By number of series, how much of the animation industry is made up by anime? Today a friend of mine proclaimed that around 70% of the world's cartoon animation entertainment consists of anime. So according to his statement, for every 3 non anime animation series, at least 7 anime series should exist.

After looking through his proclaimed source wikipedia I could only find out that about 70% of DVD sales are made by anime, which sounds reasonable, but does not back up his 3 to 7 cartoon to anime series ratio at all.

Now I know that anime is well-known, even around the world. But claiming that around 2/3 of all cartoon animation series is anime sounds a bit of an overkill to me.

This however made me wonder, what is the ratio of non anime cartoon series to cartoon series, or how much do anime series (roughly) make up of animation entertainment series overall?

Although the first few animes were already observed as far back as 1907, anime really launched around 1960 after/during Astro Boy, and as new series are made just about everyday for both anime and non-anime alike, I would propose a time limit of 1960 till 2015.

TL;DR
What is the ratio of anime series versus non anime series?

Counting by "number of series" is rather silly. It has its uses (e.g. it can help answer the question "does Japan produce a wider variety of animated television shows than the rest of the world?"), but it is not a particularly good metric for answering the question "does Japan produce more animated television shows than the rest of the world?".

Anyway, I deem this claim implausible. IMDB lists 1937 TV series tagged with "Animation" from the US from 1960-2015. It lists 2265 TV series with the same search terms from Japan. We get another 557 titles from France; 171 from Germany; and so forth.

While IMDB is probably systematically biased in favor of having more complete data on US shows than Japanese shows, and also does some weird things like listing "Kimba the White Lion" as a US show, I do not think that the numbers we're looking at support the claim that Japan produces 70% of the world's animation by series count. (I would agree that Japan probably does produce at least a plurality of the world's animation by series count, but series count is a lousy metric, so.)

Incidentally, there's also a very nice whitepaper by the MLIT that I happened upon that doesn't answer this exact question but otherwise has very nice data about the anime industry.


What is the meaning behind the changing frame in the Nemuro Memorial Hall elevator? During the Black Rose Saga, as each candidate reveals their deepest hostilities and fears the frame in the elevator changes from

Butterfly > Cocoon > Caterpillar > Leaf

The butterfly is what the frame is when the elevator starts to move down, most of the time, it stops at the Cocoon before Mikage urges the candidate to "go deeper" with the Leaf appearing when the elevator is about to reach the room with all of the coffins.

I am wondering what is the meaning behind this changing frame?

The progression from butterfly to leaf suggests grasping at the "fundamentals" of something: the butterfly started from a catepillar eating a leaf. However, this idea of progressively digging deeper does not really explain the monologue progression. For instance, with Shiori, the progression is from:

Always hated Juri and wanted to take something away from her. ("Go deeper.")
Juri's kindness looked like she was making fun of Shiori. She thought taking away Juri's purported love interest would change things, but she only felt worse after doing so. Now she knows about the pendant, things are different.
In a good way, Shiori doesn't know what she should do now.
"It's no use. Why do you look at me like that?"

We do not as a general rule get increasingly "deeper" motives as the background image progresses. The main rule that governs how the monologue progresses seems to be:

Before "go deeper", consists of at least an allusion to some fears
After "go deeper", consists on an expansion on the fears and possible explanation of motives.

So while I would not read too much into the stylised elements (which is my general policy with fiction, when the meanings are not obvious), I can say that it at least fits for two reasons:

The butterfly "degrades" into what it is made up of, similar to how we learn what is behind characters' problems.

The progression of the image makes sense because it follows a pattern and isn't blatantly out of place. In a lot of fiction, the exact "meaning" of motifs or stylised elements will never be suggested; the important thing is that they will nonetheless not be out of place.
(To be honest, I think the opposite progression---leaf to butterfly---wouldn't be out of place were all of the segments replaced with that, and if that happened, I would have been able to make something up about how the characters are expanding and developing their motives.)


English letters in anime titles I've frequently noticed in anime seasons the title of a series or film will have an English letter at the end of the title (for example: Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon S)- what is the significance of the letter?

At least in the examples you've given, the letter helps differentiate a sequel show, or later season, from the original.

For example, the original Dragon Ball was followed by Dragon Ball Z, then Dragon Ball GT, then it gets complicated but they remade Z in a condensed form as Dragon Ball Z Kai and now there's Dragon Ball Super.

For Sailor Moon, the seasons after the first were Sailor Moon R, Sailor Moon S, Sailor Moon SuperS and Sailor Stars.

It's related to the practice of adding punctuation marks to a show's name to indicate later seasons, as discussed in this answer with examples like Working!! to Working'!! to Working!!!.


Did Yuzuru ultimately cause Hatsune's death? Yuzuru Otonashi's sister Hatsune had cancer and there were indications that it was getting worse. When Christmas came, the doctors refused to let her out but keeping his word Yuzuru snuck in and took her out.

When we seem them together outside and when Yuzuru talks to her, she seems very weak and Yuzuru monologue's saying he continued to have a one-sided conversation. The next scene we see is Yuzuru is being asked if he is ok following Hatsune's death.

I am wondering, while Hatsune was probably bound to be killed by her cancer later on, was Yuzuru taking Hatsune out that night what caused her cancer to kill her ?

Hatsune, like you have said, is already suffering from cancer. Did Yuzuru worsen it? Yes and No. We can take this in different point of view as everything like in the world, doesn't have just one answer.

The Positive POV:
Yuzuru helped Hatsune more than could have ever hoped for. As we all know, she was slowly dying from cancer and judging by everything, it might even be uncurable. I'm figuring, Yuzuru did help her...a lot. As you may know, living aimlessly and slowly dying is a painful experience more so than death. The little girl got cancer, something that, from her age, couldn't just begin to grasp. I'm wondering how she faced it, but we already know how she dealt with it. Yuzuru, giving her manga daily/weekly? was enough of a drive for her to keep on going. It doesn't matter if the mangas he gave had contuinity. Just the manga itself would suffice. What really sealed the deal was the promise.
Yuzuru promised Hatsune to go at the night of Christmas, something that she has always been looking forward for dearly and it became true. I think dying happily and achieving your dreams is a great kind of deal.
The Negative POV: Yuzuru really did indirectly fasten her death. With her debilitating health and added up with the cold weather, even against the doctor wishes, he still did it. Yuzuru caused Hatsune's death is somewhat true. Even if her death is sooner or later that we can ponder upon, those prescious days/weeks? are still important.

All-in-all, we can go by these two POV. I'll go with a POV. The satisfaction was enough to give for someone he loved. Yuzuru gave the best memory Hatsune could ever wish for. Spend the night of Christmas with his older brother rather than dying a slow and painful death. So, it's up to you to decide.


Who are "those guys from Season 4" that Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series references? In the Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series stand-alone video Pharaoh's Throne, Yami Yugi sings the lines:

♪ Not for nothing but your nonsense is kind of a bore ♪
♪ I was more intimidated by those guys from Season 4 ♪

While the lines are very clever-sounding and inherently funny IMO even without context, I am curious as to who it is referring to.  Who are "those guys from Season 4" that the song references who are apparently a joke?  Unfortunately, the YGO:TAS is a very extensive series at this point, and I am not familiar with all of the episodes.

There is no YGOTAS season 4 yet, so "these guys from season 4" are from the actual show when it starts getting all trippy and Egyptian.


Why didn't Annie kill Armin during the 57th Expedition Beyond the Walls? I watched the anime and couldn't find a explanation as to why Annie spared Armin's life?

Why would she?

Annie, at least in her mind, is not a villain. She may be an antagonist to the main characters in the Anime, but she does not think of herself as a villain. She does not think of herself as evil.

She would not benefit in the least from killing Armin. The only members of the expedition she killed were the ones that threatened her titan form. She trained alongside them, and even had formed bonds of friendship with some of them. Even the explorer corps members were at a discomfort dealing with her, after learning what she did.

Her main goal was to get Eren and deliver him to her masters/employers (it is still unclear who charged her with the kidnapping in the manga - as of chapter 66).

So, her reasons for not killing Armin may be:

Armin was harmless. His vertical maneuvering skills were poor, and even if he were to attack her titan form, she would easily squat him.
She does not think of herself as a monster, or even that she is evil, so she has zero motivation for random killing.
More on her self-image, she is clearly a human that can change into titan (in contrast to Ymir who was a titan for 60 years before gaining the power of shifting). She has a good life with the MP Brigade. She is not a psychopath.
She may have some feelings of friendship or camaraderie towards Armin. Remember Armin has a very likeable personality. He gets along well with everyone.

Regarding her personality, Shingeki no Kyojin Wiki says:

  Yet, she somehow does seem to hold a strange fascination and even feelings of respect towards people that have a deep sense of duty and righteousness

And it seems to me that Armin falls under that category.
Maybe killing Armin at that time would take more time than just confirming he is not Eren, and she is in a hurry to complete her goal.
Armin was not alone. Killing him (remember that people actually LIKE Armin) could usher the other explorer corps around into a battle-frenzy to avenge his companion (maybe not likely, but who knows).

Reasons for killing Armin at that moment? Can't think of any.


In Danganronpa, how can a classroom trial be called if there is no corpse? Unlike the games in Liar Game, the rules of a Danganronpa game are sometimes made up or stated midway, which for me kind of sucks but is tolerable so long as the rules are consistent.

In Liar Game, afaik, the dealers always account for all possible situations and state consequences of the situations outright especially when there are changes. For example, in games involving voting, the dealers state what happens in the event of a draw, even if it later doesn't occur or even factor into some calculations made by the characters. In one voting game, a draw was not possible because of an odd number of players (well actually, assuming everyone votes). Later, the number of players became even, so the dealer of  the game immediately stated what would happen in the event of a drawn vote.

Iirc, a PA is made, after 3 students discover a corpse, announcing that there will be a classroom trial called.

What if there is no corpse to be found, like the body was burned (alive or dead)?
What if student A is murdered, and the corpse is hidden for a long period? Can the game continue with an unannounced or unresolved murder?

PS I'm done with the anime. Go ahead and spoil other media. But please use spoiler tags for others.

