What is the highest-level monster card in the Yu-Gi-Oh anime? I'm a long time Yu-Gi-Oh fan, and I wanna know, what is the Yu-Gi-Oh monster card that has the highest level (currently). Basically, I mean the highest amount of stars on the top of the card.

Basically in the Yu-Gi-Oh anime, each monster card has a level number (the amount of stars at the top of the card), and I want to know which monster card has the highest level.

Example:

An alternate answer to Senshin's answer is however the Fortune Ladies used by Carly Carmine while she was a Dark Signer in the Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's series. and unlike her Fortune Fairies she used before becoming a Dark Signer the Fortune Ladies are also official cards

while the starting level of the Fortune Ladies is initially low, the highest being 6, their special ability allows them to gain a level every turn which in turn affects their ATK and DEF.

so Fortune Lady Earth which has the highest initial Level of 6 needs only 6 turns to reach Level 12 which is indicated to be the max their special ability will allow them to go up.

Also Fortune Lady Earth and Fortune Lady Dark have the higher multiple for their ATK and DEF out of the Fortune Ladies being 400 which means 400 x 12 = 4800 ATK and DEF which beats all 12 Star Monsters except 3 who's ATK and/or DEF is 5000 but this can be supplemented with spells and traps. with their much lower tribute cost they are quicker to summon especially Earth who's initial 2400 ATK/DEF is close to the 7 star Dark Magician's who requires 2 tributes instead of Earth's single tribute.

their natural flaw is however the fact that they take some time to get powerful unless you use other cards to boost their level. also their special ability stop at Level 12 which means getting them to Level 12 quicker via other cards wont give them as high of a level as if one waited and used the cards afterwards

  In the OCG and TCG, monsters cannot have a Level lower than 1, but card effects can freely raise a monster's Level to arbitrarily large values in excess of 12.

Source: Level

depending on how one plays this wait can be problematic. some strategies which could work is to prevent summoning and use Swords of Revealing Light to stop attacks for 3 turns each until a Fortune Lady has enough ATK/DEF to shrug off most attacks

Fortune Ladies

I believe it's this- supreme king dragon black zarc. Only level 13 I've ever seen.


What is the song that plays in Naruto Shippuden's first episode during Sasuke's first appearance? In the very first episode of Naruto Shippuden at the start when we see Sasuke, what is the song that plays here?

The title of the track you are looking for is Shippuu Kumikyoku (Hurricane Suite). This track is on Naruto Shippuden OST 1, Track 28

Hero's come back by Nobody knows. Its the very first op of shippuden


Why is Luffy's scar shaped "X"? I know that Luffy got his scar on his chest from Akainu from How did Luffy get the scar on his chest?. As mentioned on the linked question, Luffy got his scar because his chest got burnt by Akainu's magma fist.

In the end, his wound was like a burnt wound, that means his skin was scorched.

When his burnt wound healed, why is his scar shaped like "X" like it was a wound of getting sliced by a sword? I thought the skin that was burnt will leave a scar like a "burnt wound's scar", not a "cut off" scar like that.

Taking the answer Oda gave in SBS 62, we can safely assume that the scar is indeed from Akainu.

If we take a look at some various things, we can come up with a fairly good estimate as to why the scar takes the shape that it does.

Firstly, Luffy most likely took less damage due to the attack being blocked by Jinbe. This means there is a chance that there was less burn damage.

Luffy is made of Rubber, rubber melts before it burns, and with Jinbe taking the a portion of the attack, there is a chance that rather than burn, his skin would have melted, possibly creating points, rather than a round hole.

From here, we know that he received medical treatment fairly quickly. Once the internal damage was rectified, the hole would need to be sewn back together. If we assume that the skin was melted in the way stated above, it's not out of the realm of possibility for Law to have only had the option of stitching it back together in this manner, thus leaving a sort of x shaped scar.

This is the best I can figure, based on speculation.

I did some research and it turns out that he didn't get the scar from Akainu at all.
The website stated that he would have gotten it from another unknown creature. Your right in saying that it makes no sense how you can be blasted with magma and this therefore resulting in an 'X'mark. Also, Oda in the past has admitted to forgetting to add detail in the past. Plus on top of that Luffy could have had the 'X' mark covered up by either bandages or his shirt to hide it before the battle at Marineford. Still for the current moment it is unknown to how luffy has really gotten the 'X' mark but so far we can safley assume that is was not from Akainu

Sources:

(http://www.millenniumforums.com/archive/index.php/t-1118.html)

Yes, I know that this is a forum but this is the closest to an answer that we currently have.


Why are the shounen lead protagonists usually shown to be stupid? One Piece's Luffy,
Naruto's Naruto,
Fairy Tail's Natsu,
Reborn's Tsuna,
Dragon Ball's Goku

All of the above are shown to be simple-minded and foolish.

Why is it so common to depict the lead protagonist to be so stupid?

This is a common archetype in many forms of fiction, not just shounen anime and manga. for instance, many seinen romance series have protagonists who are usually at or below average intelligence, e.g. Clannad, Chobits, though seinen also has some intelligent protagonists like those from Death Note or Ghost in the Shell. Shoujo series also sometimes use this archetype. However, I suspect it is especially common in shounen series and other series targeted at children.

One reason for this is that if the protagonist frequently spends a lot of time deeply considering things, and comes up with complicated logical thinking to justify his actions, it can easily confuse some of the viewers, particularly younger children. In a mystery series, this might be acceptable, because the viewer is expecting to have to think critically to follow what's going on, but in an action series, it detracts from what most people are watching for.

Another reason is that for the protagonist to be a good hero (or arguably even a good antihero), they need to be identifiable to the average viewer. It's easy to identify with people who aren't as smart as you are, because at some point in your life you were like that. Since some of the viewers will be fairly young, to make this work you need to make the character at or below their intellectual level, which makes them appear really dumb considering their age. It's much harder to identify with someone who is far smarter than you. Extremely intelligent characters are supposed to be impressive rather than identifiable (e.g. Light and L from Death Note, who are identifiable in other ways, but not in terms of their  intelligence). Of course, it's also possible to just make the character average intelligence and not put any emphasis on that direction (and lots of series do this), but shounen protagonists tend to be more like caricatures than real people, i.e. they have exaggerated features and characteristics, and intelligence is often one of them.

It's also worth noting that most shounen action shows were, at least originally, marketed to young boys. Most young boys are far more interested in being strong than in being smart. By making the character below-average intelligence, but unbelievably strong, it makes the character simultaneously identifiable and admirable.

There's also the comedy aspect. Almost all of these series involve comedy. For whatever reason, many people find people doing stupid things to be funny. A lot of these series exploit this by making the protagonist almost useless outside of battle. In the traditional Manzai style of comedy, they play the boke role, which is usually the more interesting role (hence fitting of the protagonist). That isn't to say that intelligent characters can't be comical, but it isn't as easily exploitable with little-to-no effort as it is if the protagonist is unintelligent.

Finally, the protagonists in most of these series are idealists. Intelligence, by and large, correlates with pragmatism, at least in anime. Pragmatic characters make good generals, but typically not interesting ones. To put it a different way, pragmatism wins wars, but idealism leads to epic battles, and in an action series that's what counts. Dragon Ball wouldn't be nearly as interesting if Goku resorted to some form of guerrilla tactics to win each battle, even though it might make things easier. The protagonist usually has some more level-headed allies who will pull out if they really are in a losing battle (e.g. Nami, Piccolo), but these characters aren't the ones you're supposed to identify with. Also, idealism is often portrayed as admirable in these series, which further adds to the character's good qualities.

There's also the aspect of tradition, as kuwaly's answer points out. So I think there are a lot of reasons why it works well to have an idiot hero in shounen action series, so it's understandable why they are common.

One of the reason for this is that we get attached to this type of personalities. Moreover, they sometimes make the viewers optimistic as the protagonists being stupid achieve many things which seems impossible!


When does Son Goku learn to fly? In chapter 202 of the DragonBall manga, Goku floats into the air to see where his child is:

Then when he is travelling along the green scale road, he flies a portion of the way there. He also flies to assist combatting the Saiyans after his training with the Lord of the Worlds.

When did Goku learn how to fly, when previously he had only used Kintou for aerial movement?

It was never shown, how he learned to fly, so that's pure speculation. The DragonBall-Wiki has a possible explanation:

  Goku likely learned how to fly from Kami during his long training at Kami's Lookout, as he was unable to do so before and demonstrated his abilities to conclude his World Martial Arts Tournament fight with Piccolo.

Source: Dragonball Wiki

I think Goku learned to fly at Kaio's planet (at least I think so in the anime). When they fought Raditz, he still used the Kintoun Cloud. And he died that fight.


Who tried to sue the author of Hayate no Gotoku, and when? So apparently the author almost got sued at some point, but then the plaintiff became an anime sponsor. Anyone have any idea who it was and when this happened?

Page 16, Chapter 470

I am not finding any reputable source, but according to both uncyclopedia (caveat emptor) and a Japanese quiz site about anime, Hata Kenjiro, the author of Hayate no Gotoku was sued by KONAMI.

This is the quote from the quiz site, which is asking whether the fact is true or false (and true was the answer according to the quiz):

  漫画家の畑健二郎は「疾風のごとく!」についてKONAMIから訴えられたことがある

Well the sponsors of the anime were Geneon Entertainment, Shogakukan , P&G, Jun Planning Co., INC. and KONAMI.
So it could be one of those, but why and when? I don't know. Looks like the manga magazine covered the whole thing.


When is Kirino Kousaka's birthday? I'm just curious because Ruri's birthday was mentioned. Kirino's birthday might probably mentioned in some part of the light novel or manga.

Her birthday is April 8. It can be seen in this birthday plate that was revealed during Tsukasa Fushimi's 10th anniversary live streaming event.

Okay this is really it. From my own findings, i was able to conclude that Kirino's birthday is September 4, 1997. From the image provided by Oshino Shinobu, I was able to get her birthday from her profile. It says 1997'4 生ま九. This probably means that she was born on the 4th day of the month of 生ま九 in the year 1997. I tried translating it with google translate but it says "Raw or nine" in English.  I think I have probably made a mistake in identifying the first two characters correctly. But the important thing is the third character, 九, which translates to "Nine", probably the 9th month of the year, September. So I deduced that Kirino Kousaka's birthday is September 4, 1997.


