Chakra nature of Tailed Beasts As we all know that Kurama's chakra is of the healing nature type. This is known from many mentions about it in the wiki page of Naruto Uzumaki.

My question is, what is the nature type of the chakra of the other Tailed beasts?

Note: This is my thinking why there should have been a nature type to each of the tailed beasts.

As we all know that when Rikudō Sennin was about to die, he split his powers among his two sons (the older son inherited his powerful chakra and spiritual energy, and the younger son inherited his powerful life force and physical energy). Similarly, when creating the nine tailed beasts from the Shinju, he must have split the chakra based on their nature so that each tailed beast had a unique natured chakra.

Any insight on this would be very much welcomed.

A few facts first:

Kurama's chakra isn't healing type. Minato sealed Yang-Kurama in Naruto, which resulted in the chakra Kurama gave him to be Yang oriented. This adds the healing properties to that chakra.
Not all tailed beasts have a known nature, but some do.

So the natures:

Shukaku - Wind, evident by the Drilling Air Bullet he fired at Gamabunta.
Matatabi - Fire, evident by the fireball she fired at Hidan and Kakuzu when they battled her.
Isobu - Water, obvious.
Son Goku - Lava (Earth and Fire), evident by multiple lava techniques reanimated Roshi used while in Jinchuuriki form.
Kokuo - Not revealed. His Jinchuuriki was said to use the Steam element (Fire and Water)
Saiken - Not revealed. His Jinchuuriki uses Water element and specializes in bubbles. Saiken himself was shown to be able to spit acid.
Chomei - Not revealed. Not much was revealed about its Jinchuuriki too.
Gyuuki - Not revealed, but presumed Lightning. His Jinchuuriki uses Lightning.
Kurama - Not revealed, but presumed Yin-Yang. His Jinchuuriki was shown to have remarkable stamina and healing properties, which suggest Yang nature which is compatible with the half of Kurama he had. The other half's chakra was not explained thoroughly.
Last but not least

   Shinju (God Tree; Juubi) - Natural Energy and Yin-Yang. Evident by the techniques Obito uses after becoming its Jinchuuriki, as well as what was revealed in the manga.

Naruto is able to make different types of Rasengans using the other Tailed Beast's chakra inside of him. But when he does this technique against Kaguya, the Rasenshuriken he uses from Kuruma is just wind style. I think it's safe to say Kuruma possesses a strong wind style based chakra, which is why Naruto also is able to use strong wind style. The healing powers Naruto possesses comes from Kuruma's yang half, simply because his yang half possesses so much life force, that it heals Naruto at a faster rate.


How will Gon continue fighting after his fight with Neferpitou? During the Chimera Ants Arc, after Gon fights with Neferpitou,

   Gon lost his Nen.

Will he be able to fight and continue advancing within the Hunter x Hunter Universe?

Without nen, Gon won't be able to fight against Nen users. As was seen in the Heaven's Arena arc, the only way to defend against Nen is with Nen, and without it even relatively weak attacks will kill or cripple you.

At the moment, the story is on an indefinite hiatus, but if it ever gets going properly again, Gon will not be able to fight against Nen users unless somehow he is able to regain his Nen, whether by himself or by someone helping him.

It's obviously a different story, but I think it's similar to how after Ichigo lost his spiritual pressure in Bleach, he was pretty weak for a while until it was restored to him.

Alluka was able to save Gon, and it's definitely possible that either some Hunter has the capability to restore Gon's Nen, or that somewhere in the Dark Continent there will be a way of restoring it.

I think Gon will end up tracking down and joining the Phantom Troupe in order to regain the ability to use nen again. Also his nen category will probably change in the process. He may end up becoming a Conjurer or a Specialist.


How did Madara Uchiha survive such a long time? In the last chapters of the manga,

   When Tobi finally admits he is Obito and starts to remember what happened after the rock hit him, he meets Madara. How is this possible? Hundreds of years must have passed; how was he able to survive so long?

Madara, when he was close to death, awakened the Rinnegan.

The Rinnegan allowed him to break the seal placed by the Sage of the Six Paths, and summon the Juubi's shell (The Gedo Mazo) from the moon.

Using it as a catalyst, Madara used Hashirama's cells in order to extend his own lifespan.

Once disconnected from the Mazo, Madara died instantly.

Madara Uchiha didn't survive. The one who everybody thinks is Madara is acually Obito Uchiha because Obito said that he was going to take on Madara's legacy. This means the day of the nine tails attack Minato was actually fighting his own student. "Madara" (Obito Uchiha) is the one who set the nine tails lose and he says his name is Tobi which is just Obito switched all around with one "o" taken off.


Before watching "Tokyo Ghoul:re" anime, is it necessary to read the manga to understand the story? I've seen the first episode of Tokyo Ghoul:re and I didn't understand anything.

Before watching the anime, is it necessary to read the manga to understand the story?

Assuming you have seen the previous two seasons (anime) - Yes, you can watch Tokyo Ghoul:re without reading the manga.

It's fine if you didn't understand the first episode. Things will gradually be explained in the anime, though not in much depth as in the manga, but you will start understanding the story. Just hang on to it for a while...

If you can't wait that long and insist on knowing the back story (which will probably be explained in the anime later), then go on and read the spoilers below.

The ending of Season 2

   There was a battle between Kaneki and Arima in the end of Season 2. Kaneki was seriously wounded (Arima pierced his brain through the back of the skull, destroyed his left eye and then finished the fight with the stab through the other eye).

The story of Haise Sasaki

   Kaneki survives and becomes a prisoner at Cochlea (3rd floor), but becomes amnesiac (experiences total or sometimes partial loss of memories). Arima started bringing him books in the prison and his health improved substantially. Since he lost his memories, Arima gave him a new name using his (formerly Ken Kaneki)'s two favorite kanji from the words "coffee" and "world" - Haise (Haise Sasaki as the one in the anime currently being aired).

The Quinx Squad

   The CCG then decides for Haise (formerly Ken Kaneki) to be the mentor and overseer of the Quinx squad under the supervision of Arima. The Quinx members are referred to as humans with built-in quinque in their bodies, drawing a distinction between them and normal one-eyed ghouls. The members are regarded as human research subjects who have undergone the surgical procedure developed by Dr. Kouitsu Chigyou.

And there you have it, the current Quinx squad (Kuki Urie, Saiko Yonebayashi, Tooru Mutsuki and Ginshi Shirazu) under the mentorship of Haise Sasaki as seen in episode 1 of season 3.

In fact it isn't necessary to read the manga or understand the fist season to see the second one. But I can't tell you that you will enjoy the anime as much as if you understand it.


Where did Decim send Chiyuki? To reincarnation or to void? I saw that the mask changed and she just gave in to her wish to come back to live in her last 'test', so I think she was sent to void, but I'm not really sure. Can somebody explain, please?

She went to

   Reincarnation  . This scene happens immediately after her elevator door closes.

She was sent to reincarnation. Why I think so? Because we could get to see the reincarnation sign over the elevator, right  after it closed.

About the mannequin that was shown later, it was, I think a fake one that Decim made. I am a little bit confused about that, but if we think that she was sent to void, then that sign over the elevator would be shown to be kinda meaningless.


A manhwa (or manga) where the main antagonist is the protagonist's future self It's been bugging me for a few days now. I can't really remember a lot about it, but here are the things I kind of remember:

I think it was Korean manhwa
The setting was old, martial arts was common.
I think the MC had amnesia.
He liked to climb trees (shown chapter 1, I think)
He time traveled back to a younger body (mind traveled)
His parents were suspicious of him for being "different than usual".
His parents were killed by thugs.
The female helper who was taking care of the main character got kidnapped and raped.
He later tracked the guy who attacked them and was about to kill him, when suddenly a girl stopped him from doing so. It turned out to be the helper; she was pregnant and in love with her captor. He left through the window.
The main character was scared of the main enemy (I think >.<)
The enemy was wearing Sephiroth-like trench coat (tall)
Near the end, he found out that the enemy was him from the future (or alternate outcome of his choices)
They fought in the courtyard and both died I think, or just his future self.

I'm not sure if this is only 1 manga that I'm describing. It kinda feels 2.

I have tried googling this with what I think the genre/tags it would be under, but failed to find it :(

I hope someone can help me stop this nagging in my head >.<  Thank you for your time!

It's probably Threads of Time, a Korean manhwa.

It has been a few years since I read it, so my memory is fuzzy about the fine details, but it has enough similarities to be a match.

I definitely remember these details you wrote in the question:

  It was Korean manhwa
  Martial arts was common.
  He time traveled back to a younger body.
  His parents were suspicious of him for being "different than usual".
  The female helper who was taking care of the main character got kidnapped and raped.
  He later tracked the guy who attacked them and was about to kill him, when suddenly a girl stopped him from doing so. It turned out to be the helper; she was pregnant and in love with her captor. He left through the window
  The main character was scared of the main enemy.

The last 2 details (reproduced below) might be from a different manga if you're completely certain about it.

  Near the end, he found out that the enemy was him from the future (or alternate outcome of his choices)
  They fought in the courtyard and both died I think, or just his future self.

However, I think you might have gotten those details wrong, since the MC time traveled back into the brother of one of the villain's victim in order to untangle or sever the Threads of Time (Fate?). Near the end, he realized that the villain was his past self and he defeated him, but he also died soon after and returned to his present time. Though this time around, he is no longer tied down by fate/destiny because he broke the cycle.

Source: Years of reading manga.

Anyway, I hope this is the right one.

I'm not very sure about this, I saw this a long time ago so just as the memory of it is somewhat vague in your mind it is also vague in mine, but your description is reminding me about Flame of Recca.

It doesn't match your description exactly but seeing how you're not sure you're describing a single series I thought this might be one of them.


How do I figure out the contents of doujinshi? I have been to Japan and saw all these doujinshi manga which all look really interesting just by their cover. But how do Japanese people actually figure out the content of these books? There is no plot written anywhere, and you generally cannot open them.

For example, I have been reading 孤独のグルメ (Kodoku no Gurume) and I saw doujinshi based on it. Should I think "the manga was good so let's try this version"? Or is there somewhere to look at to find out the content?

