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Why did Karin keep the umbilical cord, if she's not Sarada's mother?
I'm just very confused about this situation.Why did Karin keep the umbilical cord, if she's not Sarada's mother?Anyone explain it.

yeah, that's weird, it's unusual  for keep it with her. May be because of Uchiha blood ( for some crazy experiment with Orochimaru ) or Her fantasy for Sasuke. :D ) Just a guess ;)

do we have any evidence that she is not her mother ? because i believe she is

Maybe Sarada was the first baby she delivered so she wanted to remember that by keeping the cord.

@Nevios In the manga it is confirmed that the umbilical cord is of Sakura. Karin had preserved it. The alleged confusion that 'Karin is Sarada's mother' arised because when Suigetsu matched Sarada's DNA with the umbilical cord, it showed a match. (Suigetsu thought that the umbilical cord is of Karin)

Karin kept the umbilical cord as a memento of her help during Sarada's birth. Canonically being the one who offered assistance to Sakura while Sakura was in labor and the one who contributed to Sarada's delivery, Karin was very helpful to the Uchiha family back then. Through her actions, she formed a bond with them, and the umbilical cord basically serves as a reminder of that exact connection.
By the way, Sarada's parentage indeed isn't debatable anymore.
Her true parentage was already officially confirmed, and this happened for the first time all the way back in 2015 in the manga called "Naruto Gaiden: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring". Following this, the confirmations from the manga were animated in the anime "Boruto: Naruto Next Generations", and after this they were even strengthened in many other episodes.
Below, there are all the canon panels/moments that serve as confirmations about Sarada's real parentage.
The confirmations offered by Sakura:

In the manga ("Naruto Gaiden: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring", chapter 10):

In the anime (first confirmation - "Boruto: Naruto Next Generations", episode 23):

Also in the anime (a whole lot more confirmations - "Boruto: Naruto Next Generations", episodes 170 and 171):

The confirmation offered by Sasuke:

In the manga ("Naruto Gaiden: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring", chapter 10):

In the anime ("Boruto: Naruto Next Generations", episode 23):

The confirmations offered by Karin:

In the manga ("Naruto Gaiden: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring", chapter 10):

In the anime (first confirmation - "Boruto: Naruto Next Generations", episode 23):

In the anime (once again, a whole lot more confirmations - "Boruto: Naruto Next Generations", episodes 101 and 102):

So, everyone needs to learn the difference between the aspects of a story that can be theorized on and the ones that straightforwardly can't. When something has already been canonically established, there is absolutely no point in making any new theories about that very same fact since it simply can't be altered.
Sakura was established as the canon biological mother of Sarada, and that's the end of the matter.

Old thread, but new people will see. I consider myself very in tune with Naruto/Boruto. The simple fact is this. Karin is Sarada’s Mom or she carried her(surrogate) because Sakura could not. Why would they dedicate a whole arc about this? They talked about DNA and bonds. The big thing is Karin kept the cord.  The whole Boruto show is about making new life or changing it in some sort of way. Sorry I got side tracked. So back to Sarada. Boruto mirrors Naruto in many ways. The creator has stated Sarada will play a major role. Sarada will redeem the Uchiha and become Hokage like Madara should have been. Sasuke is still a rouge (kinda) he left Sarada to Sakura and Naruto because she would be safe in the Leaf. She is the only Uchiha beside Sasuke. People will be after them. Otkusuki. Sasuke can’t protect her out in the world by himself. So either Karin and Sasuke trusted The Leaf and Naruto to keep her safe or Karin carries her for Sakura.

A hypothesis is for this question is that sasuke took in too much of Karin's chakra when healing himself. You can obviously hear her say on the episode of capturing the eight-tails"He took in too much chakra". We know that chakra may influence living beings, so it is possible that Karin's chakra may affect Sasuke's child. Or because Karin helped deliver Sakura and Sasuke's baby, so she might've just kept it. (We know how obsessed Karin can be with something.)


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Why English title of Still world is Beautiful?
The English title within the for Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii anime is Still world is Beautiful:

Crunchyroll calls it "The World is Still Beautiful".  Finally, it's English Wikipedia article says the literal English translation is "Even So, The World is Beautiful". (Although the article title itself uses Crunchyroll's name.) Is this a particularly hard phrase to translate? Both Crunchyroll's and Wikipedia's titles sound fine in English.
Did the animation studio know Still world is Beautiful would sound and look wrong to English speakers? I can imagine it being just a poor translation, but it seems more likely someone at the studio thought it would fit the series better. If so, why?

Perhaps it's Engrish?  There are a lot of titles which do this with English text, which sounds non-grammatical to us but is still official.

@Makoto that is certainly possible. But for a long time I thought that about Fruits Basket. Eventually I realized the weird looking title was actually correct. A basket with just 7 apples is a "fruit basket". But if it had 3 apples, 2 pears, and a banana, it is more accurately referred to as a "fruits basket". That series had the 12 signs of the zodiac, ie, multiple kinds of "fruit". So I am wondering if I am missing something similar with soreseka.

Maybe it is "still world" is beautiful. Still world, a world that doesn't change. A world that stays the same. But then again  is the world in sorekara a still world?

@AyaseEri Things change.  It is basically a romance story, but it does have occasional dark elements. However, the female protagonist does move to a kingdom where it never rains (unless she makes it do so), thus it is possible still refers to the weather. I don't think that is what the title is implying, but it is possible.

Think of it from a literal perspective... The intent is likely to be "Still, the world is beautiful". Its the same intended meaning as "even so" structurally, but not as grammatically appropriate.

@RichF You're overthinking "Fruits Basket". Japanese borrows both "fruit" and "fruits" as フルーツ furūtsu (at least partially because Japanese doesn't really have lexical plurals like English does, so there's no reason to distinguish them, but perhaps also because "fruit" would be フルート furūto, which is the word for "flute"). So the Japanese title is フルーツバスケット furūtsu basuketto, and it gets reborrowed back into English as "Fruits Basket" since "fruits" is a closer match for furūtsu than "fruit" is.

And as @кяαzєя points out, the problem is probably that Japanese speakers, like most speakers of languages that don't have articles, are bad at using a/an/the in English. This brings to mind a post about an interview with Aimee Blackschleger, who is a native speaker of English and often provides vocals for anime soundtracks by Sawano Hiroyuki. The post author reports that "she tries to suggest how to make [Engrish lyrics] sound more correct/natural but usually to no avail". Such is life in Japan.

@senshin Concerning Fruits Basket, thank you for the background concerning the Japanese and English words involved. I accept what you say, but I still think the reason no one with a strong background in English tried to change it is that it is grammatically correct as is. On your other comment, thank you for the very interesting link to the reddit post. It is hard for me to understand that part of the culture, though. Why allow continued confusion when a one-time correction could obviate the problem completely? (I realize it is just a cultural difference, not something "right" or "wrong".)

Sometimes, authors give their take on how their series' title is to be translated, this seems like a case of a "google translation" of the title on part of the author (It's awfully common). "Soredemo" can be translated as "still" or "even so" depending on which is more grammatically correct, "Sekai wa utsukushii" translates to "(the) world is beautiful." Equivalents for some determinatives like "a", "an" or "the" don't exist in Japanese. Actually parsing the title "それでも世界は美しい" through google translate gives "Still the world is beautiful". So my guess is either the author or his editor wanted an official English title... and ended up with that without proper knowledge of English, as I said earlier, it's awfully common, just take a look at the recent anime "Shuumatsu nani Shitemasuka? Isogashii desuka? Sukutte Moratte ii desuka?", the original novel has this Engrish title underneath the title in Japanese "Do you have what THE END? Are you busy? Shall you save XXX?"
EDIT: Realized I didn't give a take on the translation itself, either "Even so, the World is beautiful" and "The World is still beautiful" are proper translations of the title. But the official one is the weirdly worded one because Word of God

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Have other series used picture cast credits besides The World is Still Beautiful?
The closing credits of The World is Still Beautiful give their cast credits with pictures of each character, as they appear in that episode, along with the voice actor's name. (At least I am assuming that is what the text says.) For example, from episode 11:

This seems like an extremely good way to give credit, just as do many movies and live action TV shows. But it struck me that I don't remember any other anime series doing it. Have other series done so?

Like the Opening of Baccano (2007) or does it only count if the seiyuu is mentioned alongside the character's name?

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Missing Applessed movie
I'm looking for an Appleseed movie that I can't find.
It's the one where japan is hidden from all satelites and the team must go there. Upon arriving its a wasteland. Giant Dune-esgue worms made of junk have just destroyed everything. Some kind of backstory about the japanese government attempting to bioengineer its citizens by making them cyborgs at the cellular level.
Can anybody help me out?

Please be aware identification requests are more likely to be closed or downvoted for several reasons explained in this meta post : https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2805/what-wed-like-to-do-about-those-gosh-darn-identification-requests-questions

@Nevios you generally are right however we allow identification within a known series like music, characters of scenes. however this is an odd case and while i am worried this might be a back door for ID requests i'd be willing to let this slide for now. if people try and abuse this by intentionally guessing an incorrect series for a scene just so they can get it corrected they'll find i have some ideas in how to stop that

@Memor-X I agree this is an odd case so i wanted to warn the OP and flag it because i was kinda confusing. However, since it has a quite good answer, i guess it's ok.What about your ideas ?
Because i've been recently focusing on closing many ID requests

OP doesn't seem to have been asking this question in bad faith, but OP also got their answer, so I'm going to go ahead and close this.

I think you're looking for Vexille : 2007 Nihon Sakoku, rather than Appleseed. The plot all seems to match : Vexille - MyAnimeList

You are correct sir. Thank you. I would have sworn on my life it was appleseed, probably because I rented them from the library at the same time.


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What would happen if Eren ate all of the other titans?
What if Eren went and ate every other person with the titan powers? Could Eren potentially become the complete titan, and be able to bypass the 13 year rule?

This is called the curse of Ymir. In Chapter 88, pages 22-23, we discover through Eren's memories that

The very first and original titan, Ymir Fritz, had the power of all nine titans. Even though Ymir was in possession of all nine titan powers, she died 13 years after receiving this power. This death, and the consequent split into the nine separate titans, then imposed the 13-year rule wherein a titan-shifter could not physically withstand the shifting after 13 years. We see that as a titan-shifter gets closer to that 13-year limit, as in the case with the OWL in Chapter 88, they grow increasingly less capable of shifting as the process continually weakens their body. From here, it's up to interpretation of the page below.