Why is anime so expensive to make? It's not like I thought that anime could be one thing that one group of people could easily decide one day to do, but costs are seriously way bigger that I could have ever imagined, as shown here for example, what's worse is that making a simple episode can even be more expensive than that, as shown here, it can even go up to 300,000 $ per episode.

It literally says.

  An anime episode can cost between US$100,000 and US$300,000 to produce.

That maximum is around 6 times bigger than what I thought an anime episode could cost at most (considering that what's animated is a top series, with top animators, top animation programs, top voice actors and so on).

All costs shown on first link are around 3 to 10 times bigger that I would have expected, so I'd like a general explanation, prefarably using the costs shown in first link as a base, of why it is so expensive to make.

Thanks.

As animated television goes, anime is actually made on the cheap. This article goes over the costs per episode of a few different US animated shows; every one of them is more expensive than the cited high-end cost of $300,000 per episode for anime.

The Simpsons seems to be top in costs; according to the article, it cost around $2 million per episode in 2007. A 2011 source indicates that voice acting costs per episode alone were around $300,000, and that was after the actors took a 30% pay cut, coming down from a high of around $440,000 per episode. That means The Simpsons was paying more per episode for voice acting alone than the entire budget of an average anime episode.

As for the rest, Nickelodeon apparently spends around $600k per episode on their animated shows; the sources come from comments made around the release of TMNT, but a post in a forum cites a Wall Street Journal article that I can't read because it's behind a paywall claiming that Spongebob too is around $600k per episode. I was shocked that Drawn Together got $700k per episode since it was widely regarded as terrible and was canceled. This Cineeuropa article claims that the average hour of US animation in 2007 cost €776k (about $800k today).

An Answerman column from 2015 also goes over this and offers some conjectures about why: US animators get paid more, thanks to unions and other market factors, and voice actors, like other television actors on US TV, tend to make more money as the show goes on longer, as we saw with The Simpsons. In another 2015 article, ANN reports on a study finding that animators in Japan make around $28,000 a year, which is a very modest salary in the US. This 2009 article goes into more details on staff salaries in anime. Another Answerman column touches on voice actor salaries in Japan and mentions that most voice actors make between $120 and $360 per episode, though the more famous ones can set their price.

So anime are not really that expensive to make, in terms of the usual cost of producing a professional level half-hour animated television show with top talent.

It's depending on the technology which is used by the studio.

I think we can use the forward algorithms of animator programs to easily create the good anime without scanning, but draw on screen can reduce the artistic level of the movie if the artists aren't familiar.

The voice actors can be rented or you can ask your friends for voicing to reduce money until you already have sold a lot of anime.


What are the differences between the cut and uncut versions of "Naruto" anime (not "Shippuden")? I have watched the cut and uncut versions and haven't really noticed any differences.

What are the big (or even small) differences between each?

Uncut episodes are typically longer, while CN cuts scenes out so they can show commercials. Uncut episodes also have more blood, alcohol, and sexual things in it. For example, the uncut episodes will show Naruto and Sasuke kissing in the beginning of the series, and they take that out on the CN version.
There's a comparison between a US TV version and Japanese TV version. Uncut episodes are most likely same as the Japanese version where it doesn't get censored out. Though, there might be a very slight improvement on the uncut version, probably like the lines touch-up or something, it's very hard to spot with naked eyes.
[US Version]-------------------------------------------------[Japanese/Uncut Version]--------------------------------

In the German version, it's also like "this one beat the other one", while in the uncut version it's like "this one killed the other one".


What happened to Maria and Mamoru? I know that Maria and Mamoru

   escaped the village and erased their tracks, making it impossible for even their own friends to locate them. The Bakenezumi (I do not know the canon transliteration) even assisted their escape by preparing fake remains for the villagers to find, so as to convince them of Maria and Mamoru's death.

However, the Bakenezumi are later shown to have possession of

   their daughter.

How is this possible? Could it be that Maria and Mamoru

   were captured by Squealer and forced to have a child?

In fact, the ethics committee later commented that

   the remains they found matched entirely to the DNA records of the village. Does that mean that the remains really belonged to Maria and Mamoru, and they were killed after they were deemed to be of no use?

Does the novel explain this? I apologize if i jump to paranoid conclusions, but this possibility sounds too scary.

Although it was not explicitly stated in the Anime. The following sequence of events was strongly implied and was part of Squealer's master plan.

Squealer helps Maria and Mamoru escape. Furthermore, he lets them stay and live with the colony.
Squealer waits for (or sweet-talks) Maria and Mamoru into having a child.
Once the child is born, Squealer (and/or his fellow rats) kills Maria and Mamoru.
They take the child and raise him/her. ("him" in the Novel, "her" in the Anime)
Squealer then takes the bones of Maria and Mamoru and gives them to the ethics committee.

When Squealer says that he will prepare fake remains for the villagers to find and that it will "take some time". He really means the actual remains of Maria and Mamoru and that it will "take some time" for them to have a child.

The sole purpose of this was to get a human child that could be raised into an Akki* and used against humans in Squealer's pursuit of world domination.

*I use Akki for short. But they really aren't. In reality, the children raised by the rats will believe themselves to be rats, thus attack inhibition and death-feedback will apply to rats instead of humans.

For me they did to them what they did to their queen.
Saki asked to Satoru in the anime if they do something like this to a human (and give up on questioning). But I don't understand why in the end she neither mentions it when talking with Squealer. When it is said that they are really dead, she should have realized that squealer was involved.


What's the OST playing in "No Regrets" OVA when Levi is fighting with Erwin? The OST appears in No Regrets OVA when Levi fights Erwin and Mike and is played exactly when Erwin comes in.

I believe it's "So Ist Es Immer". It appears when

   Farlan and Isabel died.

It appears to be telling Levi his choice is wrong.


How did Sanji get his Diable Jambe ability? I was reading through the CP9/Enies Lobby arc, Sanji reveals that he has the ability to heat up his legs to the point that anything he touches with the spontaneously combusts. How is it that he got this ability?

Sanji was Red Leg Zeff's disciple. Red Leg Zeff was famous, as his name suggests, because of his red leg. He was known to kill all his enemies using his leg, which used to be smeared with their blood.

Imitating his master, Sanji created his own set of skills. He created the Diable Jambe, in which he rapidly spins and focuses all his energy into his leg, heating it up and forming a red leg which is so hot that anything in makes contact with, spontaneously combusts. After the time skip, he can use Diable Jambe without spinning to make his leg heat up.

How and when he created this technique has not been revealed and is less likely to be revealed. So as @AbhilashK mentioned in comments, he just didn't meet anyone who is strong enough (and/or made him angry enough) to use it till the Enies Lobby arc.

I think it’s because when he was a child, he was enhanced to have elemental powers like his siblings but they lose most of their humanity. Unlike his siblings, Sanji isn’t robotic and has true human emotions due to the pill his mother took. I guess Sanji only used Diable Jambe on Enies Lobby because I think he just mastered his power at that time skip.


Where can I find the transcripts of anime episodes online? I am looking around the internet for the transcripts for anime series and their episodes but cannot find one in particular for Attack on Titans.

I was searching around the internet for a while and couldn't find some sites. Does anyone know a website that does/contains the transcripts for anime series and their episodes? If not, I would like specifically a site for Attack on Titans episodes.

This would be useful I think for example you are answering a question and would like to add a certain spoken scene from an anime episode, and instead of watching the entire episode or skipping to that scene and playing and pausing the scene over and over again just to type out what they are saying, you can simply just have a look at the transcript and copy and paste it.

I know I might be lazy, but I think it would be extremely helpful. Anyone know any sites?

http://animetranscripts.wikispaces.com/Attack+on+Titan+-+%E9%80%B2%E6%92%83%E3%81%AE%E5%B7%A8%E4%BA%BA

It's not there for every episode though... I'll try some digging around.

http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/episode_scripts.php?tv-show=attack-on-titan-2013
No names though. Just the lines.


Does the Village/Academy ensure the number of graduates is always a multiple of 3? We know that when young shinobi in traing graduate from the academy and become Genin they are places in 4 man cells, 3 Genin and a Jonin Sensei.

At the beginning Naruto inital failed the exam and wasn't going to be a Genin until Iruka graduated him. had Iruka not passed Naruto the Rookie 9 would have been the Rookie 8 and Sasuke and Sakura would be without a third person for their team.

So i am wondering, if the number of new Genin is not a multiple of 3 does a village or academy do anything to correct the numbers?

The answer is yes (there's a tldr; at the bottom if it's too long and boring for you).

Just to clarify, my answer is a mixture of evidence and speculation. And it goes more in depth. And it assumes that you are talking about Konoha (not the other villge where they kill each other to graduate).

Entering the Academy

^ In episode 419 (Papa's Springtime of Youth), it shows on the bulletin the names of the people who made it into the Ninja Academy. If you count the number of names, there's 34 of them. Not counting Might Guy, who couldn't find his name.

[I can't find this image. When I do, I'll post it.]

^ In this image, two more people are allowed to graduate, which includes Guy. This suggests, although not proves, that the Academy requires a fixed number of students in the Academy every year — in this case and time, 36.

Graduating from the Academy

From the image below, it implies, from Kakashi's words, that only 27 of the 36 students can graduate. That's a fixed 75% pass rate, meaning that no matter what happens, there will always be students who fail. And their performance in the exams is relative to each other.

Becoming a Genin (Teamwork Test)

Again, from the image above, it states that only 9 of the 27 graduates can be Genin (33%). This means taht there will always be exactly 3 more new teams, each with 3 Genin, at the end of every school year.

Conclusion (tldr;)

Since only 27 people can graduate and 9 people can become Genin, there will always be 3 teams, each with 3 people. Naruto not graduating just means that another person would have filled his place (that would make for an interesting alternate story).

The use of multiples of 3 (i.e. 36 can enter, 27 can pass, 9 can become Genin) greatly hints to the fact that all of this is intentional.

