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In Volume 16, Miko Ino does and says some things that don't seem to match her rigid sense of justice and morality. In Battle 154: Kaguya Shinomiya's Impossible Demand: "A Cowrie a Swallow Gave Birth To," Part 2, Miko Ino offers alcoholic truffles to her classmates at a party, saying,

"If you want to get drunk for real, you can have some of my whiskey-filled truffles."

When asked whether this is legal, Miko Ino replies with a legal loophole,

"The Minors Prohibition Act forbids the serving of alcohol to underage kids. But food isn't forbidden, so it's legal. Plausible deniability. But please don't have too many."

Then, even worse, in Battle 156: Miko Ino Can't Love, Part 2, Miko Ino chastises Ishigami for not engaging in promiscuous activities with someone who might have been drunk (Ino might not have known this) and who was only willing to engage in such activities out of pity for Ishigami (or rather, she didn't want to let him down or hurt him). Miko Ino says,

"How could you be so stupid?! I can't believe you just ran out of the room and abandoned Tsubame! You chose your stupid pride over... Sigh You're beyond help. You must have hurt Tsubame's feelings. You're a man... Why would you get cold feet? You should have considered how she would feel if you rejected her."

What is the best way to understand these events? Is Miko Ino distraught and acting out of character? Has the craziness of the student council eroded her sense of justice? Or is this a matter of cultural difference? Are Japan's mores so different from the ones I'm familiar with in my own culture that it causes these events to seem strange? I suspect there is a difference in mores, but I've seen Ino complain about illicit relationships , so I'm not sure cultural differences can fully explain this.


texts: What does it mean when Kenshin says 'oro'?

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Throughout the series Kenshin has added 'oro' somewhat comedically to his sentences. Is there any actual meaning to this or is this just a speech style/pattern that he has?

In episode 62 he says it several times in a row and Kaoru points this out.


texts: Does one need to see the 2 Little Witch Academia movies before watching the series?

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Prior to the 2017 series of Little Witch Academia there were two films: a ~30 minute one released in 2013, which is just called Little Witch Academia, and a ~60 minute one released in 2015 called Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade.

I am wondering if one needs to watch either or both of these films before watching the 2017 series?


texts: Just wondering on this, but is this some type of new vocab in Fairy Tail or something, Long story short: I have seen a lot of comments on Facebook and YouTube like "Do you ship Nalu" and "I ship Nalu". What does this mean though?


texts: What is the relationship between Neon Genesis Evangelion and RahXephon?

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I have watched both Neon Genesis Evangelion and RahXephon. Since they have the same story and the same structure, I think that RahXephon is a copy of Neon Genesis Evangelion.

What is the actual relationship between Neon Genesis Evangelion and RahXephon?


texts: How did Shisui activate his Susanoo with only one eye?

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I found this picture on Facebook showing Shisui using Susanoo with only one eye.

I know that it is impossible to use the Susanoo with one eye.
Is this is real or not? Why was Shisui able to activate Susanoo with just one Mangekyō Sharingan (one eye)?


texts: Why doesn't anyone suspect that Sai could be a computer bot?

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Hikaru makes Sai play Go over internet with the nickname "Sai". Sai is very powerful, and defeats everybody, even Meijin.

I don't know how to play Go very well, but I perceive that a computer algorithm that plays Go can be written easily. And I believe that there must be a lot of Go bots all over the real world currently.

Why doesn't anybody consider the probability that Sai could be a computer bot? I'm very surprised that it is not mentioned even once during the entire series. Is there a reason for this?


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Just watched Dragon Ball Super episode 95th (best episode ever some people says, last episode made record in ratings surpassing One piece ).
In it, (spoilers)
EDIT: If someone can, please edit the spoilers area which isnt working

! Freezer was able to handle with little damage a hakai energy ball mean to wipe out anyone not only from life but from existence and to control it.
! Later he threw it to Goku who wasnt able to control it and who got damage from it.
! Sidra says that if Freezer betrays him, he would take care of him, but a kaioshin commented it wouldnt be so easy for him to do it.
! Goku and Freezer sparring knocked themselves simultaneously , Goku was using super saiyan blue though he wasnt using super saiyan blue kaioken.
! Beerus comments Freezer is even with Goku

How strong is Freezer now? Is he stronger , equal or weaker than Goku? Is he in the level of Sidra?

 (since he was able to control Sidra's hakai energy?) . Beerus was able to remove Hakai's energy from Goku easier, so I take Beerus is still stronger than Freezer


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When Ichigo fight Renji in Season 2, after he smashes Ichigo into a wall he then says then if Ichigo was somehow able to defeated him there are 11 other Lieutenants and 13 other Captains.

Including himself Renji only seems to be counting 12 Lieutenants and 13 Captains. at first i thought he was skipping Squad 4 because most lood down on then in terms of combat ability but then why would he then include Squad 4's Captain if that was the case.

So which Lieutenant is Renji not counting and why does he exclude that Lieutenant but not their Captain?

NOTE: I am referring to the English Dub


texts: What kind of paper did Ghibli use for their storyboards?

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I googled their Wind Rises storyboards and noticed that many of the panels were painted in with watercolor. Does anyone know what kind of paper the studio used, when planning for their films?

I mainly would like to know the fiber/acidity, medium (this one might be redundant though the paper might be multi-media?), dimensions, texture, absorbency. Any approximate answer based on knowledge of common practices in the industry, or specific knowledge of Ghibli's processes (aside from The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, are there other resources to learn more about the production details behind their films?), would be enormously helpful.

And out of curiosity, does anyone know if there are similar kinds of paper, that one could paint over with oil? Or is it just oil painting paper?


texts: A song in Boku no Hero Academia Season 3 Episode 45 from 10:50 to 11:55

texts: There is a song in Boku no Hero Academia, season 3, episode 45, from 10:50 to 11:55 that doesn't appear anywhere else. Does anyone know the name of that song?


texts: What is the piece played when Luffy uses Gear Third in Episode 288?

texts: In Episode 288 ("Fukuro's Miscalculation - My Cola is the Water of Life!"), Luffy's Gear Third is introduced when he uses it to break down a closed steel door, and proceeds to pursue Robin. What is the background piece playing at the time?


texts: Can Akatsuki's leader Pain (Nagato) read minds with the ocular powers of his Rinnegan?


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When I watched SAO for the second time, I started to wonder: how does Nerve Gear work?

In SAO, you have all five senses with you, and also when you use the Nerve Gear, you close your eyes. So, how is it possible for the nerve gear to do all this?

Lastly, how does Nerve Gear kill someone?


texts: Is Garp the only Vice Admiral to have a customized ship?

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

Garp's Ship:


texts: Is something preventing Mary from finding out who she really is?

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Mary knows that she lives in a weird painting world and that outside of this world, there is another one where she might find her "father."

However she is not aware of the fact that

   she is not a real person and a painting. Specifically Guertena's final work.

When she reads the art book, something messes with

   her entry

making it unreadable.

Similarly, that entry gets swapped with the one for "Marvelous Night," if Ib, Garry, and Mary read it when they are together.

   However when Garry reads the entry and find out that she is not human, the "Strained Ear" hears Garry read her entry, and the "Tattletale" then "tells" Mary the secret... However she momentarily goes crazy, but returns to her old self soon afterwards, without the knowledge of what she had just heard.

In one of the endings...

   "A Painting's Demise," where she leave Ib and Garry behind and just tries to leave the Fabricated World... something stops her.

Is there some unknown third pulling the strings? If so, who is it and why are they doing this?


texts: How exactly were Madara and Obito able to control Kurama?

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Madara and Obito could control Kurama with their Sharingans. My question is how exactly did they do it? What is required to control this beast? Is the Sharingan enough to do that? Can they control any other beast with the same technique?

I remember Kurama once said Madara's chakra could summon it, but how was Obito able to summon and control it on his very first attempt? There's no way he could've practiced it because it was sealed inside Jinchuriki since Madara's defeat against Hashirama.

So how exactly were Madara and Obito able to control Kurama?


texts: What is the definitive Initial D collection box?

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I've already watched every episode from the series (downloaded from torrent sites), but wanted to buy an official box since I feel bad about not having the original stuff.

I wanted to know if there is a definitive dvd/bluray box edition. I always struggled with finding decent quality video/audio.

Ideally there would be a Blu-ray collection in 720p at least and with 5.1 DTS Japanese audio.

By making a quick search on ebay, I found this one, which is scheduled to release in a few days, but I don't know exactly it's specifications.

Where should I be looking for this stuff? It would obviously be ideal if English subtitles were available, but I guess I'm stuck with Japanese releases if quality is concerned.


texts: How does Water style function in naruto?

texts: So i get that with fire and lightning style you generally create a flame or electric current by turning the chakra into energy and with wind style you breathe in air but how does chakra create earth and water for those styles? we see that some use water that they drink much like gamatatsu and other jutsu depend on water near you but what about the shinobi who just spit out massive amounts of water without having any around or without being able to store it inside of them by drinking? is it like summoning from somewhere else or is it more along the lines of creating actual mass out of nothing?


texts: Has a manga series ever affected Jump or similar magazines sales a lot?

texts: For example when Naruto started or ended has the sales ever fluctuate?


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After war, the number of pure blood devil number decreased and almost went extinct except for 3 clan who did survive. So they are taking humans to increase their numbers in the form of chess pieces. I have only watched the anime and information about Raiser Phoenix's chess pieces was very little. However, it was mentioned that his own sister Ravel Phoenix was a bishop who was revived as demon. What does it mean - isn't she a demon already?

Does that mean Rias Gremory is also servant of higher rank devil, or every pure blood devil are king and they choose their chess pieces/servant except Ravel Phoenix's case where she died and revived as demon as other piece of chess?

And to be chosen as a chess piece, must the person die or not, since the word revived is used. What are the conditions for someone to be chosen the servant? Can it be anyone?


texts: Why was Tobi not proactive after all missing nins got recruited for Akatsuki?

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As far as I know, Tobi didn't come to limelight until Sasori's death (I am talking as per the chronological order of the telly series). He teamed up with Deidara after Sasori's death. He knew Nagato and his team long back but he was not proactive with the organization at the beginning of series.