The first interpretation is that

Ymir's body could not withstand the power of titan shifting and died at or upon the thirteenth year.  When she died, however, her powers were passed down to 9 other Eldians. This suggests that she may not have known about the limit, or did not choose to select a successor, and allowed her death to distribute her power among the Eldians.

The second interpretation could be that

Ymir died for a reason not yet revealed, and not because she couldn't withstand the power of all nine titans. If this is so, then she must have chosen to divide her power into nine titans for a reason that hasn't yet been revealed. Perhaps this was to limit the power any one titan-shifter could hold, a sort of checks-and-balances system if you will.

If we go by the first interpretation then likely

it would not be possible for anyone, regardless of how many titan-shifting powers they obtained, to break the 13-year rule if the rule was imposed on the very first titan.

If we go by the second interpretation then

it's likely there exists a way for Eren to break the 13-year rule at the expense of obtaining, through the process of consumption, all nine titan powers.

As all the titans were originally a single being, so eating all the titans should give Eren the power of the complete titan.
Ymir Fritz died 13 years after gaining the titan power, and her "soul" was split into nine successors, so if those fragments of her soul come together again, then we may see a power struggle between Ymir and Eren.
The 145th Fritz King still has some influence and somewhat controls those who inherit the power of the Founding Titan, so a similar power struggle may be there between Ymir and Eren, if Eren consumes all the titans. And if Eren manages to defeat Ymir then he should be able to bypass the rule, as I think that Ymir still has some control/influence on the titans which causes the "13 year curse".
And I highly doubt that Eren will eat Armin, so I think Eren will not gain the original titan power.

but what if armin gets eaten ^^

But will he be able to utilize it at its maximum potential if he is not of royal blood?

No, i guess @Karkoh51


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Why can't Houou tell that Hinako isn't actually his brother?
The basic premise of Kenka Banchou Otome (the anime, anyway) is that Onigashima Hikaru (a boy) and Nakayama Hinako (a girl) swap places, resulting in Hinako attending Shishiku Academy (a boy's school) while disguied as Hikaru.
Most of the main cast has never actually met the real Onigashima Hikaru prior to the swap, and both Hikaru and Hinako are sort of androgynous, so the deception works.
But Hikaru's elder brother Houou also attends Shishiku Academy, and encounters Hinako (in the guise of Hikaru) multiple times, starting in episode 9. For some reason, the disguise fools Houou as well - he shows no signs of being aware that the person he's speaking with is not actually his brother Hikaru.
Is there a reason that Houou is also fooled by Hinako's disguise (other than "the plot demands it")? We can infer, based on their conversation in episode 9, that Houou and the real Hikaru have met before (they weren't raised separately or whatnot), so this is rather odd.

Does it fool him? Or is he just playing cool and letting his imouto have fun? (adn probably making his job easier by beating up those dead weighs) I think that if he didn't know, by the time when she cals him onii-chan it was a dead giveaway. I haven't played the game, but I think he is just indulging Hikaru in his swapper. Also, that wig. Also, that shirtless macho bravado.

Since every episode of the anime is very short, a lot of details are left out. In the game it is mentioned by others and Houou himself that although they are brothers, they don't live together and didn't see each other much.


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Why does Urano Metria take double her magic the second time
The first time Lucy casts Urano Metria she used her own power to defeat Angel with no problem. But the next time, when she uses it in The Grand Magic Games she has to combine her power with Gemini to cast it and says it was still weaker than the first time and since this was after her second origin was unlocked she would have at least 3 time as much magic energy (her origin would double it and gemini would double that) So what makes her first casting so strong.

The first time she casted Urano Metria, she received the spell from Hibiki of Blue Pegasus. He gave her one chance to cast the spell which she successfully did but the spell wasn't her's. Hibiki's power is "Archive" : he is able to transform a lot of things in datas that he can transfers to people. Thanks to this power, Hibiki has been able to give Lucy his knowledge about the spell and all his magic power (he gave her so much of his power that he fainted instantly right after).
After casting it, she couldn't remember anything and she had to learn the spell all by herself. The trick she found to overcome the difficulty of the spell was to combine her magic power with Gemini's, like Naruto mastered Rasengan thank to his clones.
Hope that helps

Sources :

Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 144, Pages 14-20
Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter    385, Pages 14-17

I thought that Hibiki might have give her his magic power but that would mean that he had  3 times her power at least and frankly he doesn't seem that powerful. Also if he can transfer his magic power to someone else why doesn't he do that more after all that's a pretty helpful skill.

Even if he gave her his magic power that doesn't mean she didn't use her magic power at all. That doesn't mean he has 3 times her magic power but he has about the same amount of power, just like Gemini.

Actually, this ability is not that strong. First, he have to make contact with the person who receive his magic power and it seems to at least one minute. Also, if his magic power his limited, it's pretty useless, at least less useful than his others Archives abilities, which are pretty broken.

his power would have to be at least 3 times as powerful since as I explained before by the time she does it with Gemini she and therefor Gemini also had doubled her power with her second origin and it was still weaker.

that is true if Hibiki were able to cast the spell himself, but we have no way to confirm he can

y  couldnt he he knew the spell in the first place

obviously because of his magic's specificities. as an "archive" user, he is able to manipulate an insane amount of datas. That means he has access to the spell's datas but we have no way to know if he is able to CAST it. As an exemple, I could refer to the magic in general. Some people is Fairy Tail aren't able to use it at all, no matter their magic knowledge.
Otherwise, the way the Urano Metria spell is linked to the stars and because we saw Yukino Agria using it during the Eclipse Spirits arc, it is strongly possible that this spell is only for constellanists.

but there's nothing to suggest that those who can do magic are only able to do one kind of magic. while they do say that they have an aptitude for certain magic in zero they each chose whaterver they felt like and had no problem using it. sure you have to build up to a point where you can use strong versions of each kind of magic but if that were the case with this spell even if it was a celestial wizard thing lucy shouldn't have been able to cast it since she's super weak at the time.

as to him transfering power not being broken I'm saying why dont more guilds have people who use archive magic as support people. like they can stay relatively safe for most fights and then a bunch could power one person up later making them completly broken

I don't know ? ... that's a entirely new question

thats why its not in the origional question. it's more of a way to exclude an unlikely possible explanation not a genuine question.


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Why didn't Hisoka challenge Razor?
Hisoka constantly seeks out powerful opponents to challenge and kill. Razor was acknowledged by the Phantom Troupe to be pretty powerful. Why didn't Hisoka attempt to fight him?
So far (in the anime), the only other fights that Hisoka missed out on were:

Netero -- Hisoka deemed that Netero was leaving himself too vulnerable to attack.
Chimera Ants -- Hisoka was chasing Chrollo.
Chrollo -- Chrollo was cursed and unable to use his Nen abilities.

In the above situations, Hisoka lost the opportunity to fight powerful enemies. For other powerful fighters such as Illumi, Hisoka chose to befriend them temporarily in order to gain something. But in Razor's case, it seems like Hisoka shyed away from the challenge.

I don't remember the anime commenting on this point, but maybe the manga did. My interpretation of events is that Hisoka had already chosen to help Gon's team, and in order for them to win, he had to play fairly. Even in the "fair" context, the rules were admittedly brutal, but I think he was having fun helping Gon as opposed to killing others. Also, Hisoka's focus at the time was Chrollo, and he didn't really care about any of the goings on at Greed Island, except for finding someone who could lift Chrollo's curse, so that he could fight that worthy foe.

Because he is NOT suicidal....
Simply because Hisoka has never challenged anyone that are physically stronger than him despite the fact of it's availability. i.e. Uvogin, Franklin, Silva and Biscuit. People who's raw power are way above his. Therefore his attacks are meaningless unless he has more than just bungee gum in his arsenal. Razor has the same build as the characters I mentioned, and is capable of destructive power well above Hisoka's defenses as well(Shown in their volleyball game). Meaning Hisoka does not have the ability YET to pierce through their defenses, unless he has an extremely hax ability.
Rationale: His fight with these people would look the same as Uvogin's and Kurapica's. Unless he has an ability like Chain Jail, there is just no way he could harm them, because they are physically and nen wise more powerful than he is. If he is stronger or atleast at the same level, then that volleyball(not full power) catch wouldn't have broken his fingers. Imagine what Uvogin's fist would do.
Fight Availability:
Silva - Hisoka can pay the assassin to kill him, and we have a fight.
Buscuit - A dozen opportunities and he does not take it.
Razor - He could've attacked him on the spot after the game.
Franklin - a simple duel between teammates
Uvogin - same reason as Franklin
My thoughts are that Hisoka targets potentially cerebral fights, i.e. people who could give him that must not have that much overwhelming power Chrollo, Killua, Illumi, Ging and Gon.
Also, just to add. Chrollo as evidenced by his fight with the 2 main heads of the Zaoldyecks, did not show any feat basic nen wise that could pierce through Zeno's and Silva's defenses, which is why he used a specialized dagger. Which means in pure combat without Hatsus both he and Hisoka are not in Zeno's and Silva's level and therefore Razor. The only factor that both Zeno and Silva were being careful in their fight with Chrollo is that Chrollo has the advantage of many unknown abilities. Which one of them could possibly be hax, like an ability to put some1 in a cage regardless of their power. Or teleport like we've seen Chrollo did once.

"Because he is not suicidal" seems like that fight against Chrollo was suicidal.

I do think it's pretty similar to what the other answer states in that Hisoka deemed that Razor could and would kill him. On the other hand, Hisoka is really full of himself and he's cunning in battle, meaning he has the capability to beat opponents with higher basic power than himself. He wanted to fight Netero, despite the obvious gap in power, and he wants to fight Chrollo who we all know is also incredibly strong, so maybe under normal circumstances he would have fought Razor. Unfortunately he was helping Gon, and in that process, used a lot of Nen and was injured, whereas Razor also used up his Nen somewhat, so they wouldn't be fighting at full power. I suppose he could've tried to find and challenge him later, but he was trying to find Chrollo after that because Chrollo interests him more. I would assume he didn't want to fight any of the other Phantom Troupe members because 1) A fight to the death which is all he cares about would ruin his chance to fight Chrollo 2) They aren't strong enough for him, which really says something about how he's full of himself.
As for Biscuit... I think she and Netero are doing the same trick. They put off an aura of being no threat to him, which totally curbs his blood lust.


