Who took care of Naruto when he was young? In episode 350, we see that the Third Hokage took on to take care of Naruto. But towards the beginning of the anime Naruto is seen to be living alone.

Did Naruto live with the Third? If so, why did he leave there?

Third Hokage promised Kushina, when she was dying, that he would take care of Naruto, and he did.

Whole villagers knew that a monster fox was inside Naruto. This news also spread to the other villages. If it weren't for the astute care of the Third Hokage, other villages would have kidnapped Naruto and would have absconded him out of Konoha.

The Third may not have sheltered him at home, but he did keep an eye for Naruto. That is what taking care means.

Besides, Iruka and others were there too. However, the main role was still played by the Third.

He probably had a caretaker to take care of him. But she probably got irritated at his energy and left when the series started. Thus the we see Naruto has no caretakers. The third and Iruka did  watch him and gave him money as we see in episode 350, the third says to Naruto:"here is this months fee."


Why are Gantz weapons slow to take effect? I was watching the Live Action film of Gantz and noticed that it seems weird that after firing, the effects of a shot fired from a Gantz weapon is slow to occur, e.g.,

when the players who killed the Child Onion Alien attack the Adult Onion Alien, the Adult Alien shields himself with one of the players with each shot but it takes several seconds before the player's body explodes
when fighting the Buddhist Statue Aliens, there is a part where Kei shoots a limb of one of them (I think the giant one that Kannon deployed) which was going to punch him into the ground. Even after shooting it, the alien's fist continues to come toward Kei and if the delay had been longer, he could have been crushed

To me, this seems like a design flaw in the guns as it appears that the target of the shot can still move and possibly attack before it feels the effects of the attack and more so, the aliens seems to be able to react in real-time to the attacks (e.g., the Adult Onion Alien and Kannon shielding itself with its swords the moment Kei shoots).

So if the aliens can react in real-time to shots fired by Gantz Weapons, why is there a delay to the effects of such shots?

There are two options with the gantz weapons:

1.- shoot
2.- ensure

[spoiler]

   Ih the part when they fight with dinosaurs or when they are going to kill Tae Kojima they said that if you want to avoid the waiting time to shoot or if you want that shot follows target, you have to "ensure" first >!


Who is Lola's mom in the New World? During the Thriller Bark Arc Lola mentioned to Luffy that her mother is in the New World and indicates that she is a extremely powerful pirate. She even left Luffy a vivre card that if ever he runs into any trouble he could ask her 'Mama' to help him out.

Who could possibly be this extremely powerful pirate Lola's mother?

We know nothing about that as of this writing, but there has been a widely circulating theory for a while now that Big Mom is Lola's mom. You can read about it on various sites. I'll list a few points made in support of the argument on Reddit

  Firstly, for those that don't already know the theory, it is that Big Mom is Lola's mother. Back on Thriller Bark Lola gave Nami a vivre card with Lola's signature, saying her mother is a pirate in the New World. People believe this mother is Big Mom because:

  Big Mom's name is Big Mom, ie, she is known as a mother.
  Big Mom is in the New World
  Big Mom's jolly roger has big red lips and the same colour hair as Lola
  Nami who has Lola's vivre card just happens to be on the ship that is being attacked by the Big Mom pirates
  Nami is likely to eventually pull out the vivre card that Law gave her and accidentally pull out Lola's card instead.

Here is the similarity between Big Mom's jolly roger and Lola's face:

Another few points made in the Wikia are:

  Big Mom is in the New World and thats where Lola was born
  Lola's crew also said that her mother was an extremely powerful pirate which is another connection between the two
  Luffy will definitely meet Lola's mother on account that the crew was given her vivre card and it only makes sense that Luffy meets all members of the Yonkou

Lola's crew stating that Lola's mom is an amazing pirate:

Another popular theory recently is that her mom is Miss Bakkin

The arguments in support of these here are:

  Miss Bakkin is the first pirate woman to be introduce for a while and she is a mother which is really rare in One Piece, since all mothers are dead.
  Miss Bakkin and Lola have the same hair style, Weeble has the same type of hair braids, Lola’s mouth looks similar to that of Miss Bakkin.
  Bakkin also claims to be Whitebeard’s lover, while Lola has been desperate to find a lover herself. Is she possibly trying to imitate her mother?
  The other connection to Lola is Thriller Bark itself. Lola’s reason for being in Thriller Bark could have been a search for Hogback. Maybe Weeble needed a doctor and they thought Dr. Hogback could help them. This would explain the stitches on his face, around his neck, and his arm.

Similarity between Lola, Miss Bakkin and Weeble:

Obviously, this is all speculation at this point and we won't know who her real mom is unless revealed by Oda himself. Although, based on these theories, it's likely that it's either going to be Big Mom or Miss Bakkin.

Manga chapter 835 page 20

Chapter 835 shows both parents


There's a manga I like and I want it published in the West. What can I do about it? It's not just one single manga, there are quite a few that I like and that are not published in the West. Some of them are moderately popular in Japan, but most are obscure. The vast majority are seinen and their serialization has finished.

How do I get these comics published in the West and is it something I can do on my own?

The only ideas I've come up with are with regards to contacting Western and/or Japanese publishers. The former would be just a request of sorts, whereas the latter would involve asking to purchase license, but that pretty much becomes a business on its own and I am not sure if that's what I want. Any other ideas? I am willing to part with a decent amount of resources for every manga, so I am open to any suggestions. The publication medium doesn't matter, both physical and digital are acceptable, though I find the latter a bit more appropriate nowadays.

EDIT: To make it more clear, I am looking for a way to bring some of my favourite manga to the Western audience, not how to purchase manga copies. To illustrate this with an example from the literary world: Suppose I wanted to translate a book from a foreign language to English. It would be perfectly acceptable to approach the author, and/or their publisher, with a sample translation and then potentially negotiate a deal. Or it's not uncommon to directly speak with a publisher who's willing to publish the book and then they do the rest of the negotiation (and legal affairs) on your behalf.

The best way to get a title licensed is to show that there is interest in the title via sending questions/tweets, e-mails, or filling out various companies' surveys. For example, Seven Seas Entertainment has a monthly reader's survey, and part of the survey asks you which Japanese manga series and which Japanese light novel series you would like to see licensed and published. They do tally the results.

Also, publishers in the west sometimes have ties to the series of a company, author, etc. (it's case by case), so it's worth looking into whether the company can legally license it at all. For example, here are some ties:

Shueisha/Shogakukan - Viz Media
Square Enix - Yen Press
Kodansha - Kodansha USA or Vertical

See also this reddit thread and Seven Seas Entertainment's ask.fm feed.

There are fan translation groups you can ask to translate it(scanalators). They dont get paid and dont usually have a license for the works they translate. They generally do it to spread the culture and have a little fun doing it. (I work for a fan scanalation group)

I only mention this 4 years later in case anyone else has the same question.


Are there any resources about the inspirations of Miyazaki in making Howl's Moving Castle? I am doing an analysis of Miyazaki's films and am starting with Howl's Moving Castle. I have lots of information about the movie, but am having a hard time finding information regarding the inspirations for the film. I am aware that the film is an adaptation of Jones's novel in 1986 and went on to be one of the highest grossing film in Japan. But are there more interesting facts regarding the inspirations/history for the film that anyone can provide me?

Edit: I am looking to see if anyone knows of what the inspirations were for Miyazaki to direct the film. Or going back a step, the inspirations of the author to write the novel.

I don't think this book has anything about Howl's Moving Castle in particular, but Starting Point: 1979 - 1996, written by Hayao Miyazaki himself, and translated by Beth Cary and Frederik L. Schodt, is a 500 page treasure trove of interviews and other works regarding Miyazaki's thoughts and inspirations on his films. I purchased this book many years ago and only read a portion of it, so I can't really attest to how much this will help, but it's a good starting point for your research on his other films (pun may or may not be intended).

EDIT: Upon further research on Amazon, I discovered that he has another book called Turning Point, 1997 - 2008 along the same series, which does seem to contain information on Howl's Moving Castle. You might want to take a look into this.

For the idea Jones "very much" thanked "a boy in a school I was visiting", whose name she had noted but lost and forgotten. He had "asked me to write a book titled The Moving Castle."

--- "Dedication and acknowledgment", Howl's Moving Castle (paperback) (1st ed.), US: Ace Books, 1989, This one is for Stephen


Why is anime produced faster than manga? Anime is colorful. It has voice and music. It contains tens of thousands of frames. It requires advanced computer software and high level of technology.

On the other hand, manga is nothing but a drawing with pen and pencil.

I would expect manga to be produced faster than anime under these conditions. However, it appears to be not the case. In most long running series, anime eventually catches up to the manga.

Is it because the mangakas are lazy, or is there another reason behind this?

Mangas are usually written by one person, called the mangaka. The mangaka has to come up with creative ideas, original scenery, character expressions and dialogues while making sure that the story flow is coherent and planning ahead to pick up the story in the next chapter and see if he/she can take it from there. The mangaka first has to draw everything in frames of various sizes (some of which are very difficult to fill due to abnormal proportions [to create effects]), outlines everything and then fills in the ink. Sometimes the mangaka even has to come up with a color cover page/chapter.

Anime production houses employ many individuals who don't have to work around the clock all the time (shifts reduce workloads on individual employees). They already have most of the original artwork from the manga, and they simply have to digitize it and add vibrant colors (not that it isn't difficult). Most voice recordings are done prior to the final graphical rendering.
The mangaka is more likely to be pressurized when trying to meet the next week deadline than anime production houses, because a shortage of ideas is a disaster for the manga but easy to deal with in the anime (just adding a filler often makes it up, regardless of the quality of the content). This means that the mangaka prefers to spend a little more time on the story to think and draw more carefully.

The list goes on and on, but for the sake simplicity, I've decided to end it here. Just a side note that most mangakas work an average of about 18 hours a day (almost no days off), which can't really be characterized as lazy.

