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Why didn't Naruto pass the academy exam when Lee was able to?
Lee could not use chakra and thus could not perform any of the 3 techniques. However, Lee managed to pass the academy exam, while Naruto couldn't.
Why did Naruto fail when he could easily perform the Henge and Kawarimi and clearly had too much chakra for the Bunshin?

This doesn't look like a duplicate to me. "Why could Lee do X" is a different question from "Why couldn't Naruto do X".

@senshin This question isn't just why naruto couldn't do something but why lee could. In order to fully answer it both questions need to be answered and the question that this was linked to as a duplicate did that very well in my opinion.

@JoeW I don't really know much about Naruto (the show), but the answers to the linked question don't appear to say anything about Naruto (the character). Perhaps the answer is implicitly there if you know stuff about the show, but if it is, it's at least not obvious to me.

@senshin In this case the answer relates to the first episode or first release of the Manga where Naruto first fails then passes the test. He was given a test to create multiple clones which he failed to do and it is implied that the test is not always the same. Also at this time it is not known how massive his chakra reserve is and it is only later after he learns the shadow clone technique and resolves the situation he was place in does he pass. The linked question explains how the test to graduate is not the same for everyone.

I want to make one thing clear, Lee could not use Genjutsu and Ninjutsu , it is not chakra that he can't use, and what are those 3 techniques you are talking about, for lee exam was different , related to Taijutsu , about Taijutsu exam i don't have proof , i think it was not shown.But it should be Taijutsu related exam

Naruto was disliked by almost all ninja in the village. Lee was not. This causes me to believe that (most of) the examiners were anxious to flunk Naruto and drive him away from the village. Lee may have been given an exam test that allowed him to use his Taijutsu or simply answer with basic academy knowledge on an oral test. It makes a difference if your faculty actively dislike you versus they are indifferent. I don't believe we have any in universe answer so any theory is as good as another.

I believe Rock Lee was an exception, he excelled in Taijutsu to make up for his lack of skill in Ninjutsu and Genjutsu. Naruto on the otherhand initially started off bad at all 3 types of jutsus.
There also doesn't seem to be a formal exam, Iruka and the sensei's make the overall decisions hence why Naruto became a Genin despite failing the "true" exam.

the "true" exam was still probably passed by naruto when he used mass shadow clone, a high ranking forbidden jutsu, to the level of an adept (perfect clones indistinguishable from the real one). Clone jutsu was his lowest grade after all, it was the one thing he always failed until then, where he excelled. He also beat up a Chunin with it on first use, so if he didn't do enough to pass the test, i would be shocked. Since iruka had the power to grade the test, he could probably do so whenever he wanted.

Rock Lee is not the same year as Naruto.  He would have graduated from the academy during the previous year.  It is possible that the graduation requirements were not the same the previous year and thus Lee was able to pass.

On possible INGAME explanation would be that Naruto is the Jinchuriki of the 9 tailed fox. Aside from the hate of the adults he HAS to pass EVERY test so that he is ready for what is coming for him.....as he out of all others will always be a target for enemy ninjas...a primary target even. That COULD be a possible ingame reason there.
Hate I would rule out as His most favorite teacher let him fail and that one didn't hate him at that time. _So its more probably the "you are not good enough yet for what troubles await ESPECIALLY you".
Out of universe that is one of the things that sadly make no sense...at least if you don't look at it with the stand that it makes "a cooler story". As even though Naruto was abmyssal in EVERY class at the academy and failed every test he should have passed. Why? He REGULARLY tricked anbu and kage with henges, he REGULARLY run from ANBU out of all things and managed to succeed! AND even hid from them with absolute ease! And then we see him sneaking up on and beating Sasuke into submission....all of that in the first episodes. And that despite him ALWAYS loosing to Sasuke and being said to be abmissal in EVERY shinobi class.