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Was Soichiro Yagami that much close to his natural lifespan?
Shoichiro dies from wounds inflicted by Mello soon after making the Shinigami Eyes deal. Since he didn't even use the Death Note (nor was any DN used on the people involved in the incident) prior to his death, it can be assumed that the DN did not change the lifespans of anyone indirectly involved in some killing.
So because his lifespan was halved with the eyes deal and he dies a few hours/days later (lets assume he underwent surgery and a few days seems reasonable) was his natural lifespan that much short?

The answer is yes and no. He himself said that he was thinking about suicide and that he probably would have done it within a few days. At this point, his lifespan was that short. But his "natural livespan" is unknown (and was probably longer) since his son's use of the DN led him into this situation.

Yeah it does get kind of weird when it comes to stuff like that; like when the DN says a death of one can't cause the death of another indirectly, but Light's killings DID kind of cause his Dad's premature death. I guess there's just a lot of factors that can't all be that accounted for...

Actually, a person who makes the eye deal with a shinigami gets their natural lifespan halved regardless of weather or not they technically use the Deathnote itself. By this logic Soichiro Yagami was only going to live a natural life of about three days max.


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Is it possible for a non japanese anime/manga artist to draw and color anime/manga authentically?
If a westerner or other foreigners draws anime/manga art in their style the drawing,coloring,etc style will not resemble that of a japanese because it is not 100% authentic japanese style
However would it help if they went to japanese schools to tutored by japanese teachers(as it is happening in reality) for anime/manga in order draw and color anime/manga authentically to avoid inauthenticity ?

Many of the questions you pose are already answered in the dupe; namely, we as westerners see "style", Japanese only care about the loanword.

@Makoto I like to argue about this topic,no one is responding in that page

Two things:  this is a Q&A site, not a forum; questions and answers are still relevant to this day, and second, there's not much to argue since we do feel that it's been concisely answered.

What is "100% authentic Japanese style"?... this is Hatsune Miku by a random Japanese artist and this is another Hatsune Miku by another random Japanese artist. On the other hand, this is Hatsune Miku by a random Russian and this is another Hatsune Miku by a random Malaysian.

@AkiTanaka to describe authentic I mean how faces,hair,clothes,etc are drawn,inked and colored even how japanese draw,ink and color

if that's what you mean by authentic well then of course everyone can learn how to draw like that, see these fanart made by Korean https://www.pixivision.net/en/a/2421

@Darjeeling but would it require work hard to do it like that?

yes, you need to work hard and lot of practice


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Why is Todoroki scalded when his mother throws hot water on him?
It's clear that Todoroki left side is burnt but isn't it also his flame side. If he is able to tolerate the high temperature he himself generates from his own flames shouldn't he also have been able to withstand the burn when his mother throws hot water on his face?

Maybe, maybe not. We only know that that's what happened for whatever reason. I think it's one of those things where you can theorize all you want, but the author decided to write these events for dramatic reasons and as a very important part of the character's origin story. It's just not something you would benefit from "avoiding" story-wise. On the contrary, such unexpected events create interesting moments in the story.

Perhaps at that age, his quirks hadn't developed extensively yet. Just a thought.

I don't think Todoroki necessarily is impervious to heat. Midoriya notices when they fight that Todoroki's use of his cold power is limited to how much cold he himself can stand, and that if he would not refuse to use his heat powers he would be able to remove this limit. So if he's not immune to the cold he may not be immune to heat. However, his father does have the flaming facial hair which doesn't seem to bother him. I think it's most likely that he's immune to the flames and the ice that he creates but when he uses it too much or is affected by something in the environment he's affected normally.

can it be that the "only one" power users (aka his parents) ARE immune to their own powers but he himself is not and thus has to use the other side each to help himself there? (thus he would be immune if the water could be cooled enough by his cold side,...)?

Well he maybe wasn't trained t activate his ability yet andhe does still get cold and freezes even though he's part cold

It could have to do with the fact that he was still quite young and probably hadn't worked on his quirk for a long period of time and even if his body was able to withstand the heat from his own flames, the boiling water would of probably been extremely hot to of left a burn of that degree on anyone's face. But I don't think we'll ever really know why.

After finally getting to watch more of the anime, I've thought of an interesting theory for this. Seeing as Todoroki accepts his ice side much more than his fire side, maybe he was working to empower his ice far greater than his fire. With the training leaning more to his ice, his fire and heat resistance might not have been that strong at the time, growing stronger over the years...

Todoroki's scar is a frost burn because her mother poured boiling water over him and in panic used her quirk on him to 'easen' the pain, but it actually made it worse.

It's basic knowledge not to put ice over the wound as it will make it worse and will create a frost burn scar. If his mother didn't use her quirk, Todoroki would've been fine and wouldn't have a scar as he can easily go through extremely high temperature (on his left) and low temperature (on his right).


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Has Sakura expressed signs of love towards Naruto?
Throughout Naruto and a lot of Naruto Shippuden you can clearly see that Naruto has a lot of affection towards Sakura. Various times he tries to ask her out and the like but it never goes very well for him. We do eventually learn later in "Naruto:the Last" that Naruto's feelings for Sakura were another way for him to compete with Sasuke, but his feelings cannot be simply denied.
My question is: has Sakura ever shown signs of love, not friendship, towards Naruto throughout the series? When?

I don't think she has.

At one point, Sakura does tell Naruto that she loves him, but she says this in attempts to trick Naruto into letting go of his promise of bring back Sasuke. Aside from that, I don't think she shows any signs of love

I don't agree with the answer above or any answer on the Internet for that matter. I watched Naruto Shippuden dubbed and subbed and to my understanding, Sakura did develop feelings for Naruto (and people usually skip those episodes because they are fillers).
After defeating Pain, Sakura recalls her days with Naruto (not Sasuke) and realizes that she has developed feelings for him. Later (in canon episodes), she decides to get rid of Sasuke herself because she felt responsible for it somehow. Sometimes, fillers are made to tune the main story and you should not skip these fillers if you like watching this show.
Every answer I saw described the situation poorly, so I decided to pen down the real story, in my belief.
Sakura did like Naruto, but the problem is that she was not mature enough and believed herself "deserving" for Naruto, as he was a hero, unlike Sasuke. She risked sabotaging Naruto and Hinata's story for her reasons. On the plus side, Naruto knew Sakura was not meant for her so he downright says her "No" on episode 206 (Sakura's feelings).
Later in series, she realized her "true" feelings towards Sasuke as he helped Naruto defeating Kaguya and got what she deserved (abandoned and knocked by her dear loverboy, whose thorns she desperately needed for 6 years)
Update:
I rewatched the entire Shippuden again, and my new conclusions somehow contradict this (my old answer). So here it is:
Sakura loves Naruto, but only platonic. She shares sympathy with him and they are good friends. She cares about him and that's why she confessed her love.
There are two side-effects in the cannon because of this:
1. Naruto realizes that Sakura can never be together with him (the same episode Sakura proposes to Naruto). He realizes that he actually never loved Sakura himself. And that was the moment he knew Sakura and Sasuke belongs together. Writer stitches the story beautifully there. And because of this, his self-righteous self forces him to sacrifice himself to bring back Sasuke. He just couldn't let Sakura suffer anymore. As he owes that to Sasuke.
2. Sakura gained some real heat after this scene from fans, as she seemed to neglect Hinata. But for me, this scene was pure satisfaction, her being rejected by our hero.
Sakura belonged to Sasuke. Naruto knew this. That was a pivoting moment of the plot. If Sakura had never confessed her love, Naruto probably went for a kill in the fight followed that episode. And we know he could easily swamp Sasuke as he was tired from the Danzo fight. But again, probably Obito intervened earlier, but in any case, the story would turn differently. So yeah, Sakura loved Naruto. But not as much as she loved Sasuke. She had undying respect for the former.

Some references to back up your claims would be appreciated if you want to prove the internet wrong, you can use this answer as a platform to preach from. Ancedotal ones are fine as long as you properly explain yourself.

just did. @кяαzєя hope that's enough.


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Does taijutsu drain chakra?
When the user uses taijutsu like Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms for example, I understand that it uses chakra. However, what if the user is just running/punching/kicking/etc? This still counts as taijutsu, right? Does this use the user's chakra?
Punching and kicking will probably exhaust the user eventually, so is this proof that it uses chakra? In other words, when a user uses up his/her chakra, they feel exhausted. Does the reverse hold true(exhaustion means lack of chakra left)?

I'm pretty sure taijutsu doesn't require chakra. Apperantly: Low on chakra=getting exhausted & Low on physical energy=getting exhausted. You need both.

Nope taijutsu is strictly physical prowess.

From http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Chakra:

Chakra is created when two other forms of energy, known collectively as one's "stamina", are moulded together. Physical energy is collected from each and every one of the body's cells and can be increased through training, stimulants, and exercise. Spiritual energy  is derived from the mind's consciousness and can be increased through studying, meditation, and experience.

So, in case of taijutsu, the user uses kicks, punches, etc to fight. To perform these actions the user definitely requires normal energy produced by the cells in the body. Now this part of chakra (physical energy) is required to produce chakra. If the user uses this "physical energy" faster, which is the case for taijutsu, the amount of chakra produced will be less. So the user doesn't use chakra, just its production gets limited. Now in case of the 8 gates also, no chakra is used. Opening the gates removes the physical limitation on the body like more muscle movement.

No, taijutsu by itself will not use chakra but it will use up a portion of it. Let me explain.
Chakra is made by combining both the spiritual and physical energy in all of the 13 trillion or so cells in the human body (as stated by Sakura in the Naruto bridge arc).
While ninjutsu and probably genjutsu as well use up chakra (physical energy and spiritual energy), taijutsu just uses up physical energy. So no it doesn't use up chakra : just one of the ingredients.