Anime actually take months and months to create. That's why the seasons(spring,winter,fall,and summer)come in handy.Every week they edit it and maybe voice acting. So anime actually takes longer to create then manga


Is it possible that Madara could have used the Izanagi after his "death"? When he was defeated by Hashirama, he put a one-day time lapsed Izanagi on himself. When Kaguya is defeated and Madara is spat out by her unstable transformation, we see him supposedly die in front of everybody. I don't think it was ever shown what happened to his body, and nobody ever took his Sharingan.

Is it possible he could have put another Izanagi on himself and be still alive, or put a very long-lasting time lapse on himself (70 years for instance), so when he is brought back Naruto and Sasuke will be gone ?

Although we dont know what happened to his body , we are almost sure that his death this time was in absolute certainty .

First , only a sharingan can cast the izanami [ taken from naruto wikia ] ;

Izanagi can be used only by those with the genetic traits of the Sage of Six
Paths. The Uchiha, descended from the Sage, are able to perform Izanagi with
their Sharingan. Even with such an eye acting as a medium, gaining the power
to temporarily control reality's flow as the user sees fit comes at a price;
one has very limited reserves of time within a single eye for invoking this
technique. This technique would normally be used for only the most dire of
situations and for but a brief moment as after the Sharingan with which
Izanagi was casted exceeds its limit, the said eye becomes powerless and is
rendered blind permanently, with the rare exception that its sight and power
can be restored to the said eye by further evolving it into a Rinnegan.[5]

Madara could switch between both the sharingan and the rinnegan effortlessly . but there is one thing we know for certain and that is when a tailed beast extraction occurs the jinchuriki faces certain death . when we saw that kaguya had burst out from madara we saw something similar happen , and the beast was extracted from him into kaguya and wasn't spit out until later when kaguya was about to be defeated . Madara was ultimately out of chakra and he couldnt even switch between the eyes at the end as we could see . If he didnt have the Tailed beast extracted maybe he could've.

There is another argument i have , after madara became the sage of six path's i think madara could no longer access the dojutsu powers of his sharingan . But this is only mere speculation.

First thing is that Izanagi should be active before the scene occurred and it only lasts for a while, so any surprise attacks or ambush attacks will definitely work on them.

Second thing is that he doesn't have Sharingan while dying he has Rinnegan remember, so after he separated from Kaguya he has normal eyes I guess.

And third thing is that it went all according to plan except for Kaguya, so he was not prepared for this and took him by surprise.


What happens to the Meister when they complete a Death Scythe? The Soul Eater anime only mentions one Meister who created a Death Scythe, and that was Maka's mother with Spirit Albarn being the Death Scythe she created.

When the other Death Weapons arrived in Death City after Asura's release, we did find out that the Death Scythes were stationed around the world. However, the anime didn't reveal who their Meisters were, or even what happened to them.

So I am wondering: What happens to a Meister when their Weapon Partner becomes a Death Scythe? Would the process be different with Kid and the Thompson Sisters? (Kid stated that he would rather use a Death Scythe he made than one of his father's)

In the anime, Maka's mom is referenced many times by Maka, who says that she occasionally gets postcards from places her mother has been to. Therefore, I'm assuming that after a Meister makes a Death Scythe, they take on a job like any other person would, or maybe some special mission from Lord Death himself. After all, after the Weapons become Scythes, they go around the world protecting different parts of the world.

This is just a theory. The answer may have been revealed in the manga, but I don't know for certain. I hope this helped a little bit.

I've seen something online that led me to believe that the meister in exception of Maka's parents follows their partners. I haven't seen anything about Marie or Azusa, but I've seen it in the other cases.

Justin Law is just a badass and can do it on his own so he's exempted, but the other 4 should have some info on it.


What would happen if you caught a PokeBall with another PokeBall? Consider the following scenario: A trainer is trying to catch a rare or strong Pokemon, and figures that catching it in a PokeBall will have a low likelihood of actually catching and containing it.

What would happen if, after the trainer threw the first PokeBall and before the wild Pokemon breaks free, the trainer hit the occupied PokeBall with a second PokeBall? Would the both the original PokeBall and the wild Pokemon be "caught" by the second PokeBall? Would the wild Pokemon just be transferred from the first PokeBall to the second PokeBall? Would this double the likelihood that the Pokemon will be caught, due to the fact that it has to break out of two balls instead of one?

If the PokeBalls can be "layered," and the probability that you catch a Pokemon increases with how many PokeBalls you can layer on it, could you not just keep layering PokeBalls until you reach the strength of a Great or Ultra Ball?

We already know that inanimate objects and things other than Pokemon can be "caught" by PokeBalls, as evidenced by this question.

While it's not an ordinary Pokéball, the Mewtwo ball is capable of capturing another Pokéball inside it.

This is demonstrated in the first Pokemon movie and quoted in the synopsis section of the movie's wiki page. A gif of the event is below too:

  "Ash tries returning Bulbasaur and Squirtle (who have been fighting the balls bravely), but it's no use. Two of Mewtwo's Poké Balls fly over and capture Bulbasaur and Squirtle's Poké Balls."

Granted, this is a special kind of ball developed by Mewtwo, so I can't say for sure in this answer whether a standard Pokéball would behave similarly.

Additionally, the catch rate for the Mewtwo ball is listed as 100% on the wiki page. Therefore it's impossible to say whether it would increase the catch chance of a wild pokémon through stacking, as it's a guaranteed capture with just one.

I believe Pokéballs are a technology which only works with Pokémon (except for the Mewtwo balls), alone the prefix of the ball "Poké" tells a lot.

You don't seem to be able to catch humans with Pokéballs, that automatically excludes all living entities which are not Pokémon. If you miss and hit a tree with the ball, the tree won't get caught either. Therefore I think Pokéballs are only capable of catching Pokémon and no other matter in the universe.


Could Senzu Beans cure diseases as well? Senzu bean is known as "magical healing bean", it can heal and restore consumer's health instantly when eaten. Does it cures diseases as well? Such as Goku's heart disease.

If Senzu bean could cure diseases, Goku wouldn't have died in the future and Trunks wouldn't have needed to go back from the future to give him the antidote.

From Dragon ball wikia

  However, it appears that the beans can not heal injuries that have
  already healed over (like Tien's and Yamcha's respective scars or
  Saiyan tails) or cure ailments (like Goku's heart virus contracted
  during the Androids Saga)

While there's little concrete evidence, it's likely that Senzu Bean's only heal the type of wounds your body could heal on its own, in Dragonball it was noted that Senzu bean's were very filling, not quite like medicine. So it could be more like they're a "super food" that accelerates the body's natural processes rather than something like conventional medicine.


What song is playing when Junko demonstrates the brainwashing technique from the anime? In Danganronpa 3 - Despair Arc - episode 8, Junko comes back and kicks Mikan away, which makes her extremely excited. Junko demonstrates to Ryota how she used the techniques she learned from his anime to brainwash Mikan. Ryota tries to run, but Junko threatens to make his classmates participate in the next killing game if he doesn't do what she says.

What song is playing in the background?

The song seems to be the execution music from Super Dangan Ronpa 2.


Identification of the soundtrack that plays just before the ending of Naruto Episode 5? What is the name of the soundtrack that plays just before the end of episode 5 of Naruto: 'You Failed! Kakashi's Final Decision'?

It plays after the guitar solo and right before the ending credits play. It starts when Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke realize they have just passed their teamwork test to become Ninjas. Naruto was tied to a tree trunk, Sakura and Sasuke were eating and decided to share their lunch with Naruto.

The songs name is "Victory" from Naruto OST 1.  https://youtu.be/Ls0IE8uPp4g

It's Wind performed by Akeboshi.

It was the first ending song in the Japanese version of Part I of the Naruto series. It was replaced by Harmonia in Episode 26.


Why are the episodes of Ooyasan Wa Shishunki so short? This anime runs incredibly fast, even for some of the shorter, 4-koma series I've seen. The story progression, if you want to call it that, seems to skip forward drastically off screen. When watching this, it seems like the characters voices have actually been sped up to maybe 1.5x speed. The latest episode, episode 3, was just under 2 minutes long.

From the show's MyAnimeList page I was able to find out that it's aired weekly, on Saturday nights at 22:27 JST. Does the time slot it got have something to do with how short this anime is, or is there some other reason?

Sometimes 4komas are adapted into full-time anime episodes and it doesn't look really good because they have to be diluted with filler content (Looking at you, Azumanga). It may not look good, so some studios apparently choose to ignore this "normal" time format and just do what they think it's best in very short episodes.

Also, short formats are common for anime contests, where the quality matters above episode duration. This way both animation studios and directors can show off their skills in adapting or making an original title into animation.

As for airing time slots, anime is usually not earning any money by itself, but rather by ads shown during and around their airing time. A 3-minute episode doesn't work very well for earning money this way, so TV channels usually give it a slot that doesn't earn them too much money anyways.


Do we know Kyon's real name? I was just re-watching the anime and it seems like Kyon is only a nickname. Are we ever told what his real name is? Maybe from the light novel? And how come Kyon has such a nickname? Does it have any meaning?

No, we don't.

From quick googling, it seems that it has not been revealed yet, even in the light novel. But it seems some hints exist.

From "Kyon" on Wikipedia:

  The name Kyon is actually a nickname given to him; his real name has yet to be revealed in the series. His sister is responsible for spreading its use amongst his schoolmates, much to his embarrassment and annoyance, and he misses being called Onii-chan (お兄ちゃん, Lit. "older brother") by his sister. In the ninth volume of the light novel (The Dissociation of Haruhi Suzumiya), his real name is hinted at in a conversation between himself and Sasaki, a girl who had known Kyon since middle school, who said that it was a very majestic name that didn't fit him.

His sister's name also hasn't been revealed yet.

Thread in MyAnimeList discussing this - there are many hints and guesses being discussed there.

There is a theory that John Smith is his real name, but I don't think it really is. Yes, his name is not mentioned anywhere yet. Kyon's sister is also "Kyon's sister" for now ^_^.
  Not revealing name also may hint that he plays a more important role in universe than we think. He must be some kind of Kami or something <_<


Why did Bartholomew Kuma allow Vegapunk to turn him fully into a pacifista? Kuma seems to have a good enough relationship with Vegapunk. Vegapunk was able to grant him his final wish as a human being, which was to program Kuma to protect the Straw Hats ship until their return. It is very likely that Vegapunk highly respects Kuma's strength, as he modified Kuma to be the prototype Pacifista, and he let Kuma do things that go against the World Government, as well as granting him his last wish by including a mission into his programming that Kuma himself had requested.

