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An action anime featuring guns about a boy and a girl who resolves a bus hijacking incident in one of the episodes
I remember watching a few episodes of this anime, which was an action anime that featured guns.
In one of the episodes, the two protagonists (a male with black hair, and a blonde female, both teens I believe) were stuck on a hijacked bus along with many other people. The two protagonist had communication with some sort of headquarters. I believe there was a threat to the bus saying that if the bus were to slow down or stop, it would get blown up. Therefore, the bus driver couldn't slow down and had to go faster and faster, and when the bus was approaching a corner, they weren't able to turn. However, the two teens thought of gathering all people onto one side of the bus and using their weight to make the bus lean and turn.
In another episode, I think the two teens were on their way to school, but they got stopped half way at a warehouse as a bunch of robots came out of somewhere and started shooting at them. The teens decided to hide behind crates/boxes. They then pulled out their guns (which they were very good at using) and started shooting at the robots, but it wasn't really effective. There and then, I think it was the male character who did something and shot all the robots right in the robot's muzzle, which made all of the robots exploded, creating a scene for the two teens to escape
In yet another episode (and the last one I can remember), they were on a plane and they found out that one of their friends had been sabotaging them. Some intense talking went down, and that friend of theirs decided to jump out of the plane (safely, because that friend planned the whole thing, so she somehow had a parachute).

It sounds like Hidan no Aria (English title: Aria The Scarlet Ammo), except that the girl (Kanzaki H. Aria) has pink hair instead of blonde hair (her hair was originally blonde, though). Both of the protagonists are adept with guns, since they are students at Tokyo Butei High, where students are trained to become Butei (Armed Detective).
Episode 3 of the series features a bus hijacking incident, where the bus would be blown up if it were to slow down or stop. However, the part about leaning the bus with the weight of all the people on the bus does not occur in this series. Also, they were not stuck on the bus from the beginning, but they actually took on the mission to rescue everyone on the bus. They did get on the bus to search for the bomb, though.
The second half of episode 1 of the series features a scene where the two protagonists were inside a vaulting box inside a warehouse, when some remote controlled Segway mounted with guns came and shot at them. The male protagonist Tōyama Kinji (after activating Hysteria Mode, a special condition that runs in his family) shot into the muzzles of all the guns, causing all of them to explode.
Episode 4 and 5 is where the two protagonists found out that Mine Riko, one of their friends at school, was actually the culprit behind the previous incidents in episode 1 and 3. They had a few shootouts in the plane, and Riko escape from the plane by opening a hole on side of the plane with explosives and turning her clothes into a parachute.


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A party of 3 women looking for a hero
I'm looking for a manga I've read in English in 2009-2010. I bought the first volume of it back then, but I fear I might've lost it somewhere and can't remember the name either.
It's set in a medieval fantasy world, and the protagonists are a man and 3 women: a priestess, a thief, and a warrior.

The priestess has long fair hair and clothes like most other priestesses in manga or anime, and is pretty much like one would expect such a priestess to be.
The thief appears to be the youngest among the girls, is also the shortest of them all, and has shoulder-long hair. She appears to be a good-natured thief, not the cut-throat kind.
The warrior is quite tall and strong, even compared to men. She has dark skin and appears to be very tough. She doesn't behave much like a woman, nor does she try. She often spars with the male protagonist.
The male protagonist is pretty much a standard male protagonist: strong and reliable looking. He is quite a pervert, though.

It begins with the priestess looking for the successor of a legendary hero while the thief and warrior were accompanying her, helping her search. Apparently, and according to the priestess, the hero's successor is supposed to be just like the hero of legend: strong, reliable, chivalrous, etc. In short, he's supposed to be the ideal, perfect hero.
After they find him, they quickly realise the truth: He's nothing like what they expected. He may be strong, and he even looks reliable from time to time, but he's actually an unrefined pervert. The thief and warrior regularly ask the priestess, if she's sure he's the hero, to which she admits — usually in tears — that she has her doubts.
When the priestess reports to the head priestess (the one who gave her the job of finding the hero), she complains about him not being at all what she imagined. The head priestess admits that he sounds exactly like the legendary hero she had been travelling with many years back. Whether the head priestess only admitted it in her head, or the priestess didn't hear/believe her, I don't remember.
I don't remember much else about the story. I do remember, however, that the women treat the hero with a bit of hostility in the beginning, due to him being a shameless pervert. He eventually manages to earn their trust, though. The priestess keeps praying to her God, hoping that she'd got the wrong guy all along.
Although I've only read the first volume, it seemed to be quite funny overall, though I wouldn't exactly call it a comedy.
What's the name of that manga?

That sounds a lot like Mahou Senshi Louie, released in the US as Rune Soldier. I haven't read or watched the series, but from the Wikipedia description:

There's a blonde priestess, Melissa.
A young thief, Merrill
A tall, dark-skinned warrior, Genie
The main character, Louie, is an idiot and a pervert.

From this picture, the cast seems to resemble your description:

The plot description on Wikipedia sounds just like your summary: the three girls are seeking a legendary warrior who turns out to be Louie, to their disappointment, since he's idiotic and perverted. Over the course of the series, they slowly come to respect him.
The manga was published by ADV Manga, which was in operation from 2003 to around 2010, so it's perfectly plausible that you bought it in 2009 or 2010.

Ah, yes, this is it! Thank you very much.

@Nolonar You're welcome, glad I could help. By the way...was this a setup? The information in your post was suspiciously clear, complete, and helpful ; >

I promise it wasn't a setup, but I can definitely see why you would think so. I tried not to include memories I wasn't sure about. For instance: I remembered a fight with goblins and an ice elemental giant, but wasn't sure if it was from the same manga, so I decided not to mention them.

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How old is Gintoki?
On the Gintama official page, it says Gintoki's age is 20+. But it is not clear how old he is, because in the last generation of the Joui war, the foursome of Sakata Gintoki, Katsura Kotarou, Takasugi Shinsuke, and Sakamoto Tatsuma joined. So it's confusing what his real age is.

That's 3 questions. You should separate them into 3 questions instead of putting them all here.

Well the first one and the last one is related to each other. And asking this altogether because the information will be concentrated to one point only. :P

And asking this altogether because the information will be concentrated to one point only. If you want your question to have good answer, it's best to separate questions which are not strongly related to each other. Otherwise, people may choose to answer only one and skip the other two questions you have.

Sorry @nhahtdh edited the question.

It seems that Gintoki is about 25 to 26 years old.
In the Ask Sorachi segment of Episode 9: “You should go all out in a fight” Gin were described as a "hairless baby" when the Amanto first arrived. Shortly after which the Joui war started.

[After credits and preview]
Class: Teach us, Ginpachi sensei!
Gintoki: Um, this is a question from a Mr. Oonishi, from the second floor. ‘I noticed something strange the other day. Shinpachi-kun said that the “purge” was a movement that happened twenty years ago to drive amanto off earth. So, no matter how you cut it, Gin-san and Katsura-san have to be more than thirty years old. Is that true?’ Uh, ok now. Pay attention now, cuz this is gonna be on the test. The war of expulsion didn’t end in just a year or two, you see. When the war started twenty years ago, Gin-san was still just a hairless baby. The shogunate, afraid of the aliens, surrendered right away, but the samurai still resisted. It was around this time that Gin-san got a different kind of hair. When the amanto had infiltrated the entire government and were running roughshod over the whole nation, Gin-san finally entered the fight! Well, in a manner of speaking…So, that’s how the war of expulsion, lasting ten full years, happened. Gin-san and his friends only really participated in the very end of it. Oh, and Oonishi, go stand in the hall! Source: wikiquote

Gin was said to join the war towards the end, at which point we know he must be at least 20 years old. As that is how long the war just about lasted. But this was already known, as this was also answered inside the sorachi segments (see image)
Now using this live journal as a guide line we can see that up to episode 195 roughly 4 years have passed based on the seasons represented, and Christmas specials. As there are now 281 episodes, and it roughly takes 49 episodes to progress a year another 1.8 years should have about passed making Gintoki 25, almost 26

Please give the source where Sorachi-sensei mentioned that Gin was a hairless baby when Amanto first arrived. I never heard of that before.

@SakuraiTomoko I added the information in the post.

I think he's around 23-24. On episode 292, when gintoki wore a 3rd year uniform he said that he's a 9th year, this implies that he's about 23-24 since a 3rd year is usually 17-18.
And on Ginpachi sensei, it was said that 20 years ago, gintoki was this hairless baby, who doesn't look to be more than 4 years old, also when he went to join at the very end of the war that lasted for ten years, this was when he started growing a different kind of hair which is usual on 10-15 year old boys. He's likely around that age when he joined the war.

Between 24-28. We know he is younger than Kondo who is 28 and we know he should be older than Mutsu who is revealed to be 24 in her episodes.
I like to think he is the same age as Hijikata (who he has many parallels with) so around 27 (the same should be the case with Takasugi and Katsura who were his classmates and Sakamoto who may be a year older at most)

I believe Gintoki is 33, in episode 251? (the Kotatsu episode) of the anime, Gin states that after 6 years of the anime playing he is mentally almost 40.

Probably between 28 to 30.
They joined the Joui war around 10 years ago. At that time, they didn't look like teenagers but already adults, maybe 18 or 19 years old. So, 10 years later a.k.a the present time, they must be 28 or 29.

He is 27 as in a episode in anime series sojo or someone else said he is of same age as Toshiro Hijikata
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i think hes is 26 no I'm accurate he is 26 because I searched the gintama wiki and plus in the sorachi's segment it said gin was in his twenties

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80s-90s anime with a blonde main character whose mother dies
I am looking for an old TV-series.
As far as I remember there were different specific characters and a plot in something like a farm.
The main-character was a blonde and blue-eyes girl, who had a mother who died (I think due to a disease) and she told her, that when someone dies, they turn into a star.
The father was a doctor I think, he had, if I remember correctly, a mustache and brown hair.
Then there was of course the mother, she had long blond hair too, like her daughter.
The daughter would often wear pink dresses.
Another boy, who has brown hair and probably worked on the farm along side with another black boy who worked at the farm with his father.
The boy with the brown hair would later go search for her, find her in something like a foster home, lead by a nun and something like a butler, who raise children, and the main-character helps them.
The brown-haired boy asks her if she wants to marry her, but she doesn't want to and hides behind a door.
This is all I can remember, I hope you can help me.