Oh, and by the way, graduates who don't become Genin have to go back to the Academy. Iruka may have helped Naruto, but at the cost of another student. Talk about sympathy/favoritism/nepotism (okay, I'm being harsh).

What a long post. If you have any questions, ask. I did my research.

last question of the day. the thing is that Naruto did pass the genin test but with the lowest grades and it is stated that there were put into a 4 people group/cell to learn teamwork and co-operation, there is no actual evidence with graduating in threes but you would think they would. my guess is that they take the top N (N being a certain number and is a multiple of three) number of student after the test and they would pass and become a genin, the rest have to either redo or quit.


What happened in the hospital at the end of the anime/manga? I don't understand where Johan went after he "mysteriously" got out of the hospital.  Dr. Tenma seems to be finally OK and I don't understand how after all this, Yohan still lived.  He was the one who caused all this evil in the first place!

A fantastic anime, but a confusing one at the end. Can someone explain what happened?

Obviously, this entire post is going to be spoilers.

  It's left as an open issue at the end of the series. Johan was operated on and saved yet again by Tenma and when he went to visit Johan at the police hospital, who was in a coma originally, Johan sat up and was talking to Tenma. But later we see the same room with an empty hospital bed.The conversation at the end was about which child Johan's mother wanted to keep, him or Anna/Nina. So there may be a clue in that.

Some of the possibilities:

  1. He died after waking up from the coma and talking to Tenma (Or Alternatively, the talking to Tenma bit could have been a daydream, but he died anyways)2. He was released and he's alive and well3. He escaped from the police hospital just like the beginning of the show and continues his ways.

.

  But the focus should be on the mother and her choice on which twin to give up and which to "save" and the title of the last episode, "The Real Monster". There's always been confusion as to which was which because previously we were told from conflicting memories. Some people think that the title of "The Real Monster" is the mother, some people think it's referring to everyone and the world, how the world can make anyone a monster, or, Johan is the real monster afterall. Each of these sort of correlates to one of the possibilities.If the mother was the real monster for choosing one twin and unwanted the other, Johan dies and Nina lives. If everyone's really a monster, Johan was absolved (for the most part, maybe not criminally) of all of his crimes because the world and the people in it are the real monsters. If Johan is the true monster here, then he escaped from the police hospital and continues to play the role of the "real monster".

So it's up to your interpretation. Who do you think the real monster is?

The tricky part that confuses everyone is the memory of the Rose Mansion because it is unknown to whom it actually belonged to. Was it Anna or Johan?, and for the Mother's case, clearly she was under so much pressure that she could had committed the mistake.

Secondly the way the twins were dressed both as girls probably suggests their mom knew this was going to happen. So for her sake and to prevent any emotional attachment while taking decision and to fool her mind or herself, she made them dress that way but there is no denying that Johan had a mindset of a psychopathic killer that he had exhibited from the times of 511 Kinderheim, however for me the real plot says the world was the monster to the twins. I support this by saying that it was the experiments that made their mindset corrupt. It's not like the twins were born with a killer mindset were they?

Secondly, about the last episode it is clear the mother is herself, however she is not sure which twin she choose to let loose, nor is Johan or Anna. It is also clearly evident that they were both blaming any one of these three as "The Real Monsters" which is foolishness. It's The situations created by Nazis and Humans that were "The Real Monsters".

A third point to consider is the empty bed at hospital and it's possible that Johan committed suicide. After all his whole plan was a "Perfect Suicide" or he could have possibly escaped and remained underground all throughout his life because he finally got a name, so he was no longer "A Nameless Monster" anymore and that is what I think happened at the end.


Are Walls Maria/Rose/Sina the only Wall community in the world? Okay I was watching Attack on Titan, and I was just wondering if this walled off part of land is the only one in existence? Like, if people were ever to go out past Wall Maria into the rest of the world, would they come across other Humans inside other Walled off communities?

Or is the one in the series the only one on the entire planet?

Updated answer
I have not been following Attack on Titan past the first season of the anime, but since I currently can't delete my answer since it's been accepted, I'll provide something based on what I've gleaned from the Wiki.
From the page about the Walls, it appears that at present, there is no knowledge of any other walled community. However, when Eren finally returns to his father's basement, he discovers that humanity has not actually been wiped out. I'm not sure if this development was entirely predictable. Early on, the story of a quick construction of massive walls while humanity was under attack was already very suspicious, but I was not invested enough to think much about it. (My hunch at the time was also more of something to the effect of, "a conspiracy destroyed most of humanity.")
Old answer, based on the first season of the anime
In some of the episode openings (particularly in the first few episodes of Attack on Titan), it's stated that:

Over a hundred years ago, humanity suddenly found itself faced with a new predator. They were more powerful than humans. Humanity was immediately pushed to the brink of extinction. The survivors built three walls: Maria, Rose, and Sina.

Without any further qualification of the statement, it's pretty much implied here (and elsewhere) that the walls contain all that's left of humanity. This sense of there having been huge losses to such an extent - to the point where entire cultures probably have been obliterated - are confirmed somewhat by things like when Mikasa's kidnappers describe her and her mother as the last of the Asians.
There're probably some more explicit statements of this elsewhere, but it's been a while since I saw Attack on Titan, and this was the first place that came to mind that stated something of this sort.
If it matters to anybody, I'm taking the quote here from the Crunchyroll sub.

COLOSSAL SPOILER FOR EVERYONE WHO DID NOT READ MANGA CHAPTERS 86 AND 87!!

  A sort of fourth wall exists and it's the one showed in chapter 87, near the ocean, so it must be really far away from the Walls we know. It keeps mindless Titans away from the sea and it has been probably built by the Marleyan Government. It seems to be shorter than the three other Walls and its structure is different from theirs (it doesn't seem to be built with cristallized colossal Titans). Beyond this fourth wall there's the ocean and on the other shore of the sea there's the continent where Marley is.


Is Honey Senpai a Shota? If so, then what would be the opposite of Honey Senpai's character? Like between the ages of 40 years an up?

I read it one time when I was looking at Japanese Shoujo Manga, but I do remember encountering it on the site Manga Here.

お爺さん or 叔父さん？

Miryoku-tekina toshiue no otoko?

An attractive older man?

Since you mentioned between the ages of 40 years an up and were asking for a term that represents the opposite of Honey Senpai's (Shota) character...

Then that would have to be an Older Man = Oji-san (uncle) or Ojiisan (old man).

It can also be used as a slightly impolite way to address a middle aged man.

If you have your doubts of such a genre existing, note that not all women prefer Shotas or Bishonens.

There is such a thing as an "Ojisan Paradise."


What is Idepon in Shirobako a reference to? I think this might be a real life reference. Is there a real life counterpart to the Idepon series that is being talked about in shirobako?

It's a reference to an Anime of the early Real Robot genre called Space Runaway Ideon.

Space Runaway Ideon (伝説巨神イデオン Densetsu Kyojin Ideon, lit. Legendary Giant Ideon, also The Ideon) is a 1980 anime television series produced by Sunrise, created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, produced immediately following his most famous work, Mobile Suit Gundam.
[...] At one time it was rated #10 among the greatest anime series as compiled by famous anime magazine Animage (counting popularity, influence, and opinion). On the other hand, the series has never been very popular, even among Japanese mecha fans.
Space Runaway Ideon is a predecessor-of-sorts to Hideaki Anno's Neon Genesis Evangelion and deals with many of the same issues.
[...] Space Runaway Ideon shares a number of similarities to Tomino's Mobile Suit Gundam series. As well as similar initial fates for both series (cancellation followed by films – though Ideon never became a long-running franchise as Gundam did), there are several broad similarities in the make-up of the characters and some reused plot devices. [...]
Wikipedia: Space Runaway Ideon

if anything, it reminds me of "captain earth" that came out during the summer. in that there was infinite energy and the strength of hope as  well and other similarities but obviusly the name is way off


Who is the first school idol group ever featured in anime? In the Love Live! series, UTX High School's A-RISE is the first school idol group featured. But, is A-RISE the first school idol group ever featured in the history of anime? If not, who is the first school idol group?

It's been 3 months since the question existed, well, if you still haven't found the answer yet, here it is.

  1983

Magical Angel Creamy Mami is the oldest Idol anime I could find. It has 52 TV epsidoes + 4 OVA aired back in 1983. It's a school idol group, but unfortunately I can't find the name of the group.

  Creamy Mami is about a young girl, Yuu, who after seeing a spaceship is given the power to use magic for one year. She is also given 2 cats, Poji and Nega, to watch over and guide her. Using her magic powers to transform into the idol Creamy Mami, Yuu must work hard at acting, singing, helping her parents at their crepe shop, fighting aliens and bad guys, going to school, plus try to get the affections of her childhood friend Toshio.

  2003

Wandaba Style is the possible oldest Idol anime with a group name, yes, finally, but wait, it is not a school idol!

  A J-pop group named Mix Juice consisting of four girls: Ayame, Yuri, Sakura & Himawari attempt to make it big by playing the first concert on the moon. Bankrolling this endeavor is the 13 year old billionare Susumu Tsukumo and his android, Kiku 8 who propose to go to space in an eco-friendly way.

  2006

Lemon Angel Project is about a group of high school girls forming a new Lemon Angel Idol Group, I think that is it, I'm surprised that the first school idol group was created only 10 years ago.

  Lemon Angel was once the greatest girl band of Japan, but then it broke up and most of its members vanished. When a music producer decides to put together a new Lemon Angel, average high schooler Tomo Minaguchi is approached to audition for the group. Little does she know of the mystery behind the original Lemon Angel...

I know this is years late, but the first idol anime ever is Sasurai no Taiyou (1971).


Who is this green guy? While watching episode 114 (Erza vs Azuma) I noticed a little green (pig samurai?) guy in the background.  Any idea who or what this is?

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The person (Well technically not people) you spotted are called "easter eggs".

  Src from here: fairytail.answers.wikia.com

  In every episode, at least once, a little creature is placed somewhere.... These creatures are known as "easter eggs", as they appear in the anime but serve no purpose. They are not part of the plot, nor an important factor in the anime.....

Here is a YouTube video of all the easter eggs that appear in fairy tail. If you want to see the scene that you referred to, just skip to 3:26.

