, and as such, the death note would still treat it like such.

This idea is based on my personal though about the subject that I've actually thought about for at least a year.


Is Trunks stuck at SSJ form? In DBZ, Future Trunks was a Super Saiyan. In DBS, we see his evolution going up to SSJGSSJ. When he is prepared to go back in time to save the world from Frieza, is he still SSJ? He didn't seem to train enough to attain a new form. Does he lack the potential to be SSJ2 or above that or he just stop training?

What happened to him?

The one who appeared and killed Robo Frieza was from a different future in which the androids destroyed everything so the events of Super can never happen to him.

During the Cell Saga when Cell explains how he came from the future he states he already "disposed" of Trunks to steal the Time-Machine. I also recall him pointing out during the Cell Saga that altering the past won't change his own future or the future of the Z Warriors he was with, but will instead create an alternate timeline (I think it was after they found Dr. Gero's lab and Krillin suggested that Trunks go back in time further and destroy it before the Androids are activated)

To prove this, after Cell was discovered to be an "Android" created by Dr. Gero, Krillin and Future Trunks went back to his lab and destroyed the Laval Cell who was hidden there and it didn't cause the mature Cell they were currently fighting to disappear.

Also on the Wikia for Future Trunks

  Future Trunks (未来のトランクス), referred to in the series simply as Trunks, is the Saiyan and human hybrid son of Vegeta and Bulma from an alternate future. By the time Present Trunks was born, the timeline had been altered by Future Trunks' and Cell's trips to the past. Therefore, the two Trunks had completely different lives (as opposed to those who lived before the Time Machines arrived, they lived exactly the same lives as their counterparts until the point at which the two timelines diverge: three years before the androids arrived).

Source: Dragonball Wikia - Future Trunks

So Future Trunks (the one that killed Robo Freeza) probably didn't go beyond Super Saiyan because Goku and Vegeta, who knew of the other levels, are dead and most of his time was spent fighting the Androids.

The Trunks seen in Super probably won't go back in time because there is no need to. And anyway, if the planet is destroyed Beerus will just restore it so he can keep getting desserts.


Is there any website providing script from mangas in textual format? Is there any website providing script from mangas in textual format, so that I could just paste it in Google Translator? There are so many Chinese mangas that I cannot read, and it's to hard for me to rewrite the signs into Google Translator by finger.

There is not a page that I know of that stores the text version of manga, actually I'm not sure such a page would be legal considering the huge legal struggle over lyric sites in the past. However, what you are asking is not impossible.

There is a technology called optical character recognition (OCR) which is software scanners use to generate text versions of the scanned document. There are several programs that implement this technology for use in translation software. Some are available as apps available on your phone and can be found in the app store for your device. While there are many implementations available, one such implementation called Capture2Text uses OCR specifically for the use of translating manga, visual novels, and so forth.

These programs will copy the characters to your clipboard which you can then put into your favorite translator. There are also some programs available out there that will search multiple translators at once or even allow you to create your own dictionary of words to look up words/phrases in.


Is Yamsk 11 based on a real life location? The Full Metal Panic series is known to reference various real life location.

For an example the fictional Jindai (陣代) High School is based on the real life Jindai (神代) High School in Choufu, Tokyo.

The closest station to the real life Jindai High School is the Senkawa station, changed from 仙川 to 泉川 (Izumikawa).

Is Yamsk 11 based on a real life location? If so where is the real like location of Yamsk 11, the secret city where the Omni-Sphere known as TAROS resides?

According to the Russian Full Metal Panic wiki's Yamsk-11 article (Янск-11, see reference), it says that Yamsk-11 is here: 60° 8' 10.66" N 153° 54' 20.60" E (East Siberia). "Yamsk-11" is not the name of the city, but a postal code for mail delivery. There is a city, Yamsk, 63 km to the south of "Yamsk-11". It was common practice in USSR to give a postal code name with a number for closed towns. Apparently, there was a town at those coordinates that's been closed. For another example of this, see Wikipedia's page for Arzamas-16 or Chelyabinsk-65/40.

So looks like there is a real location but not sure if it has anything in common with the fictional "Yamsk 11" in FMP (but who knows), and the name "Yamsk 11" is a postal code from the USSR days.


Why did Sakata Gintoki need to go to the future? In Gintama the Movie: Be Forever Yorozuya (Yorozuya yo Eien Nare), why did Gin need to go to the future first?

He was infected by the White Plague during the Joui war, so why did the future Gin call him to the future to kill the plagued future Gin instead of just sending him to the past and preventing the plague from spreading in the first place?

Maybe because of the potential consequences of changing the past, Gintoki may not have met Shinpachi, Kagura and others at all.

Moreover, if you believe in the "parallel world" interpretation of time traveling, it can be said that the past cannot be changed, but only forked into alternative futures.

Thus maybe going to the future is the best choice here.


Why are there only 2 (known) parallel universes in Dragon Ball Z? In the Androids/Cell Saga, when Trunks traveled back in time, he changed history and created a parallel universe.

But Cell also traveled back in time, and apparently arrived before Trunks was and responsible for changes in history, too.

One would think that Trunks would arrive in a parallel universe without a future Cell (in essence, one that was exactly the same as his, up until the point where he arrived.)

Why did Trunks arrive in the same parallel universe as Cell?