When it came down to the decision for Naruto, it was a small panel of evaluators.  One was Iruka--a close acquaintance of Naruto's--and another guy was for passing him (so he could manipulate Naruto to his own ends).  The deciding vote was Iruka's alone, and it was Iruka that specifically insisted that Naruto must be able to create a plausible clone.  The reason Naruto failed in that specific case is because of one particular man's expectations alone (to be fair, he had a pretty good reason).  The general hatred the village had towards him, even despite the Third's orders, would likely have worked against him more generally.  Lee would not have had that same hatred.

POSSIBLE SPOILER: The following makes use of some of the background of Might Guy that we only find out very late in the story.

The histories of Might Guy and Might's father give precedent to people exceptional at taijutsu being acceptable based on that alone.  Exactly why is never really stated.  We know that Might had troubles entering the school due to his poor non-taijutsu skills.  Possibilities for advancement in these cases include:

Training so hard and demonstrating such exceptional skill that the village had essentially no choice but to recognize him.  He, possibly like Lee, may have simply "skipped" the usual method to becoming a Genin.
A special case of the first point is that the ability to use the Gates is a rare, risky, and potentially extremely powerful skill.  Possession of such a thing may be sufficient reason alone to advance in ninja ranks.  This may both be as a precaution--make sure he knows how to use it lest we suffer for it--, or as a simple recognition of its usefulness when properly utilized.  Naruto was not expected to have any control over the beast by default (only the upper echelons seemed to be aware of the possibility), which is in part why they feared him.  The beast was only seen as a possible source of death and destruction, nothing more.
Might's father had an (entirely unexpected) epic last stand by virtue of taijutsu.  Possibly word got out, and this led to a substantial improvement in the perception of taijutsu users.  This may have created a special, taijutsu specific, path of advancement that was now available to Lee and Might.
Related to the previous: Advancement tracks for single-area specialists were already in place.  Naruto was not a specialist in any specific thing.  He was training under a more general program, which requires a broad range of skills but at less depth.  Lee may have been under a specialist's program, which requires a narrow range of skills but at greater depth.
Might may have already had his eye on Lee, and may have used his stature and influence to push Lee through and into his team.  We still need to consider a reason for how Might got his stature.

Note that, out of universe, Might was initially never suggested to be only good at taijutsu, and it was initially clear that he could use chakra with reasonable proficiency.  We see him using summoning skills (for turtles) and breaking genjutsu on his own up through the Chuunin exam.  It was really only after this exam that his non-taijutsu skills basically vanished, and Might was largely recast as being very similar to Lee.  So Might being a high ranking ninja may have been nothing more than a continuity requirement: we already knew he was, so he had to stay that way, even if he no longer met the prerequisites.  So the door for Lee was opened by a silent retcon, and no in-universe explanation for that door was provided (lest it draw too much attention to the retcon).

Why did Naruto fail when he could easily perform the Henge and Kawarimi and clearly had too much chakra for the Bunshin?

I believe that the 'too much chakra' explanation was a fan-theory.
To try and answer the question, I believe that the reason that Naruto passed is because he learned the Kage Bunshin technique. It is a much more complex (and dangerous) technique, which can be seen by the fact that is Forbidden technique. But even so, the Kage Bunshin is still a Bunshin technique.
That and he also helped to expose, defeat, and capture a traitor to the village.


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Why do the English dubbed Madoka movies have a static movie menu and not an animated one like the English subbed one?
When the Puella Magi Madoka Magica Movies first came out, they were only Japanese with English subtitles, but the DVD/Blu-ray menus were animated. I remembered that they had small clips from the movie and the background music was that of the music that plays when Sayaka turns into a witch at the end of the first movie.
When the English dubbed version of the movies came out I got them too and after watching the first 2 movies I've noticed they have a totally different menu. This time, it's just a static image, and the background music is different.
I am wondering why this is. Would it not have been easier just to use the same menu? Also, is this a common practice when an anime is first released subbed but is then later re-released dubbed that the movie menu is remade (and possibly made less dynamic/flashy in the English dub release)?

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Why does the Fairy Tail anime have no blood?

Dragon Ball, One Piece, Bleach, and Naruto all have blood. Why doesn't Fairy Tail have it?

