What is this anime in which the main characters train to stop Satan and they all wear weird suits? I only remember a character or two, but please help if possible! All the characters in this anime wear weird suits, and they train to stop Satan. There are 4 main characters in total that I know of.

Character 1 is one of the main characters. He has long blue hair, light blue eyes. His body is weak since he has been very sickly since birth. His dad is pretty famous. He trains diligently, and is loved and cared for by everyone in the school. His suit is blue and VERY powerful, and he is very kind.

Character 2 is the main protagonist. He has red hair. He is a big "do it now" kind of guy, and is new to learning how his suit works. In the first episode, his mom was taken by Satan. That's why he trained so hard to get his suit more powerful and stronger to help him. His dad is like a huge god or something. He is good at making enemies, leader of their "pack" (as I call it), helpful, and is not afraid to ask for help.

In the last episode I watched, they had to find some partners to pair up with. Character 1 partnered with a female protagonist and character 2 partnered with a male protagonist, who was the first character to be introduced. Character 1 fought an enemy that wanted him dead or something, and his friend got hurt in the process. The second character helped his friend pass the course and win. Same with the first character and friend. In the end, all four of them passed, then they competed with each other in a battle. That's all I know.

This is a quite wild guess but it could be Saint Seiya Omega:

The storyline of Omega takes place 25 years after the Holy Wars of the 20th century narrated in the original manga and its anime adaptation. The goddess Athena is still on Earth after reincarnating to continue her duty of protecting peace against several antagonistic deities. Athena and a new generation of Saints prepare to face new threats that lurks in this new era, in which Pegasus Seiya, the protagonist of Kurumada's manga, is revered as a Saint of legend and one of Athena's Gold Saints.

The two characters you are referring to could be:

Dragon Ryuhou:

Very caring of others by nature, Ryuhou suffers from a frail health. Calm and polite, he has a natural talent for becoming a formidable Saint, but he is affected by his condition. He received the Dragon Cloth from his father, the legendary Dragon Shiryu. The young Ryuhou commands the element of Water. After Genbu's death, Geki entrusts the Libra Cloth to Ryuhou so that he can give it to his father.

Pegasus Koga

The main protagonist in the series, trained since his early childhood to become a Saint, Koga is rebellious but also compassionate. He is still unaware of the purpose of having become a Saint in an era of peace, and has yet to discover his destiny. He meets Seiya, who teaches him the importance of friendship.

The other two characters you mentioned could be Aquila Yuna and Lionet Soma.

The plot will match your description even more if you replace Satan with the Greek god of war Mars, who in any case has a devilish aspect.


Looking for a manga about a guy who gets different girlfriends as a result of time travel The manga is about this guy who, even though he is a lolicon, gets a girlfriend after school one day while doing the cleaning chores. After that his little sister dies, and time is reversed without him knowing or remembering.

He now gets another, different, girlfriend. This chain of events keeps happening until he meets a girl that he created?

I don't remember the name, but I think it was a full manga, not a one-shot.

Not 100% certain but it sounds a lot like Boku to Kanojo no Koi Log. I've read this one completely (a little short, but still not bad).

The color spread from the first chapter for ease of identification.

Chapter 9 and chapter 13 are where the story restarts with different girl. The protagonist followed his little sister the second time around and failed to save her from disappearing in chapter 12.


Is Kurama more powerful than Susanoo? In the fight between Naruto and Sasuke, we saw their battle. It seems that Kurama was more powerful than Sasuke's Susanoo (with bijuus).

Is Kurama more powerful than Susanoo? Yes, it is. From the wiki,

  Even with half its strength, it could overpower Obito's controlled tailed beasts, smash Madara's senjutsu-enhanced Susanoo with a tail, and with the Six Paths Chakra, battle Sasuke's Tailed Beast-enhanced Complete Body — Susanoo.

That is just with roughly half its strength. At full strength, I would say it can easily overpower the aforementioned enemies, including Sasuke's Susanoo.


How did Konohamaru fool everyone in the Hidden Leaf Village? There's a scene when Naruto was about to go to his inauguration as a Hokage but was knocked out by Himawari. In his stead, Konohamaru transformed into Naruto but nobody notices this from among those present.

How did Konohamaru fool everyone in the Hidden Leaf Village?

As mentioned by @W.Are in the comments, nobody witnessed Konohamaru perform the Transformation Justu. With enough skill, the transformation turns the user into a perfect replica.

  The transformation of a skilled shinobi will be exactly like the genuine article, so it will be impossible to tell the two apart
  (emphasis my own)

While shinobi who have the ability to detect chakra signatures (such as sensory types) could have easily detected this had they been actively looking for it, this was an inauguration ceremony during a time of peace. The thought of an imposter was probably not on their minds.


How are Chaos;Head, Steins;Gate, and Robotics;Notes connected? These series all seem to be connected, but asides from sharing the same production company and having the semi-colon separate their titles I can't see any relation between them. The plots seem to be completely disjoint.

When I was looking up Chaos;Head and Stein's;Gate, I also found Robotics;Notes, but it too seems to not be connected. Can anyone explain the connection between these series for me?

Chaos;Head and Steins;Gate exist in the same ("Science Adventure") universe, but on different world lines.

Chaos;Head happens in Shibuya and the events happen one year before Steins;Gate
Steins;Gate happens in Akihabara
Robotic;Notes happens in Tanegashima Island and the events happen nine years after Steins;Gate

The events of Chaos;Head are consistent with the events of Steins;Gate within the Beta worldline, divergence ratio: 1.130426%. Steins;Gate and Robotics;Note exist on the "Steins;Gate" worldline, divergence ratio: 1.048596%. (Steins;Gate was also originally in the same worldline as Chaos;Head, which changed after Okabe sent the first D-Mail and passed to another worldline.)

There is a mention of "Knight Hart" which is the online persona of Chaos;Head's protagonist Nishijou Takumi, in episode 4 of Steins;Gate. In the Steins;Gate game, it's mentioned that this character was also looking for the IBN 5100 (the non-conical 8-bit version of the game gets more in depth into his motvations).

Kurisu explained the "Time Leap Machine" concept to Okabe using NOZOMI papers from Chaos;Head.

On big TV outdoors, FES's performance can be seen in the Alpha timeline. Giving the right reply to Faris's mail earns the player Ayase's portrait and FES's music, sung by Kanako Itou, which include the Chaos;Head OP, "Find the Blue."

There's a Seira-tan cosplay cameo in Steins;Gate as well:

Robotics;Note connects the two series a bit more by revealing that the "Committee of 300" are the driving force between the major events of all three series.

Nae from Steins;Gate appears as an adult in Robotics;Note. Daru and Kurisu show up on the Twipo network in Robotics;Note as "DaSH". In the VN game, Kurisu uses a tripcode. In the anime, Kurisu posts in @channel under the handle "KURI_KAME" in episode 15 (about 2D and 3D limitations).

   Daru writes the program that eradicates Kimijima Kou from Iru-o.

SERN (and their projects) is also mentioned several times in both Steins;Gate and Robotics;Note


Why did Guru come back to life? During the Namek Saga of Dragon Ball Z, the first wish to Porunga was to bring Piccolo back, next was teleport him to Namek but before the third wish could be granted Guru died making the Namekian Dragonballs useless.

After Freeza sets Namek to explode the Dragonballs bad been collected on earth (now that Kami was back) and the wish made to Shenron was to "Bring back everyone who had been killed by Freeza". after this the Namekian Dragonballs come back and Dende uses the final wish to teleport everyone except Freeza and Goku to earth.

what i don't get is how Guru was resurrected when the wish to Shenron was to bring everyone Freeza had killed back to life, why was Guru brought back to life even though he wasn't killed by Freeza?

This is all explained by King Kai during the Freeza Saga in chapter 321.

King Kai asks Kami whether people that had died from old age could be revived, to which the answer was negative. So then he asks whether people that had indirectly died by an evil person could be revived, to which the answer was positive.

Kami replied positive, saying that even though it'd be a first-time case, he'd believe it would be possible to revive those that indirectly died. They would then remain alive for the duration of time their life was shortened by.

  King Kai: What if they were confronted by an evil person, and, indirectly though it may be, their death was hastened, even a little bit...?
  Kami: I believe they would remain alive for the duration of time their life was shortened by...

Knowing this, King Kai asked not only to bring back those killed by Freeza himself, but also by his henchman (Eg: which would include Vegeta).


Is there any hint in the Manga that Riko will meet the rest of the white whistles? Throughout made in abyss we have been presented with white whistles as the most prestigious divers and refereed to as hero's. Currently Riko has been introduced to two of the white whistles, has there been an refferences in the manga or by Akihito Tsukushi if 'Wakuna' and 'srajo' will meet Riko at some point?

To your question specifically, the answer is no.

In the latest chapter (47) and the current arc in general there are many hints regarding to white whistles users. In chapter 47 we learned a very important pice of information that possibly tie to them.


Why did Public Safety Section 9 have to be "sacrificed"? Near the end, Aramaki made a deal with the Prime Minister to "sacrifice" Section 9 in exchange for the Ministry of Justice taking action against the Party Secretary-General. What I don't understand is why Section 9 had to be "sacrificed." The Prime Minister didn't want to disturb the Lower House elections, and the Ministry of Justice wanted credit for the prosecution, but all of this could have been achieved if Section 9 simply continued lying low and handed over their evidence and credit to the Ministry of Justice. What advantage was there in trying to eliminate Section 9?

In episode 24 it is heavily implied that Section 9 (not the members) is formed by the Prime Minister himself and Section 9 (i.e Aramaki) only reports to or takes order from either the Home Minister Affairs or directly from the Prime Minister himself. This is why Aramaki is immediately called in by the Home Affairs Minister to meet at the Prime Ministers residence in episode 24 when the leak happens to discuss the situation.

The other thing to realize is that, Section 9 got on to the suspicion regarding Yakushima involvement pretty late. Yakushima and his cabal were most definitely keeping tabs on Section 9 from very early on, seeing as to how quickly the Section 9 secret operation (carried out in episode 23) gets leaked to the media just before Section 9 tries to make a move on Yakushima.

So if you take these things into consideration it makes sense as to why Aramaki went to the Prime Minister and why Section 9 ended up being disbanded. It's basically because Section 9 were not able to verify Yakushima involvement in the case until almost the end. As a result, Section 9 didn't have enough time or window to keep tab on Yakushima himself. Therefore they were unable to prevent or predict the leak. Thereby also catching them by surprise. If they were able to verify Yakushima's involvement early on and kept tabs on him, there most likely would not have been the disbanding of Section 9. Or the at the very least the situation would have gone differently.