Alternate Timelines are not strict branches
Parallel universes can often mess with your mind if you're not careful. You need to pay careful attention to both where you are, what are the possibilities, and what has occurred to affect change. DBZ uses the alternate timeline version of time travel, so this means that many universes can exist, shown or not. A diagram will be easiest.
Timeline

There are actually 4 different timelines involved in the Cell/Trunks/Android Saga (excluding ones created/changed by time travel).
Cell to DBZ
The first timeline is one in which the Androids have ravaged the earth, and cause chaos. All of the main heroes have died, and Trunks (I'm calling him Trunks "killed") is left to fend for himself. He travels back in time to an alternate DBZ timeline (one we don't see or know much about, but there is only 1 version of Cell in this timeline) to give Goku the medicine. Presumably, he defeats the androids and/or give Goku the medicine, then travels back to his own timeline. At this point, he (Trunks "killed") is killed by Cell (who is the main Cell in the series), and Cell (main) steals his time machine to travel back in time.
Trunks to DBZ
Cell (main), travels to the known DBZ timeline from the show. He shows up and that process starts. Trunks (the one called Future Trunks often, the one in the show and in History of Trunks) meanwhile, in his own, future timeline (likely related, see below), also travels back in time, also to the current DBZ known timeline, to warn about the Androids. When he arrives, there are 2 Cells in this timeline, the main one, and one that already existed. The one that is native to this timeline (called Present Cell often), is destroyed with the destruction of the lab by Future Trunks, and Krillin.
Loose Ends
Blah, blah, blah. Cell saga continues until Cell (main) is destroyed. At this point, Future Trunks, travels back to his own timeline, and there, already knows about, and destroys the Cell in that timeline (Future Cell). In total, there were:

5 Cells (the forth is never mentioned, but likely grew into a full Cell later in the alternate DBZ timeline; fifth is assuming Future Trunks' timeline is derivative, see below)
4 timelines
2 Trunks from the Future
2 Trunks from the present
2 time machines

The question: Why?
So why did Trunks arrive in the same Universe as Cell? Well, that's easy. He did, and he didn't. He arrived in the timeline we were shown (the main DBZ continuity), but the previous Trunks arrived in one in which the Future Cell had not arrived yet. The theory of alternate timelines often involves time travel on a single thread. That is, Future Trunks' universe likely existed from a timeline branch in which Cell (main) had already arrived. When Future Trunks traveled back in time, he was traveling to his past, which included Cell (main) being there, but none of the events that had been set into motion to lead to his timeline. His presence then altered the timeline to include the events we saw, and to not include the ones that lead to his time.
Basically, if Trunks didn't go back in time, things could have happened in a way which lead to Trunks going back in time, which caused the series of events in which we saw. Simple, right?
What happened to Cell (main) in Future Trunks' timeline?
We don't know. Likely something. But we don't have anything to state what might have happened.


What is the music playing in the background of the sad scene in episode 9? In episode 9 around 2:20.
What's the music playing in the background during that sad scene?

It is the first track on Disc 1 of Akame ga Kill! Original Soundtrack 1: Le chant de Roma (虐げられた者達の為に), a.k.a. Fallen Heroes.


Is there any news about Hunter x Hunter since June 2016? I know that it's been put on hold for a bit, but does anyone have any recent information on updates or progress?

The last post I read was from Dec.21 '14 so it's been a bit.

If we are both talking about the manga, there indeed is some more information.

Shonen Jump announced that Yoshihiro Togashi will be resuming HxH in the dark continent arc. More details were said to be released in this year's 16th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump, which they did.

HxH has been releasing chapters for the last 9 weeks, starting in week 18 of 2016.

You can also keep a check on Hiatus x Hiatus which maintains a nice diagram of when chapters were (not) released.

As for the anime, currently, there is not enough source material to go build an anime upon and is therefore still on hiatus. For the continuation of the anime, no time indication has been given whatsoever


Where was Kirito running to? In episode 1 of the anime, where was Kirito running to when Klein called out to him?

Klein called out to Kirito when they were both in the marketplace, and when Kirito turned into an alleyway.

According to the first light novel he was heading to a weapons shop.

  After I had logged onto SAO, I started running through the
  nostalgic stone paved roads of the «Starting City», headed for the
  weapons shop. Realizing that I was a beta tester after seeing me start
  and dash, Klein ran over without any hesitation.
  from chapter 2 of the first volume


Why are most anime dubbed in American English, rather than British English? What is the reason behind most anime being dubbed in American English and not British English? Does the control of a country over the world market have something to do with this?

Because most of the companies that first get the licenses to distribute a series outside Japan in English are based in America.

If we look at three of the biggest ones that I can think of off the top of my head, we have:

Funimation - Headquarters: Flower Mound, Texas, United States
Aniplex of America - Headquarters: Santa Monica, California, United States
Crunchyroll - Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States

When companies in Anglophone areas outside the U.S., like Manga Entertainment (UK), Madman Entertainment (Australia) and Siren Visual (Australia), get licenses to broadcast outside of America, it would be a waste of money to re-sub/dub the series. This is why when you get DVDs/Bluray from somewhere like Madman, you see company logo animations for all the companies involved, including U.S. companies like Funimation or Aniplex, before the title menu.

Re-subbing might be significantly cheaper since you are replacing words based on how they are spelled (color/colour, meter/metre) but re-dubbing wouldn't be because you have to hire the voice actors/actresses to come in and redo lines. If the original VA's were re-hired then it would be possible to get them to redo certain lines, but if you wanted a UK VA Cast then you would need to redo every scene and this wouldn't be cheap.

Also one thing to consider is that Japan does have different accents such as the case with Toji who has an Osaka accent which was interpreted to be a New York/Brooklyn accent. If an English-speaking company outside the US was to re-dub they run the risk of ruining this and we know how bitchy we can be when it comes to subs/dubs not being accurate.


Are Yamato/Tenzo their actual names, or only code names? I'm thinking that a certain category of Anbu black ops takes children at birth and trains them in codes, deception and subterfuge so thoroughly that they actually don't name the kids and they just grow up with their identities constantly being changed.

My theory is that Captain Yamato/Tenzo doesn't have one. And neither would Sai if my theory works.

Can anyone confirm this?

Yes, Sai and Yamato are code names. In the anime and I believe manga as well, we even watch both of them get assigned those names by Danzo and Tsunade respectively at around the same time right before they go to meet Naruto for the first time.

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

  Sai was orphaned as a child and recruited into Root, a secret branch of the Anbu under the leadership of Danzō Shimura. There, he was raised and conditioned to have no personality, personal connections, or a name; "Sai" being given to him for the purposes of joining Team Kakashi.

and 3 snippets from http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Yamato

  He was soon afterwards found by Danzō Shimura. Having lost all memory of who he was, the boy was taken in by Danzō, where he was recruited into the Anbu's Root division under the codename Kinoe (甲, Kinoe)........Later, Kinoe was re-assigned to Team Ro under Kakashi's command. Joining his new squad, Kinoe was given a warm welcome to his new allies and insisted by Kakashi that he go by his chosen name of "Tenzō", which he happily agreed to......... "Yamato" and "Tenzō" are actually codenames given to him, reflecting his time as Team Kakashi's captain and an Anbu member, respectively; his real name is unknown.