Does it work only by word-of-mouth or are there any resources on the internet we can check to have more information on the different authors and their doujinshi?

It might be a simple matter of H-service, so what matters the most is the art. Something like storyline is trivial in most of the H-works in Japan as I would say. That's why, the business focuses only on gaining money.


Why was Excalibur not used near the end of season 2? I just finished re-watching episode 18 of season 2 of Sword Art Online, and in the end, Kirito throws Excalibur into the pit and then Shinon catches it with a spell arrow. Then, once the quest is over, he gets the sword as a gift from Urðr for saving the land. In the next episodes we don't see him use it.

Why isn't he using it?

In SAO Wikia about Excalibur, there is some trivia mentioned, among which:

  Kazuto resolved to never use Excalibur for personal gain as he believed that the sword contained the «caliber» of himself and his companions.

As mentioned in the comments and in Alchemist's answer, Kirito used the sword when fighting off the guild to buy Asuna some time.

He cannot use Excalibur as a normal sword as it is very heavy even for him. It is like in season 3, the items have a requirement to be used and probably Excalibur also has a requirement that makes it impossible to use freely, until when he used the excalibur he spent several hours sleeping.


When did otaku become a derogatory term? Related: Is the term Otaku derogatory?

I have been reading The Moe Manifesto lately, and noticed in a lot of the interviews, the term otaku was never really used in a derogatory form.

One of the interviews in particular mentioned something about otaku only becoming a derogatory term after some serial killer, which was found vaguely related to the anime culture, killed a bunch of children. However I could not find any credible online sources to confirm this.

This does however raise my question, when did otaku become a derogatory term?

Edit

  Actually now that i started to look into it a bit it seems it has always been a derogatory term at least in Japan, but the situation seems to improve nowdays - Proxy

During the interview with Otsuka Eiji

  patrick w galbraith
  how should we define otaku?

  Otsuka Eiji
  To tell the truth, I dont really know. The word otaku was first used by writer Nakimori Akio in manga Burikko, back in 1983 when I was in my twenties and working as the magazines editor. It was the first time the term was publicly used to refer to enthusiastic manga and anime fans...

  patrick w galbraith
  Why do you think Nakamori chose this particular word to refer to Japanese fans?

  Otsuka Eiji
  The term otaku is a second person pronoun equivalent to you. It was used among scifi fans in the 1970s. By the 1980s the market for manga and anime had expanded and it supported a wide variety of specialty magazine, which provided space for new artist to work in niches.

According to the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article (emphasis mine):

  Otaku (おたく/オタク) is a Japanese term for people with obsessive interests, particularly in anime and manga. Its contemporary use originated with Akio Nakamori's 1983 essay in Manga Burikko.[1][2] Otaku may be used as a pejorative; its negativity stems from a stereotypical view of otaku and the media's reporting on Tsutomu Miyazaki, "The Otaku Murderer", in 1989. According to studies published in 2013, the term has become less negative, and an increasing number of people now self-identify as otaku,[3] both in Japan and elsewhere.

The first two sources are references to Nakamori's essay, where source 2 is a translated rendition of that essay.

Wikipedia goes on to mention that two animators, Haruhiko Mikimoto and Shōji Kawamori, had used the term お宅 (おたく|otaku) as a formal, second person pronoun ("you"), which allegedly "some fans used... past the point in their relationships where others would have moved on to a less formal style."

The jisho.org entry explains:

  お宅（おたく）

  Pronoun

  you (referring to someone of equal status with whom one is not especially close)

  Honorific or respectful (sonkeigo)

This awkward use of the pronoun led to Nakamori choosing it to refer to anime fans, seemingly to characterize their social awkwardness (Though Wikipedia cites the Chinese edition of a book called Otaku Shijou no Kenkyuu, this appears to be backed up by Nakamori's second essay on otaku, from what I can understand of it).

So what does this mean? Was the term otaku derogatory from the start? It seems like it was. According to Lawrence Eng, who completed a PhD dissertation on the topic of otaku culture (emphasis mine):

  In 1983, the first published report appeared on the usage of "otaku" amongst fans. Akio Nakamori wrote a series of articles called "Otaku no Kenkyu" (Studies of Otaku) in Manga Burikko. He called those hard core fans who called each other "otaku" the "otaku-zoku" ("zoku" meaning tribe). His was perhaps the first article stereotyping otaku as being anti-social, unkempt, and unpopular. I've heard that the column was short-lived, and it didn't have a large impact on otaku culture (who pretty much ignored or was already used to such unfair stereotyping and discrimination).

Following the coining of the phrase, the so-called Otaku Murderer came into the public mind, which certainly didn't do the otaku crowd any favors, as you have already mentioned.

So back to that third source cited by the Wikipedia article. In 2013, in a study of 137,734 people, 42.2% answered that they think they are in some part "otaku," and the other 57.8% said they did not. The article continues by breaking down the results by age range (teens, twenties, thirties, and so on):

  10代：62.0％
  20代：55.6％
  30代：46.4％
  40代：44.8％
  50代：36.7％
  60代：26.9％
  70代：23.1％
  80代：23.3％

From this data, we can guess that somewhere during the '80s and the '90s (when people who are in their 50s and 40s now were in their 20s, and had grown up with anime and manga), the term otaku became more popular, and that trend has increased such that a majority of today's (Japanese) teenagers would consider themselves in some part otaku, and thus it would appear that the term is no longer considered quite as derogatory as it once may have been. The article also offers three examples of answers given by people who responded that they identify as otaku, which may shed some light on the reasons behind the mentality shift (translations mine, take them with a grain of salt):

  「サッカーオタク。熱中できる趣味というより、熱中できる気力があるの良いこと」

  "[I'm a] soccer otaku. Rather than being about an enjoyable hobby, it's having the energy to be passionate about something"
  「好きなゲームの話題だと、何時間でも話してしまいそう」

  "If there's a game you like, you'd probably end up talking about it for hours"
  「海外ドラマ＆その声優オタクでっすw」

  "im an otaku for foreign dramas and their voice actors lol"

This is just my speculation, but it's almost as if the term otaku has become diversified from its original connotation of an obsessiveness over anime and manga specifically. In other words, nowadays one can be an otaku for just about anything, which may be the reason for which it's become more of a popular term.

Conclusion (TL;DR)

The term otaku seems to have initially been coined to characterize certain negative stereotypes about anime and manga super fans, but over time has become more accepted—to the point that a majority of Japanese teens would say they identify as being, in some part, otaku.

There is no specific "time" as to when it became a derogatory word. However, the term "otaku", has always been offensive when it comes to the Japanese culture, according to the research I conducted about it.

Here's another meaning of it:

  The term "otaku" seems to have been introduced to anime fans in the US and other countries via Studio Gainax's "Otaku no Video 1985," a self-parody film.
  Otaku, meaning probably "venerable house," refers to someone who has a devotion to a subject or hobby (not necessarily anime) to the point of not leaving home. For instance, an otaku fan of a particular movie star could quite possibly know all of the films s/he has been in, their birth date, time of birth, shoe size, favorite toothpaste, etc. Generally speaking, calling someone an otaku in Japan is an insult, implying that their social skills have atrophied or never even developed, due to their manic involvement in their chosen fandom.

However, the term isn't as dire overseas because we interpret it differently as something similar to a "fan".

  When dealing with Japanese people, however, it may be best to keep in mind the modern Japanese image of an otaku -- Someone who only leaves their home to eat or shop, if at all, with an overwhelming and unhealthy obsession about something. It can as easily refer to a stalker or sociopath as it can to a harmless anime buff.

-Urban Dictionary


How come there are so many Dragon Slayers? In Fairy Tail, they say that Dragon Slayers are really rare, but it seems like there's more of them than most other kinds of magic. The closest amount of one kind of magic is maker magic; there are 5 people who are shown using it (Lyon, Gray, Ur, Ultear, and Rufus). It's kinda the same thing with Celestial Wizards, they say there aren't many of them but there are 4 in the show (Lucy, Angel, Yukino, and Hisui. There's also Karen who died 3 years ago and I think there's more in the anime during the Clock Arc, but I don't think that is in the manga).

I kind of get why the Celestial Wizards were likely to interact because they were needed for stuff, but if there aren't many Dragon Slayers, wouldn't it make more sense for them to run into more of any other kind of wizard than for 7 Dragon Slayers to just happen to find each other? Other than when they run into Leon, they never meet anyone with the same magic as anyone else in the guild except Celestial Wizards and Dragon Slayers.

There being so many Dragon Slayers despite it being a Lost Magic is an element central to Fairy Tail's plot. Dragon Slayer Magic is extremely rare since the only modern way to learn it is to embed Dragon Lacryma into the body as Laxus, Cobra and God Serena did. Natsu, Wendy, Gajeel, Rogue and Sting are completely different cases as they were taught by dragons themselves more than 400 years in the past and were later send through time to year 777 as part of The 400 Year Plan. Back in the past, Dragon Slaying magic was far more common.

The reason is because the plot is surrounding dragon slayers. OFC the story is going to introduce as many of the known ones as possible. You say why are there so many, there arent, there are a handful, but since the story is focused on dragon slayers, its only natural to feel like they are popping up everywhere.

Its like if youre a doctor, at some hospital convention, lots of other people will be there too, but ofc, youll be looking for other doctors. Ya know?


Was Mirajane born with Satan Soul? Just wondering on this but, was Mirajane born with the certain Take Over ability Satan Soul and how did she learn to master it? Also was Elf-Man and Lisanna born with their abilities too? I was wondering this when I noticed that she can change into not one but two other different forms of Satan's Soul including...

  Satan Soul Sitiri and Satan Soul Halphas as below.

I would like to know if this is revealed in any of the Anime's or Mangas

Answers are appreciated.

One needs to possess the Demon Factor to use Satan Soul. Mira said it herself:

It hasn't been explained if she already has it since birth or not.

I heard that Mirajane beat a demon (Satan) and she get this power and Elfman and lisanna study this magic because Mira was lonely


Is Ar no Surge related to Ar Tonelico? In the description for Ar no Surge: Ode to an Unborn Star, it talks about how song and music are used as magic and for character development.