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What's the title of the soundtrack in Ranma 1/2 Episode 20?
What's the title of the soundtrack played in the scene where Azusa is talking to her toys in Ranma 1/2 Episode 20? It kinda sounds like Tchaikovsky.

I don't know the name of the soundtrack from the anime, but it sounds very much like Tchaikovsky's Allegro non troppo from Piano Concerto No. 1.


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Why didn't Ranma stay in China after getting the curse?
Why didn't Ranma and Genma stay in China after getting the curse? They got the curse there in the first place. Also, if the only way to be cured was to go to China again and visit the cursed springs, then why don't they? Ranma could've swam back to China anytime he wanted and he actually planned to during the episode where Ranma was finding the cure for Akane after being attacked by Shampoo with her Xi Fa Xiang Gao technique. What's keeping Ranma in Japan? There were episode where Ranma and Genma discussed about Ranma going back to China but for some reason, Ranma ended up staying for whatever reason, probably something about inheriting the dojo. But Ranma can always return so why doesn't he?

I've read the complete manga and I suspect it is because plot. In the end, Ranma is a light comedy and healing the curse would take the core element from it. If you want a more story-driven answer, I would suspect Ranma personally got used to it, occasionally likes it (don't tell me he never played with himself while being a girl, that simply nonsense for a teenager), but can never admit it because it would brand him a pervert by society (at least by the people who know the secret).


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Are there 6 zeno alive?
In Dragon Ball Super, if I recall correctly, it was told that each ring of time represents an alternative timeline/reality. It was shown by Gowasu there were 6 rings of time, one of them which exploded when Zeno destroyed one timeline

. Since there is a "present Zeno" and a "future Zeno" of 2 different timelines, are there supposed to be another 4 Zenos due to the other timelines/realities which were created by Trunks and Zamasu time travels?

Yeah there should be, one Zeno for each timeline that is create.

It was never shown in the series, but since each timeline creates a new Zeno there should be 6 Zenos alive.


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Why doesn't "Mad monk" Urouge's neck accessory fall off?
As seen in the latest episode 798, where Urouge falls on the ground while fighting Biscuit Knight - Cracker. And the accessory that he is wearing is still in his neck. Why ?

Same reason why marine coat doesn't fall off from their shoulder. Things like those only fall off for dramatic reasons. Like how we see Ace's hat fell when he fought Blackbeard

That is a part of his outfit and in manga and anime a part of a characters outfit only comes of for dramtic purposes i.g. luffys hat, natsus scarf, alucards hat and glasses. It's not a logical or story reason it's just mangaka preference i guess.

Just to add a bit to that answer, remember this is anime people. Anime breaks the laws of physics all the time and this is no different.


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Did Kale knock out Goku?
In Dragon Ball Super episode 100,

 After Kale went all rage in super saiyajin green "berserker", and after she fired ki blasts in all directions, Goku appeared in base form after being in super saiyajin blue. Though I dont think wee see a ki blast impacting him.

Did Kale knock out Goku? or he transformed back to base form?

He simply transformed back to base form. If he was knocked out or seriously injured he would start being a lot more serious as based on his past actions throughout dragon ball(z/super). Instead when he got back he didn't look injured at all.


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In sub Akame ga Kill, why do the characters reference "leveling up"?
The anime talks about the characters leveling up, as if they somehow know that they aren't real. If you or I gained more skilled, we'd say we became more advanced in X skill, or were more skillful that we were previously. Or is this something that is in the manga's backstory that isn't fully explained in the anime?

For reference, in episode 12, the Japanese script says 「ここは空気も薄い、過酷な環境での実戦、結構レベルアップしたんじゃないか？」, mentioning about "level up". (Just providing an instance of it, not attempting to answer)

Well in the dub for anime some one has to come up with the words for the script to the best of their ability.So it's just their choice in words.

If I read the manga, you're saying that they wouldn't talk about leveling up?

I never saw the manga.And i don't remember lvling up.It could be their in the manga but they are not required to use the exact words as in the manga. Anime scripts are usually longer than the conversations in manga.

I will vote up, but can't accept the answer. I'll wait until I get an answer from someone who knows the manga inside and out.

More than likely it's a slightly inaccurate translation of a word or phrase that means to "improve" or "become more skillful".


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Alternative super saiyan transformation of Kale, what's it supposed to be? (warning: content of recent episode 101)
In Dragon Ball Super episode 101, we've seen another transformation of Kale. Instead of having her eyes blank and her muscles inflated, the called "berserker mode", in the alternative transformation she has the regular form of a super saiyan but apparently she keeps a little of her greenish hair/aura (a little more yellowish maybe), and she's weaker than in berserker mode.
Kale in super saiyan Berserker mode:

Kale alternative super saiyan transformation:

Kale and Caulifla super saiyan transformations together for comparision:

What is this transformation supposed to be? Is it a regular super saiyan, or is it a different super saiyan transformation with a different level of power?

I would say its just the standard ssj transformation(though in this shoot her hair looks a bit different, so it could be powered down "beserker" transformation)

This transformation is the same as Broly, and it's called The Legendary Saiyan transformation. It is very rare for a Saiyan to have this ability as we only know two (currently) Saiyan that achieve this Broly and Kale. PS the second image shows the normal SSJ1 as Broly

The second image is not normal SSJ1, as the hair colour is not yellow, its green

@IchigoKurosaki you are from Japan? What do they say in Japan about this?

It's more something in between green and yellow. If you compare the image of Kale in berserker mode with the other one, the first looks almost like pure green when the second has a yellowish tone to it. BTW, the aura in the pictures I posted looks the same color than Caulifla's


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Doesn't Female Titan and Beast Titan have the Coordinate ability?
It seems like most titans have the Coordinate ability. Beast Titan was directly telling other titans what to do. Female was calling and leading them.
Whats the difference in Eren's Coordinate ability? They look the same to me. Or is it the same power like regeneration but only some titans have it?

Related: https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/40949/if-the-beast-titan-has-similar-powers-to-the-founding-titan-why-do-they-need-it

TL;DR (or avoiding spoilers)
The Beast Titan and Female Titan have shown some control over the titans, but they have limitations and do not provide they same control over the Titans as The Coordinate does.
Titans submit to the will of the user with The Coordinate. The Beast Titan requires verbal commands and the Female Titan can only attract through her screams

Beast Titan

 Zeke's Beast Titan is able to exercise some control over mindless Titans through a scream-based ability. Through vocal commands, the Beast Titan is able to direct the actions of mindless Titans and can command them to refrain from eating humans and stay in place if necessary. Titans under Zeke's control are even able to function using only moonlight without falling into fatigue. However, this ability is evidently imperfect in comparison to the Founding Titan. Titans under the control of the Beast Titan either seem to be capable of ignoring orders or occasionally do not receive or comprehend orders given. Furthermore, Titans under the Beast Titan's control cannot act upon the unspoken will of the Beast's user, unlike the Founding Titan, and must be given some sort of direct verbal signal before taking action.

Female Titan

Like the Founding Titan and the Beast Titan, the Female Titan is able to exercise some influence over mindless Titans through a scream-based ability; it possesses the ability to attract mindless Titans over long distances. It has been theorized that this ability was used by Annie Leonhart to gather all the Titans on the island of Paradis to the Walls during the fall of Wall Maria.

The Coordinate

 The Founding Titan, also translated as Progenitor Titan) is the first of the Nine Titans, granting its user the unique ability to control the actions of the Titans, modify the memories of others in the majority bloodline of the Walls, and inherit the memories of those who previously possessed the ability. It is commonly known to the Marley military as the "Coordinate", the point where the "paths" of all the subjects of Ymir, including Titans, converge

Inheriting the memories of the previous titan shifter is not exclusive to the founding titan. Other titan shifters can, to some extent, gain access to the memories, too.

No, the Female titan and Beast titan do not have the coordinate ability. The major difference is that Eren can fully control a titan, he can do everything that the Female and Beast titans do, but more exact. The Beast and Female titans can guide and take a general control as if telling them what to do like a parent to a child. It is pointed out in the manga that Zeke Yeager's ability is special to him and he is the only Beast titan to have it. The reason for Zeke's advanced ability is his blood, he is directly related to the original titan, as for Annie, it is believed that she is also directly related, but it isn't yet proven.

Wrong. So it has been stated that for the Beast Titan, he has a spinal fluid that if entered into a Subject of Ymir, he can guide and control those specific ones, even making them transform to pure titans (as how it was shown during season 3 part 2 in the battle of shiganshina. The beast titan shows up and many others are shown to transform and you see titans under his guidance.
As for the Female Titan, either she has that ability to call SOME titans when screaming OR it was because the Beast Titan was around there and heard the scream, thus aided Annie at the time.


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Is Fate/Apocrypha sequel of Unlimited Blade Works?
I want to watch Fate/Apocrypha but I didn't watch Unlimited Blade Works. So, is Fate/Apocrypha the sequel to Unlimited Blade Works?

Related: Fate viewing order

According to the MAL page, Fate/Apocrypha is set in a parallel world to the Fate/stay night series.
(First sentence of the synopsis):

 The setting is a parallel world to Fate/stay night where the Greater Grail mysteriously disappeared from Fuyuki after the Third Holy Grail War.

You only need to have watched the original series, in this case. Apocrypha is not particularly important to the series.
(Also see Senshin's answer for the full order)

i would argue Apocrypha's importance to the world building of the Nasuverse given what gets revealed in the novel (assuming the anime wont deviate) and that it is Apocrypha which confirmed Mordred being female like that of her "Father" which was only guessed at by Studio Deen. also there's Jackie


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How did Ryu Yamada get his copy power?
Ryu Yamada and other members of Supernatural research club found out that witches gained their power due to their desires. How about for Ryu Yamada, how did he get his copy power and what was his desire?

Did he get his power because he wanted to be like everyone else? Ergo he could copy people


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What kind of power does Charlotte Cracker have?
I know that Charlotte Cracker ate Bisu Bisu no Mi, that make him can create and manipulate biscuits.
But, at first of his appearance, he have a power to make nearby Homies to death just using his glare. As noted by Luffy, this power isn't haki.
So, what is this power?
I'm also read manga, and so far I don't get the explanation about this power, or maybe I am missing something.