Different types that appear (Sometimes multiple times are)

Green one's with a white square with arms and legs
An Exceed
A little pink mouse

And some others too like these:

Oh yeah, and look, I found the green "easter egg" from the photo you provided too. ^^

one of the members of the spriggan 12 has a thing sitting on their sholder that is about the same size but i don't know if it would be him.


How did Natsu solve his transportation problem? In chapter 425, Natsu is seen riding a boar. How come his motion sickness had not kicked in?

He should've built an immunity to Wendy's anti-motion-sickness spell, so why isn't he getting a motion sickness here?

The same as Happy applies. The boar is not a transportation vehicle, it's a living creature.

Natsu gets motion sickness when he is riding a vehicle but he does not get motion sickness riding animals.(Well Natsu is an animal XD)


Where is it mentioned that Gon didn't get his Nen back after being healed by Something/Nanika? I watched the entire Hunter x Hunter series and I've just noticed that it is not stated whether Gon got his Nen back after being healed by Nanika or not. And I'm curios... once he jumped so high on the Wolrd Tree (we also have to notice the speed) is it possible that his Nen was restored? It would be impossible for a person with the qualities of an avarage human to jump so high/be so fast after all...

I believe that Gon's aura is still there just not nearly as much as before. i think he gets it back or something because after Gon meets his dad and he and Killua split ways, Gon and his father fight together in the Dark Continent Arch. I'm not sure what happens in that arch yet because I haven't read the manga just yet.

From wikia :

  According to Killua, the degree of wish that Nanika can grant is probably infinite

Killua ask her to "turn gon back to normal" so Nanika saved Gon turn him back to a "normal" kid, he nen is closed now. Ging say this to Gon in the chapter 345 he had returned to normal.


Why are most people in anime white or European-looking (instead of Japanese)? Anatomically speaking Europeans don't look like that either. But most of the people look more European than Japanese, at least it seems to me ... Maybe it's the round eyes? And the non-black hair in some cases?

Just like @senshin stated in his comment, for the Japanese people, their characters do look Asian.
There is a really nice article written about this on thesocietypages and as stated there:

Why do the Japanese draw themselves as white? You see that especially in manga and anime.
As it turns out, that is an American opinion, not a Japanese one. The Japanese see anime characters as being Japanese. It is Americans who think they are white. Why?  Because to them white is the Default Human Being.
[...]
Americans apply this thinking to Japanese drawings. But to the Japanese the Default Human Being is Japanese! So they feel no need to make their characters “look Asian”. They just have to make them look like people and everyone in Japan will assume they are Japanese – no matter how improbable their physical appearance.

In your question, you also said "Maybe it's the round eyes? And the non-black hair in some cases?"
The article above also pointed out something about that:

[...] the Default Human Being thing is so strong that lacking other clear, stereotyped signs of being either black or Asian she defaults to white.
When you think about it there is nothing particularly white about how anime characters look:

huge round eyes – no one looks like that, not even white people (even though that style of drawing eyes does go back to Betty Boop).
yellow hair – but they also have blue hair and green hair and all the rest. Therefore, hair colour is not about being true to life.
small noses – compared to the rest of the world whites have long noses that stick out.
white skin – but many Japanese have skin just as pale and white as most White Americans.

Of course, there are also exceptions. A nice example is indeed Dan Eagleman, as stated by @senshin. The moment they need to make somebody look non-Japanese, they will try to design the character more to the American/European stereotype, i.e.

Bigger noses
Blond hair/blue eyes/white
Speaks fluent English

I agree that in Aku no Hana they actually do look Japanese. Let's face it, we all know that Japanese, Chinese, and Korean have small, almost squinty eyes. White people don't necessarily have big eyes either, but they're bigger than the ones a typical Asian would have. Some say that the Japanese are trying to take over the world by drawing their characters as Caucasians. I have noticed that in animes the major characters are always white. It's very rare to even have an African character pop up every now and then as a on the side character, but that's about the most culture variation you'll see.

Religion doesn't pop up either in animes, with the exception of the monks, and statues of Buddha that appear(only Japanese culture is allowed in JAPANESE anime and manga of course). And my point on religion and the appearances of the characters is that not every one has the same way of life or is comfortable wearing mini skirts. In a lot of religions they're not allowed to do some of those things that people on animes do. Like dating, flirting, going all the way before marriage, or even as a girl showing your thighs to another girl is not allowed.
So, in the anime world every one is actually the same, even though the main character is usually some what different from the others, but in a way that we can't relate to because it's usually impossible IRL. Like in the anime series Naruto, he (Naruto) starts out as an out cast because of the fox demon sealed inside him. Therefore, treated differently by his peers in a negative way.

The thing about hair colour, well, Asians almost always have black hair. On the other hand, Europeans are more often found with hair that is red. But, I read that that it is possible for Asian and African people to inherit the two copies of a recessive gene on chromosome 16 which causes a mutation in the MC1R protein(causes red hair). Considering the facts, most red heads have European genes, which is why people on animes that have red hair or even blond hair with blue eyes AND white skin, look like white people. But when characters have randomly crazy, awesome and impossible IRL hair colours like BLUE, GREEN, PURPLE, PINK, TURQUOISE, etc. you know it's just part of the illustrators' design.


Did Danzo use Shuisui's eye to become Hokage? In Naruto Shippuden, Danzo has a sharingan with powers that allows him to control the mind of his victims as it is shown in the 5 Kage Submit. In the 197th episode, after Pain's attack, some of the heads of the Land of Fire meet to decide what to do next and who should be the next Hokage. Kakashi should have been chosen but Danzo made the Daimyo to change his mind.

Did Danzo use his sharingan's powers to become Hokage or was his speech good enough to convince the Daimyo?

Danzō, rather than using the sharingan's ability, used the Daimyō's indecisive characteristic to his advantage - knowing he would side with whoever convinced him the most.

  The Fire Daimyō has a fickle and indecisive nature and is easily swayed in his decisions through biases as well as external influences. When situations call for fast, important decisions, he makes his advisers do the whole work: the one who convinces him most is the "winner"

Danzō convinced  the Daimyō that Kakashi, who was initially considered for becoming the 6th Hokage, maintained the same ideology that put Konoha in it's current state of crisis.

  However, Danzō points out that the teachings that were passed down to Kakashi were the cause of Konoha's problems and current crisis. The Konoha Crush, the frequent confrontations with Akatsuki, the defection of Sasuke Uchiha, and the destruction of Konoha's infrastructure, all stemmed from the ideology that kindness and unity would lead to peace. Danzō believed the ideology simply made Konoha appear weak and left them exposed to attacks

The Daimyō believed and agreed with Danzō

  The daimyō, persuaded by Danzō's words and reasoning, appointed Danzō as the Sixth Hokage Candidate, just in time for the Five Kage Summit.

It was activated until the fight with Sasuke, I don't remember why but it shuts for 10 years after being used for powerful genjutsu


Order to watch the Danganronpa series? Is there a "Danganronpa 2"? This season there are 2 simultaneous Danganronpa shows, both of which are prefaced with "Danganronpa 3".  The first series in the franchise is "Danganronpa: Kibou no Gakuen to Zetsubou no Koukousei".

I'm not clear on if there is a second series anywhere, or if the number 3 was just added to the names of both the new series.

Wikipedia says

  A second anime series, titled Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School, began airing in July 2016. The series is split into two simultaneously airing parts; Side: Future, which serves as a conclusion to the "Hope's Peak Academy" storyline, and Side: Despair, which serves as a prequel to Danganronpa 2

which is clear as mud.  I am unable to find information on "Danganronpa 2", though I would expect one to be a prequel to the first series, and the other to maybe be a side story or a post story.

What order should I watch Danganronpa in?
For the current series, does it matter which episode I watch first from each of the simultaneous ones (the "Future Arc" started airing before the "Despair Arc")?
Does the Wiki page confuse "Danganronpa 2" with the manga/LN material?

I think what is being missed here is the second game in the series, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.

From the Wikipedia article:

  It is the second installment in the Danganronpa series, and a direct sequel to the 2010 game Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc.

It's the sequel to Danganronpa 1, adding to the DGR universe beyond the events of Trigger Happy Havoc, complete with a whole new set of characters, scenery, and more.

Danganronpa: The Animation is an anime adaptation of DGR1, AKA Trigger Happy Havoc, AKA THH. THH is the basis of the entire DGR story/franchise; it is the first game, but not the first event of DGR chronologically. Essentially all other canon media in the DGR universe builds upon the events of THH, so you'll want to start here. Either the show or the game will suffice, though I recommend the game.

DGR2's story is critical to both sides of the DGR3 animes. As per the wiki article, Despair

  tells the backstory of Hope's Peak Academy's 77th Class

which is the same class featured in DGR2. Even though 3/Despair happens chronologically before DGR2, I recommend playing DGR2 before watching 3/Despair. DGR2 tells the story of the 77th class, which is then given more context/backstory in 3/Despair. DGR2 does not have an anime adaptation, but it apparently has a manga.

The Future and Despair arcs aired simultaneously in an alternating fashion, starting with Future. Chronologically, Despair happens entirely before Future, but the intended watching order is actually the order in which the episodes are released; so, also in an alternating fashion starting with Future (source: wiki.) In other words, Future ep. 1, then Despair ep. 1, then Future ep. 2, then Despair ep. 2, so on and so forth.

So, to hopefully answer your questions:

All Series Watch Order:

DGR1/THH/Danganronpa: The Animation
DGR2: Goodbye Despair (game or manga)
DGR Ultra Despair Girls (game)

   A few characters from UDG appear in Future, so it may benefit you to play this first, but it's not a dealbreaker like not playing DGR2 is.

Alternate watching DGR3/Future and DGR3/Despair episodes, i.e. F1 -> D1 -> F2 -> D2... etc.
DGR3/Hope
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (game)

   IMO, V3's only strict prerequisite is DGR1 to get the full picture, but I recommend experiencing the whole series to be safe, if you can.

The DGR subreddit also has a good FAQ/writeup on this topic, including Supplementary Material.