It sounds like Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair

The story begins in a small town in Pennsylvania in 1838. Jeanie MacDowell is a cheerful and beautiful girl with light brown hair (although this could be perceived as being blonde hair). Jeanie enjoys playing the piano and loves taking piano lessons from her mother.
Steven, a good harmonica player, and Bill, a boy who is very good at playing the banjo, are great friends of Jeanie's. They enjoy playing music together like a small band.
However, Jeanie's happy life changes dramatically after her mother suddenly passes away.
Experiencing many difficulties and learning the importance of life, she decides to devote her life to helping many people suffering from illness.
The series is a love story about the relationship between Steven and Jeanie

Oh, magnificent! Thank you very much! That is exactly the story, I can tell by just looking at the picture.


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How much of the manga did Nisekoi season 2 cover?
I'm not reading Nisekoi's light novel/manga, so I wonder, how much of the manga does the anime's second season cover? Because I found that only a few episodes contribute to the story itself and almost half of the entire season appeared to be fillers. Is it also the same in the manga?

The first episode of season 2 starts at 51 chapter of manga and the last episode ends at chapter 106, but there was one filler episode (6th or 7th) with something like Madoka (I closed it right after I saw what's there). Also some chapters from this interval were covered in OVAs.

I haven't been reading the Nisekoi manga either, but I have seen this chart, which purports to provide a correspondence between manga chapters and anime episodes:

Assuming this chart is accurate, Mihai Svet's answer is roughly correct, though there appear to be a number of omitted chapters (above and beyond those relegated to the OVAs).

Season 2 roughly covers upto 105 or 106 chapters. There are total off 200+ chapters. You should start reading the manga. I too waited in the hope that More season will arrive. But its not arriving sad.


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What is the weapon Adlet uses to spit fire called?
In the first episode of Rokka no Yuusha, Adlet uses some kind of tool to spit out fire.

What is this tool called? Is there a real life equivalent?

I could not find a real world equivalent to this device. The closest thing that I can compare it to is when someone has a torch and they spit some alcohol through the flame.
Adlet most likely came up with this device through his extensive years of training with Atoro.

Could you maybe provide a link to the alcohol thing?

http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/arts/circus-arts/fire-breathing.htm

If it's ony used for a spark then it could possibly be that one piece could be flint and the other steel so that when he moves his teeth a certain way a spark is struck

Its not as much as a weapon as much as it is just 2 pieces of Flint and Steel.
Adlet has something flammable in his mouth that is liquid (Such as gasoline or alcohol) and strikes the flint and steel while blowing outwards causing a sort of flame to come from his mouth. Its not very effective since the flame dies out quickly but if the enemy is covered in something flammable it can be extremely devastating

If you look carefully in the first fight between Adlet + Nachetanya against the fiends or more recently when Adlet escapes Mora after she frames him, this is actually a two stage weapon. First, Adlet throws those "water bombs" which are actually a flammable chemical. Then he grinds/clicks the flint and steel or other sparking device on his teeth together. At close range the sparks ignite the liquid previously placed, making it seem like he is breathing fire/explosions.


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How did Waver appear in Iskandar's reality marble?
In the final episode of Ufotable's adaptation of Fate/Stay Night, we were shown a glimpse of what Waver looks like years after the events of Fate/Zero:

In Fate/Zero, we are shown that Iskandar's reality marble contains all of his comrades from the past. One of the soldiers who appeared in his army looks very similar to Waver:

So is that really Waver? If so, how did he appear in Iskandar's reality marble?

Who said servants could only be summoned from the past?

I don't believe it is Waver because everyone in the Reality Marble people Iskander knew? remember that Servants summoned to the Holy Grail Wars are copies of the originals as such Iskander wouldnt know Waver. i would more suspect its an ancestor of Waver's which would add to how well Waver and Iskander are together and how Waver can continue to summon him in the all the Holy Grail Wars they participated in  during Fate/Apocrypha. also give how he doesn't seem to be wearing armor he could be a Magus and thus be from Waver's Grandfather's side

According to the type moon wiki, Iskandar's reality marble is created with help from people who "shared his dreams and pledged allegiance to him after many victories and defeats"
Thus, in essence, Iskandar's reality marble is created by his followers, which Waver is, essentially, by the end of Fate/Zero.
Therefore, Waver is included among the rest of Iskandar's followers inside the Ionoi Hetairoi. However, you might ask how it's possible for older Waver to be here already. Servants and their magic are noted to exist outside of time, so as with Shirou and Archer, it's not unreasonable for the two to exist in the same time through the power of Rider's noble phantasm.
EDIT - Several other things of note, as suggested by :
First, consider Waver's oath to Rider. On the last day of the 4th Grail War, Waver uses all of his command seals on Rider, effectively stepping down as Rider's master. However, Rider insists that Waver ride into battle with him as a friend. Furthermore, after Rider's death, Waver promises to live in order to tell the story of "his king." All this lends support to the idea that Waver is a follower of Iskandar, just like everyone else inside Rider's Noble Phantasm. source.
To elaborate on how Servants exist outside of time, according to this heroic spirits are "freed from the constraints of time itself and removed from the ring of reincarnation, moved to the Throne of Heroes" which exists "outside of both the world and the time axis"

That's not Waver. He may look similar but he is explicitly named as Eumenes in the Case Files Materials book.

Another one of Iskandar's soldiers is Ptolemy.

Note that the designs discepencies from the Zero anime. The above designs are exclusively made for the Case Files anime.


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Why did Taeko's father hit her?
Taeko (as a child) complains about not having a nice handbag and refuses to go out to dinner with the rest of the family. When she realises that they are willing to go without her, she bursts out the door after them - regretting the tantrum she just had.
Once she leaves the front door, her father hits her for seeing her come out the house with no shoes.
She recalls that this was the first time, and the only time, that her father had hit her.
I realise that she was being bratty, but what was so bad about leaving the house without shoes on (compared to having a selfish tantrum about handbags)? Is it a cultural thing?

This is an impactful yet controversial scene that baffles even the Japanese viewers.
In chapter 22 of the original, semi-autobiographical manga that the Ghibli film is based on, the author speculates that Taeko's father physically punished Taeko because she was not acting in line with his principle of raising a dignified (read of higher class) daughter.
This is because in post-war Japan, including the time of Taeko's childhood in 1966, barefootedness (outside of house) was commonly associated with poverty.
(Cf. the classic manga Barefoot Gen by Hiroshima survivor Keiji Nakazawa that is also a testimony to the living conditions of the impoverished people.)
Whether Taeko was acting selfish or bratty probably was of no concern to her father.

原作コミック（岡本蛍・作 刀根夕子・画）の２２話「ワガママ」には

「ひょっとして父は・・・タエ子のワガママにいまさら腹を立てたのではなかったかもしれないはだしで飛び出すというそのみっともなさ あさましさに激怒したのではなかったろうか ワガママでもいい 凛々しく育ってほしい・・・それが父の美学だったのかもしれない」

Quoted from https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q13117211068.
On a side note, はだし教育 (hadashi kyouiku, Barefoot Education) is generally well-received these days, so I don't think that children leaving the house without shoes on would incur that kind of penalty anymore.
Inspired by a post-viewing reflection article (in Japanese, a good read), I think the scene of Taeko running out of the house in barefoot prompted the recall of the original inferiority feeling by the father and was treated as an attack on his feeling of superiority that was his defense mechanism.
It is all based on assumptions really, but could it be that the father was once poor and worked his way up to the middle-upper class?
Was his sumptuous lifestyle (e.g. buying the then rare and expensive pineapple and not finish eating it) an overcompensation for his earlier days?
The relevant parts in the Wikipedia articles (emphasis by me):

Superiority complex is a psychological defense mechanism in which a person's feelings of superiority counter or conceal his or her feelings of inferiority. [...] [I]f we inquire into a superiority complex and study its continuity, we can always find a more or less hidden inferiority [feeling] complex.

[Inferiority complex] is often subconscious, and is thought to drive afflicted individuals to overcompensate, resulting either in spectacular achievement or extreme asocial behavior. [...] A secondary inferiority feeling relates to an adult's experience of being unable to reach a subconscious, fictional final goal of subjective security and success to compensate for the inferiority feelings. The perceived distance from that goal would lead to a negative/depressed feeling that could then prompt the recall of the original inferiority feeling; this composite of inferiority feelings could be experienced as overwhelming.

The inner workings of human beings are really complex, as this example in the film has shown, with many viewers, myself included, still begging for an explanation of the motives behind the father's action.
There may never be a definitive answer.


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Code Geass season 1 episode 7, there is a song playing at 16:56
In Code Geass season 1 episode 7, there is a song playing at 16:56. I can't find the song no matter where I look.

It's "Stream of Consciousness" (track 4 from the first OST). Here is a thirty-second extract from the beginning of the track: https://clyp.it/qupf3tgv.


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What was Kuroko's real name?
I really love anime and I can't stop watching them. Among them, the anime I like most is The Basketball Which Kuroko Plays. I really want to know Kuroko's real name.

I don't understand why you had this question. It's not like Kuroko uses a pseudonym or conceals his name or anything like that.

If you're asking about the character, his full name is Tetsuya Kuroko.
If you're asking about the voice actor, it's Kensho Ono for the Japanese version, and Adrien Solis for the French version.
This can all be confirmed on Tetsuya Kuroko's MyAnimeList Page

@LittleNecklace No problem. if it answers your question, don't forget to mark the answer as accepted.