Haki Hardness Grades? I've been getting caught up on One Piece and I noticed that in chapter 837 (Luffy vs Commander Cracker) page 16, Luffy states that Cracker's Busoshoku was the hardest thing he came across.

At first glance, I am instantly reminded of power levels in Dragon Ball Z.

My question is if a sort of grading system is in place determining whose Haki is stronger?

It makes perfect sense that Armament Haki can be used at different levels of intensity.  This has already been shown from early on for Observation Haki and Conqueror's Haki.  Enel could sense people over the entire sky island while his men seemed to only see the people they were fighting.  Luffy went from stunning a room with little control to thousands on Fishman island.  The fight betweeen Chinjao and Luffy seemed to indicate that Luffy's won because his Haki was stronger.  This means there are relative levels of power for any of the three types of Haki.

There is, however, no mention in the text of any measurable rating of this strength.

There is, however, a DBZ like powerlevel already in the story.  The CP9 are rated based on Doriki in the Enes Lobby Arc.  A common armed soldier has a 10 Doriki and 500 is superhuman.  Lucci was 4000.  This method explictly only counts physical strength and ignored devil fruit powers.  There is no indication (as it had not yet been introduced) as to how Haki would impact this measurement system.  If the CP9 developed a method to rate their Rokushiki, it seems guarenteed that CP0 has a way to rate Haki. We just don't know anything about it yet.


Who is the leader of the pride troopers? There are some spoilers for episode 101 of Dragon Ball Super which I believe comes from the Shonen Jump Magazine .

   Kahseral fights as well as you'd expect of the leader of the Pride Troopers

wasnt the leader of the Pride Troopers supposed to be Toppo? was this never mentioned in the anime?

The leader of the pride troopers is Toppo himself , it was confirmed in episode 82 , When toppo jumps down into the ring after Goku's fight with Bergamo . Toppo introduces himself as the leader of the Pride troopers of Universe 11 .

Another thing , Toppo refers to Kahseral as General , his second in command . The General in this context doesn't mean leader.

On Toppo and Kahseral , Taken from the Dragon Ball super wikia :

  Toppo suddenly jumps to the ring and confronts Goku, wanting to talk to him. He then introduces himself as the leader of the Pride Troopers of Universe 11

Later ,

  Some time after the fight, he decides to go to a bar, eating snacks with a concerned look in his eyes, realizing how much of his world's safety is at stake. His General, Kahseral, enters and asks why he is so upset.


Why did Sonju help the kids escape? In The Promised Neverland season 2 episode 3 somewhere around 8:00, Sonju mentioned that he wants to eat natural-born humans, and that's why he is helping those kids.

But what I understand from the plot is that demons eat humans to maintain their physics and intelligence, and Senju has both of them. So why does he want to eat those children's natural-born babies?
If he really wanted to eat natural-born humans, then why did he help them in episode 11 to escape to the human world? Also, he could have eaten Ratri as he is a human and brilliant.

Did I miss something important from the series?

First off, Sonju doesn't need to eat humans to retain his intelligence and humanoid appearance. But to explain why is somewhat of a spoiler:

 His traveling companion Mujika, is the Evil-Blooded. Rather than explain myself, I'll quote the wiki: "Mujika is a special demon who retains the characteristics and sapience of humans without requiring to consume them. Other demons who ingest a drop of her blood gain the same abilities and are also able to spread this unique body composition to other demons."

Mujika and Sonju both follow a religion that forbids them to eat farm-raised humans. Thus, Sonju thinks it would be okay to hunt humans born in the wild, and this is something he wants to do.
I haven't seen the anime yet, which I think may tell a different story from what I've gleaned, but I've read the manga up to volume seventeen. From what I've seen, Sonju seems quite loyal to Mujika (and for good reason given her ability). Though it may be his private wish to hunt humans again, he might listen to orders from Mujika if it is her wish to help the children escape to the human world. I can't say this definitively though.
For the last point: If I understand correctly, I think the promise makes it forbidden for the demons to attack the Ratri clan, and any humans from the other world. I could be wrong. I'll try to verify this at a later time.


Are the events in this manga panel happening simultaneously? I know manga is usually read right to left, top to bottom, but this panel confuses me a bit.

The guy on the right looks all annoyed and "!" first, and then we have the blonde sliding in like 'are you guys on a date too?', but chronologically isn't this a contradiction? Shouldn't we have seen the main character ask his question first and then spiky guy's reaction?

Or is this panel showing things simultaneously?

If someone could show me in what direction/chronology I'm supposed to read/understand this, it'd really help.

This would be a personal answer based on my own experiences: in cases like these I interpret the height of the speech bubble as order. The left bubble is higher up than the right one, so that happens first. There's nothing stopping the right one to be placed higher up, as it wouldn't hide any important details or anything in the art. Therefore I would read the bubbles in this panel left to right.

The following image is from http://shadow.randomfandom.com/gh/styles.htm and shows reading order. Look at number 4 and 5, that's how I interpret the two speech bubbles in your example.


How does this calendar thing even work? I was enjoying my lunch over the 8th episode of YuriYuri and right at the beginning there was this unusual calendar:

Truth be told, this is the first time I see a calendar like that. As you can see, it consists of 3 parts which seem to be made of wood. The lower part says "April", so I assume it is removable so that the cubes above it can rotate, and that there are 11 more like it somewhere else in store.

Now the tricky part is the numbers. The 2 blocks on top are set up to read "01" which is for April the 1st. But the top side of the block that reads 0 in front, has a 6 on it. What's going on? And there are only 4 sides that can be rotated with their front sides for each digit to form a number of a day of the month. Is this an animation mistake? If not, how can this calendar thingie work?

Also, is it even possible to make them read all numbers from 01 to 31?

With two cubes, you don't have enough sides (total 12) to give both cubes numbers 0-9.

Instead, each cube has its own numbers (there may be other permutations that work, too):

One cube (A) will have 0, 1, 2, 4, 5, 6.
The other (B) will have 0, 1, 2, 3, 7, 8.