Who is this character in One Punch Man? So I keep seeing a lot of this image:

I recognise Saitama on the left, but who is the girl on the right? I don't believe I've seen her in One Punch Man at all, yet here she's potrayed like a main character/rival.

She's Natsuno Himiko, from the one-shot Dangan Tenshi Fan Club, from same author and artist from One Punch Man.
So, sadly, she won't appear in One Punch Man.


What is the in-universe reason for the name "Fairy Tail"? In Fairy Tail, the guild is named "Fairy Tail". While there does seem to be a range of ethnicities within the names (Natsu vs. Lucy), it just seems like an odd misspelling of "fairy tale", which is a very specific thing that seems to be totally unrelated to the guild itself.

What is the in-universe reason given for that being the name of the guild, if there is a reason given?

From Makarov's history based on Wikia:

  The guild was named 'Fairy Tail' as the eternal mystery behind whether fairies had tails or not, or if they even existed, was like an eternal adventure.

So I guess the guild's (Fairy Tail's) purpose is to have a great adventure as if they are solving the mysteries about fairies.


Has Sakura expressed signs of love towards Naruto? Throughout Naruto and a lot of Naruto Shippuden you can clearly see that Naruto has a lot of affection towards Sakura. Various times he tries to ask her out and the like but it never goes very well for him. We do eventually learn later in "Naruto:the Last" that Naruto's feelings for Sakura were another way for him to compete with Sasuke, but his feelings cannot be simply denied.

My question is: has Sakura ever shown signs of love, not friendship, towards Naruto throughout the series? When?

I don't agree with the answer above or any answer on the Internet for that matter. I watched Naruto Shippuden dubbed and subbed and to my understanding, Sakura did develop feelings for Naruto (and people usually skip those episodes because they are fillers).

After defeating Pain, Sakura recalls her days with Naruto (not Sasuke) and realizes that she has developed feelings for him. Later (in canon episodes), she decides to get rid of Sasuke herself because she felt responsible for it somehow. Sometimes, fillers are made to tune the main story and you should not skip these fillers if you like watching this show.

Every answer I saw described the situation poorly, so I decided to pen down the real story, in my belief.

Sakura did like Naruto, but the problem is that she was not mature enough and believed herself "deserving" for Naruto, as he was a hero, unlike Sasuke. She risked sabotaging Naruto and Hinata's story for her reasons. On the plus side, Naruto knew Sakura was not meant for her so he downright says her "No" on episode 206 (Sakura's feelings).

Later in series, she realized her "true" feelings towards Sasuke as he helped Naruto defeating Kaguya and got what she deserved (abandoned and knocked by her dear loverboy, whose thorns she desperately needed for 6 years)

Update:
I rewatched the entire Shippuden again, and my new conclusions somehow contradict this (my old answer). So here it is:

Sakura loves Naruto, but only platonic. She shares sympathy with him and they are good friends. She cares about him and that's why she confessed her love.
There are two side-effects in the cannon because of this:
1. Naruto realizes that Sakura can never be together with him (the same episode Sakura proposes to Naruto). He realizes that he actually never loved Sakura himself. And that was the moment he knew Sakura and Sasuke belongs together. Writer stitches the story beautifully there. And because of this, his self-righteous self forces him to sacrifice himself to bring back Sasuke. He just couldn't let Sakura suffer anymore. As he owes that to Sasuke.
2. Sakura gained some real heat after this scene from fans, as she seemed to neglect Hinata. But for me, this scene was pure satisfaction, her being rejected by our hero.

Sakura belonged to Sasuke. Naruto knew this. That was a pivoting moment of the plot. If Sakura had never confessed her love, Naruto probably went for a kill in the fight followed that episode. And we know he could easily swamp Sasuke as he was tired from the Danzo fight. But again, probably Obito intervened earlier, but in any case, the story would turn differently. So yeah, Sakura loved Naruto. But not as much as she loved Sasuke. She had undying respect for the former.


What is the name of the background instrumental theme that starts at 2:19 in episode 28 of My Hero Academia? Could any of you please tell me what is the name of the background instrumental music in episode 28 (season 2 episode 14) of My Hero Academia, which starts at 2:19? I'd really appreciate it. (The situation is training of Midoriya with Gran Torino.)

It's a slightly modified version of "Sendai no Meiyuu", track 10 of disc 2 of TV ANIMATION MY HERO ACADEMIA 2nd ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK.


Is it possible for a genin to become a jonin? In Naruto, by the end of Shippuden (ignoring the epilogue), neither Naruto nor Sasuke had ever passed the chunin exams. Given that the chunin exams seem to be held sporadically (two years between the ones in Naruto Part 1 and the ones being shown in the anime currently), it seems possible that other genin would end up in this situation. Is it possible for those genin to go directly to being jonin, or do they have to wait for possibly dozens of years (depending on how sporadically the chunin exams are held) to become a chunin first?

In the Road to Ninja movie, Naruto tried to get a recommendation from Iruka for promotion to Jōnin, but was refused.  Iruka said that Naruto had to become a Chūnin before he could become a Jōnin.

  Iruka: so, what did you want to talk about?

  Naruto: Um, Iruka-sensei, uh, listen, you think you can submit a Jonin application for me?

  Iruka: What?

  Naruto: It's just that all of my other classmates are going to have their parents fill out applications for them, and, well, I, uh...

  Iruka: Nope, sorry. I won't.

  Naruto: But why not?

  Iruka: Because that step is supposed to come after you become a chunin. Sure you saved us from Pain, and everyone calls you the "Hero of the Hidden Leaf", but I can't give you special treatment.  I mean, even your Dad worked his way up through the ranks - from Genin, to Chunin, to Jonin, to become Hokage. Then he went on to became a Hero.

  Naruto: hmm, to become just a face carved into a rock.

Update: In the Naruto Shippuden anime, Episode 413 - Hopes Entrusted to the Future shows that it is possible for a Genin to be promoted to Jōnin under special circumstances.

Lee, Tenten, and Negi did not complete the original requirements of the second Chūnin Exam.  They returned with 2 "Heaven" scrolls instead of "Heaven" and "Earth" scrolls:

  Lee: [places two heaven scrolls on the table] Please accept these.

  Proctor: Two "Heaven" scrolls are not acceptable!

  Lee: Oh, but that's--! [slaps table]

  Proctor: No, no, no!

  Lee: I can't reveal any details, but there were extraordinary circumstances that prevented us from collecting scrolls!  Please ask Lord Kazekage!

  Proctor: It doesn't matter what circumstances there were. No means no!

Gaara later rescinded that requirement when he cancelled the Third exam after he and Fū were attacked in an attempt to steal their tailed beasts:

  Temari: Cancel the Third exam?

  Gaara: I'm sorry. I can't go into details, but this is a domestic matter within the Sand.

  Shikamaru: Then how do we determine who passed the Chunin Exams?

  Gaara: We've prepared detailed reports about each team's performance in the Second Exam.  I'd like the respective villages to use them to decide whether their participants should be promoted to chunin.

  [later, when addressing the exam participants...]

  Gaara: Therefore, I deem the Third Exam unnecessary... Furthermore, I am rescinding part of the requirements for the Second Exam... For each of you standing here right now, a detailed report of your performance will be sent to your respective villages.  Your Kage will make the final decision on your promotion.

Based on that report, Lady Tsunade "double-promotes" Negi to Jōnin:

  Tsunade: I've gone over your Second Exam reports. And... Hinata, Shino, Kiba, Choji, Ino, and Sakura... You six passed with flying colors and are promoted to chunin!

  [cheers]

  ...

  Tsunade: [looking at Tenten, Negi, and Lee] Finally, although they did not collect two scrolls, they performed admirably... and are more than qualified for promotion.  Lee and Tenten, you are now chunin.

  Lee: Lady Tsunade!  Team Guy is one for all, all for one!  How can Neji not be included...?!

  Tsunade: Just let me finish!  Neji Hyuga is given a special double promotion to jonin!  The Kazekage himself noted, "In particular, Neji's performance was most impressive and due consideration has been given in this report."  He's already proven himself to be more than capable as a chunin.


Can I watch Naruto Shippuden movies anytime? I barely started watching anime, and Naruto was the first anime I watched. I'm currently in the middle of Naruto Shippuden (episode 71).

Before I go on, do I have to watch any of the movies, or can I watch them anytime? If it's necessary, what's the order to watch the movies?

u/IdRatherBeLurking's comment on Reddit shows the episode number that you should have watched up to before-hand. That's if you don't want any spoilers. Quoted below;

  Part 1

  Clash in the Land of Snow - after episode 101
  Legend of the Stone of Gelel - after episode 160
  Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom - after episode 196

  Shippūden

  Some of these films don't directly follow an episode, so I've deduced
  where they are in chronological order based on release date.

  Naruto Shippūden the Movie - after episode ~23
  Bonds - after episode ~70
  The Will of Fire - after episode ~121
  The Lost Tower - after episode 169
  Blood Prison - after episode ~221
  Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie - after episode 271
  The Last - Naruto the Movie - between chapters 699 and 700 of the manga

Sahan De Silva's comment is right by saying that it won't confuse you regarding the storyline as they are their own short stories.


In Amaranto, is Troy a girl or boy? In the Visual Novel Amaranto, one of the members of Triad is Troy. I'm playing the English patch of it now, and they refer to Troy as a "she". When they say Troy's name, it does sound exactly like they've translated it. However I'm confused about whether this is a translation error or not.

Points that indicate that Troy could be a girl

All characters that are in the story or mentioned but two are girls (the two guys being a nameless vagrant that Mio was about to kill and the strawberry-loving owner of the cafe Yuuki's group hangs out in).
It's noted that Queen hates men, even going so far as to kill most of them off when she takes over a Sect, and since the Triad are like her elite guard, she would have nothing but girls in it.
The twins joke about how Troy only has eyes for "Senpai" which refers to Ria, since all the relationships shown/possible are Shoujo Ai (female × female). So, this would be the same with Troy and Ria.

Points that indicate that Troy could be a boy

Troy is a guy's name at least in English (in Japanese, it's pronounced as to-ro-i / トロイ) however in the game it seemed to be pronounced as to-ro-i-a / トロイア so the English name may be a mistranslation.
Troy's appearance:

Troy sounds like a boy (but that could mean little)

So I am wondering, is Troy a girl, or is Troy actually a boy (and the translation is wrong)?

This is Troy's profile from the official site's character introduction.

Although Troy's appearance is like a boy, Troy is a she. From the last paragraph of Troy's description:

口数が少なく、常に行動を共にする双子も
彼女のことはよく知らない。
Does not talk much, and even the twins whom Troy usually act together with
do not know much about her.

