Title of an anime with children quarantined in a city block? This is all I can remember:

It's an anime series with some SF or future theme. The government has the ability to close off a very large city-block with walls that can move and destroy buildings. Behind these walls, they have defenses which can kill anyone who tries to leave the quarantined area. As far as I know, there was some form of virus, but the surviving children were not contaminated.

As far as I know, it's about a high-schooler who has to survive in this quarantine and has to form a society to survive. At first, the leader wanted to be more democratic, but then his girlfriend gets killed which turns him into become a hard-line dictator. In the end (I think, not sure), they build enough resources to make an attempt to escape.

I'd like to know the title of this series. For some reason, the new Valvrave anime reminds me of this series.

I hope I've given you enough information to find the title.

I think you are looking for Guilty Crown


Why does Gai look like Rock Lee? Why does Gai-sensei and Rock Lee look almost exactly the same? Are they from the same clan or are they blood-related? Hinata and Neiji look the same and they're cousins, same with Sasori and Gaara, Sasuke and Itachi, so they're probably blood-related, or they're not? Are there any explanation regarding this?

No, they are not blood-related. When Lee wasn't in Guy-sensei's team yet, he was often mocked and bullied because of his inability to use any techniques other than Taijutsu. Guy-sensei was the first one to really believe in Lee's abilities, and thus he became Lee's idol. From the wiki:

  When first joining Team Guy Lee's appearance changed drastically. He had shorter hair than before that curved upwards in the back. He still maintained the Chinese appearance, since he wore a robe and a martial arts belt around his waist. After joining Might Guy's team, his appearance changed considerably to emulate his idol and sensei.

Here's an image of how Lee used to look:

So, as you can see, he just changed his appearance to look more like Guy whom he idolizes.


Why is Suigintou's title "Mercury Lamp?" Looking on the Rozen Maiden Wikia for the Rozen Maidens, I notice they all have titles

Suigintou = Mercury Lamp
Shinku = Pure Ruby
Hinaichigo = Small Berry
Suiseiseki = Jade Stone
Souseiseki = Lapislazuli Stone
Barasuishou = Rose Crystal
Kirakishou = Snow Crystal
Kanaria = Canary Bird

i get most of them are either a trait they have (Hinaichigo is small, Barasuishou attacks with crystals) or their primary color scheme (Kirakishou is white like snow, Kanaria is yellow like the general depiction of a canary).

But I don't understand why Suigintou has the title of Mercury Lamp. From my understanding, Suigintou's color scheme is black (2013 anime) or purple (2004 anime) while Mercury as the metal is silver, while I don't think the planet is black or purple. Nor do I get how Lamp fits.

So how does Suigintou's title match with her?

I think it refers to the metal mercury (水銀)　which is silver as Suigintou's hair.

It is fragile, it breaks easily (think of thermometer) and when it breaks it is very poisonous. Just like her. She's not bad, just a bit unfortunate and later became evil and poisonous.

It's hard to guess why the kanji for lamp is there though, but during the victorian era, there were lamps with mercury glass reflectors, so it would emit more light


What exactly happens during a Captain's Exam? Before the Hollowfication Incident (in the anime) we see Kisuke Urahara is called to a room to meet with Head Captain Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto, with the presence of 2 other captains. After this, he is revealed to be the new Squad 12 Captain, so we can infer that this was the Captain's Exam.

Earlier in the series we learned that it is a requirement that all Captains had to master Bankai to become a Captain (with the exception of Kenpachi Zaraki), but I don't see how Kisuke's Bankai can be evaluated in that small room. Also given how they were seated it seemed as if all they would do is talk.

So what exactly happens during a Captain's Exam?

It is indeed true that all captains have to master Bankai before they even become captains and Urahara is said to have mastered it in just 3 days.

We don't know what is going on in the Exam room, but the supervising captains along with Yamamoto could already know of his bankai mastery and subject Urahara to different tests, such as to evaluate his conviction, his ability to command others, his decision making and other traits a captain should have before taking up that role.

Also, Urahara isn't the only one who's bankai manifestation is very big, the same could be asked about Mayuri Kurotsuchi who's bankai is much bigger then Urahara's.

So to answer your question, probably the Captain Exam isn't only about power, but how a Shinigami can exert authority and responsibility over his subordinates in order to complete the task given to his squad.


How come that Yukiteru won if Ninth was still alive? I just finished watching the Mirai Nikki anime. Haven't seen the manga.

The last standing player becomes god. At the end, either Yukiteru or Yuno have to die. Yuno dies and Yukiteru is declared the winner of the game.

But how come, if Ninth was still alive?

I had some assumptions:

Maybe, at this point, no one cares about the game's rules.

But then it wouldn't be necessary to kill either Yukiteru or Yuno. So it seems like the rules must be followed no matter what.

Everyone thought that Ninth was dead. So perhaps the "system" was fooled.

But this would prove that the game's rules have no kind of "transcendental/godlike" authority, as they are incapable of telling whether Ninth is still alive or not. If that's the case, the rules can be bended. But if you could bend the rules, then it wouldn't be necessary to kill either Yukiteru or Yuno.

When Deus saved Ninth, maybe he kind of disqualified her from the game, so she's not a player anymore and doesn't have to die.

I don't remember if this was mentioned or implied. Was it?

How did Yukiteru win the game, if Ninth was still living?

When Deus saved Ninth, maybe he kind of disqualified her from the game, so she's not a player anymore and doesn't have to die.
  I don't remember if this was mentioned or implied. Was it?

Actually, the rules aren't "The last survivor wins" but "The last diary owner wins". When Ninth came back, she had no diary anymore, because she already destroyed it to kill herself in the save. So after Yuno's death, Yukiteru was the last diary owner.

Besides that, Murmur doesn't seem to care about the winning conditions as she nearly made Yuno the new god even though Yukiteru was still alive.


Is Hagu's name a reference to The Hague? In Honey and Clover the character Hagumi Hanamoto often goes by the abbreviation of her name, Hagu. I just noticed this is spelled similarly to The Hague, a city and municipality in the Netherlands. In the story, Hagu is a genius artist, and a precursory internet search shows that The Hague does have connections to art. For example, from wikipedia:

The Hague has its share of museums, most notably the Mauritshuis, located next to the Binnenhof, which exhibits many paintings by Dutch masters, such as Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn and Paulus Potter. Other museums include the science museum Museon, the modern art museum Kunstmuseum, the historic museum Haags Historisch Museum, the national postal museum Museum voor Communicatie, the Museum Bredius, the Louis Couperus Museum, the museum Beelden aan Zee in Scheveningen, and the Gevangenpoort, a former prison housed in a 15th-century gatehouse.

It might just be coincidence, as Hagu and Hague aren't pronounced similarly. On the other hand, checking the Japanese wikipedia page for The Hague, it seems the pronunciations are more similar in Japanese, at least (ハグ vs ハーグ). It would be interesting if the author had this connection in mind. Is there any evidence for this being a reference?

While it is difficult to prove this with any certainty, we can try to analyse the facts around it to make an educated guess.
First, as far as I can find, the author of the manga has never said anything proving or disproving this relation, which unfortunately does rule out any definitive answer in either direction.
Do note that she has mentioned that the title of Honey and Clover comes from the album titles of the musicians Shikao Suga and Spitz, which can be seen as indication that she does make references.
However, the name Hagumi, and in turn the nickname Hagu, is common enough that inferring any significance from this alone is difficult.
A prime example from anime would be Hagumi Kitazawa from Bang Dream!, who is referred quite frequently as Hagu externally (and within the source material IIRC)
This is personal opinion, but if the author wanted to make a reference via character name, it seems much more likely that she would have used the name of a famous artist (perhaps a Japanese one, to avoid any finagling to form a plausible Japanese name) than The Hague, whose claim to international fame as an artistic city is frankly debatable.
The combination of a commonplace Japanese name and a tenuous artistic association to "reference" makes it, in my view, much more likely that this is a simple coincidence due to the sheer volume of names with some artistic significance.
Of course, without a clear statement from the author, all this is necessarily mere speculation.


What is the relation between Strike The Blood and Strike The Blood EX? I have read that in Strike The Blood EX, Kojou seems to have two children, so EX has to be set in the future.

Is it the future of the "world" the story takes place or is it the "future" shown at the end of the anime where Reina came from (you can see Kojou's daughters Reina and Moegi)? Or is EX maybe only the name of the last arc in the anime (where Reina appears)?

Well, during the last episode of the anime (episode 24), a girl suddenly appeared out of nowhere. She looked exactly like Yuukina (but her busts were larger) and she had eyes like Kojou and was a vampire. It is later revealed that she is Reina Akatsuki, daughter of them, and she had come in past (time travelled) to kill a dangerous human-made dragon...
When she got back in her time, it is revealed that Kojou has another daughter named Moegi, but from Asagi..

This is whole is called Strike the Blood EX, I guess


How did Kanade get access to Angel Player? Tachibana Kanade (aka Angel) is a prominent figure in Angel Beats. The SSS,

   at least in the first few episodes,

is constantly fighting her, but she has certain abilities that make her very difficult to defeat.

However, it's revealed that abilities aren't

   God-given, instead, she uses software called Angel Player to create these abilities herself.

But,

   Angel Player was created by the Programmer, as stated in Episode 11. The Programmer is an elusive figure, who likely didn't even know Kanade.

So how did Angel Player find its way to Kanade, for her to later use?

From the Wikia:

  Some time after the creation of the Angel Player program, a student by the name of Kanade Tachibana discovered the program and became the first user of the program. She used the program to create Guard Skills to battle against the SSS.

(emphasis mine)

The exact details of the acquisition process is not revealed, however it is believed that Kanade found the program by herself. Considering that she has an English manual, it could be that she found it with one of the computers in the computer room, or bought it in the Afterlife.


Why does Bartholomew Kuma support the world government? Bartholomew Kuma is a former revolutionary and a friend of Monkey D Dragon. So why is he helping the government instead of helping Dragon. We know that he helped Luffy and his crew during the Sabaody Archipelago Incident, and also helped them to keep the Thousand Sunny away from pirates and the world government. But still he offered himself to the government so that they could turn him to a complete Pacifista.