A similar question "Why did they draw clothes on Lisanna, Erza and Natsu in the latest episode (S02E64)?", will probably have the same answer. They censor that stuff to keep the audience as broad as possible to maximize profit. Having blood or nudity will not make the anime appropriate for children.

Could you add scenes of the other mangas, showing blood? Because I believe they censor a lot of stuff too.

@PeterRaeves Bleach: http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/13900000/Fav-pages-bleach-manga-and-tv-13977537-750-1078.jpg      Naruto:https://mynarutoblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/16-1711.png

The reason for this is censorship. Fairy Tail has a 'PG-13' age rating; most shows with this rating do not show gore.
Another example of something they censored would be that in the manga, Gray Fullbuster is a smoker. They took this out in the anime because they were afraid it might influence children to think that smoking is cool.
This can be seen in Chapter 4, Page 20 and Chapter 10, Page 6-7.

On a side note, the first OVA ("Welcome To Fairy Hills!") is the only episode I know of that shows blood before Fairy Tail 2014.

 Levy after Erza smashed her face into the wall (10:05).

Does the new Fairy Tail,that aired last year,have blood?

@Daniel not much but definitely some, http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140405035128/fairytail/images/f/f2/Sting_attacks_Jiemma.png

Is that not tomato juice? What makes you say it's blood? Also please specify in which chapter Gray is shown smoking? I recall none except the older generation of Fairy Tail member (Macao, Wakaba) smoking.

@SakuraiTomoko take a look at the first OVA, at 10:05. Erza smashes her face into the wall. Very unlikely for that to be tomato juice...

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In what system does Fairy Tail have a "T" rating? Neither MPAA nor TVPG have a rating of "T", and I can't imagine that an anime would use ESRB ratings.

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Anime about black haired teen who opens a manga shop in another world
What I remember is that a young black-haired teen gets transported to another world but he notices that there is no manga in that world, so he stayed there and opened a manga shop or library. He also is tended by a young, blonde and kind maid whom he also taught to write or something.
The ruler of that world is interested in the main character. The ruler is a very young stubborn and spoiled girl, who gets her way, and who likes manga.
Any suggestions?

You're probably thinking of Outbreak Company

Shin'ichi Kanō is a young secluded otaku who is offered a job thanks to his vast knowledge of anime, manga and video games. However, just after meeting his new employer, he is kidnapped, awakening in an alternate world with a fantasy setup. Shin'ichi is then informed that he was in fact selected by the Japanese government to help improve his country's relations with this new world by establishing a company to spread the unique products of the Japanese culture to this new, unexplored market.


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Who did Amasawa-san go see in the hospital?
As we find out at the end of the series…

 Amasawa Yuuko's brother actually died in an accident some years ago and was not in a coma like she thought.

So who did she go visit in the hospital then? Was it a very complicated hologram and she's never taken her glasses off the entire time (hard to believe, but not impossible)? Or was it another person in disguise hired by the Megamass?


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Why did they decide to eliminate Mamoru?
Warning: spoilers of the second season.
The education committee decides to eliminate Mamoru, and sends the Impure Cats against him, but fail.

 It then leads to him and Maria escaping and triggers the whole mess with the monster rat revolution.

The Education Committee is scolded for attempting to eliminate Mamoru and also for failing to do so.
But why did they decide that Mamoru had to be eliminated in the first place?

He has subpar control of Cantus, iirc. It would danger the society with his poor control of Cantus.

Before trying to eliminate Mamoru, the committee had already gotten rid of a girl named Reiko, who belonged in the same group as Saki and the others.
The reason they killed her was due to her poor control of Cantus, out of fear of Fiends and Karma Demons. In this particular case, it's the fear of Karma Demons and their inability to control their Cantus, leading to unconsciously and involuntarily destroying their surroundings.
Mamoru had similarly weak Cantus. Though not quite as bad as Reiko's, the committee feared he might become a Karma Demon because of this.

this doesn't answer why Mamoru was to be eliminated.

@Pinocchio. Sorry, I though it was obvious enough without me pointing out the parallels. I edited my answer.