AR Nosurge Ode To An Unborn Star PS3 is a Fantasy, Sci-fi, '7 Dimension' RPG, that takes place in a world where music and song can create magic.
[...]
Ar Nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star has a unique character development system that focuses more on the bonds/ relationships between the main characters than their success in missions and battles, as the player's party grows stronger if the characters have a closer relationship.

Source: Ozgameshop
Now, this sounds much like the Ar Tonelico series, which talks about how music is used as magic and how you need to develop the character's relationships with one another to develop their strength. Also, both games were developed by Gust.
This makes me wondering: Are the 2 games are related story-wise? If they are, when does Ar no Surge: Ode to an Unborn Star occur in relation to Ar Tonelico?

Warning, some spoilers for Ar Nosurge are below:

Ar Nosurge is set in the same universe as Ar Tonelico, but not on the same planet as Ar Tonelico (mostly, two of the main characters do visit Ar Ciel, the planet in Ar Tonelico). It is also a prequel to Ar Tonelico (the plot of Ar Nosurge takes place around 700 to 800 years before Ar Tonelico).

Despite being set on a different 'planet', there is a major story link between the two, as it deals with the origin of the Teru tribe in Ar Tonelico. You also meet a major character from Ar Tonelico in Ar Nosurge.

Ar nosurge takes place roughly 735 years before Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia, going by the clues the game leaves and the information revealed from the official setting encyclopedias.


How could someone with Magic wield the Anti-magic weapons? The Witch Queen told Asta and his friends a bit about the history of the elves in Black Clover Episode 65. She stated that the elves possessed great magical abilities and were so strong that many of them were her equal in terms of magical strength (and she is very prideful; for her to admit that says a lot.)

What is really baffling me thou is when she stated that the leader of the elves was the former wielder of the Anti-Magic weapons that Asta currently uses, which subsequently blew Asta's mind and mine too!

How is it possible if people with Magic can't wield them?
We know that the only reason that Asta can use those swords is because he was born without magic and hence the sword does not weaken him. However, the leader of the elves possessed strong magical powers and yet he could still wield the Anti magic weapons. Even the Wizard King admitted that only people without Magic could wield those weapons. Are there any exceptional rules to how the Anti magic weapons work?

From recent manga all of this has been answered.

Three swords already have the ability we see today with the exception of anti magic. That is the Demon slayer sword already had the ability to cut and deflect magic when Licht was the owner of this grimoire. (This is why Licht was able to cut the storm in which Tetia the princess was stuck.) Similarly the Demon dweller sword already had the power to absorb surrounding people and the owner magic spells and release it as flying slash and to glow after it has absorbed certain amount of magic and the Demon destroyer sword other than able to cut magic and spells. It also already had the ability to absorb and remove the effect of spells.

So anyone with magic would have been able to wield them. This is why they were present in a four leaf grimoire because of its tremendous strength and also before this grimoire became five leaf grimoire these swords were shiny. It is after the grimoire became a five leaf grimoire and housed a demon that they became dark and shady and were able to absorb anti magic from the grimoire in which the demon resides.

it would normally be impossible unless:

the wielder ran out of mana.
the wielder has a huge amount of mana.
the wilder concentrates all of there mana away from the sword.


Why do people call the Bijuu "tailed beasts" if not all of them have tails? So a couple of days ago I was, as usual, on random websites and, for some reason, ended up in the Naruto Wikia on the Bijuu page. I scanned through the page, not really reading anything on there, as I scrolled down. I ended up at the trivia part of the page, which made me start reading. One particular part got my attention, which said:

  While most of the tailed beasts have conventional tails, Chōmei and Gyūki differ; Chōmei has one regular tail and six wings that make up its seven tails, while Gyūki has eight cephalopod limbs that serve as tails.

So we know that Chōmei has one tail and six wings and Gyūki has eight cephalopod limbs that, I guess, count as tails, for some reason. So if Chōmei and Gyūki don't really have all 7 or 8 conventional tails (as in not all are actually tails) why do they call them "Tailed Beasts"? Or do people just confuse the wings and cephalopod limbs for tails? Or are people just, normally, counting the others, which have all tails, and then mistake the wings and cephalopod limbs for tails?

As you can see in both of these pictures, the tails originate from the lower back of the beasts, where normally the tail would originate.

For Gyūki, the limbs should be on the front or below the body to be considered limbs.

For Chōmei, the wings need to be higher up, up from the centroid, or the head would be below the rest of the body while using the wings.

Links to the original images:
Gyūki
Chōmei

The whole "tailed beast" thing actually is derived from japanese mithology. Kishimoto parallels some myths, but he is pretty loose about it. Here, this answer explains a lot about the tailed beasts.


Power of Ultra Instinct In the dragon ball universe there are plenty of methods to significantly boost the power level of the user. We have things such as Potara earrings, saiyan power ups etc. But more recently we were introduced to Ultra Instinct. As this is said to be a form attainable by anyone but mostly used by gods (which is even difficult for them to attain) how strong is it actually? Like how much does it power up an individual that uses it.

This question is mainly based on the episode of 115 where Goku used Ultra Instinct against Kefle as well as against Jiren in an earlier episode. In SSB form Goku was eventually outmatched even with Kaioken activated. We know for a fact that SS forms basically boost power and speed significantly at the cost of stamina and ki over time. Ultra Instinct is a state of the body, making it respond without having to process the thoughts; making the body capable of an instant perfect reflex to anything.

Goku was able to dodge all of Kefla's attacks which seemed like slow motion to him most likely. But he wasn't powered up. Ultra Instinct doesn't provide ki and such it simply is a state of the body making your reflexes perfect with no time delay. So where does the power output come from? How come his punches and such are stronger with Ultra Instinct compared to all his other forms?

As far as I understand each time he was in his none powered up form, his base form. This means his power level is a lot lower than even kaioken in base form. How come he is capable of having such a damage output? Does this mean a designing flaw in Ultra Instinct?

What is the actual power of Ultra Instinct apart from making muscle reflexes perfect?

One very important factor which was mentioned multiple times in the episode was that Goku was fatigued. This was mentioned a lot of times by Champa and including Beerus. This is very likely the writers trying to say that if Goku was at full power, he would've been able to face Kefla. So I think one can't jump to a definite conclusion whether Kefla is stronger than SSJB+Kaioken Goku. The last kick landed on him by Kefla was obviously not as strong as her previous attacks so, in other words, you could assume that Goku was extremely fatigued which resulted in him losing his form All Super Saiyan forms are multipliers to the base form. We know for a fact that the SSJG multiplier is superior to the SSJ3 multiplier and obviously, the SSJB multiplier is a lot higher than the SSJG multiplier(Based on Goku's fights with Jiren and Kefla). The multiplier would remain the same whether Goku is fatigued or not but what would change is his initial base power. The UI transformation is also a power multiplier which also makes him reach a state with complete mastery of self-movement. This is because we see Android 17 remark on how goku managed to overcome the drastic power difference and go toe to toe with Jiren. Also, we see Picollo state how he was growing stronger with every blow. Finally, when Dyspo and Toppo attacked, we know for a fact that full power Toppo is superior to SSJB but UI Goku was easily able to push him back and not just dodge his attack. So it is obvious that even the UI transformation acts like a power multiplier. Lets say Kefla manages to achieve Super Saiyan 3 during the course of battle with UI Goku or if we see Jiren fighting seriously at full power against UI Goku, we can gauge it's power. As of now, we don't exactly know how strong the transformation is.

I dont agree Ultra Instinct doesnt provide power. Piccolo states that as Goku continues fighting Jiren in Ultra Instinct he keeps evolving, being his punches faster, sharper and stronger.

  This state is achieved by breaking the walls of one's limits and
  getting to the deeper potential within. This state while initially
  increasing the user's capacities vastly more than even X20 Super
  Saiyan Blue Kaio-ken, the equally augmented mental parameters allow
  the user to quickly and noticeable imprint on the battle, steadily
  evolving their power and efficiency with each exchange

http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Ultra_Instinct_%22Omen%22


Where can I find a list of Yen Press shoujo ai/yuri titles? I've been building a list of the shoujo ai/yuri manga & light novels so that I can have an idea of where to get them and how much does they cost. On Seven Seas Entertainment's site, they have a yuri tag

While not shoujo ai/yuri, when I added K-On, I was reminded about Yen Press, but there's no tag system on their website. When I do a search for "yuri", I only get Eclair. Under sub-genres, they have "Gay & Lesbian", but looking up "lesbian" returns nothing (since I'm not looking for shounen ai/yaoi).

Where can I find a list of Yen Press shoujo ai/yuri titles? This way, I can search the title up on Yen press to find where I can buy it.

Note: If Eclair is actually the only shoujo ai/yuri title Yen Press has localized, then a resource is still useful in case searching for "yuri" on the site fails later on.

Kiss and White Lily for My Dearest Girl
Eclair
Cocoon Entwined
Killing Me
Our Wonderful Day
Whenever Our Eyes Meet...
Yuri Life

I know there are some series where yuri isn't the main focus but it's there, like Scum's Wish and Murciélago. And some where it's subtext, like the K-ON series.


Are there differences between Web Novel, Light Novel and Manga of Mushoku Tensei? I'm currently reading manga and I was thinking to switch to LN or WN so I'm wonder to what I should read WN or LN.

I'm current in chapter 15 in manga.

As far as I know, the manga follows the same path as the web novel with much skipped content. I don't know about the light novel but I read somewhere that there are some differences. And according to Wikipedia (link), there exists a whole volume between WN volumes 6 & 7, that covers Rudeus' adventures following Eris' departure.

Mushoku Tensei manga is an utter disgrace to the novel.
I'd recommend reading the translated web novel.
There's not much difference between the web and light novel. But the light novel's only been published till volume 8 right now.


Symbols given by Sage of the Six Paths to Naruto and Sasuke Chapter 672 In chapter 672 The Sage of the Six Paths engraves one symbol into Naruto and Sasuke:

Is there any symbolic link to these symbols?

To me it appears as though the symbols are sun and moon, light and darkness.