Maybe he was an informant for Dragon but he was too honorable to betray the government bluntly.
We know that he was a man of reason when he let Zoro take up all the pain instead of Luffy.

Him becoming Pacifista was entirely for different reasons which we still don't know.
He offered himself to be experimented upon but his last wish was to protect thousand sunny which was honoured and his wish was fulfilled.


What happens at the end of CLANNAD: After Story? This is a question that I really can't get my head around. I've asked many people but I still have not come to a good understanding of the ending of CLANNAD: After Story.

In the end of the anime, Nagisa and Ushio both come back to life. It's not terribly clear on how this happens and what causes it. Is it just magic?

I found the ending very cryptic, so anyone could explain it well with relevant information and evidence of some sort, I'd be very glad!

I don't think this can be answered unambiguously even considering the visual novel, but it certainly explains things somewhat better than the anime in this case. In principle I can find quotes from the VN to support everything here, but that seems like a pretty arduous task given the size of the VN.

Of course, what follows constitute pretty major spoilers if you ever intend to read the VN regarding the illusionary world and the "lights", though . Some of this is not discussed in any way in the anime, so I've spoiler tagged everything (but if you don't ever intend to read the VN, there's no reason not to spoil yourself).

   In the visual novel, there are a number of "orbs of light" which are also in the anime but not focused on as much. Yukine describes them to Tomoya at the end of her route, and I believe also at some point in the anime. They are capable of granting wishes, but are fairly limited in power. They are created when someone helps someone else achieve a goal which brings happiness. For unknown reasons, Tomoya is one of the few people who can see them now, although they were visible to everyone in the past. In the game, Tomoya gets one orb for each completed route (8 total), with a couple of exceptions, and 5 more are available in After-Story. All of these are needed to reach the true end where Nagisa and Ushio don't die.
After Tomoya collects the orbs, they are transported to the illusionary world, where Ushio (the true identity of the girl who lives there) keeps them. Ushio created the illusionary world in order to save herself and Nagisa by collecting the fragments of happiness that Tomoya gathers in the form of orbs of light. She is capable of doing so because "children are the culmination of their parents' hopes and dreams" (a theme that is repeated many times in the series).
The only other people who are able to enter the illusionary world are those who willingly choose to do so, and Tomoya is the only person who falls into that category, so he is able to enter the body of a doll made out of garbage. Even when they made another doll, there were no more souls willing to enter the illusionary world, so it was lifeless. It isn't clear whether Ushio and Tomoya in the illusionary world have their real world memories, but Tomoya in the real world definitely doesn't remember the illusionary world, as evidenced by the fact that he thinks Nagisa's play is nostalgic but doesn't know why (Nagisa's play was about the illusionary world, although she probably also doesn't know this). It's also not clear how the chronologies of the two worlds works, but it's very likely that they are on completely different timelines. Judging by the fact that all of the illusionary world segments occur between days, he may be seeing it as a dream, but the research of the Ichinoses (Kotomi's parents, both of whom are theoretical physicists) indicates that the illusionary world is very much real and is connected to our world in many ways.
In order to save Nagisa and Ushio, Tomoya needs to do 3 things. First, he needs to gather a lot of happiness in the form of orbs of light, enough to make such a big wish. Second, he needs to clearly tell Ushio (who is holding the orbs via her alter-ego in the illusionary world) that he doesn't want her or Nagisa to die and that he wants them to live together as a family. And third, he needs to really mean what he is saying, as the orbs won't grant wishes that aren't what one truly desires. If all of those are completed, the orbs of light will grant his wish, returning time to the point when Ushio was born and saving both Nagisa and Ushio. It should be mentioned that in order to collect these orbs, Ushio sends Tomoya to many different timelines, each time returning him to around the same point when the anime begins and resetting his memories. This is touched upon briefly in the special episodes revolving around Kyou and Tomoyo in which we see orbs of light at the end, meaning it's likely they're canon and actually happened during one of the timelines Tomoya was sent to.
Note also that this isn't the only time that the orbs of light grant wishes that would otherwise be impossible, although it's definitely the most powerful instance. When Nagisa is dying for the first time and Akio wishes to the tree that she doesn't die, that wish was also granted via the orbs. Also, when Misae declares her wish to Shima that she wants him to always be with her and love her, this is also granted, although unbeknownst to Misae, Shima was actually a cat and he returns to that form. In addition, depending on the order of routes that you choose in the VN, Tomoya may use an orb to pray for Fuko to get better, though if he does he'll be able to get it back in After Story. So this isn't as much of a deus ex machina as it might seem, but a legitimate plot point that mostly got swept under the rug in the anime.


Name of song in Episode 9 of No Game No Life at around 21:45? What is the name of the song played in Episode 9 of No Game No Life at around 21:45? I can't seem to find this song anywhere.

Probably "Gray Sky" from the OST vol. 1, track 02


Where did the ninja clans other then Senju and Uchiha originate from? In the anime, it is shown that the Senju and Uchiha clans originated from the Sage of Six Paths who is the God of Shinobi. Where did the other clans like Sarutobi, Nara, Inuzuka, clans from other countries originate from?

Recall that the Sage of the Six Paths discovered the existence of chakra and used it to create jutsu. The direct descendants of him became Senju and Uchiha, where their powers were split between body and eye.

Other ninja clans were not descendents, however they were able to learn how to use chakra as well in different forms of jutsus. Of course there are some clans, like the Hyuuga where the series notions the possibility of them deriving from the Uchiha.

Clans like Sarutobi, Nara, and Inuzuka clans are not related to the Sage of Six Paths though. On the other hand, Uzumaki is blood related to Senju.


How is it that applicant 44 is able to turn into smoke and do magic if he is just another contestant? I would like to know why he is able to do pretty much anything. He seems to be almost unkillable, except when Gon surprises him. I am only on episode 4, so try not to spoil anything please :)

You're right to think he is NOT just another participant. He is already at hunter level which co-incidently includes several other participants in this exam as well (Good luck figuring them out!). As Happy Face said, you'd need to see more to understand the actual mechanics between the "magic" Hisoka(the Participant 44) uses.

To give you a bit more info without spoiling anything. I'll block quote the wiki intro about Hisoka on HxH wiki.

  Hisoka is portrayed as entirely self-serving, self-absorbed, and selfish; he does whatever he likes as long as it pleases him in some way. His insatiable love for spilling the blood of powerful fighters in combat and his enjoyment of extreme pain while doing so fuels his seemingly sadomasochistic desires. In order for them to grow to their full potential (so as to improve the pleasure of killing them later), Hisoka allows the main protagonists to live in situations wherein he is easily able to kill them. Likewise, he grows excited to meet any new people he deems worthy of fighting or anyone with potential to be a good fighter and entertain him in the future.

Long story short he is an anti-hero, who is completely self-centered and a Sociopath. He is one of the best characters in HxH viz. saying something as HxH has great character development!

Edit: Just saw your username "DeadPool" and Hisoka fits the role of Deadpool in HxH universe.


How could "this character" come back to life without becoming a Vampire at the end of Stardust Crusaders? At the end of JoJo season 3: Stardust Crusaders, episode 48:

 Dio Brando killed Joseph Joestar using 'The World'. Later on, Dio drained his blood entirely and left Joseph Joestar as a husk.

However, Jotaro was able to revive

 Joseph by transferring blood from Dio's dead body into his Grand Dad. (YouTube reference)

What I'm trying to understand though is why

 Joseph did not turn into an undead vampire.

Because I remember the episode before that, Dio had previously used his blood

 to turn Vanilla Ice into a vampire (the one with the "self-eating" Stand).

No hard facts are given on this one (at least none translated that I was able to find).

But a common theory is Hamon.  Joseph was a naturally gifted Hamon user.  So the theory is that the blood started to turn Joseph into a vampire, but his natural Hamon purified it at the same time, so he was restored to life as a normal human (or as normal as Joestar can ever be).

Also, DIO had only consumed Joseph's blood an hour earlier, so the blood may have still counted more as Joseph's than anything else.

But most importantly, Jojos in general runs on Rule of Cool and Rule of Funny.  You shouldn't try to apply to much logic to it.


Is avatar Korra bisexual? They were closer than they should have been and in the final scenes, it wasn't clear if they were just close friends or romantic interests.

A little google search and this is what happens:

There are sources that said the creators confirmed it, but I couldn't find these sources.

Yes, that's correct.

According to Michael Dante Dimartino's Tumblr (who's one of the main creators of the series), it was confirmed that Korra + Asami is a thing.

  Our intention with the last scene was to make it as clear as possible that yes, Korra and Asami have romantic feelings for each other. The moment where they enter the spirit portal symbolizes their evolution from being friends to being a couple.


Why is Pride's name different from the word "pride"? When watching FMA Brotherhood, when van Hohenheim is talking to Pride, he refers to him as "プライド (Puraido) when he is talking to him by name, but when he is listing the seven deadly sins, he uses the term "傲慢", which is pronounced "ごうまん" (gouman). Is there any indication of why the character name is different from the term itself? This is probably true for all seven of the Homunculi, but I only noticed it specifically for Pride.

This is a simple "English is cooler"

As all the homunculi are named with the english seven deadly sins, their names are the hiragana/katagana representation to the english vocalization.

but when referring to the sin itself the correct translation ("傲慢") is used, as it is not a name (that also has to sound cool), but the thing itself.

I verified this is true to the other homunculi too, though not for "Father"


What does 'production minutes' mean? In the following document, the expression 'production minutes' comes up multiple times:

The full source of the document can be found here

What does this expression mean, in terms of anime production?

Based on the quotients of the production minutes over number of works and given the context that these numbers are referring to increasing numbers of theatrical anime releases, I believe the term "production minutes" is referring to the length of each anime.

For example, in 2000, 31 theatrical anime were released, each being an average of 61.29 minutes, while in 2014, 74 theatrical anime were released, each being an average of 65.05 minutes.