It is even shown that the bible he holds is his trademark. If that is true why would he sacrifice his consciousness along with his humanity if he lived life cherishing something that very much so represented humanity, freedom and free will?

If he much admired the prospect of free will, going as far as wanting his last wish to protect the Straw Hats ship, why would he even agree to losing his humanity and getting modified to a fully-fledged Pacifista?

Is it ever mentioned or is it just some extremely personal relationship stuff shared between Vegapunk and Kuma?

An explanation is that after rescuing straw hats at sabaody, he was defeated by Kizaru and captured in seastone cuffs. After that he probably received death penalty, but since hes a pacifista project he was probably sent to vegapunk to have his brain removed.

His capture and punishment was not mentioned somewhere in the manga/anime.

However, this is a VERY PLAUSIBLE theory on why Kuma was turned into a full pacifista. Certainly a more plausible theory than the 'he did this for dragon', or 'dragon ordered him to do so' nonsense theories that are floating around in this discussion, neither of which are mentioned anywhere in canon either.

It is highly unlikely Kuma was willingly turned into a full pacifista. Some people posted here that 'he did this for Dragon', 'Dragon ordered him to do so'. What? How would doing so benefit Dragon and revolutionaries? How would it benefit Kuma himself (obviously won't since he would be dead?) What other POSSIBLE incentive that world govt offered him or the revolutionary that could be so great, that it would outweigh the consequence of him being dead? Probably none. Therefore it leads to conclusion that the government forced that choice upon him. Straight up executing him most likely wouldn't have been an attractive option, since they would need as many shichibukai on their side to face against whitebeard. Therefore all these points toward my theory - that Kuma was punished for opposing the marines and an admiral from carrying out the order to purge the tenryuubito's attackers. Thats why world govt most likely decided to fully transform Kuma into a pacifista in order to both punish him and turn him into a fully loyal slave.

Kuma was certainly aware that this would be his punishment, thats why he stated that this will be the last time he will meet the strawhats.

Vegapunk most likely was in a good relationship with Kuma and likely did not want to turn him into a full cyborg either, but he had to do so under the pressure from the world govt. Thats why Vegapunk likely programmed in Kuma's request to protect the Sunny.

well first things first, he's one of the Revolutionary Army, and I thinks he's willing to do everything for the sake of their Army, willingly turning himself into a Pacifista "may be" a voluntary action by himself to earn the full trust of the WG (again, he willing to do everything for the army's sake right??) and on my understanding, Dragon is a very good leader and would not force his nakama like Kuma to be a cyborg just for the army..and on that finals request to Vegapunk for his final modification, it is still unclear why Vegapunk allow that to happen since he's under the WG and knows that Luffy is a pirate, he must really respect Kuma as a colleague so he grant his request or knew Dragon or Garp in the past to grant that kind of request which is of course against the WG ideals.


Can gold be transmuted in the Fullmetal Alchemist continuity? In the Fullmetal Alchemist manga/2009 anime, we learn that alchemists must obey three rules:

  Do not oppose the military

  Do the transmute gold

  Do not do human transmutation

Moreover, at one point in the early manga (probably chapter 3, according to Wikipedia), we see Ed transmute what appears to be gold from rocks, when he is duping Yoki into selling him rights to Youswell. (However, in the context of my question below, this might also be attributed to early-installment weirdness, since in the corresponding episode in the 2003 anime - episode 9 - I think we see Ed giving Yoki rocks that have been coated with gold from coins Ed got from Yoki.)

Both of the above seem to imply that transmuting gold is possible in the FMA universe, yet this seems to be contradictory given some other manga details. In the first chapter, we learn from Al that with alchemy, one can only transmute like from like. Being me, I read this to imply that the sort of conservation of mass alluded to when chemical equations are balanced generally applies in terms of what alchemy can do the FMA universe (at least in the more practical, mundane examples we see in the manga). (On a second read, I'm really not sure if that's a "correct" interpretation.)

Thus: is transmuting gold actually taken to be something possible in the FMA universe (or is it even possible to come to a conclusion about this)?

Yes, transmuting gold is possible (at least in the manga). The reason why it's forbidden is stated later in the series: It's forbidden so nobody can destroy the economy by making the gold worthless.

The mass is also conserved, I see no problem there. A ton of coal makes a ton of gold. Equal mass :).

Note: In the first adaption, Ed did not transmutate gold but instead coated the coal in gold. Either it's not possible in the 2003 anime or he didn't want to violate the law. (Thanks to キルア)

Yo, guys. I'll try to clear some of this up. In the manga(and as I see it, the true canon, being that it was made first) Ed turns Sludge(coal dust in ViZ version) in to Gold. As stated earlier, Sludge has trace amounts of metals in it, being that it comes from mining coal, and being that coal is under ground, where we find metal, it is possible to convert coal sludge in to gold. More difficult than just straight up metal, since you can never tell how much metal is in the sludge without a proper examination, which Ed never did. Again, this is all based on the manga, being that it was the original story and ultimate source if you can't consult the author. I hope this cleared it up at least a bit, thanks for reading.


What exactly happened to Yuta Gamon? Note: This entire question is a spoiler, so as it doesn't make sense to put the entire question in a spoiler block, read at your own caution.

At the end of Occultic;Nine, Yuta Gamon fires the unlocked Poya-Gun (revealed to be the Wardenclyffe Gun) at the Odd Eye in order to stop the New World Order from completing their mission.

It's presumed that he never makes it back to the human world (AKA is resurrected like the rest of the main cast), but what exactly happened to him?

I'm especially confused about the significance of the Sky Sensor playing staticky sounds in his father's old recording studio at the very end. Did Yuta return to the wavelength meant for the dead and in turn, get reunited with his father (again) or did he get stuck in the wavelength that the New World Order shifted to in an attempt to prevent Yuta from stopping them?

While it's not clear what "wavelength" Yuta Gamon is on, his spirit is clearly still connected to the normal world. The final scene before the credits reveals that he's still posting on his blog, trying to earn affiliate money. I don't know if the static from the Sky Sensor means much, other than to suggest that it's still capable of connecting to the spirit wavelength, although his latest blog entry apparently has something to do with the device.

In addition, at the end of the credits, the live action shots of the pond being drained and the final brief scene showing a "Coldsleep Room" with the name Gamon Yuta on it suggests that his body has been recovered and has been cryogenically frozen. This would have put on hold the almost expired 9-minute limit on revival after death. I'm guessing they're hoping to make a sequel.

Gamon Yuta (a kid who was rather pathetic when he was alive), after his own death, in the last episode of this series, thanks to the advice of a fellow ghost who explain to him how to take advantage of his hidden potential, becomes Gary Stu (maybe even better) as a ghost.


Straw Hat Luffy gonna destroy the Fishman Island? During the Fishman Island Arc, Madam Shyarly's in Coral hill predicted that a man with a straw hat is destined to destroy the Fishman Island.
They say Madam Shyarly's prediction never failed. I can't  think of any other besides Luffy that is wearing that hat.

How can Luffy possibly do it? Because in the first place, he saved that island and he's not that kind of guy who will do such a thing. Also, Fishman island lies right underneath the Red Line and Mariejois. So destroying Fishman island means destroying the capital of World Government, Mariejois.

Questions:

How can Luffy possibly do it? (if he is the destined one because it lies beneath Mariejois and Red Line)
Could this be another straw hat guy? or her prediction is just wrong?

Strictly speaking there are at least 4 possibilities which are all possible:

Luffy's actions could bring about the destruction of Fishman Island due to his risky behavior.  For instance: he claimed it as his own and challenged Big Mom for it so she could destroy it and it would be Luffy's fault.
Someone could destroy it impersonating Luffy in order to turn his rapidly growing group of allies against him.
Luffy could change the island so much that it could seem like destruction. He could, for instance, bring it to the surface or promote desegragation of the world so an island inhabited by just Fishmen/Merfolk is no longer a thing.
Finally, Luffy could be forced to destroy it for strategic reasons such as might be required in the "alter the Red Line so there is just one Giant Ocean and the world can be easily transversed" fan theories.

Ulitmately though, we don't know what will happened and any theories are speculation.  The residents of Fishman Island have been convinced that Luffy will do them no harm, even though that is foolish, as Shyarly's prediction are reportedly never wrong.  We can assume from his character, however, that he will not intentionally do anything to harm Fishman Island without suitable recompense. We can also assume, however, that this important plot point will not be forgotten and Oda will provide an explanation in the plot at a later date.

Here's my speculation on why Luffy will destroy fish men island.
It could be because that fish men no longer has the need to live under water and they can live amongst humans so luffy simply destroyed fish men island as it is not needed.


Why is Hinata's hair short? In Part One, Hinata cuts her hair short and it makes her look hair look like a duck's tail (sorry, Hinata). She lets it grow long in Part Two, the cuts it short again in Part Three. There may not be any reason why she does so, but can someone tell me why Hinata cuts her hair short (if there even is any reason)?

I think it's just a device to show aging. In part one, she is a kid and has short hair, in part two, she is a teen and has long hair, and in part, three she is an adult and has short hair again.

I heard someone say that Sasuke likes girls with long hair. Because Hinata has a crush on Naruto, she wants to keep her hair short so that Sasuke won't like her, is he ever does.

The other reason is that the tradition in Japan is that girls have their hair cut short if they are a disgrace to their clan/family. Hinata was not very strong at Part One, as she was defeated by her little sister Hanabi, though she was 5 years younger. Hiyashi Hyuga, Hinata's dad, even referred to her as a disgrace (in one of the filler episodes).