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Can a person kill another person even if that person does not possess the Death Note?
In "Death Note: How to use it VIII", it states that

"Even if you do not actually possess the Death Note, the effect will be the same if you can recognize the person and his/her name to place in the blank."

Is It possible to kill a person even if you don't have a Death Note?
Or am I just confused with the words?

I'm pretty sure this rule refers to things like how Light kept a scrap of the Death Note in his wristwatch at the very end - if he had managed to write a name on the scrap, the named person would have died, even though Light was not in physical possession of the Death Note itself at the time.

Yes you can kill someone with the Death Note, without actually possessing one.
That specific rule was probably referring to the Ray Penber accident. What they mean is that despite Ray Penber not possessing a Death Note himself, he could still manipulate his colleagues through the Death Note by filling in the names in the blanks.
The second rule should be read in combination with the first (see below), saying that the effects of the first part of the rule would not only take affect when the owner writes the names in the blanks, but also when some other person does so.
I think you might have been confused on the words "possessing a Death Note", which is more than just "holding a Death Note", I suppose.

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You may also write the cause and/or details of death prior to filling in the name of the individual. Be sure to insert the name in front of the written cause of death. You have about 19 days according to the human calendar in order to fill in a name.
Even if you do not actually possess the Death Note, the effect will be the same if you can recognize the person and his/her name to place in the blank.

oh yeah your right I was thinking about someone holding a death note. :)  Thanks


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What are the different knightmare generations?
In Code Geass, those gigantic machines called Knightmare Frames evolve during the show. It starts with a mere robot that can only carry a gun and it ends with flying machines, shields, and the anime's equivalent of a hydrogen bomb.
So I was wondering, what are the different stages of Knightmares' evolution?

there is a total of 9 generations or "Ages" according to the wikia.
to summarize
1st Generation
these were effective just walking cockpits according to the wikia and weren't outfitted with weapons. though we have seen no examples of these considering that the Cockpit Ejection System was developed we can imagine the normal Knightmare Cockpits with legs
2nd Generation
this generation came about after the creation of several common systemd found in Knightmares like Factsphere Sensor and Landspinner Propulsion System. this allowed for the early Knightmare Frame prototypes to be developed. however these new technologies behaved erratically so the research was outsourced to a Britannian Army Special Division, the 'Special Dispatch Guidance System Division', and a private group, the Ashford Foundation. it was also in this generation that the term "Knightmare Frame" was born

The bipedal weapon was nicknamed 'Knightmare' by the Army but its non-offensive equipment was referred to as 'Frame' by civilians. The union of those two terms gave birth to the name 'Knightmare Frame'.

3rd Generation
research done by the Special Dispatch Guidance System Division and the Ashford Foundation lead to the development of combat-effective Knightmares. this also pushed the value of Sakuradite due to it being paramount in making the Knightmare Frames perform to expectations.
the 3rd Generation is infact the earliest generation we see in the shown with the only one being the prototype Ganymede and its test pilot was Marianne. it was this which quickly made famous and being granted knighthood before she was married. however her assassination lead to the Ashford Foundation retiring from the Knightmare R&D
4th Generation
the RPI-11 Glasgow is the most commonly shown 4th gen Knightmare and was the first mass production unit for the platform. it was also the RPI-11 Glasgow which allowed the Britannian Empire to easily dominate Japan during the invasion in 2010 and became their baseline unit for the military.
while it later becomes obsolete it is still used by the Knight police and other countries/factions use the Glasgow as their base for Knightmare Development like the Burai which is produced by the Kyoto House for the  Black Knights and the Japan Liberation Front
5th Generation
Due to Britannia's success in Japan with the Glagow this generation saw the development of Anti-Knightmare weapons leading to create the RPI-13 Sutherland design to take on other Knightmares.
6th Generation
the 6th generation showed no real improvement with Knightmares and thus is referred to as the "Missing Generation". despite this and it's seemingly overwhelming power the Gawain is a 6th generation model privately developed by Schneizel el Britannia and later (much to Lloyd Asplund's annoyance) perfected by Rakshata Chawla. also despite it being seen used more often by a 7th Gen Prototype the Gawain was actually the first Knightmare to use the Float System
7th Generation
the Lancelot was the first significant innovation in the technology and lead to the development of the Vincent series of mass production unit. however the Lancelot still remained as a unique unit due to the development of experimental technologies not found in the Vincent such as the BlazeLuminous shields
8th Generation
the 8th generation was primarily seen during the second season with advancements in Knightmares being lead by the heads of Camelot Division, Lloyd Asplund and Cécile Croomy for Britannia and by Rakshata Chawla for the Black Knights. the Knights of the round all use 8th Gen Knightmares as such prior to this (and possibly prior to Susaku's appointment as a Knight of the Round) if they did use Knightmares they were probably 5th Generation, possibly Gloucesters considering Cornelia and her bodyguards use of them.
9th Generation
as of the end of the second season this is the pinnacle of Knightmare Development with there only being 2 units, the Lancelot Albion and the Guren S.E.I.T.E.N., both of these making use of the improved Float System called the Energy Wing.
It is possible that there may be a mass production series of the 9th generation or even more generations after thus the years following the Zero Requiem however until the release of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Resurrection we wont know for sure


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Who originally created the Knightmare Frames?
Knightmare Frames are humanoid war machines developed by the Holy Britannian Empire and unveiled during the invasion of Japan.
Is there any known scientist behind their creation, like how Nina created FLEIJA?

The earliest known developers of knightmare frames were the Ashford Foundation wih their development of the third generation Ganymede and the Io series. However, both of those models were cancelled at the prototype stage because the Ashford Foundation closed down. The cost to develop the nightmares were too high and Milly's grandfather was too much of a fan of old fashioned extravagant parties. After that he used his party connections to move to Area 11 and to become principal of what is now known as the Ashford Academy.
They talk about all this in the second picture drama, stage 3.25.
Aside from Milly's grandfather the only other known developers are Lloyd, Cecile, and Rakshata.


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Where to buy Berserk in digital format?
I want to start reading Berserk, but it seems like Dark Horse doesn't have the digital rights for the manga. Anybody know if there's another distributor that has the digital rights for this manga?

This question appears to be off-topic because it is about where to buy a manga series.

@Happy I don't see why it should be off-topic then. http://meta.anime.stackexchange.com/q/595/122

@looper I seem to have had a misunderstanding. I am retracting my close vote.

I realized the source of my misunderstanding. I had read the merchandise tag wiki a couple of days ago: http://meta.anime.stackexchange.com/q/742/99

Do you want english subbed manga or japanese ? As for english there are no E-Books available as of yet but in japanese there are plenty

English translated is what I'm looking for. I know Kanji but I don't think it'll allow me to understand this manga in Japanese.

As of July 18, 2017, Dark Horse released the manga digitally!

(I know you asked for digital, but at least it's available in some form...)
RightStuf started re-printing Berserk: Berserk Manga Gets Reprinting.
You can now buy it form their website: Browse All Berserk Graphic Novels.

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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 don't 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 the 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.

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 jinchuuriki 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 couldn't even switch between the eyes at the end as we could see. If he didn't have the Tailed Beasts extracted maybe he could have.
There is another argument I have: after Madara became the Sage of Six Paths, I think Madara could no longer access the dojutsu powers of his Sharingan. But this is only mere speculation.

No Juubi Jinchuriki dies from the Juubi being extracted because it has a shell, the same shell Hagoromo used to form the moon. It's just that they cannot move for a long period of time (a few months I believe) and cannot be healed unless someone uses a jutsu like Creation of all Things, where you add life to nothing. (which is why obito was well after juubi was extracted)

But that speculation is most likely correct, as Obito could no longer use Kamui or any form of Mangekyou Sharingan abilities. In Madara's case it seemed like whatever eye he had active when become Juubi Jinchuriki (Rinnegan) is what he sticks with. Though after being spit out by Kaguya his chakra was so low his Rinnegan auto-deactivated into a base Sharingan.

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.

Does having a rinnegan really limit the use of Izanagi? I believe a Rinnegan user like Madara and Sasuke would still be able to perform Izanagi because their rinnegans still allow them to use Susano'o (for which you need 2 MS). Why would one sharingan ability still be available and the other not?

He does have a Sharingan while he was dying, it was literally activated when Hashirama talked to him in the end lol


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Where can I find Durarara!! Vol 1 novel in Japanese language?
After watching the anime, I just wanted to read the novels for a better understanding of characters and of course, it had to be in Japanese language since I am learning it.
I tried searching for it, but couldn't find. Instead, I found those in translated version.
Can anyone please tell me where I can find it?

Precaution: you probably won't find the Japanese novel freely available, and we don't encourage piracy here. Is it okay for you to pay for it?

If you want to purchase the Japanese version of a light novel volume, manga volume, or anime disc that was released relatively recently, Amazon Japan is almost sure to have what you're looking for.
Since you know at least some Japanese, you can just search the site for it. Unless you want to use a proxy-shipping service, you will want to find products that ship internationally, which you can do by filtering your search down to "AmazonGlobal対象" products. Upon doing so, you will find that a print version is available here, and also that a Kindle version is available here, which may be cheaper overall. (But note that I've had issues with Kindle purchases from Amazon Japan - the various country-specific versions of Amazon don't share information about your Kindle purchases with each other, which seems to cause problems with some Kindle devices/apps.)
Depending on what country you live in, there may be other options that are cheaper, more convenient, or both. For example, if you reside in the US, Kinokuniya USA will ship basically any anime-related thing to you (more convenient), but charges a fairly hefty markup for it (not cheaper).
Durarara!! and most other light novels are generally unlikely to be found for free from any legitimate vendor, though occasionally the publishers will upload the first chapter or two online for free as a sampler.


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Is there a different relation between Kaede and Sia?
In the last episode of Shuffle, while the end theme song was rolling with credits, there was a scene where Kaede and Sia were together and then they crashed into something falling over each other and accidentally "kissed". Their expression was toooo "different" so? Do they have or grew a romantic relation?