Why didn't he volunteer himself? Is it because Akatsuki work in pairs and he didn't have anyone? Or was he waiting for the right moment to join with the organization?


texts: Why don't more video games get full anime adaptations?

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In this definition of "video game", I am purposely excluding visual novels. By "video game", I generally mean anything you can play on a console (e.g. Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Fire Emblem, etc...).

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

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


texts: There is no appearance of his parents at his marriage, during the proposal or even at his home! But there is (as long as my memory serves) no canonical statement where it is mentioned that he doesn't have any parents or lives away from them. I'm confused if he is an orphan or just living without his parents.


texts: Why is there a warning about diseases you can contract in farms at the end of Silver Spoon Season 2?

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Here's the subject of my question. The last screen of the second season of Silver Spoon show this text. One of the sentences is really disturbing. Translated, it says:

  Visiting the places and facilities used as models can be dangerous
  and may result in contracting diseases from the animals.

Why did they put a such worrying message at the end of this innocent anime that shows the passion of people for farming?


texts: What determines if someone going to Heaven or Hell?

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What determines if someone going to Heaven (reincarnate) or Hell (void)?

In episode 6, Harada was sent to void despite him repenting his attempt to kill Mayu. Yet, in episode 2, both Chisato and Shigeru was reincarnated, despite Chisato lying to Shigeru about her identity. Yes, Shigeru knows about her identity, but still she is lying to him.

So, what exactly determines the sentence?


texts: How did Future Trunks learn the Spirit Bomb Technique?

texts: In episode 66 of Dragon Ball Super, Trunks gathers energy from the life forms and forms a medium-sized Spirit Bomb while fighting Zamazu. I don't recall Future Trunks seen Goku use Spirit Bomb in the anime, I'm not sure though. How did he managed to do it if he didn't taught by anyone or possibly didn't even seen or knew it in the first place? Moreover, he didn't even concerntrate to gather the energy like Goku did everytime.


texts: Would it be illegal to host a anime streaming website?

texts: I am very curious on this subject. Would it be illegal to stream anime on a website without the owners permission? If so how do many websites on the internet do it without getting in trouble?


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In the anime series of Tokyo Ghoul:re 2 , episode 12, Kichimura says he provoked the appearence of Dragon. In some former episode, when Kaneki mutated into Dragon , he was expecting it, as if he knew it was going to happen, he called it "dragon" and he said something like he expected dragon to destroy everything.

Why did Kichimura know Kaneki was going to mutate into Dragon and why did he say he provoked it?


texts: Which powers does the Black Asta transformation give to Asta?

texts: So far we see that Asta when transforming into Black Asta can fly and gets his skin covered with some black sustance in parts. But what others powers does he get when transforming? Does he get some protection or enhanced skills? Or is it just the possibility of flying?


texts: When is Log Horizon Season 3 release date?

texts: I'm losing hope to wait for Season 3 of Log Horizon but I wish they'll continue making the season 3. Is there any announcement about it?


texts: Who are these female anime figures in military-style clothing?

texts: Any help identifying these three female anime figures would truly be appreciated. They look like they are from the same series because they are wearing matching military-style coats. I've been looking for a long time with no leads. Thanks for your help.


texts: Yobisute (no honorifics) at the end of Monogatari Series Second Season Episode 24

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At the end of the episode Kaiki doesn't use any honorifics...

   ...when speaking with Hanekawa.

This is highly unusual since they have never spoken with each other before. What is the significance of him deciding to use yobisute?


texts: Why can't Mirajane use magic for long periods of time?

texts: So, later on in the series, during the fight against Zeref, we see Mirajane use Satan-Soul but she also used souls that she had collected during the Tartaros arc. My question is: why can't she fight for long and how did she collect so many souls if she can't fight?


texts: Do both Ikaros and Nymph have ears or just Astrea?

texts: I haven't seen the movie yet, but I finished the show multiple times and have never seen either Ikaros' or Nymph's ears. Why is that?


texts: Did Kakashi's sharingan evolve because Obito was watching?

texts: Both Kakashi and Obito awaken their Mangekyou at the same time as told in this question When did Kakashi and Obito awaken their Mangekyou Sharingan?  The sharingan Kakashi owns originally came from Obito, so is it due to Obito also being there at the moment Rin died that Kakashi's Mangekyou also awakend? Or asked in a different way. Would Kakashi have been able to awaken the Mangekyou without Obito being there?


texts: What was the background music in episode 14 of Your Lie In April, starting from 08:52? I can't find it in the OST album. Can anybody help?


texts: Do the words used to transform into a Magical Garment Girl actually mean anything?

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In Kore Wa Zombie Desu Ka (Is This A Zombie?), whenever one wants to transform into a magical girl, he says the following words:

  Nomobuyo, Oshi, Hashitawa, Dokeda, Gunmicha, De, Ribura!

Do those words have any real meaning?


texts: How much of Teekyuu is actually about Tennis or the Tennis club?

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The premise for the Teekyuu anime says it's about 4 girls in the tennis club, and during some of the episodes of the first season they actually play some tennis, but it seems after that nothing revolves around tennis or the club. It could have been about any 4 girls in any school who were friends.

Does the source material (manga) have more to do with sports and tennis? The manga doesn't look like it's 4-koma and seems kind of a weird to adapt it as 2 minute long episodes as an anime.


texts: In the last episode of Puella Magi Madoka Magica TV anime, Homura seems to have Madoka's bow. In earlier episodes, she only use guns and bombs, when and how did she get this weapon?


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When Ichigo is about to start his training to obtain Bankai, Zangetsu fills the area with different swords and tells Ichigo that only one is his true self and all other would break indicating that Zangetsu wanted Ichigo to find his true form and defeat him with it.

During the training Ichigo is just grabbing swords at random, at one point after being pushed back he just grabs another without looking. Yoruichi also comments on how at the beginning any sword Ichigo took broke after receiving a single attack but now they seem to last longer almost indicating that Ichigo was not meant to be finding Zangetsu's true form but instead get stronger using the fakes, also Yoruichi must have been able to hear Zangetsu's explanation to Ichigo because of how he was summoned (unlike before when Ichigo lost to Kenpachi)

So i am wondering, What was Zangetsu's Task for Ichigo to get Bankai? was it to defeat him with his true form or something else.


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I've read this Detective Conan manga Chapter 499-504 there's a case when Conan chasing Rena Mizunashi,
the CIA agent that disguise as Black Organization member with code name Kir.
She along with Korn and Chianti is assigned to kill Mayor Candidate (I don't remember his name).

In that time, Conan's tracker is stick to Kir's shoes and he heard the code about the place
where the Black Organization plan to Kill the Mayor.

Conan realize that the place is Hyde Park, and he said it's not really Hyde Park that located in London but in Haido Park.
But I'm still not understand why can Hayde Park become Haido Park, is anyone can explain about this?


texts: Why don't anime studios hire native English speakers?

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In every single anime I've watched that features a native English speaking character (usually American or British), they usually say a few lines in (heavy) Japanese-accented English before switching to full-on Japanese.

Why don't they hire a native speaker for those few lines? Or even hire a native English speaker to voice act American / British characters. I'm sure there are quite a lot of English-speakers in Japan with excellent Japanese pronunciation such that it wouldn't bother the anime's main target audience: Japanese people.


texts: When does someone receive the Kāma seal?

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Is Kāma in Boruto granted to someone by an Ōtsutsuki's own will? Or will someone who killed an Ōtsutsuki be granted automatically?
For the case of Jigen and Kawaki, it is mentioned in some sources that they are considered as a "vessel". While for Boruto it's because of killing Momoshiki Ōtsutsuki.
Does it mean that Momoshiki Ōtsutsuki gave his power to Boruto by his own will? When did it happen that Momoshiki agreed to give Boruto his power? Or it was granted automatically after Momoshiki was defeated?
If it is because of the latter, in episode 135 of Boruto, does it mean Boruto or Naruto will inherit Urashiki's chakra too since they were able to defeat him?
P.S. I'm not reading the manga.


texts: Itachiyama Academy game and team in haikyuu

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From the first appearance, Sakusa is very hyped and especially Itachiyama Academy. They are supposed to one of the best schools who won nationals without even playing 5 sets. But I can't find much information about them. Not about how they play or list of players.
Is there any filler or some side novel in which we can find information about them?


texts: Naruto episode 20 season 1. What is the song playing in the background?

texts: It starts at minute 6:00 it sounds like Go go Naruto but just the guitar riffs? I love it! What is this song? Where can I find this version?


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So in the last edition of the Dragon Ball Super manga (I believe it was #38)

   Kale was able to defeat Anilaza, which in the anime it took 2 super saiyan blue, Freezer, 17, and Gohan to defeat

I know that it's said what happens in the Dragon Ball Super manga doesnt count for the Dragon Ball Super anime, but in the other hand, we see ideas created by Toyotaro in the manga being incorporated in the anime (like the Super Saiyan God/Super Saiyan Blue switch technique and probably Vegeta turning into super saiyan god, considering the artwork we have seen released along the movie trailer, another idea made by Toyotaro)

Besides, we also saw Kale taking on a super saiyan blue kamehameha from Goku, but it looked to me that fans were in denial and argued Goku didnt use his full super saiyan blue power, when nothing could guarantee that not using his full power could also have meaning not using super saiyan blue kaioken x20, since that's Goku full power. More hints in the anime seems to point in the same direction, Vegeta saying Kale is a monster (what would he say that if she werent stronger than a super saiyan blue), Jiren taking her as a battle when he didnt bother to fight the super saiyan blue Goku and Vegeta, and so on. (Probaly more hints I dont remember right now)

Is Kale stronger than a super saiyan blue in the anime?


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When watching anime I often come across filler episodes or arcs. They are often episodes that are not described in the manga.

I haven't read much manga, so I was wondering: Does manga also have filler volumes?


texts: Where do Kekkei Genkai abilities (genetic abilities) originate from?

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In Naruto there is a group of abilities called Kekkei Genkai (血継限界). They are told to be "genetic" abilities which are (usually) passed down genetically within specific clans.

Notably, the eye techniques (Dōjutsu, 瞳術), such as sharingan, are also a subset of those.