Also, does it have any connection to Naruto and Sasuke's chakra nature? Naruto's wind element chakra is the promoter for Sasuke's fire element, just like the sun's light makes the moon shine.

Another aspect that hit my eye, is Naruto's symbol is in his right hand, while Sasuke's in his left. The right and left make a perfect set.

So, my question is, is there a link in the symbols given to Naruto and Sasuke. And are these links intentional or unintentional?

Assuming that the symbols are Moon and Sun, it is very much related to the Symbol Yin Yang.

The first character yin means: overcast weather; feminine; moon; cloudy; negative electrical charge; shady.
The second character yáng means: positive electrical charge; sun.
The simplified characters clearly show the moon/sun symbolism, since they can be deconstructed to their elements moon and sun. The element is a variant of the radical which means "abundant". So Yin Yang could represent the contrast between the moon and the sun.
But Yin Yang is much more than just a pair of opposites. It conveys the idea that each of the opposites is dependent on the other, and how they continuously transform from one into the other.
Another thing, according to First Principles: Symbolism of the Sun and Moon:
Sun can be translated as fixidity, steadiness, firmness, and strength of purpose. The Sun rises day after day regardless of weather conditions, the behavior of humanity or the placement of planets in the sky. It traverses its set path, always giving light and heat and asking nothing for itself in return. Very much like Naruto.
Moon is said to rule the senses and emotions. Moon is said to be fickle and changeable. Emotions change and fluctuate as our thoughts and attitudes change. Synonymous to Sasuke.
Conclusion:
Naruto and Sasuke (Reincarnation of Indra and Asura) is described to be opposite or contrary with each other but they are interconnected and interdependent naturally; and they give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another.
As per the chakra, well, I think it is also connected (Naruto is Bright Yellow/Light while Sasuke is Dark Violet?/Dark). The nature (wind and fire) is different.

I went back and saw this, check out the palms.


What are the differences between the One Piece anime and manga? Recently I started watching the One Piece anime and noticed some differences in the story line  than were present in the manga, and I was wondering if there was a huge divergence in the anime over the manga like with Black Butler, or more like slight differences in plot like with Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.

The anime and manga closely resemble one another.

This is mainly because the mangaka, Eiichiro Oda actually actively participates into the animation process. So whenever they want a filler episode, they will contact Eiichiro Oda for confirmation, and he would either approve or reject it.

I believe the only deviations there were was some part in the beginning of the anime that did not totally follow the manga, and ace's tattoo. Which later on got adapted in the manga as well, so not sure how much that would count as a difference.

The anime has lots of filler in between pages or they drag some parts out. The anime also has entire filler arcs that are not in the manga but they don't affect the overall story of one piece. I have not watched black butler or full metal alchemist so I can't compare them to one piece. I do know that it is still in the same place the manga is but just an arc behind. I know that the anime might leave false impressions in some places, for example when Luffy fought Doflamingo the anime made it look like king Kong gun had a hard time beating Doflamingo but in the manga it crushed him. Not worth to being caught up and watching one episode a week in my opinion but it is worth watching for the fights because animated fights are always better than looking at pictures.


When was Kite shown as a little girl? When Gon talked with Gin on episode 146, he told him that Kite turned into a little girl.

I can't recall that scene anywhere in the series, can anyone tell me when/how it happened and where it was shown?

Spoilers galore:

   Kite was killed and was fed to the ant queen. When the queen was killed, she had one last baby, a little girl. That little girl was known to be Kite because she rejected the name her caretakers gave her and referred to herself as Kite. This happened in Episode 92.

Please see this wikia entry for more information.

As the asker may have seen in episode 146,

  Ging told Gon that Kite's weapon had a special setting which only activated when Kite was in fear of his life.  The episode did not state this specifically, but implies this is what led to his reincarnation.

Episode 147 begins with a long metaphysical monologue from Koala

  to the reincarnated Kite.  Koala, who also remembers his life as a human assassin, wanted to apologize and explain for shooting the girl who Kite now looks like.  He goes deep into his past history and his speculations on reincarnation itself.  Koala hopes that the girl's actual soul had moved on, past the cycle of reincarnation.    He suspects this is why Kite's soul now occupies what would have been her body.  Koala had likely been planning on suicide after talking to Kite.  Kite stops him and gives another option -- work for Kite and apologize every day.  I gathered that Kite was offering a path for Koala to build up some positive Karma.  He accepts.

Previous answers mentioned earlier episodes which described Kite was a girl.  Those were just quick mentions or a quick scene.  It was not until watching episode 147 that I understood the bigger picture.  The aforementioned Wikia article explains a lot of this as well, but watch episode 147 as it contains the main explanation.


Why do anime and manga use the same faces? Many shows use the same face template throughout.  Why do they use this?

This is a matter of artistic style and a branding strategy.

As a prime example: Studio Ghibli films are arguably the highest-quality anime produced. They painstakingly aim for realism in the movements of characters and objects and the backgrounds are lush and extremely detailed.

The balance of light and shadow accurately matches real life, and every cell is intentionally still hand-painted in the studio to preserve the high quality (Roger Ebert's interview with Miyazaki Hayao reports, "Miyazaki, who is suspicious of computers, personally draws thousands of frames by hand. 'We take [handmade] cell animation and digitize it in order to enrich the visual look, but everything starts with the human hand drawing. And the color standard is dictated by the background. We don't make up a color on the computer'").

Not only do the Japanese think so, but Studio Ghibli's work has been internationally acclaimed for its impeccable quality. Without any interest in a computer-generated template, Studio Ghibli uses the same face character designs over and over.

There are four main points:

Studio Ghibli doesn't do this because they are lazy, cutting corners in the production process, or not creative enough. Similar and even nearly-identical faces are not a result of mangaka and animators feeling limited by their mediums, as if a wider variation in facial design would be too hard for them to pull off, or not worth bothering with. Studio Ghibli has never been interested in trading a drop in quality in exchange for a time-saving measure. Though many anime studios now animate by computer, the tradition of crafting and amply using a trademark facial design for multiple characters predates the technological possibility of mixing-and-matching hairstyles onto a basic "doll" head, and did not arise in the art form in order to make that the standard once animation software could be invented.
The character designer is a prominent position in an anime's staff roster, as some character designers, such as Tadano Kazuko and Nobuteru Yuuki, draw such recognizable faces that the designer can be billed as a feature of the series. Character design is all done in pre-production (before the animators start painting cells), so increased/decreased variation in the character design does not create a large impact on the production schedule once animating begins, unless the character's costume is extremely detailed. Once the designs are established, the character designer draws official settei (設定, meaning "materials") sheets which show the character from various angles and includes notes for the animators about details not to overlook. These usually utilize very clean lines, though some character designers distribute sketchy ones. The settei are photocopied and each animator receives one copy for reference while animating, so that the character designer's intent is realized even across a large number of animator staff.

Each mangaka or character designer has a style that he/she personally likes. It may get honed over the course of the beginning of her career, but once he/she captures his/her Ideal, the artist becomes a pro at making it consistent. Unless it is a rare manga or anime in which that character designer does not intend to draw attractive-looking characters, it stands to reason that the design perceived as most attractive will be used time and again. This may mean the same face for nearly all female protagonists, the same face for nearly all male love interests, and the same face for amicable, friendly men. As an example, Takeuchi Naoko can be counted on for consistency.

Only one of these blue-haired girls is Sailor Mercury:

Chiba Mamoru (Tuxedo Kamen) and his dead ringers from other series:

Tenou Haruka (Sailor Uranus) and dopplegangers:

Branding (also known as Visual Identity, Brand Management, or Corporate Design), is very important in successful marketing. Mangaka and character designers who provide immediately recognizable faces grant fans the ability to know in an instant that this is a title they are interested in, and whenever they hear an announcement that the same creator is starting a new series, they can know exactly what to expect. Studio Ghibli has crafted simple character designs that strike a chord, make the protagonist easily likable, and garner sentimentality from the viewers. This strategy ensures repeat consumers more than if they changed up the character design from film to film. A good example of strong branding that evolved from the time of her debut is Yazawa Ai:

early work →

middle period →

distinct branding →

Although many mangaka and anime character designers do this type of branding very well, it should be noted that this is not specific to manga and anime, but can be seen in other mediums in other countries.

For example, even while Disney intentionally adds hints of traditional cultural art styles into its films (eye shapes for Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Megara), facial design for Disney protagonists is, for the most part, easily recognizable as being Disney, regardless of the ethnicity of the characters.

Disney women of color:

Because it's easier honestly. Japanese have a thing  people can't stand out or be too individualistic. That's why I love seeing realistic interpretation of anime character in fanart or 3D animation like Final Fantasy


How did Eren lose his memories? We all know by now that Eren

   has the Coordinate power, which means that he should possess memories of everything (origin of titans and such).

How does he not remember everything until much later on?

Historically, the memory inheritance power of Coordinate would only work for the bloodline of the Reiss royal family.

  Nevertheless, it seems that only the Reiss bloodline can activate this ability from the beginning, since Uri and Frieda Reiss showed signs of being aware of that knowledge immediately after obtaining the Coordinate, while Eren was only able to see some vague memories of Frieda after years of having received it.

One of the characteristics of the Coordinate is that its effects are linked to bloodlines.

The memory manipulation didn't work on several bloodlines that were not among the common people in the walls,

  (...) it is known that at least the Ackerman bloodline, the Asian clan, and the noble families are immune to this mental manipulation due to not sharing a common bloodline with the majority race within the walls.

So by not being a Reiss by birth, the coordinate is more or less dormant on Eren.

Source: http://attackontitan.wikia.com/wiki/Coordinate

It's because his father made him forget (with the shot).


Can the Tailed Beasts' relative power levels be compared? A Tailed Beast's power seems to be greater the more tails it has. For example:

Power of 3-Tailed Beast = Power of 2-Tails + 1-Tails.
Power of 9-Tailed Beast = Power of 8-Tails + 7-Tails + ... + 1-Tails.

This is clear. But is it possible to compare the power level of the 1-Tails and 2-Tails with this equation? Does the power of the 2-Tailed Beast = the power of the 1-Tailed one? Or is it greater?

Reference links:

Most of them have shared the same idea in this link.
Badranious's answer in this thread.