While VNDB claims that she is also a transgender, I don't have any proof to support or counter it. However, from the sample dialog on the image,

「そんなの、ボクには関係ない。
　　君たちの好きにすればいいだろ」

she refers to herself as ボク (boku) which defines her personality as a bokukko (Warning: TV Tropes link)

A Bokukko is, literally, a girl who uses the first-person Japanese Pronoun boku, primarily used by boys and young men. [...]
Most bokukko are tomboys, but not all; sometimes it just indicates that the user is a Plucky Girl or unaware of social norms. [...] Although none of this has to be reflected in her appearance, bokukko are usually either flat-chested or extremely well-endowed.
This speech pattern can also be used to keep a character's gender obscured—is she a boyish girl, or a girlish boy?

Last but not least, Kisaki Kotori ― the voice-actor herself ― listed her role on her official site as female for Troy.

トロイア役 (Troy)　♀

Regarding the name トロイア (toroia) as Troy, most possibly it refers to Troy, a city used as the setting of the famous Trojan War. Japanese Wikipedia lists トロイア (toroia), トロイ (toroi) and トロイアー (toroia-) as the possible pronunciations.


How much time has passed between the final fight and Sasuke Shinden (anime)? Between the end of the Naruto and Sasuke fight (ep 479) and the beginning of Sasuke Shinden (ep 484), you can see that most of the characters have not only received a new set of clothes and hairstyle but have also aged quite a bit.

So how much time has passed?

Found this image on Light Novels page of Naruto Wikia. Light Novels - Naruto
The page also lists the the timeline of the novels, but for some reason it doesn't list Sasuke Shinden. But there seems to be an official timeline, probably from Jump/Databook (Citation Needed)

I don't read Japanese, so maybe someone could corroborate, but looking at the covers, Sasuke Shinden seems to be in the same period as that of Gaara Hiden. Following this Sasuke Shinden take place somewhere between 2-10 years after Naruto and Sasuke fought in the Valley of the end

Edit: Correction. It seems the event take place just before Chapter 700 of the Manga, but after Naruto becomes Hokage so closer to 10 years rather than 3 that I assumed. However this is true only for the Light Novel and not the Anime. Found the translated timeline on Reddit: A guide to the Naruto Light Novels, Naruto Gaiden, and The Blank Period. It seems like the most complete timeline of Light Novels I could find.

In the Anime, Naruto is yet to be Hokage and there are several other discrepancies. No official timeline as of yet, but events seem to be just AFTER the events of The Last.

Edit: Confirmed for Anime too. The Events of Sasuke Shinden Episode 484-488 take place some time after the events of the movie: The Last.

Images for reference Below, Order (LtR- Official Timeline, Sasuke Shinden, Gaara Hiden):


What is the one eyed mask in Noragami? I've noticed this mask being used by almost every major antagonist in the anime. It's mostly used by them as some sort of a gateway to call the Phantoms (Ayakashi) but what exactly is it?

The masks are a medium that utilises the power of Hell to call forth Ayakashi and they basically materialise Izanami's power in our world. The masks are created by Fujisaki Kouto, Yato's father. The are created using the power of the Yomi no Kotonoha (Words of Hell), which are used through paint brushes that utilise the power of Izanami. He currently possesses two brushes, his own and Ebisu's. The ability the brushes provide are of course masks summoning and the control over Ayakashi.

  Masks Summoning: An ability she obtains from using the Mandate of Hell (Phantom Brush). She is able to summon phantoms without chanting or affixing a mask, and without sustaining blight in the process, unlike Ebisu.


Why did Nano explode? I was recommended My Ordinary Life by a friend and have watched the first episode.  Needless to say, I was confused and amazed.

Towards the beginning of the first episode, Nano trips into a guy and results in a rather large explosion.

I have a feeling trying to apply logic to this show is likely impossible, but is there any reason for the explosion?  Was it from tripping, the cherry blossom, or possibly the sandal falling off?

Note: I've only seen the first episode so far so (if there even are any) please refrain from spoilers.

Nichijou's characters frequently have over-the-top reactions, this is just another one of those.

Here's a clip from later on that demonstrates my point (out of many) - http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UD95EI3zD8A (no plot spoilers, but don't watch it you want to watch everything chronologically)

Nano's explosion was a purely a manifestation of her fretting and embarrassment, She wasn't actually hurt too badly and appears uninjured in the next scene.


To which Singaporean building does the one in this still correspond? In the Yuri!!! on Ice end credits, we see a string of photos on social media featuring different characters. In one of them, Jean-Jacques Leroy is with some women in front of a Western-style building. The photo is tagged with #Singapore.

What location in Singapore does the building in this still correspond to? Other stills in the ED sequence without a "generic" background clearly have real-life counterparts, so it is likely that the same holds here. (The lion statue in one of Yuri Plisetsky's photos corresponds to that at the exterior of the State Russian Museum, the building in Michele Crispino's photo to the Florence Cathedral, and the location in Otabek Altin's to the Zhibek Zholy metro station in Kazakhstan.)

According to this wikia page and evident by photographs, it is the Raffles Hotel.


Why weren't the four Hokages reincarnated by Kabuto in the Shinobi war? In the anime, Kabuto reincarnated Asuma, Dan, Hizashi etc from Konoha to battle against the allied Shinobi forces. Earlier, Orochimaru reincarnated the 1st and 2nd Hokage to battle against the 3rd. Why didn't Kabuto reincarnate the four of them to fight against the alliance? Couldn't they be reincarnated again or wasn't that part of Tobi's plan?

Actually, Kabuto can't revive the 1st and the 2nd Hokage simply because Hiruzen Sarutobi (3rd) sealed them away using the Dead Demon Consuming Seal.

While the reason Orochimaru can revive the two is because he ripped the belly of the Demon (Shiki Fuujin) who consumed their souls in Naruto chapter 618, page 4.


Why does the knight leader have the power level of a saint? In the third season of the anime when fighting against 2 saints and the knight leader, the second princess says that it's hard to fight against 3 people with saint level. The 3rd person fighting was the knight leader, who also formerly defeated a saint.

Why does the knight leader have the power level of a saint, if he isnt a saint?

This is explained in episode 12. From the Crunchyroll EngSub (the best source I could find), around the 10 minute mark, while Knight Leader is defeating Kanzaki:

  Within our realm, the king is the archangel and knights are angels!
  I don't car if you are a saint, as long as we are in this land, the amount of power I have is on an entirely different level.

He traces this back to how the country was formed, and it is later explained that the UK itself was created by Henry VIII like this in order to be independent from the pope, so the power of the knights seems to be part of the country's structure, so Carissa was unable to take this power away from him.


Who cursed poor Zeref? I was thinking of Mard Geer, since he's said to be more powerful than Zeref.

But was it ever mentioned in canon who cursed Zeref to be immortal?

In chapter 436, Zeref mentioned that he must have been cursed by Ankhseram, the God of life and death, for researching resurrection magic (R-System, Eclipse Gate, and later Summoning Magic). One of the side-effects of this curse was that he became immortal.

As mentioned by Denslat, this is indeed metaphorical. At this point it is not proven whether a deity exists in the Fairy Tail world. As far as we know, the curse was cast upon those magicians that had messed around with incomplete versions of Grand Magic (or Black Magic, depending on the translation). Zeref for using resurrection magic.

   Mavis for using (Fairy) Law. FT 449, FT Zero 11

So whether a real deity was upset or not, the people in the Fairy Tail world, call this curse the curse of Ankhseram, the God of life and death, regardless of its existence.


Which my hero academia volume should i start if i want to read season 2? I started watching my hero academia in anime and finished the first season. But now i want to switch to manga instead, which volume should i start reading from?

According to the BNHA wiki for Season 1 of the anime and Chapter 21 of the manga, since Season 1 has 13 episodes, Season 2 starts with episode 14, and Page 18 of Chapter 21 is where episode 14 starts from.
Therefore, you should probably start reading from Chapter 21, or if you don't care about skipping the one page, you can just start at Chapter 22.
Volume 3 starts with Chapter 18, so you can start there too.


What artbook is this image of an angel girl from? This question came up in chat here. The goal was originally to identify this image:

I found a much larger version of the image (click for full size):

This shows that this is actually part of a 2-page spread in an artbook (pages 16 and 17), and has some (Japanese) text on it. The text is somewhat readable, as is the artist's name, but there's some difficulty in reading some of the characters/letters. It also seems likely that the characters are original.

Who is the artist of this image, and what artbook is it from? Also, what does the text say?

According to imageboards Zerochan and E-ShuuShuu the artist is Tinkle (possible under the alias of Tinkerbell).
It was published in "Angel Ring" which seems to match with the text at the bottom of the pages you posted. Toranoana still has the sale page for it up despite it being sold out, and one of the pages you posted is part of the preview.
*=You can click on either button to view the page. There is no NSFW content on that specific page, but the site does also sell 18+ stuff. Since this page is SFW, it doesn't matter if you say you are over/under 18 on the prompt page.
My translation, based on the higher quality text that Krazer posted:

An angel girl. I went for the image of someone wearing a costume for a photographer rather than the image of a real angel. I love her baby doll features and semi-transparent clothes.
This is a devil girl. Since she's a bit older than the angel girl, her clothes are also a little more revealing. ...But I guess they're not so different anyway.


Does Rintarou also transfer his tiredness everytime he travels back in time by transfering his memories? So Rintarou travels back in time by transfering his memories. Then a day passes and he transfers his  memories back again. Another day passes and he transfers his memories again. And so on. Many days have passed but he returns to a body which recently slept (one day ago probably) but his mind havent slept for many days. Is it supposed he's a day tired or dozens of days tired? How does the travel in time by transfering memories (and/or state of mind) works?

I think it is implied that the physical tiredness isn't transfered as Okabe seems to be able to stay awake without physically suffering from it after much more time than would be humanly possible.

However, the repetitive transfers seem to affect his mental health in a big way, as suggested in one of the game's endings (Suzuha's ending):

   Okabe keeps on repeating the day prior to Mayuri's death because he gave up on trying to prevent her death but doesn't want her to go away. After dozens if not hundreds of "rewinds", he ends up going mental and having homicidal thoughts. "What would happen if I just give Daru a push when that truck passes by ? Would anything really change if he dies ? I would be able to leap back to the beginning of the day anyways..." (The wording might not be correct, this is just my recollection of this ending). He ends up getting help from Suzuha.