How did those abilities first appear? Did they appear naturally, or were they made on purpose as a result of experiments?


texts: Can Mirio's quirk come back on it's own?

texts: The bullet made by Chisaki reverses a human back to the time when they were Quirkless. In theory, then, shouldn't Mirio's Quirk come back on its own as time goes by, just like when one's Quirk first appears?


texts: Did Shouko kill people to make the Setsugetsuka dolls?

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It's hinted that in order to make a banned doll, you have to use human parts. In the manga, Charlotte is struck with how much bio parts Yaya has.

Did Shouko actually kill people to make the Setsugetsuka dolls?


texts: What is the new shuriken formed from Naruto and Sasuke's power?

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In the end of chapter 634, the latest chapter of Naruto Shippuden, Naruto's shuriken and Sasuke's arrow mixed together and formed a new black kind of shuriken to attack the ten tails.

What kind of power does the new shuriken contain? It contains Naruto's Wind element, but which of Sasuke's powers does it contain?

Is it the "Amaterasu" OR "Lightning" element?


texts: How do you spell Marry Kozakura's name in English?

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I've been using "Marry" up until now, but it just occurred to me that I don't know for sure if that's the best choice.

As I understand it, the spelling of her name varies a lot across translations. I've seen "Marry", "Mary", and "Marie" being used. Also, in Japanese, her given name is 茉莉, which I've seen get read as both まり and マリー.

So, is there a particular spelling that is more commonly used or more official than the others? Or are they about the same? How do the translators' choices for her name compare between the songs, the manga, the light novel, the anime, and other supplementary material?


texts: What Flame of Recca episode when Dragon Koku is showing his attack for the first time

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I have some good memories of my childhood with anime. Now, I try to re-watch every anime moment that stuck in my brain so much.
I remember how I really amazed when Recca fighting in a tournament (or something like that) and suddenly he call Dragon Koku. Then, an old man, who is the human form of Koku, from audience crowd transforming into a dragon and launch a strong laser beam attack to enemy.
I think this is the first time of Dragon Koku showing his attack.
Please, if you remember what the episode of this moment, let me know.


texts: Can Ainz Oal gown make Clones of himself?

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(warning! spoiler alert): In the Final episode of overlord season 3 (Episode 13), something really tricky happened and it kinda blew my mind. Ainz Oal gown was in his warrior form (Aka Momon) and he was talking to Albedo about how he wanted to defend E-rantel from The magic King (Ainz himself) and then just as they were about to fight, Ainz Oal Gown in his true form landed close to Albedo in order to form a truce.

I don't really understand what happened in this scene because momon is ainz in his warrior form, so that leads me to the question. Does Ainz have some magical spell that allows him to make clones of himself? if not then how could there be 2 Ainz at the same time and place. Its pretty mind blowing.


texts: How did Subaru lose the ability to enter the trials?

texts: After he failed or passed the second one, he could not enter anymore. How did this happen? And, is there a way to get back the ability?


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I have seen quite a bit of anime and manga now, and I believe I haven't seen a single japanese character with a double forename.

Question: Is there any anime with characters having a "middle" name? Also possibly interesting is, where these Characters originate? Are they "foreign" or are there japanese characters with a middle name?

To clarify i don't mean a Title or Nickname like Aisaka "Tenori taiga" Taiga (逢坂大河) from Toradora.


texts: What is the meaning of the title, "Dorohedoro"?

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I just finished watching Dorohedoro and loved it, but I am confused as to what the title means exactly?
I searched Google to see what it meant and something comes up saying "doro" means "mud", and "hedo" means "vomit" or "nausea", but then what about the "ro"? So I looked into it a bit further and noticed that the characters used to write the word Dorohedoro in Japanese (ドロヘドロ) uses the character for "mud" then "He" then "mud" again.
Seeing as mud can mean earth, does this mean the title is referring to something like the two worlds (the wizard's realm and the hole) touching or being connected?


texts: Is the golden armor (Garo) the only one that must be passed from ancestor to descendant?

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In Garo: Honoo no Kokuin, we see that the golden armor (Garo) can only be passed down to one's lineal descendants (for example, from Anna's father [the former Garo] to Leon and Alfonso).

What about the other armors, like Zoro and Gaia, though? Do they have any restrictions on who can use them? Regarding Zoro, in episode 24, we learn that

   Germán's child with Ximena is going to inherit Zoro. That doesn't necessarily mean that Zoro has to be passed lineally, but it does sort of suggest that that might be the case.

On the other hand, it looks like Gaia doesn't have any restrictions based on bloodline, since Raphael was able to pass Gaia onto Alfonso, and I don't see how Raphael could be a lineal ancestor of Alfonso - Raphael is not Alfonso's father (the king), nor his maternal grandfather (the former Garo), nor his paternal grandfather (presumably the previous king, who must be long dead), and anybody from Alfonso's great-grandparents' generation should also be dead.

Answers based on the tokusatsu version are welcome if they make sense in the context of the anime.


texts: What does the term "Kage" in "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" actually refer to?

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Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (影分身の術) literally translates into Shadow Clone Technique.

Is the word "kage" used to suggest that this technique was developed by a Ho-kage? Or does the jutsu have an actual connection to shadow?


texts: What is this song played on Hunter x Hunter (2011) Ep.20 around 13:43?

texts: It's the background music played when Illumi is ordering Killua to leave the hunter exam. It sounds like a piano mixed with some other instruments. Does anyone know what song it is?


texts: How did the Earth Dragon Balls revive everyone killed by Frieza?

texts: The Earth Dragon Balls were only capable of reviving one person at a time and that too, only once. Then how did they revive Vegeta and all the Namekians on planet Namek when the dragon was asked to revive everyone killed by Frieza?


texts: Why is Yukihira Soma not famous at Tōtsuki Culinary Academy?

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It is a known fact that Yukihira Soma is the son of one of the world's most famous chefs, Yukihira Joichiro, but why is it that the students from Tōtsuki Culinary Academy don't know about Soma?

It's even stranger that Nakiri, who is known as the God's Tongue for her extreme tasting skills, admires Joichiro but fails to realize that Yukihira Soma is the son of Yukihira Joichiro. She had seen Soma's application form, so it must have given her a hint already. One of the few people (or maybe the only one) who seems to know about this fact is the headmaster.

Why is that? Are they trying to hide the fact that Soma is the son of Joichiro, probably for some unknown reason?


texts: In Overlord, were the NPC's personalities merely flavor text in Yggdrasil?

texts: It was shown that Shaltear and Aura were created to tease each other. Other characters were created with different personality traits as well. Did the characters' personality traits influence their behavior in Yggdrasil or was it merely flavor text until they were transported to the new world?


texts: Why does Madhouse produce anime with consistently high-quality animation?

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That may be my personal observation, but I noticed that anime produced by the production company Madhouse have somewhat-consistently high-quality animation.

Even if the anime itself may not be a hit, the quality of drawings seems to be higher than most other production companies.

To list a few of their recent productions:

One Outs - a sports anime were lots of movements and running characters without the usual quirks of inconsistent body part movements.
Death Note - Brilliant drawings of characters with excellent usage of colors to illustrate different personalities.
Akagi & Kaiji - somewhat weird looking characters with bold black outlining, but still manage to fit perfectly into the overall anime atmosphere.
Btooom! - a short (and maybe unknown to many) anime, but still has still with excellent presentation.

The list could really go on and on with HunterXHunter, Trigun, Parasyte, Hajime no Ippo, Ninja Scroll, ...etc.

Is this just a case of a big studio that has lots of money (although I hear that the anime production companies are always running on limited budgets)?

Do they hire only the best illustrators?


texts: Boku no hero academia - Which manga volume will season 5 start with?

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I just finished watching season 4 and I wanted to start reading the manga from that point on.
Could anyone tell me where I should start?


texts: Is Accelerator able to control the magnitude of vectors?

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As we know, vectors have both direction and magnitude, and Accelerator's ability is Vector Change. I always believed that he could control both attributes of vectors, until my friends claimed that he could only change vectors' directions.

So is there any clear cut official statement to this question?


texts: Why could Kakashi and Obito move while Naruto, Sasuke and even Kaguya couldn't?

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Spoilers if you didn't see episode 472 of the anime yet:

   In episode 472, when Kaguya changed the environment to the world with high gravity, how come Kakashi and Obito could move while Naruto, Sasuke and even Kaguya couldn't?

I know they all used a lot of chakra fighting each other, but they are on a different level totally, and besides, Obito was half dead, and used almost all of his chakra to find Sasuke and bring him back.


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Around the early and mid 2000's we saw the spawning of a large collection of long running anime series, such as Naruto, One Piece, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, etc., all of which still are continuing today in its original series, or through some spin-off. Nowadays, we are left with mainly 12 or 24 episode anime, most of which will never see a second season.

Why is it so rare to see new long running anime series these days? What caused the shift in the anime industry to a more "agile" (borrowing a term from software development for lack of a better word) production rate?

My first guess is that the producers base their decision for a long-running anime series on the success of its source manga. However, this is not entirely true, as we see Attack on Titan is a 25 episode series, even though I believe that its manga sales overtook that of One Piece at some point.


texts: Why does Sato not lose his memory in season 2's last episode?

texts: In the beginning, Sato mentioned if The Head of an Ajin was severed from the body and a new one was allowed to grow, a New Person would be born. So why does Sato remember everything he did, also mentioning about phase 2 of the game?


texts: What are the differences between a half Ghoul and a Ghoul other than having one human eye and a Ghoul eye? It would seem half Ghouls have all the habilities of regular Ghouls, super strenght, regeneration, kagune, need for eating humans, etc. Are there other differences?


texts: How can Itachi use his Mangekyō Sharingan after death?

texts: When Naruto was forced to fight Itachi for the first time when he was reanimated by Edo Tensei, you could clearly see that he could still use the power of his Mangekyō Sharingan. How is this possible if Itachi no longer had his original eyes (which Sasuke took it)? Does this mean that Edo Tensei can also restore certain aspects of a ninja even after death?


texts: In Master Keaton, is TV news being used as secret code based on real world practice?

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Vol.8 of Master Keaton starts with the TV broadcasting a news segment about 'a Lion was accidentally trapped inside the cage of leopards in some zoo near River Seine.' This was later explained that it symbolizes a royal family member being in danger overseas, and is used by the British government to secretly notify the related parties (agents?)