Then each date is represented by how the cubes are used:

01-03: Cube A is 0, followed by cube B.
04-06: Cube B is 0, followed by cube A.
07-08: Cube A is 0, followed by cube B.
09: Cube B is 0, followed by cube A, on 6, upside-down.
10-13: Cube A is 1, followed by cube B.
14-16: Cube B is 1, followed by cube A.
17-18: Cube A is 1, followed by cube B.
19: Cube B is 1, followed by cube A, on 6, upside-down.
20-23: Cube A is 2, followed by cube B.
24-26: Cube B is 2, followed by cube A.
27-28: Cube A is 2, followed by cube B.
29: Cube B is 2, followed by cube A, on 6, upside-down.
30-31: Cube B is 3, followed by cube A.

And before you ask, no, I've never seen one of these, and thus I really have no citation. But given the fact that the cubes look like they can go in either order (since they have numbers on the side, they should come completely free), this seems like the most logical solution.


Was Suiryu or Garou who defeated Saitama in Virtual Reality? In OVA #4 season 2, Saitama is defeating playing Virtual Reality and Genos says the one who defeated might be able to defeat Saitama in real life. Then we see those moving to the finals of the competition are Suiryu and Garou.

Was Suiryu or Garou who defeated Saitama in Virtual Reality?

If you had observed, at the end the "female character" that beat Suiryu in an instant was infact King who comes to the Dias to collect the prize, he played with a usual Gaming controller and not a VR.

While walking either genos or king(dont remember) talks to themselves that a gaming controller is much faster compared to the VR.


Why is Monokuma's body half-black, half-white? Monokuma's body is half-white, half-black.

Is there any reason for this? Does each half represent something?
Furthermore, if each colour/half represents something, does the fact that his over-sized bellybutton is white and overlaps the black half mean that whatever the white part means prevails over whatever the black half means?

Monokuma's name (モノクマ) is a pun on the word monochrome borrowed in Japanese (モノクロ, or sometimes モノクローム). As you can see, all but the last characters match in Japanese. Presumably that's why he's (almost) totally white and black (monochrome).

As for whether the different sides mean something, in the original game when he talks to you, which side is mostly facing you changes depending on what he's saying. When he's saying things that are especially violent, suggestive, or otherwise evil/despair-inducing his black side is primarily visible. When he's pretending to be a nice good headmaster bear, he'll be facing you with his white side, often holding a flower. A lot of the time for just ordinary talking he'll be facing strait-on. This is very obvious in the game, but somewhat less obvious in the anime as it seems to be hard to animate the switches. I do not think that the fact that his belly button is white is in any way significant.

Here are images of these three cases from the game. He makes a lot more expressions in the strait forward position, such as his angry or nervous expressions, but for brevity I've only included one:

This answer may be incomplete, since it doesn't give an in-universe reason for Monokuma's color scheme. If any reason exists, it would likely be explained in the prequel novel Danganronpa/Zero*, which I haven't read.

*As a note, if you want to avoid having the ending of Danganronpa spoiled, I would not recommend looking for information on Danganronpa/Zero, as it will spoil nearly everything.


How can you differentiate between the different types of anime? The two main ones that I know are shounen and seinen (if that is how you spell them). I’ve also heard of other names like Isekai and ecchi.   I’m not sure what ecchi is, but I think isekai is when you are summoned to another world or something. How do you differentiate between the different types of anime?  Is it due to how gory one is or the story?

Shounen, Seinen, Shoujo and Josei are terms for four of the main demographics that manga and anime are marketed to. Broadly:

People aged between about 12 and 18 are in the Shounen demographic if they're male, or Shoujo if they're female.

People aged from 18 to about 45 are in the Seinen demographic if they're male, or Josei if they're female.

Ultimately, the distinction between the demographics is based on which manga magazine publishes the work. The more adult genres (seinen and josei) are more likely to cover adult topics and have more explicit depictions of content such as sex and violence, but it's not an absolute thing - Fist of the North Star is much more graphic in its depiction of violence than One Punch Man, for example, but Fist is defined as shounen while OPM is seinen. Osamu Tezuka's manga series Phoenix was published across 3 or 4 different magazines that covered the shounen, seinen and shoujo demographics, although the art style and content varies a bit across them. The age and sex of the lead character can often be a hint to the demographic - it's rare for a seinen manga to have a little girl protagonist, for example - but it's not a guarantee either.
The demographics can intersect with almost all genres - there are shounen romantic comedies and shoujo horrors and josei isekai and practically every other combination if you look hard enough.
Some of the other terms you asked about are better described as genres or subgenres, and in particular:

Isekai literally means "other world" and refers to stories where a person is transported to a different world. Most commonly, a person from Earth is sent to a fantasy world, sometimes as a reincarnation, but at this point "Japanese schoolgirl dies and is reincarnated as a character in a dating simulation video game" is a rapidly growing sub-genre. "Reverse Isekai" is sometimes used to describe stories where characters from a fantasy world are pulled to Earth, but it's not quite as broadly known.

Ecchi comes from the Japanese pronunciation of the letter "H" (for "Hentai", meaning perverted, but is also a general euphemism for sex or sexual topics). Ecchi manga are ones with lots of flashes of adult content without being overly explicit with them. They're usually comedies, often rom-coms, and most frequently targeted to older teens (so they do tend to land on the border of shounen and seinen).


What does the word "Akarin" mean? The word Akarin seems related to the fact that Akari is considered as a transparent person. As an example, every time Akari becomes transparent, the word Akarin appears.

What's more, Akari seems to dislike this word.

What does Akarin means? What is its etymology?

There's actually a lot to this expression, including a lot of nuance and some understanding of each character's personality.  Bear in mind, I have a pretty pedestrian understanding of the full nuances of the Japanese language, but I'll be happy to cite my sources where need be.

First, let's start with Yuru Yuri.  Akari is made out to be the decoy protagonist very early on, and as such, the fact that she's has very little presence is a running gag in the series.  In the first episode, around 16:40 is everyone comes to that realization (spearheaded by Kyouko).