As of this moment, in both Danganronpa games and the anime adaptation of the first game, in the case the body is hidden or disposed in a way it is impossible for three witnesses to find it...

   There are no rules about how such thing would be dealt with. No such scenario happens, and no person seems to ever plan to go to such lenghts and question Monokuma about the rules for such situations, leaving us only with speculation on how this specifc situation would be dealt with.


Visual novel profits and costs How much money and time does making a VN usually cost? What's the profit it can usually generate? Is it profitable?

You can engage in any VN segment (indie games...) to answer my question as I know the topic is quite broad.

I've got a fair bit of experience in the indie VN developer scene.
From that I can say there is no general answer as the prices you have to pay and also the possible profit vary very greatly, thus I will try to give a detailed and restricted example there:

Costs

As a note here: The prices vary greatly depending on the artist in question. They can be as low as 50% of the amount I'm mentioning and up to 200% of it!

Graphics

One thing of note here: The prices will vary greatly for different styles the artists use. Thus if cell-shading, soft-shading or semi-realism is used.
        (semi-realism being most often the most expensive one and can have costs of up to +100% compared to the others).

BGs
        The price here most often depends on how complex the BG in question is and sometimes even what resolution it will be for.
        Usually you can count on 30-50 USD per BG.
CGs
        These have the greatest price range as I've seen artists take 30-250 USD here. Normally you have 1 simple BG included and 1-2 characters.
        You pay an additional amount per additional character on screen (either fixed amount like +30 USD or +50% total cost) and for each variation
        you want (most often between 10-20 USD). On average I daresay it is 50 USD per simple CG that you need to calc in.

Note: Most often the CG artist is also the sprite artist. Although the BG for the CG is often made by a BG artist. Additionally a title screen
              is often counted as a CG.
GUI
        The GUI adaptions often cost much and range from 50-400 USD depending on the artist and how much you want it to differ from the default of the engine you are using.
Sprites
        The prices here vary greatly with what you want: Thus how much is visible of the character (head only, hip up, or full body) and how many sets
        of clothes, poses and expressions you want.
        Usually I pay 50 dollars base for 1 full body sprite (including 1 set of clothes, 1-2 expressions and 1 pose). For each additional
        set of clothes I pay 10-15 USD and for each expression 2-10 USD and for each pose 10-15 USD.

Thus for 1 sprite with 2 sets of clothes, 4 expressions and 2 poses I usually pay: 106 USD

Sounds

Sound Effects
            Most of the time you can use free sound effects (even for commercial games). IF you need to have custom ones it most often costs
            around 10-30 USD.
Music
            Music varies greatly in terms of price and quality. Usually the componists have prices set for 1 minute tracks each.
            The ranges for this are between 30 USD and 150 USD. I myself am usually only talking with componists who want 30 USD per track.
Voice over
        This varies greatly and it didn't come up often so far for me. But from what I know this usually ends up in a payment per line spoken.
        For a relatively small intro I got a price estimate of about 400 USD (so its one of the biggest cost parts).

Editor / Writers

Editors and writers usually want to be paid on a per word base which can vary a bit. A normal price I dare say for editing is about 0,2 USD
            per word. Not sure about writers as I never had to hire one, but I would dare say its very probably the same or double the price.

Programmers

Here I have to say....I hope you only want easy "default" things out of the VN. Experience wise most "programmers" for VNs can't do
            really complex things (or don't want to do them). The prices here vary greatly and I've seen things from 20 USD for a minigame up to
            200 USD for a dating sim, ... .

As a note here also: Many VN engines have tutorials and also free examples for different genres of VNs that can be easily modified, so
            if you have time and are an easy learner you don't need to hire a programmer too often.

Profit

This varies greatly on how you want to publish your work. One example would be via kickstarter or similar crowd funding services. Here an average income is about 3000 USD for a VN (although one has to say some rare get WAY over 10K out of it while many others fail to even make 100 USD).

If you want to sell your VN on online sites the profit will probably be very small (except maybe Steam but I have no data on them). Most VNs have price ranges
    between 5 and 15 USD there and sell between 0 and 20 times. With the exception of studios who are widely known or have good luck. These have price ranges up to 25
    USD and often sell their product 100-150 times on a single online shop.

The costs for the engine you want to use I didn't put in, as there are many free engines around.

Then lets put things together:

Lets say you want to create a VN that has 10 CGs + 1 title, 3 tracks of music (1 title, 1 menu and 1 ingame music) and you have 3 sprites (full body, 2 sets of clothes, 4 expressions and 2 poses each). Furthermore you use 10 backgrounds. The VN has about 10k words and you hire an editor and a writer.  So the total cost would be:

BGs 500
CGs 550
Sprites 318
Music 90
Editor+Writer 400
-----------------
Total cost: 1858 USD


Can Ghouls be damaged by fire? The Ghoul Resistant skin allows them to not get damaged by conventional weapons such as being pierced by knives and common low calibre firearms. (A shot from a tank would pierce them)
I was wondering if the ghoul resistant skin can be burned or damaged by fire/ice/acid/electricity?
We saw that they can have allergies to things, such as metal allergies. Since their skin can only be pierced by high impact force or other kagunes. I was thinking if a ghoul could be burned alive or the skin would resist that.
I know that regeneration would keep them alive if they are damaged, but I was wondering if you had a flamethrower or an acid bottle, would that go through their skin or not.

I think there never was that kind of interaction, beside

 when Tatara and Takizawa fought in Tokyo Ghoul:Re 2nd Season episode 3, but i dont know if that counted as fire. + Takizawa is kinda sadistic so im not really sure if his screams of pain weren't just sarcastic since he follows that with: "but that felt really good"

(I would love to provide more to that scene, but im not that familiar if it is possible to tag pictures as spoilers so i hope that the episode is enough as source)


Why can't Titans attack using the canals passing through the walls? I saw this image on this question: Why are there outlying towns/cities on the walls in Shingeki no Kyoujin?

If you look carefully, there is a spot near the bottom where the water canal enters the district Shignashina and then through Wall Maria itself.

Why don't the Titans use this opening to attack the city?
From the question, Can the Titans swim?,
there haven't been any conclusive theories as to how the titans cross the water.

  Titans floating seems misplaced and I think "Connie's Mom" provides evidence that someone probably turned few people living on the islands to titans to wipe out humanity

It's kind of referenced in the anime as "the strongest part of the wall" but not explained...

And this is where the cannon fired/transformation happened:


What Gundam series should I watch/read for Dynasty Warriors Gundam? So looking at the back of the game manual of Bladestorm, I noticed that there is a Dynasty Warrior's game but using Gundams, titled Dynasty Warriors: Gundam

Now I am wondering, what Gundam Series, if any, I should watch/read before playing Dynasty Warriors: Gundam? It would be to get a better understanding of things, considering that I have not seen/read anything about Gundam before (with the exception to Gundam Force SD, which I think might be an alternate universe)

The first game features the mechas from only the first three Gundam series (namely Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, and Mobile Suit ZZ Gundam), the OVAs published that takes place within this time frame (Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket and Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory), Mobile Fighter G Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing and Turn-A Gundam. In all, that's 6 shows and 2 OVA series total, a rather daunting task to watch through.

However, just like in Dynasty Warriors proper, the game's "official mode" follows closely to the anime's plotline, albeit a heavily condensed, somewhat inaccurate version (the first game is especially bad at this, with official modes starting in the middle of the actual show or an appearance from a character not introduced yet at that point, for instance)  and only for the first three Gundam series. Still, I would say Dynasty Warriors: Gundam is a great way to catch the basic plot of the anime. If I am not mistaken, they are done in a character-based manner ala the earlier Dynasty Warriors. To play it in chronological order, you should do it in order of Amuro Ray, Char Aznable, Kamille Bidan and finally Judau Ashta.

The "original mode" on the other hand follows an original plotline, so some knowledge of the aforementioned series may be needed to fully appreciate it.

EDIT: I've honestly only played through the PS2 version of the second game, and I realise now that it is fairly different in the first game. In the first game, Char, a major antagonist from the first series Mobile Suit Gundam, is not unlocked initially, and there are also official modes for the antagonists of the next two shows (Paptimus Scirocco and Haman Karn). In this case, I would recommend playing through all the heroes first before the villains. I also just realized that in DWG2, Char's official mode includes his Zeta Gundam role; I would say then to leave Char for last from the original four. Beating Amuro's and Char's official mode also unlocks their Char's Counterattack storylines, which should definitely be played last.


Why do the three admirals of One Piece Akainu, Aokiji and Kizaru have different(opposite) power from their character? I have been watching the anime and reading the manga of One Piece for 2 years and I found out some strange and good things.

One of the things I found out recently is that all three Admirals have different(opposite) powers from their behaviour.

Akainu has the power of magama but is cold hearted
Aokiji has the power of ice but is warm hearted
Kizaru has the power of the speed of light but is a slow talker

Is there any back story on these traits?

While this exactly is not stated from Oda himself, Oda really likes that kind of humor. It is stated though that the second part of their name for example: Aka-Inu
Inu is Japanese for dog.
They stem from an old story of Momotaro, where a boy from heaven came down in a peach (his name means peach as well).
The boy was accompanied by the animals. Thus the names.
In the FPS for chapter 558 Oda also states why they look like they do.
He got the inspiration from famous Japanese movie actors.
Bunta_Sugawara - Akainu Movie: "Machinegun Dragon"
saku_Matsuda - Aokiji Movie: "Tantei Monogatari"
Kunie_Tanaka - Kizaru Movie: "Truck Yarou" from 1978
Shintaro_Katsu - Fujitora Movie: "Zatōichi"


What is the simplified art style called that is often used when a character is emotional? If there's even a name for it?

I saw this question that explains why but I'd love to know if there's a name for it. The linked question mentions superdeformed but I figured there's a Japanese name, if there's anything.

They do it in many anime (and manga) and it's used with the character is embarrassed, sometimes it's when they're tired, annoyed, or confused.

It reminds me of chibi but it's even simpler than that and doesn't really make them look like kid-versions.

From Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood:

The so-called "simple background" is essentially a montage of a particular mental landscape. Sometimes referred to as "kouka haike" (効果背景, lit. effect background) or "kouka back" (効果バック, lit. effect back), referring to a simple effect background.

The particular lines in the scene are likely some variant of "taresen" (たれ線) meaning "dripping lines". Sometimes it is also generically referred to as "tatesen" (縦線), or "vertical lines".

They both refer to the depiction of parallel vertical lines (sometimes squiggly or uneven to represent a distressed state) in a background or on a particular character's face. The lines typically of a dark blue or purple hue (they can vary by artist and context) is indexed to express how a particular character or scene feels depressed, sad, disgusted, or anguished, amongst other negative feelings.

The term is likely derived from 垂れる, referring to how the emotions of the scene or character are "dripping".


How did Hiruzen Sarutobi summon enma when he was a reanimation? In the fourth great ninja war, when Obito makes the ten tails transformed into God Tree that devoured the chakra of all the shinobi it touched(or its branches), where you will see Sarutobi Hiruzen cutting/destroying the branches of the Ten-Tails' tree form, and he does that with the help of Enma's transformation - Adamantine Staff.

When Sandaime Hokage is summoned using "Impure World Reincarnation", you aren't supposed to have any blood in you to summon Enma.

So, now if you check the naruto wiki, to summon a contract animal, first of all we would need to have a blood contract with the summoning animal, Afterwards they only need to offer an additional donation of blood on the hand they signed the contract with, mould their chakra with hand seals and then plant the hand they signed the contract with at the location they wish to summon the creature.

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

So, was it a flaw to show Sandaime Hokage with Adamantine Staff or is there any other technique this is used to summon a contract animal.
Or was this explained in Manga..

I can recall two instances where Shinobi who are under the influence of Impure World Reincarnation are shown to bleed while when performing a justu that requires blood or causes them to bleed.

While those reincarnated by Impure World Reincarnation do not bleed, it would appear reincarnated Shinobi do bleed as long as the injury is self applied (speculative and don't have a reference, somebody correct me if I am wrong on this).

The first instance is the Summoning Justu

  Reincarnated bodies do not bleed, except in those cases where blood is needed to perform the Summoning Technique

This is in reference to Naruto Chapter 548, when we see the reincarnated 2nd Mizukage biting his thumb to perform the Summoning Justu against the Allied Shinobi Forces

The second instance is using the Mangekyou Sharingan

  Other side-effects may still manifest, as when Itachi Uchiha's eyes bleed from using his Mangekyō Sharingan, but he is not inhibited by it.

This is in reference to Naruto Chapter 550, when Naruto and Killer B are fighting against the reincarnated Nagato and Itachi. Itachi uses the Mangekyō Sharingan, causing his eyes to bleed


What's the name of the manga with a girl who has two bodyguards? It's a fantasy manga and there's a girl who has two bodyguards who may have been brothers. They spend all of their lives together and even sleep in the same bed.

But then one night one of the two bodyguards kisses the girl in her sleep (which is not allowed) and so one of them confesses and is going to be put to death or punished and it's all very sad until you find out the one who kissed her was actually the other bodyguard and that he knew the other guy would try to defend him and take the blame

I think the to guards are orphans, also there's some element of magic I think- demons may or may not be involved- I'm not 100% sure on that

Brother bodyguards sleeping in the same bed as a princess ?

It really sounds like Time Stranger Kyoko (Arina Tanemura) to me

Princess Kyoko shares her bed with two brothers guards

She has a time base power
It's about people having power like time, flower, dragon
there are some demons too

   she even actually has demon ears...

the brothers are orphans
She has been kissed by one of the brother but thought it was the other one,

   then some revelations made the one who kissed her appart from them (so sad moment for them)

She attends to high school, but not in our modern world, it is a mix-up between ancient/modern/fantasy/sf world
BUT she doesn't use a katana but a talking staff

It's a bright, fun and adorable manga in my opinion


Why did they air all four Tsukimonogatari episodes in one day? The most recent story of the Monogatari series, Tsukimonogatari, has just aired and has all of its four episodes aired on one day. The same thing happened with Hanamonogatari which aired on August 6, 2014. They aired all of its five episodes on that day.

Why did they do that? Why didn't they wait and air 9 episodes over multiple days, or maybe wait some more to make Monogatari Series: Third Season with Owarimonogatari and Zoku-Owarimonogatari? Why did they air all its episodes in one day? What's the point of making it have 4 or 5 episodes when it could also fit in a movie as well?

The reason why Hanamonogatari was all aired on one day was because it kept being delayed because of production issues, it was supposed to come out the Spring season but ended up airing at the very end of Summer season (basically the Fall season). The studio decided to delay it no longer and release it all at once.

See this ANN post

I'm not sure of the exact reason for Tsukimonogatari's bulk airing, but it could be a related reason.


Why don't more video games get full anime adaptations? In this definition of "video game", I am purposely excluding visual novels. By "video game", I generally mean anything you can play on a console (e.g. Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Fire Emblem, etc...).

So most anime that airs each season is adapted from some form of source material, like a manga, a light novel, or a visual novel. Why aren't video games adapted as often? Sure, there are a few out there (Valkyria Chronicles, MapleStory, Devil May Cry, and of course Pokemon, to name a few), but overall, anime adapted from games tend to be much less frequent than those adapted from LNs or VNs.

Why is this? Why don't bigger title games (like the aforementioned Chrono Trigger or one of the many Final Fantasy games) get full-length anime adaptations? (I'm also not counting those small OVAs or side story series that have nothing to do with the actual in-game story either).

Data about anime adapted from video games does not always separate out genres as you would like (you seem to be primarily interested in RPGs, but data about anime adaptions may generally group RPGs along with other games such as children's games, dating sims, visual novels, etc.), but according to page 8 of Anime and the Visual Novel: Narrative Structure, Design and Play at the Crossroads of Animation and Computer Games by Dani Cavallaro (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010) and Manga, Anime and Video Games: Between Adaptation, Transmedia Extension and Reverse Remediation by Stefan Werning,

  manga and anime based on digital games appeared much later [than video games]; for example, series like Fate Stay/Night (2006) have been developed as adaptations of existing visual novels. . . . Sword Art Online (2009-2014), Accel World (2012) and Btooom! (2012) is constructed around a fictional video game. This phenomenon can be partially explained in the context of films referencing (digital) games as plot elements or even as narrative structures. . . . adaptations of popular game franchises such as Super Mario Bros. (Rocky Morton & Annabel Jankel, 1993) or Street Fighter (Steven E. de Souza, 1994, Figure 2) were first produced for an international audience [in other words, not produced for Japanese demographics].

And according to Mélanie Bourdaa's "‘Following the Pattern’: The Creation of an Encyclopedic Universe with Transmedia Storytelling," (Adaptation 6, no. 2, 2013: pages 206 and 211) and Werning,

  Even though many of the anime series represent adaptations of light novels, the games usually do not cover the “canonic” stories from the novels but rather pick up loose ends and elaborate on the characters, often in unusual ways, thereby adding to the “multiplicity” of the franchise.

Wikipedia's List of anime based on video games evidences that the number of anime adapted from video games has been dramatically increasing within the past decade. By "full-length" anime adaptations, if you mean a TV anime of any length, including the current trend of series that are 10 to 12 episodes in total, the number of these has been greatly increasing as compared to the situation in the 90s or the 80s. It is not an overstatement to predict that the percentage of all anime produced which are video game adaptions is likely to rise in the next decade.

See senshin's answer to Are anime that are not based on manga common?: during the 2000s, anime adapted from video games have maintained a sizable chunk of all TV anime produced and has increased in percentage since 2006. You can see in the graph that video games have gotten adapted into anime more often than visual novels have. See also Why does anime air in 4 seasons per year of ~13 episodes? and What are the reasons for producing short-form anime?


What happened to Goku's "Dragon Balls"? In the Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13! movie, when Goku is fighting with Super Android 13, there is a scene that showed Super Android 13 punching Goku in the dragon.. uhmm... genitals.

Caution: This picture can cause unexpected pain in the crotch!
Watch it at your own risk.

Is there any evidence that Goku managed to produce Goten before that fight?
Because I have a doubt about whether he could use them ever again.
Are the two circles in the picture (that appear to be torn apart) something else?

Considering the vast possibility of Goku eating a sensu bean after that, we can assume he regrew anything that was damaged. We also know that Goku is an alien. Although he looks human, he might not have balls there. Or balls at all. But if he does, like young Goku sometimes shown, he doesn't really use them that much :D


What does this (possibly Japanese) graffiti say? In the Elfen Lied special episode 10.5, there was a scene where Nana is standing next to a wall where bearing this graffiti:

I don't know if is important or not, but the writing is so noticeable that I would like to know: what's written there?

I've made my comment into an answer.

Actually, the graffiti has been there at the beach all along since episode 1. As people have pointed out, the yellow part could be a stylized "wash".

If you rotate the image 180 degrees, it now reads like "Asian" (and the signature-like part "RMdVd").

Now, no racism or anything, just making an observation. There is a term in Urban Dictionary (I know, it's written by random people) that is exactly this: Asian Wash(ed), which means

  Some one of non-asian decent who is highly confused and believes they were born into the wrong race and are truly asian. They obssess over the people, food, and language.

I won't even try to claim that it defines those (Asian) humans/Diclonii who wants to live as (Asian) Diclonii/humans. It might just be what is written in the graffiti, which could be anything, right?

Likewise, I won't try to claim that the symbol on Kouta's shirt defines who he is. But it is the baka symbol, right?


Why is Okosan the only one without a Human representation? In Hatoful Boyfriend, Okosan is the only person bird to not receive a human drawing.

Why is that?

whereas every other character:

According to Moa on Saturday Hatoful Boyfriend panel Q&A with Moa and Damurushi @ AOD 2016,

The reason Okosan doesn't have a human portrait is because the real-life Okosan is family to Moa, and attaching her own "human" image to him would feel strange.
(Source)


Why do English dubs have a unique dialect? Something I noticed while watching a number of English dubs is that characters talk... the best way I can describe it is as a dialect. The scripts and voice acting are done by native (mostly American?) English speakers, but use odd vocabulary and turns of phrase that sound like part of its own dialect. It is difficult to describe, since it sounds nothing like any real English dialect I am familiar with.