It is implied in both in the anime and the manga that the Soru Soru no Mi's power involves fear...
During Big Mom's first shown tantrum, Mascato had lifespan taken partially because of fear.
It is explained in the anime that if the person subjected to the Soru Soru no Mi attack had any trace of fear he or she would have his or her life span taken away.
So, although it wasn't explicitly stated in the manga or anime, Cracker probably did a power gush to induce fear in the soul implanted objects, causing them to lose the implanted "soul"

can anyone teach me how to do spoiler :  https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72877/whats-the-exact-syntax-for-spoiler-markup

Are you confusing Charlotte Cracker with Charlotte Linlin? Because Cracker didn't eat Soru Soru no Mi but Bisu Bisu no Mi as stated on question

@Darjeeling Big Mom (Charlotte Linlin) ate Soru Soru.  She casually created the "Homies" using this ability by collecting life/soul energy and randomly dispersing it.  yolobots here is claiming that Homies are susceptible to being scared to death (because Soru Soru no Mi involves fear) and Charlotte Cracker is scary enough to cause that. I doesn't have anything to do with any powers or abilities he himself possesses.  I'm not convinced it is more than a fan theory but it isn't bad.


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Did both Crocodile and Smoker use the artificial rain powder in Alabasta?
By reading the manga and rewatching the anime I reached to this conclusion -
Rain didn't fall in Alabasta for 3 years, but before that it did only in the capital and not in the neighbouring regions.
When the artificial rain powder is used, the location where it is used gets more than average rain and nearby areas don't get any.
Since by good faith we know the king wasn't using the powder or had any knowledge of it being used, could it be that Crocodile was using it in the capital from some hidden location which resulted in such a phenomenon and after he stopped using it, say the 3 years that no rain happened was the time natural weather was reconstructing itself and whether or not Crocodile was defeated, it would have rained nonetheless??
And secondly if Smoker had used artificial rain machine from a ship after the fight (couldn't figure out whether it was the case or not as he says when asked, he will never break the law but it is shown such a ship is there in the back) , how was he able to make rain the whole island??

Crocodile had been using the rain powder to control the climate and preventing rain from falling in the kingdom, whilst making it seem the capital was using the rain powder to monopolize the rains. Crocodile admits to this when taunting Koza in chapter 197.
Later, with both Crocodile defeated and the rain maker ship captured, the rain started falling once more.
It's not made clear if Smoker used the rain powder or not, and I don't have access to the original japanese text, but checking the narration from chapter 212, on both internet scanlations and my brazilian edition of One Piece, both imply that the rain that fell on the kingdom was the natural bounty that could finally rain since nothing was preventing it anymore. So it can be understood that Smoker did not use the rain powder to cause the rain.

No, only Crocodile used the rain powder. Smoker was specifically asked by Hina if he used the dance powder and he said no (chapter 212). I know you stated this but it's firm proof until it's said otherwise.

If smoker would have said that he used the powder, he would be in offense and should be arrested, that's why he said no, it's heavely implied that he did use rain powder

He's known hina for a long time I don't think he would lie and I don't think they would arrest him.  Where is it heavily implied he did?

I absolutely agree with this answer and Rinne's comments. Smoker is an honest, straightforward marine. In the same chapter (212), he tells the marine main base that Tashigi is crying, that they could not defeat B.W. and that they should go to hell with the promotion they promise him. Being that direct to his own bosses, I can't imagine he would have any reason to lie to HIna.


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Funding and anime diversity
In this video, Digibro argues anime's international appeal is that, whereas Western TV including its animation is designed for financial reasons to meet a target demographic's existing interests, anime can be more diverse and give us "something that we never would’ve known we wanted". I'm sure I've simplified the argument (transcript here), but my understanding is that Digibro feels financial motives haven't homogenised anime as much as they have the animation of other nations. But why would that be so?

I'll have to watch the video to make a real argument, but my kneejerk reaction is to call BS on that line of reasoning. Anime is, if anything, even more beholden to finances than Western animation. It feels fresh and new and original at first because it's made for target demographics we don't have in the West, but when you watch anime long enough you start to see the same financially motivated homogeneity you see in Western TV. This may have been more true of older anime from the 70's and 80's, much of which has an art-house flavor, but it's certainly not been true at least since the mid 90's.

@Torisuda Thanks for that. Perhaps the question should instead be why pre-1990 anime was so "arthouse". Like you, I suspect anime's international appeal is more down to its fitting a foreign set of conventions, so it feels inventive. (A recent survey of Japanese fans' favourite anime suggests they don't assess them in remotely the same way Western fans do.)

Nah, I personally think the way you phrased the question is fine. Reminds me a bit of how questions on Skeptics are usually posed. It's also an oversimplification to claim that there's no art-house anime today or that all the anime in the 80's was art-house, or good for that matter. There was commercial stuff in the 80's, and there was art house stuff that was terrible, and we still have some art house stuff today. The whole claim is overly generalized IMO. I'd be interested to see that survey, if you have a link.

Thanks for your approval. The Skeptics comparison does make sense! Here are 2 links: http://goboiano.com/here-are-japans-top-100-favorite-anime-of-all-time-part-1 & http://goboiano.com/here-are-japans-top-100-favorite-anime-of-all-time-part-2

Anime is very homogenized and always has been. If you were a fan during the 1970s you could pick among a dozen flavors of different anime and that was it. In the following picture, each cover represents a different franchise.

Nothing much has changed since then. Only there are more flavors of anime now. But new anime are all derived from some older anime and the more you watch, the more you realize all the similarities.


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What Gintama episode had this scene?
I've read somewhere that there was a scene where Shouyou was released from jail and Gintoki cries upon his return, I've watched all episodes but I don't remember this, can someone tell what episode was it?

as i remember there is not episode like that, but one thing is clear that shouyou was killed by gintoki

As far as I remember, they don't meet after he's arrested and yoshida shouyou is never released from jail. The only time they meet is when Oboro forces Gintoki to behead his teacher in order to save his friends. Once he's killed, yoshida shouyou loses control over Utsuro and is presumably killed off as a personality.
You could be referring to the episode where Gintoki is restrained as his teacher is arrested and dragged away from him. Which is shown as a flashback in one of the episodes, but is better explained in the movie I think. It maybe the first or second movie, I'm not sure. Never was a big fan of the movies though.


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How many transformations does Naruto have?
In Shounen, transformations are an important part of the character developpment as he often gets stronger through them.
What are Naruto's different transformations ?

Naruto has like 2 or 5 transformations depending on how you count it:

Uncontrolled Jinchurichi mode
Controlled Jinchurichi mode, where he steals Chakra from Kurama
Naruto and Kurama in Sync, transform together.
Sage mode
Sage, Jinchurichi Mode.

You can count it as two if you consider All Jinchurichi transformation as one and Sage transformations as other.


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Why does Dekomori's shirt say "Purgatory" in Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai?
In episode 6 of Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!, Rikka gives the members a "uniform" which is a black shirt with 2 kanji on the front. Hers reads "Evil Eye" (jagan), Yuuta's reads "Dark Flame" (yami honoo), Kumin's reads "Black Dream" (kuro yume), and Dekomori's reads "Purgatory" (rengoku).
I think they never mention what Kumin's or Dekomori's say, so I had to translate them myself, and Kumin's made sense, but I don't understand Dekomori's. Is there any other reference to her as "purgatory" or anything?

Perhaps related: Is Dekomori meant to say “desu” or “death”?

As I recall, Dekomori didn't have a chuuni alias/codename (a la Dark Flame Master or Morisummer/Forest Summer/however you want to localize it), and was largely referred to by her supposed weapon, the "Mjolnir Hammer", during chuuni activities. This is just a guess, but her shirt might have been "Purgatory" since she tends to base most, if not all, of her chuuni persona around that of Rikka, and thus would want kanji for something "darker" to match her "master".


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Why are only some of the characters "color-coded"?
Action Heroine Cheer Fruits is one of those shows where the names of the lead characters contain names of colors, and those names match up to some color theme that the character has (in this case, it's the characters' hair colors).
Except... it only does it for some of the main characters, which is weird.
Characters that are "color-coded"

Akagi An (aka = 赤 = "red"); Midorikawa Mana (midori = 緑 = "green"); Aoyama Genki and her sister Aoyama Yuuki (ao = 青 = "blue"); Momoi Hatsuri (momo = 桃 = "pink" / "peach")
Characters that aren't "color-coded"

Shirogane Misaki (shiro, written differently = 白 = "white"); Kuroki Roko (kuro = 黒 = "black"); Kise Mikan (ki = 黄 = "yellow"); Shimura Kanon (shi = 紫 = "purple")

I guess there might not be a deeper answer to my question than "because that's how they decided to write it"; I just can't help wondering if I'm missing out on some next-level punnery or something. (Seeing as we already have nonrealistic green- and blue-haired characters, as well as yellow- and black-haired ones who aren't the characters with those colors in their names, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to add purple- and white-haired characters into the mix.)

without having seen the anime in question, I can't be certain, but is it possible that their "colors" refer to specific personality traits? That question alone might spark some interesting research into the social associations Japanese people might have with respect to colors (cf. blood type/personality). For example, "black" in Japanese seems to carry an association with "evil," similar to the way English would refer to something like "black magic."

I think that Akagi's hair is hardly red.
Akagi reminds me of its voice actor Miku Ito and Kize reminds me of its voice actor Yamasaki Eri.
I wonder if there was some political consideration to make the image of the voice actor and the character closer, IMO.

Just for a comment;
The relationship between the letters in their names and the color of their hair is an interesting view point.
Super Sentai's world view seems to be included in this work, and as shown in the picture below, the girls wear Super-Sentai like costumes. I think they were designed to match the color of the costumes with the color of their hair.

Also, it seems that when Japanese anime features young and cute voice actresses, they often incorporate their characteristics into the characters they portray. For example, Kize Mikan seems to be similar to Yamazaki Erii.　This could be a sort of the avatar.


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What are the consequences of ignoring Kyubey's contract?
Girls make contracts with Kyubey - they will have a wish granted in exchange of fighting witches using their new powers.
But, what is the consequence of simply not doing it? What if magical girls simply ignore Kyubey?
It somehow doesn't seem like Kyubey even has the power to kill them, otherwise he could just kill off Homura who keeps ruining his attempts to make a contract with Madoka.
The only thing that occurs to me is that their magic will deplete overtime and they need to kill witches to recharge - but then again I imagine that if they never fight witches they'd never deplete their magic in the first place.