Around this time, the nickname actually comes up, and this is the beginning of her being teased with "Akari~n!" (and turning invisible).  Notice that the first episode's intro doesn't do anything fishy with her or her visibility (in the same way that the subsequent intros do).

Next, let's move on to normal Japanese naming convention.  In Japan, it's only considered okay to call someone by their first name if you're really close to them.  From what I've seen, nicknames are slightly more relaxed, so you'll see and hear people calling each other by their nicknames quite often in anime.  From this, it's implied that Yui, Kyouko, and Chinatsu are at least incredibly friendly with Akari enough to call her by any sort of nickname.

Adding ん to the end of a name (and it depends on the name) invokes a cutesy, childish sounding variant of it, and can be considered to be a cutesy sort of nickname for the person.


How is this game where you write a kanji on your hand supposed to work? In Episode 6 of Bakuon!!, the Bike Club girls play some sort of strange game to decide who's going to organize the race they're holding for the school festival.

  Hane: We're deciding by the popular vote system that Onsa-chan came up with. We each write a character on the palms of our hands, and whoever has the most wins.

Raimu and Hijiri both write 金 (gold) on their hands, which somehow means that Hijiri wins and that her idea has to involve "gold" somehow, which leads her to create a betting pool for the winner of the race.

  Hijiri: I win with the most, which means...I'll be in charge of this matter.
  Onsa: But how do you make the race more exciting with gold?

How is this game supposed to work? According to Hane, "whoever has the most wins". The most what? It looks like "the most people writing the same character". But then why does Hijiri win, and not Raimu, who wrote the same character? (Aside from the reason that it's hard to organize a race when you can only communicate by writing on a notebook and no one officially recognizes your existence.)

Also, if you're allowed to pick any character, the odds of any of the 50,000 kanji in the Dai Kan-wa Jiten, or even any of the 2,136 Jouyou kanji, getting a majority among five people are quite low. Initially I thought the characters were limited to days of the week, but Rin picked 銀 (silver), which isn't a day of the week.

Since Hane mentions that Onsa invented this game, I assume it isn't a real game, but maybe it's based on something, or was explained more fully in the manga.

It was indeed explained more fully in the manga in volume 3, chapter 18.

Origin of the "game"

Yes, the most people writing the same character win, and yes, you can theoretically write any kanji character there is, as long as you explain how you could make the race more exciting with the idea represented by that kanji.

Hijiri and Raimu both won, but Hijiri was especially excited because in the manga,

   it took the girls 15 minutes to play the game to decide on what to do at the school festival, and Hijiri was the only one who wrote a different kanji character in that first round of vote so she felt kind of a loner.

And in the Battle of the Red Cliff, only Zhou Yu was in charge of carrying out the fire attacks because Wu had more military power and was more hard-pressed for survival, just like Hijiri is compared to Raimu.

Lastly, I believe it to be an error on the part of the sub group to translate what Rin wrote as "silver" (銀) when in fact she wrote "bells" (鈴).


Are all Norma female (as of episode 04)? Has there been any explanation so far (as of episode 4) on whether or not males can be born a norma? Everyone on the norma base seem to be female.

Unmarked spoilers.

Yes. Norma can only be female.

The survivors of the pre-mana world, like Tusk and his parents also cannot use mana (because the mana-wielders were genetically engineered by Embyro), and Tusk were incorrectly identified as a Male Norma by Hilde.

This gene rejects DRAGON-based powers. Thus norma are immune to mana, and to the dragon's roars (this being the main reason they pilot the para-mails).

If we play a little with genetics, we can say that the norma gene is a recessive gene situated in the homologous portion of the sexual chromosomes:

  Homologous portion is that in which there are genes having alleles in both Y and X sex chromosomes. The homologous portions are situated more in the central part of the sex chromosomes, near the centromere.

The recessive allele appears only on the X chromosome, with the dominant allele appearing on both X and Y. The recessive characteristic grants immunity to DRAGON based powers.

Since there is little recombination between X and Y chomosomes during meiosis (and this recombination takes place only near the telomeres), there is no way this gene can cross over to the Y chromosomes.

  The human Y chromosome is normally unable to recombine with the X chromosome, except for small pieces of pseudoautosomal regions at the telomeres

So only females could be norma. Males would be carriers only at most.

Now, this is viewed as a genetic flaw by the mana society (including several characters) but I boldfaced the immunity text above for a reason:

Embyro designed the mana-wielding humanity. It would be very unlikely he would let "an old gene" slip by a mistake.

The mana society needs Aura as its Draconium reactor. It means the dragons came into existance before Embyro designed them. Since Embyro knew the dragons would go to any length to rescue Aura (even going on suicide missions), he would need troops immune to the dragon powers.

So he engineered the Norma. They were not an "accident" or a "mistake".

Why engineer his soldiers as female only? Because Embyro is a womanizer at the very core. He has no interest in males.

Also, he views the mana wielders as mere puppets. Since it is shown that he at several times seduced and enthralled the norma to satisfy his urges, he would expect some thrill out of breaking them.

He can dominate any mana wielder at will, so we can infer from his personality that he would have no interest in having a woman he can control with a flick of his finger.

So it was Embyro that designed the norma to be his anti-DRAGON soldiers, female only. So he would have some girls to toy with.


How did the lolicon genre begin in anime/manga? I have always wondered how the Japanese got the idea of making animated productions including underage girls and the obsession with them. When did it start? Did the idea originate in Japan? Was it welcomed by the actual anime public?

Appears to have started in the 1970's, but over time the definition got a little cloudy and changed from being pedophilia to more of an obsession. There was also controversy similar to violence in video games linked to violence in real life, where one party suggested that lolicon could fuel sex crimes toward children, while the other party maintained that if anything it decreased the chances by letting people live out their fantasies through manga/anime.

There is a lot of referenced material here.