Was the continuation of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle ending in manga shown in Kobato? In Kobato Episode 20: "...The Travellers", Kobato met Syaoran, Fye, Kurogane and Mokona (all of them looked more mature for me and I think Kurogane and Fye both grew hair). Since Sakura wasn't with them, is it safe to assume that this episode is somehow a sneak peek of the continuation of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle ending in the manga showing their continuous journey?

Where,

   the epilogue ends with Syaoran deciding to go on a journey in order to try and find a way for the soul of clone Syaoran (who is his own father) to be restored to a body, Sakura has revealed that she had a dream which has given her a vision of the future so she can not go on the journey. Apparently in order to escape from the final prison of Fei Wong Reed, Syaoran gave up something. Syaoran gave up being able to settle down in one place so now he's traveling endlessly with Kurogane and Fye (who both decided to go with him) and of course Mokona (their transportation medium).

In episode 20 of Kobato, when Kobato mentions that Syaoran and his companions have been traveling for a long time and Syaoran says,

   "but it's a not journey with a destination. I guess you could say our destination is to continue travelling." When Kobato asks if it's undecided where they are going, he replies, "It would be difficult to decide. For one thing, we don't know how long we can stay in one place. But, I have someone waiting for me."

So it's definitely after the end of the Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle epilogue published in October 2009, (Episode 20 of Kobato aired in March 2010):

   Syaoran is on his journey and they've been doing this for some considerable amount of time.  Where Syaoran went to look for a world where the clones can live, Sakura stayed in Clow because of her dream that she'd only cause sadness if she went with Syaoran, thus she is the one "waiting for me".

As far as I know, the October 7th epilogue was the last of the story, as a way to sort of tie up the loose ends. Kobato's crossover generated a lot of speculation about maybe getting more Tsubasa out of CLAMP, but they announced in 2009 that the epilogue will be the end. There hasn't been any official news about the manga or continuing the story since. Though it wouldn't be surprising to see more crossovers with Syaoran, Fye, and Kurogane continuing their journey in future CLAMP productions.


What is the name of the OST playing at 18:40 in Shingeki no Kyojin Episode 1? In the original anime Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan), there was an OST playing at 18 minutes and 40 seconds into the first episode.  This OST happenned when Eren Jaeger saw the Collosol Titan for the first time before the latter smashed a hole into the outer wall.  What was the name of that OST/song in the background?  (If the song name is a part of a bigger OST name (aka Difficult OST from One Piece being made of two parts, Shichibukai and Mr. Prince), could you name only the specific half of the OST?  Thanks.

The OST you're looking for probably XL-TT.

It's on album by Hiroyuki Sawano, Attack on Titan (Original Soundtrack) track #14

See this YouTube video

Album Cover


Biju Control by Hashirama and Uchiha Why are the Uchiha able to control Biju or at least the nine tails?

Why was Hashirama able to do so?

Well its due to the Sharingan, the sharingan is a direct derivative of the rinnegan which the Sage of Six Paths used to CREATE the 9 beasts, this is For most Uchiha

As for Hashirama, he didnt exactly control the 9 tails, he just put a restriction jutsu on it, restricting its movement, he does have a lot of jutsus, he also does have this beast restriction ability similar to Yamato, but to "Control" is a bit of a stretch


Is Erza's samurai costume considered an armor? That famous costume where her hair is tied in a very long huge pony tail and she has only bandages on her torso and this baggy red hakama pants with a katana.

Is that an armor? If so, what's the name?

There really is no name for the armor, some people call it the Japanese Cloth armor but the fact is that it is not really armor. It is a completely offensive requip in which she puts all of her power into her sword for attacks. On the wiki page for her battle against Azuma it states:

  Erza decides that in order to defeat him, she has to collect all of her Magic into a single offensive attack without wasting any on defensive power. She requips into her Japanese-like clothes, previously used in her battle against Ikaruga in, stating that she has no need for armor and only her sword.

On her wiki page you can see that the requip in question is not listed.
For a complete listing of her armors you can find that here: Armors


What is the purpose of purple rope belt that Sasuke wears? All Orochimaru's people are wearing a purple color rope belt. What is the purpose of it? Why Sasuke is wearing it even after killing Orochimaru? Does it offer any power?

The purple rope is like an Obi, a garment worn with the traditional Japanese kimono. Besides that, and holding his clothes together, the only real purpose it serves is to hold his sword. You don't want to be always carrying a sword in one hand, especially during fights. Sasuke started carrying a sword after the timeskip, so that might explain why he changed his attire to include that purple rope.

Orochimaru used to carry the Kusanagi sword, and the other characters might be doing it to show their loyalty to Orochimaru.


Was Griever created by Squall's mind? Griever is one of the bosses on the final battle sequence of Final Fantasy VIII.

You get the option of naming (or using the default name) Griever mid-game, when Rinoa asks about the lion ring Squall uses.

There is no evidence of Griever existing before he is used by Ultimecia.

Given the mind-games that take place in the story, it is no wonder if Squall's mind could create a GF.

The ingame flavor text for Griever reads:

  In Squall's mind, the strongest GF ...
  [emphasis mine]

So it seems like a bit of Chunibyo by Squall's part.

The wiki on Griever speculates that this is indeed true:

  Griever's true nature is made more explicit in the Japanese version of the game where Ultimecia claims to summon the one entity Squall views as the most powerful whose power would only increase the stronger Squall envisions it. This means that this manifestation of Griever is powerful purely because of his importance as a symbol in Squall's mind, and could even be seen as Squall needing to overcome a part of himself to win the battle.

There we have a hint that Griever did not exist before that final battle. So how did Griever come to be?

Most probably, yes.
Here's Ultimecia's original script in Japanese:

アルティミシア
「おまえの思う、最も強い者を召喚してやろう」
「おまえが強く思えば思うほど、」
「それは、おまえを苦しめるだろう」
「ふふっ」

translated to:

Ultimecia
"Let me summon the one you think is the strongest thing."
"The stronger you think it is,"
"the more it will torment you."
"Heh heh."

This is because Squall admired and believed Lion as a powerful creature, as described in Final Fantasy 20th Anniversary Ultimania File 2: Scenario guide book, page 247:

Image courtesy of Squall_of_Seed

Griever
The legendary lion famous as king of the beasts
A name attached to Lion, an imaginary animal that doesn't exist in this world. Squall, who admires its solitary figure, had his gunblade and accessories etched with lion design, and made it as a foundation in his closed mind.
⇐ The sorceress Ultimecia materialized Griever from images in Squall's mind as a G.F. and used it in the battle.


Why is Kanata Age called a traitor in Kuusen Madoushi? The first episode of Kūsen Madōshi Kōhosei no Kyōkan shows Kanata risking his life for his friends. However, when they show him next, they call him a traitor.

The wiki is very unhelpful in this regard.

Why they call him a traitor?

Well... no one knows, not as of the end of episode one, anyway. According to the first episode, while everyone else was escaping, something happened with Kanata. Nothing else was revealed other than that, so it's basically all speculation until they reveal it.


What is the reason behind the revenge of obito on the uchiha clan? I can't find any reason why obito want revenge of his clan on the uchiha massacre.. Any ideas??
But at this moment writing this.. I thought about obito was telling itachi that he is madara.. So maybe obito said those words about the revenge because the uchiha clan has betrayed madara..

I don't remember exactly that well anymore, but Obito I know he impersonated Madara. Madara has left the leaf village. In episode 345 or episode 346 of Naruto Shippuuden it was already shown that Obito was "supposedly Madara". Madara then spoke through Obito and it was later said that Madara Uchiha was manipulating Obito. Maybe that's what this is about :)


What type of trees can Ueki make? In the anime Law of Ueki, Ueki has the power to "turn trash into trees".

What kind of tree(s) does he turn trash into? Can he control what tree he creates?

As per the wiki

  Although the power to turn trash into trees may seem weak, Ueki can be
  creative with it, making wood darts, wood clubs and wood vines. He is
  able to win most battle which may seem impossible, beating someone
  with 299 talents when he only had 11. He can even make trees strong
  enough to travel directly through cars.

  Its seen that he can make any tree he wants, making a chestnut tree to
  counter Taira's fire attacks with the chestnuts flying out of the tree
  and shooting at the opponent(but really wanted to make them hot enough
  to eat).


How did orochimaru use triple rashomon with his hands sealed? Orochimaru got his hands sealed when he was fighting against hiruzen sarutobi. He got his hands back much later during the war. But when he was fighting 4 tails Naruto at the beginning of Shippuden, he summoned triple rashomon. At that time he still didn't have his hands. So how did he manage to do that.

After Hiruzen used the Reaper Death Seal, Orochimaru arms were immobilized and was unable to do anything with them (ie, perform justu). As a result, Orochimaru was forced to find a new host for his soul due to his current host's condition progressively got worse.
Transferring his soul into a new host cured the physical ailments of Orochimaru's conditions. While his soul was still damaged spiritually, he could at least perform justus that did not require hand seals.

Though the act undid most of the damage caused by the Dead Demon Consuming Seal, it still left Orochimaru incapable of using techniques requiring hand seals.
(emphasis my own)

Summoning justu does not require hand seals. Instead, summoning only requires a blood sacrifice and summoning seal.


How does the Steins;Gate phone microwave work? The operation of the phone microwave in Steins;Gate is confusing me. I finished episode 9, and I don't fully understand how it works; except that it allows texts to be sent in the past, 1 second on timer = 1 hour in reality, and that messages can only be sent during 12pm-6pm.

Can someone explain the rest of the microwaves' operation?

1) the bananas turning green, and why the first green batch wouldn't transport?

2) why did Mayuri's chicken tenders burn? can food be cooked like normal, or is their microwave permanently modified?

3) why a phone is hooked up to the microwave, what is the significance in connecting it, and why is it no longer needed in future episodes?

4) in reference to question 3, what type of connection was the phone connected by? USB?

5) why does the timer always seem to be set to 120?

6) what do the orange numerals above the timer numerals mean?

7) how is data sent? how are objects sent?

8) what is the cause of the electrical discharge? and why does it appear at different intervals?

9) is there significance behind the rotation of the microwave table? does clockwise move time forward, and vice versa?

10) how is a modern day text message able to be routed to a 90s pager?

11) what is the large flat radio device sitting on top of the microwave, and what is its purpose?

12) what the heck is a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube)? the landlord wears clothing with CRT related phrases on them

I will leave out anything that is related to further in the anime.

1- they went green because they entered the blackhole that was created, but were spat out again in the same place as no "space/time coordinates were sent (ie a phonenumber)

3- as far I can tell it is always needed up until Okabe does something "different".

4- it is in a dock stand probably hard wired manually into the circuitry on the microwave

5- lazy animation

6- date time

8- PLOT

Quite easily, as long as they know the phonenumber as pagers worked alot like texts do these days.