Nothing, the end result has always been Magical Girls becoming witches regardless if they fight or not.
When a Magical Girl is made, their Soul is removed from their body and made/placed into the Soul Gem. As they use their magic, the Soul Gem clouds in which they need Grief Seed to purify. If it's not purified, it will become a Grief Seed and the Magical Girl will become a witch, shown when Sayaka transformed in Episode 8
After Sayaka became a Witch, in Episode 9 Kyoko is seen using her magic to preserve Sayaka's body. We can speculate that without a soul, the body starts to rot and the Soul Gem is actually preserving the body on its own.
This is somewhat hinted in Episode 10 in the timeline Homura and Madoka defeated Walpurgisnacht and Homura was asked by Madoka to kill her (the final timeline of Moemura). In this timeline, we see that both of their Soul Gems haven't been fully tainted as they didn't have the same pattern as Sayaka's

Since all Madoka and Homura was doing was laying in the ruins not using any magic themselves, we can assume that the Soul Gems continue to taint as they maintain a Magical Girl's body until it starts creating those strange patterns in the blackness that Sayaka's Soul Gem did just before she transformed.
Alternatively, since a Magical Girl's body just stops responding when they are separated from their Soul Gem (as demonstrated when Madoka threw Sayaka's off the bridge and it landed in a truck that drove past), one could also assume that the ability to control their body also slowly taints the body, including talking which is what Madoka was doing before Homura kills her.
As such, even if you tried reneg on your side of the contract, I speculate that the end result would still be the Magical Girl becoming a Witch

What about after the series?
Post Series:

 In Madoka's Universe, still had Magical Girl's purifying their Soul Gems though those black cubes Wraiths drop (shown when Homura is talking to an Incubator about the witch system)

Post Rebellion:

 In Homura's Universe, we aren't 100% as to what has changed with Magical Girls, but given that Homura has given the Magical Girls normal lives and stripped them of their memories (and power as evident with Sayaka's confrontation) and that she had the power to erase the Incubator's from existence but chose not to instead re-purpose them to do Madoka Universe Magical Girl Work (dealing with Earth's Curses), I would assume that she has made it so that so that Magical Girl's won't become witches via inactivity, otherwise this might cause the Law of Cycles of act and reclaim Madoka to deal with them.

Splendid answer, but I broke down laughing at the final timeline of Moemura!!! At first I thought it was a typo!   xD


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Why does Eren loses his equipment after being Titan?
Why does Eren loses his equipment after being Titan ?
And why Annie doesn't lose the equipment after being Titan ?

Can you provide a bit more context for this? What episode are you talking about? Are there any other details you can provide?

I don't know what to say more about this, it's just in S1. You know that equipment that is for the humanity, the sword, the grappling hook... Just when Eren comes out of his Titan body he has no equipment on his body, but when Annie comes out of her Titan body he has the equipment  on her body.

I think that only happened in the first half of season 1, all his stuff was destroyed when he was eaten.

Ook, so in anime, he still have a gear when being eaten.
In the scene inside "Santa's" belly we dont see if Eren has it, but there's no reason he would loose it. The gear is very reliable and you won't loose it even while doing crazy acrobatics in mid of an air. He also has his jacket.
He transforms and he still has his jacket.
We see him in human form when he emerge from his titan body - He doesnt have a jacket or gear with him.
This shouldnt be a case, since in season 3 Eren emerges from his titan body still with a gear.
Like you mentioned, other titan shifters also keep their gears (Reinar, Annie, Bertholdt).
So I checked the manga and it's the same thing - Eren is missing his gear and jacket after emerging although he transformed wearing it.
I don't think there's a reason to that - it seems ity's just an incositancy carried from manga to the anime.
There's no reason to assume it was damaged inside the Santa's belly or after Eren's transformation - since it's never happened again
Also someone was suggesting the gear melted inside the belly... well, we see bodies inside the belly none are damaged by temperature, so it wasnt hot enaugh for gear to melt.
Also like i mantioned, the gear is super solid, it can't just break, it has too sustain a lot of pressure during the acrobatics - so i dont think eren would just loose it.

That old bearded titan who ate Eren didn't take a bite of him, he swallowed Eren.
so Eren will be dissolved in his stomach's acid, but Eren unconsciously activated his titan power and turned into a titan and....
so his ODM gear slings must have been torn apart while he was inside the titan's belly.

Titans do not lose their equipment when they transform. The only reason Eren lost the gear once in S1 is because he had been partially eaten, sitting in another titans stomach. Showing him without clothes is more of a creative choice implying that before he changed, he was so damaged that he didn't have clothes/gear still attached to him.

Well it wasn't explained so it's probably just a mistake in the animation.The only other reason could be it melted but, that would make no sence at all because, he was wearing clothing still.The reason i said it melting was because one of his titans abilities lights it's self on fire.Meaning it's body temperature rises until it lights on fire.But even so his clothes would have burned off if that was the reason.So it must be a minor mistake that was overlooked.


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Does the US, UK or Aus Localized DVD/Bluray of My Neighbor Totoro have the bathing scene?
When i was staying in a hotel i was watching NHK World and there was a show called Japanology Plus which was talking about the origins and evolution of Japan's Anthropomorphism (the attribution of human traits, emotions, and intentions to non-human entities. ie. the OS-Tans and Hatsune Miku).
there was a bit where during an interview the interviewer asked about perception problems because the Anthropomorphic Characters are generally

Kinky women

to which the guest said that this was something about japanese culture which would seem strange outsiders.
the example he used was in My Neighbor Totoro in that there is a scene where the 2 children in it are bathing with there father but the guest said that the scene had to be removed for the overseas distribution. the reason the guest gave for why it was in the movie was that in Japan this would be very normal for parents to bathe with their children regardless of sex even citing that along time ago there was mixed sex bathing in spas (onsen)
Now i know that with initial screenings of an anime series the DVD/Bluray wont be as censored as the TV version like in the third Bluray Volume of Eromanga-sensei (JList - Possible NSFW Ads)
So i am wondering. Does the US, UK or Australian Localized DVD/Bluray of My Neighbor Totoro have the bathing scene?
NOTE: i ask about US, UK and Australian release as i am looking to get it in English, whether dubbed or subbed

Related, if not duplicate: What are the differences between the Totoro releases?

I recently bought the Disney Blu-Ray release of My Neighbor Totoro from 2013, and the bath scene is in it. Here's screenshots:

The Disney release is rated G, which means the MPAA considers it suitable to be watched by anyone. It has both subtitles and a dub starring a young Dakota and Elle Fanning as Satsuki and Mei, and Tim Daly, who is best known in fandom for voicing Superman in the DC Animated Universe, as their father.
When I was about 13, I rented the old Fox Video VHS release with the Streamline dub from Blockbuster Video, and I distinctly remember the bath scene also being in that version. The answer I wrote to the linked question presents evidence that Miyazaki refused to allow edited releases of his work after the travesty that was Warriors of the Wind, which would also have applied to the Streamline release of My Neighbor Totoro as Warriors of the Wind was released in 1985, three years before My Neighbor Totoro came out.
Sounds like someone didn't do their research before they made claims about what had or hadn't been cut from international releases of the movie, and made unfounded assumptions about what was and wasn't acceptable. This reminds me of Kaworu Watashiya's utter cluelessness about just what it was that American publishers found objectionable about Kodomo no Jikan.


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Boku No Hero Academia: all heroes / sidekicks in stain arc
Does anyone know all the heroes not named in the Stain arc? Episodes 16 - 17 in the anime and chapters 51-53 in the magna. e.g. the guy that is like a minotaur, the two ninjas, etc

have you tried looking up character wikis for their "first appeared in episode #xx"?

@Hakase yup, but these are all unnamed characters as far as I could tell - at least for the english references, so I am wondering if there might have been more in the Japanese magna


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What Madoka Magica poster is this?
Episode 4 of Gamers! has a scene where two characters go to an arcade.

Off to the right side of the scene is a poster that is unmistakably from Madoka Magica:

I consider myself something of a fan of Madoka Magica, but I don't think I've ever seen this poster. What, specifically, is this a poster for? One of the video games?

Given the characters are at an arcade and the assuming the shape in the bottom right is an arcade cabinet I believe the poster is trying to represent Madoka Magicard Battle, a card battling game based on the series and films.
I have not been able to find a poster, though the text and annotated images make it look more like a magazine or advert page than a movie poster.
The key art may also be images put together from individual shots as no key art has the group of five in that order.
My best guess that if this is based on an existing poster, it is for the Madoka Arcade card game and is an instructional poster designed to be displayed outside the arcade itself.


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What does vegeta call goku black in dragon ball super?
So I just realized the conundrum of Goku Black and Vegetas stubborn namming sense. Since the arc is a while away from being dubbed, I don't want to binge the entire arc again just to find any instance of Vegeta saying Goku Blacks name. So what does he call Goku Black? And does he call him something different after it's revealed who he really is?

" And does he call him something different after it's revealed who he really is?" . No "what does he call Goku Black?" I dont understand your question. Do you mean why does he call Goku Black? or how Goku Black is called? or what do you mean?

This is a really interesting question. Vegeta has never called his name out in person but whenever he refers to him to the others, he calls him Black.


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Why did Madara’s second eye exist at all?
He used Izanagi to survive losing his battle with Hashirama and swiping his DNA, shouldn’t his other eye be permanently sealed?

Not sure but I think it was the awakening of the rinnegan that healed his eye. his eye was not a sharingan anymore so it did not have the characteristics of a sharingan so the izanagi would not effect the vision.

i just want to conform that, is that madara's eyes. It looks like itachi's eye to me. And how the madara's eye in which part of anime or manga you felt that madara's eye should have been sealed.

I can't understand your question. Madara used Izanagi to undo his death and on doing, he loses his right eye. [and that is Itachi's eye in the pic FYI]


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Why Does Boruto and Himawari Have one less Whisker mark than Naruto?