Was this based on some real world practice?


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I've seen these manly faces several places over the internet (especially the one on the right) & I'm pretty sure it's from sort of manga.

Does anyone know where these faces originate?


texts: So I was rewatching One Punch Man, and when Genos started fighting Mosquito Girl, I was really enjoying the music. Is it on the OST, or is anyone able to tell me where it is from?


texts: It is known that Konohamaru is the grandson of the Third Hokage. Asuma is shown to be one of the Third Hokage's sons, but he is clearly named as Konohamaru's uncle. Are Konohamaru's parents ever shown and is their lack of appearance ever explained?


texts: In the opening and several in-episode scenes, there is a MISSING poster for "Sala Powell". These posters are in so many places, I wondered if she is somebody important. Is she?


texts: What if Goku Black is killed before forcefully pulled back by the Space/Time Distortion?

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During the early episodes of Future Trunks Saga, we remember that Trunk's Time Machine created a distortion in space/time which gave an opportunity for Goku Black to follow Trunks to the past using the Ring of Time but in a limited time.
After a few minutes of fighting with Son Goku, we have seen that Goku Black was being pulled by the distortion because it fixes itself. I wonder if Son Goku kills Goku Black before the distortion fixes, would he be brought back to life?


texts: Having the ability to grant all wishes and being powerful why does Shenron have to be afraid of Bills in the movie Dragon Ball Z: Battle Of The Gods?


texts: In "Radiant", do all Sorcerers have "animal-like" features?

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In the Radiant anime, episode  3; Don Bossman shows of his horns which seem more like bat wings.

Seth is a Sorcerer that also has horns.

Does this mean all Sorcerers have "animal-like features"?


texts: What would happen if Devil Fruit that Chopper ate were eaten by a human being?

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Wiki about Hito Hito no Mi:

  The Hito Hito no Mi is a Zoan-type Devil Fruit that allows its user to
  transform into a human hybrid and a full human at will. It was eaten
  by Tony Tony Chopper.

  By consuming the fruit, Chopper has been given human intelligence,
  allowing him to understand and communicate in human language. The
  fruit has also given Chopper the ability to perceive concepts that a
  reindeer would not comprehend, such as medicine. It also allows him to
  transform into human/reindeer hybrid forms.

So how about if the fruit were eaten by a human being? Would the effects of Hito Hito no Mi kick in?

And it looks like Chopper ate that fruit by accident?


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After Light and Misa were cleared, everyone seemed to just forget about that there's more than one kira. What was up with that? I seem to recall Light instructed Misa to make a response to the task force's kira video, then L deduced that the two kiras have met, then Light and Misa were confined, then Soichiro fake shoots them and then they try to catch Higuchi. While trying to catch Higuchi and thereafter, has everyone just forgotten that there's more than one kira? Did anyone find it suspicious that there seems to have been only one kira around? Maybe they thought that the two kiras were acting as one?

Based on a comment I made here: Why didn't the Task Force capture Misa Amane?


texts: What is the meaning and significance of the word "Sunagimo Umataro" (砂肝うま太郎) in Yuyushiki?

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In Episode 2 of the anime Yuyushiki, Nonohara Yuzuko drew something in response to Hinata Yukari's drawing of a strange penguin-like creature, and wrote down "Sunagimo Umataro" (砂肝うま太郎) on the same page. After some search on the Internet, I now know that "Sunagimo" means "gizzard", which is a digestive organ in chickens and ducks that may be made into food, and "uma" is just a way of saying "delicious". It seems to me that "Sunagimo Umataro" is a name that Yuzuko came up for the creature in the drawing, but I am still not smart enough to connect all the dots and make a meaning out of this. Specifically, I am having trouble figuring out

What exactly are those items that appear in Yuzuko's drawing?
How is the drawing supposed to be connected to the name "Sunagimo Umataro"?

I apologize if this is question has an obvious answer. (Maybe Yuyushiki is just too difficult for me!)


texts: What is Arisa's status at the end of Guilty Crown?

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Arisa is shot several times by the GHQ soldiers at the end of the series, when her shield fails due to all voids disappearing, but the wiki pages have confusing information about her whereabouts at the end.

Wikipedia has "She follows Gai to the final battle, holding back the UN forces with her shield, and is alive seen being outside of the falling GHQ."

Is she alive? When the scene of her alive outside the building happens?


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When you get hit by the Chidori, one of the damages you get is you get electrified since it's made of electricity.
What about the Rasengan? Since the Rasengan isnt made of electricity, what's the damage it's supposed to make? Does it burn? Is it sharp and by rotating you get cut? I discount that the damage comes from the impact, because since it isnt thrown many times and it isnt propelled, the damage and inertia of the Rasengan would be similar to a punch, and it wouldnt make sense to create a technique that does the same damage than a punch.
What's the destructive power of the Rasengan about?


texts: Is the version of Madoka Magica on Crunchyroll the DVD version?

texts: The DVD version has various changes (animation improvements, etc). I don't believe Madoka was on Crunchyroll during airing, so is the stream from the DVD edition?


texts: If Uraraka can turn weightless anything she touches, why she didnt use her quirk to get out of the debris in the episode where Midoriya saved her? Is this a plot mistake or is there another explanation?


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In one of the chapters of the manga,

   people from Marley think once aircraft forces from other nations will be developed, Titans wont be useful anymore. That there will be aicrafts capable of dropping large bombs and things like that.

But this doesnt happen in our reality, where ground forces are still needed and important.

Why people from Marley think once aircraft forces from other nations will be developed , Titans wont be useful anymore?


texts: What is the song when Sinbad is attacked by a woman with a baby in her arms on episode 7?

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Anyone know the piece from the OST for Magi that played in season 1 episode 7 around 18:03-19:10? It's similar to "Enfin apparu", but with piano and violin.

It first starts when Sinbad is attacked by a woman with a baby in her arms. The OST begins with a violin intro and then going into the violin & piano combination that sounds similar to "Enfin apparu", which starts at 18:38.


texts: Why didn't Giorno heal Polnareff's body and restore his soul to the body?

texts: In Golden Wind, we know that Giorno can heal people by restoring parts of bodies to people. We have seen that he can heal a body so much that Bucciarati's soul, instead of moving on to the afterlife, instead stays in his body. We saw that Giorno healed his own body and jumped right back in after Narancia's death. Now Polnareff, when we last saw him, was in the body of Coco Jumbo. Because Polnareff's soul did not go to the afterlife, he was stuck in the turtle. Why then didn't Giorno go to Polnareff's body and heal it, then stick Polnareff's soul back into the body?


texts: How can there be two separate bodies with the same souls?

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In chapter 671 of Naruto, "Naruto and the Sage of Six Paths...!!", The Sage of Six paths told Naruto that he was the reincarnation of Ashura and Sasuke was the reincarnation of Indra. But then, he also mentioned that the previous reincarnations were Hashirama and Madara.

Because Indra's soul is inside Sasuke, and now that Madara is alive, whose soul does he have? Is there something that I've missed?


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When Rukia was explaining how Mod Souls were created for Project Spearhead, she said the project was scrapped because forcing corpses to fight was immoral.

But why weren't Gigai considered? Unlike corpses, Gigai are created so they are more readily available and a Mod Soul would inhabit a corpse in the same way as a Soul Reaper inhabits a Gigai with the exception that a Gigai was never alive to begin with.

So why wasn't it considered to use Gigai instead rather than scrap Spearhead altogether?


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Episode 20

  L: If I die, as long as I have this (handcuffs), you'll share the same fate as me

Okay, excuse my language, but what is up with that? It's just a handcuff, you'll be able to chainsaw it or something!

If L thought that far and actually made the chain indestructible (Maybe he used titanium or something!?), we would have probably been able to pick it.

IF (highly unlikely) L actually took every precaution, L's body is not going to be as strong as the metal.

So why did he trust it so much? Was it a bluff/joke?


texts: Is Vegeta now able to turn into God of Destruction mode just like Toppo, or he can just use hakai?

texts: In the Dragon Ball Super anime series, when Toppo used hakai he had to turn into God of Destruction mode. Now that Vegeta has been taught hakai, does this mean Vegeta now  is able to turn into God of Destruction mode just like Toppo, or he just can use hakai?


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In the eponymous series, I'm rather confused as to where the protagonist gets his powers from. He is called a "singularity" more than once but the why and how and what that means exactly is rather... sketchy. On one hand he seems to be the source of his own power, and yet he also seems affected by the reconfiguration happening towards the end of the series.

Does anyone know if there's an explanation or if it's just left vague on purpose?


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in Zoids: Chaotic Century we see both Reese and Thomas pilot a Hammerhead underwater, Reese at the Sunken Zoidian Ruins and Thomas when defending the Ultrasaurus.

However we see that the Hammerhead that transported the Republican President, Louise Camford, (later hijacked by Hiltz) was in the air.

Does this mean Hammerheads can both swim and fly were in Reese's and Thomas's could have went airborn?


texts: Is the manga adaptation of "Tensei Kizoku no Isekai Boukenroku ~Jichou wo Shiranai Kamigami no Shito~" done?

texts: Is the manga series Tensei Kizoku no Isekai Boukenroku ~Jichou wo Shiranai Kamigami no Shito~ complete?


texts: Can Logia type Devil Fruit users fight each other?

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Precisely the question is about fights like:

Portgas D. Ace VS Enel or VS Smoker.

This question isn't about who is stronger, it's rather about how can they fight each other if they meet? How can fire fight electricity or smoke?

I'm still at episode 338 so maybe I'm not aware of some information available in future episodes, but still, I'm getting too curious to wait for the episodes to reveal that for me.


texts: Has the creator been interviewed about when the Attack on Titan story takes place?

texts: Lots of speculations have been made as to the time frame and location using clues from within the manga and animation.....but why not just ask the series creator if he gave it much thought or is the story just a mishmash of past and future technologies. I'm sure much Japanese writing has been done on this topic that hasn't been translated.....or perhaps, we Westerners are more concerned about this than we should be.


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In My Heroe Academia, Heroes Rising

 Bakugo gets One for All from Midoriya, who still has One for All because this power doesnt leave the user inmediately but lasts for a while. Supposedly when an user gets One for All, he adds his own power to it.