12 - Cathode ray tubes is what Old Televisions used to create images, I wont go into any detail so google this.


How did reanimated Haku and Zabuza die? According to Naruto wiki, a reanimated body can die from any of the following ways:

  Remove the soul from the reincarnated body, such as with the Dead
  Demon Consuming Seal.
  Have the summoner end the technique. As they are unlikely to do this
  voluntarily, using a genjutsu to trick them into cancelling the
  technique is ideal.
  A less reliable, though equally effective method is to have the
  reincarnated soul be affected in some emotional way that gives them
  closure, allowing their soul to break free of the Impure World
  Reincarnation's influence.

At episode 265, after Haku and Zabuza got reincarnated, they were faced by Kakashi and his army. At first, they were really hesitating to kill Kakashi and army and said that were under control of someone. Meanwhile, Kabuto used Mitarashi Anko to harness Orochimaru's chakra to tighten Haku's and Zabuza's soul to the body and as a result they became really powerful, a immortal killing puppet. They were fighting really hard and at episode 266(spoilers below):

   Both Zabuza and Haku got killed by Kakashi's chidori.

How did they die? Neither of the above three points were followed i.e the soul were not removed by reaper death seal, nor the summoner was under a genjutsu nor the soul was affected in any emotional way. Yes, they were emotional at first but after getting Orochimaru's power, their soul were tightened more to the body which Kabuto felt that they were now a mere immortal killing machine.

   Why did Zabuza and Haku got killed by a mere ninjustsu?

Neither Haku or Zabuza were "killed" in the sense you describe. In the same episode you referenced, they were both temporarily immobilized:

Haku was immobilized by shielding himself in front of Zabuza when attacking was attempting to strike him with Chidori
Zabuza was immobilized after Kakashi successfully hit him with a Chodori.

As they were immobilized, this gave Ensui Nara an opportunity to hold them with the Shadow Bind technique

  After Zabuza cuts through Haku, Ensui told Santa that Kakashi only caught one enemy and immobilised Haku as he regenerated. When Kakashi successfully connected his shadow to Zabuza's, he immediately immobilised him as well.

In this Youtube video, you can see the shadow line holding two shinobi down. This gave another shinobi to use the Cloth Binding Technique to capture them.


Why is the release of season 2 of Attack on Titan delayed? The first season of Attack on Titan aired from April 6, 2013 to September 28, 2013, as stated on Wikipedia. Although the anime is popular and there are demands for the second season, the second season is not yet released. I came across this article, which explains the reason for the delay as:

  According to the director, there are a lot of things happening in the "Attack on Titan" franchise this year, which hinders the second season production and has delayed the hit-anime to 2016. It was also revealed the delay is due to Hajime Isayama's best-selling manga lacking two-story arc, which make it impossible for Araki to come up with a new season.

This makes fans (like me of course) impatient... What is this lacking two-story arc referring to?

What is this lacking two-story arc referring to?

I recall reading that and I believe it should have read "lacking a two-story arc", meaning there either wasn't enough material in the manga for the anime creators to do a second season, or the material present hadn't yet concluded any identifiable second "arc".


Why didn't Kizaru engage Beckman in the Marineford War? In episode 488 of One Piece anime,

During the Battle of Marineford, Beckman prevented Admiral Kizaru from attacking Luffy and Trafalgar Law, telling Kizaru not to move a muscle while aiming his gun at him.
source: Benn Beckman

Kizaru is supposed to be impervious to physical attacks, but he didn't engage Beckman, so was it because he didn't want to fight Beckman at the moment  and thereby starting a war with the Red Hair Pirates or was it because Beckman's rifle is special?

Quoting One Piece Wiki:

  According to Oda, Beckman has the highest IQ of all the characters introduced in the East Blue saga. Since he is a first mate to a Yonko, he presumably possesses a great deal of strength. During the Battle of Marineford, Admiral Kizaru chose not to fight him, even though he had just fought the First Commander of Whitebeard's crew and Whitebeard himself.

We see Marguerite attacking Luffy with an Haki infused arrow here:

Benn Beckman being the first mate of the Red Hair Pirates obviously has incredible power and Haki. Since Kizaru as well backed off, it makes it evident that Beckmann can imbue his bullets in Haki as well, although that hasn't been directly shown yet.

Another reason would obviously be to avoid engaging in a war with the Red Hair Pirates/one of the Yonko. We already saw the kind of power the Yonko have when it took the whole of Marine Power to subdue Whitebeard. Needless to say, had they engaged in a war with Shanks, there would have been many more casualties.

As per the Wikia article on Battle of Marineford:

  Shanks threatens both the Marines and Blackbeard pirates alike to have his entire crew involved in the fighting, if they chose to continue the war. With the Gura Gura no Mi under his possession, Teach no longer sees the point in resuming the battle and has his crew depart from the battlefield. As Blackbeard leaves the scene, the absence of a designated rival and presence of a powerful Yonko convinces Sengoku to concede to the necessity of a ceasefire, ordering the Marines to tend to the wounded.

The last and final reason I can think of is that the Marines had already achieved their goal of executing Ace and also managed to get rid of Whitebeard. There wasn't any reason to engage Beckman in the first place, unless they were looking for a needless battle.


What disease did Kenshin and Kaoru catch that killed them? In the OVA Rurouni Kenshin : Seisouhen, there was a scene where Sanosuke and Kenshin met each other again after a few years. Sanosuke tossed Kenshin a grilled fish on a stick and Kenshin wasn't able to catch it showing that the disease had slowed his speed and reaction time severely.

Kaoru seemed to have caught the disease from Kenshin after spending a night together which means it's some kind of an STD.

Is there any disease that's similar to the aforementioned, in real life?

I found this on the Wikipedia page for Rurouni Kenshin: Reflection

  Kenshin eventually becomes ravaged by an unknown disease that is much
  like leprosy (the writers have admitted there is no medical
  explanation for Kenshin's condition[citation needed]). To share his
  pain, Kaoru convinces Kenshin to infect her with the disease through
  sexual intercourse.

Leprosy is not an std but can be spread through physical contact with a person who is infected.  Since it is said that the disease is much like leprosy it could have been transmitted to her when she stayed with him.

As far as canonicity the story was not written by Nobuhiro Watsuki. I'm not sure if this story was considered canon or not but the following is a quote from the Wikipedia

  Although Samurai X: Reflection was not written by Watsuki, he stated that he "checked in on the script."[5] Watsuki mentioned not having input in it, and let the director "run wild with it." In response to Kenshin's death in comparison to the happy ending in the manga version, he felt that his own work eventually would have reached Kenshin's death had he continued writing. He had not wished to pursue that line because "Kenshin went through so much crap and deserved a happy ending." He felt that neither version was better than the other because "it's a personal taste thing."[5]


Why does master Roshi want the plane to stop before the second Tenkaichi tournament? In Dragon Ball, master Roshi and the others take a plane trip over to Papaya island for the 2nd Tenkaichi tournament (in the series). During the plane-ride, master Roshi seems to become extremely upset and wants the plane to stop. I watched this a few times, and I guess I just didn't understand this part.

Why does he want the plane to stop?

If you're talking about the manga, Master Roshi indeed wants the plane to stop, but the reason is quite obvious to the reader: he wants to poop real bad (Chapter 113). This is so clearly stated that I am not sure this is what you were asking about. Maybe it is not so clear in the anime?


How did Madoka essentially become the universe when all she wished for was to erase the witches before their creation? I get that Madoka would have to be a fundamental law of the universe considering that she's overwriting the concepts that the universe is based upon, but her only wish was that to erase all witches before their creation. However, somehow, Madoka now suddenly knows everything about the universe, including how Homura worked hard to save Madoka throughout all those different timelines. How does she have access to that information? How was she given vision of the entire universe and all events within if her wish didn't reach that far? She only had one goal and that's all she wished for, but she was given sight of the whole universe.

It's because it was told to her in Episode 11.

  Madoka visits Homura's house, where she asks her if it is really not possible to defeat Walpurgis Night alone, as Kyoko said. Homura denies Kyoko's words, but Madoka finds it difficult to believe her. Homura then reveals her true identity and history to Madoka, hugging her.

Source: Episode 11 - Summary (6th paragraph)

you can also see a transcript of their conversation on that page aswell.

Later on in the episode Madoka leaves the shelter to talk to Kyubey who tells her that Homura fights because she has hope and if the worst case scenario occurs Homura can go back in time again. this more or less confirms to Madoka what Homura has gone though proably already assuming then Homura's been though a lot due to how she acted when they were together at Homura's Place

Also remember that at the very beginning of the series Madoka had a dream of the a timeline and it's confirmed later when she meets Homura. one can assume that Madoka has the knowledge/memories of all the previous timelines inside her has her karmic destiny builds up but probably not understanding what they mean at least until she learns about who Homura is

Also her wish did reach all of the universe as her wish was

  to erase all witches from existence before they're even born. Every witch in the universe, from the past and the future, with my own hands

which means she is everywhere in the universe from past to future. you could consider the alternate timelines Homura terminates as apart of the universe given it is all these timelines that Madoka got her god like power from (as originally she was a normal Magical Girl)

However if you interrupt the "everything" Madoka knows as being more than her and Homura's fates then you need to know how Madoka seeks out Witches. My assumption is that there isn't another system or force guiding her rather Madoka exists in every moment in history all over the universe observing and waiting for a witch to appear.

also her perspective of time will no longer be linear like everyone else such as when 2 Magical Girls become witches, she must exist in both places at the same time to ensure that there is no chance a Magical Girl becomes a witch as her wish is to erase Witches before they are born


Is it known if Ergo Proxy is really set in our world? In Wikipedia's page on Ergo Proxy, it is stated that:

  The story begins in a futuristic domed city called Romdeau, built to protect its citizens after a global ecological disaster thousands of years prior.

And the "thousands of years" part leads to a page on the 23rd century.
However, I don't remember any specific year ever having been stated in the anime.
I actually don't think it was ever explicitly said whether it takes place in our world or not.

Was it ever stated (in-universe or by the authors) if it takes place in our world?
If so, is a specific time-slot/date ever given?
Or is the Wikipedia's link to the 23rd century page complete humbug?

According to ergoproxy.wikia.com (note that the second paragraph contains spoilers for anyone who hasn't watched the whole series):

  The series takes place in a post-apocalyptic future of Earth, focusing on the aftermath of a global ecological disaster. The apparent cause of this travesty was rapid climate change due to a string of explosions in methane hydrate reserves. Occuring during the second half of the 21st century, the impromptu detonations succeeded in wiping out 85% of the planet's Human population.