For example, the English dub of Devilman on Netflix uses the word "human" (and at one point "mortal") instead of "person" or "man" in English sentences where those would be expected instead. The phrase "go to hell, you mortals!" comes across as distinctly stilted and unnatural to my ear (as a native General American English speaker).

Is this an actual phenomenon or am I imagining it? If it is real, why does it exist?

Adapting the Japanese script of a show for an English dub goes through a few different steps and throughout these steps there is plenty of opportunity for the original script to be altered/adapted/interpreted in a way that results in the dub to be noticeably different from the original, but can also still be far away from ordinary english.

First the script is translated. In language, there are many cases where there is no direct translation or where a word can be interpreted in multiple different ways which could lead to a case like in your question. Also, there are many cultural words and references where even after translation, most english speaking viewers would simply not get it which is why it is necessary to have the translations adapted and re-scripted.

In adaption and re-scripting, writers attempt to make the translation flow naturally when spoken in english while keeping in mind the voice actors and the time it takes them to say it and the time allowed for said lines in the animation itself and also ensuring to mention all the essential plot points. This process allows for plenty of artistic interpretation and I think that is really the answer to your question. This dialect you notice is just how the writers adapted the translated script... an unnatural dialect could be due to artistic choice, an attempt to convey something that doesn't really exist in english or it may even just be bad writing. I would say however, that more often than not the unique dialect you notice is not so much unique, as it is Japanese idioms being kept in the english dub. Some examples are "obento", "shiritori" and adding suffixes like "-chan' which to someone unfamiliar to Japanese things, may seem at first like an odd or unique dialect.

For your specific example I would say it was an artistic choice, but I would also say it is not unnatural, and it even fits well with the theme of the show. The word mortal may not be very common in your everyday conversation but it is very common in dramatic dialogue about gods, angels, demons and the battle between good and evil. There are ample famous books, movies, quotes, poems where humans are called mortals and the setting of those books and movies will usually be similar to that of Devilman. (Edit: If this was not the case, and from your comment it seems as though it isn't, then it would be because of one of the above mentioned reasons. Possibly just bad writing?)


Are Devil Fruit users weak to salt? The weakness of Zombie of Thriller Bark is salt.

  When salt is thrown into a zombie's mouth, the shadow moving the corpse is detached and the zombie is purified. Because salt is a property of sea water and since the shadow was attached due to a Devil Fruit power, the shadow is naturally released.

If Brook nullified Moriah's Devil Fruit power with salt, does this mean no Devil Fruit user can eat salt?

No, this is just the special weakness of that particular Devil Fruit.

I mean, Luffy eats everything, nearly everywhere. And in the most dishes there is salt, or how do you cook you spaghetti?

Another instance to prove my opinion is that Luffy had gone underwater several times and had nearly drowned. In the process, he also "ate" salt, but it had no effect, like losing his Devil Fruit power.


What happen at the end of the third Madoka Magica movie? I just watched the third movie (Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part 3: Rebellion) and I have a doubt about the fact that although Madoka wish in the second movie, which prevented the birth of any witch, both in the past and in the future. Why then Homura becomes a Witch?

I get an idea, but I'm not pretty sure about it. In the ending we see Homura feeding QB with her soul gem. Does this mean that all the curses of the universe are now contained in Homura's soul gem? And that feeding QB with them is a way to stop entropy?

When Homura says to Sayaka and Madoka that one day they will be enemies, is she referring to the fact that without suffering sooner or later the universe will run out of energy and Madoka and Sayaka will have to stop her?

Ok, let me try to answer this the best I can. I've watched the movie twice: in a theatre in Paris and the subbed camrip that's been going around.

although Madoka wish in the second movie, which prevented the birth of any witch, both in the past and in the future. Why then Homura becomes a Witch?

Madoka's wish wasn't exactly that. She wished to erase all the witches, past, present and future with her own hands. The bolded part being the interesting one. Not only did it mean the wish couldn't have any unfortunate fulfilling that wasn't what she wanted, it meant she would have to do the work herself. Which is also the only reason it invokes a paradox that forces her existence into a concept. Either way, the point is, Madoka takes the despair out of the Soul Gems of Magical Girls as they are about to become witches. The natural tainting process of the Soul Gem still exists and the girls would still become witches if she wasn't there to take their souls to wherever and let them have a dignified death.
Only in Homura's case this time, she wasn't there. To expand upon it, what the Incubators do is use their super advanced alien science to freeze Homura's Soul Gem at a borderline state. She's about to become a witch, but she's still a magical girl. Let's say for the sake of an analogy that her Soul Gem was 99.99% tainted. That's where they froze her at. Because that's the point at which Madoka would come in and save her from becoming a witch as she did to everyone throughout the series and they wanted to capture Madoka. So, frozen at this state, the Soul Gem couldn't break and impose a witch barrier over some part of this world (which is still a separate dimension of its own), so it created a barrier of sorts inside itself. Basically, the first part of the movie was spent inside Homura's Soul Gem. Note that at this point, the world they're in may be akin to a witch barrier, but Homura isn't a witch, as the barrier was created by what is still her Soul Gem.
After the whole ordeal that culminates with her realizing she's the one who created the barrier, Homura is confronted by Kyubey, who tells her about what exactly had happened with her and what their plans for Madoka were. There, she decides to become a witch inside the barrier so she can be killed by Mami and Kyouko there and ensuring Madoka will never come for her. Note that this Homura inside the Soul Gem is basically her soul, so being killed inside it is the same as destroying her Soul Gem. Now she purposely brings upon her more despair and suffering by accepting she won't be able to meet Madoka again and successfully becomes a witch inside the Soul Gem. This is a separate world of its own, one that Madoka can't see nor reach (which is still kinda of a moot point anyway since Madoka is trapped inside it without any memories of who she even is), which is why it was possible for that to happen. The Homura in the outside world, her physical body, is not yet a witch, since any developments in the inside won't affect the outside thanks to Kyubey's filter.
TL;DR - Homura doesn't become a witch in the outside world, she becomes one inside her own Soul Gem, which is a separate dimension from the one Madoka can see and interact with.

I get an idea, but I'm not pretty sure about it. In the ending we see Homura feeding QB with her soul gem.

We do? I'm pretty sure that's not what happens so... By ending, are you referring to the post-ending credits? Since that's the only thing I think could have been mistaken by that. But we never see that. All we see is Kyubey appearing, Homura bringing up her Soul Gem, perspective change, her legs doing some sort of dance, perspective change, her dancing with a beaten-up Kyubey in the background. If what you're saying does happen at any point, please specify.

When Homura says to Sayaka and Madoka that one day they will be enemies, is she referring to the fact that without suffering sooner or later the universe will run out of energy and Madoka and Sayaka will have to stop her?

That point is pretty much up in the air, specially her words toward Sayaka. What she says to Madoka is easier to interpret, though. She asks her about her ideals, if she thinks the world is more important than the happiness of one people. Basically "selflessness vs selfishness". And Madoka answers with the former. What this conversation shows is that Homura is fully aware her actions were selfish ones, but won't back down on them since it's what she's always wished for. Madoka's answer, though, goes against the very thing she won't back down from, which means their ideals at the moment are complete opposites, so if Madoka ever understands the situation and comes to want to realize her ideal, it'd only be natural they would become enemies. Which will eventually happen, since it's very doubtful Homura will be able to keep the world as is without either Madoka or Sayaka getting at least part of their memories back. Heck, things were already turning out that way with Madoka and would have if Homura didn't hug her into submission.

Before proceeding, please have in mind that while everything before this paragraph are things I'm nearly certain of having interpreted correctly, this isn't but a theory of mine:

Back to the Sayaka conversation, that's one of the issues I have with this movie, in that Sayaka's question regarding destroying the world came out of absolute nowhere and Homura's answer made no sense at all, considering she says "Once all wraiths are defeated". And since we know from the series the wraiths are the new embodiment of grief and despair in a witch-less world, and that hope and despair can never triumph over one another since the Madoka world is a zero sum game, that makes absolutely no sense at all. So I've thought a lot about that until now and I think a possible (even if not obvious as the one for the Madoka conversation) interpretation is that Homura implying the wraiths will eventually be eliminated means she is, herself, trying to become the embodiment of despair. That way, she'd become a true counterpart to Madoka, who's the embodiment of hope, and the balance would be restored.


How did Araragi hide yoto "Kokoro-Watari" inside his body? In the Nekomonogatari-Black anime, yōtō "Kokoro-Watari" (妖刀「心渡」, sometimes translated as demon sword "Heartspan") is shown with different lengths, but it always appears to be bigger than Araragi. The size changing isn't very noticeable unless you are actively checking, so it could just be due to animator laziness, but the fact that it is longer than Araragi is seems deliberate as it is drawn that way consistently in every scene.

Here is one screenshot of the sword, compared to Araragi. Both red lines are the same length.

Even if he is leaning over in the picture, it's pretty clear that the sword is bigger than he is. It's also clear when he gets cut in half:

However, despite the fact that the sword is taller than he is, it fits into his body. It even fits in Shinobu's body, though of course that could just be one of her abilities. But to the best of my knowledge Araragi should not have any such ability. In addition, the sword is stuck in the ground after his legs disintegrate, which also should not be possible if it was inside of him.

This could very well just be SHAFT following their usual style with the Monogatari novel adaptations, where the visuals aren't meant to be taken literally. Or it could be an indication of another ability of the sword. Is there any evidence that yōtō "Kokoro-Watari" has some ability that would allow it to fit inside Araragi's body (e.g. changing size)?

As someone who read Kizumonogatari (translated by Baka-Tsuki, not in original Japanese) I thought that I might shed some light about the sword.

First off, I would like to mention that although Kizumonogatari does have a whole bunch of interesting facts about the series (most of which are based around Shinobu and Koyomi's relationship) there is actually surprisingly little about the sword (I actually found this thread by googleing the sword).

I'll try to refrain from spoiling and just say you learn where the sword is from and how it only cuts Kaiis (or Aberrations/Monsters) but we are not told that it has any other special properties from a sword otherwise, so while mcs may have the correct answer, I believe it actually lies elsewhere.