Did Bakugo become stronger than Midoriya in My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising?


texts: I think FLCL was a lot of fun, but I also found it really hard to follow sometimes.  For instance, what's up with the huge iron?  It's big, and it ejects steam at least once in the series, and it probably comes from aliens.  But why is it there?  What is it for?


texts: What was Naruto's chakra nature before Shippuden?

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According to the Naruto Wikia,

   Naruto currently has all of the chakra natures.

Before Shippuden, what type of chakra does Naruto possess?


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I'm not sure in which chapter this took place exactly but

   this is after Rod Reiss transformed into a titan. Eren has the ability control titans, then why wasn't Eren able to control him with his titan power? He had Historia by his side who possesses royal blood. That doesn't make sense...

Why couldn't Rod Reiss be controlled?


texts: Which are the five manga series that are based off the Toaru Majutsu no Index franchise?

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According to Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator

  Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator (とある科学の一方通行アクセラレータ Toaru Kagaku no Ippō Tsūkō?, lit., A Certain Scientific Accelerator) is the fifth manga series that is based off the Toaru Majutsu no Index franchise

Which are them? Aside of Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator and Toaru Kagaku no Railgun?


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If am not mistaken this anime was aired in 90's, I forgot their names and the title of it.
I tried so many times to search this on google, but I failed.
I really want know their names and also the title of it.I remembered that this anime was based on a period time of japan.


texts: What is the average price for broadcasting rights to an anime?

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I have looked in many places for this information but it often gets conflated with licensing fees.

To be very clear, I am not looking for the cost a licenser or distributor pays to have rights to an anime, nor am I looking for how much streaming services pay per episode, or how much it costs to create an episode etc.

I am simply looking for the average cost a TV company anywhere in the world would pay to air an anime on a TV channel, i.e broadcasting rights

I would really appreciate a high end and low end example, I assume something like Dragon ball would be high end, but something like Bobobo is not. Thanks in advance


texts: Is there any "real life" episodes in Log Horizon?

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


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I was rewatching One Piece, and I see that Sanji is the only crew member who is recruited without Zoro being around. Their strength and rivalry aside, what is most fun is the nicknames they keep calling each other with.

Strangely, I can't seem to find any instance where Zoro calls Sanji by his name. Has there been an instance where Zoro refers to Sanji by his name?


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Metal lee is Rock lee's son and that is pretty obvious based of the similarities between both of them but what about his Mother?

At first, I thought it was Tenten because she seemed like the "best available option", but then, since she has not really been an active "mother figure", I'm guessing that's not the case.  And if she were his mother then she would have been more involved in his life. Except maybe there's a basis for her absence?

  Also, is there a reason why his Mother's identity is not elaborated on?


texts: How many years did Natsu train with Igneel?

texts: He was just a child when he joined Fairy Tail. When did Igneel decide to train Natsu and for how long?


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After I watched episode 366 of Bleach, I waited for a couple of months. As I expected, no new episode of Bleach anime has been released since then. And yet, I don't believe that the anime has reached the ending.

Why did Bleach anime stop airing? And did Bleach manga also end its serialization? Though for the case of the manga, I am not sure if it has actually finished.


texts: Are there classes of Kagune or they are all differents?

texts: I've just watched the first season of Tokyo Ghoul anime, and in one episode the subtitle translation made a note where it said some Ghoul had a Kagune related with speed or something like that, which seemed to imply there were classes of kagunes. With the exception of Hinami who inherited traits from her father and mother, all the kagunes shown in the first season appear to be different. My question then is, are there classes of Kagunes or they are all differents?


texts: How did Commander Erwin know that the spy/traitor(s) would be within the 104th training squad?

texts: During the female titan arc, how did Erwin specifically know that the traitor would be from the 104th training squad?


texts: Where does the One Outs anime diverge from the manga?

texts: Today I just finished watching One Outs and I was interested on picking up the manga, but I would like to know if the adaptation is faithful to the manga and from which volume the anime itself ends.


texts: How should I approach the Beck manga, having watched the entire anime adaptation?

texts: I just finished the Beck anime and I want to continue the story from the manga. Do I need to start from the beginning of the manga, or is there any specific volume/chapter I can pick up from? Also, are there any significant differences between the manga (source material) and the anime adaptation, that would require me to start over if i were to start reading the manga?


texts: Has Kakashi ever failed any other students after Team 7?

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Part of Kakashi's reputation was that he was a ruthless teacher at the academy; refusing to pass even one student because they didn't qualify as ninja in his eyes.

However, ever since Team 7 passed, I've not known Kakashi to personally fail any other teams.

Has Kakashi reversed course and passed every team that he's encountered since?


texts: What's the meaning of ending credit of Great Pretender that have cat on it?

texts: In the Great Pretender anime, there is something that bothering me. What's the meaning of the ending credit scene that represent a bunch of cat? I mean the anime is about fraud and swindling, but why they put cat instead of other than  in the ending credit scene? Does it have a meaning at all with the Great Pretender plot story (fraud and swindling) like symbolism or something like that?


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In Soul Eater, the sun and the moon seem to have a face and sometimes laugh.
Are they alive or is it just their design?

The Sun and the Moon:


texts: What is the triangle-shaped headband these characters wear?

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I don't know what to call them, but I've seen these triangle-shaped things sometimes in anime:

What does the triangle-shaped headband mean and what is it called?


texts: Why is Tommy Ricardo so afraid of Pinaco?

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In chapter 19 of Full Metal Alchemist, Winry asks Tommy for an apprenticeship after delivering the baby. As she is asking for it, she mentions Pinaco is her grandmother and Tommy becomes extremely vexed and says, "I don't want to remember those painful memories!"

Why was he so afraid of Pinaco?


texts: Who is this character? I saw a picture and I have no idea

texts: Does anyone know who this character is? I’ve been looking but have found no luck.


texts: It is known that the Yomi Yomi no Mi fruit will only revive its user once, and also that Devil Fruit users can't swim, so I was wondering... What would happen if Brook falls into the ocean? I mean, even if he's alive, as a skeleton he has no lungs, so he should just be unable to go back to the surface, shouldn't he?


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So, here's an example. In Shakugan no Shana, you've got all the normal thing you'd see. But then, in the specials, the characters are different. They aren't different, but their art is.

Is there a name by which one would call these by?
This doesn't just apply to Shakugan no Shana, applies to many other animes.


texts: How does Illya overpower Alter Saber's Excalibur with her traced version?

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A traced Noble Phantasm should be one rank below that of the original.

How was Illya able to overcome the difference in power?

Clearly she traced Excalibur and not Caliburn.


texts: Why do Manga & Anime defuse tragic situations so often?

texts: Why do Manga and Anime defuse so often tragic situations? Moments that can be tragic/serious are often immediately defused by some hilarious moment and some stupid face of the characters. I personally find that disturbing that a plot cannot focus on something serious for a little while. Is that a stylistic choice or just a way to target a particular audience (i.e. children).


texts: We all know, that in The Last Name, L survives, by writing his own name in the death note. But why did Rem die then? I mean a shinigami dies when he kills a person, in a way that saves the life of another person. But L didn't die. So technically, Rem shouldn't have died, right?


texts: Why did Dragon Ball Z Kai change "It's over 9000!" in the TV version to "It's over 8000!" in the DVD version?

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In Dragonball Z Kai there are two different English dubs: the TV version and the DVD version. They handle the famous "what is his power level" scene differently.
TV version

Nappa: Vegeta. Vegeta! What's wrong with you?! Tell me what his power level is!
Vegeta: It's over nine thousaaand!!!
Nappa: What?!! Nine thousand?!!

DVD version

Nappa: Vegeta! What does the scouter say about his power level?
Vegeta: It's over eight thousand!
Nappa: Eight thousand?!!

While I presume that Nappa's first line was just a result of a different take or a slightly different wording, I'm confused especially about how the TV version (and all previous English dubs of Dragon Ball Z, shown earlier in the video) gives Goku's power level as "over nine thousand", while the DVD release of Kai changes it to "over eight thousand".
The two numbers have the same number of syllables, so it doesn't seem like something that would have changed to accommodate lip flaps or anything. So why the numerical change from 9000 to 8000?


texts: How come nobody noticed Chapra's slave brand at the tournament?

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In the first book of Osamu Tezuka's "Buddha", one of the main characters is Chapra, a shudra (member of the slave caste).
He is marked as a shudra by a brand on his foot; at one point he even considers chopping of his foot to get rid of this mark.

Later on, Chapra manages to pretend that he is a member of the much higher Kshatriya (warrior) caste.

During this time, he participates in a tournament. The tournament takes several pages, and it is clearly shown that his feet are not covered.

So how come nobody at the tournament noticed his mark? Did Tezuka overlook this, or did I miss something?


texts: Is Fuji-san really that easy to be climbed?

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In the second season, episode 6 it is said

  by Aoi, who is trying to persuade her mother to let her climb Fuji-san

that ‘Fuji-san is a mountain that even beginners can climb.’

That got me wondering. The mountain is over 3700 m high and to the best of my map-reading knowledge, the valleys surrounding it can’t be too far away from sea level. That means it’s a climb of — let’s be cautious — 3000–m. To a height that can likely cause altitude sickness to untrained persons (and let’s be honest: The girls are pretty untrained, considering which peaks they have climbed so far). All these factors scream out to me that Fuji-san will be anything but an easy climb.

Am I wrong and is the anime right and if so, why?


texts: What is the bondage-like rope Yui Yuigahama from Oregairu is wearing?

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I just started watching Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru, and the black rope-like object I see on Yui looks like bondage ropes. I doubt it really is, so what is it?

Just watch the first episode of first season and pay attention to Yui.


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In a German anthology, there was once a manga called "Life of Ichabod". It's about the son (Ichabod) of a lesbian woman and a criminal old man (it seems they don't know each other => sperm donation).

After the boy cuts off his foreskin, he meets friends of his father in a hospital and helps them fleeing from the police. After that, he goes back home.

This is the story from the first chapters, but I can't find any information about the manga. Was it a German-only manga? Is there any place in the internet where I can find anything about the manga?