Why Does Boruto and Himawari Have one less Whisker than naruto?
Naruto Uzumaki (3 Whiskers)
Boruto Uzumaki (2 Whiskers)
Himawari Uzumaki (2 Whiskers)

if you look this answer, it explains why Naruto has whisker(which is actually not a whisker but mark) and two whisker might be the reason of less influence of nine tail on them, coz in this case Naruto is jinchuriki not hinata which was not in case of Naruto

I count three whiskers on Himawari's face.

There is no guaranteed answer to that. But judging from various traits of different characters that they have acquired through parents, I can say that children of Naruto have inherited the trait of having whisker scars but not the number of scars.
It is evident from the creators of the manga giving part father and part mother traits to their children. Like in case of Naruto, he inherited his father's hair color although Kushina's hair had a distinctive red unlike other Uzumaki's. On the other hand, Naruto got his whiskers because of being exposed to Kurama's chakra while he was in his mother's womb because Kurama was sealed in Kushina.
Similarly, in case of Inojin (son of Sai and Ino), he inherited his father's face and his mother's style. In Boruto and Himawari's case, they got the whiskers because Naruto had and inherited the Jougan (Pure Eye - Boruto) and Byakugan(Himawari) from their mother.
This I how I feel Boruto got his whiskers. It also may be as simple as the fact being that Naruto and Boruto have been created by different people, and they might want to distinguish Boruto from Naruto.


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Why does Mahmut empty a bottle of liquid upon returning home?
In episode 4 of Shoukoku no Altair, Mahmut travels to the village of Tughril, his hometown. After disembarking from the wagon on which he arrived, he empties a bottle of liquid onto the earth (in a rather showy manner) and then kneels down, seemingly to pray or to mourn.

Why did he do that? This gesture appears to be portrayed as having some kind of ritual significance, but I don't know what to make of it.

I haven't seen the series, but it sounds like a libation, or ritual pouring of liquid.  See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libation . It is an ancient practice of many cultures, usually as an offering to a god or in remembrance of those who have passed on. If the series takes part in Japan, it may specifically be a Shinto or Buddhist practice, but if in an anonymous fantasy world, they probably generalized the custom.  What you describe certainly fits with what the article states.

This show is specifically set in a place very much like medieval Turkey ("Torqye", as they call it), and is reportedly rather historically-accurate, so I get the feeling that there is some sort of culture-specific context here that I'm missing.

@senshin I cannot find anything specific either, except an image that shows that ceremonial libation was practiced in the Ottoman Empire.  // You don't think he was honoring fallen comrades, or those who fought in his absence to defend his family or friends, or perhaps simply showing respect to hometown? Any of those might fit the general concept of libation. If the anime doesn't somehow clue you in, there are a lot of possibilities.


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Why does Orochimaru's Laboratory have this item to hand?
During episode 22, we see a test between Sarada's DNA and Karin's preserved umbilical cord. I can understand Orochimaru being the type of person to keep DNA on all his staff, but is there any symbolism, cultural significance or plot reason why in particular an umbilical cord?

I think there might be something cultural about it, it came up once in Mushi-shi once.

There are some weird rituals out there. Karin is kind of weird personality wise, still loving Sasuke even after he actively stabs her and says she is unneeded. Its not that big of a shcoker that since she helped deliver Sasuke and Sakuras Baby, that she would want some kind of memento that she was there, delivering Sasukes baby. Its probably the best thing she can get in the current situation, since she cant actually get Sasuke.

I don't think there is, my guess is that it's just a real life reference to the medical field where umbilical cords are kept, as they have stem cells that are helpful to treat some conditions.
Those cells can differentiate into different types of cells, which would give some scientific base to some actions he has done, as injecting Hashirama's cells.

That wasn't Karin's preserved umbilical cord, as Suigetsu wrongly led us to believe at first. In fact, it was the umbilical cord that belonged to Sakura and Sarada from when Sakura gave birth to Sarada, as it was explained by Karin herself in the manga "Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring" (chapter 10)/in the anime "Boruto: Naruto Next Generations" (episode 23).
Keeping in mind that the DNA from an umbilical cord is the same as the DNA of the child, this was the reason why there was a perfect match between the DNA belonging to the umbilical cord and the DNA from the sample provided by Sarada herself.
The inclusion of the umbilical cord in the story took place mainly because there had to be something that (wrongly) made Sarada's doubts seem true for a while in order for the story to be able to move forward. Having a DNA test done in order to seemingly concretize Sarada's suspicions about her parentage for a short while and not receiving a concrete answer to any question about this subject until the very last chapter represented pretty much the only way this kind of plot could evolve.


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What is the first Pokemon to exist?
Which is the first pokemon to have been born or formed or created. Some say it is Archeus. Is it the right answer?

Based on the information on History of the Pokémon world, legends go to say that Arceus is the first Pokémon to exist

In a vortex of complete chaos and nothingness, a single Egg comes into being, which then hatches into Arceus, the first Pokémon in existence

Also, based on the Pokédex entires from Platinum and Heart Gold & Soul Silver

Platinum: It is said to have emerged from an egg in a place where there was nothing, then shaped the world.
Heart Gold/Soul Silver: According to the legends of Sinnoh, this Pokémon emerged from an egg and shaped all there is in this world.

This information is derived from Sinnoh Myths, which is learned from a Hiker at Oreburgh Mine, and then at Canalave's library in Pokémon Platinum after catching Arceus

But it all starts with Arceus, the first. It is known as the Original One.
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"The Original One breathed alone before the universe came."

If your looking for the first pokemon to exist in the pokemon world, it would be Arceus. The first pokemon in the national dex is Bulbasaur, and the first Pokemon design ever was Rhydon back when Pokemon was still called capsulemon. I think that's how it's spelled. I hope this helped :)))


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How does Obito not lose his eyesight after excessive use of the mangekyo?

I've been thinking about his Mangekyo and how it seems to have had no impact on his eye sight and how he could have escaped the effects. After much thought on the topic I think I might have the solution and am wondering if this is a valid theory or not. My theory is you need both Mangekyo to hurt your vision. Since he had only 1 eye this effectively allows him to use part of its power for no effect compared to people like Itachi and Sasuke who do have both and had issues with this. Basically if I didn't make it clear enough with only 1 eye he couldn't get Susanoo or the other great abilities but also didn't have the downside of losing his sight. So do you think this is a valid theory? I know its unprovable either way just trying to see if I'm the only one who thinks this is a possible solution.

Very closely related

I always thought it was because he doesn't use both at the same time like other people, so it would make the eyes last longer. It's only my theory though.

he had access to lots of sharingans that remained from the uchiha massacre, assuming changing the eye does not take away the original abilities of the user, i'd say he had other eyes implanted in his.

@Wondercricket Wasn't Kakashi starting to lost his eyesight during the 4th Ninja War near the end (don't know exactly which fight)? I thought Tobi/Obito could use his MS so extensively because he has Hashirama's cells. Just like how Danzo, thanks to Hashirama's cells, didn't have to wait a decade before he could use Kotoamatsukami (Shisui's MS) again.

Kakashi was indeed starting to lose his eyesight, almost from the beginning. This is how he knew to ask Itachi about his eyesight, which instantly alerted and shocked Itachi that Kakashi had developed Mangekyou, even though he didn't use it in that fight. There is only one possibility with regard to why Obito didn't lose his sight, despite overuse. Hashirama's cells. We've seen the effect of Hashi's cells revitalizing the Sharingan's ocular powers within Shisui's Mangekyou. It stands to reason that it's possible that it would have a similar effect in staving off Sharingan blindness.

I wouldn't call that much use excessive. Plus he had Hashirama's cells, so there's that.

To fully answer the question, I'm gonna go back to the Third Great Ninja War, where Obito was a kid.
The Village Hidden in the Leaves is currently at war with the Stone Village, and Team Minato is on the battlefield. Obito and Kakashi are facing a Stone Ninja with camouflage abilities. He uses them and slashes Kakashi's eyes in the process. This leaves Obito crying and awakens his Sharingan. When the invisible Stone Ninja is coming up, Obito uses his Sharingan to track him down, then finishes him with a kunai.
This is how Obito awakened his Base Sharingan. (2 tomoe)
The squad of Stone Ninjas have captured Rin Nohara, Obito and Kakashi's third squadmate. After finishing the Stone Ninja, they go to rescue her. They fight with the Stone Ninja, and after, he leaves the area and uses a jutsu to make the cave they fought in collapse. When Rin, Kakashi, and Obito are running away to exit, Kakashi gets hit by a falling rock and falls. Obito then goes back to save him, and gets crushed by a falling boulder. His right side is nearly completely crushed. He gives Kakashi his left eye's Sharingan as a gift for becoming jonin. The remaining members then run for the exit.
By chance, the place Obito was crushed was near an underground passageway that Madara Uchiha created, and Madara then took and healed Obito to use him as his pawn to revive him. While Madara attends to Obito, he injects almost his entire right side with Hashirama Senju's cells, and White Zetsu also attaches himself to Obito's right side.
One of White Zetsu's clones alerts Obito that Rin and Kakashi are in danger and surrounded by Rain Ninja that seemed to be Jonin or Black Ops. Obito then destroys the exit to Madara's lair and runs to aid Rin and Kakashi. By the time he gets there, he sees that Kakashi has stabbed Rin Nohara right in the heart with Chidori.
This awakens him a 3 tomoe Sharingan, then a Mangekyou Sharingan.
He grows older and masters almost every aspect of his Mangekyou Sharingan, excluding Susano'o. He couldn't use Susano'o because one must achieve a Mangekyou Sharingan in BOTH EYES to use it. By the time he awakened his MS, his left eye was in Kakashi and thus couldn't use Susano'o.
Since Obito was injected with tons of Hashirama cells when Madara saved him, they gave him Wood Style, and a Mangekyou Sharingan that never went to blindness.
NOTE: Rin Nohara willingly let Kakashi stab her with Chidori, it was no means of betrayal. She knew that she became Three Tails Jinchuriki and let herself die so she wouldn't rampage in the Leaf Village.
After the Uchiha Annihilation, Obito took the Sharingan of almost every Uchiha Member. So even if he went towards blindness, he could always restock on his hundreds of spares. Not to mention he has a spare Sharingan behind his mask.