I read the game, that scene is anime original (it doesn't happen in the visual novel, which is the source material). It is also quite irrelevant as they literally kiss accidentally. You can call it fanservice, nowadays anime/VNs include that even among straight girls.
In the visual novel there are no yuri relationships of any kind.
This question was posed in steam a few months ago. Of course the person answering says the same that I'm telling you now.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/537100/discussions/0/135507548127544499/

Because this scene is anime-only, there isn't any reference from the VN to know any further. Maybe the anime production crew know about this, but the official information available does not tell anything more about this event.
So the answer probably is 'There isn't official information to support this, so probably they do not'


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How does Magane's power work?
I'm watching Re:Creators but even after 9 episodes of the anime, I still don't understand how Magane's powers work. So, the question is, how does it work?
Wikipedia states this but I still don't understand it.

She possesses an ability called "Infinite Deception of Words" that allows her to bend reality through lies and deception; by telling a lie and manipulating somebody into rejecting that claim it creates a "lie of a lie" which by proxy makes the initial claim become real.

This is a bit of a logic puzzle which kind of pays homage to the smart-villain trope. (Death note, Code Geass, Future Diary, etc).
To put things simply think of the analogy "two wrongs don't make a right".
In short, if you do something wrong, doing something wrong in return doesn't make it ok.
Well, her power takes a similar approach but to an extreme measure. If she can generate a lie and get a person to reject an obvious lie, then it generates truth. How? Because False + False = True. How? Because that's just how her power works - it's a play on boolean logic.
It's impressive but can be equally powerless, because if you don't reply to her statements it has no power. It requires a person to hear what she says and believe the opposite.
For example if she says "It will rain and you will die in a tornado" And I say "No way". What happens?

I die in a tornado?
Thanks for the answer. I understand it now. Is my answer correct though?

Exactly, but it does not start raining, because it is the second lie(the lie inside the lie) that comes true :D

@kaz's answer sounds pretty much right to me; I just want to explicitly illustrate how her ability has worked in the cases we've seen so far.
Episode 6, first time
Magane writes in the book that the shopkeeper will be attacked by Hounds of Tindalos. This is a lie: Magane does not have the intrinsic ability to summon Cthulhuian monstrosities. Magane asks the shopkeeper whether he thinks that it's a lie; the shopkeeper replies that it obviously is a lie. Since the shopkeeper disbelieved her lie, her lie becomes truth, and so Hounds of Tindalos magically appear to devour the shopkeeper.
Episode 6, second time
Magane tells Aliceteria that her lance will end up piercing herself instead of Magane. This is a lie: Magane presumably does not have the ability to redirect weaponry. Aliceteria describes this statement as "nonsense". Since Aliceteria disbelieved her lie, her lie becomes truth. Had Selesia's arrival not prevented Aliceteria from making contact, she likely would've been magically run through by her own lance, given that Magane said her "a lie about a lie"line.
(It's unclear to me whether Magane actually needs to utter the "a lie about a lie" line for her ability to trigger or not. It might be just for show.)
Episode 9
Magane tells Mirokuji that his attacks are "nothing" to her. This is a lie: if Mirokuji were to land a hit on her, she would likely be in bad shape. Mirokuji calls her on her bluff ("I've never met anyone who was fine after getting hit with this"). Since Mirokuji disbelieved her lie, her lie becomes truth, and so Magane is now magically immune to Mirokuji's attacks, or at least his attacks with "this" (i.e. his sword).

Can you edit to explain how her ability allowed Setsuna to appear in episode 20?

In comparison to another work, Rick and Morty would tackle her power indirectly in the episode Amortycan Grickffiti. The demons enjoy pain which causes them pleasure. "Today is a bad day, which is GOOD, which causes me pain, WHICH is the BEST day!" Rick created a gun that inverts that back to its original statement, "Today is NOT the best day, because it causes me pain, which is bad, which is why it's a bad day." He created a gun to do this called an "Aversion-Converting Inversion Reverter" gun.
So to defeat her, you'd have to believe her lie.
"It will now rain and dogs will kill you." There are TWO lies there, so denying ANY of these lies would make the statement TRUE (A Lie of a Lie turns itself inside out)
So if you'd say "No way," it would make it true and dogs will kill you.


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Why does Madhouse produce anime with consistently high-quality animation?
That may be my personal observation, but I noticed that anime produced by the production company Madhouse have somewhat-consistently high-quality animation.
Even if the anime itself may not be a hit, the quality of drawings seems to be higher than most other production companies.
To list a few of their recent productions:

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

The list could really go on and on with HunterXHunter, Trigun, Parasyte, Hajime no Ippo, Ninja Scroll, ...etc.
Is this just a case of a big studio that has lots of money (although I hear that the anime production companies are always running on limited budgets)?
Do they hire only the best illustrators?

I disagree with the votes to close as "primarily opinion-based". There are semi-objective metrics (awards, sakuga analyses, and so forth) on the basis of which one could assert that "Madhouse produces anime with consistently high-quality animation" (I haven't bothered to check whether the assertion is true, but the point is that it is falsifiable). One can then deliver a factual answer to the question either of the form "your premise is false because X" or "your premise is true, and these [hiring practices, proprietary technology, directorial genius, etc.] are the contributing factors".

Maybe it's just because, they're one of the few companies that would spend seven years to make anime Fast and Furious.

There seem to be a few points that have or could have led to high-quality anime coming out of Madhouse.

It is a relatively old company. Having been started in 1972, it has had time to grow and figure out its style, at least compared to many anime studios which are from the 1990s or 2000s.
"Unlike other studios founded at this time such as AIC and J.C.Staff, their strength was and is primarily in TV shows and theatrical features. Expanding from the initial Mushi Pro staff, Madhouse recruited such important directors as Morio Asaka, Masayuki Kojima, and Satoshi Kon during the 1990s. Their staff roster expanded in the 2000s to include Mamoru Hosoda, Takeshi Koike, and Mitsuo Iso, as well as many younger television directors." (x) That shows a relatively strong set of directors.
They have a subsidiary company that focuses on computer graphics and a Korean animation studio that they have invested in and outsource to. Those show effort put into having work being done by those who specialize in it and are good at it.
They've collaborated with a number of big names in manga like CLAMP and Naoki Urasawa.

While the studio itself doesn't seem to be huge (about 70 employees, compared to 130 from Kyoto Animation, 120 from Production I.G., and 2010 from Nippon Animation), it has been a subsidiary since 2011 of Nippon Television, which is a massive television network in Japan. That may give it access to additional funds that would allow them to invest more into animation.

It's because they never produced many Animes with episodes over 120 or lets say even 55~60 episodes. They mostly do just Movies, OVA's and animes with just 1~25(with few exceptions going upto 35~40) episodes at the max. Movies and OVA's usually have a larger and a different budget than anime series. So, they are going to look better and more beautiful than a typical lower budget anime series.
If you also notice Madhouse doesn't produced many(almost none) animes which largely involve fast paced fighting or martial arts. They have done just a very few of them. And even if you take the ones that they have done there are either,

Movie
OVA
Anime with <= 25 Episodes
Anime with > 25 episodes but fighting or martial arts is present only in a few specific episodes. (A good Example : Hunter x Hunter).

In other words Madhouse is able to produce "Consistent High Quality Animation" only because they don't take "risks" or come out of their "Safe Zone". That is Madhouse produces animes which has mostly static/background animation or less animation.
Also, you just gave 9 examples out of about 187 or more titles which they worked on. Which is just about 5% of all their titles. I am wondering Based on just about 5% of their work how can come to that conclusion that it produces "Consistent" High quality animes?

Please give links to the references you used to write this answer. Other than that, this is a good answer. +1 after you add the references.


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Toothbrush joke?
In episode 6 of Busou Shoujo Machiavellism at about 17:15, there is a scene where Nomura sneaks into a girl's room and finds a toothbrush.
He gets excited and starts brushing his teeth with it. The side character hits him and says "Is now the time for this?"
Is this a common joke or prank as an anime trope? Or was there a more significant plot point that I am missing?
Attached below is a screen shot of the scene for easier reference:

Probably the "indirect contact" joke, similar to drinking from same straw, but not sure..

[machiavellianism] would seem to be the best name for a tag as its the primary part of the name of the series. The "busou shoujo" part is rendered in much smaller letters in the title art. The name "machiavellianism" is what's used in the URL for the show's official site: http://machiavellism-anime.jp/

[armed-girls-machiavellism] just fits into 25 characters, so that's what we're going with, despite the nonexistence of the word "machiavellism". Synonyms have been added for other variants of the title

I'm not actually watching this show (I watched episode 1 and dropped it), but I had a look at the scene you're referring to. My animey-sense tells me that @AkiTanaka is correct: this is the tired narrative trope where if your mouth touches a thing that has touched another person's mouth, it's basically the same as ~~kissing~~ them.

Probably is a reference to the monogatari toothbrush scene.

I doubt it. The entire joke in the Nisemonogatari scene is that one person is brushing somebody else's teeth. This doesn't happen in the scene OP is asking. Indeed, the only similarity between OP's scene and the one in Nisemonogatari is that a toothbrush is involved. This is a tenuous connection, at best.


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Why is "Taisha" written as "general pardon"?
In Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru, the organization that is responsible for doing things involving the god-tree is called "Taisha". The official (Crunchyroll) subs don't translate this word, but in Japanese, it's written 大赦. As far as I can tell, this is a legal term meaning "general pardon", which is a type of pardon in Japanese law that applies to all people convicted of a particular crime or class of crimes (as contrasted with 特赦 tokusha "special pardon", which applies only to specific people). This is a very strange name for an organization.
What is stranger still is that if you know Japanese and you had never seen the term written down, you would probably think that it would be written as the homophone 大社, which means "grand shrine", which makes a lot more sense as the name of an organization.
What is the logic behind writing "Taisha" as "general pardon"?
(I am aware of the "theory" suggesting that you can rearrange the strokes of 友奈 "Yuuna" and get 大赦 "Taisha" [see image]; I do not think that the theory has any merit, since it involves rearranging strokes in a way that does not respect the radicals involved.)