First off I will answer why the sword is able to fit inside Shinobu. Contradictory to Koyomi, Shinobu doesn't actually stick the sword inside herself. Vampires actually have the ability to materialize objects/possessions at will, and Shinobu "conjures" up the sword each time she wishes to wield it. Koyomi never reached that "power level" so he was never able to materialize anything, but to Kissshot-Acerolaorion-Heartunderblade it was no big deal. As for why she materializes it from her mouth, I have no idea (but hey, it sure looks cool).

For Koyomi, I think you actually answered your own question. Indeed the sword is longer than him, I think in the novel it was said to be around 2 meters (~6.6 feet) long. However as you so keenly noticed, the sword was stuck in the ground. During his conversation with Hanakawa, Koyomi never moved from his original spot and if you notice his standing posture is a little strange (he seems to be focusing all his weight on his left foot). I think this is just because he stuck the sword (through him) straight into the ground and couldn't move from that axis.

This is just what I thought from re-watching the scene and from reading the light novels. I hope you found my information useful.


Can you extend your own life with the death note? How to Use: LVIII

By manipulating the death of a human that has influence over another human’s life, that human’s original life span can sometimes be lengthened.

which means you can use the note to extend your lifespan in the example i gave:

have some one get the shinigami eyes by giving them your death note and have them write down your life span then give back owner ship of the death note to you again (use the note to manipulate them into doing so) for example lets say you die 1st arpril 2009 at 1pm

next find some one who will out live you, you could use the person who you manipulated into finding your life span we'll call this person mr.X

write down your own name and have the cause stabbed by mr.X after calling him fat at 1st april 2009 at 1pm

next write down mr.X's name in the death note and the cause of death is a heart attack just before stabbing some one on the streert who called him fat on 1st april 2009 at 12:58pm

now if this would work you should get his remaining life span. Would this work?

No, because of several things:

A human with the Shinigami Eyes cannot see the lifespan of other Death Note owners. (How to Use: XVIII)
If you write your name and a cause that cannot be possible (being stabbed by a dead man), you will die of a heart attack. (How to Use: LV)
Writing your own name in the death note bypasses all lifespan calculations. If you wrote that you die at a certain date, you will die at a certain date, regardless of how much lifespan you have remaining.


How does the substitution jutsu work? Almost every character in the Naruto series, from minor character to boss level character, uses this jutsu (Kawarimi no Jutsu).

Ever since I started watching the series, I wanted to know how this technique works. It may look like a Ninjutsu 101 technique in the early parts of the series, but in many of the serious fights later in the series, it seems to fool even the opponents who are well-versed in combat. Is this jutsu based on any real life technique?

According to this, it is indeed based on a real-life technique:

  This technique is based on a real-life ninja art, kawarimi. It was an
  ancient ninja art revolving around misdirection and the split-second
  timing of a switch between a 'body' and a location, or between two or
  more bodies: A technique utilized by ninja in ancient Japan, involving
  the ninja and anything that can be mistaken for them, (such as a dummy
  or a mannequin).

As you mention, it is used by all levels of characters, because it is one of the basic techniques being taught in the Academy.

Now, for the "it seems to fool even the opponents who are well versed in combat" part. This is also similar to the real word. For example, all boxers use pretty much the same punches, yet some of them are much better than others, meaning they also use those punches better (stronger, faster, etc).

That is why a technique performed by a stronger shinobi would also have a stronger effect, so if the opponents are close in power, they can still use this jutsu to distract each other.


Would it be possible to indirectly kill people? When John Zeärtö would write: Johnny Riler Accident. Tomorrow Johnny Riler will receive a piece from the death note. He writes the true name from the person who uses the alias Xavier. Would that work? (And yes Johnny knows the true name)

This scenario is totally possible. As long the 2 main factors can be reached.

This note will not take effect unless the writer has the person's face in their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected.
The conditions for death will not be realized unless it is physically possible for that human or it is reasonably assumed to be carried out by that human.

So if he knows the real name, and can bring the face of the person to mind. And it is physically possible for that person to obtain a piece of death note and write in it. Then yes it is possible indeed.


Does Reika return later in the series? At the end of episode 22 of Ginga e Kickoff!, we see that Reika, after a devastating game, has come down with a fever and is being cared for by her parents at home indefinitely.

Watching episode 23, we barely hear anything about her, except that she has gone off to her family's villa.

Does Reika return later in the series?

Yes, She does come back in Episode 26 . They go to her villa to train I think.

Here is the plot for that episode. Hope this helps

http://gingaekickoff.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_26


What are the 2003 Wendy's Promotional Pokémon Toys? On Bulbapedia, there is an article about 2003 Wendy's promotional Pokémon toys. It currently says:

  The 2003 Wendy's promotional Pokémon toys were a set of five toys distributed with Kids Meals at Wendy's in May of 2003. Each toy also came with one of fifteen cards.

It also links to a missing video by a user (TheMasterGamerify) who is no longer on YouTube.

How long did this campaign run? What were these toys, and what were the fifteen cards available?

This link seems to document all the toys and cards. There were 5 toys. These were a Pikachu keychain, Pikachu Clock, Charizard Treasure Box, Kecleon Keychain, and a Celebi compass (though the image has Torchic). Here's images of all five:

According to this site, the promotion began May 19th 2003, and very likely lasted 5 weeks. I haven't been able to find a more definitive confirmation of that.

Here's the promotional image used at the time to advertise the event (from the same link with the dates):

As for why the compass is called a Celebi compass, it really did have a Celebi design. The back of the case had a Celebi on it:

(image taken from this Ebay auction. Thanks to Krazer for finding it.)

It seems that you could put the Lugia, Torchic, and Kecleon trading cards from the promotion into it, and perhaps others. The above image has the back of the Lugia card. Here's a different version with the front of the Lugia card.

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(taken from this Lugia collection)

The Pikachu clock could hold a card as well, though I don't think it really did anything with it the same way the compass worked with those cards, and the cards fit inside the Charizard box.

This site lists all the cards, with images for the front and back. They are:

1 Pikachu

2 Charizard

3 Mewtwo

4 Tyranitar

5 Lugia

6 Feraligatr

7 Gyarados

8 Kyogre

9 Latios & Latias

10 Torchic

11 Groudon

12 Mudkip

13 Duskull

14 Treecko

15 Kecleon


What is the target demographic of Yuki Yuna is a Hero? If you watch just the first episodes, it is a ordinary Mahou Shoujo for tween girls anime...

But the plot thickens into something too heavy for young girls to digest (imo) soon enough.

   The whole dismemberment and viewing themselves as living sacrifices for their god, not to mention the sisterly guilt trip.

With that in mind, where does it fall?

The light novel Washio Sumi wa Yūsha de Aru, which is set in the same universe 2 years prior and is the prequel of the anime, targets the seinen demographic. The seinen demographic includes males from 17 years of age and above. It can be safe to assume that the anime Yūki Yūna wa Yūsha de Aru is for the same demographic as the light novel.

The show is also broadcast at late night on the primary channel MBS and other channels, at as early as 22:00 and as late as 03:00 late night. The late night showing of the anime implies that it is at least for young adults and not for tween girls as the introduction might have suggests.

Sources:

Wikipedia - Yūki Yūna wa Yūsha de Aru: Washio Sumi wa Yūsha de Aru's target demographic
Seinen definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinen_manga
TV schedule: http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv195090725


What are the transformed crew symbolizing? In episode 644 the crew left on the boat get transformed into some "Artistic things".

What exactly are they symbolising? For brook it was pretty obvious, as it was the screamer. But I couldn't quiet put my finger on the other ones.

They're all a bit based on the arts of Okamoto Taro mixed with some unique traits; like Brook based on the screamer, Nami on some Taro statue, Momonosuke (Samurai Dude xD) based on fantasy, since Momo in Japanese means peach xD, and for Chopper I can't remember xD.

The Sunny also is probably based on Taro arts, as the figurehead is a representation of the Sun Tower of Osaka as you can see here:


Does Naruto know that Boruto has a curse mark on his hand? As the title said, does Naruto know that there is a curse mark on Boruto's hand after the battle against Momoshiki Otsutsuki?

  *Any spoiler is allowed but remember put a spoiler tag.

Yes, Naruto does know that Boruto has the Kāma seal.

 Naruto at this point definitely knows about the Karma mark on Boruto. He also knows it is on Kawaki and has them train together causing their marks to resonate with each other in an attempt to learn more about it. (emphasis mine)

This point is also proven respectively in the manga, during Naruto and Boruto's Shinobi Hand-to-Hand Combat:

Considering Boruto using it right in front of Naruto, as well as him being able to identify it's name, he obviously knows Boruto has it.
Source


Why did Historia's mother hate and reject her? Other than her being a bastard child, was any reason given as to why Historia's mother hated her and disowned her?

The reason was that Historia is Rod Reiss's child. Since Historia was his child, she has the ability to obtain the abilities of the Coordinate and use them to the fullest. This was the reason that the Military Police's First Interior Squad had to murder Historia and her mother in order to ensure that power would not fall into the hands of people the central government could not control.

Therefore, Alma hated Historia as Historia's existence would lead to her death.

  Historia Reiss - She carried deep resentment towards her daughter, even more so before Kenny slit her throat, as Historia's existence is the reason she had to die.


What is the name of the song playing in Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) in episode 6 at 21:07 I've been looking for this song for years, tried looking through the entire soundtrack and just haven't found it. This is from the original Full Metal Alchemist series which aired in 2003. thanks in advance!

Awkwardly, found the song almost immediately after posting. The song is

Full Metal Alchemist OST 1 - Title

dunno how to remove questions.


The song playing in Nana episode 22 when Takumi and Hachi meet on her apartment and Nana witness In Nana episode 22, at 20:35, there's a song playing when Takumi and Hachi meet on her apartment and Nana witness.

What is that song? I think it's an unreleased one.

Honestly, I think it was just a piece of unnamed music that was used to transition the scene to the end credits and the song Starless Night. I've checked the music through the episodes, and none of them really sounded like that small portion.