Actually, it's never explicitly said that every Bijuu is stronger than all of the Bijuu with lesser tail number combined.

The practical power probably is determined by tail number (even though the Eight Tails told the Nine Tails that it isn't, much like 'friendship' is more valued than 'power').

It is stated that the Nine Tails is stronger than all of the rest combined, because Itachi said that if it were to be sealed anytime but last, the Gedo Mazo won't be able to withstand the imbalance, and will break apart.

There isn't a clear power distribution and balance, nothing is explicitly stated, so most of what you'll hear is speculation.

As for the specific question, I'd say that the Two Tails is "just stronger" than the One Tail.

I would like to say that in the anime in set 16 ween bee took on kisame bee only sprouts 6 chakra tails tailswhen kisame won a small taijutsu contest he sprouted 2 more tails kisame that bee was taking him serious. Also if the tails are of chakra thwn how could one have just as much chakra as 9 tails? It could be that mabye the 1 tail is more concentrated then 9 tails. Also before shippuden when naruto would get more tails in the cloak the higher the power.Also the nine tails chakra cloak does damage to the environment but the 1 tails (according to the fourms) does not.Also when naruto goes into nine tails chakra cloak at 4 tails it starts damaging him but the 8 tails chakra cloak does not do damage until all 8 are out (some of the info is from wiki so may or not be correct .Also another thing is that when kisame would use sodeharda to rip out bees chakra the number of tails went down showing that there is a correlation in the number of tail.Although most of this is speculation if you look close it seems like there is lots of small (and huge) hints.


How fast is the 3D Maneuver Gear (3DMG)? Approximately how fast can people move around with the 3D Maneuver Gear (3DMG) in Attack on Titan? What is the maximum speed attainable? If people can move faster when the hook is reeled in, then I want that answer, if they can move faster in the air by swinging then I want that answer. But I don't want the speed of the hooks.

Disclaimer
After looking through several of the episodes, looking at the initial take offs from both a stand still position and running position I have determined that the speed for take off fluctuates allot. As I am assuming this is to the amount of boost given by the user I will be working with a few different scenarios, and using rough estimates based on those scenes. As some of these scenario's
With that aside
How fast do they go on average?
During Episode 5 while Eren fights the colossal titan (3:13), he runs along the arm, attaches the hooks, and accelerates towards the giant. Using the image below as reference we can see that the distance at which he
accelerates is:
roughly ~20 meters, after a ~4 meter sprint.
It takes Eren ~1.5 seconds to run the distance (2.667 m/s) after which it takes him ~5.5 seconds to get behind it (3.636 m/s)
So with a running start, slightly moving upwards.
Eren can go about as fast as a bike. 8MPH (13.09 km/h)

So is this this their top speed?
Oh no, even by far from, the speeds differ greatly, and are considerably higher when moving downwards. Lets take the intro of episode 8 where Eren goes straight up, and whips himself down to the neck of a titan in roughly 0.2 seconds, over a distance of the story of 1 house which is 10 feet (3.0 m) which would already sum up at 15m/s which is already 5 times higher then the average given speed!
So would this finally be their top speed? Well, simply said. no.
If for some reason they would be able to apply a whip effect to this acceleration they could reach even higher speeds. There is quite some math behind this so for exact numbers on that feel free to crack your head using these formula's but after a really quick and dirty look over it I determined it would add roughly another ~10 m/s
Adding the final speed up to ~25 m/s

it should also be noted how fast eren caught up to the abnormal that ate thomas, how fast mikasa made it to the armory, how fast she killed the weird running titan, and how fast levi went during his god mode moments


How are things purchased in AoT? In Attack on Titans, how exactly was everything paid for? Not once in AoT so far did I ever see any exchanging of currency. For example the Markets:

How do businesses make money then? Is there a type of currency in AoT that they officially use?

For example do they just give away meat for free?

Are Potatoes, Vegetables and cutlery such as plates, bowls and cups free or have I just missed something?

Note: I think food is free for the survey corps or the people that are training to enlist in the army and be able to leave outside of the walls but what about everyone else? Is it free or is it paid for? If it is then whats the currency? Coins, notes (obviously probably not :P) or is there some sort of system where they trade for example their bit of farm land for a lot of cured meat or fish or vegetables for example.

So my question is how exactly are things purchased in AoT?

There's definitely a monetary system in place (note I'm on mobile so I can't link any sources yet).

In episode 1, after the incident where Moses's arm is handed to his mother, there is a person saying "its like our taxes go to fatten them up". This clearly indicates some form of tax system.

In episode 6, the titans yet again breach another wall. There's a scene where merchants are blocking the passageway trying to get their goods through. This shows an obvious ownership of goods.

In the same episode, we see Mikasa and her mom targeted by slave traders. The slave traders planned to sell them to some rich folk, demonstrating value and a need for some form of money.

In episode 23, we can clearly see corrupt military police selling goods for what is obviously currency.

Over all we see several trends that point to the use of currency within Attack on Titan.

I saw some characters use a paper currency to buy passage onto the surface from the Underground in an OVA.


Who is the mysterious Programmer of Angel Beats? The Programmer is an unknown student from the anime Angel Beats. He is revealed to exist when Yuri, the leader of the SSS,

   decides to get to the root of what is causing malevolent creatures known as Shadows to manifest in the World.

The Programmer is widely credited with having created:

the Angel Player program
The AI
The Shadows

It is likely that he created the Angel Player program, as it existed before Kanade Tachibana entered the Afterlife.

It's almost certain that the AI was made by the Programmer, when he states that he is "simply obeying the rules" when asked what he is doing with the computers from PC Room 1.

Once love began to take hold in the World, after

   Yui disappeared,

The AI would have activated the Shadow program, also manufactured by the Programmer, to begin wiping out the SSS, Guild, and NPCs.

Now, the Programmer's background is one of mystery. It's a long story, so I'm going to take a leaf out of the Wikia's book here (with some minor edits).

  The Programmer's real name is unknown. But like Otonashi, he was never supposed to have entered the Afterlife, but somehow ended up there anyway.

  During his time in the Afterlife School, he fell in love with an unnamed girl who disappeared when her regret was fulfilled. Unwilling or unable to accept that, he decided to wait for her to return, which from the Afterlife School rules would require her to:

  Die during her teenage years (13 to 17 or so for a 4 year gap)
  Have a heavy regret

  If the girl lived an average of 85 years and reincarnated each time, there would be a 4/85 (teenage years)*9.83/1000(Japan death rate )*1%(Ad hoc chance of heavy regret)=~0.0004% every reincarnation. Each failure to hit this chance would lead to 85 years of waiting. A 10% chance to see her again would require 2.125 million years.

  The above calculations do not consider that the majority of the death rate is actually from the elderly rather than from teenagers.

  As expected, the amount stunned Yuri, due to the massive time required to be spent waiting. The AI explained that The Programmer lost his grip on sanity after waiting so long, and decided to create a program to turn himself into an NPC.

  As The Programmer felt that people who had resolved their sadness should not clutter the Afterlife School (much like patients should be discharged when they are cured rather than staying in the hospital), he created a program that kept track of the amount of love in the Afterlife School world. When the amount of love exceeded a certain amount, a "cleaning" program would be activated where NPCs would be changed into Shadows, which would in turn target humans and forcibly change them into NPCs, thus resetting the world into one where no humans existed.

(formatting mine)

So, who is the Programmer?

Theories are welcome if they're backed up with facts.

Here are a few possible candidates.

1. Yuzuru Otonashi

The Programmer's details match those of Yuzuru Otonashi's with striking similarities. Let's not forget that alongside the original ending of Angel Beats, Key issued another epilogue, aptly titled "Another Epilogue". In this, the main focus is another person that's arrived in the Afterlife, and he is surrounded by quiet, obedient NPCs. After challenging the reality of the Afterlife School, he is talked to by the Student Council President,

   The Otonashi in an alternate timeline, who hasn't moved on yet,

and he is told that if he has any questions about the world that they both live in that he should come down to the Student Council room. However, as

   Otonashi heads back to the Student Council room, a girl can be heard saying, "There's a rumor that he's waiting for someone."

So therefore, it's entirely possible that

   Otonashi is waiting for Kanade, and that this timestream somehow loops. Otonashi goes crazy waiting for Kanade, who has a infinitesimally small chance of reappearing in the Afterlife, but still, better than zero.

He turns himself into an NPC to be able to withstand the long wait, and creates the AI, or the "AI" to be able to maintain the requirements of the Afterlife, not allowing love to manifest, possibly therefore saving future arrivals from the pain that he has been exposed to. This may be why he creates Angelplayer, because he knows that if Kanade reappears, then she'll know how to use it, any maybe program it to move him back from his NPC state. The members of the SSS arrive after this, then, at the time of Episode 1, the timestream loops, causing

   Otonashi to revert back from an NPC.

Forgetting everything that's happened to him, the events continue their course the same way they did before –

   causing the timeline to repeat over and over and over.

2. Tachibana Kanade

Tachibana Kanade was one of the first people to appear in the Afterlife World, and also the only person who is able to use Angelplayer without help. Because she has this ability, she may be the one who programmed it. However, she has never expressed any recollection in creating the program.

3. Takeyama

Takeyama is great with computers. His behavior throughout the anime is somewhat mysterious, as he constantly refers to himself as "Christ", suggesting that he has some great power in the Afterlife World. He is the most logical choice because of his skill with computers, and his ability to interface with Angelplayer. However, he does require English translators to use the program.

4. ???

The AI tells Yuri that the Programmer existed before the SSS appeared, and turned himself into an NPC. The AI also tells Yuri that she wouldn't know the Programmer even if the AI were to say it. This, logically, means that the Programmer cannot be a member of the SSS, Guild, or Kanade, as Yuri knows all of these people. Or, the AI could just have been made to respond that way to protect the Programmer. Perhaps we may never know...

What if. And hear me out. What if this guy is the programmer. Hes got some tech skills obviously he was programming the computer so that its functioning when yuri got in the room. He doesnt realize he is tge programmer because hes an NPC now. So i mean come on aside from him being an entirely seperate entity which we dont know.