Why did Menma appear as a grown up? In Ano Hana, Menma died when she was a kid, but then a few years later when she appeared again, her ghost was a teenager. What exactly happened here?

Jintan still has romantic feelings toward her, as do the other male
characters. There are also some scenes (at least one, and I think more)
where Menma is sitting on Jintan's crotch and moving around, which
naturally gives him nosebleeds and at least once causes him to pass out.
The implication is that she has no clue what kind of effect this has on
him because she died before learning about such things.

It seems likely that the creators did not want to show that kind of
scene with Menma looking like a child. Kodomo no Jikan ended up not
being adapted for the US market because of such content. The late-teen
male characters having romantic feelings toward such a young-looking
character would also tend to squick people out.


Could someone transplant the Rinnegan from one of Pain's paths? Could someone transplant the Rinnegan from one of Pain's paths?

For example, from the male Chikoshodo (summoning) Pain that the Leaf had in their possession.

I have to say NO.

My reasoning is based on the time when Tobi is hunting for the Rinnegan after the death of Nagato. After he kills Konan, he finds the corpses of Yahiko (who was also the Tendo's body) and Nagato, and pulls only the body of Nagato to his dimension and leaves the body of Yahiko in the same place. If he would have been able to use Yahiko's eyes, I reckon Tobi would've picked that body as well. Seeing how he chooses to ignore Yahiko's body would suggest that only Nagato's eye truly matters and it's the real Rinnegan.


What was the point of blocking the robot outbreak using Kill-Ballad? In Robotics;Notes, there is some sort of robot outbreak in the city. They all go out of control and attack what seemed like the city hall.

When Frau tries to hack into the servers to stop the outbreak, she is redirected to the Kill-Ballad game. When Kai beats the enemy, access is given and they manage to stop the outbreak.

What was the point of using Kill-Ballad to block the access to the servers? Couldn't the enemy just say "nah, you don't have access, go away" rather than giving a chance to actually stop the outbreak?

I believe the game was a defense against fixing the problem.

The guy who started it was one of the people who worked on the game with Frau, so he must have been betting that the person who was trying to gain access would not beat the hacked kill-ballad character, even if it was Frau herself.

(since she made the system she could give herself the rights back to fix the problem but couldn't play kill-ballad well enough to beat the hack)

(It also gave Kaito a chance to save the day ;])


How does Suigintou function without her torso? In Episode 12 of the first season, after Shinku repelled Suigintou's fire attack back at her and her clothes burn off we see her torso is missing. after Shinku finish explaining how Suigintou was unfinished Suigintou's upper half falls to the ground.

Why it only when her clothes have been burned off does the reality of her floating upper half take effect? what was keeping both halves together as if she did have a torso?

There are quite a few differences between the anime and manga in Rozen Maiden.

Suigintou's torso is one of those.

In the anime, she has no torso connecting her upper and lower halves.
Rozen Maker Wikia tells that it is shown in the two episedos of Rozen Maiden Ouvertüre that she was left incomplete and unassembled, not even receiving a Rosa Mystica. Her love for her father makes her able to move her upper body only. She is awarded a Rosa Mystica later.

There are no explanations to how she could move her both halves of her body without the connecting torso.

In the manga, Suigintou does have her torso. But she is ashamed of it, because it is defective, with cracks that cover most of her back, and through which her wings come out.

So the manga also does not offer an explanation, since the problem itself does not exist there.


What do we know about Yune's father? I've read the first few chapters of the Ikoku Meiro no Croisée manga. In these chapters, we hear a little about Yune's mother, and a little about her older sister, but I don't remember anything being mentioned about her father. Do we ever hear anything about him?

Very little. In fact, we know very little about Yune's family in general, or what she was doing in Nagasaki when Oscar found her.

In Chapter 1 of the manga, Oscar mentions meeting Yune's father, but doesn't elaborate. We only hear about her mother early on when she gives Claude her mother's kimono to sell. It's implied that her mother is dead. We hear the most about Yune's older sister Shione, and even see her a few times in Yune's flashbacks. In the anime, Yune remembers Shione singing to her, tending her in an illness, and doing shadow puppets with her hands through the door.

In Yune's flashbacks, the house we see appears to be a large mansion, so it seems probable that Yune's parents were either nobility or somehow affiliated with nobility. The beautiful kimono that Yune inherited from her mother also implies wealth.

The manga ends without ever telling us anything more about Yune's family, so this seems to be all we can ever know.

(Early on, I suspected we'd find that Yune was Oscar's love child from a forbidden dalliance with a Japanese woman, but I no longer think that likely.)


Are Quincy Christian? A lot of Quincy objects look crosses, and a number of their attacks reference holy things. For example, there is an attack called "Quincy Vollstandig" which, at least according to the translation I was reading, translated to "Complete Holy Form". Are Quincy as a group Christian (or some other religion) or are these names because they sound cool rather than having any particular meaning?

Religion is an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to the supernatural, and to spirituality.

While it would a stretch to say combating Hollows might be an extension of Quincy culture, it doesn't hold through with a belief system. Religion by definition requires belief, a viewpoint with intangible evidence. When evidence becomes tangible, it holds at least some quantifiable fact.

For Quincy, harnessing spiritual particles to shoot projectiles of energy and the dangers of Hollows interacting with the real world are both instances of fact.

There has been no mention of religion or specifically Christianity in Bleach, but despite either existing, the Quincy are more of a clan of warriors or hunters. I understand the suggestive designs that seem Religion-based but I believe it's to appeal to an exorcist fanbase as a supernatural character option in this story about ghosts, good or bad, and their governors.

Source(s): Wiki


Anime about a boy and a girl chased by a group of thiefs I remember watching a anime in early 2000 (the series itself may even be older) It was about a young girl and boy who were getting chased by a group of thiefs.

The girl possesed some sort of blue jewel/gem which they were trying to steal. And in the end the boy and girl prevented some kind of world war/domination plan. Also the girl found out some information about lost family during the journey I believe

The girl had black hair, and allot of jewelry. I also believe she had a red vest with a white shirt underneath it. The clothing looked a bit like that of a pirate.

This is Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water:

  The series centers around Nadia, a young girl of unknown origins, and Jean, a young French inventor. Early in the story, the two protagonists are chased by Grandis Granva, Sanson, and Hanson, a group of jewel thieves who pursue Nadia for the blue jeweled pendant she possesses. After being rescued by Captain Nemo and his submarine, the Nautilus, the jewel thieves and the young protagonists join forces and participate in the struggle against the Neo-Atlantean forces, who seek to dominate the world.


Why does Tetsuo say "I am Tetsuo" at the end of Akira? At the end of Akira, there is a massive power release; then:

   Tetsuo manages to gain full control over his powers, and these abilities end up creating a new Big Bang in another dimension.

After this event, Tetsuo says the following: "I am Tetsuo."

Why did he say this? What meaning does it have?

Testuo (probably like Akira before him) finally gains full control of his powers, and uses it to initiate the creation of a new universe. In effect he is now the creator god of this new universe, and he proclaims this at the end:

"I am Tetsuo"

This is the real Tetsuo, he is saying. His essence without the limiting shell of his mortal body. The pure energy of his being distilled into a pocket universe.


Why was the bridge already down when the second train arrived? In the first episode of the new anime "Koutetsujou-no-Kabaneri", the first train had to stop before they let it enter the station.
(which can be seen in the following picture)

Why was the bridge already down before the second train even arrived? This made it easy for the Kabane to invade the station.
(here you can see that the bridge was already down before the train even arrived)

Was this an error? Or is it a part of the plot, to let the Kabane enter the station?

It's not clear as of now why Koutetsujou (the first train) had to wait before entering the station whereas Fusoujou (the second train) didn't.

However, a likely reason is that they were expecting Fusoujou to arrive on that day whereas Koutetsujou was to arrive on the next day, but was running ahead of its schedule.

Moreover, I don't think they expected the whole train to be filled with Kabane. They most likely only expected a few to be bitten and planned to get rid of them at the station, like they did with Koutetsujou.

  Why was the bridge already down before the train even arrived?

It wasn't. The bridge was lowered when they saw Husoujyou coming, as can be seen here:


Chaos;Head, Steins;Gate, Robotics;Notes: where is all the extra information? To make it short:
I watched all three anime adaptations, but after browsing the questions here for 5 minutes I feel like I don't know anything about them...

Where is all this extra information hidden?

(More specific question:)
I am searching for information about 2 things.

"Hidden" information which is only for one story.
"Hidden" information which is cross-story (at least two stories "combined")

Now I'll specify what I mean with that.

(This example is not related to the stories in the title.) For example, something like the real name of L (from Death Note).
Something like "What is DaSH?"

I do NOT want you to list all the secrets and easter-eggs! I only want to know where, and (maybe) how to find them. If there are manga with extra information, please give me the title. Or if there are articles on the internet about it, please give me a link.

(I know that there are visual novels for all the stories listed in the title. I'm going to watch/read/play them soon.)

As said by senshin in his comments the Chaos;Head, Steins;Gate and Robotic;Notes anime series are adaptions of Visual Novels. bellow is a list of the corresponding games on VNDB (Visual Novel Database)

Chaos;Head
Steins;Gate
Robotic;Notes

From each of those links you can also find links to the anime and other games based off each of these. however not all of these one would consider canon and most times these would have [Unofficial] in their title or have Fan-Fiction as a tag, ie. Steins;gate Divergence. As senshin has said

  The visual novels are significantly longer and contain a lot more information than was shown in the corresponding anime

This obviously because of time constraints on Anime being set to go on for a set number of episodes of certain length (normally between ~12 and ~24 episodes ~20 minutes long Excluding OP and ED). multiple seasons of a series are normally either done based on popularity of the previous season or planned because it is foretasted that the previous season will sell well (as with Fate/Zero and Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works).