  Lolicon (ロリコン?), also romanised as lolikon or rorikon,is a Japanese portmanteau of the phrase "Lolita complex". In Japan, the term describes an attraction to underage girls (whether prepubescent, pubescent, or post-pubescent)or an individual with such an attraction. It is also commonly used when referring to lolicon manga or lolicon anime, a genre of manga and anime wherein childlike female characters are often depicted in an "erotic-cute" manner (also known as ero kawaii), in an art style reminiscent of the shōjo manga (girls' comics) style. Outside Japan, "lolicon" is in less common usage and usually refers to the genre.
  The phrase is a reference to Vladimir Nabokov's book Lolita, in which a middle-aged man becomes sexually obsessed with a twelve-year-old girl. It was first used in Japan in the 1970s and quickly became used to describe erotic dojinshi (amateur comics) portrayals of young girls.
  Laws have been enacted in various countries, including in Japan, which regulate explicit content featuring children or childlike characters. Parent and citizens groups in Japan have organized to work toward stronger controls and stricter laws governing lolicon manga and other similar media. Critics say that the lolicon genre contributes to actual sexual abuse of children, while others say that there is no evidence for this claim. Studies of lolicon fans state that lolicon fans are attracted to an aesthetic of cuteness rather than the age of the characters, and that collecting lolicon represents a disconnect from society


Did Major Gilbert survive? In the last episode of Violet Evergarden, when introducing herself, Violet paused and had a bit surprised look.

Is it possible that Gilbert is the one she met there in that cottage? Has there been any statement from the author on this?

In the Light Novel the anime is based on,

   he did survive. He woke up before Violet and told everyone to keep it a secret from Violet so she could grow as a person beyond being a emotionally-stunted loli super soldier while he advanced upwards in the army as part of a spec ops team. He made his grand reappearance on the train to save the day.

On the other hand, the anime

   left it vague because it's kinda a crap plot motivation. I personally hate motivations that boil down to "I'm doing this assholish thing so you don't have to suffer/worry, never mind that me being an asshole makes you suffer even more".

 The anime staff likely thought that letting him come back would weaken Violet's character arc.


Did the animators make a mistake with Nami's glove after she stabbed Usopp at Arlong Park? During the Arlong Park arc, specifically episodes 33 and 34, Nami stabs her left hand to help Usopp fake his death before the fishmen. Following the incident, Nami wears a glove on her right hand. Then Usopp resurfaces (pun very much intended) and the crew learns that Usopp is not dead. We then see the glove on her left hand to cover the stab wound.

Did I just miswatch the episodes or did the animators screw up?

This incident occurs during anime episodes 33 and 34. Nami does not wear a glove on her right hand at any point.

See the stills from these episodes below.

Scene 1: Nami "stabs" Usopp at Arlong Park

Nami pretends to stab Usopp.

Scene 2: Nami returns to her room

Nami has bandages on her left hand when she returns to her room.

Scene 3: Nami meets Luffy's crew

Nami has a glove on her left hand when she meets Luffy's crew.

Scene 4: Nami visits Nojiko

Nami still has the glove on her left hand when she visits Nojiko.


Has the new Gundam series copied Aldnoah Zero? A lot of people (including me) have noted a lot of similarities between Aldnoah.Zero (AZ) and Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans (Gundam).

Mars vs Earth conflict (albeit different sides — AZ is Earth trying to be liberated from Mars while Gundam is Mars seeking liberation from Earth).
The mechs from Mars, while using older technology, are more advanced than the Earth mechs
The main characters both end up losing their sight in one eye in the respective 1st season finales (Inaho gets his eye shot out, Mikazuki loses his sight and use of the right arm due to overusing the Gundam Barbatos (and can only regain function while connected to the Gundam).
Both have blonde haired political princesses as potential love interests in Season 1 (Elysium in AZ, Kudelia in Gundam).

Is this more than coincidence? Do we know if Gundam took these elements from Aldnoah.Zero?

I think both series are just drawing upon many common tropes and most prominently ∀ Gundam, which sports a very similar plot to both series and also predates both.
Although in that case it's the Moon instead of Mars and it's more about an ongoing invasion than trying to be liberated from anything.

More examples include, the majority of the rest of the Gundam Franchise.


What should I watch first? The Last: Naruto the movie or Sasuke's story sunrise arc? The anime story finished back in October. A few filler then followed the new sunrise arc in Sasuke's story, which started where Sasuke goes on his own adventure.

My question is, should I watch the last movie first or does Sasuke's story arc come first?

As discussed in this answer, How much time has passed between the final fight and Sasuke Shinden (anime)?

The full timeline is linked in the Reddit Thread: Naruto timeline
The relevant part is:

However, these events are being produced in a non chronological manner and hence the confusion. Naruto: The Last was aired before the end of 4th Ninja War. Sasuke Shinden has been adapted before other works, such as Shikamaru Shinden which is now airing.

Thus there is no "recommended order" for watching the series. The stories are not that reliant on each other and you can watch the movies/episodes as you want (After episode 479).

To answer the real question, The events of Naruto: The Last take place before Sasuke Shinden: Book of Sunrise.

Personally, I wait for a few episodes to pile up and then watch them in their chronological order.


Were Princesses Uranus and Neptune lovers as well? In the anime series Haruka and Michiru (Sailors Uranus and Neptune) are a couple confirmed by the author Naoko Takeuchi

  Takeuchi has openly admitted they are a romantic couple, and their voice actresses were instructed to play the characters "as if they are a married romantic couple."

Source: List of Sailor Moon S episodes

In the first season we learn that the Sailor Senshi (or at least the first five) whom we see are reincarnations of their past selves from the Silver Millennium. They were friends and bodyguards of Usagi's past self, Serenity, as well as princesses of their representative planets.

I am wondering, however, if Haruka and Michiru are too reincarnations of their former selves, princesses of Uranus and Neptune, and if so, whether the Princesses Uranus and Neptune were a couple as well?

It is made clear that the Sailor Senshi were all princesses associated with the celestial bodies attached to them. Thus, Haruka and Michiru were indeed princesses in their past life.

I do not recall ever seeing an indication that Uranus and Neptune were lovers in their past life. [I have watched Sailor Moon S and both seasons of Sailor Moon Crystal, and I have also read the Sailor Moon manga (albeit not very closely).] In contrast, a relationship between Endymion (who is later Tuxedo Mask) and Princess Serenity is well attested. Moreover, I was unable to find any discussion of this issue in fan wiki pages for Sailor Neptune, Sailor Uranus, Haruka, or Michiru.