Why do guys in anime often lack nipples? As shown in the images (from Free! and Noragami, respectively), guys in anime often lack nipples. This could be explained by vague Japanese copyright laws, but other anime occasionally show guys with nipples. Why do guys so often lack nipples?

Animated male nipples are not a matter of legal Japanese censorship (or copyright law). It is fine to air them on TV in prime time. As Ray noted in a deleted answer, Dragonball, viewed as a most-typical shounen anime aimed at children, features male characters whose nipples are easily visible.  Although the series garnered many adult and female fans, the characters are not particularly intended to look comely or provocative to the target audience. The innocuous nipples in Dragonball can be there because they are not intended to be viewed as attractive.

In contrast, mainstream character designs that aim to captivate the viewer in a romantic or sensual way are more likely to be nipple-free, because a well-known aspect of creating fantasy is to paint a rosy picture and subtly remove pesky details that can snap a viewer out of the lovely reverie back to stark reality (the old adage “less is more”).  Nipples are not considered to contribute toward this end, in the same way that Japanese people do not generally shave or wax (since this site is 13+ I'm not going to provide citation links but you could Google that) but we are never shown body hair in regular manga and anime: in real-life, we know these anatomically exist, but drawing them does not help the audience escape into daydream. (Hentai titles and hentai doujinshi have a different goal, so that is why you are more likely to see male nipples there than in mainstream titles.)

Free! is a bishounen (pretty boy) title, so the characters are intentionally drawn to be eye candy. Even more so than the earlier bishounen anime series, Free! and other more recent titles such as Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei Bu Love!, Uta no Prince-sama, Harukanaru Toki no Naka de, Kiniro no Corda, Dance with Devils, Diabolik Lovers, Brothers Conflict, K, Kamigami no Asobi, Starry Sky, Shounen Hollywood: Holly Stage for 49, etc. focus heavily on the eye candy aspect, such as including stages of undress, characters striking sensual poses, “camera” angles and lingering shots that accentuate their figures, etc. The character design is intended to garner fans who crush on the characters and buy all manner of merchandise sporting those characters.

Bishounen characters are not as prevalent in shounen titles as in shoujo, but they are now widespread (f you look at the bulk of shounen series from the 80s, 70s, and 60s, you will find far fewer bishounen characters there, especially as primary protagonists), partly based on changing cultural preferences (something along the lines of metrosexual) and partly on expanding otaku demographics (pulling in the potential female audience can be more financially-viable than it was in the past). Noragami is not marketed toward women, but it follows in the current trend within shounen series of those that try to appeal to readers/viewers beyond the target demographic.

Historically, the naked body was not considered to be attractive in Japanese culture. The classic Heian era (11th century) novel The Tale of Genji illustrates how people wore layers and layers of clothes (women wore 12 layers), and had sex while (nearly) fully dressed and in the dark (see pages 30-32 of The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu: A Reader's Guide by William J. Puette). Some consider the origin of bishounen to date as far back in Japanese literature as the protagonist of The Tale of Genji (i.e. Hikaru Genji as the proto-bishounen). Genji was the era's ideal man. He considered imagining his lover without looking closely as preferable to viewing the unattractive details of her actual body.

Perhaps what is kind of opposite of not showing nipples in Japanese anime/manga is actually having anatomically correct nipples on Batman's costume starting in the Tim Burton movie era and later.  Ask yourself, why are there nipples on Batman's costume?  Maybe the intention here is to go more for the sexual "eye candy" appeal in the character even though no clothes or costumes that I know have either have nipples or have a need for nipples.


Can I start watching Naruto Shippuden after Naruto Ep 135 and not miss anything? (Story wise) I looked on the Naruto Filler list (http://www.animefillerlist.com/shows/naruto, this is the one I used for anyone asking) and it says that after episode 135 all the episodes just become filler. I was wondering to save myself a lot of time, could I just start watching Naruto Shippuden after ep 135

The short answer is - yes. You can start watching Naruto Shippuden after watching episode 135 of Naruto without any harm to the overall Naruto storyline understanding.

Yes you can but at first the first episode of shippuden was confusing but you still get the main story line but to get more detail and everything you should watch all of naruto then head to naruto shippuden but you can if you want just watch the first 135 episodes first or it will make absolutely no sense :p hope I helped you


Why is the name "Harkonnen" used on Seras' cannon in Hellsing? After reading an interesting post on the "anti-midian" meaning of Seras' battle rifle/cannon thing, I would like to know what the motif of Vladimir Harkonnen from the "Dune" series has to do with her cannon?

Let me give you an example:

  Alucard's awesome pistol "The Jackal" symbolizes Walter's future betrayal of Alucard because, in the Fred Forsyth book "The Day of The Jackal", the character The Jackal kills everyone who helped him make his forged documents and weapon as a way of covering his tracks as he tries to kill Charles De Gaulle. In the dream sequence where this motif is introduced, The Jackal comments, "Never trust the man who makes your own weapon," which foreshadows Walter's betrayal.

So since Seras has two huge cannons that bear the Vladimir Harkonnen name and she even talks to Harkonnen in a trippy dream sequence, what kind of symbolism or motif does Harkonnen have in relation to the Hellsing universe?

If you recall from the OVA and manga, during dream sequences, the appearance of the gun's so-called "spirit" bears a strong resemblance to Baron Harkonnen from the David Lynch adaptation of Dune. This is strongly implied to be a tribute/reference to the Dune series (or at least the movie).

Okay, this is kinda pushing it, but if you see on Westwood Dune series RTS (Dune, Dune 2/ Dune 2000, Emperor: Battle For Dune) (which, kind of, based on Dune universe, kind like Alternate Universe or something), you see that House Harkonnen, a faction in this game, is kinda... obsessed with firepower. Ludicrous Firepower and Armor, at the expense of speed and utility. Their ultimate weapon is a nuclear missile.


Is Keiko Numata's backstory the same in the anime as it is in the the novel? In the novel, it says that Keiko Numata became an insane crone murderer due to Ikuo's death. However, she commits suicide by biting off her tongue in the novel, while in the anime she is stopped by Chibiki and she is seen to have stab wounds in her back.

I am wondering if her backstory (going insane and all) is the same as it is in the novel - or did something else happen in the anime which relates to her stab wounds?

It would be fair to assume that her background is generally the same. All events leading up to and beyond the point you are referring to suggest the same woeful tale. Maybe it was an accident that occurred in one of her insane fits, or maybe they are scars of a previous attempt to contain her.

One thing is for certain, if you don't want to live anymore, and you want to make a very big mess, bite off your tongue.


When Tsunade told Naruto to not use the Rasenshuriken, couldn't he have just used a clone? He used a clone as a distraction against Kakuzu, so couldn't he do that again without using sage mode?

The Rasenshuriken was originally told to be off-limits due to the physical damage inflicted by its use.  Because Naruto used it like a traditional Rasengan, which requires that the jutsu make direct contact with the enemy, the damage done to his person couldn't be avoided.

The reason that a clone could not work in this scenario would be due to the fact that clones are dispelled once sufficiently high physical damage is inflicted to it.  It would be my belief that a clone could never sustain its form long enough to sustain a hit with the Rasenshuriken before it - and the jutsu - were dispelled.

is simple, (it's my opinion. i am not kishimoto) because the kage-bunshin cannot strong hold the Rasenshuriken, so the kage-bunshin will dissapear.

it also show, on this anime, if naruto use the rasengan he will use the real body not kage-bunshin.


The song playing in ep. 54 of Boku no Hero Academia when Todoroki fought the guy that can make things big I want to know the OST played at Boku no Hero Academia ep. 54 when Todoroki fought that guy who can make things big. The timing is 20:40 in episode 54.

I tried to find it in YouTube but failed.

What's the song?


Can Goku and Vegeta attain Super Saiyan Rose? I know that apparently there is no information about this in the Dragon Ball Super series.

But since new information is constantly popping up in manga, magazines, etc. Before the series sometimes, that's why I'm asking.

More data on this, according to Dragon Ball Wikia on Super Saiyan Rosé

  This form is a counterpart to Super Saiyan Blue, and possesses a
  different hair color due to the user already possessing the status as
  a god prior to surpassing Super Saiyan God

So if Goku would turn a god of destruction as when he was offered once (or Vegeta) or Trunks would become a Kaioshin as when he was a Kaioshin apprentice, wouldnt they turn into Super Saiyan Rosé when trying to transform into super saiyan god super saiyan?

I dont think they would be able to achieve it because I think it is partly linked to him being the same kind of race as Gowasu (as in mind)

Don't listen to anyone else except Zamasu it has to do with the fact that Super Saiyan Rose is Goku Black's version of the regular Super Saiyan that surpassed the power of Super Saiyan God and evolved naturally into SSGSS/A differently colored Super Saiyan Blue due to his status as an actual god with natural god ki. SSGSS is blue for Goku and Vegeta because they aren't actual gods just mortals with godly ki.


Is Rurouni Kenshin going to start back up now that Nobuhiro Watsuki has been fined? So recently, the Rurouni Kenshin series, Rurouni Kenshin: Hokkaido Arc, was put on hiatus for the author's, Nobuhiro Watsuki, involvement in child pornography (On a side note, I think this is a very despicable thing, and I do NOT support it in any way, shape, form, or fashion). As I understand it, he was fined for the action and not put in jail.

Will the story resume now that this scandal has been mostly dealt with? (Again, I do not condone Nobuhiro Watsuki's actions at all, but I am a big fan of the Rurouni Kenshin series)

Rurouni Kenshin: The Hokkaido Arc will continue in July issue of Jump Square, which will be published on June 4, 2018.

[...] This June, it will resume serialization in Japan.
[...]
Starting June 4, however, Rurouni Kenshin's "Hokkaido Arc" will return to print. [...]
Continuing, it added, "The author spends his days reflecting and with remorse, and think as though it's our obligation as a publisher as well as his as an author make a way for us to reply through the work to the various opinions we've been getting, and so, from the July issue, which goes on sale June 4, serialization will resume.”