Hmm... in NoWaYu prequel, “Taisha” is written with the characters 大社.  In WaSuYu and YuYuYu, it is written as 大赦. Maybe it has something to do with the mankai ability? Maybe the Taisha is hiding something  important from them... again.

Originally, it was called 大社 (Grand Shrine), but later it's revised to 大赦 (Amnesty).
In Nogi Wakaba wa Yuusha de Aru (Nogi Wakaba is a Hero), the prequel to Washio Sumi wa Yuusha de Aru (Washio Sumi is a Hero) and Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru (Yuki Yuna is a Hero), the organization was originally named 大社 (Grand Shrine).
From ch. 3, pg. 5,

The counter-Vertex organization known as the Taisha (Grand Shrine) had researched the Shinju's power and discovered a scientific and magic method of utilizing it. The outfit was a result of that research. It was the culmination of the Shinju's blessing and the knowledge of mankind.
(Emphasis mine)

From ch. 19 (final chapter), pg. 23,

Hinata already seemed to have a plan in mind as she answered Wakaba's question without any hesitation.

"First, we will rename the Taisha from 'grand shrine' to 'amnesty' as a self-conscious reminder that we have been granted amnesty and live modestly as human beings."

(Emphasis mine, couldn't quote more than that to avoid heavy spoiler)

This is only speculation, but: In one sense, one could say that the Taisha and Shinju-sama (sorry if that's misspelled, I watched the series dubbed) granted a "general pardon" to humanity by protecting them from the apparently-endless maelstrom of destruction outside the... sorry, I'm blanking on the name for the barrier.


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What is this symbol used in Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress?
While watching Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, I saw this symbol during the opening song:

But what exactly does this symbol stand for? Is it ever mentioned what this stands for? Have I missed something? I also think I saw it once in the first episode, painted on the train, so I'm guessing it is the symbol for the train itself, but I'm not sure... I just want to know for what is this symbol used.

According to this post on the official website, this is the 浄化マーク, meaning "purification mark". It is derived from / inspired by older variants of the character 六, which is the "Rok-" in the phrase "Rokkon Shōjō" and means "six". This symbol is written on things to indicate that the things in question are "pure" (free of kabane, presumably).
I don't recall this being mentioned in the anime.


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What do people mean when they say "Notice me, senpai"?
I'm new to anime and my friends really like it. They really like to say to me "notice me, senpai!" and I don't get the reference. I could be walking to class and one of my friends would say "Can you go to the canteen?" and I would say no I can't and then, they will say "NOTICE ME, SENPAI!" Can anyone shed some light on the "notice me, senpai" reference, please?

Adding link to related question: https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/13252/

This is a meme in the English-speaking internet anime community. This particular phrasing appears to have come into existence around December 2013 (according to Google Trends), though variants are known to date back to 2012.
It does not directly reference any particular work of anime or manga. Rather, it is inspired by a reasonably common trope of anime/manga writing about school-age children, whereby a character (usually a girl) will have a personal or romantic interest in an older student at their same school (which is what a "senpai" is in this context), but instead of doing a dag-blasted thing about it, just silently hopes that the senpai will pay attention to them. This narrative trope is particularly common in shoujo media.
Goodness knows why your friends are exuding memes in real life; you would do better to ask them about that. As a meme originalist, I cannot help but notice that the contexts in which your friends are reportedly using this meme don't make much sense.

As a meme originalist ... What the hell is that?

@Euphoric You know how constitutional originalism is a thing? It's like that, except with memes.

If you know what senpai means you may understand. Senpai means upperclassman or someone you look up to. This phrase is quite common in anime which have a school background. It is generally used when someone wants another student (who is older than them) to notice them or acknowledge their presence. I once found this online:
It's a Japan thing. Senpai means someone you're suppose to look up to. Maybe a fellow student or colleague. Maybe your teacher. All in all 'Notice Me Senpai' means you want someone older than you to like you.
An example: Say a girl has a crush on a boy who is one class ahead of her at school. To the girl the guy is a 'Senpai'. Now, to impress him, she tries to act cool in front of him, cracks jokes, does some wierd stuff. Now say the boy is walking towards her. So she silently wishes "Notice me Senpai !" But the boy doesn't even look at her twice. So she would say to herself "Senpai why don't you notice me?"
But many times in real life, people say this to each other just for fun, maybe as in the case of your friends. Since you are new to the anime world, this may seem a bit odd but a few anime later, you will understand when to use the Notice me senpai reference yourself.
Although when your friend would say that when you refuse to do him/her a favour could mean that if you would 'notice' how pretty/awesome your friend is, you would certainly want to help him/her, and get on their better side... just an idea. You might want to ask your friend itself...

A much shorter answer: in a lot of manga and anime there is a character that likes a senpai, an upper classmen, however, no matter what they do, they can't get noticed by the senpai. So, the line expresses their desire to be noticed by their senpai. It has become a line to make fun of people when they are doing something for attention or interacting with their crush.

It's also from the game Yandere Simulator. Where the main character's crush is a guy she calls Senpai, and her main goal is for him to notice her, and in order for him to do that, she wants to kill all the other students because they have crushes on him too. It's a pretty dark game.

The game largely predicates itself on the trope.


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Why do Japanese names change within a manga to have various forms at different times?
So after reading some manga, I came to realize that many names change over the course of the story.
For example:

One Piece:

The princess of Alabasta had her name written as

Bebe
BB
vv
And concluded with Vivi

Attack on Titan Before the fall

Darius's son had his name as

Chabi
Xavi

His sister:

Charle
Sharle

So I'm guessing Xenophon could have also been:

Chenofon or something like that (That's just a guess)

Detective Conan

The "Famous Detective"

Kogoro
And Togo (in some parts)

What is the reason for that?

Overview
Most of your examples have to do with the fact that converting a "Western" name into the Japanese syllabary is a lossy operation, meaning that it's not always possible to reverse-engineer out the original "Western" name just by looking at how it's written in Japanese.1
It's not that the names are changing over the course of the story, it's that the translators are translating the same name in different ways at different points in time.
Examples

The princess of Alabasta had her name written as

Her name in Japanese is written ビビ, which is romanized bibi. So you can see how one might think this is from "BB". But one could also plausibly think that it's supposed to be "Bebe" with a long "e" /i/.
The other problem is that historically, Japanese did not have the "v" sound /v/, and used /b/ in its place, so you can see how one might come up with "VV" or "Vivi" too. (My impression is that Japanese is in the process of developing /v/ on account of loanwords; cf. https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/24498/.)

Darius's son had his name as

His name in Japanese is written シャビィ, which is romanize shabii. In English, there are many ways of representing the "sh" /ʃ/ sound. Think of words like shingle or chute. In other languages that use a Latin-derived alphabet, there are still other ways. Consider, for example, the Spanish footballer Xavi - whose name in Japanese is spelt シャビ shabi, which only differs in vowel length. I suspect that whoever romanized it as "Xavi" was taking inspiration from Spanish.
(And again, the "b"/"v" thing from before still applies.)

His sister

Her name is written シャルル, which is romanized sharuru. This is the standard Japanese spelling of the English name "Charles", but since the character is a woman and "Charles" is almost exclusively masculine, I'm guessing the translators were forced to pick a similar-sounding approximation instead. The above comments about how "sh" is written apply here too.

So I'm guessing Xenophon could have also been

This character's name is written ゼノフォン zenofon. A reasonable translator would immediately jump to "Xenophon" for this because "Xenophon" is a real name, while theoretically-plausible alternatives like "Xennofaun" and "Zen O'Fon" are not. But you're correct - there are other English spellings that could have been written in Japanese as zenofon.

The "Famous Detective"

I don't know what's going on here - the character's name is plain old Japanese 毛利小五郎 Mōri Kogorō, and I don't know why anybody would read his personal name as "Togo". However, I don't read Detective Conan, so if there's a plot reason for this (maybe he goes by an alias or something at one point), I wouldn't know.
Discussion
This is a recurring problem that plagues translations of all anime and manga that feature characters with names that aren't either Chinese or Japanese. (Chinese typically can be reverse-engineered correctly because the names will be written in kanji, meaning you can just read off the modern Mandarin pronunciations for the characters. Note, though, that other issues sometimes occur when romanizing Chinese names in Japanese media.)
Sometimes, official guidance about English spellings will be provided by the author or publisher, in which case you can just go with those. (Though, be warned, sometimes they pick objectively terrible spellings. I distinctly recall Heavy Object being particularly ludicrous here.)
Absent official guidance, translators have to take their best guess. This gets difficult when the names of the characters in a given anime/manga are names that are either extremely rare or outright do not exist in the real world - at that point, you're basically pulling guesses out of your nether regions. This was a huge issue for Akame ga Kill - see the table below, where "unofficial" means what the fan translations thought the name was before official guidance was provided. (This isn't even an exhaustive list!)
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║ Japanese ║ Romanization ║ Unofficial ║ Official ║
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║ マイン   ║ main         ║ Mein       ║ Mine     ║
║ ブラート ║ buraato      ║ Burat      ║ Bulat    ║
║ ラバック ║ rabakku      ║ Rabac      ║ Lubbock  ║
║ シェーレ ║ sheere       ║ Schere     ║ Sheele   ║
║ エスデス ║ esudesu      ║ Esdese     ║ Esdeath  ║
║ ラン     ║ ran          ║ Ran        ║ Run      ║
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Notes
1 By contrast, we can almost always determine the correct Japanese spelling of a name by reading a Nihon-shiki romanization of the name, though we can't determine which kanji were used to write it. This is partly to do with the relative phonological richness of English as compared to Japanese, and partly to do with the fact that the Japanese "alphabet" is a syllabary (making transliteration difficult), whereas the English alphabet is indeed an alphabet, and a highly non-phonetic one at that.