What is the name of a Cartoon Network anime whose second season plot was based on time travel? My best guess is that the anime aired on Cartoon Network sometime between 2004 and 2008, for at least one and probably no more than two seasons. I don't remember many details other than that it was a kind of action-adventure anime with several warrior characters trying to save the world from some evil. What was memorable about it was that they failed at the end of the first season and the world was destroyed. But the second season made clear the heroes through some magic had escaped into a parallel universe at an earlier point in the timeline, wherein they succeeded. It was unusual because most shows don't go into such depth about how time travel would probably work by sending you to a parallel world instead of your own timeline.

It is indeed Xiaolin Showdown.

It was broadcast between 2003 and 2006 consisting of 3 season. Each character was master of an element:

Big dude (Clay) - Earth
Girl (Kimiko) - Fire
Dot-Head (Omi) - Water
Remaining Boy (Raimundo) - Wind

It's actually an American production, but set in Asia. They protect the Shen Gong Wu from the evils that desire the treasure.

The first season ends with their failure and they need to travel back in time and create an alternate future resulting in their success. This is what the second season mostly deals with. In the third and final season the warriors travel to the Ying-Yang world to retrieve Omi's good chi.

It seems this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaolin_Showdown. Although it's 3 seasons long.


Why did Kirito toss the sword away in episode 17 of the second season? Towards the end of episode 17 (of the second season of SAO), after extricating Excaliber from the dais in the lowest level of Thrymheim, Kirito makes a comment about the sword "still being too heavy" for him. He then throws Excaliber away before jumping onto the flying tentacle-elephant.

Why did he do that? He doesn't seem averse to accepting the sword from Sinon a few minutes later (after she grabs the sword out of the air with one of her arrows), so it didn't seem like a "I am unworthy to wield this sword" type of thing.

It's because the sword was overburdening Kirito and since he can't put it into his inventory, he had to make a choice of either letting it go so he can make the jump onto Tonkii or going down with it:
From the (previously translated) light novel (Sword Art Online Volume 8, Early and Late, Caliber, page 308):

At that point, I noticed one terrible fact.
I couldn't jump.
To be more exact, in my arms was a heavy load the «Holy Sword Excaliber», so jumping five meters wouldn't be possible. Just by standing, my boots already bit into the ice.

The reason why kirito through the holy sword was because if he were to take it he would have to throw away the other items in his iventory. Though it had seemed that he was able to get it in season 2 mother's rosario he was eventually able to get the holy sword because in the first episode of mother's rosario he had a chest if you were paying attention. He was rewareded with the sword as well as a hammer at the of the episode excalibur.


Did Vegeta and Bulma really get married in Dragon Ball? I know that Bulma keeps calling Vegeta her husband but till now I haven't seen any proof that both of them are married. Vegeta wouldn't usually make time for such things. Are they really married or are they in a relationship?

In the manga or anime, there is no actual mention of an official ceremony where they get married. Also, considering Vegeta's attitude, he would not have the patience to endure such an ceremony.

The first time Bulma mentions Vegeta as her husband is during the World Tournament Saga So, it is hinted that they married somewhere between the Cell Saga and World Tournament Saga.

From Dragon Ball Wiki

  After approximately a year since Future Trunks' warning about the Androids, Bulma breaks up with Yamcha and becomes romantically involved with Vegeta, ultimately leading to the conception of Trunks. However, even the birth of their son was not enough to bring the two together, as of that time Vegeta prioritized his rivalry with Goku before anything else, even his relationship with Bulma. Arguments were common between the two, with Bulma often calling Vegeta a "jerk" and Vegeta showing little to no care or emotion for either his son or his future wife; this was demonstrated during an incident in which Bulma's plane is destroyed and their lives are at risk. When Future Trunks saves the two and questions Vegeta as to why he did not try to save them, Vegeta responds that he has "more important things to worry about than that foolish woman and her blasted child." Bulma later humiliates Vegeta in front of everyone when she says that every time he sticks his "Ugly Mug" up to Trunks, it makes Trunks cry, much to Krillin and Gohan's amusement and Vegeta's anger.

It is stringly hinted that the conception of Trunks was due to an one night stand between the two

  Vegeta's and Bulma's indifference to each other during the Androids Saga strongly implies that the circumstances surrounding their child's conception was no more than a brief affair; Future Trunks states to Goku that in his timeline, even though Bulma fell in love with Vegeta, they did not stay together very long because their attraction was solely based on passion and loneliness. However, the seven years of peace that came after the conclusion of the Cell Games would suggest that the two settled their differences and began to have a much better relationship than previously, as they were already married by the time the Majin Buu conflict took place.

it is never actually show in anime or mange but she keeps calling him her husband and trunks their bay and also future trunks justified it in his first meeting.
The wiki page show Vegeta as her husband here http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Bulma


Why did Obito spare Kakashi? During his time of Obito being with Madara, the White Zetsus told him that Rin and "Stupid Kakashi" were in trouble. Obito hurried as fast as he could to get to where Kakashi and Rin where. Once he got there, he saw that Rin was already dead and that Kakashi was the one who killed her. At the same time, Kakashi and Obito awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan which made Kakashi faint and Obito just sad/mad. Obito got so mad he went on a rampage. He killed all the other people that were around Kakashi and Rin. Once he finished, he went to Rin and hugged her. After that, he looked back to see Kakashi who was on the floor.

At that time, Obito had a huge chance of killing Kakashi, but for some reason, he did not want to kill the person who took the love of his life away from him.

Why did Obito spare Kakashi? Why didn't he kill him instead? Did he just feel bad for killing someone who was defenseless, or because he was going to feel bad for killing his old friend? Is there another reason for this, or is there just none?

For Obito, Kakashi was a victim just as Rin was. He didn't blame Kakashi for killing Rin but rather for "letting her die" and not being able to keep his promise. He was aware of the fact Rin had the 3-Tails inside her and chose to die by Kakashi's hand.
Hence, he never resented Kakashi himself but rather the world that created this situation and forced Rin to commit suicide.
In chapter 600 of Naruto, Kakashi asks Obito if he blames him:

Kakashi: Aren't you going to blame me?
Obito: With this insignificant reality, what good will blaming you do?
Obito: I hold no interest in the affairs of this world that's about to disappear.

A lot of people don't know why Obito didn't choose to kill Kakashi when he had the chance. Obito chose not to kill Kakashi because they had been lifelong friends.

Before that, Obito knew about Rin having the three tails placed in her, and he couldn't bring himself to doing it. When Kakashi "killed" Rin, Obito and Kakashi developed their Mangekyou Sharingan. As Kakashi fainted on the ground because of it, Obito got mad and killed all of the mist ninjas around.

I believe he didn't kill Kakashi because he knew he was defenseless.


What is the significance of the name Bleach? The name "Bleach" seems to be having no relevance to the plot unlike most other series. Was it just chosen at Kubo-sensei's whim or does it have some significance? Maybe some cultural significance associated with shinigami, etc. that I am now aware of?

Kubo himself has commented on this. Below I've taken the quote from Bleach Answers Wiki:

  The title wasn't Bleach when Tite Kubo decided to draw a story about Shinigami. This was before he drew the one-shot manga that appeared in Akamaru Jump. The weapon wasn't a sword, but a scythe. Only Rukia had a scythe and the other characters used guns. At that point, the title was Snipe (as in "Sniper"). Right before he started drawing, he began to think that a sword would be better and realized he couldn't use Snipe as a title anymore. He began looking for a title that grasped the bigger picture. Shinigami are associated with the color black, but it would have been boring to use "black". "White", on the other hand, can suggest black as a complementary color. So Tite Kubo chose "Bleach" to evoke the impression of the color white.

I've also heard other theories, which aren't as well supported by interviews with Kubo but still seem to have some evidence supporting them. One is that shinigami "cleanse" souls, similar to what bleach does (Kubo himself mentioned this in an interview, but it's not clear whether he noticed this before or after deciding on the name). Another is that Kubo is a fan of the band Nirvana, and their first album is Bleach. So there might be more than one reason, but the quoted one above is the one he usually gives when asked about it.

Or maybe Ichigo is bleaching his hair to that color so it would be closer to a version he remembers his mother having? And the title is about him - who is the main character, after all?


How is Armament Haki obtained or learned? Armament Haki is being used by a number of users, namely Luffy, Sabo, Garp, Chinjao, etc.

So, has there been any explanation given about the process or training involved in obtaining this Haki ?

As an introduction I will quote the wiki page on Haki:

  Haki is a mysterious power that is found in every living being in the world. It is not that different from the normal senses. However, most people do not notice it or fail to awaken it. Broadly, there are two types of Haki common to everyone, given the proper training

As mentioned here, everybody has the ability to learn Haki, given the proper training. We have seen lots of examples of people who had obtained Haki through training, like the girls from the Kuja tribe, Luffy during his training with Rayleigh, Cobi during his training with Garp, etc. Almost every person we have seen, that uses Haki has gone through some kind of training from a Haki expert. The problem is that none of these training sessions have been shown as of writing.

Training is not the only way to obtain Haki though. As mentioned in the introduction, Haki is not different from your normal senses and that means that you can also obtain Haki subconsciously. We have seen a handful of cases, where people had obtained Haki on their own, without any training whatsoever. Examples of this are Ace and Luffy obtaining Conqueror's Haki, Cobi and Usopp obtaining Observation Haki or Sai obtaining Armament Haki. So it does not mean you have to take training per se to obtain Haki, but it is well advised to take training to fully control your power. Ace for example was shown to have Conqueror's Haki, but it did not look like he ever learned how to control it properly.

You have to be at a certain level of skill before you can learn haki. All the characters have shown usage of haki before they went into special training to get better at it. If you picked the weakest person off the street you would first train them in combat for at least one to two years before they start to show signs of being able to use haki. Ussop is a good example because he was very weak and grew to some extent from battling with the straw hats. Even then he wouldn’t have been able to get training for haki. It was only after two more years of training and a stressful situation did he finally use observation haki to save Luffy from Sugar.


When does One Piece take place? When does the story of One Piece take place? Since the story is pirate-themed, I thought it may be at the time of the Golden Age of Piracy. The Golden Age of Piracy spans from 1650s to the 1730s. So I thought it happened around that time. Am I right or do they have their own timeline?