Another source of information is also Art/Material Books such as the Steins;Gate Official Material Collection Book. these tend to have a bit more information that may not have originally been in the Visual Novels. in my experience large series tend to have these to fill in some plot holes, for instance in the Nasuverse (Fate/Stay Night, Tsukihime etc.) the Material Books go into depth about the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors, the on-goings between the Church and the Mage's Association and the Aylesbury Valesti which is theorized to have been the cause of the Prana drying up in the world in Fate/Extra.

Also on occasion at conventions some writers/developers hold Q&A Sessions where fans can ask them a number of questions. these can sometimes also been included in Material Books.

However most of the time this extra information is in Japanese, for English fans who don't know Japanese this can be a barrier when the work isn't translated. for instance while Chaos;Head and Steins;Gate have English translations, both fan made and official, Robotic;Notes does not and the likely hood of a fan translation of it is very unlikely due to the game being on Console.

in these situations a Wiki (normally a Wikia site) tends to be a good source of information. however one need to be careful as sometimes there are two Wikias for one game however one can normally tell which is of inferior quality. also despite the 3 titles mentioned being apart of the The Science Adventure series (科学ＡＤＶ, Kagaku Adobenchaa) there is three separate wikias. sometimes however you may get lucky with a series which has a single wiki (eg. Type-Moon1, Final Fantasy2)

Ofcause one should take heed with Wikia's as these tend to not normally be maintained by the developers. a good sign that a Wikia is reliable is what kind of References it has, on the Type-Moon Wikia information gained from Q&A sessions will be included most of the time in both Japanese and in English

1: Titles include Fate/Stay Night, Tsukihime, Kagetsu Tohya, Melty Blood, Kara no Kyoukai, Notes, etc.

2: Titles include the Final Fantasy games (I - XV, Tactics, Crystal Chronicles), Vagrant Story, Bravery Default, The Four Heroes of Light, etc.


How could the Marines catch Zoro? The first time Luffy met Zoro, Zoro got caught by the Marines because he killed Helmeppo's pet wolf.

He was already strong at that time, he could easily defeat Morgan, a Marine Captain there. Had he deliberately made himself get caught? Why did he do that?

I think nothing is mentioned in the manga about this. According to the anime (second episode), Zoro was blackmailed by Helmeppo to surrender for 1 month otherwise he will ask his father to execute the family. Zoro agrees on the condition that the family will not be harmed.


Korean manhwa about a guy who cannot fight, but ends up winning every fight he is in I read this Korean manhwa about 2 years ago. I am bad at names, which is why I don't remember the title of the book, nor the names of any of the characters. This is not a popular series, and may not even have an anime. The manhwa is complete.

It has street fights. There are no superpowers whatsoever, as they are all humans. It's all about a guy becoming the top fighter in the school completely by accident.

I believe it takes place at an all boys high school, but there is a girl whom everyone mistakes for a guy attending the school for some reason. There are technically no rules against girls going to that school, though.

The main character is a complete wuss, with brown hair. In the first fight (maybe, not too sure), he pretends to be tough, then a group of people try to beat him up. However, he accidentally beats them all up instead. After that fight, I think pretty much all fights from that point on are 1 on 1, as people try to take him down and fail by sheer bad luck.

Even with all the fights going on, the parents are never involved, though I believe the principle is, and he literally beats up any kids that get into fights.

There's also a less popular remake where he can fight, but he keeps losing to everyone he tries to fight with. Basically, a complete flip of the series.

Feel free to make pot shot guesses, I will look up all answers.

Edit: The series is Transfer Student Storm Bringer.

The girl in this series has pink hair, and the guy has brown hair.

Maybe you are looking for Angel Densetsu.

In the manga, the main character becomes the top fighter of his school due to luck/accident. As a result, many people from other schools come to challenge him to test his abilities, but he wins by luck as always.

He is totally a complete wuss with no experience in fighting, and he is just ugly.

If the manga above is not what you are looking for, try taking a look at the manga listed below. They also have the same trait as Angel Densetsu where the protagonists are just wusses and win by luck.

Ocha ni Gosu
Gorio
Legend of the Strongest Man, Kurosawa
Bari Haken
Transfer Student Storm Bringer (The girl in this series has pink hair, and the guy has brown hair)


What was the shop that Subaru went into? In Ro-Kyu-Bu! SS episode 6, Subaru and the team makes a stop at a local shop while on a class field trip. Aoi is with them as well, and reads the sign out as "Youjiya":

In the next cut, she says it aloud again, and says it as "toddler shop":

However, when we go inside the shop, Subaru is buying toothpicks:

Does the sign indeed say "Toddler Shop"? If so, why were there toothpicks inside (and nothing seemingly toddler-ish)? If not, what did the sign actually say?

The sign says ようじや (youjiya) but because it's written in hiragana the meaning is a bit ambiguous. The や suffix in the name of a store would always be 屋, which just means store, or it can also refer to the head of such a store (e.g. 魚屋 can mean either a fish store or the dealer selling you the fish). So this is a store for ようじ (youji), but the meaning of that is still ambiguous because ようじ written in hiragana is a homophone that could have several meanings.

The meaning that Aoi interpreted is 幼児, which means infants and young children. So Aoi thought it was a store to buy children, hence the second screenshot you've given. This is the most common somewhat sensical interpretation of ようじ when written in hiragana in this context. It could also mean 用事 (errands) in other contexts, but that doesn't fit here.

But ようじ can also mean toothpick written as 楊子 (or 揚枝 less commonly). Usually one uses 爪楊枝 (tsumayouji) to describe the toothpicks themselves but the 爪 (here tsuma, meaning claw or nail) can be omitted in principle. This is the meaning here, so the shop is literally a store for toothpicks (and likely some related merchandise).

I think that many Japanese people would not know how to interpret the sign ようじや, so Aoi's misunderstanding is understandable. However, I don't think very many people would think that it was a store for 幼児 (children) either, so Aoi's leap of reasoning there is somewhat comical.

As a cultural note, there actually is a toothpick specialty shop in Japan. It's called Saruya and located in Tokyo (link to a blog post about the store). As far as I know this is the only store of its kind in Japan, so the shop in Ro-kyu-bu is fictional (being in Kyoto). In any case, Japanese culture takes toothpicks more seriously than most other cultures, so the existence of such a store is not entirely impossible, but it's still quite implausible.


Does Ira Gamagori have an official height? Ira Gamagori is a pillar of strength and a very large man, But his height seems to change vastly throughput the show.

Smaller:

Larger:

Obviously his height changes to emphasise his largeness, but is there any official word on the height that Gamagori is meant to be? Perhaps in a character profile or something similar?

The below height chart has been circulating around the internet:

But I don't think it's accurate, so I did some rough calculations using a different source.

The circulated chart puts Gamagori at 2.69m or 8" 8'

KillLaKill.com have some character profiles on their site of the different characters.

If we assume Ryuko has the average female Japanese height - 158 cm (5 ft 2 in), then we could estimate Gamagori's height by resizing the images so that the scale of the characters is more reasonable. I used head size for this, as the differences should be smaller than if we compared other features:

1.58m * 1.66 Ryukos = 2.6228m or 8"7'. This is quite similar to the above image

There are obviously lots of flaws in this calculation. Scaling was based off of visual inspection, Ryuko may not be the average female height, not using the standard Nonon unit of measurement, etc. But it does give a certain range that his height may fall in.


Why do the dogs pet the characters in Nichijou? I have seen this scene where it's only Yukko who's laying on the ground and they just like petting the Nichijou character just like that, but the one who did that in the different scene is just only the big dog.

What's the reason these two dogs doing this? And, why a dog?

I looked up that video by googling the title, and the answer appears right next: Grandpa appears and does the same hand gesture as the dogs are doing with their paws − touches "Takashi" on the shoulder. Grandpa then explains that humans console each other, and dogs do the same thing.


(Gintama) Which historical period is the Amanto invasion a reference to? I've left uni ages ago and haven't had a History of Japan class since. The Amanto/aliens are clearly references to Americans, and more broadly, to the outside world/western world entering the tightly closed world that was Japan, but I can't pin point exactly which real life historical period the anti-foreigner war is supposed to reference: is it when Americans forced Japan out of the sakoku in the 1800s or after Americans installed a new government in Japan after WW2? I know that both events were resented by Japanese people, so the resentment alone present in Gintama makes it confusing.

I don't have a source on this but it definitely seems like it's inspired from America's occupation of Japan post WW2.


Is it a common practice to change the title into something different? Sometimes they change the title into something different, and by different I mean it's not an English translation. An example here is Rurouni Kenshin. Although it state that:

  Rurouni Kenshin is subtitled "Wandering Samurai" in some English releases.

which makes it the closest translation, as a rough translation of the title would be "Kenshin the Wandering Swordsman". But they also use the name Samurai X for this anime title.

  The English-language versions of the OVAs, as well as the film, were originally released as Samurai X in North America, although the original name was included on the later DVD and Blu-ray Disc releases.

But it's not only in North America, as they also mentioned

  Sony Pictures Television International created an English-language version of the series, titled Samurai X, that airs outside of the United States

I don't know if there's another anime that also does this, but I've never seen something like this recently.

This occurs pretty often, it is called Cultural streamlining

  To accommodate American viewers, anime dubbed in the United States is usually modified to suggest it occurs within the United States or a fictional country thus resembling it. This is commonly achieved by substituting Japanese elements in a series by elements drawn from American popular culture, modifying food or other products to resemble their American equivalents and by replacing Japanese writing with English writing.

A very simple example as was given on the wiki is Ash from the Pokemon series carrying a sandwich in the American version while in the Japanese version he carries a onigiri

The same counts for the titles of those kind of series, aka the wandering samurai instead of Rurouni Kenshin. Because most of their audience would not even know what a Rurouni is.

Changes such as Samurai X usually are done for audience stereotyping, a series called Wandering samurai is less likely to be watched by a female audience. While the name Samurai X is also more attractive to the female audience, which broadens their audience for more income of the series.

In the end all Renaming of characters/titles is mainly for marketing purposes.


In which episode do they say, that from the outside the Straw Hats don't look like a team? During the Alabasta Arc, in episode 102, Zoro tells Chopper that

  "someone once said, that from the outside, we don't look like a team."