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I've watched season 1 and 2 of the anime, read part of the manga, read part of the webcomic and watched at least some OVAs (not sure they were all of them). I dont remember anything said or shown about Saitama's family. Is anything known about them? Also , aside of those sources, I know there are audiobooks, that there is an official encyclopedia, and that sometimes the author and the artist answer questions from the fans in an "official" way.

Is anything known about Saitama's family?


texts: What are the real-life origins of CPU and CPU Candidates?

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In Hyperdimension Neptunia, Neptunia is based on Sega Neptune. The name of her country, Planeptune is obviously a reference to Sega Neptune. My question is, what console the other CPU and CPU Candidates (Nepgear, Noire, Uni, and Vert) are based on?

Noire means black and her country is Lastation which is based on Sony Playstation. But, PS2, PS3, and PS4 all has black color. PSX/PSOne is excluded since it's gray. Which Playstation console is she based on?

The same can be said about Vert, which means green. There are several variations of XBox. Which one is she based on?

And what about Nepgear and Uni?

EDIT: Considering that Blanc's sister are Rom and Ram, which is obviously a reference to ROM (Read-Only Memory) and RAM (Random Access Memory), it might be possible that Nepgear and Uni refers to a certain peripheral/component/parts of the console. But still, what part?


texts: What does the number on the Bog's Counter mean in Kaiji?

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In the second season of Kaiji, one of the games he plays is an extreme pachinko machine called "the Bog".  There seems to be a counter on that game which is confusing:

Inserting a 10 million yen card is shown to set that counter to 1000.
Pressing a button near that counter decreases that number by 100 and allows a large number of balls (it looks like 100) to fill the reservoir.
We are told many times that each ball costs 4,000 yen so buying a 10 million yen card would allow the player 2,500 balls.

If the counter shows how much money is left on the card, it is off by a factor of 10,000.  If the counter shows how many balls the card will still buy the player, it should start at 2,500 instead of 1000.  Everything seems to make sense if we see the counter as showing 1/10,000 the amount of yen the player has left on the card. That, however, seems a very strange way to denote that amount of money.  Am I missing something that would make that make sense?


texts: Why is that woman considerd the woman that Rimuru is destined to be with?

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In episode 6, we learn that

  Shizu

is the woman Rimuru is destined to be with.  She shows up in the next episode.

  She also dies a couple of episodes later, the next day in-universe.  Aside from her showing up in the OP and ED, and being a quest-giver (for Rimuru to be a teacher) several episodes later, she doesn't have much going on in the series.

Why is she considered so important and "Rimuru's destiny"?  Why is she seemingly more important than Veldora, the ogre women, Miliam, etc?

   Why is she more important than any of the other monsters/spirits that Rimuru absorbed?

I'm only familiar with the anime, so if the manga/LN goes that much more in detail about this, then don't spoil it and leave the answer somewhat vague.


texts: Song that plays during episodes previews of Hunter x Hunter

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What is the song that plays during episodes previews of Hunter x Hunter? I have had zero luck finding the name of this song and I've looked through playlists.

I know some songs haven't been released and I just hope this one is out there but I'm just bad at looking for it


texts: Why did Asuna apologize at the end of the Aincrad arc?

texts: At the end of the Aincrad arc of SAO on episode 14, on the big glass plane, Asuna was apologizing to Kirito and I don't know why. Was it because she jumped in front of the sword, or was it somthing else?


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One of the running gags in Cowboy Bebop is that the crew never seems to get paid for their bounty for increasingly outlandish reasons.

Asimov Solensan was killed by his wife
Abdul Hakim was caught by the police
Faye Valentine became a member of the Bebop
Maria Murdock was trapped in hyperspace and was transformed into a primate by her own virus.

With all of these missed bounties, and with all of the times the crew mentions their lack of funding, I'm starting to wonder whether the crew has ever been paid.

Have the crew of the Bebop ever been paid for a bounty?


texts: How are manhwa and manhua received in Japan?

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How popular are Korean manhwa and Chinese manhua in Japan?

Is there a market for them as localized manga?


texts: Demon Slayer (Kimetsu No Yaiba) Dubbed version...can't quite catch

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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!


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In episode 4, Tomoko is using a shirt with a drawing.

The shirt has a drawing of a face, and すぐる (suguru) written on it.

Since this series makes references to others quite often, I wondered if the shirt is a reference to something.
If not, does the shirt have any significance at all?


texts: The piano piece played near the end of episode 3 of K: Return of Kings

texts: Does anyone know the song title in episode 3 of K: Return of Kings, starting at 21:04 when Neko calls out to Shiro for help?


texts: How come the events of Rebellion are possible, with Madoka's wish?

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It seems to me that, no matter how you look at it, the events of the Rebellion movie are impossible due to Madoka's wish. Her wish-speech can roughly be split into five distinct parts (significant differences between Meguca's and Doki's translation marked):

I want to [erase/eliminate] all witches before they are [even] born.
[I will erase] every single witch in every universe, past and future, with my own hands.
(I don't care what you call it. All those magical girls who held onto their hopes and fought against witches - I don't want [to see them cry / them to cry]. I want them to remain smiling until the end.)
I will destroy any rule [or law] that stands in my way; I will rewrite them all. This is my [desire/prayer], my wish.
(Now, grant me this, Incubator!)

The pars in brackets are most likely not part of the actual wish, as we later clearly see that magical girls are not constantly smiling, not to mention that that would be a very weird wish to make for Madoka. So, only #1, #2 and #4 are the actual wish.

Now, in Rebellion, Kyubee apparently manages to create a barrier that shuts out Madoka and causes Homura to turn into a witch in her own world / soul gem. However, this contradicts the wish, as Madoka does not allow for any exceptions to be made. Even if we were to argue that a barrier is not a rule, and hence not subject to #5 (even though the fact that Madoka is barred from entering would be a rule), #1 has no limits whatsoever, and should prevent Homura from turning into a witch. Possibly, we can grant that this may happen not through Madoka's own hands (as we might say that Homura's world is not part of any universe and hence #2 does not apply), but turning into a witch is still impossible - her wish isn't "I want to eliminate all witches outside of barriers before their are born", after all.

Furthermore, Homura "splitting" Madoka into Madoka and the Law of the Circle is another such impossibility. #2 says that Madoka - and not the Law of the Circle - will (not can, will - she herself has no choice in the matter anymore) do it with her own hands (provided it happens within a universe). In fact, you might argue that, after the split, the Law will not do it, as it was Madoka, the human, who made the wish, and so, if Madoka, the goddess, and Madoka, the human, are no longer the same entity, it's the latter who has to do it (whether she lacks the power or memory to do so is once again irrelevant - the universe would be changed so she can do it anyway).

Effectively, the problem is the universal definition of her wish - it has no limitations, and several universal quantifiers, and hence can not really be circumvented.

There are even further issues, but they depend on how exactly you interpret the terms "rule" and "universe".


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In episode 10 (Misaka Mikoto) Misaka 10032 finds a black cat. Touma tells her to choose a name for the cat, since she was the one who found it. She says that the cat will be called dog, which Touma dismisses, proposing that she chooses a "more majestic" name. So she says Tokugawa Ieyasu, which Touma dismisses as "too majestic". She than chooses Schrödinger, which, once again, Touma dismisses as being "a taboo for cats".

It was not clear to me which became the definitive name for the cat, although I have only seen up to episode 14.
Is it ever said, either in the anime or in the novels, which name ended up being chosen? Or did she end up not naming it?


texts: In Mobile suit Gundam ZZ, how was Judau able to control the separated parts of his Gundam?

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I believe it was episode 47 when Judau battles Hammon Karn's Qubeley. Hammon manages to get hold of the Gundam Double Zeta. In order to break free, Judau separates his Gundam (it has three components, each with its own cockpit). Then there is some nonsense about the two leaving their mobile suits, Hammon with a gun and Judau with some metal rod. When Judau returns to his Gundam, he is able to use his Newtype powers to take control of the parts of his Gundam and reassemble them.

Now, in other instances where Newtype powers resonate with the pilot's mobile suit and result in some kind of physical action, it is attributed to the Psycommu. However, this is introduced to Federation and Aeug suits until the 2nd Neo Zeon War (this was the first) and double Zeta Gundam definitely did not have a Psycommu system.

There are two other instances I found where similar occurrences happened. One was when Amuro prevented Axis from crashing into Earth in what was to become known as the Axis shock. The other was when Banagher was able to link the Garencieres with the Nahel Argama. However, these two instances involve Gundams with Psycommu systems installed.

What explanation for Judau's abilities are there? Does this supersede the realm of science fiction? Would this be a deus ex machina?

Edit: I believe my initial assumptions when asking my questions were a bit incorrect. The Psycommu system was around since the 1 year war, present in several mobile armors including but not limited to Lalah's Elmeth and Char's Zeong. In Char's Deleted Affair, it is incorporated greatly into the mobile suit designs on Axis and eventually led to the creation of the Qubeley. The Psycho frame on the other hand wasn't introduced until the 2nd Neo Zeon War. I had the two systems confused. It was the Psycho frame which allowed the Axis shock to occur and allowed Banagher to get the Garencieres into space. However, the question still stands, How did Judau manage to reassemble his Gundam which lacked the psycho frame and psycommu?


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There's a song in episode 174 of Bleach from 2:43.

I couldn't find anywhere on YouTube/Google, even after I checked all the soundtrack lists.

What is this song?


texts: What exactly is Trunks' new transformation?

texts: Some people say it is a False Super Saiyan God, other people say it is a Super Saiyan God 2, while another group of people say it is something different. Is there any official info on what it is exactly?


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I came across this phrase in this r/Gintama thread about the Porori Arc mentioned in a "new season" announcement. The original poster said:

  Now this could STILL turn out to be an Enchousen situation, which I am hoping, but for now all we know is that we'll be getting a pool episode rerun.

A commenter also said:

  im sure its an enchousen situation
  at least i hope!

What is an Enchousen situation?


texts: What does 'Akame ga Kill' mean and why is it called that?

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Just what the title says, why is the show called Akame ga Kill! and what does it even mean? Akame was just an ordinary member of Night Raid, yet the show is named after her. She wasn't the main Protagonist, she wasn't even the main Waifu! And as this unanswered question mentions here, the only difference was:

   She fought Esdeath, the primary antagonist, and ultimately survived.