Well, actually! One Piece doesn't even take place on earth. It's pretty obvious when you take a glance at the planet's geography:

Not even during earth's theorized pangaea phase did it ever look like this. So One Piece is either very, very, very far into the future, or more likely simply not on earth at all.

A lot of ideas in OP are gathered from the eras you've mentioned, certainly, as a thematic thing, but they don't actually take place in those points of human history.

I believe it takes place during the 19th century, seeing as how the ships match up to those during the 1800s, the first gas operated stove was made during the 1820s and Sanji smokes cigarettes, which were invented in 1865 and mass produced across the world in 1881. This is saying IF one piece took place on Earth.


Why does Kirito end up in the forest when he first enters Alfheim? In the Sword Art Online anime, we see Kirito enter Alfheim Online first in episode 16. Although he is supposed to enter the Spriggan base when he first arrives, he instead encounters something like a glitch and ends up in a forest. Is there any explanation in the anime or light novels for why this happened? I don't recall it being mentioned in any of the later anime episodes.

Note: from a plot point of view it's somewhat necessary that this happens since it gives him a way to meet Leafa, but this still doesn't really explain why this happens purely within the context of the SAO continuity.

In case it isn't clear from my wording and the inclusion of the first image, I am asking why Kirito ends up in the forest after some sort of glitch appears while he is travelling to the Spriggan base (where he was supposed to go initially). The accepted answer here gives the best explanation for why that's the case.

From Sword Art Online Volume 3 - Fairy Dance, Chapter 2 (emphasis mine):

  "[...]. Yggdrasil...she seems to be there. That place, you know
  it?"

  "Ah, this I know. Eh, eh, it's generally to the northeast, but quite a
  ways from here. If I were to convert it into real distance, it would be
  about fifty kilometers away."

  "Wow, that really is a long distance. That’s what, five times the
  diameter of Aincrad. Actually, why was I brought to this forest anyway?"

  Yui lowered her head for a moment at my question.

  "I think that your positional data was either damaged or confused with a nearby player, resulting in you ending up here. That’s just a guess, though."

In the screenshot, the pyramid like structure is the signature building of the Spriggan hometown. The blocky void above it is the glitch that "teleports" Kirito to the forest.

Yui raised two possibilities for the glitch:

Kirito's positional data was damaged

Since Kirito and Asuna was teleported to the sky outside Aincrad in SAO moments before the game shut down, and Kirito's character data from SAO was loaded in ALO, chances are that the positional data was also loaded, which sent him on a free fall nosediving trip into the forest 50 kilometers away from Yggdrasil.

While this matches the fact that ALO's map is much bigger than SAO (as seen in the above quote), it was quite a miracle that Kirito dropped right at the forest where Leafa was. As the map in ALO is much bigger, he might as well had ended up elsewhere in ALO.
Kirito's positional data was confused with a nearby player

Since Kirito and Suguha were accessing the game from the same IP address (which is quite common for IPv4 in real world), Kirito's positional data got glitched up and he was dropped in the forest where Suguha (Leafa) was, instead of the hometown of the Spriggan. The fact that he fell from the sky matches the fact that Leafa was having a mid-air fight.

I admit this is a bit stretching, but this is the closest I could relate a real life concept with the theory above to explain the proximity of Kirito and Leafa's position in the game and the timing when the glitch happened.

(Either way, I take it as an excuse for the story instead of general knowledge).

There was never an explanation in the novel, as far as I could remember. However, everything about SAO indicates that player data is saved locally (like how Kirito said he saved Yui to his NerveGear's storage, which somehow put her in his inventory when he got into ALO). Additionally, the fact that ALO used SAO's source would explain why ALO might become confused, and load in Kirito's previous data from SAO.

To some extent, this makes sense in the context of SAO. Saving the data on a remote database would possibly allow "others" to tamper with it, and possibly alter player stats, one way or another. My guess is, this means ALO's player data is also saved client-side. You could reason that this is because ALO's programmers were stupid (Look at how ALO makes use of "GM Pass cards" and 12 digit (wut?) number pads, for things that are supposedly very important). However, I doubt Kawahara really thought that far ahead.


Why isn't Baki of the Sand fighting in the Fourth Great Shinobi War? The last time I've seen him was after the Five Kage Summit Arc. Since then, we haven't seen him. Despite him being a Jonin-level Shinobi, I can't remember him being on the battlefield, so my question is: why is it that this character (along with other Shinobi) isn't included by Kishi in this part of the anime?

Another Jonin level shinobi that is missing from the 4th Great Shinobi War is Kurenai (this maybe because of her pregnancy), Ebisu and Ibiki Morino too are missing and he too is of Jounin level.

Since nothing specifically has been stated about their absence we can only deduce that either

1> These shinobi have been dispatched on some special mission and that is not shown in the manga, or

2> These shinobi have been given the duty to protect the civilians that are not directly taking part in the war.

My two cent would be on the speculation that they are protecting the civilians that are not directly taking part in the war. These civilians need to be protected, and the generals need to dispatch a small group of quality fighters that would be able to defend them or move them to safety.

In the episode where the leaf village is attacked ebisu is shown to be in charge of defending the village.

But I don't know where the rest are sadly.


In Sword Art Online Ordinal Scale, how does Asuna know about the boss' healing ability? The final fight against the level 100 boss has two parts to it:

Kirito and his usual group of friends go up against it alone.
Asuna, and everyone else from ALO and GGO join in.

In the 1st half of the battle, Kirito and friends basically get annihilated. In this first part, they observe that the boss will heal itself with a tree and drop of water.

In the 2nd half of the battle where everyone is in, the boss attempts to heal itself again. But Asuna tells everyone to block the drop of water to stop the healing.

Asuna wasn't there yet when the boss first healed itself. She wasn't watching either as she was talking to Yuuna and not in full dive.

How did she know about the move to tell everyone to block it? Is this a plot hole? Or is there an explanation to it?

If Asuna is well-learned (or more likely just because she played ALfheim Online, whose lore fiddles with Norse mythology), she may have known that in Norse mythology, the dew that falls from the tree Yggdrasil carries the power of life. In that case, she must have connected the dots instantly after seeing the tree and the dropping dew, and/or perhaps also after hearing the healing SFX that started playing at the same time.

It is interesting to note that Yggdrasil in ALfheim Online shelters the capital city of the game, and that Asuna was also a hostage at the top of Yggrasil for a whole cour.

From Prose Edda/Gylfaginning, 16:

  An ash I know

  Hight Ygdrasil;

  A high, holy tree

  With white clay sprinkled.

  Thence comes the dews

  That fall in the dales.

  Green forever it stands

  Over Urd's fountain.

  The dew which falls on the earth from this tree men call honey-fall, and it is the food of bees.

From Prose Edda/Gylfaginning, 58:

  In a place called Hodmimer's-hold are concealed two persons during Surt's fire, called Lif and Lifthraser. They feed on the morning dew. From these so numerous a race is descended that they fill the whole world with people, as is here said:

  Lif and Lifthraser
     Will lie hid

  In Hodmimer's-holt.

  The morning dew

  They have for food.

  From them are the races descended.

I think that stuff from anime like that may not have to make sense, because her spontaneously noticing just basically was a way for Kirito to win... she also may have just been an observant person?


Who controls the mind after fusion in DBZ? In Dragon Ball Z, after fusion, who controls the mind and the body? Is it both or a single person?

There are several types of fusion. For the majority of these, the more dominant/stronger individual controls the mind and body.

For Piccolo and Nail, they did the Namekian Fusion, Piccolo was the more dominant. There was also Cell and the Androids. Cell fused with them by a type of fusion called Absorption. There was also the permanent fusion of Supreme Kai and his servant Kibito by using The Potara Earrings. Supreme Kai's personality was the one that stood out after that. For Dragon Ball Super we also see Kale and Caulifla fuse into Kefla who actually only seems to inherit Caulifla's personality.

In the normal fusion, the one you are more than likely asking about, the one that comes after initiating the Fusion Dance. A new being is created from both individuals. This being will..

  combine both their attributes, from strength and speed to reflexes, intelligence and wisdom. When properly fused, the single being created has an astounding level of power, far beyond what either fusees would have had individually.

So, none of the fusees control the mind after the normal fusion. The being created after is a combination of both of their individual attributes and as such can think for itself.

No one, once fused. He or she is an entirely different person, with a brand new personality and everything.

An exception would be the Namekian fusion.


Why didn't Edward affix his mother's soul to the suit of armor? If Edward could affix his brother's soul, why not his mother? Did it require seeing the 'truth' to do so? Does that mean the other empty armor suits (Barry) had another person who had seen the truth affix them?

Edward couldn't affix his mother's soul, because she was already long dead. It isn't made so obvious, but actually a few years pass between the mother's death, and then the boys training with Izumi, before they try and resurrect her. He was able to attach Al's soul to the armour because it was still present, in the body of the creature they tried to transmute. The mother's soul had long since departed, and couldn't be used in alchemy.

When the mother died of her illness, we can assume Ed never considered putting her soul into another object, and even if he did he wouldn't have known how, and probably would not have had the alchemical skill to do so anyway.

Alphonse soul never left the mortal world, it  bounced into the creature they made, then ed put it into the suit of armour from the dying body they transmuted.


How is Misaka's railgun so destructive? In episode 1 of Railgun, Misaka's railgun up-ends a good chunk of what appears to be an olympic-sized swimming pool. Later in the same episode, it is revealed that her railgun travels at a velocity of 1030 m/s.

However, the numbers don't add up.
Suppose Misaka uses 10 gram coins. At 1030 m/s, that coin has this much energy:
Energy = 1/2 m v^2
       = 1/2 (0.01 kg) (1030 m/s)^2 = 5304.5 kg (m/s)^2
       = 5304.5 Joules

An olympic-sized swimming pool has 2,500,000 kg of water. Based on the image above, that cone probably travels a good 100 meters into the air.
So let's say for benefit of the doubt, that only 10% of the water is lifted 100 meters into the air.
Energy = m g h
       = (0.01 * 2500000 kg) (9.8 m/s^2) (100 m) = 2.45 * 10^8 kg (m/s)^2
       = 2.45 * 10^8 Joules

The coin needs 2.45 * 10^8 Joules of energy to uplift the swimming pool as shown above. But her coin can only provide 5304.5 Joules. There is a difference of about 4 orders of magnitude.