  In order to survive, the remaining Humans made 300 Proxies in an event known as the Proxy Project and charged them with the creation of another Human race; they were to be nurtured within Dome Cities of the Proxies' establishment. These sealed off communities contained a birthing system called the WombSys as well as AutoReivs, two factors intended to aid and propagate the fledgling species. Once the Proxies were sent forth, the original Humans left Earth for another planet, biding their time until they were certain that Earth was safe for both Human races to settle. Their purpose completed, the then obsolete Proxies would have their immortal Amrita Cells destroyed by the emerging sun's deadly rays, unable to live under blue skies and therefore stamped out as relics of the past.

So to summarize, it does take place on earth/in our world following a post-apocalyptic event.


Can Sanji use COA(Color of Arms/Busoshoku)? He didn't use it on Punk Hazard and he wasn't on Dressrosa. However it was mentioned in the manga when he battled his father in the current whole cake island arc that his haki is strong but it was not specified which haki.

Can Sanji use armament?

Yes, Sanji can use CoA, even if it was not shown yet to my knowledge. We know this from Chapter 668, when Law asks Luffy who of his crew is able to fight Caesar, a Logia user.


Are there any other known members of Anbu: Root, apart from Sai and Danzou? In Naruto, apart from Sai and Danzou, which other characters were members of the secret subdivision of Anbu, Root?

At one point, Yamato was a member of Root. This is true in both anime and manga. Kakashi was also a member of Root, but this is only true in the anime. Yamanaka Fuu and Aburame Tatsuma, the two ninja Danzo brought to the Five Kage summit was also member of Root. For a full list of Root members, see the wikia page.

Credits to Ero Sennin for pointing me the Root wikia page.


Why does "Tornado of Terror" have so much power reserved in her storage? Why does Tatsumaki have so much power reserve than any other psychics around her combined?

 In the manga series she is seen to be concentrating more and more as people of the Hero Association leave the building and finally blasts off with her power towering more than Geryuganshoop and Orochi combined.

I just want to know how is it even possible?

The origins of her powers are presently unknown, so in that sense that's all that can be said about your question.  She's known to have had them since a young age, if not since birth.  Her sister also has exceptional power, but Tatsumaki's is just so ridiculous that she puts it to shame.  So possibly she is just the winner of the psychic genetic lottery.  We do know there is some organization that was trying to engineer and refine psychics, ultimately including Tatsumaki, but to date Tatsumaki's connections to them are not known to predate her childhood.
As a storytelling matter, the entire character and power level of Orochi (and Orochi-Psykos) were specifically designed to challenge Tatsumaki.  In the original webcomic, Tatsumaki is never really challenged at her full power during the MA arc, and she still pulls the entire base up from underground with barely any effort and tries to take everyone on by herself.  Instead she gets hit with a cleverly orchestrated sneak attack that gives her a concussion, which significantly dampens her power.  At the very least, Tatsumaki herself blames everything on it, rather than anyone actually having adequate power to oppose her.
For the manga version, Murata and One decided that Tatsumaki needed a more proper challenge and a more breathtaking display of her power.  Hence the Orochi-Psykos fight and all the ridiculous stuff Tatsumaki does during it.  This also serves to help them introduce a number of elements about Tatsumaki's backstory and motivations earlier than they are given in the webcomic. It also elevates the concept of a "God" level threat from unrealistic bluster and exaggeration to plausible.  As a matter of storytelling tautology, a "God" level threat must necessitate the world be able to sustain and produce heroes of great power to oppose it, and so a Tatsumaki like entity is an inevitability.
Back to the in-story reasons, the best we can do is conjecture, as there are quite a lot of questions about Blast, the nature and origins of his power, and what exactly these cubes are he's collected and who the "him" he says it connects to actually is.  These mysteries seem to be going down into the very roots of the nature of this world, and may be near cosmic in profundity (and so make the idea of a "God" level threat potentially more than just bluster and exaggeration), so any further revelations about them may similarly reveal the reason that certain heroes, Tatsumaki and Blast in particular, exist and have so much power.


Has there been an English dub release of Ghost in the Shell - Arise 3? Can anyone please tell me if there has there been an English dub release of Ghost in the Shell - Arise 3?

To clarify, so far there have been no official announcement on Border OVAs 3 or 4 in respect to dubbing. Funimation announced on the 8th of March that they aquired the rights to Arise: Altered Architecture, a recompilation of the four Border OVAs. No word if the dubs or the OVA will continue or if they will just move onto the TV versions, as the dubbed version for 1 and 2 just came out around mid-May 2015.


Anime about a boy who collects memory fragments so that princess will remember him It's about a boy who falls in love with a princess who makes a deal to save her life she must lose all memory of him. He has to go and collect memory fragments in the form of feathers and each one she remembers more.

I think I might have found it:

Tsubasa Chronicle

  Synopsis (taken from the site itself)

  During an excavation at the mysterious ruins in Clow Country, Syaoran
  discovers his childhood friend Princess Sakura appear on the site with
  wings that disperse into many feathers. As the feather's disappear to
  different dimensions, so does Sakura's memory. In attempts to save
  Sakura's life and restore her memory, Syaoran travels through to
  another world to find a solution. There's only one thing left he can
  do. Travel through to different dimensions to collect Sakura's
  feathers. Helping out with the quest is Kurogane, an exiled ninja from
  Japan Country who wishes to return to his world, the runaway magician,
  Fay, who desires to jump between each world never to return to his own
  and the white meat-bun shaped creature, Mokona.

I think it fits the bill almost perfectly. As the synopsis points out, he falls in love with Princess Sakura, who loses her wings and are dispersed into many feathers which go to several worlds/dimensions, all of this causing her to lose her memory. It fails to mention anything about the deal, but as for everything else, I believe it's a dead giveaway.


What part of garment is this? Senketsu, Matoi Ryuuko's full-life-fiber uniform has this peculiar element on it that looks like an eyepatch:

The eye-like orange-red element on our right is a part of the scarf, but what is the black, grey-crossed eyepatch-like element on the opposite side?

Judging from episode 24...

   When Senketsu transforms into Senketsu Kisaragi after absorbing everybody else's life fibers, we witness his right eye opening rather than becoming uncovered (gif). This suggests that Senketsu was, initially, "blind" in his right eye before receiving enough life fibers to fix that, or something, and hence, that the eyepatch-like element on Senketsu's right is probably in fact just Senketsu's eye scarred shut.

 It's not clear to me at this point how this relates to the notion that Senketsu is modeled after Matoi Isshin, given that Isshin wore an eyepatch over his right eye, but was probably not blind in that eye (judging from his face when he, as Souichirou, got out of the bodybag - screencap), unless whatever he did to change his appearance (plastic surgery perhaps?) blinded him.


OST from Tokyo Ghoul:re episode 2 minute 00:00 What is the song title from Tokyo Ghoul:re episode 2 at 00:00?

I'm pretty sure it's Deep Dive by Yukata Yamada. Here is a YouTube link.


An anime with a scene where the protagonist fights against biological dolls I saw this 2008/2009. I think it was one of the last episodes but I liked the anime instantly. I remember only the fight scene. The protagonist was tough guy with a blonde hair tied to a ponytail, military sort, wearing round rimmed glasses and was fighting a sort of little girl, in a factory or lab if I remember it right. He was using guns. He thought he killed her but then it turned out she was actually some sort of biological doll or AI or something. Then all of a sudden, there were more of those little girl dolls.

That's all I remember. I've been searching a long time, help would be appreciated.

This sounds a lot like a scene in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence. Ponytail-san would be Batou. Those are his cyborg eyes, not glasses.


Identification of purple haired girl claiming she will pretend to be a cat if things go bad I'm looking for the source of the following image, including which episode of the source it appears in.

Google image search isn't able to find anything.

The reason I'm looking for this image, is because I want the image in better quality, given the current one is a small jpg with ugly artifacts.

It's this scene from Episode 9 of Koufuku Graffiti

  The story follows Ryou, a middle school girl who lives by herself. She has a knack for cooking and makes friendships with everyone through her food. The cooking manga is "full of detailed cuisine art to whet the appetite and slightly erotic meal scenes." The "koufuku" in the title is a wordplay on two Japanese homonyms—one which means "happiness," and another that means "appetite."

The girl is Kirin Morino.


Why is dubbed anime commercially considered a "premium"? You can easily, and legally, stream anime for free from services like Crunchyroll, Hulu, directly from the licensing companies (such as from Funimation), and whatnot.

But the catch to that free access to the content is that it is subbed, not dubbed; you have to pay an actual fee if you want to watch the anime dubbed.

Why is dubbed anime considered a "premium" that you have to pay for?

I ask this because a fairly substantial amount of the anime fan population actually prefer to watch subbed anime anyways, even to the point of inciting some ridiculous subbed vs dubbed arguments in Youtube comments sections and other internet forums...

Why charge for just dubbed anime when you can also charge for subbed as well? What makes dubbed so special that you have to pay for it, but not for subbed?

Creating anime costs a lot of money.  I admit that the numbers in that answer are more than likely ballparks, but you get the gist - per episode numbers are in the neighborhood of 11M yen (or ~$97,200).

Add on top of that the work that has to go into localization for release:

Certain scenes may have to be omitted, cut, shortened, censored or removed due to the difference in what is acceptable to broadcast in that country.  (I'm thinking of DiC for their creative dub of Sailor Moon, and 4Kids for just about everything they touched.  There were also scenes from various other series that had to be removed; you can read more about that over here.)
Certain jokes just don't translate well, no matter what you do.

The cost to do this adds on top of the original production costs, since there is the very strong likelihood that it's not just voice actors and actresses coming in and doing the work.

Above all, the series actually has to be doing sufficiently well in order to earn a dub, or there has to be sufficient demand to deem it profitable to do one.  One of the best examples that comes to mind is Toradora!, which had its original version broadcast and released back in 2009, and had its dub come out about five years later.  It's safe to say that yes, there was enough demand for this series to come out with a dub.

Suffice to say, the cost to produce the non-dubbed, often subtitled series is sufficiently less than hiring more staff to do essentially the same thing.  This is why dubbed anime is definitely at a premium - because the work being done is a premium service for non-native Japanese speakers.


Can you manipulate someone's thoughts with the death note? So let's say I write:

  Bob Shneizel Car Accident. Forgets where he lives, and then thinks about how awesome he is. Then he gets killed in a car accident at 9:30.

Would that (manipulating someone's thoughts via what I write) work?

My take on this, is that it could be possible, but not to much use.

Based on the content shown in the series, you can only specify his cause of deaths, and the events leading up to it.