DGR3 (Anime) Series Watch Order:

Alternate watching Future and Despair episodes, starting with Future.

A Note Regarding DGRv3:

The branding can be slightly confusing between Danganronpa 3 and Danganronpa V3. Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony is the third installment of the game series (and features a brand new cast separate from DGR1/2), and Danganronpa 3, as discussed above, is the anime split into two parts (Despair/Hope) and the last episode, Hope.

Danganronpa 1/trigger happy havoc (danganronpa: the animation?)
danganronpa 2: goodbye despair
Danganronpa: ultra despair girls
danganronpa 3: future , despair , hope. (< in order)
danganronpa: the end of hope’s peak academy(?)
Danganronpa V3: killing harmony
danganronpa anime(?)


Did Light truly love anyone? In Death Note, I am not aware of whether Light actually truly loved or cared about anyone although at the beginning of the series you could say he loved his parents perhaps. But it seems that he was at least shown to be as an intellectual person who just so happened to be bored or well tired with the way life was (e.g. criminals everywhere, continuous injustice that happened towards people etc.).

I may have missed something from the anime and I haven't read the mangas (so please correct me if I'm wrong) but did Light ever truly love anyone? I want a canon answer.

Himself. And only himself.

Yagami Light truly perceived himself as a god where everyone else was a lower being. He explained in one segment that his lifespan is too valuable to make a deal for the shinigami eyes. Yet for even his closest allies (Misa) or even his family, their lives can be easily discarded. Light did not truly love anyone other than himself.

About Sayu, the only reason he didnt kill her was that the only ones aware of these were them and Near's crew.
Though he never really loved Misa, he did get involved with her as a couple


TV Saint Seiya Prologue theme In Sanctuary chapter, after opening, there is a prologue for the events of the last episode. I can't find the name of that music theme, and "Galaxian Wars" is not that I'm looking for.

I think this is the one you are looking for: Intense! Cosmo

It should be "Galaxian Wars" composed by Seiji Yokoyama. You can easily find it on Youtube. Try make sure of it.


Is "Talk no Jutsu" actually a thing? (Preface: I have not read or watched Naruto.)

In the context of a discussion of some other anime, there was a reference to a thing called the "Talk no Jutsu" in Naruto. Upon looking this thing up, I came across this wikia page, which describes the nature of this technique. This looks like a joke on its face (I mean, we make jokes about Touma doing this sort of thing in Index all the time), but the page was written with nothing to suggest that it was a joke, so I'm a bit confused. I checked out a couple other discussions on the internet and am still having difficulty figuring out whether or not they're joking.

So - is "Talk no Jutsu" actually a technique of Naruto's?

It's a joke, a glance at the home page of the Konoha Libraries site you provided says:

  Remember, there's plenty of serious information banks on Naruto already. We will never be as big as any one of them so just have fun with your articles. Go nuts. Reference people from the forum or threads you love. Just remember to keep it in good spirits.

Talk no Jutsu refers to the ability of Naruto (and many main characters from many anime series) to talk the antagonists out of their evil ways, and "show them the light".

"Talk no Jutsu" is one of Naruto's abilities. It is not an actual Jutsu. It is basically a joke on how Naruto can talk people out of their evil ways and make them join his side.


How did Netero manage to levitate during his fight with Meruem? I recently rewatched the epic battle between Netero and Meruem in the 2011 anime. I noticed that most of the time, Netero "floated" in front of his summoned Kannon. (I am lazy now to include snapshots, but believe me, he was not just "jumping").

IIRC, in the final battle in The Last Mission movie, Netero stood in front of his Kannon by standing on one of Kannon's palms, which was a very clever and reasonable way to keep a high position.

This leads me to question: How did Netero manage to levitate during his fight with Meruem?

So far (both in the manga and the anime), no Nen user was shown levitating, just flying at best (and using wings in those cases). Of course, the answer to my question can be "By using Nen", but frankly, it would be a very inefficient way to use it (c'mon, just reserve one of Kannon's palms to lift you, and leave the other 99 for "ant swatting").

ADDENDUM: The scene that made me think about all this is in episode 126 at 6:17

The most credible explanation is that Netero wasn't actually levitating.

It is undeniable that there are scenes where he seems to be levitating:

However, it could be that Netero was jumping up, and the entire half a minute scene of him in midair, which also includes a flashbacks, is in incredible slow motion. Because of his superhuman strength, it would not be difficult for him to jump this high (Gon and Killua did this in GI).

Netero is one of the fastest characters in HxH:

  He managed to out-speed Neferpitou and, even more remarkable, Meruem, as he was able to launch numerous attacks on Meruem with his 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva with the King unable to see the coming assault. It took him many minutes of incessant fighting to grow used to Netero's speed.

His punches are faster than the speed of sound, and this attack was so fast Meruem could not see them coming. Note that Meruem is one of the strongest characters of HxH and is also incredibly fast:

  Immense Speed and Reflexes: Meruem can rip off limbs and obliterate entire bodies in less than an instant.

However, the attacks were slow enough to be clearly visible to us. Therefore, it can be deduced that the scenes is in extreme slow motion.

He did land just afterwards. If he had been levitating, it would have been better to keep levitating to carry on his attack:

Maybe he was using the method explained in the greed island arc because that extra palm that he would have sat on was needed in the fight, and since Netero knew that death was a possibility in the fight he wasn't going to try and conserve any nen. He was going all out!


Was there ever a Pokemon game based off the Orange Islands? Did they ever release a Pokemon game dealing with the Orange Island League?

I was thinking and I remembered that each Pokemon anime series followed the same route as the games as far as getting the badges, but I wanted to know if they ever released a Pokemon game that dealt with Ash's adventures in the Orange Islands.

If they did what is the name of the game? If they didn't, why not?

There is no game located in the Orange Islands. Perhaps the closest game would be Fire Red/Leaf Green where the player could explore Sevii Islands. There are arguments that this was inspired by the Orange Islands, but I haven't found any proof.

There have been player modded games fitting in with the Orange Islands - Example, but no official release. Reference

According to this answer on another site, the Orange Island plot was half-hearted and this probably meant that there was no real push for a related game on that end.

I think it's more plausible that there was no game made because  there was no real idea how many pokemon there was at the time(150 kanto, 250 jhoto). also there was only four gym leaders each with diffrent obstacles to go through the challenges would be to hard to mimic on the gameboy though it would be easy and fun on the ds. The other factor that puzzles me is the orange league champion Drake uses a dragonite, drake is the same name they used in the kanto games and the jhoto games he is the charater you face after the elite four and he records you and your pokemon just as they did for ash after he defeated the orange league champion. In red blue yellow is known as chapion in jhoto he is also known as the dragon master. HE wears a pokeball around his neck just video game drake meaning that they must be the same person. So in a way they even though they don't have orange island gym leaders they still have the chapion drake which makes the game partly related to orange island. Though everything is just speculations And no one will no for sure but what we know is that the longer they continue to air Pokemon the more fans will become confused.


Does Ash ever re-encounter his Butterfree after the Butterfree's Goodbye episode? I have not watched the Pokémon anime since Battle Frontier, but I saw a snippet of a much newer episode in a region that is most definitely not Johto, that featured Claire, the Dragon gym leader from the Johto region.

This led me to realize that it's not impossible that the anime producers would bring back characters from the very distant past.

So I was thinking, does Ash ever re-encounter his Butterfree in an episode after Butterfree's Goodbye?

A simple answer is no. We don't see Butterfree and Ash ever meeting again after their farewell in Bye-Bye Butterfree:

                    A scene just before butterfree's departure

As mentioned on the Bulbapedia (and partially in the comments):

  Ash's Butterfree has since appeared in the tenth opening for the anime, Spurt!, along with his mate, the pink Butterfree.

  However, he has not returned in any episodes since his last appearance. Ash has, however, flashed back to having him several times, such as in The Thief That Keeps on Thieving!, A Trainer and Child Reunion!, and Butterfree and Me!.

With butterfree I'm assuming it died. If it's anything like a real life butterfly or insects in general they have short life spans, real butterflies depending on the type live from a few weeks to a year at most. Considering how in pokemon insect types evolve the fastest and are found in bulk it should correlate they die the youngest and lay many eggs to compensate like real life insects as well.


Why is K9999 almost identical to Tetsuo Shima? I was watching this video which shows the similarities between both characters. I suppose it must be a kind of tribute, or maybe is just a vile copy (I don't think so). Anyone knows the reason?

Wikipedia says

  and K9999 (pronounced K Four-Nine), a clone from Kyo entirely based on Tetsuo Shima from Akira, able to transform his arm into a long tentacle like Tetsuo's. Due to copyright issues, for the King of Fighters 2002 remake he was replaced with a similar character.

but gives no sources.

I think K9999 is the 9999th android of "K" because it disappeared, looking for the nests hideout and destroy it because they killed the original "K" who's real name is Kryzalid.

Tetsuo Shima is just a kid who grew up poor and turned into a mutant by Akira and put into an Akira Institute, and he escaped not knowing that his infected arm must be kept stable and that's why he ended up transformed into a huge mutated ugly monster and just died.


What race/species is Narberal? One underling of Momonga, Narberal Gamma (aka "Nabe"), accompanies him when he starts adventuring in episode 5. I'm guessing he chose her since she looks human and hence can blend in without needing full-body armor or illusion magic, as Momonga does, and as someone like Albedo or Demiurge would.

That's all well and good, but Narberal clearly isn't actually human - she expresses her disgust for humankind on multiple occasions, and it's pretty clear that this isn't self-loathing. What is she?

According to the Overlord Wiki, Narberal Gamma's race is:

   a doppleganger battle maid

According to Overlord Combat Maid Chibi Comedy Spinoff Episode 8, she's a werewolf, if you haven't watched the series, their three minutes each, so don't just watch the 8th episode, but basically it names off all the different species of the maids, however, the translator might have been a fu~~, I mean, he might have had a terrible sense of humor and decided to put the species names in random order.


In SAO 2 did Asuna break up with Kirito? I noticed that when introducing Shino to Asuna and Lisbeth, Kirito mentioned them as his nakama. Why is that? Why is it that Kirito didn't introduce Asuna as his girlfriend? Is this what is normally done by a Japanese couple? Or did they broke up?