Killing Conjoined Twins using Death Note There are Mr. A and Mr. B. They are conjoined twins who each has their own set of organs except for the heart. I write the name of Mr. A while imagining his face, with the cause of death being falling from the top of Tokyo Tower head first. Let's say the difference in height between the two is less than 1 cm. Will Mr. B also die?

According to How to Use: XXVI, item 2:

  Even though only one name is written in the Death Note, if it influences and causes other humans that are not written in it to die, the victim's cause of death will be a heart attack.

However, a heart attack will also kill Mr. B.

Additionally, How to Use: X, item 2 stated:

  Whether the cause of the individual's death is either a suicide or accident, if the death leads to the death of more than the intended, the person will simply die of a heart attack. This is to ensure that other lives are not influenced.

This question is a bit different than the one proposed as possible duplicate. In the proposed question, the death of the pilot or the surgeon doesn't necessarily means that the people in the plane or the one in the surgery will 100% die. There is a delay before they actually die. Surgery is rarely done by only one doctor. It usually is done by a team of doctors, so the other doctors can still save the patient. Flying a plane is also the same. There is also the co-pilot. In the case of my question, killing Mr. A is the same as killing Mr. B since they share the same heart with no delay whatsoever to save Mr. B.

Even though only one name is written in the Death Note, if it influences and causes other humans that are not written in it to die, the victim's cause of death will be a heart attack.

Does rule XXVI not answer your question? Mathematically speaking you could rewrite it as follows.

  Causes others to die => (Cause = Heart-attack).

Here you could see that the heart attack would be logically implied as the cause of death if others are influenced, regardless whether they take others with them. Therefore they would both die. Mr. B would also be killed. Remember that this rule does not say that if you would cause another human to die, that you would stay alive. It only says that the cause changes to a heart attack, which in this case would kill both, so the death of the other would be unavoidable in this case.

If this would not have been true, Light would have been able to make himself completely immune to the Death Note, even making it impossible for Ryuk to kill him. Light could have implanted a bomb inside a few people, that would all be triggered when either his heart or their heart stopped beating. He would repeat this over different groups of people. By doing so, Ryuk would be rendered unable to kill Light as it would be impossible to kill any of those with a bomb implanted, as it would kill the others and he would not be able to kill Light as it would kill all of them. This would make Light immune to the Death Note, which I found very unlikely to be true, because it would completely contradict the first and most fundamental rule of the Death Note namely

  The human whose name is written in this note shall die.


How did the people in the Naruto Universe forget about their history? Can somebody explain the timeline of Naruto?

Apparently everything started off with the Sage of the Six Paths creating jutsus (with no info on society before it), and then a couple generations later Konoha is founded. Then about two generations later Naruto becomes this savior of the world.

Judging from this, people forgot even though the span of their history could only be about 1000 years.

Let's say the Six Paths was 1000 years ago and the Konoha as well as the other major hidden villages were founded around 300 years ago.  What happened in those 700 years?

How did the people forget their own history, in such a short time?  Did everybody just forget to tell their children stories about the strong people of their time?  Was there no form of writing or stories passed down generation to generation?

Note: I'm not saying that the history was only 1000 years, it might have been longer or even shorter.  There was no evidence to it so I estimated it by generation.  Each new generation every 60-80 years.

Naruto/Naruto Shippuden is mainly focused on the tale of the gutsy, unpredictable, strong willed protagonist ninja Naruto. Everything that relates to him is shown in the story.

Of course, the sage of Six Paths taught people the Jutsu. An art of fighting to protect themselves or the weak to retain humanity on earth. The human race were then able to use Justsu to at least fight against beasts/animals (for example, the ten-tails which attacked)

People later started to misuse Jutsu, stemming from their hunger for power and wealth.

The history prior to Rikudō Sennin is not important to Naruto's story so it is not mentioned anywhere. That doesn't mean that the people have forgotten everything.


Does Koukin Shuuyu play a big main role in Ikkitousen? I know that Koukin Shuuyu is "a" main character, and I know he is not the protagonist. But what I'm wondering is, does he play a big enough role in the series where he would show up in almost every episode or at least referred to.

One of my pet peeves is ecchi genre with a female protagonist. I'm a big disliker of shoujo anime. Although I know this isn't one.

I've been looking at this anime for a while, but the ratings and reviews have been keeping me at bay. The female protagonist doesn't make it any easier to swallow, either.

No, he doesn't play much of a main character role, though he's important in the first series as someone who's there to help explain what's going on to the audience. The series/franchise focuses mainly on Hakufu Sonsaku, his cousin. Although he's listed as a main character in most of the shows from the franchise, so are a lot of the other fighters from the school, who don't always appear in every episode.

For example, in Ikkitousen: Xtreme Xecutor, it seems Shuuyu is listed as a main character but I can't remember seeing him at all in the series, if only in passing.

As for the franchise itself, and this is purely opinion, I've heard that the Battle Vixens manga that the show was adapted from is superior to the various anime. While it is in the ecchi genre, there's a lot of focus on the fighting (and clothes magically getting ripped to shreds during fights), and while very liberally taken, the background link to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is mildly compelling.


Name of the song in the trailer of "A Lull in the Sea" In the official trailer of A Lull in the Sea by NIS America, there is a song playing in the entire trailer.

What is the title of the song?

The song is 凪-nagi- by Ray. It's the 3rd track in the album ebb and flow.

It's streamable on the Spotify

The lyrics.


Why isn't Tobi blind yet? There is a Naruto character named Tobi who maintains his eyesight though his special ability should have caused a great amount of macular degeneration. The following includes extensive spoilers.

   By my math, Tobi possesses his Mangekyo for quite some years. It is his Mangekyo, he stated it himself. So in that case, how come he hadn't gone blind yet? Itachi went almost completely blind in under 10 years. Sasuke got half blind in less than 1 year (because he abused it freely).

So how come Tobi hasn't gone blind? As far as I can figure:

   He obviously replaced his other eye, but it was kept behind his one-eyed mask for a long period of time, he didn't use it for vision.

This answer contains lots of spoilers so I might as well make one block, edit if you will

   When Madara rescued Obito from the collapsed cave he used Hashirama
 Senju's living clone to heal Obito's crushed body. Not only did this
 heal Obito's body but it also gave him access to Hashirama Senju's
 abilities, the wood release ability, as seen when he defeated the
 ninjas who wanted to steal Rin's body.
 Now Hashirama Senju had unique medical ninjutsu which healed himself without forming any
 seals whatsoever. So if Obito gained access to the wood release ninjutsu he may also gained
 this medical ninjutsu, which in turn healed his eye throughout the years.


Why did Jeremiah Gottwald use his Geass on Nunnally? In Code Geass R2, on episode 49, when Lelouch went to Nunnally

  who was the holding F.L.E.I.J.A. switch, to confront her and to give to him the switch, it was revealed that she has now regained her sight which she lost because of his father, Charles Vi Britannia's geass. The only existing geass who can possibly cancel out that geass was the Geass Canceller. And Jeremiah Gottwald has that geass. On the previous episode, Nunally has fallen from her wheelchair and someone helped her. So it can be assumed (though it was not really stated or shown) that Jeremiah was the one who helped her then and canceled out the geass Charles used on her, thus having her regain her sight again.

My question is, why would Jeremiah

  use his geass on Nunnally? (Assuming that he really was the reason why Nunnally regained her sight again.)

Was it out of pity? Since he

  has vowed his loyalty to Lelouch,

did he feel the need to help Lelouch's sister, knowing that she is very important to him?

Or was it included in Lelouch's plan? If it is, what will it gain him?

Or Lelouch purposely asked Jeremiah to do it for him, again, for his sister's sake?

Or it was just a random act for Jeremiah just for the purpose of having his geass used?

I just need some clarifications on this part. Maybe I overlooked something or misunderstood something, but any clarifications would do. Thanks.

He didn´t use Geass Canceller on her because they have never even met. regardless of that, how would he cancel her if she had no eyesight?

Either she overcame the Geass by her own or all Charles´s Geass are canceled upon his death.


Does the world on the other side of the gate exist for alchemy to exist? In one of the episodes of Fullmetal Alchemist (the original 2003 anime), Hohenheim of Light is sent to a parallel universe of some sort smaller than the world he once knew by Dante, using a baby as she did some research on The Gate. He says something along the lines off:

  Even when we fix a radio with alchemy . . . it takes a life or energy from this world to do it

I know it's not exactly what he told his son Ed (although I do not remember why), but why does this other world exist? Does it just exist to serve the purpose of alchemy?

Even when we fix a radio with alchemy . . . it takes a life or energy from this world to do it

The explanation, as it is given to the viewer, isn't so much that this world exists for the purpose of alchemy. Rather, the other world is being "tapped into". Alchemists think they are following the principle of Equivalent Exchange; but there is a hidden cost that they are not aware of. This hidden cost is "stolen" from the other world.

Imagine running a cable from your neighbour's house to your house, so you can steal their electricity. Every time you use an electrical device, you steal some of your neighbour's electricity. That's basically what it is for alchemy too.

You put two slices of bread in your toaster. Two pieces of toast come out. That's equivalent exchange, right? To you, living in your house, it may seem that way. But you're simply not aware of the additional cost (the electricity bill) because you're not the one paying for it (your neighbor is paying the cost)

This does not mean that I forced my neighbour to come live next to me so that I could steal his electricity (which is what your question boils down to). Alchemy was simply constructed in a way that it takes the additional cost from another (pre-existing) world.

As far as I'm aware, why the other world exists is never discussed, because then you must also ask yourself why the original (alchemist) world exists, and ponder what existence truly means.


Why did Near start to suspect the presence of a second Death Note? At what point and why did Near start to suspect the presence of a second Death Note? How and why did he consider that Mikami used a faked one?

L already suspected that there's more than one Death Note, so Near knows that there are two notebooks. Fact one came into consideration at the time of the kidnapping of Kiyomi Takada, when Mikami went to the gym a second time. He behaved suspiciously, and took the actual Death Note and wrote Kiyomi Takada's name. It is revealed at the end of the Death Note.