But since it would all result in death regardless, and the victim seems to be able to do nothing when they run out predefined actions.

However, it is shown that the book can order people to commit suicide. The look on people's faces seems a bit like they are aware they will end their own lives soon, so maybe it is possible, in extention.

Only thing I can say with certain, is that you would need to give it a try:

From How to Use: VI

  The specific scope of the condition for death is not known to the gods
  of death, either. So, you must examine and find out.


Which level of Super Saiyan was Vegeta in Episode 8 of Dragon Ball Super? Vegeta was able to hit Beerus a few times in his episode 8 Super Saiyan level while Goku at Super Saiyan 3 was not able to. Canonically, Vegeta has never gone Super Saiyan 2 before (unless you consider Majin Vegeta to be Super Saiyan 2).

So which level did he go to in this episode? Super Saiyan 2 or something ascended?

He was at Super Saiyan 2, as you can clearly see the lightning/sparks around him. His hair didn't change its size. So SS3 is excluded.

This is probably the reason why Goku said Vegeta had surpassed him (in the Battle of Gods movie) at that specific time. Because at SS2, Vegeta was stronger than SS3 Goku.

And yes, Majin Vegeta was Super Saiyan 2 as well :)


How many times Gohan has surpassed Vegeta in power? Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball Super show Gohan and Vegeta's power levels were above and behind of each other several times. A few times I recall from the top of my mind.

When Freezer attacked Krilin, in an attack of rage Gohan surpassed Vegeta's power.
After Vegeta got a zenkai boost by being hit by Krilin and healed by Dende, he was beated to death easily by Freezer 4th form, but Gohan later was able to land some punches in that form.
After Gohan came out of the time chamber.

But I'm sure there are other times when this happened. How many times Gohan has surpassed Vegeta in power?

I would have to disagree with Gohan being stronger than Vegeta on Namek. It was more of Freiza being caught off guard and Gohan giving it his absolute all. I would say his sudden increase in power might have rivaled that of Vegeta's but he didn't surpass him. When Vegeta came back to earth while Goku and Freiza were fighting on Namek, we see him make quick work of Gohan.  I believe, the reason Gohan did better was because Vegeta was psyched out over the fact that he was facing Freiza, having known how powerful he was, he sort of gave up on both occasions which is why he was defeated so handily. Gohan on the other hand, didn't care and put all his power into a single barrage of attacks against Freiza. The only times where I'd say Gohan surpassed Vegeta would be:Post HTC training with Goku during the Cell arc: Gohan came out even stronger than Goku and Vegeta in his Mastered SSJ state.During the battle against Perfect Cell: When Gohan attained the SSJ2 transformation, he obviously surpassed all the Z fighters which include's Vegeta.After potential unlocked by the Elder Kai: When Gohan attained the Mystic Transformation, he obviously was way stronger than SSJ3 Goku who was way stronger than SSJ2 Vegeta. Hence Gohan Surpassed Vegeta here once again.In Dragon Ball Super, Gohan hasn't been that relevant until now in the tournament of power and as of now, Vegeta is stronger than Gohan.


What is song played when Ken is being tortured on seaons 1 episode 12? The song starts at 12:34 and is kind of discordant in the beginning.
It hits the part of being a real piano at around 14:00.

I am looking specifically for the song that starts at 14:00

The name of the song in the intro and episode 12  is unravel.


Is there a difference between Clones and Shadow Clones? In the first episode, Naruto failed the Graduation Test because he couldn't create a proper clone. Mizuki falsely tells Naruto that if he learns a Jutsu from the Forbidden Scroll, he can graduate. As such, Naruto studies, and successfully performs the Shadow Clone Jutsu, with Iruka commenting how Naruto was able to master an advance Jutsu with so many clones.

But what makes the Shadow Clone Jutsu more advanced than the Clone Jutsu that Naruto failed at?

Long story short clones does not have any chakra release and cant attack someone whereas shadow clones have chakra release and can attack.Thats why it is easy for Byakugan to distinguish between clones but hard between shadow clones.


Where can I watch/stream English subbed Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters? I've searched Google about the series but no results were found.

Where can I legally watch/stream English subbed Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters?

Hulu (Dub & Sub)
Crunchyroll (Sub only)
Yahoo! View (Dub only)
MyAnimeList


What are the 9 mountains and 8 seas? So we have all seen Zoro boast.

  Over the 9 mountains and 8 seas... Throughout the world itself... There is nothing I cannot cut.

Now it made me wonder, which mountains and what seas was he referring to?

Some of Zoro's attacks are named after Buddhism like 36/72/108 Pondo Hou

One Piece Wiki:

  the 36/72/108 Pondo Hou, is a reference to the 36 passions of Buddhism

So most likely Zoro is referring to the Buddhist legend of Sumeru the central world-mountain in Buddhist cosmology.

I'm not an Buddhism expert but in the Wikipedia article about Sumeru you see a list of 9 mountains and 8 seas, so since Zoro likes Buddhism and Hindu references in his attacks, it's most like Oda made a reference to this.


What do those symbols on the costume of the Sage of The Six Path represent? I'm referring to those red "symbols" which are, as I've found out, called Magatamas. I'm interested in knowing the fact that, do they representing something important or are they just some kind of ornaments?

Magatamas as you most likely found out as well are ceremonial and religious objects and are well used objects in the Japanese Mythology.

I have no ways to proof this is so but is one of the best guesses we have ( just like with allot of Naruto related stuff)

As described in the part under here. The Magatamas have a direct connection with Susanoo and Amaterasu. The sage of the six paths was also worshiped as the Saviour of this World (この世の救世主, Kono Yo no Kyūseishu).

  The Kojiki and Nihon shoki, completed in the 8th century, have numerous references to magatama. They appear in the early in the first chapter of the Nihon shoki, which largely describes the mythology of Japan. Susanoo, god of the sea and storms, received five hundred magatama from Tamanoya no mikoto, or Ame-no-Autodidact-no-mikoto, the jewel-making deity. Susanoo went to heaven and presented them to his sister, the sun goddess Amaterasu, who bit off successive parts of the magatama, and blew them away to create other deities. Tamanoya no mikoto remains the kami god of magatama, glasses, and cameras. In the legend Amaterasu later shuts herself in a cave. AMA-no-Koyane-no-mikoto hung magatama, among other objects, on a five hundred-branch sakaki tree, to successfully lure Amaterasu from the cave. In the year 58, in the reign of the Emperor Suinin, the Nihon shoki records that a dog kills and disembowels a mujina, a type of badger, and a magatama was discovered in its stomach. This magatama was presented to Suinin, who enshrined it at Isonokami Shrine, where it is said to presently reside. A similar practice is described again in the Nihon shoki during the reign of the Emperor Chūai. Chūai made an inspection trip to the Tsukushi, or Kyūshū, and was presented with an enormous sakaki tree hung with magatama as well as other sacred objects.  Source

With this information we can say that the Magatama are either

Just some jewelery
Usage as a religious object aka worshiping
or used as Reference to Japanese Mythology. Susanoo/Amaterasu.

But unless we get to know more about Hagoromo Otsutsuki we will never really know a definitive answer to this question


Confusion about the naming of Aldnoah Zero's OST/opening/ending song titles I have a couple of very closely related questions regarding composer Hiroyuki Sawano's choices in naming Aldnoah Zero's OST/opening/ending song titles.

I will be referencing the tracklist for Aldnoah Zero's OST (link here), in addition to some opening/closing songs that are co-composed by Hiroyuki Sawano including "aLIEz", "A/Z", and "&Z".

First, most of the song titles include special/non-alphabetical/non-English characters (even if the title is clearly meant  an actual word like "robot" or "breathless"). Here are some examples:

R零B零T
BRE@TH//LESS
Ch19ヲFIRE★

Why did Hiroyuki Sawano decide to include all the special characters? Is there any significance in using them? To me, they are unnecessary, but I hesitate to claim that they are indeed unnecessary because they might actually have some meaning that I am not seeing.

My other question is why are some song titles seemingly extra-arbitrarily named? I realize that these are songs, so the composer can name them whatever he likes, but some song titles seem completely out of the blue to me.

I realize that there are explanations for the names of some OST tracks in the wiki that I linked.

For example, the song "AD2014-7.5/7.9-零・A" is named because "2014 07-05 / 07-09 [are] ALDONAH.ZERO's air dates on Tokyo MX and ABC respectively".

The explanation tells me WHAT the song is named after, but it does not tell me WHY is the song named after something as arbitrary as an air date for the show. OST track titles usually relate to what the song actually attempts to convey to the listener, or relates to the scene in the animation, but I cannot see how an air date relates to either.

Finally, I do not understand where the openings/ending names come from. What do the names "aLIEz", "A/Z" and "&Z" mean exactly, and why are they named that way?

seijitsu's answer does a good job of identifying what's going on with most of your examples, though I'll add that "Ch19ヲFIRE★" is meant to be read "Chikyuu wo Kasei" (1 = "i", 9 = "kyuu", "Fire" = 火 = "ka", ★ = 星 = "sei", "kasei" = 火星 = "Mars", but "kasei" also = 加勢 = "reinforcements"), which is something like "Reinforcements to Earth".

However, this goes a little beyond the recent-ish fad of including arbitrary typographic symbols for stylistic purposes. There's a broader context to this: Hiroyuki Sawano is a madman when it comes to titling his compositions.

I invite you to consult the track listings for some of his other compositions. For example, Kill la Kill, which has incomprehensible monstrosities like "寝LLna聴9" (no, this doesn't make any real sense even if you've seen Kill la Kill and know Japanese). Or Owari no Seraph, with "1hundredknight:Y" being a number of steps removed from "Hyakuya Yuuichirou" (the protagonist's name). He's been doing this since at least 2011 with Ao no Exorcist, and has only gotten more ridiculous over time. My favorite example of this insanity is "凸】♀】♂】←巨人" from Shingeki no Kyojin, which Sawano indicates is supposed to be read "Kyojin Shinkou", meaning "Advance of the Titans" - but this is actually a pictogram of a series of walls, with a giant (巨人) approaching them. My god!

It's leaked over into his non-anime work, too - the soundtrack for Platina Data had gems like "nf壱III". I haven't seen Platina Data yet, and that probably has no bearing whatsoever on my inability to figure out what this is supposed to mean. He wasn't always like this, though - the soundtrack for Iryuu (the show that first brought him real recognition) is quite tame, with track titles like "unnecessary words" and "Blue Dragon".

According to one tweet of his, it's generally true of his soundtracks that the titles don't really have any deep meaning to them. "Don't think too hard about it", he says.