But who originally told this to the Straw Hats and in which episode did this happen?

I am not really sure but I think that episode in which Zoro makes the statement is non-canon. I tried checking up the manga chapters of the Arabasta arc and was unable to find it. Thus I think it was just one of those cool things that Zoro said that isn't actually official.


How Black Star was influenced by the Kishin's hallucinations? Caution: contains spoilers.

  In episode 23, when Black☆Star approach to Eruka he was under an illusion. When it comes to the sixth sense (soul wavelengths), Black☆Star admitted he immune to the effects of the Madness. So why when he use the Enchanted Sword he was affected by the madness illusions?

Ok, it took me some time to find it. You are referring to this:

Knowing what kind of person Black☆Star is, I wouldn't take his statement neither too seriously nor too literally.

It is known that it is possible to overcome madness if one has bravity and a strong heart. Black☆Star definitely has those. In fact, it is shown in the Baba Yaga's Castle mini-arc (if you excuse me for calling it a "mini-arc"), that Black☆Start indeed is capable of overcoming Madness, at least to some point. Note that in that mini-arc, after Black☆Star encourages the other characters, they are able to overcome Madness as well after hardening their minds.

We also know that later Black☆Star

   gets the ability to use Madness Release (Hakkyou, 発狂) changing his Wavelength to one of Madness.

However, according to the same wiki that you referenced, even he has a possibility of slipping into Madness if he uses this ability for too long. It is also stated here that the stronger the Madness Wavelength, the harder it is to overcome Madness.

Considering the above, another important note is that in Baba Yaga's Castle mini-arc, Black☆Star was rather far away from the source of Madness, while in the episode you mention he was right near it; more than that, the source was kishin himself.

So I think that while Black☆Star indeed has some sort of resistance to Madness, his statement in that episode was partly bragging, partly overestimating himself and underestimating the enemy, which eventually let him susceptible to the (quite powerfull themselves) illusions.


Can any other devil fruit users use gears besides Luffy? In One Piece, Luffy can use gears 2-4 (I know from a little bit of spoilers, I'm on the Water 7 arc and he has already used gear 2), but so far I haven't seen another devil fruit user use gear like Luffy's. Is there any devil fruit user that uses gears?

You're asking the wrong question. Gears is just the name given by Luffy to the extra usage of his unique paramecia body, hence technically only he can use Gears.

Gear 2

   Luffy uses his Elastic Heart and Blood Vessels to increase his bloodflow, this allows him to increase the limit of his body. He can move very fast and increased strength. It however decreases his endurance as he experiences more fatigue

Gear 3

   Luffy pumps air into his bones, which also being of rubber expands and allow him to increase the size and momentum of his moves

Gear 4

   Here Luffy pumps air into his muscles. This allows him to use Haki, while remaining elastic enough to dodge/bounce back attacks

Other users have their own special moves.
For Example:

  1. Magellan - Covering his body with a stronger poison (Venom Demon: Hell's Judgment)
2. Robin - Using Thousands of Hands to create larger body parts including Wings. (Gigantous Mano or something)
3. Mr.3's Wax Suit (Champion Form)

If they call their special moves something else instead of Gear N, it doesn't change the fact that they are using there fruits' ability in a new way :)

NOTE: All Credit to Luffy for thinking outside the box, though I doubt he considers the impacts of those actions before doing something, usually he does it because its COOL! :D

source : http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Paramecia; Anime/manga
Edit: added more examples.
Edit 2: With the introduction of awakening, it makes sense to add that each fruits awakening will also be unique. Thus Luffy's version of awakening and how he uses it or even accommodates it into his Gears will be upto his ingenuity. (Personally, I want him to use a Staff (Like young Goku), which can extend due to his Rubber powers!)


Why didn't the Eight Tails' horns grow back? From Eight Tails article:

The lower left part of its horns was permanently sliced off in a battle with A, and the right horns were destroyed by its own point-blank Tailed Beast Ball when fighting the Ten-Tails.
Instead of hind-legs, its lower half consists of its eight tails, which resemble the cephalopod arms of an octopus. These tails will grow back in the event they are sliced off.

If the tails are able to grow back, then why can't the horns too? Since Gyūki is made of chakra, how was it possible to permanently slice off a part of its horns?

It comes down to the basic fundamentals.

The bottom half of the 8 Tailed Beast is an octopus, but the top is more bull like.

Bulls horns are like bone, unlike tentacles made of easily dividable cells, the horns of an animal do not "grow from the top but from the bottom upwards" they are like finger nails, the horns may eventually "grow" but not "heal".


How did Miku become so popular? Miku is a Vocaloid, and Vocaloid is a voice synthesis software program developed by Yamaha. From what I've read, Vocaloid is not an anime nor manga; it's not a game like Kancolle; it's not a visual novel like Fate/SN; and Miku is not a mascot for a gaming company like Super Sonico or a Windows mascot like OS-tan or an IE mascot like Inori Aizawa. There is a video game series, but originally, she is a singing voice synthesizer software.

Miku herself is a cute humanoid persona for Vocaloid (picture from Vocaloid website)

But the Vocaloid interface itself looks like this (picture from Wikipedia)

It doesn't look like a software that just anyone would use.

Aside from her really nice character design, what made Miku become so popular? She is all over the internet and has a lot of fanarts, figures, and cosplayer pictures everywhere.

Here is an excerpt from: http://kotaku.com/5936200/why-hatsune-miku-is-the-worlds-most-popular-virtual-idol

  Hatsune Miku is more than a little big in Japan. She appears on billboards, in TV commercials, and gives sold-out concerts to legions of fans the world over. Of course, being a popular singer in and of itself isn't something that out of the ordinary. However, what makes her unique is the rather large obstacle she had to overcome in her path to fame—namely that Hatsune Miku isn't even a real person; she's a computer program.

The main fact that she is a program that anyone can use to make their own music despite perhaps not having an optimal singing voice opened up new paths for many music artists. This led to many popular Vocaloid songs done by Miku such as MELT or World is Mine.


How to start the Berserk manga, should I bother with chapters 000a and 000b? What chapters do the Berserk movies cover? And what are the chapters 000a and 000b and 000c, etc.

The Golden Age arc covers volume 3 to 14, starting with "Golden Age" and ending on "He who hunts Dragons."

Chapter 0 is the "draft" of what is now the main series, that the author did in college and is considered non-canon.


Where is this statue on horseback from? In ep. 1 of Joker Game, we see this shot of a statue (that resembles a person on horseback) before a large Western-style building. Does this correspond to a real-life location?

The first episode seems to take place in Tokyo, so I tried searching for statues on horseback in Tokyo. The main result I got was for a statue of Kusunoki Masashige in the Imperial Gardens, which looks similar in stance, but the photographs that I have seen (such as this one) do not seem to have such a building in the background.

I also tried searching for the Imperial Palace to try to see if any buildings match up with this one, however, and I discovered that most of the Palace was destroyed in firebombings in the Second World War. It seems plausible then that this indeed is a statue of Kusunoki Masashige, and that the area around the statue has simply changed from when the anime is set (1937).

Is this actually the Kusunoki Masashige statue, or is this some other location in the Tokyo area?

I believe it's the Imperial General Staff Headquarters. (Photo from Geospatial Information Authority of Japan for comparison below. Similar images in the postcards scanned in the link.)

As for the statue it seems to be of the founder of the General Chief of Staff, Prince Arisugawa Taruhito. While the current statue is now currently located in Arisugawa Memorial Park in Minami-Azabu, Minato, Tokyo, the General Staff Headquarters was located across the palace moat as seen in one of the links.


What order should the Fairy Tail volumes/chapters be read in? And how to read labelling "Fairy Tail 465 - 400 Years"? I've watched up to episode 120 of the Fairy Tail anime and want to start to read the manga, while I finish the anime. I'm quite new to reading manga and know how to read them, it's just working out which one is the first one I find difficult.

I would really like to get the first manga (in the story) for a Christmas present but I don't know which one is first.

I started to read what was listed as the first one on a manga website (Labelled as Fairy Tail 465 - 400 Years) to check if it was and ended up reading the spoiler:

   That Natsu is Zeref's brother!

Can someone please help me by telling me which manga I need to read first and what is the order of the others?

And

If possible, Can someone explain the labelling "Fairy Tail 465 - 400 Years"? so that I know what to look out for in the future, to prevent spoiling it for myself.

You should read the chapters in order from Chapter 1 to the latest. On the majority of the websites they will put the latest characters (based on chapter number) towards the top of the page.

As for your second question: Fairy Tail 465 - 400 Years; means the that is chapter 465 of the series, and the title of that particular chapter is '400 years'.

As an FYI to you, there are several other Fairy Tail series that are pseudo-canon (or fully canon) related to the main story. Some of them are written by the same author of the core series. Just be warned that some of them have spoilers for historic events of the main series, but they are all really good.


Why doesn't Archer seem to have feelings for Rin? So, I just watched Fate/Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works for the first time.

  Archer is basically Shirou in the future of an alternative universe, right?

In the anime, Shirou mentions multiple times that he loves Rin or that he has strong emotions for her, at least. So why does Archer seem to be so "cold" towards Rin?

I mean, shouldn't he be at least a tiny bit attached to her in some way? Or did he really change THAT much as a person, that he doesn't feel romantic emotions towards her? (Well in the end he DOES save her so he seems to care about her in some way. But, it still feels like there is too much distance between them throughout the whole series)

I mean, technically, should Archer have had emotions for the Rin in "his reality" or not? What happened to her?

Sorry for all the questions. I will look for more content of the "Fate" series, but my curiosity is killing me and I may have missed something since it was the first time, watching that anime, for me. :D

I think there’s a lot of hints that Archer actually cares about Rin and they’re bound to one another but not as a lover or romantic kind of love. It’s more like loyalty. He respected her as a servant respecting his master. The most remarkable moment I’d say is that in Episode 9 of ss2. Archer after was convinced by his old self,Shirou. And was beated (not physically but mentally) he then said “If she(Rin) was more of a heartless person, I’d not turn back to be my old self (who believes in Hero of Justice)” Hence, Tohsaka Rin plays huge part in Shirou development as a person and also as a human being who believes in his ideal heroism.