Source: Kotaku

Source

Viz Media's English digital edition of Weekly Shonen Jump did not publish a new chapter for Nobuhiro Watsuki's Rurouni Kenshin: Hokkaido Arc manga in Monday's issue. The series resumed from hiatus in Shueisha's Jump SQ. magazine in Japan on Monday.
The manga went on hiatus last December following Watsuki being charged for possession of child pornography. Watsuki was later fined 200,000 yen (about US$1,900) in February.
Viz Media was simultaneously publishing it in English before the manga went on hiatus.
At the time of the manga's hiatus, Shueisha commented that it is taking this news seriously, and that Watsuki expresses deep regret. When it announced the manga's return, the magazine noted that Watsuki is living a life of reflection and atonement, but that Shueisha and Watsuki decided that continuing the manga to answer the desires of fans was a matter of duty.
Watsuki and his novelist wife/story collaborator Kaoru Kurosaki launched the Rurouni Kenshin: Hokkaido Arc (Rurouni Kenshin, Meiji Kenkaku Romantan: Hokkaido-hen) manga in Shueisha's Jump SQ. magazine last September.


Approximately when is the story of "Boku no Hero Academia" set? As nearly as I can tell, the events of "Boku no Hero Academia" seem to begin some time around 2174.  I base this estimation upon the manga having been begun in 2014 and the current All Might being the 8th such hero (and taking an assumed average of 20 years per generation between passings-on of their power).

Is there a definitive answer for this?  If not, are there canon facts, observed trends, or even fan-based assumptions that might at least weigh to the contrary (whether earlier or later than 2174)?

Unless cannon ever gives us an exact year, it’s impossible to say for sure. Thematically though, the story takes place 20 minutes into the future

Technology and culture is almost identical to today, except that there are people with superpowers and has been for generations. The problems that the character’s face, and society as a whole face, aren’t that different from the problems we face in real life (except dialed up to 11 because of the presence of Quirks, and the fact that this is an action work of fiction).

Cant write a comment because this is a new account and I can't seem to write one unless I have 50 reputation but I think its set into the decent future. From what I've seen (which is midseason 2) I'm not totally sure and I came here to find this out but I actually don't think it is just 20 minutes into the future. I mainly came here because of a quote stating that it is predicted that humans would've been a lot more advanced if not for the development of quirks slowing everything down and how we would have been expected to have had space cruises by now so I expect it's around the year 2100.


In Revolutionary Girl Utena, what is the metaphor of Nanami's egg? Ikuhara had said it would be better if we didn't know, but I want to know. What is the meaning behind Nanami's egg? Especially when she wakes up from an apparent dream, and finds a smashed egg in her bedsheets.

That episode was . . . weird, as weird as when Nanami became a cow.

Anyway, my interpretation of it was based on the fact that the episode "Nanami's Egg" falls into the Akio Ohtori Saga. This is roughly two thirds of the Apocalypse Saga. The content is more sexually suggestive in this saga: scenes involving Akio's car seemed to always be sexually suggestive, with his, Touga's and Kyouichi's shirts opening partway through the ride or when posing for photos, and Kozue's first sexual experience was in the back of that car with Ruka Tsuchiya.

Because of this I got the impression that the episode represented Nanami entering puberty as we  know that women to begin produce eggs during puberty. She begins to fret over the discovery of an egg in her bed probably because she hasn't been taught about puberty. When she accepts it and raises the egg, I took this as the transition of Nanami growing up from a girl to a woman/mother.

Nanami's egg is the sign both literally and figuratively of her becoming a woman. Her egg is her period.


Where exactly is Kadath In Shikkoku no Sharnoth -What a Beautiful Tomorrow-, there are multiple references to a place known as Kadath, in Act 9 - Sharnoth of the Darkest Black there are references to Inganock particularly when Robin Funnel is talking to Howard Phillips that he should consider being a "Runner" and makes reference to a bird she knew who was a runner (obviously referring to Ati's partner David), Howard replies that he's not familiar which the occupation but he had heard that it's a Kadathian occupation.

I know that when Seikyou is referenced it refers to known locations of earth as London, New York, France and Germany are bringing in Seikyou, also in Sekien no Inganock -What a Beautiful People- in the chapter where Gii fights one of the spawn if the Blood Tree Youki, Gii comments that John Doe's name is a Seikyouan name for "no one", that John's belief in God is a Seikyouan faith and in parts of the story refers to stuff as being originated from Seikyou like Sandwitches.

Whenever travel to Kadath is mentioned they always talk about airships however it also uses the same term to mention travel to Germany and Rome is done by airship as well but never described what these airships look like or their capabilities, considering the Engine Technology that's used throughout the series it wouldn't be surprising if these airships could also travel space (Inganock was made to be totally independent using Engines to manufacture food and the Street Knight, Crack Chrome was almost entirely made of Engines, there are also references to Engine Humans much like Moran),

so i am wondering, is Kadath a fictional continent on Earth or is it a separate world and if so is it dimensional or another planet

Kadath is another world loosely based on the Dream-world from a series of HP Lovecraft short stories. It's the world in which Souten no Celenaria, Sekien no Inganock, and Hikari no Valusia take place and the origin of the steam-based technologies seen within the series.

I don't know the specifics as I have not played Celenaria, but from what I understand it's a parallel world that is connected to Earth/Seikyou via a portal in the North Pole, hence only being accessible by airships, and being an apparently dangerous journey.

As for the level of technology, I don't believe they have space travel, but Kadath is where airships were invented, and they do have floating fortresses and other higher technology marvels, especially after the Infinite Mist around Inganock cleared, and the breakthoughs of the Phenomenon Equation Experiment were shared, allowing development of crack engines and other technologies based on the Equation.

Actually, and this is a spoiler

   Kadath (in the original story that the city is first mentioned in : The Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath) is actually Boston. This is revealed at the end of the Lovecraft work the above poster is talking about.


What is the meaning behind the anime title "The World God only Knows"? Keima is a Capturing God, we all know that. After finishing the manga, I'm still confused by the title.

Can anyone please enlighten me?

I think it means "the world only god knows". "God only knows" is an old way of language. So, I infer that since the setting (plot device) of this anime is about "capturing girls" , it is sort of a world that only Keima (god of capturing) knows.

I think it's because Keima is the god  his own world of dating simulator games  and it is stated that Keima is the god of conquests.


Is Violet inspired by Saber? You can easily see the resemblance here:

On the left: Saber from Fate/Stay Night, on the right: Violet Evergarden

And her usual blue outfit is somewhat similar to saber

On top: Saber from Carnival Phantasm, on bottom: Violet Evergarden

Note that the original violet didn't have the ahoge, it's edited on her first picture here with her blue necktie. So is Violet design inspired by Saber from Fate Series here?

Yeah, Violet is probably inspired by Saber. I sort of have proof:

They look exactly alike.
They were both involved in a war.
If you think about it, Gilbert is Violet's version of Shirou because of how much he means to her.
They are both badass


Is the Nine Tails still stronger than the Eight Tails even though half of him was sealed away? I've not read the manga series, so the question may be quite basic.

In an earlier discussion, it was said that the number of tails determines the power of the tailed beast. Since half the Nine-tail's chakra was sealed by the Fourth Hokage, does it mean that the Eight-tails now has more chakra than the Nine-tails?

It's not specified explicitly, but I think not.

Itachi told Kisame that the nine-tails had to be sealed last, because if it doesn't, the Gedo Mazo would be thrown out of balance, and break down. Akatsuki definitely knew about how the Kyuubi was sealed, because Tobi was there.

   In the manga, Naruto together with the Nine Tails managed to fire a bijuudama of equal scale to that of the Two, Three, Four, Five, Six and Seven tails combined.

From those I conclude that even after half of him was sealed away, the Nine Tails still has more power than the rest of the tailed beasts, if not combined!

Kurama is stronger then all the other tailed beasts.
According to what Kurama says their power is determined by how many tails they have. With that he is implying that he is the strongest (which he is) and saying the one tailed Shukaku is the weakest of the 9 beasts.
That's why he hates Kurama.


How do Poké Ball capsule and seals work? In the Pokémon anime and manga, the Poké Ball seal and ball capsule allows the Pokémon to get a fancy entrance, it is mainly used in contests but can be bought and used for fun. Is there any explanation of how these work?

Here is a complete Poké Ball with capsule and seal:

Here you see Dawn choosing the seal she wants:

There is no canon information on how they work so far, but I've always thought that it was something to do with light manipulation. If a pokemon is released from a pokeball then there is a bright glow that is also emitted at the same time. The ball capsule alone has been seen used without a seal and the release is normal. I believe that is because the light was able to pass through the ball capsule without being impeded by a seal.

However when a seal is used the light has to travel through the seal on the way out and therefore takes on the appearance designated by the seal, similar to how holograms are theorized to work. This effect fades when the pokemon appears because that when the light usually fades. As I said though this is all theory and personal opinion. Hope this helps.


In Attack on Titan, what differs royal blooded people from Subjects of Ymir? Subjects of Ymir are all descendants of Ymir. What differs the so called royal bloodline from the rest?

That's actually a really good question. I suppose you are talking about how only the royal bloodline can use the full potential of the Founding Titan. My theories as a somewhat mediocre fan to solve this apparent plot hole are as follows:

 It actually doesn't matter from what we have seen in the manga. Eren was able to seize control of the Founding Titan by convincing Ymir, the First Titan, to make her own choice as she was a slave to the will of the royal bloodline since the days of the founding king, Fritz. Hence the royal bloodline wasn't really special. They just had the advantage of manipulating a nigh-omnipotent girl to do their bidding.

The first theory can be shot down when you consider the fact that Zeke's spinal fluid can be used to turn Eldians into pure Titans. Thus perhaps the royal bloodline is special.
I'm no geneticist, just a hyperactive high schooler, so what I'm about to propose may be scientifically preposterous. I think because since the royal family is directly descended from Maria, Rose, and Sina, the first humans to eat Titan blood raw I might add, it's possible that there's a higher concentration of the original power in the royal bloodline hence their abilities. How you might ask? They may have taken a page from the Targaryens.

I hope this answer is ok. If I'm wrong somewhere, please correct me.