There is no reason to think so. When Kirito introduced Shino to Asuna and Liz at the Dicey Cafe, the three of them were preparing to bring Shino back to her hometown, where she encountered the gunman she shot and killed as a young child, so that she could accept the consequences of her actions and overcome her guilt of having killed a man. One typically doesn't revisit the scene of a childhood trauma with just anyone, so Kirito, whom Shino already knew and trusted through GGO, called Asuna and Liz his nakama to tell Shino that he trusted them -- therefore she should too. It was more important to convey that Asuna and Liz were trustworthy rather than the fact that Asuna was his girlfriend.

In one episode, Shino was laying on Kirito's lap as he was staring at her butt. In this scene she asks if there's anyone out there that wouldn't want to see them like that. Kirito doesn't respond except with a nervous smile.

He also picked up Shino from her school as if he were her boyfriend. He didn't introduce Asuna as his girlfriend when Shino met her, he flirts with Shino in front of Asuna, and he treats Asuna as if she's not special, like he would a girlfriend. This makes it look like Kirito has moved on and Asuna is the one holding on to this relationship.


Did Senku's father have children with Lillian in Dr. Stone? Senku's father Byakuya was one of the few people who survived. While all of the couples were shown to have offspring, it wasn't explicitly shown that Byakuya and Lillian had children, too.

It might be because of the drawing style, but Kohaku and Ruri do seem to have a very similar appearance as Lillian (although thousands of years have already passed...).

So, is it known or at least hinted that they did have offspring?

Heavy manga spoilers ahead read at your own risk:

  In manga ch 45, Kohaku asks if they are related to which Senku answers
that he and Byakuya are NOT blood related BUT they (he and the villagers)
are hundreds of generations apart so it doesn't matter.
Yes they had children, no they are not related to Senku.
(Note that they don't specifically show that Byakuya and Lillian were together but
there was the already married couple and they showed Connie and Shamil getting married so most
probably Byakuya ended up with Lillian)

No. They didn't have children. Senku's father was an old Japanese man and Lillian was a young American Singer. By all perspectives, there was no way for these two to possibly get together in a sexual way. She has standards too bloody hell. More evidence was the hair color of the villagers were mostly blonde and brown which meant they were all of pure European descent. Even senku admitted Kohaku looked like a foreigner. If she had Japanese blood, she would not look like one at all. Senku's father was mostly just an old wise man that led the children as the adults died. Furthermore there's no evidence they even had children. The young singer died without childbearing. And even though senku said that even IF the descendants and his father were related somehow, the generations apart would make it not matter anymore. But it was just an IF. Evidence doesn't show that they had any children at all. Notice the scientists were all Europeans? the whole show is pretty much a Japanese boy showing off science to the descendants of Europeans who literally invented that science and spread it around the world. It's a means of portraying a false image of  Japanese being somehow better than Europeans in terms of innovations.


Why Meliodas regenerations abilities didnt work in his first fight with Gilthunder? In Meliodas first fight with Gilthunder, he gets injured and he's taken by his friends with his doctor. But he is a member of the demon clan who's even capable of reattaching a cut arm, and it's shown later in the anime.

Why Meliodas regenerations abilities didnt work in his first fight with Gilthunder?

His powers were sealed, because back then his power level was significantly lowered.Back then, his powers were sealed because he couldn't control his emotions after he destroyed Danafor because Liz died.
In chapter 29, Melodias has a flashback about Danafor, which he destroyed in his wrath.


Is Misa Amane's early death a plothole in Death Note? According to the wiki, when a Shinigami dies, their remaining lifespan is given to the human they saved.

  Shinigami who die are reduced to dust, and their remaining lifespan is given to the human they saved.

Since Rem killed L and Watari, she gained their remaining lifespans. Additionally she probably still had some lifespan left. On top of that Misa was already given a lot of lifespan from Gelus (from which she lost 75% again). So does this mean all of this lifespan is transferred to Misa Amane?!

Yet according to her wiki page, she dies in 2011 at the age of 26, only seven years after Rem died.

Does this mean that humans are also capable of reducing their own lifespans? Or would the author have made a mistake by letting Misa die as early as she has? I know she lost 75% of her remaining lifespan through the two eye deals, but you'd think that the cumulation of L, Watari and Rem's remaining lifespans would be greater than just one year, wouldn't you?

It isn't a plothole. There's a rule in the Death Note that specifically covers this.

  The use of the Death Note in the human world sometimes affects other human's lives or shortens their original life-span, even though their names are not actually written in the Death Note itself. In these cases, no matter the cause, the god of death sees only the original life-span and not the shortened life-span.

(Source: Volume 8 of the manga)

Short Answer: It doesn't matter how much time Misa gained from the shinigami, or how much she lost from halving her lifespan. Every time someone relevant to your fate is killed by the Death Note, the future changes and your lifespan is recalculated.

Misa was living for the sake of Light. Light was killed by the Death Note. It would have been strange if her recalculated lifespan hadn't been dramatically shorter than before.

The fact she died on Valentine's Day in the year following Light's death strongly suggests she committed suicide because he was dead. This is also shown at the end of the anime.

Longer Answer: The same way killing a murderer with the Death Note can extend the lives of their future victims, killing someone with the Death Note can shorten the lives of their loved ones.

We see both of these examples take place with Misa. Her life had ended with the mugging, but she was indirectly allowed to keep living by the Death Note. Later, she had a long life ahead of her, but the Death Note indirectly gave her a premature death.

The best part of this rule is the last sentence: "In these cases, no matter the cause, the god of death sees only the original lifespan and not the shortened lifespan."

So basically, the lifespans that shinigami see aren't reliably accurate. They can only see the person's original lifespan. If the Death Note indirectly decreases someone's lifespan, that person's visible lifespan won't change.

This rule was most likely created by the author just to help ensure there wouldn't be any plotholes.

Note: This only holds true for the Death Note indirectly shortening people's lives. The user's original lifespan will still visibly decrease if they trade half their lifespan for shinigami eyes (as shown when Rem is reunited with Misa, as she is able to tell that Misa traded half her lifespan again).

The user's lifespan will also visibly increase if the Death Note indirectly lengthens someone's lifespan. Rule LIX states:

  A human death caused by the Death Note will indirectly lengthen some other human’s original length of life even without a specific intention to lengthen a particular person’s original life span in the human world.

(Source: Volume 10 of the manga)

The rule about shortened lifespans, rule XLII, is the only rule which states that "in these cases" the shinigami can't see the correct lifespan. There is never any mention of this regarding lengthened lifespans.

Has no one considered the possibility that suicide is not a natural cause of death and therefore remaining lifespan is not affected by it? For example, a person that is supposed to die at 60 dies at 20 because of suicide, but at the time of death, their lifespan still reads that they have 40 years left. Or is there a rule in the Death Note pertaining to suicides?


Why do many manga artists prefer to use pen and paper over digital drawing? It seems that many renowned manga artists still prefer using traditional "hand drawn" methods rather than using technology to draw. Even people who use technology to finalise their art rely on  pen and paper to sketch their initial outlines. What are the limitations of drawing using digital methods?

There are two primary limitations to an artist switching from traditional to digital media:

Adjustment
Money

That's really all there is to it.

The two reasons go very much hand in hand; most artists will start with traditional media because quality digital media is expensive. There's no getting around it. A basic setup requires a computer with good graphics support, a software package that can be used for comics/manga production, and a graphics tablet (typically a higher end one like Wacom's Cintiq).

On the other hand, anyone can pick up some free scratch paper and a pencil or pen and start sketching. There's virtually no barrier to entry for learning traditional media. Once you start to get more serious about it, yes, traditional media can also get expensive (comic/manga art boards, multiple pens and brushes, various types of inks, screentones, alcohol markers for color pages, and so on), but you don't have to spend a dime to start.

There's a process of adjustment that takes time when switching from traditional media to working digitally. The two feel different, even if you're working with something like a Cintiq where you don't have to disassociate your hand position from what you're seeing. You're learning a new medium, and it always takes time to adjust to it. An active manga artist is working on a strict publication schedule, and isn't necessarily going to have time to go through that adjustment period; artists who are extremely popular will have greater demands on them, and those who are just starting out will have no ability to ask for schedule changes or additional assistants to work through the transition.

There are artists who do use digital media (Hiroya Oku, Asano Inio, Natsume Ono), and certainly there are some who would be interested in making the transition, but for many, it may well be simply a preference that keeps them from making the shift. They prefer the feel of a pen or brush on paper to a stylus on screen, and therefore have no motivation to sink either the time or cost into transitioning to digital. Working digitally has an additional limitation when it comes to assistants: either you are now a one-person show, or you have to sink money into a workstation with tablet for each assistant on your team. Particularly with popular artists who depend on their assistants to meet deadlines, there may be no choice but to stick with paper that can be passed around between the people working on the title.

There are no technical limitations. Multiple companies make Cintiq-like graphics tablets at various price points and functionality, allowing for a more "traditional" workflow for the artist. Multiple companies publish software that can be used to create manga pages, including screen tones and tools that emulate traditional media very effectively; any of these programs can export into any number of standard formats that can be read by the publishing company, which is undoubtedly using digital versions of all pages, regardless of how they're produced, to assemble their magazines. The only limitations are in the cost of transitioning, both fiscally in actual money spent, and the investment of time needed to adjust to the new media.

Sources: Manga Answerman - What Tools Does A Mangaka Use To Make Manga?, personal experience with various hardware and software

It is expensive and a new technology that would even cost the printing companies money. They would need new hardware and/or software to get the files in those formats, much more space on their machines (files in any graphic format are very large). It is actually so much more money for good digital animation art, especially when Manga artists each have a style. They have used "pens" for drawing and inking since they start drawing. Kubo, the creator of Bleach, always drew in school; he still will say he draws to draw cool stuff. So, I imagine most drew in class or at home with standard writing tools, and maybe a set of inking pens and color if they were into it.