So I should expect those changes anytime.

@TGamer Pretty much, yes. You can avoid this to a degree by reading licensed translations, which are unlikely to change spellings midway. (Or, you can avoid it entirely by learning Japanese. Your call on whether that'd be worth it.)

Licensed translations also do this sometimes; for example, the early One Piece chapters published in the Shounen Jump magazine had "Roronoa Zoro" with an r, but the later collected volumes have "Zolo" with an l, presumably due to a misguided attempt to tie in with the 4Kids dub that was airing around that time.

But the one that really confuses me is Kyokouro in Attack on Titan Before the Fall. His name changed all the way to Koklu somewhere in chapter 10 or so. Why is that big difference?


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Where did the song "Yume ni Katachi wa nai keredo" come from in One Piece?
The song 夢に形はないけれど ("Yume ni Katachi wa nai keredo") is one of my favorite songs in One Piece, but I haven't heard or seen the song in my copy of One Piece (I legally downloaded One Piece in Chinese subtitles and all they do is add subtitles and change nothing else), it's not there.
Is there a reason why it's not there or is it just not in the show to begin with?

please indicate what you mean by your copy like it's language, whether it;s subbed or dubbed and who was the distributor as Naruto has different opening for the first season depending on who released it (Funimation, 4Kids)

@Memor-X i have corrected the question because the video on you tube was an edited video that just happen to start at 505

Unfortunately, the song is not an official One Piece song.
It's a parody song of 歌に形はないけれど (Uta ni Katachi wa Nai keredo) by doriko (Vocaloid producer) with its lyric changed.
The original song: NicoNicoDouga (posted in 2008, the official video posted by doriko himself)
The parody song: NicoNicoDouga (first posted in 2010, the original/oldest video with Hatsune Miku as the vocal)


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Is Chaos;Head a prequel to Chaos;Child?
I wanted to watch Chaos;Child, but I heard I needed to watch Chaos;Head, which is a prequel, first. Is this true?

Child is a sequel, I haven't watched all episodes (yet) from the second season of Chaos, but by skipping Head you'd miss out on a lot information that happened during certain events. Those events and the way they happened as well as the thoughts behind them will definitely make Child easier to understand. And yes it is pretty boring the first few episodes but it is a nice complex plot-twist compared to your average anime.

Do you have any sources for this?

Here you go. As a second source I use my knowledge from watching season 1 and a few episodes from season 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos;Child

Seems correct to me, thanks for the wiki link. I upvoted you always provide references where you can in answers

Both shows are quite confusing at first. Chaos Child is six years later after Chaos Head. The NewGen events in Head has connection to Child as well as about turning delusions to reality. The characters from Head will have no role in Child so don't wonder where they are. They would have very likely have left the city and went to live somewhere else since it was six years.


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What is written in the last scene of the Neon Genesis Evangelion opening?
The opening of this anime is full of references. I've caught all of them except this one. What is the meaning of this and in which language is it written?

Here's a "clean" version of the same image, for better guesswork.

It's an image of what is referred to in the show as the Dead Sea Scrolls, or specifically the Secret Dead Sea Scrolls, which are the blueprint that SEELE use to implement the Human Instrumentality Project.
That said, the inscription looks suspiciously more like impressionistically-drawn kanji than any of the Aramaic or Hebrew I can find on Google. For example, the first two characters bear a pretty close resemblance to 天使, or "angel".

How did you get the character 使? All I can see is something that looks a bit like 九.

I agree that shape-wise it's closer to 丸 or 九, but if you accept that the characters are simplified as much as possible while still being nearly recognisable, then the telling part is the cross-stroke on the right side which appears both in the image and on 使. It's definitely not a guaranteed match, but it looks like what I'd do if I wanted to take 天使 and make it look like some kind of ancient symbol. It also helps that neither 天丸 nor 天九 is a word.

As already mentioned in ConMan's answer, it's an image of Dead Sea Scrolls, or specifically the Secret Dead Sea Scrolls in the show.
Dead Sea Scrolls were real things, and they were written mostly in Hebrew, and some in Aramaic. However, the shown text doesn't have any similarities to both of them. Although some of the characters look like Japanese characters (e.g. 天,丸,乙,せ,き), they were not written in Japanese either (it doesn't have any meaning).
Researching this further, it seems it's written in some kind of Angelic Script. Some of the real-world examples are Celestial (previous link), Malachim (angels, or messengers), and Transitus Fluvii (or Passage Du Fleuve). Note the similarities: the shape, and dots at the end of the strokes.

Image courtesy of CirqueDeTruth on AboveTopSecret forum

Considering the similarity, and also the script's reference to Angel (this series has many references to Angel, nonetheless), it seems to be written in Angelic Script. However, there are no same characters with any of these, so it might be just another Angelic Script created specifically for this series, (or Japanese characters written in Angelic Script, who knows). Hence, the meaning is also not yet known.
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Reference: Japanese Yahoo! Answers for mentioning 天使文字【てんしもじ】 (tenshi moji, or Angelic Script)


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Is the Japanese well-translated to "kalos" here?
In episode 9 of Kamigami no Asobi, time mark 6:54, the following conversation occurs in the English subtitles:

(Yui) Um, Apollon-san, are you ok?
(Apollon) I'm just fine.  I'm kalos.

I had to look up kalos, and found an article for kalos kagathos (Greek καλὸς κἀγαθός) at the Wikipedia.  It means "the chivalrous ideal of the complete human personality, harmonious in mind and body, foursquare in battle and speech, song and action".
On the one hand, I think it is probably a bad translation in that very few English viewers will know the word.  (Well, unless this is a point where I happen to be ignorant.)  On the other, the original Japanese may well have used a concept of the same ideal, and the translator found the best English match.
BTW, Apollon was not fine, being in the midst of an emotional breakdown.  So if the Japanese had him overemphasizing his well-being, maybe it was a good translation.

I just started watching episode 10, and Apollon again uses the word kalos.  At about the 2:35 mark, he says, "Come on. It's a play! A drama! This is incredibly kalos!". He is excited about the idea of the students holding a play.  At least this time I sort of knew what he meant.

The two lines you quote are:

YUI: あのう、アポロンさん、大丈夫ですか。
APOLLON: え？ああ、僕なら大丈夫。カロスだよ。

The word I have emboldened above is カロス karosu, which is just Greek "kalos" written with the Japanese syllabary.
Of course, just as no English speaker (save perhaps a Classicist) will know what the word "kalos" means, no Japanese speaker will know what it means either. This being the case, retaining the word "kalos" when rendering the line into English seems like an acceptable choice; it's equally incomprehensible in either language.
If the show never explains what Apollon means by "kalos", I suppose that the Japanese audience is also supposed to infer what he's on about from context.

Thank you!  Heh, that's funny.  How do you translate a word that no one knows even in the source language?  One of the plot points is that the students are studying for mid-terms. I haven't read the source visual novel, but it may have offered more info.  Perhaps Apollon was particularly fond of his Greek studies and had become enamored of the word kalos.  If so, I speculate that due to time constraints and/or pacing considerations, the animation studio chose to skip that plot point but still use the word. That would explain why he re-used it in the next episode.

I'm from Greece, and I know for sure that the word kalos (καλός) means (good, fine).
Apollon says that "I'm kalos (good)".

thanks.  Kalos is rarely used, if at all, in English.  As mentioned in my question, when I looked it up in Google, the best entry seemed to be for kalos kagathos on the Wikipedia.  I just retried a search, this type specifying define kalos.  The links tend to be articles discussing its use in the New Testament.  So it is good to know it has a simple, modern meaning (at least in its original language).


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What is this animation style? I would call it "serious", but maybe gritty?
Often times in anime, I see a serious section accentuated by a gritty, more serious, more old school, animation type.  There will be many frames of animation, and the animation will be very fluid.  Usually this is done within a light-hearted anime, presumably for contrast with the main part of the show.  The example I have is not the best one, but gives you an idea of what I'm talking about.
The opening scene of Golden Boy has a super serious vibe to it, and then goes into the regular style for the anime.  This is a screenshot of the scent in the opening I am referring to:

This YouTube video has the opening, and the first 3 seconds are the most "serious style" of the opening.  Note that not in all cases are these clips of animation visually dark like this (for example having a black background.)  I think this art style is more often present when depicting fantasy anime, but I'm not sure.
Is there a name for this style of animation?  Ultimately, I would like to look for anime that use this style of animation throughout, so I am looking for something I can use to search The Internets for (aka a search term).
If I can think of another example, I will edit this question to add it.

I don't know if that style has a name, but try looking for action shows from the 80s and early 90s. That's where you'll mostly find it.


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Name or tag for kana phrase videos
I'd like to know the Japanese name or tag of a type of video that used to be popular on Nico Nico Douga on 2007-2010 (maybe there are still some people making these videos but I can't find them anymore).
In these videos the creator would take a character from an anime and then put a phrase/scene from that character for each hiragana/kana syllable.
For example for Kagami from Lucky star (this is the video I remember):

あ(a) - Anta no tame janai.
え(e) - Eeeeto.
い(i) - Imi ga wakaranai.

I remember that there were many videos for many characters and anime but many of them were deleted and I can't find the videos I had favorited.

I found the video: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2931268
The tags I was looking for are: ツッコミカルタ and アニメかるたリンク


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Which song is played in Akame ga Kill episode 1 at 1.34?
Which song is played in this video at 1:34?
Akame ga Kill episode 1

The song you’re looking for is called “Le Chant de Roma” by Taku Iwasaki.


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Parasyte: the Maxim OST episode 13
What is the song played in the beginning of episode 13 of Parasyte: the Maxim at 00:00:29? Please be specific. It's quite close to "Next to You", and has a tune that was played when Kana first saw Shinichi in and got freaked out, in pure piano (synthesizer), but with a different tempo/speed/etc. And I'm sure it's not "Next to You".