This suggests that we simply do not know if Uranus and Neptune were lovers in their past life. That other relationships from the past (between Mamoru and Usagi, or between Usagi and the Inner Senshi) have been preserved suggests that they were.

But canon plot material does not actively suggest that they were together, and the absence of this in the wiki suggests that there is no supplementary material indicating it. We do know that the Outer Senshi led lonely lives in their past existence, which is difficult to reconcile with a serious relationship.

It is also possible that the issue is completely up in the air, in the same way the birthday dates for Fullmetal Alchemist characters are up in the air: it is possible that Naoko Takeuchi had not thought through the specifics of this, particularly since the focus of Sailor Moon is ultimately on Usagi.


Is code in episode 1 of New Game 2 actually an infinite loop? In episode 1 of New Game 2, around 9:40, there is a shot of the code that Nene has written:

Here is it in text form with the comments translated:

// the calculation of damage when attacked
void DestructibleActor::ReceiveDamage(float sourceDamage)
{
    // apply debuffs
    auto resolvedDamage = sourceDamage;
    for (const auto& debuf:m_debufs)
    {
        resolvedDamage = debuf.ApplyToDamage(resolvedDamage);
        m_currentHealth -= resolvedDamage
        if (m_currentHealth <= 0.f)
        {
            m_currentHealth = 0.f;
            DestroyMe();
        }
    }
}

After the shot, Umiko, pointing at the for loop, said that the reason why the code crashed is that there is an infinite loop.

I don't really know C++ so I'm not sure whether what she is saying is true.

From what I can see, the for loop is just iterating through the debufs that the Actor currently has. Unless the Actor has an infinite amount of debufs, I don't think it can possibly become an infinite loop.

But I'm not sure because the only reason that there is a shot of the code is that they wanted to put an easter egg here, right? We would have just gotten a shot of the back of the laptop and heard Umiko saying "Oh you've got an infinite loop there". The fact that they actually showed some code makes me think that somehow the code is an easter egg of some sort.

Will the code actually create an infinite loop?

The code is not an infinite loop but it is a bug.

There's two (possibly three) issues:

If no debufs are present no damage will be applied at all
Excessive damage will be applied if there is more than 1 debuf
If DestroyMe() immediately deletes the object and there are still m_debufs to be processed the loop will be executing over a deleted object and trashing memory. Most game engines have a destroy queue to work around this and more so that may not be an issue.

The application of damage should be outside the loop.

Here's the corrected function:

// the calculation of damage when attacked
void DestructibleActor::ReceiveDamage(float sourceDamage)
{
    // apply debuffs
    auto resolvedDamage = sourceDamage;
    for (const auto& debuf:m_debufs)
    {
        resolvedDamage = debuf.ApplyToDamage(resolvedDamage);
    }
    m_currentHealth -= resolvedDamage
    if (m_currentHealth <= 0.f)
    {
        m_currentHealth = 0.f;
        DestroyMe();
    }
}


Why didn't Rem tell L's name to Light or Misa? In Death Note Rem liked Misa so much, or maybe he was in love with her. He wrote L's name in the Death Note and killed L because he was protecting Misa and he knew he will die soon after doing so.

But I just wonder: why didn't he instead tell L's real name to Light Yagami or Misa, so they could write L's name in their Death Note and kill him themselves?

One of the Shinigami rules (shown during scene breaks and not the actual story) says:

  The Shinigami must not tell humans the names or life spans of individuals he sees. This is to avoid confusion in the human world.

Another rule states:

  If a Shinigami decides to use a Death Note to end the life of the killer of an individual it favors, that individual's life will be extended but the Shinigami will die.

While there is no specific consequence stated for breaking the first rule, one might also assume that it would result in similar punishment. In the end Rem probably decided to write the name herself due to the urgency of the situation. (And for dramatic purpose.)


What is the importance of the number 7? In the start when Natsu was looking for Igneel he said that Igneel was with him 7 years ago. After the Tenroujima incident they all disappeared for 7 years. Evil Rogue came from 7 years in the future. There were seven dragons that came out of eclipse gate after it was opened.

What's the importance of the number 7 in Fairy Tail? Is there some type of special meaning behind it or is it just a simple number with no significance?

In Japanese, the number 4 and, to a lesser extent, 7, is generally associated with death and considered unlucky because of the pronunciation of the word. 4 is 「四」 which can be pronounced 「し」 "shi", and 7 is 「七」 which can be pronounced 「しち」 "shichi". Death is 「死」 which is pronounced "shi". 9 is 「九」 which can be pronounced 「く」 "ku", meaning suffering or hardship　「苦」. For this reason, it is impolite to give any gift in an increment of 4 or 9 (for example, a set of cups should be given and bought in sets of 5, not 4), and my Japanese grandmother told me not to give in the increment of 7 either since it has the sound of "shi" inside the word.

On the other hand, various things considered positive in Japanese religion and mythology are in a set of 7, such as the Seven Lucky Gods 「七福神」（しちふくじん, "shichifukujin"） and the Seven-Branched Sword 「七支刀」（しちしとう, ななつさやのたち、pronounced as either "shichitou" or "nanatsusayanotachi"）.


Why couldn't Dante create a Philosophers Stone by herself? In the 2003 Anime Fullmetal Alchemist, in episode 45, she says that she had the Homunculi search for a Philosophers Stone because without Hohenhiem she was unable to create one by herself. But why?

Did she require knowledge that only Hohenheim had or was she simply not strong enough to do it? Because in a flash backs of Dante and Hohenheim's history, he did all the work, which would suggest that maybe she needed knowledge or strength or both, such as what Transmutation requires, but I'm not sure.

An answer would greatly be appreciated.

The reason she couldn't is simply because of the risk. Unmarked spoilers follow.

Recall that, during their first attempt to create a Philosopher's Stone, Hohenheim was nearly killed by the process. In order to keep Hohenheim from dying, Dante used alchemy to fix his soul to another body.

Because of this risk, Dante knew that, in order to create another Philosopher's Stone, she needed a way to survive the process. That meant that she either needed someone else who would complete the process—so that she would not die—or someone who could save her after the process was complete.