As far as the monitors for drawing, yes they are cool, but artists often don't have one for the same reason I don't, they are expensive. They could probably get money through crowd funding faster than I could, but they would need something very expensive, not to mention the drawing programs. Anime studios don't use them (usually on weekly airing shows especially); the first draft and sketch is generally done on paper, the same way it has been for probably almost if not 20+ years. Drawing it, scanning and then adding color. I can imagine that actually take more time as well. Most well known artist/writers have an aid and maybe a few others helping them with the inking. Transition to all digital would be so foreign, I doubt we will see it happen, at least until graphic tablets, monitors ect. are easily available and the price is lower than now. A good one could be $1K, maybe $600, but they can be 3 times and even more. So if they want it to feel right, look right and be efficient it's probably going to be a lot of testing of different monitors, programs, brush add-ons, and more. It's not really feasible right now. I guess if one happens to have started using them a while ago and feels comfortable and can work more efficiently with the style remaining the same or better, they are not going to use it unless their work is better. They can't afford to show Toei an idea that was done differently than the usual methods so their style, and maybe even flow of work would not be the same.

Not to mention coloring would look way different. Would shading style change at that point? In manga many kinds of shading and small details are used. Think the parallel lines very close together and straight, that form of shading is unique to the art. With a graphic program you would need to place every line pixel perfect; they could use snapping or magnets, but that would throw off the next line to draw if it's a persons face or something.  On a monitor instead of drawing those lines they could just pick a lighter color, or shade, grays would be everywhere.  Maybe more color, but it wouldn't look the same; maybe close with the right brush, but not exact.

Expenses, tradition, experience, style, comfort level, and efficient work all play a role.


What is the combination of Wind Style and Earth Style? After quite some research, I've found this picture, and I've added/completed the combinations. As you can see, I've found all of the combinations (even if some of you wouldn't agree with me), but I have absolutely no idea what should be put as the combination of Wind and Earth...

I forgot to mention that there is one style, the Crystal Release, whose origins are unclear to me. It may be the response to the question, but I've got no proof or source to claim it.

The effect you are asking for is not yet known, just like how some of the others in the chart are not confirmed or not complete (such as Blaze, Storm and Explosion).

The chart is set-up with the current knowledge we have of the techniques and filling in the blanks by deducing what could be in the slot. Most of them might actually prove to be accurate, but until this is confirmed in either the anime or manga we won't know for sure.

wouldnt it be crystal style? Since that's the only one not shown and sasuke doesn't use fire or lightning for his blaze style he uses his left to shoot the flames and the right to control them


How did Madara know that Sasuke is the last surviving Uchiha? SPOILER ALERT: If you haven't read Chapter 657 of the manga, read further at your own risk.

In Chapter 657, the reborn Uchiha Madara asks Sasuke to join his side, remarking that they are the last of the Uchiha. However, he died before the Uchiha clan massacre, and was reincarnated with Edo Tensei only during the fourth World War. He fought with the five Kages, and then headed to the battlefield where Obito was fighting Naruto's team. Obito didn't have a chance to tell him the story of what happened after his death.

How come he knows that Sasuke is the last surviving Uchiha?

In pages 11, 12 and 13 of chapter 657, it is clear that Madara and Black Zetsu (Madara's will) are able to communicate with each other:

Black Zetsu adds (in page 11) that both him and Madara were underestimated. And in the two pages that follow, he 'shows us' flashbacks in which him and Madara have been communicating during the war.

Given this, I'd say it's safe to assume that Madara got the information from Black Zetsu:
Either because he told him everything directly; or Madara may have gotten the information 'instantly' as soon as he was revived, since Madara and Black Zetsu share a deeper bond, since the latter is the former's will.

Madara is a sensory type. He can feel a person's chakra from a continent away even before sage mode. The second was able to tell Karin's clan not only by her red hair but also by her chakra type. So Madara being a sensory type, once revived, came to his own conclusion of why he couldn't sense his clan's energy/chakra and like most of the time was right about their untimely demise.


Is namekian fusion stronger than potara fusion? Since Universe 6 lost their potara earrings, and the 2 warriors left are namekians, and it would seem they might eventually fuse considering Champa tells them "you know what you have to do, don't you?" and they say "leave it to us, Champa sama" "We will defeat Universe 7" which would be a very optimistic thought if they rely in their current power level only which is close to Piccoro or Gohan, if they eventually fuse, how much stronger could they become? is namekian fusion stronger than potara fusion?

Correct me if I am wrong, but considering Champa's actions, words and behaviour so far I am pretty sure that he was trying to tell them to not lose. Which could either indicate to destroying the enemies (which seems very unlikely) or waiting it out. I think he meant waiting it out since it was said in earlier episodes that if at the end of the time multiple universes have warriors left then the one with the most warriors would win. Considering their power level + max power level with any given form of boost they wouldn't come close to Kefla. Even if they used Potara earrings. This is because of the fact that they have a fixed power level due to not having saiyan blood. They can power up a little with a ki boost, but nothing close to super saiyan.

Champa is no fool. He sure as hell acts dumb and crazy but his decisions are spot on and based on the current situation. That's why he told Kale and Califa to attack instead of hiding when their power levels were raising in order to destroy Goku. Their initial strategy was to wait it out and hope to be the universe with the most numbers at the end of the tournament after Hit was fallen. But Potara happened which drove Goku to UI. The 2 Namekians will never even reach the power level of SSJ2 Goku when they fuse. With Potara they might be able to force Goku to use SSG, but they can't boost themself more and more like a saiyan, so they will stay at that level while Goku keeps evolving.

Champa knows this as well based on what he had seen. He can be pretty sly as well so he might want them to use nasty strategies in order to reduce the enemy numbers. But it is either this or waiting it out. He definitely didn't mean to tell them to fight as that would mean the loss of his universe due to Jiren and Goku still being alive. Even with depleted stamina Goku requires only a couple of taks in order to recover again to use UI. This is based on the time that passed in the tournament (not episodes) between the first and second UI. Champa knowing this as well would not tell his warriors to fight against such a threat.

Edit:
I just noticed that I had never answered your question and was simply just explaining the situation. The answer is no. Namekian fusion isn't stronger than Potara. Based on Piccolo x Nail fusion with the power levels before and after we can conclude that this formula is fusion power = (A+B)*7(raw estimate). Potara earrings scale far bigger and are known as the strongest type of fusion. When Vegito was introduced in DBZ we could see that it was far stronger than SSJ3 Goku. SSJ3 in general has a rough multiplier of x400 (some sources say x1000) from the base form. Since we have to consider Vegeta as well in the fusion we can conclude that the actual multiplier is at least x100 with Potara earrings. I couldn't find any credible source to explain the multiplier but based on before and after scenes and known multiplier for SSJ states we can give a raw estimate. Anyway Potara is far stronger than a namekian fusion. The most reasonable formula that I found for it was baseform A x baseform B. Some others said that it draws out max potentional achieved by each user and multiplies that by 400. But these aren't official sources.

So all in short, no, Namekian fusion isn't stronger than Potara fusion.

Namekian fusion is very weak. Its boost is roughly x300 ~ x400 (i.e ~3,500 PL -> ~1,210,000 PL).

Whereas Potara fusion is at least x(400 + unknown constant) boost.


Why didn't Sugu recognize Kirito in ALO When Kirito logs in to ALO with his SAO account, all his SAO skills and points and even Yui's heart are loaded; so we can conclude that the same thing must have happened to his avatar, too. If so, why didn't Sugu recognize him and if not, why is that?

When people were trapped in SAO, their avatars became exactly similar to their real-life bodies, so recognizing someone from real life was possible there.

Kirito at SAO:

Kirito in real life:

But in ALO, it's totally different.

See Sugu and leafa as an example:

Real Life:

ALO:

Kirito's avatar in ALO may resemble his character from SAO, yet it's still different.
A player with that avatar could look totally different in real life. And people that play MMORPG's are not use to talk about their real life at the game.

So, Leafa didn't recognize Kirito because there was no reason for her to do so in a game like ALO.

Suguha didn't resemble her true self because it was a different machine in the anime but by the same creators... remember how they "asked them to touch themselves all over so they resemble the same?" Remember how there were mirrors and when they looked inside of them they looked exactly the same as what they look like in the real world? Maybe that's why. One, because f it's a different machine, then they might've forgot to make it so you had to touch yourself all over, two, because they didn't receive any mirrors in Alfheim.


Why was Ebisu killed by the Pacification Ring? During the incantation, the lines spoken by the Gods are:

We know that Ebisu did have a "pure heart". As the Wikia article on Ebisu states:

  He is also a truly kind God, as his desire to control and name Ayakashi and go to the underworld to retrieve the locution brush is because he believed if he did so he could relieve some of the strife and pain that Ayakashi cause and make the world a truly better place. This is shown when he is reincarnated and talks to Yato, saying when he realized he existed he took in the atmosphere and immediately fell in love with the world and wanted to bring the world and humans happiness, with Yato stating that was his true inner character and the type of person he has always been and will be. This is once again stated in chapter 39 by Kunimi, who states that the master wanted to control Ayakashi to improve the world as he grew to understand that money alone cannot make humans happy.

I doubt that the lines spoken during the incantation don't hold any meaning because they make perfect sense.

Is there any logical basis for his death being caused by the Pacification Ring?

I have two theories to why Ebisu was killed by the Pacification Ring.

First is that the Ring is just a energy cannon that is meant to exterminate the enemies of heaven. Therefore, it not only affects Ebisu but also those around him. Quoting from the wikia,

  Pacification Ring, a form of punishment to destroy enemies of Heaven.

Second, he was not 'pure of heart'. We can take the words the other gods said to mean 'pure' by their standards and not Ebisu nor our standards. Therefore, Ebisu, who has committed sins against heaven, is not 'pure' of heart, according to the other gods, who cast the ring. This god here said that what Ebisu did are taboos and we can infer that by the standard of the other gods, Ebisu is not 'pure' of heart anymore.

  As Sigfried666 also mentioned, in the manga, Ebisu is killed by Takemikazuchi's Kiun. Therefore, the ring is an anime only event and may not have any logical justification.

Those lines have no meaning, the gods were just so sure of Ebisu's sins that they didn't expect the next shot to miss.