Archer isn’t cold to Rin if you watch the anime carefully, he just has ‘Kill Emiya Shirou’ as his first priority. To do so, he can’t let Rin help Shirou gets Saber back and remains the alliance between them. After his betrayal, he still protected Rin for multiple times. Making conditions with Caster, Shinji and Gillgamesh to postpone Rin executions.

Though, if I were to say, it’s not like there’s completely non-romantic moments of them. Sometimes Archer seems to attract Rin passionately by his sly personality and his looks as well. In fact, the reason why Archer doesn’t show any fascination towards Rin that much because 1. She’s 16-17 years old Tohsaka Rin, it was mentioned in both VN and Anime that Archer sees Rin as a child/ girl only. Not as a lady. 2. She already has the Shirou that is his present version beside her. It’s kinda weird to start Romance with your young master when your old self is already in love with her. Not to mention Archer has already decided to erase his existence by killing Shirou so why bothered? If he has feelings for Rin, it must hurt and is hard to leave without regrets. So... yeah.


Why is 1:144 scale used for plastic models? Why a modeler originally choose 1:144 scale to create a plastic model such as GunPla? Why not choose 1:100 or some other number that can easily determine the size of the model from the original size?

(Didn't you ask this exact question of SF&F yesterday?)

Traditionally, toy makers have used a 1:12 scale when building scaled down model of real objects, such as dollhouses. This practice pre-dates the metric system, and made it easy to scale down measurements because, at 1:12, one foot becomes one inch.

Now, suppose you wanted to build a dollhouse, and inside it, you want to have a dollhouse. To do that, you'd have to scale down your 1:12 model house by another 1:12, to give you 1:144. This is why 1:144 is sometime's called the "dollhouse's dollhouse scale".

Since 1:12 and 1:144 were already well known and popular by the time anime miniatures came around, the first people to make such models were already familiar with it, and they used it. After that, it's mostly inertia.


Which anime series was the first to be aired on Japanese TV? The first animated segments seem to go back all the way to 1907, and most of those older segments only got broadcast in cinemas and the likes. Even after those, most animated segments on TV consisted of short animations of roughly a few seconds.

So with that my question: Which anime series was the first to be aired on Japanese television? And I am asking about multi-episode series, or multi-segment series.

I assumed you mean first TV series anime.

  Mighty Atom became the first popular anime television series in 1963. Contrary to popular belief, Atom was not the first anime series broadcast in Japan; that honor falls to Otogi Manga Calendar, which began broadcasting in 1962.

From Otogi Manga Calendar Wikipedia Page

  Otogi Manga Calendar (おとぎマンガカレンダー Otogi Manga Calendar?) was a black and white Japanese anime series aired from 1961 to 1964. It was the first anime series ever televised.

Sorry if I understood your question wrongly.

Source:
Y!A: What was the first anime ever aired in Japan?
Anime and Manga: Brought to You by WikiProject Anime and Manga


What are the paintings shown in the Classicaloid OP? In the beginning of the OP to Classicaloid, three different paintings are shown.

(Due to the speed at which the animation pans through these paintings, the quality of screenshots is somewhat low.) What are these three paintings — who are the artist(s), and what exactly are their titles/subjects?

The first painting is Carlos Saraceni's c. 1610 painting Saint Cecilia and the Angel. Saint Cecilia is the patron saint of musicians.

The second painting is Caravaggio's Rest on the Flight into Egypt. The flight into Egypt clearly refers to the event in the Gospels where Joseph flees with his family to Egypt to prevent the death of the child Jesus at the hands of Herod. There's not much reason, as far as I know, to associate it with music per se; the angel and its bowed stringed instrument seem to be the artist's own creation.

The final painting is François Boucher's The Music Lesson.


Looking for the name of an anime with a guy who was so fast, he let the enemy's sword practically touch him before he reacted More details:

The main character preferred fighting unarmed, or with very short weapons, feeling that any long weapon could be countered by getting in close
This fighting style is unique to his clan, whose name begins with an M (yes, I'm 100% sure of that)
The main character's final fight was with another good-guy, whose skill was on par with his own
This other good-guy carried both a katana and a wakizashi (slightly shorter sword), and in one case used one of them as a throwing weapon
The "other good guy" wore a blue kimono
The genre is both historically inspired, but slightly "shonen-ized".

I think these details combined are unique to this particular anime.

Looking for the name, but also an opportunity to re-watch. Any helpful links are also appreciated!

I'll keep adding details as I remember them, until someone correctly names it!

Update

As Dario guessed, it was Shura no Toki. I highly recommend this one because of its similarity to certain historical characters and events.

So, it is Mutsu Enmei Ryuu Gaiden: Shura no Toki

  Legends tell of an invincible martial art known as Mutsu Enmei-Ryu, an unarmed style that allows the user to defeat any number of armed opponents using incredible speed and strength. This is the story of three generations of those who bear the name Mutsu, and their encounters and battles with the strongest fighters of their era.


What made Sekiguchi embarrassed when she was asked about cram school? In episode 6, there is a scene where Daiku, a former team member of Igo soccer, is getting bored with their inactivity in their club room. The conversation follows like this (read from left to right):

  Daiku: Oh come on, everyone said they had cram school and left...
  Daiku: And you're no fun, Sekiguchi
  Sekiguchi is reading a book silently
  Daiku: Don't you go to cram school, Sekiguchi?
  Sekiguchi flips a page, looks at Daiku, then continues reading the book silently while being embarrassed
  Daiku stares at Sekiguchi
  Sekiguchi is getting more embarrassed
  Daiku: You're joking!

Why was Daiku surprised all of sudden?

Relevant video on YouTube

She skipped cram school so that she could stay at the club. When he, being the last person left, asked about it and she blushed it implies she has a crush on him and wanted to spend time specially with him, he realised this and was shocked  ~ooh young love


What are recent innovations in animation techniques? As with many forms of art and entertainment, the process of drawing anime must have evolved over time. CGI isn't uncommon in modern anime, as scenes or whole shows can be completed using nothing but a computer. What are some of the modern innovations in animation techniques (primarily for anime)?

Due to the lack of time period in the question, here's a more blanket overview of anime innovation.

The Evolution of Animation Techniques

The Celluloid Shift

The first few animations were made by Winsor McCay in 1914. Unfortunately, there are not many copies of this animation remaining, but it sparked a movement that was known as the Celluloid Shift in animation history. This process involves drawing a background first, and then drawing different layers for characters on top of it.

This allowed for animators to make more complex scenes than just simple sketches. This is the method that Walt Disney used when he created Steamboat Willie (1929) and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). While this isn't Japanese animation, or anime, this method of drawing layers is what was used in early animation projects from any country or origin {1}.

It wasn't for a while that the now regular episodic Japanese anime made an appearance. From this A&M SE question, people have largely agreed that おとぎマンガカレンダー, or Otogi Manga Calendar, was the first anime series ever created, which was published in 1961. However, there were other short clips, like Katsudo Shashin (1907) and なまくら刀 (An Obtuse Sword) (1917), which were each 3 seconds and 120 seconds, respectively. These first short animations and full anime series use the method brought on by McCay with the Celluloid Shift. It is interesting to note that McCay brought this method to the west in 1914, but it is seen being used in animations in the east as early as 1907.

Computer-Aided Frame-by-Frame Animation

After animation was gaining popularity as a medium of entertainment across the globe, the computer began aiding animators in their creation of new works. When the computer first entered the world of animation, it was used to make the process of redrawing parts of the scene much less arduous, by introducing the frame-by-frame method.

In the frame-by-frame method, an animator draws an initial scene on the computer. This can be done with a stylus on the computer screen, or it can be done with special external computer peripherals that will translate a drawing into an image on the computer screen. Then, the animator advances the screen by one frame (if the movie takes place at 60 fps or frames per second, then the animator advances the scene by 1/60th of a second). The drawing from the last frame stays slightly grayed out for the animator to reference, and the drawing from the current frame appears darker on the computer screen. These allows the animator to create reference points when animating. With the previous method in the Celluloid Shift, this method could be emulated with very thin tracing paper, where an artist would draw one frame, and then lay a thin sheet of paper over it so they could see it while drawing the next frame.

Here is a great video that shows exactly how frame-by-frame animation works (this is still largely used in the anime industry today), as it is hard to visualize from my description alone. It is important to note that in this method the animation is still largely drawn by hand; even though this method uses a computer, the computer doesn't actually do the drawing, the animator does.

Computer-Generated Imagery

However, the most modern innovation with anime and animation is CGI, or computer-generated imagery. Similar to frame-by-frame animation, CGI is accomplished with the use of a computer (thus the phrase computer in the name), but different to all previous animation methods, the computer draws the scene (as instructed by the animator), rather than the animator drawing the scene.

This method has become popular in the west with studios like Pixar and Dreamworks. Some of the most popular include Toy Story (1995) and The Incredibles (2004), as well as many, many others. However, this animation innovation has been used fairly regularly in other shows as well. More popular in mecha anime, at the dawn of the CGI era certain scenes would be completed with CGI while the majority of the work was done with computer-aided frame-by-frame animation. This is because often CGI allows animators to create and draw scenes that are incredibly complex or too hard to draw by hand. It was more popular as CGI was emerging to use this cross-method animation, where parts were animated with CGI and other sections were animated with the frame-by-frame method. There are many, many other examples of this, but the one I found that showcases this fusion of the two methods is this scene from the second season of Aldnoah.Zero (2014), which you can see CGI being used for the vehicles and mechs but regular frame-by-frame for the people and other scenes (beware, this clip contains spoilers). Another show that relied heavily on both frame-by-frame and CGI animation is Initial D. You can watch this first episode of Initial D and seen the stark contrast between the two animation methods. Whether this cross-method animation was an effective way of creating a show is primarily opinion-based, however, and is a whole different question for later.