Considering he have hundreds of spare Sharingan and half body of white zetsu. It is quite easy for him to maintain Mangekyu Sharingan (can never actually use eternal mangekyu).
We can see that in the scene when he transplanted Itachi's eyes to Sasuke.

it is due to Hashirama's cells, plus I have always been under the believe that any Uchiha and Senju/Uzumaki pairing would negate any of the physical side effects of the sharingan due to being of the both the physical and spiritual sides of the sage.
it could also have to do with the fact that with one eye missing he can not use susanoo which might have been damaging and intense enough to overwhelm the healing abilities of Hashirama's cells.

Not being able to use Susanoo doesn't mean you won't go blind. Sasuke was already starting to go blind after JUST one use of Amaterasu and Kagutsuchi.

You've all got the wrong idea. It is because he had half of white zetsu's body which was developed using Hashirama's cells. The senju had extremely powerful healing body which could instantly heal any wound. The lost of eyesight occurs due to regular use of the mangekyo sharingan because you don't get the time to heal that injuries done by it in thar sorry period of time, however for Obito because of Hashirama's cells that damage was healed instantly.

The other older answers state the exact same. It would be noteworthy if you add additional details if you can provide some canonical evidences or instances.

I agree, as Hashirama's DNA is what allowed Danzo to use Kotoamatsukami once DAILY, instead of waiting 10 YEARS.

I could think of two things:

He was the owner of that Sharingan. He had more compatibility with it. So he can use it more number of times than Kakashi.
He had Hashirama's cells.

Your first point doesn't make any sense. Madara, Itachi, and Sasuke were the true owners of their Sharingan, and they still went blind from overusing their Mangekyo Sharingan, despite their so-called 'compatibility' with their own true eyes.


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Where was the reflecting surfaces when Muramasa fought Ichigo in Episode 233
during the Zanpakuto Rebellion Muramasa is shown to be able to throw is opponents around and hold them with a form or telekinesis but when he is fighting Ichigo's Inner Hollow in his Inner World he sees a bunch of arms in the reflection of the skyscraper windows which is invisible otherwise and it was them Muramasa was using to hold his Inner Hollow.

when Ichigo and Muramasa fought in Koga's Inner World in Episode 255 Ichigo worked out that Muramsa's ability with those arms only worked where he had a reflective surface like the still water's surface in Koga's Inner World and when the surface was broken by the ripples cause by rubble or Ichigo's attack Muramasa's ability couldn't work.
but when Ichigo first fought Muramasa in Episode 233, before he reached into Ichigo and Zangetsu was put under his control, Muramasa used the same technique to hold Ichigo down, but the main streets of the Seireitei where they fought didn't have any reflective surfaces from what i saw as generally the windows in the barracks and store houses don't have glass but are just holes in the wall with wooden bars sometimes in them.

So where was the reflecting surfaces for Muramasa to use when he ability to hold Ichigo down?

There isn't actually any kind of reflective surface in episode 233. In sight of this, if we want to avoid the possibility of this being a plot hole there's only one possible explanation:

The creation and usage of the threads doesn't actually require any
kind of reflective surface, but in case there's a reflection of them
they can be disturbed through that.

On a side note, this might actually be a plot hole. The whole Zanpakuto arc is an anime-only filler arc, and filler arcs tend to be more likely to have or create plot holes.


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In Death Note, how far could "sexual" interaction go with a shinigami before it broke rule XXXVI?
As the internet knows, in "How To Use" XXXVI, the following rule is stated:
"There are male and female gods of death, but it is neither permitted, nor possible for them to have sexual relations with humans. The gods of death also cannot have sex with each other. "
Now, this rule isn't to prevent romantic interaction, as a shinigami can be in love and act like it, he will only die when he steps in to save his love interest. In other words, love isn't forbidden, purposefully saving lives is. No, the obvious would be that this rule addresses breeding. Nobody wants half-shinigami running around in either worlds. Or at least, the shinigami king doesn't.
But if something is not possible for a shinigami, why is it also forbidden? It's a pretty awkward catch: in humans (and supposedly also in creatures as sophisticated as shinigami, who have a culture and a personality) sexuality goes way beyond reproduction. We guys in the human world have hundreds of ways to spend a steamy hot night without actually doing the deed. So what is "sexual relation" supposed to mean?
Here are the two options that seem obvious to me, but neither feel entirely satisfying.
1) If "sexual relations" are both forbidden AND impossible, can a shinigami behave as lewd as he wants, with humans or peers, since none of it can be called "sexual relationships" (they're impossible) therefore everything sexual he does is by default allowed? (In which case, the interdiction would only exist in case it somehow became possible for shinigami to get laid, I guess?)
2) Or, is the rule twisted/badly worded, and implies that intercourse is not possible but also that all and any sexual behaviour is forbidden, despite being completely feasible? If that was the case, it begs the question why this rule exists in the first place, since it won't cause any offspring. That would also be the first time a Death Note rule is so imprecise and ambiguous.
The whole question could be dismissed by saying that shinigami just won't be interested in it in the first place, but I ruled it out, given how diverse their personalities are and how much some of them like to mess with humans in every way possible out of sheer boredom am I right.
Both solutions seem problematic. Is there any info out there that I missed, or any thinking I got wrong? Thank you a lot for helping me solve this mystery.

I don't think anything has been ever said about romantic interactions between Shinigamis and humans apart from this rule.

If I translate from japanese: "Even though there are male and female gods of death, sexual reproduction between them and humans won't be permitted and isn't possible. Mating among gods of death won't do either."
It looks like the redundancy means: offsprings aren't possible + trying to have sex even then will be punished.

I think that some of the meaning of the rule is lost in translation. Trying to translate the rule myself using my limited Japanese based of the wiki image I came down to (feel free to correct me if I am wrong)

There is a male / female in the god of death,
  Human book point descendants with humans are not allowed or impossible,
  The death god Same as above does not mate.

Which implicates OR rather then AND leaving the ambiguity. But also explicitly states descendants and not specifically sexual relationships.
But lets assume the translators know better what they talk a bout then I do. In that case I would assume that the rule covers the aspect of interaction using genitalia being impossible, but other sexual relationships are also not allowed.
Lets first take a look at the definition of sexual relationships

Sexual relationships: Interactions involving sexual behavior with another person, or other people including, kissing, petting, humping, making out, sex, anal sex, oral sex, rimming, t bagging, fucking, licking, hickeys, sucking.

Reading through these, lets assume that relations which requiring the genitalia are impossible. All though this never is explicitly stated, the rule does some what insinuate this.
This would leave us with things such as : Kissing, petting, humping, making out, licking etc.
A Shinigami does have a mouth, hands and perhaps a tongue. Quite a few of these sexual relationships remain possible to the Shinigami, without actual intercourse or chance of creating demi-god off-spring.
So if we interpretation it in this way, it would make sense to cover the broader aspect of sexual relationships

"Human book point descendants with humans are not allowed or impossible"?
I would personally translate it litterally as: "Even though there are male and female gods of death, sexual reproduction between them and humans won't be permitted and isn't possible. Mating among gods of death won't do either."


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Are non-Tokyo dialects common in anime?
Spoken Japanese has a number of dialects that vary regionally throughout the country. From my (moderately limited) Japanese language experience, most of what is spoken in anime is Tokyo-ben (aka Standard Japanese). I'm not great at telling the difference between dialects, however, so I was wondering, are non-Tokyo accents/dialects common in anime, or used at all? In shows like Yuri!!! on Ice, which is set in Kyushu, is a Kyushu accent being used or a Tokyo one? Do shows set in Kyoto use a Kyoto accent, or is everything standardized to a Tokyo-ben?

I'd say quite common: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KansaiRegionalAccent and http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TohokuRegionalAccent. Just look at the many examples shown there.

Maybe not as common as the Tokyo dialect but yes! There are some animes set outside of Tokyo where they speak a different dialect like Barakamon, Kimi no Nawa, and Dive

I totally agree with the two comments above. Kansai dialect is very common in anime. Examples familiar to me would be Ikeda Chitose from Yuru Yuri and Kuroi Nanako from Lucky Star. Other types of dialects are less common but can be seen, like Mitsuha from Kimi no Na wa, but I am not exactly sure which regional dialect she speaks. Here is a list of dialect-speaking anime characters (in Japanese), which you can go through and get the idea.

When it comes to the whole anime rather than a single character, I would say that being set in somewhere often does not imply an overall usage of that region's dialect, and all-dialect animes are extremely rare.

I have to disagree with the other commenters. While it is correct, that there are lots of shows that fit, it's not enough to say "common". Since there are over twelve thousand anime and you'd be hard pressed to even come up with a mere hundred that include non-Tokyo dialects in any noticeable capacity. To be "common" there would need to be at least 4.000, imho.

The answer depends on your definition of "common". Most anime don't include dialects or accents, so in that sense it's not "common" however it's not unusual for a show to do so. There are quite a number of shows that include characters with dialects, most often Kansai/Osaka-ben, but when they do it's almost always for a direct purpose.
Some examples:

Igarashi Tora from Maid Sama! will occasionally speak in his native Kansai-ben (he's from Kyoto) when he's not acting like a perfect gentlemen as a sign that he's showing his true colors
Ebina from Himouto Umaru-chan who, when nervous or flustered, occasionally slips into Akita-ben
Mitsuha from Kimi no Na wa, who has a dialect to signify her status as a "country bumpkin" and it becomes relevant because she initially keeps her dialect when in Taki's body

Of course, it's not always that significant, as far as I can tell, the only reason Natsume from Inu x Boku SS speaks Kansai is to indicate his upbeat, outgoing nature.  Perhaps for stereotype reasons?
That aside, it's rare for anime set entirely in another region to use said region's dialect.  This is because all Japanese people can understand and speak Standard Japanese, aka Tokyo-ben, as that's what's taught in schools and show most on television.  Therefore it's easiest to have Tokyo-ben speaking characters to ensure the whole audience can understand.  The reason why Kansai-ben is the second most common is because a lot of comedians come from Osaka and so most Japanese people are quite used to hearing Kansai-ben and can understand it compared to others.
For reference, my mother's father's family lives in Aomori (most northern part of Honshu) and neither my mother (native speaker) or I can understand those relatives when they speak with the full dialect

Agree. This is no different than how US actors generally have a neutral accent. Specific accents don't show up unless it's important for the character to be associated with them.