So, yeah - Sawano is bonkers (he appears to get a good bit of lulz out of doing this), and beyond maybe decrypting his hyper-elaborate punny titles into a comprehensible human language, there is probably not much more to be said here.


Is this Ghost in the Shell Volume complete? I'm looking to buy the Ghost in the Shell Manga on ebay, and I'm confused.

On one hand, I see an offer for about 5€ for the book with the
EAN: 9783897485037. No page count or further info is given.

On the other hand, I see an offer for about 23€ for the book with EAN 9781935429012 and ISBN 1935429019, the last one also mentiones a page count of 368 pages.

Now, GitS was apparantly first published in a serialized form, and the first bunch of the series was then published as one book. This is what I want to buy. I'm worried that the first, cheaper book might only contain part of the series. I know that there's GitS 1.5 and GitS2:MMI, I'm asking about the first Volume. I lack the knowledge of the vast Manga-databases* where I can simply look up with my EAN/ISBN number what I'm looking at, can someone help?

Edit: I'm looking for German or English versions.

*They must exist, right?

If you're referring to the manga by Masamune Shirow, there are 3 volumes the first volume was initially published by Dark Horse in the US. Currently all 2 volumes of the main series and the 1 volume "interquel (Vol. 1.5)" have been republished by Kodansha Comics USA

Volume 1 has:

  Pages: 368 | ISBN: 978-1-935429-01-2

Volume 2 has:

  Pages: 312 | ISBN: 978-1-935429-03-6

Volume 1.5 has:

  Pages: 176 | ISBN: 978-1-935429-96-8

Most of these volumes are also available on Amazon.de (if not you can get them on Amazon .com), if that's more convenient for you.

Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 1.5


Karna's prana consumption Throughout the fate universe, there are many strong servants. And one of them is Karna, who is said by Nasu to be on par with Gilgamesh.
But it is a fact that he consumes so much mana that an ordinary master can't handle it. A basic mage can't even keep his mana burst(flames) activated continuously for 10 seconds. Why does this happen?
The reason I'm asking this is simple. We have Gilgamesh, who uses thousands of noble phantasms (and that is his main offence) and still doesn't drain his master. This one may not seem like a good example (since he uses hate of Babylon) so let's look at another case;
Artoria(saber). She was summoned in fuyuki ALIVE. She is different from other servants this way. Since she was summoned like this and not in a servant container as how it should be, she had no choice but to use mana burst to match in strength with other servants. And even though she was using mana burst again and again, Shirou could handle it.
Why is it like this? Does this mean that Karna alone is like this? Will his prana consumption decrease if he summoned in archer or rider class?

Gilgamesh is not using hundreds of NPs. He's using the Gate of Babylon, just opening a portal, shooting a projectile and then retrieving it, it's actually very cost effective. The only weapons he can actually release their True Names are Ea and Enkidu.
Source from Fate Complete Material III, on Gilgamesh: Tactics

Gilgamesh battles by shooting the originals of all Noble Phantasms like bullets via Gate of Babylon. The tactic yields excellent destructive power to magic energy efficiency. Since every Noble Phantasm is a bullet, the real magical energy used is merely the activation cost of Gate of Babylon. Because he possesses the originals of all Noble Phantasms, he can assault the weakness of any Servants. As a result, Gilgamesh has the advantage over most of the Servants in combat.

Artoria doesn't even have a proper path with Shirou, she's using her own prana reserves to use her skills. So no, Shirou is not sustaining her Mana Bursts.
Karna's Mana Burst (Flame) is just very high-maintenance. Extremely powerful as well, the dude is a fucking demigod, easily Heracles tier, who also has terrible prana consumption, Illya is probably the only one who could sustain Karna, much like she did with Herc. This last bit is pure speculation.


What dictates who can use what magic in Fairy Tail? I know we have met a few people with a few types, but they tend to relate and many mages stick to one kind.

I mean I know Dragon Slayers have their own set of rules going, but Mashima has never dictated that if other magic is a straight up a hereditary thing or not.

So could Lucy learn how to use Cana's cards since they are both object mages? Or is these something that prevents her from that? But on the other hand she was able to use Urano Metria, a caster spell, which was unusual.

Why don't mages learn a bit of healing magic or something similarly useful; even if they can only use these spells at a limited low level they would help a little bit.

So what exactly is keeping one mage from learning other magic? Is it just plot? Easier to study just one?

First to dispell some misconceptions:

I don't think that dragon slayers have any rules. Anyone can become a dragon slayer provided that he has a dragon to teach him, or he has dragon slayer lacrima to put in his body. Both are rare, thus there are not that many dragon slayers.
I speculate that Lucy could learn to use Cana's cards. (Personally I think that a monkey could use them, but that's just my opinion.) But not because card magic and celestial spirit magic is both "object magic". Celestial spirit magic is a summoning type of magic.
In my opinion (sorry for the speculation again) Urano Metria is not a caster spell. When Lucy used it she actually summoned the power of the stars themselves. (Note that some stellar objects actually appeared.)

And now to actually answer the question:

We saw people using different types of magic. Like mentioned before Makarov uses titan, but we also saw him to cast fire. But he also used Fairy Law and other energy type attacks against Jose of the Phantom Lord. We also saw Luxus using Fairy Law while he usually uses dragon slayer magic. Hades used various kinds of dark magic, while in his old days as Purehito he probably had a less dark repertoire. We know that Zeref can use at least two kinds of magic: living magic that created the demons and that black thing that brings instant death. Mirajane has both transformation magic and Satan Soul. But my favourites are Ultear and Jellal. Ultear used both time magic and ice make. And Jellal basically learned Mistogan's magic to add to his repertoire on the tournament.

With all of that in mind, no, nothing dictates what magic people learn. Actually a lot of them learn different types of magic. It's probably just that they are better in one field so they don't really use the other most of the time (Like Luxus.) Or they have personal reasons to not use the other type (Like Ultear.) Or they are so good with one type that they don't even bother learning others. (Like Natsu.) Other than that only the competence of a mage defines if they can use a magic or not.


Why did Chouji get fat when he received Naruto and Kurama's Chakra? Why did Chouji get fat from receiving Naruto and Kurama's Chakra? Chouji didn't activate any technique for it to happen, actually he was surprised.

Do Akimichi bodies just naturally convert chakra into fat?

According to Naruto Wiki, the Akimichi clan:

  Members of the clan possess great physical strength and are able to
  quickly convert calories into chakra

So, they have the ability to convert calories into chakra, apparently they can do the opposite too, getting chakra and quickly convert into calories.
Maybe this one never happened to Chouji before, because he never received this amount of chackra, so he was surprised.


Can anyone explain the ending of "Koe no Katachi" one-shot? In Koe no Katachi (OOIMA Yoshitoki) (one-shot version), at the end of the story,

   the boy, Ishida Shouya, finally met up again with the deaf girl he bullied in the past, Nishimiya, Shouko.

My question is about the exchange in sign language between them in the last 3 pages of the story. What do the signs mean?

   Why did the boy blush and reply "That's so embarrassing! How can you even say that?!" in page second to last? And in the last page, when the girl grabbed his hand, why did he say  "That's not what I meant!"?

The relevant 4 pages. (negative page number, since I am counting from last)

Page -5

Page -3

Page -2

Page -1

It says "you-me-friend" in JSL. The pronouns appear to be the same as ASL, (finger pointing at the relevant person stands in for you/me/he/she/it) and clasped hands by context appears to mean friend. In ASL, it would be hooked index fingers & clasped hands means "to congratulate".

I didn't see any other panels with likely sign in them.  On an unrelated side note, JSL is distinctive for it's usage of air-writing, where some signs like place names are the Kanji written in the air with your finger.


In Kyoukai no Kanata, are youmu the same as youkai? In Kyoukai no Kanata, are youmu the same as youkai?
Since half youmu half humans are also called hanyou, I'm assuming they are.

However, if they are, then why are they called youmu instead of youkai?

In Kyoukai no Kanata, are youmu the same as youkai?

There is no such thing as youkai (妖怪) in the world of Kyoukai no Kanata. There are only youmu (妖夢).

Keep in mind that youkai is a very loosely-defined term in Japanese, and is generally used to refer to a rather motley collection of supernatural creatures, so it isn't even really all that meaningful to ask whether some term is "the same as" youkai.

(Aside: note that youkai and youmu share the character 妖, which means something along the lines of "strange or bizarre".)

  However, if they are, then why are they called youmu instead of youkai?

This is a question of authorial intent, basically. If I had to guess, the author chose to use youmu instead of youkai in order to avoid bringing along the semantic baggage that the word youkai carries. Every Japanese person has an idea of what a youkai looks like, but youmu is an original coining, so you don't really have the same preconceptions in that case.


Can Pokémon say only what their species is named as, or are they named with the only word they can say? This question has been quite bothersome. As mentioned in the title, how exactly does it work? Do Pokemon get their species names from the only thing they're able to say? Or do they say (and repeat) whatever species name they're given?

(I think it's the former reason. But I haven't found any factual description that proves it. So I'm looking for answers supported by facts considered cannon.)

I found a good episode recently that shows the anime contradicts itself on this matter. In the Black and White episode Archeops in the Modern World, Professor Juniper and Dr. Fennel revive an Archen from a fossil. Professor Juniper specifically mentions one benefit of a live specimen is that they wouldn't know what Archen's cry was just from the fossil. But Archen is mentioned as being a Pokémon from millions of years ago. This is contradictory because Archen's cry is its name but they somehow knew what its name was before reviving it. Additionally, there is no way that humans could have taught it to say its name because humans weren't around millions of years ago. Because of this contradiction, it cannot be said one way or another whether Archen says the name of its species or whether it is named by the word it says. Therefore, I conclude that there is no canonical answer to this question in the anime.

It really doesn't make much sense at all for Pokémon to say their names like they do in the main anime. That's why they don't do this in Pokémon Origins, Pokémon Generations, or in the games. In all three of these, each Pokémon's cries/growls are more similar to real animal noises. In the main games, the cries in the Pokédex are animal shrieks and noises (well, sort of... as noted in the comments, they do sound electronic and staticky). Sometimes if you talk to Pokémon on the overworld in a game they'll say part of their name, but an audio clip of that Pokémon's cry will also play, so I interpret the Pokémon's dialogue to be an onomatopoeia.


What is the source material, if any, for Sanzoku no Musume Ronja? As the title says, I'm interested to know where the story for Ronja the Robber's Daughter came from, and if it has a source, I want to read it.

Is it based on a manga/light novel? Or is it an anime-original story?

It's from a children's fantasy book called Ronja Rövardotter (Ronia the Robber's Daughter) by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, first published in 1981.