In today's modern world, however, CGI is making the transfer from being used in conjunction with frame-by-frame animation to being used for the whole show. There have been a couple shows like this recently (and probably many more that I haven't watched), but the two that are in my mind right now are Ajin, whose trailer can be seen here, and the new sequel of Berserk, whose trailer can be seen here. As computers become more powerful and more available, it seems that CGI is taking over more shows, but I doubt it will fully replace frame-by-frame animation (on a personal note, if you haven't seen Ajin or Berserk, I HIGHLY suggest watching the anime or reading the manga for both of them) {2}.

Here is another great article that discusses the evolution of graphics in anime, from a more subjective lense:

  Those who watch older versions of anime movies will immediately notice the difference in graphics. First of all they were designed in 2D and the special effects were considerably simpler. It is amazing the special effects seen in new anime shows these days. There are even 3D versions of certain anime movies that delight their audience with incredible action and effects.

While this section stems from general animation techniques, you have to remember that anime is an animation, and its history has largely followed the same technique evolution as the animation industry as a whole.

The Evolution of Anime Trends/Styles

In addition to different innovations in animation techniques, there have also been different trends and innovations that have to do with style. This has less to do with the different techniques of drawing anime, and more with the different styles and trends that have emerged from anime over time. The full list can be read from here.

Gainax Stance

Shaft Angle

Dezaki Direction Style

Minagawa Fade

Sunrise Stance

While this section isn't the first thing you think of when asking "What innovations are there in anime techniques," I would argue that it is still relevant because it is how animators are changing trends and innovating in their animation styles. These are not styles that are done by just one or a few animators or shows, but rather trends that span across the whole anime industry {3} {4}.

Sources:

{1} (source)
{2} (source)
{3} (source)
{4} (source)


Background song that plays on episode 242 of Bleach I have been trying to find the name of the background score from the Episode 242 of Bleach, "Shinigami and Zanpakuto, Total Sortie" at around 4:41. It really sounds epic.

What song is that?

I found it myself. The name of the song is Turn the tables!!


In the Avatar arc, why is Sting fat? In Fairy Tail chapter 425, during the Avatar arc, Sting has become a "little" chunky.

Might it be a new move or something?

It is clearly explained in the same chapter (425), that he had taken part in Sabertooth's annual Saber eating competition.

Without cover etc., it was explained on page 13, upper half, said by Minvera to Lucy.

In the same chapter, two pages further, Libra had helped Sting with her magic to get thin again, so even if he had some use for the fat, it is now gone.


If Van Hohenheim is a living Philosopher's Stone, what does that make Edward and Alphonse? In episode 62 of Brotherhood series, when Father's stone was nearly depleted, he started to search desperately for a new one. When he saw Edward Elric pinned down, his expression suddenly changed and he started walking towards him, as if he had found one.

If they are part human, part Philosopher's Stone, isn't it kinda ironic that what they had been looking for was inside them all along?

There are a few different things to address here.

First off, Edward and Alphonse are fully human. This is actually addressed when Alphonse first finds out about his dad's origins. Essentially, he contains a philosopher's stone within himself, but he is still biologically human.

Click to enlarge.

Second, remember that all humans are philosopher's stones. Edward (kind of) states this in episode 41, and says that his life energy is identical to that of a philosopher's stone, and he's right. All humans are simply philosopher's stones containing exactly one soul.

Third, it is because of the above points that Father approached Edward. It wasn't because he'd get a lot of energy, like from a true, isolated stone (such as one of Kimblee's), but rather because Edward had one soul of energy within him. Father was desperate.


Are there any Evangelion games out there in US or EU? I really like Evangelion's anime and movies, and love the universe, but don't speak Japanese. I've tried to find video games on the universe, but the closest I found which made reference to Evangelion was Phantasy Star Portable on PSP, which have a plug suit and Longinus spear as bonus equipment...

Are there any games placed in the Evangelion universe that have been at least officially translated into English?

To add a little to the question, video game websites list these games (for current platforms):

PS3

Gekiatsu Pachige Damashii Max Evangelion (JAP only)

DS

CR Neon Genesis Evangelion : Angels Return (JAP)
Puchi Eva : Evangelion Game (JAP)

PSP

Evangelion : Jo (JAP)
Neon Genesis Evangelion : Battle Orchestra Portable (JAP)
Neon Genesis Evangelion : Girlfriend of Steel Special Version (JAP)
Neon Genesis Evangelion : Shinjitsu no Tsubasa (JAP/cancelled?)
Neon Genesis Evangelion : Tamashii no Kiseki (JAP)
Rebuild of Evangelion Sound Impact (PlayStation Store) (JAP/cancelled?)

None of those games have any official translation or has been localized to English. There is a fan-translated version of the first Girlfriend of Steel that was ported to Flash. I don't know how accurate it is or where you'd go to find it these days.

Along with the list that you have, there's a couple of more listed in this wiki Category, which isn't complete by a long shot.

Outside of official translations, you can look through faqs at places like Game Faqs which includes translations of the UI and game text. It's not nearly as convenient but it's really all there is.


What does a Titan needs to eat from another Titan shifter to steal its power? AFAIK, Ymir was a mindless Titan who became a Titan shifter by eating the Titan shifter Marcel. What does a Titan needs to eat from another Titan shifter to steal its power? Does it need to eat it completely, its human part, part of eat, it works by only biting, how does it work?

Titan ability resides within human's spinal fluid, so it is enough to consume ones spinal fluid to get titan's power (chapter 65 of manga).

It is not clear what would happen, if person will consume only part of spinal fluid of shifter titan.


What is the song playing in episode 453 of Naruto Shippuden at 16:15? In episode 453 of Naruto Shippuden, there's a song playing at 16:15.

What is this song?

Naruto Shippuden - Ochihabune

Naruto Shippuden - Ochihabune


Do the episode titles in Kado mean anything? The currently running series, Kado: The Right Answer, has short, untranslated, episode titles. I can only understand some of them. What do they mean in Japanese, if anything? (Names taken from Wikipedia article.)

0: "Ninovo" (ニノヴォ)
1:  "Yaha-kui zaShunina" (ヤハクィザシュニナ) -- name of protagonist alien/god/whatever
2: "Novo" (ノヴォ)
3: "Wam" "Wamu" (ワム) -- name of infinite energy source
4: "Rotowa" (ロトワ)
5: "Nanoka" (ナノカ)
6: "Tetrok" "Tetoroku" (テトロク)
6.5: "Ekwari" "Ekuwari" (エクワリ)
7: "Sansa" (サンサ) -- name of device that removes need to sleep
8: "Talnel" "Taruneru" (タルネル)

I also don't understand why some of the titles have two Romanized forms.

Most of the titles are words native to the Anisotropic Language. Often you can infer their meanings from the contexts of the episodes, though this is speculation for any unconfirmed.

But this also means there is no translation of the Japanese.
One is the "official english" style title, and the romanized form comes from the fact that they are written with Kana - which is often used for borrowed language AKA words that aren't inherently Japanese, so that the Japanese know how to say them.
Borrowed language isn't translated, only romanized as the kana tells the japanese how to say something in the language it's written. (Such as when kana reads "SUTORI" it's them using the English word "Story".)

There is only one episode where you could actually use the Kana, write it in hiragana/kanji and it would have meaning. And that was Episode 10's towanosakiwa (written in Japanese you would get 永久の先は which is actually rather abstract still, meaning either Eternity's Future, OR, Eternity's Past). This could also be a sign of zaShunina's progressively becoming more human state, that the choice of word though still written as though borrowed from the anisotropic still holds meaning in Japanese.

Not all episodes were given direct definitions.

Episode 2 zaShunina explains "Novo" is the name of where he comes from (but he translates it to iho/Anisotropic for the Japanese to understand).

Episode 4's Rotowa is assumed to be the "resolve" that zaShunina needed from the Japanese populous and Prime Minister.

Episode 12's Yukika title is, like Episode 1, the name of a character.

I'm hoping a more definitive explanation for each Anisotropic word will be given, perhaps in an interview or official merchandise/information in the future.
But for now all that can be taken from them is the suspected meanings.

Episode 0: Ninovo - From Novo
Episode 1: Yaha-kui zaShunina - Name of a character
Episode 2: Novo - the anisotropic word for the anisotropic
Episode 3: Wam - a device from the anisotropic
Episode 4: Rotowa - resolve
Episode 5: Nanoka - could be related to the beginning of the
"revolution"
Episode 6: Tetrok - related to Kado's movement/placement/location
Episode 6.5: Ekwari - related to recall/recap/memory
Episode 7: Sansa - a device from the anisotropic
Episode 8: Talnel - perhaps evolution-related
Episode 9: Nanomis-hein - a device from the anisotropic
Episode 10: Towanosakiwa - Eternity's Past / Eternity's Future
Episode 11: Wanoraru - Wandering (in a figuratively lost sense)
Episode 12: Yukika - Name of a character


Is the setting of D.N.Angel based on a real world location, and if so, which one? Some anime and movies feature and are shown with real world locations.

For example, this post gives some of the real world locations involved in anime such as 5 Centimeters Per Second (Shinjuku and Tanegashima) and Kiki's Delivery Service (Visby, a town on the Swedish island of Gotland).

I was wondering: where does D.N.Angel take place? Is it based on a real world location?

The real world location for the events in the anime D.N. Angel was based on "Azumano District in Tokyo"

According to this Post about Dark Mousy:

  Dark Mousy was the greatest phantom thief. Last appeared 14 years ago, disappeared suddenly, and then now he's out wreaking havoc around the Azumano District of Tokyo as he did for centuries. Nobody knows where he's from, nobody knows who he really is, and nobody knows what his real purpose is behind stealing all the artwork from various museums. Dark is some what immortal since 14 years ago. He was intiated in a ritual with Daisuke Niwa 14 years ago to become immortal. The bad part of the ritual was Dark would be in a coma state inside Daisuke's body till he turned 14. Dark's rabbit, Wizu, watched over Daisuke till he was able to transform into Dark. Dark is Daisuke half the time, to protect him and vice versa.