What's happened to the Masamune to make it so evil? in Chrono Cross the Masamune is shown as an evil sword that draws out the wielder's dark desires and generally causes them to kill their allies.

yet in Chrono Trigger this never happened to Glenn or Cyrus and if what was happening with it in Chrono Cross was because of how the Masamune was created from the Red Dagger being used on the Mammon Machine (and thus influenced in some way by Larvos) then the 2 of them should have been feeling the effects already since they wielded the sword before the events of Chrono Cross

So what's happened to the Masamune to make it so evil?

Maybe the cause was the fall of Guardia kingdom and theft  of aformentioned sword.
https://www.chronocompendium.com/Term/Fall_of_Guardia.html


Is Kashin Koji actually someone who has appeared in Naruto before? So I've been reading the Boruto manga lately. There was this member of a secret organization Kara called Kashin Koji.

Many have speculated that he is

   Jiraiya

or his clone (or student/son, etc.)

They claim this because:

His appearance in front of Boruto and squad was with a toad summoning.
He knows how to make a Rasengan perfectly.

Does this theory have any credibility?

Sure, there are coincidences that Kashin Koji and Jiraiya could be the same, but you also have to realize that Jiraiya died and there was no way he was surviving after the fight with Pain.

Pain finished him and that was the end of Jiraiya, now where the Rasengan and the toad summoning comes into place, it could be very possible that he might have been a relative of Jiraya, but as it looks, we won't find out until we get more information.

its can be jiraiya.. just like what happen to ao's...

during war as you remember on the chapter.. kara is already in process.
they rescued ao's.. because of his eye uses byakugan... they fix him and revive his body...

maybe jiraiya was rescued too by kara, and they fix his body as totally cyborge or what so ever. because it seems when he use to get his frog out, the frog is look like something different... its look like the frog was already develop as fully cyborg... as you remember when the time of fighting of naruto and sasuke and hinata to the most powerful otsutsuki, the frog that naruto expected to came out was not the frog he called. but the son of the frog., and naruto ask the frog where his father, why he was the one to get one and not his father.. he told naruto that his is not around because he is busy... see?  it can be jiraiya. he know naruto well, he thought that naruto was the one who killed the powerful otsusuki. due karma seal was found to boruto, kashin knows how karma seal can get. when they killed one of the powerful otsusuki...


Why did Luffy react to Nami's body, but not to Hancock's? When Luffy saw Nami's naked body thanks to Mr. 2 and later in chapter 213 due to her happiness punch, he reacted and got excited. But on the other hand, when Luffy saw Boa Hancock naked it did not affect him in any way. Why was Luffy affected by Nami's body, but not by Hancock's body?

A different reader had the same question and according to Oda, it was all because of Usopp's bad influence. Luffy and Usopp are of the same age, so  when they are together it would be like kids going on a school trip: their bad side comes out!
From SBS of Volume 54, chapter 523:

Reader: Hey, Oda. In volume 53, chapter 518, Hancock's "Mero Mero Mellow" had no effect on Luffy at all, but in volume 23, chapter 213, it looked like he had a reaction to Nami's "Happiness Punch". Why did he respond to Nami's naked body but no to Hancock's? Is Nami's body just that amazing? -Kazu
Oda: Wow, I got a lot of questions about this. Is this what you guys are paying attention to? Don't just read manga all day, go study some more!! Okay? Well, I say that, but I do nothing but draw manga. I noticed this when we were drawing it, but if Luffy had a nosebleed when he saw Hancock's body, I think you would all be like "Ehh!?". That's not the Luffy we know. I believe that Luffy reacted to Nami's naked body twice, in volumes 18 and 23, and both times it happened, Usopp was with him! He's the suspicious one! In other words, when Luffy is alone, his reaction is what it was with Hancock. He's interested, but he's not entranced by her. But when he's with Usopp, who's the same age, it's like a kid on a school trip: his bad side comes out!! Yeah, both sides of Luffy feel right to me, so the culprit is definitely Usopp!!

The reason it is like that is because Boa took it off to show the celestial dragon mark and just tried to kill Luffy, and it would be disrespectful to stare at Boa like that.

On the other hand, Luffy might actually just be impressed with Mr. 2's abilities, and Luffy has been friends with Nami for months and knows her personality.


What language does Feitan speak when activating Pain Packer? In Hunter x Hunter, episode 97, Feitan activates his nen ability.

What language is the vertical text on the right?

According to the Hunter x Hunter Wiki:

  Feitan's first language is Chinese; he speaks in sentence fragments in Japanese while switching to his native tongue when angered.

Given this, and the text is written in either Japanese kanji or Chinese (as @kuwaly beat me to pointing out), and the fact that there is a Japanese translation provided, I'm going to conclude that the text is written in Chinese. (There may be some fragments of Japanese, but I somewhat doubt that.)

I believe he is speaking inverted Japanese, and the text on the right is Japanese kanji. I'm Chinese, and I can read Chinese characters, so hopefully, my brain isn't exploding and I'm right. :)


Did Zeniba's hair tie help Chihiro in any way? Nearing the end of Spirited Away, Zeniba weaves and gifts Chihiro a hair tie and claims that it will protect her.

Is there any indication that this (presumably magical) hair tie played any useful role during the rest of the movie?

There is a scene towards the end where Haku warns Chihiro to never look back until she reaches the outer end of the tunnel. When she's about to enter the tunnel, she stopped for a while and started turning her head around but stopped at the very last moment. At the same time the hair tie sparkled. Its a very subtle scene.

Now Haku did not tell her the reason why. But if you are familiar with Asian cultures, looking back would have trapped Chihiro in the spirit world forever.
Yes, the hair tie did save her. At least in my interpretation.

I guess that it will help chihiro in the future, for an Instance chihiro will untie her hair and then she will remember that it is from zeniba and she will remember that she was once trapped from the spirit world


Can I increase my lifespan by killing myself using the Death Note? Suppose I wrote that I will be killed by a UFO falling from space in the year 2315 while I am lifting.

Will the Note increase my lifespan? In other words, will I still be alive by then?

No. There are some rules that prevent this. From the Rules of the Death Note wiki:

The 23-days rule

  How to use: XXVII

  [...]
  If you write, “die of disease” for the cause of death, but only write a specific time of death without the actual name of disease, the human will die from an adequate disease. But the Death Note can only operate within 23 days (in the human calendar). This is called the 23-day rule.

Situation/cause of death is impossible

  How to Use: LIV

  [...]
  In the occasion where the cause of death is possible but the situation is not, only the cause of death will take effect for that victim. If both the cause and the situation are impossible, that victim will die of heart attack.

While an UFO falling on your head is technically unlikely, but not impossible, the fact that you'll be naturally alive by 2315 is impossible. You'll just shorten your life, not make it longer.
Setting death after original lifespan

  How to Use: LVII

  In the Death Note, you cannot set the death date longer than the victim’s original life span. Even if the victim’s death is set in the Death Note beyond his/her original life span, the victim will die before the set time.

it wouldn't work, because it's beyond your lifespan. but let's say, if you would ask someone with shinigami eyes if he can tell you, your remaining lifespan you could figure out your death date, and then write something like: [your name] dies peacefully at the 3rd may 2087 (just an example). i think this could work because, you still would die on your date of death.


Why doesn't Kakashi use his copy ability that often? Kakashi is known as "the copy cat ninja". The Ninjas from the other countries call Kakashi the Copy Cat Ninja because of his Sharingan and how he uses it for his advantage (Copying moves). But he does not use his power to copy very often (or at least not anymore). It is only shown around 3-4 times that he actually copies and uses it against somebody.

Why does he not use this power more often?

What everyone was saying was partially correct. The Sharingan is a kekkei-genkai made for the Uchiha Clan. Since Kakashi isn't native to this clan, he's only able to use his Sharingan after once in awhile. As said before, he used it in the beginning of the series and was out for about a week or two from using too much chakra.

Consumption of all of your chakra will cause you to die.

Now with his Mangekyo Sharingan, he cannot use it much. The example that comes quickly to my head is when Kakashi and Naruto were chasing Deidara during the Gaara Retrieval arc. Kakashi specifically quoted that, "We have to end this soon. I can only activate the Mangekyo probably one more time."

In the current manga, he can only keep up with using his Mangekyo Sharingan with the help from the Kyuubi's aura/chakra.

It consumes way too much chakra for him.

You have a series where ninja use natural elements as base for techniques that can be performed to destroy villages...your only question is why Kakashi doesn't copy his opponents moves? I think, its not that significant at the moment...also to think about it, most of Kakashi opponents were Akatsuki members, who's each abilities are very unique, probably cant even be copied, apart from any element base techniques. Then again, I cannot remember if Kakashi can copy non element jutsus. Ya dig?


Can Naruto use Wood Style? After the Great Ninja War, Naruto's right arm was replaced by an artificial arm made up of Hashirama Senju's cells. To perform Wood Style, user requires a vast amount of chakra and Naruto can easily manage that.

Wood Style requires water and earth affinity as it's a combination of these, while Naruto has wind affinity.

Using Combined Styles also requires Kekkei Genkai, which Naruto doesn't have.

So unless the author comes up with something in the future (like somehow forming his own chakra into the one he received from Hagoromo or into the chakras he received from the tailed beasts) Naruto is highly unlikely to be able to use Wood Style.

Given that Naruto has access to Six Paths Sage Mode - a power that gives him instantaneous mastery over the five basic Changes in Chaka Nature + that of Yin-Yang Release, is a reincarnation of Indra Otsutsuki - a power that grants him access to his ultimate form, Asura Kurama Mode, as well gained the affinity of the remaining tailed beasts and was thusly able to master Lava, Boil, and Magnet Release, as seen in Sage Art: Super Tailed Beast Rasenshuriken, I see no reason why Naruto - now also in procession of an arm grafted from cells of the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, who, despite not being a member of the Otsutsuki clan, mastered Wood Release - should (in theory), be able to use Wood Style were he to meditate on the earth- and water-based nature combination Kekki Genkai using the Six Paths' power.


Is there a name for the effect that appears from the eyes when someone in anime/manga fights? The following image shows an effect that appears from the eyes when someone fights.

Is there a name for it?

the animation style is called sakuga where the features are distorted to be made to look superhuman.