Okay... Before anyone dismisses this as just another case of Anime physics, let's look at what else could produce so much energy:

The spin of the coin is not captured in the net velocity of 1030 m/s. But given the moment of inertia of a little coin, it would need a tremendous (relativistic?) amount of spin to carry 10^8 Joules.
The charge of the coin is unspecified in the Anime. Perhaps Misaka somehow polarizes the charge in the coin and somehow makes it release upon contact with the target.
The mass-energy (E = mc^2) of the coin is 9 * 10^14 Joules. Is this what she did?

So the question is: Is there any official explanation for where the coin gets so much energy? Or are we left to dismiss this as another case of Anime physics?

According to the anime and manga, Mikoto has a "muzzle velocity" of 1030 m/s:

In contrast, the US Navy's railgun has a muzzle velocity of 2520 m/s (~5600 mph or ~7.5x the speed of sound), with a muzzle energy of 10.64 megajoules (10.64 million joules). Which is probably comparable to the amount of energy in an average-sized car moving at 250 mph.

Comparatively, the an AK-47 rifle has a muzzle velocity of 715m/s (~1600 mph or ~2x the speed of sound), with a muzzle energy of ~2010 joules (assuming 7.62x39mm cartridges are used, but may vary depending on the type of ammunition).

While not very impressive stat-wise as far railguns go, since actual railguns are capable of achieving speeds of possibly more than ~5000 m/s. Take note that Mikoto is a middle-schooler that can fire eight shots of these per minute, which is on par with "typical" railguns.

Assuming the coin comparable to the size and weight of a U.S. quarter, one can assume that the coin she uses has a weight of about five grams. Using this formula we can get he muzzle energy:

  Energy = 0.5*(mass)(velocity)2 = 0.5*(0.005kg)(1030m/s)2 = ~2652.25 joules

So Mikoto outputs a bit more damage than an semi-automatic assault rifle.

But that's not what we're seeing now is it?

Not quite. But what could cause such a difference in output?

According to Page 1, Chapter 4 of the Railgun manga, she manipulates electromagnetism to achieve her results. This seems plausible since if the magnetic field were sufficiently focused, she could theoretically accelerate only the coin and/or nearby objects.

Now lets take a look at the pool test again, from the pool cleaning episode (S1, ep. 2) we have an approximate estimate of the dimensions of the pool:

Lets measure things in terms of Kuroko's height (~152cm)!

Seeing as the pool doesn't taper or either end, lets assume that the pool is about 14 Kurokos long or ~21.28 m (yes it does seem kinda small), and about 11 Kurokos wide, or ~16.72 m, by the lines on the pool floor and a bit less than ~0.9 Kuroko, or lets say 1.36m deep.

As for the displaced water, we could attempt to integrate the volume of the plume of water, assuming it's half and half air, find it's weight, etc. But we'll be lazy here and assume that 1/1000th of the pool water volume was dispersed into the air when Mikoto fires her railgun. The pool would have a volume:

  Volume = (1.36 m)*(21.28 m)*(16.72 m) = ~486.73 m3 of water

Since the "center of mass" the plume of water seems to be comparable be near the top of the gymnasium-type building, going be an eye estimate of the door compared to the building lets assume that it's 10 m tall. In order to calculate the energy needed to achieve something like this we do:

  (Energy it takes to lift an object) = (mass of object)*(acceleration due to gravity)*(lift altitude).

In this scenario let us cut a bunch of corners and assume that all the energy of the shot goes into lifting the water (by which ignore the energy spent warming the water up, creating the sounds loud explosion, any dramatic winds effect), then we have

  Energy = (1/1000)*(~486.73 m3)*(1000 kg/m3 water)*(9.8 m/s2)*(10m) = ~47699.54 joules

If we plug it backwards into the kinetic energy equation:

  √[(~47699.54 J)*2 / (0.005 kg)] = ~4368.04 m/s

So the muzzle velocity of her railgun would be ~4368.04 m/s.

One can only assume that, since we must respect the canon value of 1030 m/s, that perhaps the damage caused by Mikoto ability is due to her manipulation of electromagnetic caused as the coin moves through the air or some other factor... But then again, what do we know about the physics of this world where Science and Magic co-exist?

It is a case of anime physics as other posters have alluded to but not your average anime physics, it is said in certain parts of the manga and the sister series index that the way esper powers work is by manipulating a reality warping field to fit the style of their powers. therefore misaka's railgun works because it has sufficient reality warping energy and math behind it


Is there any explanation about Selim Bradley's true form? After the defeat of Selim Bradley (aka Homunculus Pride), his true form is revealed to be a tiny baby in a fetal position.

This makes me wonder, is Selim Bradley's true form is actually an aborted fetus, found later by The Father and given new life as Homunculus Pride?

This will explain a lot about his psychology (ex: Unconditional obedience towards his Father).

I think that none of the original forms of the homunculi are given an explanation.

Lust has the body of women that can change her fingers to needle
things.
Wrath is a mortal homunculus that has a human body.
Sloth has that big giant kind of body.
Envy has that green monster thing as the original form that he
disguises to a normal human body.

Only Gluttony can be given a reasonable explanation for his original body. He is the failed gate of truth and hence has a false gate in his stomach.

You can argue Envy has that green monster body since he is a compilation of many human souls but that is true for all the homunculi, so we can't take that as an explanation.

Also, I went through the WIKI and couldn't find anything on this.

I also think the fetus body remained in the end because Pride was removed (killed) from the body and only that fetus remained symbolically telling that the monster has been removed and only a pure form of the being (baby) remains(even though the baby is a homunculus).

All of their natural forms represent the sin they are. Pride is a child, arrogant as many children are, envy is a green ugly monster representing jealousy, sloth is big and powerful held back by his own laziness, lust is a sexual icon, gluttony is fat etc


Who is the father of Minato Namikaze? Does Namikaze mean a clan or is it just his second name?

I think the only way Naruto could defeat Madara Uchiha is to be in a blood-line relation with the Sage of the Six Paths, and thereby achieving a Rinnegan of his own.

Since Kushina, Mother of Naruto is from Uzumaki clan; which is a blood-relative of the Senju clan, it will make sense if Minato is from any distant clan related to Uchiha clan.

Is there any clue revealing who might be the parents of Minato?

No, there are no clues, at least not yet (in the anime).

But your second part of question/theory is obviously incorrect, since it's not enough to be related to an Uchiha, because it's not the DNA you need (directly, as is the case with the Senju part), but rather it's the eye itself. Since Naruto doesn't have a Sharingan, even if he's related to the Senju (distantly), he wouldn't be able to awaken the Rinnegan - not even if, by some miracle, Minato were to be related to the Uchihas (it seems pretty impossible to me). So, if Naruto were to not get a Sharingan, e.g. from Sasuke, in my opinion, he will never be able to awaken the Rinnegan.

As with the fight, I've no idea about the manga; the only thing I know is that he will team up with Sasuke (from older posts, which made me crazy...), but off-topic, I think there is more in Naruto, even without a Rinnegan, which could equal AND overpower Madara.

Related to your question, we don't know anything about Minato's parents. "Namikaze" could represent his association with a clan (as in most of the cases), or it could simply be his second name.

i was thinking that the father of minato namikaze was tobirama senju because tobirama looks more badass than minato and he is the second hokage.sorry but this is my opinion.it is impossible for the first and third hokage to be minato's father because the first hokage is tsunade's father/grandfather and there is no further close bond between the third and fourth hokage.I don't know the relationship between tobirama and minato though.they don't talk much.I might assume that it is possible that tobirama could be minato's secret father.Why do the story named Naruto Uzumaki and not Naruto Namikaze?Its because that they wanted naruto to know that minato namikaze is naruto's secret father.This might be the same applied to minato.Maybe minato's mother is the namikaze and the father is the senju.Thirdly,the uzumaki is related to the senju.This might be a hint to the namikaze.if i am wrong,correct me.Otherwise,it could be possible.the wiki says that tobirama is naruto's great grandfather.


Is Kurama more powerful than Susanoo? In the fight between Naruto and Sasuke, we saw their battle. It seems that Kurama was more powerful than Sasuke's Susanoo (with bijuus).

Is Kurama more powerful than Susanoo? Yes, it is. From the wiki,

  Even with half its strength, it could overpower Obito's controlled tailed beasts, smash Madara's senjutsu-enhanced Susanoo with a tail, and with the Six Paths Chakra, battle Sasuke's Tailed Beast-enhanced Complete Body — Susanoo.

That is just with roughly half its strength. At full strength, I would say it can easily overpower the aforementioned enemies, including Sasuke's Susanoo.

I think that Kurama is an amazingly powerful tailed beast, and I think he's definetly stronger than all susanoos, but maybe he'd meet his first real match and that would be Itachi's susanoo, because once again, Kurama has only half of his power, and if Naruto and Minato somehow managed to fuse together and fight using Kuramas full power than maybe Itachi would be finished once and for all


Is Toru Hagakure constantly naked? She seemed embarrassed to go barefoot and to be watched when she took her boots and gloves off. Since we can see when she is wearing those pieces of clothing does this mean she is constantly walking around naked?

Well, yes.

We know she can't make anything she has on her - including her clothing - invisible, so if she's totally invisible she's naked. We've seen her taking off her battle uniform (yes, the gloves and the boots) for tactical advantage.

I assume that with the technology disposable at UA they can manufacture something similar to Violet's suit from the Incredibles. It's not the suit that can turn someone invisible, but the person's powers that turn the suit invisible. The suit turns invisible with the person's powers (so for Toru, because she can't turn her powers off just yet it would be activated once she put it on) So along with Class A's costumes, Toru got hers which is a one piece suit. I assume and the gloves and boots are her own, which would explain why she needed to take them off.
As for the logistics I think UA would have considered light refraction or something like that as we can see she figures out she can manipulate that too


Are the events in Ishbal based on or inspired by the Holocaust? I've noticed that a lot of Western fans seem to associate the genocide / war in Ishval with the Holocaust (or alternatively, the Middle East). However, from somewhat secondary sources, I've heard that Arakawa was inspired by the plight of the Burakumin or Ainu. (The first I don't remember the reference for; the second appears on this page for Scar and on this reported interview, although there's no statement of where this is from.)