It's definitely a remixed version of "Next to You." This comes close, but is still a bit different. It's probably an unreleased track.

Have you tried this anime version of the tune yet? It's the softest tune I could find...

I believe that the tune you are looking for is Next to You-Anime Version. This one is different from the Original One in the aspects of being slower and softer, and with a totally different instrument playing it and from the other Anime Version in the same terms.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find it in any of the OSTs. It might be an unreleased track for an unreleased OST like Krazer said, but that's anyone's guess.


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Are there different versions of the Captain Tsubasa anime?
I recently started watching Captain Tsubasa online from the beginning again. It's been my favorite cartoon of my childhood. But I find some odd moments watching it again. It seems the animation is different in some scenes.
For example, from what I recall from my childhood, in the game between Tsubasa and Misugi, there was a heavy rain with dark sky and clouds which lasted far longer than what I saw online in this new version, or I remember specifically one of my favorite moments where Tsubasa hits the ground with his head during a game and tries to retrieve the ball again, but he can't focus - I remember his eye color changed, but in this newer version its color is the normal color.
There are a lot of these moments, which makes me wonder if what I see online is not the original version. Am I right to think like this? If yes, can anyone help me find the older version?

there is "Captain Tsubasa"(Shorter) and there is "Shin Captain Tsubasa"(Have a lot of sequel)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Captain_Tsubasa_episodes#Captain_Tsubasa


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How to review Naruto before I begin from where I left?
I was an ardent fan of Naruto and watched all of its episodes one after another and reached the end of Shippuden at that time. It was 2 years ago I guess and I last watched episode 220 or something... just after reanimation jutsu etc while the world war was going on. Then it became one episode per week and I stopped watching and thought to myself that I will pick it up again when it will be over. Alas! It is still going on but I have heard that it will end by this December. But now I am not sure that I remember the whole story and picking it up again will not be that enjoyable. So maybe I should re watch it whole and skip the filler episodes! That way I can join the current episodes within a month and watch the final as it air.
Or if I watch the Naruto movies, does it have the same story and characters and fill me in on all the important things to know before joining in on the current episodes which are going on nowadays? Movies will save me a lot of time and trouble but will they be enough?

movies don't follow the manga (i.e) the actual story, so watching them won't be of any help.

Spoilers in Summary below. Can't seem to get the tags to work
I would recommend watching Naruto and Naruto:Shippuden AGAIN without the filler episodes for maximising your experience.
If you don't have the patience to re-watch, you should start from beginning of the current Saga. From your description I would say that you have watched till Season 10 of the Anime (Epsiode 197-221)
So you can pick up either from Episode 197 or from Episode 222.

Season 10 follows the assemblance of the Kage, the five ninja eading their respective villages, as a result of the actions from the criminal organization Akatsuki as well as the rogue ninja Sasuke Uchiha who has been siding with them.
Season 11 (Epsiodes 222-242) focuses on the ninjas' preparations to the world war against the criminal organization Akatsuki.
Season 12 (Episodes focuses on Naruto's training to control the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox and the first day of the world war against the criminal organization Akatsuki.
Fourth Great Ninja War. Major Events and the M&A Chapters/Episodes

The movies are MOSTLY filler. So it is upto you if you want to watch. This question should answer the order of movie watching.
Where do the Naruto movies fall in the timeline?
Reddit for extended Discussion: Naruto Movies: When to watch
If you want to rewatch without fillers, follow this guide.
How to watch Naruto and Naruto Shipudden Filler Free


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Can Norma have kids?
So when I was watching this anime I was wondering - even though all the Norma are women and they are stuck on that island, is it still possible for them to have kids? And I also wonder, did any Norma have kids in the past?

from the crossange wiki, you can get this

Norma (ノーマ Nōma?) is the name given to those who are born without the ability to use Light of Mana. Like the Ancient Humans, they cannot use Mana and will destroy anything made out of Mana just simply by making physical contact with it. Unlike Ancient Humans, Norma can be born of parents that can use Mana and are an example of a genetic throwback to the time where all humans couldn't use mana. Only female can be Norma, the reason why is unknown.

notice this line

Unlike Ancient Humans, Norma can be born of parents that can use Mana

it says that norma can be born with parents who can use mana and that's practically the only difference between norma and ancient humans show in the wiki. therefore, if ancient humans can have children, then norma should be able to have children, also note that there is nothing that states that normas can't have children so i don't know where the question is coming from but hope this helps a bit.
here is the link to the page http://crossange.wikia.com/wiki/Norma

a suggestion, would be good to link to the wiki page you got this from

FWIW, I find this question interesting because there is no direct evidence that Norma can bear children, and it would make some narrative sense if they couldn't, or if their children were always Normas, or something like that. Since all Normas in Misurugi get shipped off to Arzenal, where there are literally zero Y chromosomes (until Tusk shows up), there is no opportunity for children to actually be borne.


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What episode of Naruto does the Rinnegan first appear in?
The wiki says it appears in the episode 135 of the original series, but I can't see it anywhere. What episode does it appear in? Because I need to see it.

I'm not sure I have a reason to doubt that info.  I haven't technically finished the first series, but if Akatsuki were revealed in that episode, it leaves little doubt in my mind that the Rinnegan made an appearance, even though it might not have been specified what it was at the time.

It is in fact in episode 135 "The Promise That Could Not Be Kept" (alternatively, episode 35 of season 3), as can be seen here (taken from the end of the episode, sorry about the bad quality):

You've to remember that in the earlier episodes, we did not actually see Pain, we just saw these images of the Akatsuki members. But the Rinnegan was seen already back then.

Nope. The Rinnegan's first appearance is in episode 81 "Sad News" of Naruto: Shippuuden (alternatively, episode 10 of season 4), at the timestamp 10:49.

While it's true that the Rinnegan appears "properly" for the first time in this episode (in the sense that we actually see the body hosting this pair of eyes a little later at 16:18, instead of just a shadowy body), the other answer by Omry is correct that the Rinnegan makes an appearance in the original Naruto series itself in episode 135.

It is also curious that the Rinnegan "actually" appears much earlier in Naruto: Shippūden in episode 10, though it doesn't have the same developed form as in episode 81. Here's a screenshot from episode 10: https://i.sstatic.net/y3ekN.jpg.


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Why is Iridatsu Yuuta's ghost the way that it is?
Iridatsu Yuuta spends most of the series as a ghost. The ghost is shaped just like Yuuta, but with ghostly lower body-ish.
But later we learn that

 Yuuta's body is not his own. Yuuta's is actually Pine from the lab children flashback, has white-ish hair. The body he is inhabiting actually belongs to Narugino/Chiyoko.

What is the in-universe reason that Yuuta's ghost is shaped like that, given the information above?
I can guess at the out-of-universe explanation, it is pretty obvious that

 Were his ghost to be diffferent from the body, it would spoil the disclosure of the body switch plot.

It's been ten-ish years since the body swap, right? I figure that by this point, Yuuta identifies with his new body more than with his old one, so his ghost also shows up that way. (Pure speculation, though; I don't know if there is textual support for this explanation.)

@senshin i don't know either, but where else is better to dig something if there is?


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Soundtrack of K: Return of Kings - episode 1 at 19:16
What is the title for the song in K: Return of Kings episode 1 at 19:16, in the scene where Jungle throws a bomb and Homra and Scepter use a shield?

That would be the second song on the K - Return of Kings OST, which is likewise called "Return of Kings".


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Who is this girl police, likely a crossover character, in episode 4?
For a background character, the girl police's design stands out too much, so I suspect that she is a crossover character or has at least some background to her. Or do animators occasionally just like to draw a background character so differently? But she doesn't even dress like a policewoman!


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What are the exoskeletons in Heart x Hybrid (Masou Gakuen) called?
What are the exoskeletons in Heart x Hybrid (Masou Gakuen) called?
I tried looking on the net and on the wikia for this anime and I don't find much about them.
I'm talking about the exoskeletons that are in the background from time to time, not the Hybrid Gears.
You can see it in the background:

You can see them clearly here:


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How many fingers exist and how did Subaru know the number?
Spoiler alert if you didn't see episodes 9 & 10.
How many fingers exists in Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-?
In episode 23 at 17:50,

 Subaru says that only one is remaining. How did he find out about the number of remaining fingers?

Looks like he just counted how many they have killed already. And there are supposed to be 10 from the number of hand fingers. Also he could have counted them back when he was captured in that cave when he first met Betelgeuse and his minions.

@hakase but finger is just a title. It is not rational to decide about a fight based on a guess. Also, back in the cave, he only saw one Betelgeuse. He didn't know that there are more until they killed the first one and they have been attacked by the second one

Its simple really, Betelgeuse can move from one body to another, the fingers are limitless so long as he has a new body to jump to.

@ManiEl-darreiny but it is not what he said in the anime. he said only 1 is remaining! how? why?


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Why did Darkness pick the name "Darkness"?
We understand she's embarrassed about her real name Lalatina and noble status. But was it ever explained how/why she specifically came to choose to go by Darkness of all possible names?

could be that is kinda sounds like her middle name Dustiness

because "Shadow" IGN already taken :P

Because her soul is dark with masochism.

Because chunyibo

There is nothing confirmed, but there are a lot of possibilities.

Darkness is a status effect in Final Fantasy, which is also known as Blind. It makes the affected miss their attacks. So her nickname could be a reference to this.
It could refer to her masochism, her inner "Darkness"
It could be a slightly modified Dustiness.
Dustiness in Japanese is ダスティネス. Darkness is ダクネス.

Keeping the first and the last two katakana of Dustiness, changing the "su" ス into a similar looking "ku" ク and discarding the other two katakana, and you have Darkness.


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Why is Tota Konoe No. 7?
In UQ Holder, when Tota Konoe joined the UQ Holders, he was placed No. 7 and Kurōmaru Tokisaka who joined at the same time as him was placed No. 11. Later on, Santa Sasaki joined and was placed No. 12. So why was Tota Konoe placed No. 7?