How can I improve the frame rate of a low frame rate anime? After reading Senshin's question about why Sidonia no Kishi has such low framerate, I wondered: is there not a way to improve an anime's frame rate on our end, similar to the way HDTV's do?

What are some ways to improve the frame rate of a low FPS anime?

As mentioned, HDTV's achieve this effect as described by using Motion Interpolation to generate intermediate frames, reducing the choppiness of the movement. If you are streaming the show to your TV, ensure you have such a feature (Motion Plus, TrimensionDNM, Motionflow, etc.) on and you should notice an increase in frame rate.

In case you're wondering if there is really a difference, here is a video showing 24 FPS and 60 FPS anime side-by-side. Ensure that you set the YouTube player to to 1080/60FPS to be able to notice the difference.

https://youtu.be/kHPVDXwMxiA

This video highlights Motion Interpolation generated by Smooth Video Project on a Windows computer. The free version of their software will allow us to increase the frame rate of our shows from 8/12/24 to 60FPS.

It is important to note in general, anime production companies do a good job at creating smooth action scenes without the need of more frames. The cases that SVP is useful is generally limited to computer generated imagery. Anime that consists of mainly CGI and 3D visuals benefit from this interpolation especially well in cases where the background imagery is rendered in 2D, as it will make the character movements appear much more fluid. While maybe anecdotal, I personally tested it on Sidonia no Kishi and feel like it did a nice job to resolve the choppy animation in that show.

For information on setting this up, refer to their manual. SVP requires the installation of additional software, ffdshow and LAVFilters in order to process video. SVP is not a video player, this page has a list of compatible video players.

Additional reading on FPS in anime: What does it mean for animation to be done “on ones” or “on twos”?


What does Ni no Kuni mean exactly? The full title of the PS3 game is Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch. Google Translate fails when I try to use the kanji, and the closest I can get is by writing the whole phrase in hiragana, which Google translates to:

  The country of the

However, the title would become The country of the Wrath of the White Witch, which doesn't seem to make sense. Of course, this is dependent on a Google machine translation, so it might not even be reliable.

So I am wondering, what does Ni no Kuni mean given the context of the game?

According to the Ni no Kuni article on Wikipedia, it literally means Second Country or Country of Two.

So the final title is either:

The Country of Two: The Wrath of the White Witch
Second Country: The Wrath of the White Witch

Despite the difference in wording, they generally mean the same thing, which in essence is a country with two sides to it, e.g. two faces, dimensions, etc. This makes sense since the premise of the game is to travel between Oliver's world – world 1 and the parallel world – world 2 – world of magic (which is magically linked to Oliver's world) in order for Oliver to find a way to save his mother.


Why did Umi only raise five flags "H-O-K-U-T" leaving out the O at the end? About 35 minutes into the animated film, Umi raised these five flags:

Shun, who was invited to Miki Hokuto's farewell party, understood the meaning of the signal flags: "H-O-K-U-T... Hokuto". What I don't understand is why didn't Umi raise the sixth O flag to complete the word? Is there a rule or taboo saying the sixth O flag can not be raised?

According to the Chinese Wikipedia, which cites page 18 of the Visual Guide, Umi didn't raise the sixth O flag because she only had one set of flags. Normally, substitutes can be used to repeat the same signal flag one or more times in case only one set of flags is carried on board:

  The Repeater/Substitute flags allow any combination of five letters to be hoisted with only a single set of flags: hence, 2R means a duplicate of whatever was signified by the second flag.

However, in this case, they fall short of the required length (6) of the intended message (HOKUTO), and so were not used.


What did Griffith mean when he said "you are mine" to Guts? Mind to help me with this curiosity? Griffith acts differently after Guts decides to leave. He says, "you are mine" to him.

Was this to imply that he was gay for Guts? Ever since they have first met, it confuses me.

You have to remember how Guts first joined the Band of the Hawk. Guts challenged Griffin to a duel, and Guts agreed to join the band as his subordinate if he lost.

Before this Griffin even told Guts: "I want you", which Guts misinterprets as a gay thing, and Griffin explains how he views him as a military asset with an interesting willingness to risk his life.

This is the sense in which Guts is "his".  His membership is guaranteed by the conditions of the duel, and Guts has not won a release from this obligation. This is why Guts and Griffith then fight again when Guts decides to leave.

A lot could be said and debated about whether or not Griffith has sexual or romantic feelings for Guts.  It's not implausible, but you have to keep in mind that Griffin is consistently portrayed as a narcissistic sociopath.  Sex, sexuality, and personal attachments in general are just tools to him. Part of his frustration and eventual breakdown over Guts's leaving is because Griffin views it as proof that he's allowed himself to grow weaker and soft.  He does realize that somehow Guts became more important than his lifelong dream; a dream he had been willing to sacrifice anything for, and had thought this included Guts and the rest of the Band. But he doesn't seem to experience this as "love for Guts" but rather "disgust with himself", as befits his narcissism.


Can Rimuru's Predator power put someone in an infinite dream? Can Rimuru somehow create an infinite dream for those he eats, for example when he used Predator on Shizu and she saw her mom?

I don't think so because the ones that are consumed(not confined like Ifrit or Veldora) are eaten soul and all. It is revealed in the novel series that the times that Shizu appears (after being eaten) is due to the leftovers of her soul. Thus I don't think Rimuru can put someone in an infinite dream, as he would have done that for Shizu if he could


Has a second season of Mysterious Girlfriend X been announced? After seeing this anime I was kind of confused if it is over or if there is more to come. Has a second season of this series been announced? I am asking this because I am interested in knowing that how this series will end. So do I have to wait for the next season or do I have to start searching for this manga and start reading it. (Actually I have never tried reading manga ever so I always see Anime)

There is no news at current time that hints to a second season. Anime news network link here. The manga was completed years ago so i doubt that the anime is getting any continuation.


How are games in the School Days franchise linked? I have played, watched and read the media from the original School Days, but I don't know much about the other games in the series and how they're linked to each other.

I even saw there's a tower defence game in the series, which seems bizarre.

What order should the games be played in and how do the games fit together (are they all in parallel universes for example?). Are there any alternate adaptations of the games while I wait for them to be translated?

Use the spoiler tags if necessary please.

I made a small diagram to show the order the games came out:

School Days is the main & first game in the series. It was remade in School Days HQ with updated graphics and additional uncensored scenes.
Summer Days takes place during the same time period, but in an alternate universe. The story is told from the perspective of Setsuna Kiyoura. It was remade as Shiny Days and an English translation of this has been announced recently. The original Shiny Days came bundled with bonus games Ahoge Battle and Strip Battle Days which haven't been confirmed/unconfirmed by JASTUSA yet whether they will be in the English version or not.

Cross Days is a story that takes place at the same time as School Days, but with a different cast. There is no English version yet, although there was a trial CD at one stage.
Island Days is a VN/Tower Defence Game, where weapons picked up in the main story line are used to defend yourself during the tower-defence stage. It seems to just be a spin-off unplaced in time.
Alternative Versions
As of writing, only School days has an animated version, but Summer Days and Cross Days have small manga adaptions - An anthology and a two-volume series respectively. There are light novels of all three games.
There doesn't seem to be much secondary merchandise for Island Days.


How is the Rinne Sharingan awakened? How is the Rinne Sharingan awakened? I know Madara and Kaguya were the only people to do so but I don't remember it ever being explained in Naruto Shippuden.

To awaken the Rinne Sharingan I believe that you need to:

1.) possess the Rinnegan, and
2.) approach the moon/be near the moon.

Based on the Rinne Sharingan Naruto wiki page, it was written on the stone tablet handed down in the Uchiha clan that "when one who wields the power of Rinne approaches the moon, the eye which can reflect off the moon and grant the infinite dream will open". The eye here refers to the Rinne Sharingan, which Madara was able to acquire after approaching the moon.

You could read the rest on the wiki page about how Kaguya awakened it, if you would actually call that awakening. I'd like to believe that the logic behind approaching the moon to activate it was because the moon is essentially where Kaguya is, after being sealed by Hagoromo and Hamura.


In Full Metal Panic, what does Mithril do with the Whispered they rescue? In the first episode of the first season, we see a Whispered woman being taken away from a Russian facility. Mithril turns up and secures the area before Sousuke injects a sedative into her and takes her away.

We know that Teletha "Tessa" Testarossa is a Whispered and works as the Captain of the Tuatha De Danaan while Chidori is relatively left to her own life (under protection).

What does Mithril do with the Whispered that they rescue? Are they put to work like Tessa, or are they relocated and kept safe in the same way Chidori is (i.e., allowed to live a normal life, but monitored)?

The Whispered woman you are referring to is Mira Kudan, whom Sousuke rescued in Khabarovsk. She is the only Whispered 'captured' by Mithril of whom we are given any details about her subsequent life. In the light novel series, she at first works in Mithril's engineering division, and helps to build the Arbalest for Sousuke, to thank him for saving her. Later, she is relocated to a secret safehouse where she, presumably, lives out a normal life in peace and calm.

In the final novel, "Always, Stand by Me: Part 2", she and Sousuke are in contact with each other over the internet, and before his final battle she emails him a copy of a video his classmates uploaded wishing him and Kaname a safe return to school. She appears happy and at peace, though still suffers residual trauma from her experiences.

I presume that other rescued Whispered are treated the same way: they can assist Mithril with their skills if they wish, or be put into protective custody where they can live quietly far from any of this.


What is this upside down floating heart symbolizing? In the Nichijou short 8, Yuuko Aioi goes fishing.
After fishing up a boot and kettle, she leaves and this upside down heart shape on a leave floats by.

Supposedly this is a symbolism of sorts, hence what is this symbolizing?

It's a peach. As Aki Tanaka commented, this is a reference to the story of Momotaro, in which an old woman finds a peach floating down a river. When she and her husband attempt to eat it, they find a boy inside.


Can water created using water jutsu be drunk? The earth and wood style can create permanent trees and walls, can water jutsu create pond or smaller body of water to drink? Is there any instance of this in the series or manga? And where does the water came from.

I would say yes.