Given that FMA is a Japanese manga and that the direct linkage of Amestris to Germany seems tenuous, I am more inclined to assume that there isn't an exact real world parallel to Ishbal. (After all, the exact details of what happened in FMA don't entirely match up to what I know about the Holocaust. In combination with the statements by Arakawa and the fact that Amestris isn't really reducible to being a "fantasy version of German", I would assume that the events are largely fantasy, even if some portions might be inspired by various real-life events.)

Moreover, I would see it as best to assume that the events in Ishval were inspired (at least partly) by issues such as Japanese colonialism (per statements about interviewing war veterans1), even if some aspects might be European. My cynical self suggests that Western fans are also more likely to say Ishvalan War of Extermination == Holocaust because they simply are more likely to have more experience with it (or with the Middle East being an issue) than with tensions in East Asia, and not because this was necessarily explicitly stated somewhere.

What exactly is the arc involving Ishbal supposed to be based on, if anything? Is the oft-cited factoid that it is based on the Holocaust true, or is it more reasonable to associate it with issues linked to Japan or to see it as a largely fantastic element with occasional grounding in things that have happened in real life?

(Update) I now realise that the most obvious purpose of such interviews would be to get some grounding for the experiences of military characters such as Mustang or Hawkeye. However, I'm trying to preserve the question as close to its original form as possible (and there, I had mentioned East Asia) in this clean-up.

Hiromu Arakawa, the mangaka, states that she was not influenced greatly by any specific country, but rather a collection of European countries during the Industrial Revolution, as stated in the answers to this question, sourced back to an interview in Newtype USA, January 2006.

While I'm sure Arakawa took inspiration from her own country's history, too, the fact that she was inspired by Europe at all makes a convincing argument already.

With that said, I think it's fair to say that there is a decent amount of evidence specifically toward the extermination of Ishval being inspired by the Holocaust. In the question I linked above, there's a few other points that tie Amestris to Germany, but I think there's a few specific points to consider.

The leader of the time was labelled as a Fuhrer.

Not sure there's much more to say here. Hitler and Bradley share a title and a mustache.

During the flashbacks, the most prominent feature of the Amestrian army is their eyes.

It's quite clear that there is emphasis put on the non-Ishvalan Amestrians being very similar to the Aryan race that was dominant during the Holocaust.

Ishval differs from Amestris greatly in its religious views.

Aside from their ways of living being similar to those of the Amish, the largest difference between them and the "regular" Amestrians is the fact that they believe in the creator Ishval. In the Holocaust, Hitler's motivation was a duality of both targeting their bloodlines as well as their faith.

However, the Holocaust is a very sensitive topic.

I think part of the reason Arakawa denies being inspired by this is that she does not want to take a political stance on the issue. As soon as she admits to being inspired by such a sensitive issue, she opens herself up to all kinds of criticism and alienation from specific groups, mostly notably those of Jewish faith or descent.

Answer the question already! Was the Ishvalan Extermination inspired by the Holocaust?

There is no straight answer! Sorry! If you believe what Arakawa has said publicly, then no, it wasn't. She does not admit to taking inspiration from any particular country or event, just the feel of the European countries during the Industrial Revolution as well as the 20th century development.

However, if you'd rather look past the word of God, I think there is ample evidence to suggest that there were aspects of the Holocaust and WWII Germany that were imported into Fullmetal Alchemist, with Ishval and the Extermination being two of them.

No it was based on the War on Terror in the Middle East. You can tell they are an Arab-looking ethnic group. King Bradley and his warmongering cohorts were creating false flags which would be allegorical to 9/11 and the subsequent invasion, but in the show it would be the killing of the child by a officer to incite war and create the stone.

She is using two different generations of allegory, one being the German Fuhrer and the white skin blue eyes rhetoric of Amestrians, and the million[s] of Iraqi civilians who perished under the embargo on them and the war on the country itself which happened in the show in similar fashion.

It is weird because Germany was friends with the Ottoman Empire of the Middle East so I don't see how she could make the connection of the two.

Also Aryan does not mean white, blonde hair with blue eyes as the mainstream history books tell you. Iran (Land Of the Aryans) is also Aryan and they are not white nor blonde or blue eyed.


Next episode preview song in Darker Than Black For the life of me, I cannot find the song that plays at the end of each episode of Darker Than Black (both seasons, subbed+dubbed) during the next episode preview.

Could someone either provide the name or some way to find it?

Here's a clip of what I'm looking for - https://clyp.it/pxwptiqg.

This is "Water Forest", track #18 from the season 1 OST. Here is a 30-second extract from the beginning of the track: https://clyp.it/i5pumfdi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bAPhU9YSIE
I believe, perhaps. I only did some mild research, and you know it's in the title of the vid.


Who did Mirajane, Gildarts and Erza face off against to become a S-Class Mage? In the Tenrou Tree Arc, Gildarts told everyone who was moaning and groaning that he had to face the same thing as well when everyone was told that you had to face Erza and Mirajane which was...

  Fighting a S-Class Mage

So who was the S-Class mage that Mirajane, Gildarts, and Erza faced. Was it ever revealed in the manga or anime?

Looking at the past results on the S Class Mage Promotion Trial wiki, I would likely say that they had to fight the S-class mages present at that time (Eg: Erza had to fight either Laxus or Gildarts). It is not clear when and who Gildarts fought. It could have been Makarov, it could have been previous guild members or he could have shown his competence through other ways. It isn't really known how the previous tournaments went down. Remember that they don't have to win the fight to be promoted, like when Gildarts let Natsu continue the game or they might even get lucky like Gajeel. So the competition is not a power ranking.

Past Results

X???    Gildarts Clive
X778    Laxus Dreyar (Age 17)
X779    No Successful Candidate
X780    Erza Scarlet (Age 15)
X781    Mirajane Strauss (Age 16)
X782    Mystogan
X783    No Successful Candidate
X784    Trial Suspended

each exam is different. when gildharts said he had to go through the same thing he wasn't necessarily saying he had to fight an S class wizard. he was just saying that he took the exam


Who is the narrator in Rainbow? In the anime Rainbow Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin, there is a narrator throughout the series who has the voice of a young female. And in episode 1, she starts the story stating that it all began 50 years ago, implying that she is neither Lily nor Meg. So who is the narrator?

I know this is kinda late and by now you probably have the answer but I thought I should answer it for the sake of other people the narrator is Megumi Hayashibara


Which promised girl is Raku referring to? Onodera, Chitoge, and Marika seem to own a key and all of them have a fuzzy memory of their childhood. I think Raku really met them all when he was young and made a promise to each, maybe, so that makes all the three promised girls. Of course, only one key can fit inside Raku's locket but it's not whose key can fit but the girl he made a promise to. So the point of the story is whether Raku chooses the "promised girl" or his present love? Or I think is should be which of the three promised girls is his true love? So the one Raku's referring to as the "promise girl" is which: the girl with the key to the locket or the girl whom he promised to love?

Sorry I think my question sounds a bit confusing but I hope you try to understand it.

As the manga has ended, we have a winner. And the promised girl is

(click to enlarge picture, pictures taken from chapter 221)

   Chitoge

But wait, there is more

   Chitoge overheard that Raku actually like Onodera

   So Chitoge gave the key to Onodera

So, in the end, the promised girl is

   Onodera

So to answer your question, the girl with the key to the locket is the girl whom he promised to love

Don't forget about Yui onee-chan. She is also one of the girls who made promise with Raku in their childhood, and she also has a key, just like Onodera, Marika and Chitoge. In the new chapter of Nisekoi manga, when Ryuu asks Raku which girl Raku actually loves for now, he says Onodera, but Ryuu doubts it and then Raku starts thinking about Chitoge. My point is that maybe Raku will choose Chitoge.


Why do first, second, and third grade of Japanese students wear different uniform in Anime? I noticed that in most of school-life anime the first, second, and third grader usually wore different uniforms. It's not completely different. Sometimes the differences are pins, ribbon, indoor slippers, tie, and so on. But, what does the reason behind this?

I watch some Japanese dramas. But, couldn't recall any title that has those differences.
Is this really part of Japanese culture?

PS: In my country, most students wear uniform too. But there's no differences of uniform between first, second, and third graders.

In my country (Indonesia), our school uniform has a badge that indicates what grade we are. It was not just my school, other schools here also have it like this. Thus, this is not/no longer (since Indonesia used to be under the occupation of the Japanese forces) a Japanese specific culture.

As to why we have it that way, a page in Wikipedia explained it well. Basically, the uniform was modeled after the sailor uniform. The difference between Freshman, Junior, and Senior uniform rooted back from the rank hierarchy in the army. Think of advancing class as advancing in rank, like from a Sergeant into a Major, and then General.

Edit: Added from the Tomato Cabal Line group discussion (credit to Krazer), the color on the uniforms and shoes denote the year the students belong in. The color is rotated each year. E.g. the color of the graduated senior becomes the color of the new incoming freshman. This is so that you can tell who is your senior and who is your junior. The color is rotated so that you don't have to change color every year.

I don’t know why they do it in Japan, but it is what it is. I only know that in uniforms sometimes, it’s different than others to know what grade you are or something like that. ( for example, I watch this anime called love live school idol project and to know if their a 1st year, 2nd year, or 3rd year, the color of their bows on their uniform are different colors. Blue for 1st years, reddish pink for 2nd years, and green for 3rd years.) I think they do it in lots of anime’s and in real life too.


Was there any canonical or production-related reason for the fights in Dragon Ball Z being dragged out? A person and I had a chance to discuss DBZ over this weekend, and they weren't one of the few people that grew up watching it, but were trying to catch up.

However, they were very put off from the length of the fights with major protagonists, and I for one don't blame them.  I can't recall specifically were they were starting, but the phrase "are they still on Namek?" has already reached meme status.