Plain and Simple,
What we know is that in the Beginning there were Many tribes and Eldia was the dominant one and it was lead by Master Fritz (A power hungry man). So, one day he hunted one of his Servants Ymir, for letting of a pig, who ran to the forest and receives the Titan powers from a Spine like Creature. Seeing that Ymir would be useful, Fritz made her do all the work of his nation, like creating Bridges and fighting wars and made her his Concubine and had three Children. They were Rose, Maria, and Shina (Whose names are the Three walls), So when Ymir was killed, sacrificing herself for Fritz. Fritz made his three children eat Ymir dead remains, and kept the Power of Ymir's Titans. Eventually Eldia Multiplied and prospered with the Help of their Titans and captured many other countries like Marley, bringing hate on them in the Future.
So in one sentence the Royal Bloodline are the Children of Ymir and Fritz and the normal
eldians are the ones that were Kings Fritz' subjects and Servants and other children.
If you think there is something Wrong or if you have other Theories and aswers please correct me.
Thanks


How does censorship in the English release affect the Dragon Ball Z manga storyline? Dragon Ball Wiki stated that compared to the original Japanese manga, the Viz English release of Dragon Ball Z is censored.

English distribution
[...] The "Dragon Ball Z" manga remains censored, although many volumes (prior to volume 17) are technically uncensored since they did not contain any objectionable material.

Mr. Popo's lips and other dark-skinned characters were edited because of complaints made by Carole Boston Weatherford.
Middle fingers were edited into fists.

In 2006, Viz began releasing a second, A-rated (All Ages) edition of the series sans some nudity and profanity.

The name Mr. Satan was edited into "Hercule" (the same as Funimation's edited anime dub).
Firearms were edited into "laser blasters", though a pistol-armed robber was able to shoot a character without being censored.
Alcohol, drugs and sexual innuendo were edited.

VIZBIG editions
[...] These releases are also edited for content to make the series more family-oriented.

Does the manga alter any dialog or story? So, how bad is that in the overall experience? If it's so bad, what are my other options to read the manga?

I think you're asking, what was cut in the English anime shows from the original story. I don't know everything, but I do know what I've seen.

Dragonball-had multiple parts cut which had Bulma either getting her top flashed(krillin vs invisible man), I believe a shower scene as well, her privates smacked(early on goku fun), and some language(not a string of curses, just an occasional bad word). Some of the dialog was altered to make it less perverted or more American/kid friendly

Dragonballz had more language cut. Like dragonball, certain phrases are altered to make it more kid friendly.

Editing-it won't ruin anything, tho some parts would be very cut thru. Watch the Japanese version, with English subtitles. Most dvds let you watch the English version with subtitles for the Japanese version, to see what's actually said.


Who are these two people in the third opening of Attack on Titan? In the third opening of Attack on Titan we see a man and a baby holding hands. Does anyone know who these two people are?
I can't remember seeing them in the manga.

Or -if they are not "real" characters- what does this scene want to allude to? I can't think of any symbolism in this picture...

This scene is depicted from Shingeki no Kyojin manga chapter 86, "That Day".

   Grisha Yeager and Dina Fritz got married during the rise of Eldia and had a baby. This baby was named Zeke, which further betrayed whole Eldia and joined the Marley Forces.

This is the hand of Eren Yeager and his son/daughter with Historia Reiss/Fritz, could be Historia Yeager in the future. Though this theory cannot still be supported yet by the manga, but I assume that this is where it leads, the future, based on what the manga is currently potraying.


Which characters Midoriya inspired his techniques from? In the anime, mainly in the 3rd season, Midoriya mentions some characters he inspired his techniques from,

The punching style of attacking he copied it from All Might, this is mentioned by All Might himself.
He tells he developed full cowling inspired in Gran Torino and Kacchan attacks.
He asked Iida for help to develop his kicking technique.

As we know Midoriya analizes all the heroes and he writes notes about them. Is there any other characters he inspired his techniques and attacks from?

Well, I would like to add more on that list but that's all. It's true that he observes and takes note but as for now he is still trying to improve Full Cowling.


What does the scene where Shino holds a baby above her head refer to? There's this scene in Seitokai Yakuindomo (8:55 in this YouTube video) where Shino holds a baby above her head with lightning in the background and exclaims 'This is my son!'.

I've seen this reference elsewhere but I'm not sure which show its referencing.

What does this scene refer to?

its the lion king or for a real stretching it could be referring to the scene in ROOTS where Toby is proclaiming his son to his dead wife.


How is Lola (a general zombie) able to do what she wants? During Thriller Bark Arc, it was shown that all general zombies are under the command of Absalom and all zombies must follow the orders of their commander.

Then how is Lola able to chase after Absalom even though he keeps telling her that he will not marry her? Also, Lola comes and saves Nami from Absalom even though they are enemies and Lola was given order to fight Straw Hat crew?

The answer can be found when Moria infuses Oars' body with Luffy's shadow, in Chapter 457. Moria is the Master of Shadows; when he is talking to a shadow directly, he has complete control over them. Therefore, it is during that time that he needs to give details directives to the shadows before he infuses the shadow in the Zombie's body.

For example, if he does explicitly state that the shadow should forget everything about his past, his personality might remain with the Zombie. Note that Luffy's personality remained at first because of the size difference between the shadow's original body and Oar's.

As Dr. Hogback states, they were not always aware of those rules and therefore made some mistakes with a number of Zombies (the only confirmed case is Cindy). We can however extend that theory to other Zombies which did not necessarily obey their masters perfectly, like Lola.

(For conciseness purposes, only part of pages 4 and 5 are shown.)

The Zombies are created when a deceased/artificially created body is infused with another living person's shadow. The shadow possesses it's own will, think Ryouma's body with Brook's shadow and how they fought, with the zombie disregarding Moriya completely for quite some time, as Brook is mentioned to have fought Ryouma/Shadow Brook for quite some time.

It's not uncommon for other shadows to be able to overpower Moriya's attempted control, or at the very least, where their basic instincts and impulses, ingrained into their very personalities is concerned. The Straw Hat crew zombies, like the pug Inuppe and the Jigoro constantly fighting, like their originals, Sanji and Zoro.


Why can Korra bend 3 elements from the beginning? In the beginning of Avatar: The Legend of Korra, we see Korra, as a child, bending water, earth and fire, without training to do that. She was born in the Water Tribe, so isn't she supposed to know only how to bend water? Like Aang, who knew only wind and trained a lot to master the other three elements?

The key I think is 'to master'. Both Aang and Korra knew how to bend all four basic elements from since they were born, but required training to get control over such powers (that's why they are avatars; they know how to bend all elements).

  She was born in the water tribe, so, isn't she supposed to know only how to bend water?

So, I would answer no to that. She, just like Aang knows how to bend all the four basic elements.

One possible 'proof' is that Aang used his water bending skills (although never being trained by any water bender) when he got lost in the storm and that was how he got into the iceberg in episode 1 in the first place.

As for why Korra has greater mastery over bending than Aang, there was no specific reason mentioned as far as I remember, but I would say that it's just a talent, just like it can be a talent for someone to know how to play piano without actually getting someone teach them while one can say that other people need a push so they can develop certain skills.

It is possible that she had some masters over at the South Pole to teach her. After all, Katara commands quite some respect.


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

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

If it is the end credit song of that episode it is:

Ai Kayano - Oracion


Is Zangetsu restored after Ichigo gets his powers back? This is really several questions. I do not read the manga so I'm certain this is likely covered there.

First, is Zangetsu fully restored after Ichigo's powers are restored? Does he look different? Both the Shikai and the Bankai appear different in the anime. Did this transformation result in any physical changes to Zangetsu's appearance? Of course, I mean within Ichigo's inner realm.

In the same vein, did Ichigo retain or regain any of his Hollow powers, or were they completely absorbed when he merged with his inner Hollow as revealed in episode 309?

If you're talking about before the Fullbring arc, Ichigo still has Zangetsu up until the point where he uses Mugetsu to incapacitate Aizen enough for Urahara to seal him. It's at that point that he loses his powers.

**MANGA SPOILERS AHEAD**

If you're talking about the Fullbring arc, that's a completely and wildly different side of the story that has no bearing on the past or the future of the general story. Manga filler.

If you're talking about after the Fullbring arc, then no. Squad Zero restore's Ichigo's powers to a completely different Zanpakutou. It's explained that Zangetsu is a "fake" Zanpakutou that resembles Yhwach that stems from Ichigo's ties to the Quincy bloodline.

Highly suggest you catch up on the manga. You're not that far behind, and it's coming to an end now.

Well did you know that  his fullbring fused with his soulreaper powers I mean it's been stated multiple times in the fullbring arc and that was The main purpose for him achieving fullbring so that it can fuse with his soul reaper powers. I know ginjo said that he took all of ichigo fullbring and soul reaper power well that is not true because his was soul reaper was restored by rukia PLUS 30% of his fullbring fused with soul reaper powers.


Why didn't Nagato revive Yahiko? Using Nagato's power, he can revive the dead. I saw him reviving Pain's member everytime someone die (except for the reviver member of course). He also revive a lot of people he killed in Konoha. But I don't understand why didn't he revive Yahiko then?
I was thinking he discovered the reviving jutsu after a while Yahiko died, and some soul cannot be revive after a long time of being dead. But that idea removed when I think about how Madara revive himself.

Nagato was actually reconstructing their dead bodies  and not reviving (in the sense of bringing them back to life), because the "six pains" were basically just walking corpses being controlled through black recievers that transmit chakra.
Using the Naraka Path, Nagato was able to use one of those pains to summon the King Of  Hell who could repair/fix their corpses. According to the wiki:

The King of Hell can repair any damage done to the Six Paths of Pain, which it accomplishes by grabbing their damaged forms with its tongue and consuming them.

On the other hand, the Samsara of Heavenly Life (reincarnation jutsu) comes at the cost of the casters life.

Pain could have essientially revived Yahiko, but that would throw away the Rinnegan for future use in the world domination scheme, because if you use the Rinne Rebirth you die. Of course, the only issue with this is that Nagato did not savor his life, so he could have just used the jutsu and give Yahiko the Rinngan. That way, the Rinnegan could still be used for their wretched idea of peace.