  Likes: Ramen, Flying
  Dislikes: People who don't know how to shut up, Pets

  Home

  A small cozy apartment near the shores of Azumano.

When you search about "Azumano clock tower"
Clock tower is in the first episode.

Spoiler

(Remember the first episode where dark returns after 40 years and steals the bird symbol on the clock tower)

You would see google search results about D.N. Angel FanFics (Fan Fictions)

You'll notice that most of these talk about the Azumano District in Tokyo (or sometimes Azumano City)

Here's an example, although this is more like a retelling of D.N. Angel instead of a Fan Fiction

Also a comment on This Post about D.N. Angel also states that:

  The location of where D.N. Angel takes place is hard to figure out,
  but it is revealed in the last episode, on a box (that was as late as
  I noticed it); if you translated the small bit of Kanji and Hiragana
  written on the side of it, it came out to be "Azumano District
  Reception", meaning that the town or area that the anime took place in
  would be Azumano.


Demon Slayer (Kimetsu No Yaiba) Dubbed version...can't quite catch I am non-native English speaker trying to practice my listening skill by watching and listening my favorite anime Kimetsu no yaiba English dubbed version.
(I have found that this way I tend to keep my focus longer with interest)
I have watched the first episode and am stuck at the first encounter of Tanjiro and Giyu Tomioka.
When Tanjiro begged not to kill Nezuko, Giyu got angry and said,
"Don't xxxxxxx like that will give your enemy the chance to kill you!"
I couldn't catch the xxxxxxx part at all, and can not find any closed caption.
English Subtitles of Japanese audio doesn't match with dubbed version so I am totally lost.
I tried to guess and the closest word I could get was "quave" or "grovel",
If you watched the English Dub, would you please teach me what it says?
In original word in Japanese was, "Seisatsu Yodatsu No Ken Wo Tanin Ni Nigiraseruna! (生殺与奪の権を他人に握らせるな）"
Thank you for your help in advance!

You heard correctly, the line is "Don't grovel like that and give your enemies the chance to kill you!". Grovel meaning "to lie or creep with the body prostrate in token of subservience or abasement" which refers to Tanjiro kowtowing in front of Giyu, pitifully begging him not to kill his sister. Its an interesting translation, the subtitle of the line in the sub ("Don't ever give others a chance to murder you") is a decently direct translation of the spoken line ("生殺与奪の権を他人に握らせるな") and makes no mention of Tanjiro's posture.


Do the moths during Grumman's thoughts have any symbolic significance? In episode 47 (12:08) of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, general Grumman's thoughts about a leadership position in Central are made audible to the viewer:

Miles: And what about the plan, sir? Aren't you going to proceed to central?
Grumman: I don't seem to have much choice. I suppose I'll just have to let Colonel Mustang have the biggest slice of Central pie.
Grumman (thinking): Bradley's current administration will still be properly functioning at this point in time. If Colonel Mustang or General Armstrong try to make their move now, every soldier in Central will be ordered to retrieve their treasonous heads. And once they're captured, I'll step in to restore order. They'll take the fall as enemies of the state, while General Grumman will heroically come riding in on a white horse. I'll let the youngsters dive head-first into danger and do all the dirty work, and then I'll take my rightful place as leader of this country without any risk.

During the bolded part of his speech above, a lamp is shown with a few insects—which appear to be moths—hovering around it. One unfortunate insect flies into the lamp and is burned to death.

This seems like an odd thing to show during such a speech, which leads me to believe it might have a deeper meaning. Does this lamp scenario or the moth's death symbolize anything?

I believe this refers to the saying "like a moth to a flame".

The saying indicates that something/someone is irresistibly attractive (not necessarily as in human attraction), but that it will ultimately lead to downfall. Remember, at the end, the flame engulfs the moth, and it dies.

So, Bradley and Mustang are fighting for peace/freedom/a good future. They themselves believe that they cannot stay away from the fight, as it must be done in order to achieve their goals. Yet still, the path they take is being predicted and taken advantage of, which, in the eyes of Grumman, will lead to their downfall.

So, the metaphor with the moth is used in a perfectly valid manner.


If Kaioken x2 increases the power level of his user by 2, how much does the regular kaioken increase the power level? It's said that kaioken x2 increases the power level by 2. And it's also said that the regular kaioken increases the strenght. Then,  how much does the regular kaioken increase the power level?

x2
When Goku learns the Kaio-ken, he is told it will temporarily double his power level at the cost of draining him and potentially injuring him.  But when he uses the Kaio-ken x2 against Vegeta, it also doubles his power.  It could just be that Goku is saying x2 for the audience, especially since he breaks out the x3 moments later.  Or it could be that there is some other improvement in the Kaio-ken x2 versus the base version (i.e. it is safer or more efficient).


What does Ghoul mean in japanese? I know what a Ghoul is in the context of the Tokyo Ghoul series, but I was wondering what does Ghoul mean in japanese. Is it a made up word or it is the same "Ghoul" from Arabic? What do the kanji which composes the word mean separately?

If you look at the word for ghoul as it's written in the title of Tokyo Ghoul, you can see that there's both kanji and furigana (pronunciation) for it. The furigana is グール, which the katakana word for ghoul. It's a phonetic loanword, pronounced guuru, which (based on the Japanese Wikipedia page for it) seems to have been taken from the English "ghoul", which was of course taken from the Arabic al ghûl.

The kanji, 喰種, doesn't seem to directly translate to anything, but 喰 means eat and 種 translates to a number of things, but the most relevant ones here are species or kind. Basically, it can be loosely translated to a species that eats.


How did Jiraiya find out Tsunade's breast size? Jiraiya stated that Tsunade's oppai size was 106cm.

From Tsunade article:

  Despite being known as flat-chested in her childhood, she now has a rather large bust; 106 centimetres in circumference, according to Jiraiya.

From Jiraiya article:

  when caught spying on Tsunade in his younger years, she proceeded to break both of his arms, six of his ribs, and ruptured a number of organs as punishment.

Considering the amount of fear and respect Jiraiya then developed towards her, how did he know the measurement of the adult Tsunade?

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny7Fni193Jk

(I'm really sorry about the quality of the video)

Below is the image from the corresponding scene in the manga (chapter 406, page 9):

Maybe Jiraiya transformed into Tsunade using a transformation technique and found the size using traditional measures by measuring himself(!).

He may have used Sexy Technique.


Is the Ginjo shown in chapter 681 of Bleach a 100% Shinigami? By the end of the Substitute Shinigami Arc (Fullbring Arc), Ginjo was said to be dead, since Ichigo came to the captains' meeting and asked for Ginjo's body. Yet in chapter 681, Ginjo came with Tsukishima to help Ichigo. Does this means that the Ginjo in chapter 681 has turned into a 100% Shinigami, that is, he no longer is a Substitute Shinigami like he once was, but a 100% Shinigami since he is already dead and is a soul now?

(I guess 100% Shinigami is not a very good term to describe Ginjo since he was also a Fullbringer...)

The Wikia states that he gained his powers by stealing them from other soul reapers (according to  Suì-Fēng). He had to steal Ichigo's powers to get himself a Bankai. Simply going to Soul Society wouldn't mean that he would gain soul reaper status, since unlike Ichigo, it is not indicated that he had innate soul reaper family history and has not been given soul reaper powers after Ichigo got his back from him. However, the Wikia also states that

  When souls with exceptional spiritual energy train their bodies, they reach the level of Shinigami.

so since Ginjo is already trained and has exceptional spiritual energy, technically he should be a soul reaper as a soul. So, humans need to have soul reaper family history or someone to give them their powers to become soul reapers, but souls are innately able to become soul reapers with training and strong spiritual energy.


For anime series without source material, can the plot be changed while airing? Like is the plot and scenes determined beforehand, or is it still possible to change details in the story while an anime is airing. If so are there any series?

I am assuming you are asking about the type of anime that is made by an animation company where the plot and story details are all made by the writers and directing staff.

The straight answer is Yes. The plot can be altered as the series is airing if it was not completed prior to its airing on television or it was affected by external factors.

A famous example would be Pokemon: Best Wishes. Where the plot was altered when the episodes Team Plasma VS Team Rocket had to be put on hold due to the Tohoku 2011 Earthquake. Originally the two episodes would have been crucial to the plot of Pokemon BW, the earthquake forced the production staff to change the plot of the series in order to avoid airing the episodes that depicted earth-shaking scenes. This is a case where the plot was altered due to external resons.

  This episode was originally scheduled to air in Japan on March 17, 2011, but was postponed, along with the original BW024, indefinitely because of the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. As of Team Plasma's Pokémon Power Plot!, its events have been removed from continuity. Unlike the only other skipped episodes in Japan, this two-parter was supposed to be important to the overall storyline instead of being a stand-alone episode.

However, these cases are rare and some of the time, the anime is being manufactured as it is airing, so the plot would likely to be undetermined until just a month or later before airing for really late production crew.

A good example would be Neon Genesis Evangelion, where its plot was changed from having 28 angels to just 18, counting the humans. This was mostly due to Anno Hideaki failing to complete scenarios on time, changing plots due to his new experiences as the show was airing which resulted in the production hell of NGE, and its plot change.

  By episode 13 the series began to deviate significantly from the original story, and the initial script was abandoned. The number of Angels was reduced to 17 instead of the original 28, and the writers changed the story's ending, which had originally described the failure of the Human Instrumentality Project after an Angel attack from the moon. Starting with episode 16, the show changed drastically, discarding the grand narrative concerning salvation for a narrative focusing on the individual characters.


Can a sharingan be regenerated? I remember that Naruto healed Kakashi's eye. If he did that to Sasuke if he lost his eye, would the Sharingan regenerate along with his eye, or would he be left with just a regular eye?

By "regenerated" you mean like Sasuke could get his rinnegan back after Boruto stabbed it out then no, But if you mean if kid Kakashi had a Sharingan, and then got his eye slashed then yes. What I mean is that if an eye is slashed and not stabbed out, a strong medical ninjutsu specialist could heal it.