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Identification about a manga with a VR game that results in "IRL" gender changes
So i remember once reading a mange where theres is an online VR game. Two classmates play it without knowing that either plays it, Both of them hate eachother in real life but in game are very close.
Both of them play the opposite genders.
The girl playing as a male and vice versa.
One day they get stuck in the game due to a "bug" and i believe one of them turns into the gender they were in the game.
Any help would be appreciated.
To further add, The male character is a so called "loner"
Thank you for your time.
Edit: I remember that when the male character was later "attacked" in the manga. his game persona took over his real life body for a little while.
2nd Edit: Found it, Check answers.

Are you thinking of 1/2 Prince?

@ ʞɹɐzǝɹ Sadly no.

Found it, Trans Trans by Ruen Rouga. For some odd reason it is simply listed under RUEN Rouga however.

A girl playing a male character in a video game falls in love with a female character in the virtual world while unaware the player is actually a boy. Meanwhile strange distortions begin to happen in the real world...

Nice that you managed to find the answer! Might you be able to include a little information about the manga, in case someone else is interested in it? (There is a meta post on how to answer identification requests, which I unfortunately can't easily link to while on mobile.)


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Is there a place that has Soukyuu no Fafner: Dead Aggressor subtitles?
I've been looking for subtitle tracks for Soukyuu no Fafner: Dead Aggressor, but haven't had any luck. I figured I'd ask here in case any of you guys knew.

in what language? just the subtitles?

English. Yes, just the subtitles.

If you check AniDB's list of subs, there are a whole list of groups that have subs for it.

Philosophy-raws
ACX
E-D
Daman
Anime-MX
Blitz
W_B
B-A
A-E

At the time of this answer, these are the groups which have completely subbed Fafner, according to AniDB.


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What anime movie is this?
I watched a scifi anime movie and I forgot its name. All I remember is the story and characters. I think the female robot protagonist was on the cover of the movie and had blue or white scifi style clothing. I also think the movie was made in 2014, but I'm not sure.
Story: The movie starts in a hologram environment where the female protagonist is sunbathing. Gets hit on by a guy when suddenly the hologram room gets hacked and she traces this hack to earth. Later on it is revealed that the hacker is an AI trying to get people on his rocket out of Earth to colonize new planets. The AI leaves himself without anyone else in the end of the movie.
Main protagonist: Female data. Lives in a big structure above earth in space. Is allowed additional "memory" due to high enthusiasm and goals. Gets a mission to go down to earth. She hastened the body creation and took the body of herself at the age of 18 instead of her grown-up body. She falls to earth in a pod meeting her informant (male) luring mutated beast animals to her on purpose.

It's Rakuen Tsuihou: Expelled from Paradise, a 2014 movie. Genres: action, mecha, sci-fi.
Movie poster and the girl's "data":

Description from MyAnimeList:

With Earth now left in ruins following the "Nano Hazard," most of
  humanity has abandoned the planet they once called home along with
  their physical bodies and rebuilt their digitalized minds into a
  society within the cyber universe of "DEVA."
A.D. 2400, DEVA's central council detects an incident of unauthorized
  access into their mainframe. Someone on Earth was trying to hack into
  the system. The only information DEVA was able to retrieve was that
  the hacker referred to themselves as "Frontier Setter."
To investigate the mysterious hacker's motives, the high officials of
  DEVA dispatch System Security Third Officer Angela Balzac to the
  Earth's surface. Equipped with a prosthetic "material body," Angela
  attempts to make contact with a local agent Dingo, but what awaited
  her instead was a swarm of Sandworms now infesting the Earth's
  surface. Angela intercepts the gruesome pests with her exoskeletal
  powered suit Arhan.
Will Angela and Dingo be able to find Frontier Setter on this
  devastated planet?
Their journey to explore the secrets of the world will begin now...!