Since alchemists of the aforementioned skill levels are rare, and those who possess such abilities would likely not have helped a suspicious old lady (or young lady, by the end of FMA), Dante needed (and trusted) only Hohenheim to help her complete the process.


Why does Ryuk love apples? It is often seen in Death Note that Ryuk loves apple. Why is that? Do all Shinigami (Death Gods) love apples, is it the only food for Death Gods or does he just love apples?

Also.. Is it to signify the apple as the forbidden fruit?

If I remember correctly, Ryuuk said that apples in his world were dry and awful, but in human world they were "Juicy."

This is most likely the reason why he enjoys apples. There's also probably some hidden meaning to it.


Are the manga and the anime portraying Beerus as having the same strenght compared to other gods? In the last manga chapter of Dragon Ball Super,

   We've seen Beerus fights all the other gods together against him and do pretty well, and he and Kitela remains as the last standing up in an exhition match where all gods were present.

But in the anime, we never see this, plus when Beerus and Champa fight each other they seem to be in the same level, and when Goku shows his Ultra Instinct state or transformation, almost all gods who participate in the tournament are sweating (except for Mosco who can't sweat because it's a robot) but those in the top 4 are worried but not sweating (this could have to do with the fact they arent participating in the tournament too, but I thought it could be because Goku could be a threat to themselves too). Plus I dont remember if something was directly stated, but for some reason I assumed the 4 gods who were left out of the tournament were the 4 strongest gods of destruction (specially Geene who refused to participate in the exhibition match of the anime I assumed he was the strongest of all) . Therefore, my question is,

are the manga and the anime portraying Beerus as having the same strenght compared to other gods?

Well firstly, you have made a couple of incorrect assumptions which need to be clarified.

The reason you see all the Gods shocked and surprised once goku uses ultra instinct is because this a technique which even a god can't master perfectly and this was mastered a mere mortal. We have seen this inferiority complex shown by the gods towards the mortals multiiple times whenever they are astonished with a mortal's strength. We even see Sidra and Belmod shocked when goku turns SSJB. This is because of the mortal having the powers of a god.
Beerus is stronger than Champa both in the anime and in the manga. This was stated explicitely by Vados. That doesn't imply Champa is weak by any means. Also the fight between Beerus and Champa wasn't really an actual fight between 2 gods of destructions. Neither of them were utilising any of their skills and it was more or less like 2 angry kids throwing a fit and punching each other.
In the manga, Beerus is indicated to be a lot stronger than most of the god's of destructions(Including those of the high mortal ranking universes). So In the manga at least we could conclude Beerus is among the top 3 or at least, top 5 strongest gods of destructions across the multiverse.
As far as the anime goes, Gene not taking part in the intial match doesn't necessarily for a fact indicate that he is the strongest. It might be for a number of reasons. Perhaps, he knew the grand priest would have them fix up the damages or perhaps  the match would be very destructive and not be concluded or maybe there was another god among those 3 who was the strongest of the 4 and he knew that he would end up winning.
You do bring up an interesting point about the gods of the higher mortal ranking universes not seeming as nervous compared to the gods of the one's taking part in the tournament. However, like you said , it could possibly be because they aren't taking part in the tournament of power or maybe they have mastered the technique already.

What we do know for a fact is Jiren is as at the least as strong as Beerus or possibly even stronger.


Is Shinsuusenju a summons? Sage mode Hashirama's technique Shinsuusenju is called a senjutsu, or sage art. My question is does Hashirama actually create the titanic wooden budda statue with Moukton (wood style) or is it a creature he summons like Naruto's sumons Gamabunta? I always thought he created it, but I've seen many people refer to it as a summons. If any1 could clarify I'd appreciate it.

According to Naruto Wiki Hashirama creates the statue using sage art wood release: true several thousand hands technique.

  After entering Sage Mode, Hashirama creates a wooden statue of titanic proportions

Link http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sage_Art_Wood_Release:_True_Several_Thousand_Hands from the comment of @HappyFace .


Why is gold important to Amestris' economy? I'm not too well versed in the laws of Amestris or its political climate, but the law only prohibits material transmutation to gold, besides human transmutation. I suppose transmutation to silver or other highly valued materials are still allowed, such as petrol, which is sometimes more valuable than gold in the real world. This leads me to believe that the only reason why it only prohibits gold is because the currency is backed by it.

Which leads me to the question, why couldn't they just use fiat currency instead? Why is gold so important to the Amestris economy when other precious metals and resources are allowed to be transmuted?

Quite simply put, this is a world in which almost anything can be made by putting thought and understanding into it aka alchemy. Alchemy was essentially founded when Amestris was founded, and only existed in Xerxes prior to that. Therefore modern alchemy has been around for approximately 400 years by the time the manga/show began.

The technology at this time was also much less advanced than ours. It would have been difficult to produce bank notes or other such fiat currency that would be difficult to reproduce. An alchemist could even produce all of the necessary components in his own home, and it would be much more difficult enforcing the ban on many specific components.

On the other hand, gold is large and heavy. It is also very rare, with only a tiny fraction of the gold on earth available in the crust. Suddenly having a large supply coming through without any regulations down the supply line would be downright suspicious. Manufacturing gold in amounts large enough to disrupt the economy would surely take notice, and thanks to its weight, would surely be much easier to trace.

Of course, this is all assuming that Amestris was designed to withstand the test of time. Really, the homunculi only needed a (relatively) short-term solution that would keep the populace happy until it was time to murder everyone.


What websites provide streaming services for dubbed anime? I want to know which websites out there provide legal streaming services for dubbed anime. Among the series I'd like to watch are Death Note and Fullmetal Alchemist, but I'd really like to be able to see whole seasons.

The following streaming services provide a combination of subbed and dubbed anime. Most of them will require some sort of subscription to access the content. Availability is indicated by region.

US = United States; CA = Canada; AU = Australia; NZ = New Zealand; FR = France; UK = United Kingdom; IE = Ireland.

Animax for UK/IE
The Anime Network for US
Anime Lab for AU/NZ
Crunchyroll for US/CA
Dybex for FR
Funimation for US/CA
Hulu for US
Neon Alley (Viz) for US/CA
Netflix for US
Wakanim for FR