So, I'd like to know if there was any official reason as to why these fights were dragged out as long as they were.  This also includes the fight with Cell and the fight with Majin Buu (although I don't recall watching the end of that one).

I think there's largely two reasons for these fights being so long and dragged out:

There were points when the anime was being released faster than the manga was being published. This is a common issue in the anime industry. When this happens, the producing studio has two choices. They can either add in filler episodes (like DBZ did, also see Naruto), or they can veer from the original plot of the manga (see Fullmetal Alchemist). Thus, when the anime was caught up with the manga and had to release a new episode before the next chapter of the manga was published, they'd simply drag out the plot of the fights or add in other filler content to give the manga some time to get ahead.
It makes the studio more money. This reason probably had less of an effect on the 'dragging out' of episodes as the first reason, but it is still viable. Making fights longer means making more episodes, which in turn makes the producing studio more money. It's more of a secondary reason, or an effect of the anime being released faster than the manga, if you will.

My answer is quite contrary to what people think in general here.
The very author Akira Toriyama is talking here

－－　『ドラゴンボールＺ』というタイトルは先生の発案と聞きましたが。
The interviewer : The title "Dragonball Z was created by you, sir, is that correct? ( asking Akira )
鳥山　あ、そうですね。
Toriyama: Uhm, yes.
－－　ウワサで、「Ｚ」が名前につく精力剤からタイトルをつけた、って聞いたんですが。
Rumor says, you sir put the last word Z borrowing the name of an energy enhancement medicine with the name Z.
鳥山　違いますよ～（笑）。「Ｚ」はアルファベットの最後の文字じゃないですか。で、当時からもう、本当に原作を終わらせたくて（笑）、だから「これでもうおしまいだよ～」って意味でタイトルは「Ｚ」にしたんですよ。精力剤なんて、一言も言った覚えないですよー、もーウワサっていい加減だなぁ（笑）。
Toriyama : Where did you hear that! lmao. You know, the end letter of the English alphabet is Z, right? At that time I really wanted to end the series so that I put the word Z. Energy enhancement medicine? Come on, I haven't uttered a word such never. Rumor always walks alone. lmao.

What about Wiki?

番組タイトルの「Z」は鳥山明本人によって命名されており、鳥山によれば「ドラゴンボールを早く終わらせたくてアルファベットの最後の文字である『Z』にした」とのことである[3]。本作放映直前のジャンプ1989年18号収録の『ドラゴンボール』ピンナップポスター裏に書かれた特集記事の見出しでは、『Z』とは「究極」「最強」と説明されていた。
The title of the program Z was named by the very author Akira Toriyama, and according to him "I wanted to end the Dragon Ball series ASAP so that I took the last letter of the alphabet. On the caption of the special article written on the back of the last Dragonball, 18th published in 1989, before it went into broadcasting, "Z stands for the "ultimate", "the strongest".

So on the contrary? to the first intention of the author, the story became even longer than the original. I think that happens sometimes, see how many sequence Matrix or Star Wars has.......


Who is it that killed Zephyr's crew and then became a warlord? So I just watched the One Piece Movie - The Battle of Z and it left me wondering who it was that killed Zephyr's crew (while he was in the Navy) and then became a warlord? It says he was a devil fruit user and that is why he acquired that weapon on/as his arm to take out all the devil fruit users he could.

Does it get explained anywhere in the manga? Any helpful information would be appreciated!

The Warlord who killed Zephyr's crew is not named even in the current chapter of the manga.

Nevertheless, it was stated that the pirate who killed Zephyr's crew became a warlord during the timeskip. Therefore, there are only three possibilities: Trafalgar Law, Buggy and the currently unnamed warlord. However, it it also not yet revealed whether the unnamed warlord is a devil fruit user.

I'm pretty certain it was either Doflamanco, Jimbei, or Crocodile because all the warlords at the time who could have done it would either not have or they wouldn't have used a cutting weapon. Kuma wouldn't have because he was a double agent for Dragon and he is trying to keep his cover. Boa didn't because they would've been turned to stone not murdered. The zombie guy who is dead now would've abducted the dead crew. Mihawk who does use a cutting weapon wouldn't have because he seems to obey orders without much argument. Buggy and trafalgar weren't warlords at the time.


Trying to find DBZ theme It plays on episode 24 at 9:00, been trying to find it for the past half hour and can't maybe someone can help me?

It should be from the original OST (japanese)

The soundtrack which was played for first 199 episodes in DGZ was Cha-La Head-Ha-La by Hironobu Kageyama. Just check. if this is the one you are searching for. The link is right below.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hironobu_Kageyama_-_Cha-La_Head-Cha-La.ogg


How are people supposed to watch Naruto legally if they live outside America?when it's only licensed in Canada and US on crunchyroll I'm curious , I saw online that Naruto can only be watched on Crunchyroll in Canada and the US

So I live in Australia, and I watch Naruto for at least 24 hours a month. If you want really good quality, then watch it on AnimeLab. If you don't want ads, then don't use the mobile AnimeLab.

Even though these really help you, the anime community gets affected if you don't buy official merchandise and DVDs, or watch it on official streaming websites, the anime production company will get shut down, meaning they won't produce more seasons, and no one wants that ;)


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

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

So what exactly happens during a Captain's Exam?

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

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

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

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

There are three different ways to become a Gotei 13 captain

To take the captain proficiency test which requires the ability to perform the bankai. Presumably, most Soul Reapers become captains using this method. At least three existing captains, including the Commander-General, have to witness the test.
To have personal recommendations from at least six captains and approval from at least three of the remaining seven.
To defeat a captain one-on-one with at least 200 witnesses from the captain's division. Kenpachi Zaraki is the only known captain to have achieved his rank using this method

note: This answer is from toddfroggs in yahoo answers and not my answer


Who are all members of Namikaze clan and is Namikaze clan a descendant of Senju clan? I know Minato (the fourth Hokage) is of the Namikaze clan, but I have never heard of anyone other than him belonging to the same clan. What is the Namikaze clan's history? Is it part of the Senju clan?

Namikaze isn't a descendant of Senju. I think it would have been mentioned in the past if it was, just like how it was stated Uzumaki is related to Senju. The past references has been brought up so many times with Kushina having Senju DNA, and therefore Naruto has it too.

As for all the members, we only know of Minato. No other Namikaze member was revealed in the manga. I haven't watched all the fillers, but there might have been another Namikaze person in there.

The Namikaze clan is well know for their speed, as seen by the most well known Namikaze's Minato. Despite his extensive use of the Flying Thunder God Technique, his speed came natural. Members of the Namikaze Clan are gifted with high level of intelligence. Due to their speed and ability to master any or almost all ninjustu, they became a nearly invincible clan. They were even capable of standing up against the Uchiha and Senju to a certain extent. Prior to Minato becoming the Hokage however, this clan gained no recognition.

There are some other members mentioned in this page.


Why does Sarada Uchiha wear glasses? In the anime, it was stated that Uchihas have the best eyes in terms of sight and visual prowess. If Uchihas have the best sight then why does Sarada Uchiha wear glasses?

I know there was the whole 'who is Sarada's mom' arc but

   it was revealed that Sakura is Sarada's mom, not Karin

so then why does she have glasses? Even though her glasses are a gift, we know that she legitimately needs them (she doesn't wear them for style) and neither of her parents wear glasses.

I haven't read the manga so if there are any canon reasons as to why Sarada has glasses can you please give me the source?

There are actually multiple reasons for this.

According to Manga, Sarada's eye condition was explained as an illness as a child, post which she had to wear glasses. I can't find the exact panel, but Narutopedia kind of corroborates this. She has perfect vision while activating the Sharingan, while her vision is no better or worse

  During her father's absence from the village while gathering information on Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, she became ill with a high fever and afterwards, began wearing glasses, which unknown to her were a gift from Karin. Sarada Uchiha: Narutopedia

Sharingan enhances her vision, but only while activated and the normal vision is just like everyone else.

However, the real reason is out-of-universe. It was Design Aesthetic, plain and simple. Kishimoto felt like giving her glasses, so he gave them to her.

  Interviewer: How is Sarada? [Or what about Sarada? T/N: In the context of design.]
  Kishimoto: Rather than cuteness, I wanted to project a slightly dark but strong hearted sense to Sarada. In my head, she is like a girl version of Sasuke. However, as it would be scary to have a Sasuke-like girl, I gave Sarada elements of Sakura as well. Although spectacled people are commonly given the image of “cute without glasses”, in Sarada’s case I aimed to make her cute even with her glasses on. Her clothes have a sense of Sakura, don’t they? Kishimoto Interview Excerpt

I guess another valid argument for Sarada wearing glasses is because of Sasuke going blind after excessive use of his Sharingan. Obviously, his eyes are fine now because he implanted Itachi's eye to him giving him the eternal MS, but without that, he would be blind. So those genes of Sasuke actually being blind were given to Sarada, having bad vision at an early age.


Why/How does Eren remember how to activate his Titan power? Eren's father injects him with the Titan serum years before he first uses it.  So how is it that he remembers how to activate it?

I don't know how far the anime is yet, so I'll put it into a spoiler.

   The shift between human is triggered by any injury that causes blood loss. The first shift is triggered when Eren gets eaten by one of the titans and hurts his arm. To trigger the next one, he bites himself to protect Mikasa and Armin. Apparently, also the will to accomplish something is needed to become a titan (kill the titans, save his friends)

I would imagine in order to transform the first time that you would have to be in very clear danager and would subconsciesly desire the change. He didn't have any concept that he could and something like getting cut on a tree would certainly not be dangerous enough to warrent the subconsciese into activating.

I would wager though that once he changed the first time and figure out he could do it it bacame much easier because he knew he could. It would be like discovering a secret talent that you had (wiggling your ears or something). You technically could always do it but without strong reason (someone telling you to try) you would never knew you could. Once you discovered you could, it would be much easier to access. (sorry if that's a bad example, not a lot of parallels to turning into a titan :p )

Another idea (though less likely imo) is that age has something to do with it. Maybe you have to mature to a certain point before it's possible. It just happened that he was finally of age/ ability at that point to turn and, with the obvious situation of being eaten, could at that point turn.