I googled a bit and came across this link, according to which Akame ga Kill! literally means:

  Akame is kill

So what does that even mean? Does it mean that Akame is Death itself, or Akame is Dead (Not physically, but mentally - that she is dead inside). But I doubt that either of these interpretations are correct since she acts all cutesy from time to time.

As another user points out, a general translation would be Akame Kills, but that would be a very stupid name, wouldn't it? So can anyone help clear this up?

Edit: Even Akame knows something's not right (from AkaKILL Theater Episode 24 - END).


texts: Sabo has been shown to use Dragon type attacks in the latest episodes of One Piece. But does it have something to do with the Dragon Style of fighting (from Dragon Claw on Burgees), or has he eaten Ancient Zoan Type Dragon fruit (Dragon's breath on the Colosseum's fight ring)?


texts: Who has the head as of episode 2 of Durarara!!×2 Ten?

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In the conversation between Seiji and ultra-stalker Mika at the end of episode 2 of Durarara!!×2 Ten, Mika claims that Namie probably doesn't know where the head is, and that Izaya probably doesn't have it either, since she wasn't able to find it when she snuck into Izaya's apartments.

In that case, who does have the head? I thought that Izaya did, in fact, have the head. Is it that Izaya has misled Mika somehow, or am I just misremembering something? And was Namie just lying when she said she'd give Mika the head? (I mean, Namie was obviously lying about being willing to give her the head, but did she even have the wherewithal to give Mika the head if she had wanted to?)

(I would appreciate it if stuff that the viewer isn't supposed to know at this point in the story were hidden in spoiler blocks.)


texts: Are there other Sharingan users who can copy other jutsu besides Kakashi?

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After I have read this question, I remember that Kakashi's epithet is Copy Ninja because he has a Sharingan in his left eye that was given to him by Obito.

But I can't think of another Sharingan user who can also copy other jutsu. So, is that the only special technique that Kakashi's Sharingan had, or there's another Sharingan user who also can copy other jutsu?


texts: How did the Colossal Titan manage to take the ODM gear off of someone while in titan form?

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In Season 2 episode 7, Bertolt,

in his titan form, is at surface level (apparently). But with that, he was still able to take the ODM gear off of someone through the mouth somehow. How did he do this?

I don't think it would work because there is too much to go through. There are meters of flesh between the back of the Colossal Titan's mouth and

   Bertolt.

The way Mikasa took out the Armored Titan with a thunder spear wouldn't work with the Colossal Titan. There is too much flesh to penetrate through.

So how did this character reach out and kill and or take the ODM gear?


texts: A late '90s early 2000s anime with a amnesiac girl with special power

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If anyone could please help I would really appreciate it.

I watched this anime at a friends house, but I forgot to get the title. I think it might have been in the late '90s or early 2000s when this anime was made, but I'm not 100 percent sure.

Anyway, it seems to be set in either middle ages, kind of like Scrapped Princess I think. It's about a guy who finds a girl in the snow and he thinks she's dead. When he finds out she is still alive, he takes her back. When she regains consciousness, she has not memory of who she is. I think I remember her having really big boobs. She has some unknown power, and every time she is scared, it gets activated and she becomes topless. They go on a quest to find out who she is, and meet a blonde haired prince (or knight?).

That's all I can really remember and it's just one of those animes I never got to watch past two episodes. I just wanna finish it. If anyone could help, please and thank you! :)


texts: Why did the hole in Kaiba's chest increase in size?

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Starting out, we see that there is a pretty significantly sized hole in Kaiba's chest. Later on we see in a flashback that the hole was much smaller when he first showed at the Issoudan base.

The collector of Warp's clones mentioned that the hole is one of the indicators of a true clone, and we see that the clone in the final battle also has one. Why would the hole in Kaiba's chest have changed sizes over time?


texts: Anyone knows the song played in episode 12 of Naruto (classic btw), when Kakashi is speaking with Inari? And it's not sadness and sorrow, neither grief and sorrow.


texts: Reason for kanji and reading in 頂の座 Hecate

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Character of Shakugan no Shana, Hecate, has a title of 頂の座, which is supposed to be read いただき・の・くら (and is pronounced as such in anime) being translated as "Master/Supreme Throne".
Info about about readings and meanings was checked with / found on Jisho.org

While 座 has similar meanings (seat/place/status/pedestal) and is also used in a compound for throne (王座) it has no reading くら and くら does not mean "a throne" (saddle/warehouse/treasury/contest). That said, there's a word for throne 位 with strikingly similar reading くらい.

Is it a play on something? Is it really switch between 座 and 位 (and would the くらい -> くら change signify something) or just an undocumented reading of 座?
(does not have to be an official explanation)

Maybe maybe even 頂 plays a role here? 頂 also means to "receive" and if くら means a "depository; treasury" maybe it can be a play on the - allegedly she's somewhat different in anime vs manga, but at least in the anime iirc she seemed to be sort of a shell/container (くら) yearning for receiving (頂) experience/emotions? Just a brainstorming


texts: Why is it that the swordsman's attacks appear to do nothing until they click the sword back into its sheath?

texts: For example, in One Piece, Brook, and sometimes Zorro, do some big attack with their swords, but the cuts are not shown until after they return their swords to the sheaths.


texts: Is there a huge difference in the amount of male vs. female protagonists in anime and manga?

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I'm wondering if there's an imbalance in Japanese society as there is in American society. Or if anyone has come across a survey that found the percent of female vs. male protagonists in anime and manga?

I think the main difference in anime and manga is that the Japanese have created genres to meet the interests of those who consume anime and manga (which if I'm not mistaken, is a far larger amount than Americans who consume comics and cartoons). For boys, they have shounen, and for girls, shoujo. For more matured tastes we have seinen and josei (which could arguably still be divided into men and women). In shounen, the protagonist is predominantly male, and in shoujo, the protagonist is usually female. Should I instead be looking at which genre is produced more for my answer?


texts: Is there any connection between Otonashi and the first NPC?

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In episode 12, the Mysterious Boy (who is probably the first NPC) explained to Yuri that there was a boy from a long time ago who loved another girl who left him alone in this world. Thus he lost his grip on sanity, and created some sort of "requirements" to this world (the main one being to not allow love to spread). But the Mysterious Boy also told her that his chances of meeting her again are better than 0.

Based on this question, it is assumed that Otonashi didn't have regrets so he did passed on. But I beg to differ on that, because we can also assume Otonashi DID have regrets right after Kanade left him even when he begged for her to stay with him.

It's all based on assumption really, but could it be that the first NPC was actually Otonashi himself in some way?


texts: Where does the "No highlights on the eyes" trope come from?

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When a character is unconcious or possessed by some supernatural entity, it often loses their highlights in their eyes.
Here is an example from the Sailor Moon R movie.

Where does this trope originate from?


texts: In which order R1, R2 and Akito the Exiled need to be watched?

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I am planing to watch R1, R2 again with Akito the Exiled but will be joined by a person who have no idea about Code Geass before.

I know Akito the Exiled take place between R1 and R2 from the similar question but I have no idea how much they are related to each other in details.

So what is the best order to watch R1, R2 and Akito the Exiled without getting anything spoiled in advance?


texts: Is super saiyan god a "super saiyan" transformation, or does just it have a missleading name?

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After watching the trailer of the new Dragon Ball movie, where a villain with an armor similar to saiyans appear and it has yellow eyes,

I started to wonder if a super saiyan transformation can have eyes of a different color than blue, so I started to check,

SSJ1, USSJ, SSJ2, SSJ3, blue eyes,
SS Rage, blue eyes,
Legendary SS , blue eyes,
SS Blue, blue eyes,
SS Blue evolution, blue eyes,

SS Rosé, pink eyes, but I'm not sure if this counts because it comes from a half god / half saiyan,
Ultra Instinct grey eyes, but apparently this isnt a super saiyan transformation, but a form any race can get,
SSJ4 yellow eyes but it's non canon,

And the only one that's left is super saiyan god with red eyes, but is this transformation a real "super saiyan" transformation or it's just a missleading name? Super Saiyan Blue is attained by "getting the power of a super saiyan god and transforming into a super saiyan" . So how can you transform into a super saiyan if you already have the power of a "super saiyan" god? Wouldnt this mean the "super saiyan" god is a missleading name and it isnt a "super saiyan" transformation but another kind of saiyan transformation?


texts: It was stated in the series that the user of One for All has to wish to pass One for All to another person for it to pass, and the receiver has to eat something from him/her to receive his/her DNA. However, I dont remember anything being said in the anime about if children could receive One for All or not. Is it known if One for All can't be passed through genes to children? Or could in the future there be more One for All users and not only one?


texts: Do ninja clans have to keep relations only within the clan to ensure the inheritance of abilities?

texts: Are there any references to arranged marriages or forbidden relationships in the history of clans being used to avoid the clan abilities from being lost?


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It is not Mito obviously.

When Gon is listening to the tape that Ging leave him, Gon stop the taped when Ging ask if Gon want's to know about his mother. I've waited so far but until the last episode of the anime it is not yet revealed.

If Gon just listen to the tape, then the mistery should already solved. Is there any answer that can be found in the Manga? I'm prepared for spoilers.

If Leorio was mad about how Ging acted when he knows the condition of Gon, I'm sure Leorio will be more mad if he knows that there's a mother to Gon.

If she is ever alive, then who is she.


texts: Why do anime use parody brand names in their series, and what benefit do anime like Code Geass and Darker than Black get when they use original brand names like Pizza Hut? Do they get paid for promoting the brand? If not, so they have to pay the company for copyrights? What benefit do the anime/manga artists get in the end?


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This question in simple: the only jutsus Hidan performs are related to Jashin. But this does not specify his chakra element.

What is Hidan's chakra nature?


texts: A romance manga about a girl going deaf in her right ear

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I've been looking for this manga for ages and I don't know what it's called. It's a romance manga, and I think it's also of school life genre and is a one-shot.

All I remember is that it's about a girl and boy who share the same headphones to listen to music. She always listened with her right ear. But then one day, she woke up to find that her right ear had gone deaf. She tried to keep it a secret, but the boy accidentally put on really loud music, and because she couldn't hear, she wasn't surprised or anything, and that was where he realized.