As chakra is a special matter that can transcend body pains (in Naruto story of Kaguya and his two sons, the elder brother relieved the pain old man who tried to thug people in name of fake medicine), so possibly the water made would be pure enough to drink, although it's never been mentioned in the anime.

Another proof is that during the Fourth Shinobi War, the arc in which genin exams were conducted in the village of the hidden sand. One group had the ninjutsu to create healing water in order to cure some mosquitoes bite.

So in that way, I can deduce that the water would be drinkable.


Why aren't mages trusted to remove their own limiters? In Nanoha StrikerS (season 3), several of the high-end mages had limiters imposed on them to limit their power output thereby reducing their mage rank levels:

Nanoha Takamachi - S+ reduced to AA.
Fate Testarossa - S+ reduced to AA.
Hayate Yagami - SS reduced to A.
Lutecia Alphine - S reduced to D?

The purpose of the limiters was to limit the damage that could be caused to a small area and possibly to protect the mages themselves from overexerting.

Furthermore, limiters can only be removed by a high-ranked official.

With the exception of Lutecia (who was a captured antagonist), why were the mages not trusted to remove their own limiters if their purpose was to prevent accidental collateral damage?

This limiter is in place because high-end mages' powers become so powerful that they can present a danger simply by being unrestrained.

When a group of mages are in close proximity, or are working together, they must be limited. Because of their high amount of power, this much energy (mana) in one area would endanger the fabric of time-space (the series's equivalent of space–time).[Nanoha Wiki] So consider, if mages were to be allowed to remove these limiters without consent of the TSAB, they may do it unscrupulously, which could lead to unpredictable damage.

This is compared to a parallel in real life, where incredibly powerful weapons are sealed away for emergency; not every soldier on the battlefield has a rocket launcher because that would just lead to destruction (and high costs!).

  This is similar to how a normal organization is restricted from carrying excessive weaponry during normal missions, only using such equipment in times of emergency.[DVD Booklet translation]

TV Tropes calls this Awesomeness Is Volatile, stating that "they'd run the risk of having their sheer combined power potentially warping the fabric of reality" and "[Hayate, Nanoha, and Fate] alone pretty much constitute an army".


An old anime/cartoon set in prehistoric time where the main character dresses like Tarzan and lives in a jungle I am looking for an old anime/cartoon. I have no idea about the name, the year it was published, the original language or whether or not it was an actual anime.

Things I know:

It takes place in prehistoric times, a little bit after dinosaurs.
It was an adult man (dressed like Tarzan) that was struggling to survive (I think he had blond hair, and possible a girlfriend or wife).
He was living in the jungle with thick vegetation.
I watched it in 2000 ± 2 years but the anime could be 20 years older than that.

I think the main character's name was Koblan(k)/Coblan(k)/Moblan(k). His name was also mentioned in the intro.

It was played in Greece. It's not Shounen Kenya or Genshi Shounen Ryuu.

Thank you for your time.

Isn't it Rahan? I know it's a pretty old french comic, even the animation adaptation made out of it is quite old (1986).

It's a blond guy with a loin cloth, the action is set in prehistoric times.


Can it be that Merus is the grand priest? Here I saw this line.
 "However, Merus tells him that his doubts are now gone and asks Goku to follow him as he heads inside a nearby pyramid. Behind the door lies the Galactic Patrol's Hyperbolic Time Chamber. Merus tells Goku that every day that passes in the real world amounts to three days in this room, but the main reason for heading inside is so that he can unleash his full power without anyone finding out about it."
which made me to wonder whether Merus can be the grand priest? (BTW Merus's eye shape matches to that of grand priest )

From Chapter 54 of the manga it turns out that Merus is not grand priest but rather an angel.


Where did the fanart in episode 5 come from? In episode 5 there are several pieces of Miss Monochrome cosplay fanart with the main character in swimwear, cat ears, race queen clothes, nurse, doctor, and shrine maiden.

Where did this fanart come from?

There was a contest in Pixiv regarding that episode:

Starting September 9th, TV animation, Miss Monochrome, are looking for fresh new cosplay designs with the main character in clothing such as swimwear, cat ears, race queen clothes, nurse, doctor, shrine maiden, etc.
The winning entry or entries will have their work show up in the 5th episode of the Miss Monochrome animation along with a signed poster.

They gave credit to the winner

And here are the winner (click to get bigger image):

And here are the original fanart post on pixiv:

https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=38685552
https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=38774657
https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=38735824
https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=38822738
https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=38818662
https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=38833155 (the shrine maiden art apparently been made private by the artist)

Here are all submitted entry and the contest winners from Pixiv


What is the name of this song in ep1 Hibike Euphonium 2 Between 24:00 to 26:00, can someone telling me what is the song name?

Hibike! Euphonium 2 Episode 1

The song is Polovtsian Dances from the opera Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin.

Funny that the first Youtube video that hits on Google seems to also have attracted other fans of the anime as well.


Are these paper figures actually Origami? So in my Collectors Edition for Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth3 it came with a sheet which can be made into this paper figure:

I have also seen similar things on eBay of the Puella Magi from Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

Are these figures Origami, or is there a different name for them which one could use for finding similar products?

I think they can be considered Papercraft.
Also called Pepakura, from "pepa kurafuto", I guess.

If you search google for pepakura models, you can find sites with lots of designs to print and assemble.

Since you will need scissors and most times, glue, they are not considered origami.


Akagami no Shirayukihime letters or font? What type of letters or font is used in Clarines? I've been searching for it and I can't seem to find an answer.

Here is a screenshot of Shirayuki's Clarines Castle "pass tag/ID" from episode 6. I can somewhat read the "Clarines K • D Wistal Court" part.

And can you please link where can I download it?

Sorry for my bad English. It's not my first language. Thank you.

Interestingly, the website for Hakusensha's LaLa (the magazine in which Akagami no Shirayuki-hime is serialized) has a nifty little thing where you can enter your date of birth and your name, and it invents a life for you somewhere in the world of Akagami. (For example, I am apparently a "nervous boy awaiting the incipient start of the tournament of arms in Yurikana".)

As a bonus, it also displays your name in Clarines script. I used this to extract the Clarines glyphs. Here they are:

Turning this into a genuine font is left as an exercise for the reader.

If you're looking for a name for this, there isn't really one; Japanese sites just call it クラリネス文字, meaning "Clarines letters".


How many times has the original Nine Tails attack been flashed back? After looking at episode 248, I managed to once again gain a nice little view of the Nine Tails attack on Konoha. Even though we get a different point of view each and every time, it still is the original Nine Tails attack... AGAIN.

With that said, I've been wondering: How many times have we actually seen the Nine Tails attack the village, or at least fragments of this? And if possible, how much screen time has this taken in the two series so far?

In the anime series? Who knows.

But in the manga:

Naruto chapter 1, page 1, 17, 37, 49
Naruto chapter 2, pages 13-14
Naruto chapter 2, page 5
Naruto chapter 2, pages 14-15
Naruto chapter 500, pages 8-9
Naruto chapter 500, pages 9-10, 12
Naruto chapter 607, pages 6-7
Naruto chapter 500, pages 13-17
Naruto chapter 501, pages 1-6
Naruto chapter 501, page 7
Naruto chapter 501, pages 12-17
Naruto chapter 502, pages 1-6
Naruto chapter 502, pages 7-17
Naruto chapter 503, pages 3-4, 8
Naruto chapter 503, pages 5-7
Naruto chapter 503, page 9
Naruto chapter 503, pages 10-17
Naruto chapter 503, pages 13-19
Naruto chapter 504, pages 1-9
Naruto chapter 504, pages 10-14
Naruto chapter 440, page 15
Naruto chapter 499, page 3
Naruto chapter 440, page 5
Naruto chapter 399, page 15
Naruto chapters 399-401
Naruto chapter 484, pages 8-9
Naruto chapter 485, page 6
Naruto chapter 399, page 16
Naruto chapter 502, page 2

Naruto: Shippūden episode 68

Naruto chapter 149, page 9
Naruto chapter 370, pages 15-16
Naruto chapter 386, page 11
Naruto chapter 399, pages 14-15
Naruto chapter 440, page 10
Naruto chapter 500, page 7
Naruto chapter 597, pages 20-21


Naruto juubi's chakra When the Sage of the six paths i.e. Hagoromo and his brother Hamura defeated the juubi.

Is it that after defeating the Jubbi, Hagoromo himself sealed the whole juubi?
If Hamura sealed a part of the juubi inside him too, does it mean that we haven't seen the full power of the juubi in the battle?

A couple of things to explain your question. Hamura never sealed any part of the juubi in himself, he was sealed entirely in hagoromo. Also, I don't know if you're talking about the anime or the manga. If anime, no, you haven't seen the full power of the juubi yet, as the resurrection was incomplete due to lack of the hachibi and kyuubi. In the manga, its full power is shown.


What is the name of the song that was playing in My Hero Academia Season 2 Episode 17 at 12:10? In My Hero Academia season 2 episode 17, at around 12:10, there's a song playing when Bakugo and Todoroki were fighting during the obstacle race while it was playing.
What is the name of this song?

“I Don’t Need Pretend Friends,” it’s the song that played while fighting Stain. Track 6 on the soundtrack for season 2.
Edit: I read the descriptions, and Todoroki vs Bakugo obstacle race is actually season 2 ep 2-3. I don’t remember that ost, so someone else can help. Fix your description too.


Who is this person who climbs Mt. Tsukuba and also Mt. McKinley? In episode 1 of Ore no nounai sentakushi ga, Gakuen Love-comedy wo Zenryoku de Jama shiteiru (or NouKome or NouCome or whatever else you want to call it), as part of the hilarious montage of people making choices throughout history, there's a mountain climber:

His first choice is "Climb Mt. McKinley", and his second choice is "Be satisfied with Mt. Tsukuba". He is shown as selecting the first choice, and then, presumably upon reaching the summit of Mt. McKinley, shouting "Naomi!".

Who is he supposed to be?

It's likely to be a reference to Naomi Uemura, the first person ever to climb Mt. McKinley solo.

As a side note, Mt. Tsukuba is 877 meters high at it's highest peak), while Mt. McKinley is 6,194 meters high at it's highest peak.