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Does anyone know the name of the music from 4:46 onwards in Senki Zesshou Symphogear GX episode 12?
Does anyone know the name of the music from around 4:46 onwards in Senki Zesshou Symphogear GX episode 12? It starts after Maria says "10 thousand plans".

Another Symphogear aficionado!
This piece is "S2CA/Voltage Maximum", Symphogear G OST 1 track #7. The first use of this piece was in episode 2 of Symphogear G, when Tsubasa/Chris/Hibiki use S2CA Triburst for the first time.


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How well thought out are the economics in Narutoverse (Konoha and other Ninja Villages)? Has Kishimoto ever explained it?
Naruto uses a currency called the ryō (両).

The ryō (両) is the currency used in the Naruto world. It is based on an old Japanese gold coin that was used in Japan before the Meiji period. It was later replaced by the yen. The exchange rate of a ryō is 10 yen
(from http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Ryō)

This means 1 ryo ~ 0.1 USD.
From what I can see the villagers pay money for all the missions completed.
According to the wikia,

The reward for a D-rank mission is between five thousand and fifty thousand ryō
The reward for a C-rank mission is between thirty thousand and 100 thousand ryō.
The reward for a B-rank mission is between 150 thousand and 200 thousand ryō.
The reward for an A-rank mission is between one hundred fifty thousand and a million ryō
The reward for an S-rank mission is more than a million ryō

From what I can observe, if you earn 5k ryō a day for 200 days a year (1 D-Rank mission per day), you have 1 million ryō viz. $100k per annum. Not bad for doing oddball jobs. This doesn't seem like a feasible economy to me.
However, since all this information is available in databooks etc., has Kishimoto ever suggested how this economy would function?
Or is this another case of WritersCannotDoMath?

If you have access to subtitles of all episodes, you can Ctrl+F for related keywords and hope to find some info about it.

@Hakase There is not much in the Manga/Anime as such. I was wondering if someone remembers something Kishi himself said about the economics of Ninja village in a talk/databook i.e. other official sources

D-Rank missions were indeed overpaid, Kishimoto probably had no clue what he was doing when he said that 1 ryo equals 10 yen. But first, in each year, only 9 out of 27 graduates will be chosen to become a Genin, while the rest of course will be send back to the academy. This cuts down the quantity to the minimum, only 9 Genin are introduced to the mission per year.

Missions are assigned by either Jounin-sensei (if they still have a mentor) or Hokage himself. Almost all missions are non-repeatable, which means the completed missions will be removed from the mission list. However, it is the client who decides the amount of money to pay the village (you can refer to here), and then the village will pay the person who completed the mission. Not sure whether the village charges the fee or not, but probably yes in common sense.

Despite their high income, they might spend most of their money on ninja tools supplies such as shurikens, kunais, scrolls, bombs, etc. Shinobi use a lot of weapons and traveling goods, and that compensation probably is a supplement, rather than the real income.


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Are Tales of Zestiria and Tales of Berseria connected in any way?
In a Funimation email I got (web version), it was talking about the Tales of Zestiria The X anime. In it, it says

It's time to switch gears and meet a new heroine in our tale and of the upcoming game Tales of Berseria. Velvet Crowe has been imprisoned on a remote island for three years but the time for her breakout has come. With revenge on her mind and demonic powers at her call, will she get what she wants or will her own vengeance create a dangerous bout of malevolence?

What I picked up on was the mention of another Tales of game. Generally from my understanding, most Tales of games are set in/on separate worlds and unless they share the same main title (e.g. Tales of Symphonia/Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World or Tales of Xilla 1/2) are generally independent of one another.
However, as the quote mentions, Velvet Crowe is from Tales of Berseria. Below is a screenshot from the Tales of Zestiria The X that was in the Funimation email.

And below are the cover shot and screenshot from Tales of Berseria showing Velvet.

While she appears to be wearing something different between Tales of Zestiria The X and Tales of Berseria, her face, hair, and arm still look the same.
So I am wondering, is there a connection between Tales of Zestiria and Tales of Berseria? Is the Tales of Zestiria The X anime serving as a bridge between the two?

Tales of Berseria takes Place 1.000 years before Tales of Zestiria.
& an Anime is not complete without Time Travel shenanigans

Tales of Berseria took places thousand of years before Zestiria during the time where human could still see Seraph (which during the time are called Malaks who descended from the heaven in droves after some sort of ritual during the Scarlet night).
The anime most likely try to connect the two by showing the origins of Hellions (Daemons as they called it during Berseria) and how Malaks develop emotion to become Seraphs of the Zestiria timeline. and as the episode 5 title suggest the Beginning of the Calamity.
P/S She wears some sorts of prison robe. she got back in gears after plundering what looks to be the prison Armory


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What happened to the Super Peace Busters after Menma's passing?
Is it known what happened to the Super Peace Busters after Menma passed away? Did they immediately disband, and immediately stop being friends?

@ton.yeung I meant in their childhood. And did you mean the movie end credits or the anime?

Well, it is no exactly said in the anime but, imagine your best friend just died. Moreover, your best friend just died because of you (they all blamed themselves for what happened). Would you be in the mood to have another get-together? Especially when the get-together is with the same group of friends whom you and your best friend have spent so much time with. It was definitely too painful for each of them. They probably didn't exactly "disband" but just didn't see each other anymore. That's probably why they were still fine with being called the Super Peace Busters and Yukiatsu even calling Jintan "leader". I don't think they stopped being friends either but rather just grew apart. I mean, Yukiatsu and Tsuruko were friends. And Yukiatsu and Anaru were friends. There was a bit of tension between Tsuruko and Anaru (but understandable due to the jealousy and guilt bit and stuff) and Poppo was fine with everybody and Jintan didn't even have the motivation to go to school so it's not really that they hated each other or just stopped being friends. After all, they still probably kept in touch with how Yukiatsu knew that Jintan was registered for the school Anaru joined.


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Is it explained how Emile hides their anatomy?
Emile Crossford begins the series as Hayato's roomate.

But actually

 "He" is a girl disguised as boy.

But when he wears "other" clothes, it is shown that this disguise would be hard to mantain.
Does the franchise make any effort to explain how it is achieved? Or is it just handwaved?


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How long did it take Meowth to learn to speak?
I watched the episode where Meowth is telling his story. Aside from that, I read several threads where it was stated that he cannot learn any moves and he might be level 100 but is weak due to not fighting when he should have been.
The question is: how long it did it take him to learn to speak the human language? Is this possible to answer?

Is Meowth being able to speak the possible answer to what? Him being weak? Confused with the last sentence of your post

@ThePickleTickler i think he meant is the question answerable

As far as I am aware of, there is no evidence on the internet that tells exactly how long it took for Meowth to learn how to talk. But based on the episode (70) as he was learning how to talk, the window showed changes in the season. It changed four times so it can be concluded that it took him at least a year. After he learned how to talk and walk, he went over to the Madonna (the female Meowth that he likes) to tell her that he is now like a human. But Madonna recognizes her straight away. Therefore, it was at least 1 year, but only a bit over a year because she took no time to think about who he was.


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Song from Tokyo Ghoul episode 10
What is the song that plays in Tokyo Ghoul episode 10 at 15:25 when Juuzou is on the screen? Thank you!

This song is Kriminalbeamte by Yamada Yutaka. It can be found on the Tokyo Ghoul Original Soundtrack. (Disc 1, Track 9) Funny enough (*to me, probably obvious to you) it's the same song you were looking for in this question. This one was much easier to hear than in Tokyo Ghoul Root A ep 2 @14:15.


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What is Tokyo Ghoul RA?
I saw on "Tokyo Ghoul RA" episode 5 on Pinterest, and it is something totally different from Tokyo Ghoul regular episode 5. Could someone please explain what the difference is?

could you add a link to the pinterest post?


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Did Teiichi Niiya die at the end of the Dusk Maiden of Amnesia manga?
I'm sure that he didn't die in the anime, but at the end of the manga, it is implied that Yuuko took him with her to the other realm. (Meaning that he died?)

....just read the epilogue, in case you don't want to...
It's just basically what happened in the anime, Yuuko is back with him and she is now able to go everywhere, France, Italy, the MC house, the MC bathroom, etc...


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How did Tusk survive the bombing?
How the hell did Tusk live through that bombing in episode 21? He is the person that the bomb was closet to since it was on his person, so how is it possible that he lived?

Fukuda tweeted something relevant at https://twitter.com/fukuda320/status/571725677088489472, but he must've deleted the tweet at some point, and the Wayback Machine isn't currently able to load its archived version of the page. Once the archive comes back up, I can probably answer this question.

I found someone who had quoted Fukuda's tweet. For posterity: 「規制された部分のコンテです。タスクが体にC4巻いていたという所。爆弾を見せないから、何故あそこで爆発があったか判らなかったし、あれじゃあタスクが生きてることになってしまう。酷いセンスだ…。そもそもこれ、規制必要か？#クロスアンジュ 」. Unfortunately, it is not as relevant to your question as I remember it being; it's basically Fukuda griping about how the actual explosion was censored / discretion-shot'ed. This may remain a mystery.

This is just a guess, but I would say he actually died. However, because Ange wanted him to live so much, her ragna-mail brought him back to life.
(After all, it could merge worlds and travel between them, who's to say it couldn't bring Tusk back.)

I’ve read many ideas regarding how Tusk & Momoka survived without a scratch, as well as somehow appearing on the same island as Ange without any delay or notice - my first thought (& Ange even stated her suspicions) was that Embryo was trying to trick her.
I believe that Embryo decided to take over Tusk's body after he died - which makes perfect sense since Ange willingly took the initiative to sleep with him which is what he wanted all this time. And so he decides to play the part of the hero from here on in, deceiving everyone & even killing his original plan of world destruction or whatever it was. Booya! Embryo wins, happy ending for him! God is certainly a deceptive being - do not mess with him, you can’t ever win it seems…