One day, the girl went to her part time job in a shop and someone placed their order. Because she couldn't hear clearly, she asked him to repeat the order, so the customer got angry. At that moment, the boy stepped in and explained the situation. After that, he confronted the girl about why she didn't tell him about her condition.

I think it was a pretty modern art style. I read it about one and a half to two years ago

I don't remember how it ended but I would love to read the manga again to find out.


texts: Does Dagashi Kashi author getting paid for advertise snack in her manga?

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The series Dagashi Kashi is like an advertise manga, it's promoted many snacks for children from japan. Does DagashiKashi's mangaka getting paid for promoted all of those snack?

I mean did all of those snacks which appear in DagashiKashi series (manga and anime) have been affiliated before between the mangaka and many snacks company ?


texts: Why do most anime have field trips to Kyoto?

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Most of the anime and manga I have read/watched have featured a field trip to  Kyoto. (As a related example, Beelzebub's field trip destination was Okinawa.) I don't know much about class level or the education system of Japan.

Is Kyoto a field trip destination in the Japanese education system or is it just a trope?


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What exactly is her power?

Why did Miyamura's sister, Yamada, and the president not get affected by her memory erase?

I understand that perhaps she couldn't erase Yamada's memories, but then how did the other evade the memory erase?


texts: What official statements have Seo Kouji's studio made regarding Akitsuki Fuuka's fate, and what were the repercussions of said statements?

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Wherever there is internet and controversial plot twists, there shall be rage, angst and trolling.

Trying to sift through the comment threads in /r/anime and other places is really a pain, and somewhere I end up bouncing on the language barrier.

Doing what they did to the title character so early surely was controversial, and it seems it was not an event planned from the beginning of the series.

What has Seo Kouji stated regarding

   Akitsuki Fuuka's death

and how were those statements received? What were the repercussions in specialized media?


texts: What is Jirobo's last name? I must know because I am creating a Naruto website and including the full list of characters.


texts: Is there an explanation for Natsu's motion sickness?

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In Fairy Tail, Natsu is prone to getting sick whilst on modern transport. I am asking this question because it kind of annoys me when he gets motion sickness while fighting someone on board train or other forms of transport. These are the known forms of transport that he gets sick on such as...

Cars
Trains
Vehicles
... And many and all forms of transport that moves.

I think an exception to his motion sickness is when he is flying on Happy, but can't really think of anything else that he doesn't get motion sickness on.
And waves, just discovered in Episode 133 (quite strange).

Generally, he gets motion sickness from all non organic transportation. He also gets motion sickness when riding on other people. He is also known to get sick from looking or thinking about all different forms of transport, e.g. looking or thinking about trains.

Was it ever explained in the anime or manga why Natsu suffered from motion sickness? And why did Wendy's motion sickness spell not work at all? Did something happen to Natsu in his life that made him suffer from motion sickness? If yes, please include it in the answer! Also, please refrain from using the reason "Natsu built up immunity to Wendy's motion sickness spell" in your answer, unless that's all you can possibly give me.

Answers are kindly appreciated.


texts: Why did Animax stop broadcasting "Naruto: Shippuden" in India?

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I don't understand why Animax stopped showing Naruto: Shippuden in India. I want to know what happened when Naruto was killed by Sasuke and how exactly he got a son.

Why did Animax stop broadcasting Naruto: Shippuden in India?


texts: What manga chapters does the Akagi anime adapt?

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I just finished the Akagi anime. It seems safe to conclude that Akagi probably survives the match with Wachizu, but since there are two more rounds that aren't covered by the last episode of the anime, I'm wondering how they go.

As thus: which chapter of the manga does the Akagi anime end on? Is it safe to assume that up to that chapter, everything covered in the manga will have been more or less covered in the anime (given that in some anime adaptations, like FMA, this isn't true)?


texts: What are the names written on the back of Yuri Nazarov's photograph?

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In episode 6 of Noir, Kirika brings Yuri Nazarov home after he faints and finds a family photograph hidden behind a drawing of a cat. (See link for bigger version of image below.) On the back of the photograph, there is something written in what is probably Russian.

What is written on the back of the photograph? I have at best an extremely poor knowledge of the Cyrillic alphabet and the Russian language, so I have not managed to read everything written there. My guesses so far are, going line by line:

Ivanov
Natasha
Yuri
[I can't figure out what the middle two letters are.]
Balkutsk 1951 [This is the line that Kirika reports to Mireille, so it must be correct.]


texts: Was "Baby Kangaroo's Birthday Surprise" the target of any censorship?

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The film "Baby Kangaroo's Birthday Surprise" (カンガルーの誕生日 - Kangaroo no Tanjoubi) was released in February 1941, less than a year before the Second Sino-Japanese war became the Pacific War, involving the United States and the British Empire, which included Australia.

The film was not set in any particular country, and involved non-Australian animals as well as kangaroos. For example, the main villain was a wolf, which doesn't occur in Australia.

Was the film the target of any censorship in Japan because of its use of an Australian animal?


texts: Do Lag Seeing and Gauche Suede have eyebrows?

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I noticed something very perplexing while watching the Tegami Bachi anime: Gauche Suede and Lag Seeing don't appear to have eyebrows. This is a perplexing situation because they both have long hair that could be hiding their eyebrows. To make matters worse, the tops of their eyelids are both prominently drawn, so it's possible that I'm mistaking some of the lines for their eyebrows for their eyelids.

There doesn't seem to be a relationship between this shared feature and that both characters are Albisian, since Sylvette and Doctor Thunderland Jr. both have eyebrows (although notably, according to the wiki, it isn't confirmed that Doctor Thunderland is an Albisian).

This issue is so distracting that I find myself searching for their eyebrows whenever either one of them appears. Do Lag and Gauche have eyebrows? Is there any point in the anime or manga that clearly shows their eyebrows (or lack of eyebrows) or does a character ever acknowledge they don't have eyebrows?


texts: Can Rimuru's Predator power put someone in an infinite dream?

texts: Can Rimuru somehow create an infinite dream for those he eats, for example when he used Predator on Shizu and she saw her mom?


texts: Why does Hashirama Senju possess such huge and terrifying chakra?

texts: In the past three Naruto manga chapters (chapters 621~623), the story goes like this: child days of both Hashirama and Madara, and he (Hashirama) is just like every others in Naruto: a normal human being. But when Orochimaru revived all four Hokage in front of Sasuke, Hashirama raises his chakra level to threaten Tobirama, as it would crack all the walls nearby or maybe the entire basement (chapter 620). How could have Hashirama acquired this kind of power (chakra)?


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In Black Lagoon, Hänsel and Gretel are deranged children suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Each of them have distinct personalities, but from time to time, they switch places with each other - clothing, weapons, voice, personality, and everything.

In episode 15, both of them are killed. Hänsel (the boy) dies in front of Balalaika after being shot by a sniper. Gretel (the girl) dies at the end of the episode when a hitman headshots her from behind.

But do we know if they were themselves when they were killed? Did Hänsel really die first?Or were they switched? Are there any clues anywhere?


texts: How Itachi was able to use Shadow clone?

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In Episode 452 of Naruto Shippuden,

Itachi used his shadow clone which was in Academy and he was himself training in forest. Since he is already very young then how come he was able to use Shadow clone. According to the teacher of Academy he was so talented that they graduated him but still how we was able to use it.

According to Fugaku Uchiha (His father), he has never used Shadow clone and also as per wiki Jutsu section its only states that he used only Fire release Jutsu.

Since his Father was the only one who teach him various Jutsu then how he learned Shadow Clone? Is it his Father who teach him or Itachi alone was able to learn by himself?


texts: Which is the biggest character shown so far in One Piece?

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From what I can tell the candidates for largest character in One Piece are:

1) Laboon, enormous whale of questionable scale at the entrance to the grand line.

2) Surume, the enormous kraken tamed by Luffy was shown to wear the Thousand Sunny on its head like a small hat.

3) Sanjuan Wolf, from pictures posted in the Manga he has been shown to be the size of Navy Headquarters

4) Seakings, some of the seakings shown in the calm belt seamed enormous, and perhaps they aren't even the largest.

5) Island Eater, the island eating goldfish was shown to be several times larger than the giants on Little Garden. Though I'm not sure it's size matches up.

I think Sanjuan Wolf is the largest, but I'm honestly not sure.


texts: What is this anime that was shown in Akira?

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What anime is this?

I was watching some random akira videos and I found this easter egg that I never noticed before.  I remember seeing an opening of an 80s or older anime about some old police trio or something like that.Could it be possibly based off of this? Manga Mito Kōmon


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Is it wood style? If yes, then how come only Hashirama can use it?

There has to be some special power that all the members of the Senju clan possessed, or else how could they be the greatest rivals to the Uchiha (who had Sharingan) who defeated every other clan other than the Senju?


texts: Why did Sting and Rogue kill their father dragons? Is it to become third-generation dragon slayers, or what?


texts: How come Agemaki couldn't see Itsue afterwords?

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In episode 7 - A Feline House, Agemaki takes Zakuro to his family's estate on behest of his father's request to return home. When they enter, Zakuro senses a spirit and assumed that Agemaki had her come to do something about it. When she questions him, Agemaki gets scared that "it's still around".

Agemaki later reveals that the spirit Zakuro may have been sensing is possibly the one he saw as a child which scared him. After being scolded by his father, Agemaki noticed Itsue, his pet cat, gone and assumed the spirit had taken her and even begged for Itsue's return but to no avail.

Afterwards, Zakuro tells Agemaki that Itsue never disappeared, and we find out that the cat that Agemaki's little sister has is Itsue yet Agemaki can't see her. Itsue transforms, revealing that she is actually a Nekomata Spirit and that the spirit Agemaki saw as a child was Itsue in her normal form (looking much larger because of lighting and Agemaki's own size). Itsue transforms back, and Zakuro tells Agemaki that Itsue can't remain in her normal form for too long and he can't see her in her cat form because he can't sense spirits.

However, when Agemaki was a child, he could see Itsue all the time. He has always been afraid of spirits and didn't know Itsue was a Nekomata. I am wondering as to why Agemaki couldn't see Itsue afterwards?