Thank you, this movie left an impression on me and I have yet to find a scifi movie of this quality. Great quick answer. :P


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What is the manga where to escape hell the person has to do a bunch of good deeds?
I think he is given a wooden sword and has to fight demons and things like that.
He is not used to the 20th century since he was dead for a long time. He then lives with this girl he saved when he first got out of hell. He also is followed by a guy from hell who watches him to make sure he doesn't do anything bad.
I remember one part where there is a bank robbery and he defeats all the robbers and saves everyone in the bank also most of the people have demons in them he has to defeat

I know exactly what manga this is! Prepared a answer for when its reopened!

@Alagaros it is open again

It's Togari. It's about a boy named Tobei who has been dead and living in hell for over 300 years.

Summary:
He tried to escape hell multiple times but got caught repeatedly. One day he was made an offer that if he could kill 108 demons in 108 days, then he would be free to return to Earth.
He agrees on doing this and then gets sent into modern-day Japan.
Things that definitely match your description:

On the cover you can see his magical sword that can easily be mistaken with a wooden sword or stick.
He lives together with a girl name Itsuki Asagi. He saved her from getting raped and murdered by a thug. After this, they live together with her grandfather.
In volume 3 they are caught in the middle of a bank robbery with one
of the bandits holding Itsuki hostage.

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Where is it mentioned in the manga that the protagonist has a time limit to change back?
I read somewhere (can't google now) that the protagonist of Sora wo Kakeru Yodaka only has 200 days to retrieve her body, else the change is permanent.
I re-read the first chapters (thanks the author for the furigana), and there is some character saying that in 200 days all the cells in your body are replaced, so you are entirely another person after that time.
But where is that comment linked to the body change, I could not find.

Just for a reference, the text mentioned on chapter 3, page 7 (without additional pages from scanlator) is about cell's lifetime. Now to find the raw...

@AkiTanaka that is what I am mentioning in the second paragraph. Thanks for the reference.


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How do familiars get created?

After eating a few humans ― approximately four or five according to
  Kyoko in episode 5 ― they will grow into witches themselves.

familiars are "projections of the magical girl's heart before she became a witch".

When a magical girl falls into despair, her soul gem turns into a grief seed, which makes her a witch. What does "projections of the magical girl's heart" mean? Does it mean a magical girl can become more than one witch? Also, how does this affect the universal entropy?

When a magical girl falls into despair, her soul gem turns into a grief seed, which makes her a witch.

Sounds about right. Fun times all round! Good old 'Dokes.

What does "projections of the magical girl's heart" mean?

Madoka is quite meta in it's Magic sometimes. Consider Wishes, which just break all laws ever, by Kyuubey's word. The exact mechanics beetween Witches and Familiars aren't touched on much beyond they're some kind of life cycle, but we can infer some things.

"Projections of the magical girl's heart before she became a witch." Since that's a one-way trip, witches would seem to have a finite pool of experience to base Familiars on.
Witches maintain barriers to protect themselves and entrap victims.
Familiars are a division of a Witch's essence who, after consuming several humans will grow into a Witch with their own barrier.

Witches seem to be creatures of emotion, given that they're born from grief, and their very appearance is a complex cocktail of the Girl's emotions, desires and fears. This makes the line about "projections of the heart" make more sense.
I imagine the process to be something like this.

Magical Girl becomes a Witch. Her appearance and powers are defined by her experiences prior.
Witch feels one of her remembered emotions in her essence
The emotion is so strong it is "divided out of the essence" and becomes it's own, autonomous being with it's own essence, based on that emotion.
Feeding on humans develops the familiar into a Witch somehow, at which point it can erect it's own barrier and become truly autonomous.

And an example:

Charlotte is a Witch. Her Magical Girl self loved cheese.
Charlotte wants cheese.
Charlotte really wants cheese.
Charlotte wants cheese so hard, that a little bit of "WANT CHEESE" pushes out of "her", subdivides from her essence and drops off.
Naturally it's entirely "WANT CHEESE" and is thus single-minded and weak.
It consumes a person. This somehow grows it's essence a little. It's a little smarter and stronger.
Repeat this until it's grown enough to handle a barrier. At this point, it can leave the vicinity of it's "parent" safely and can protect itself as a fully grown Witch.

Although, this does raise the question: Does every familiar bother hunting and killing people? How fast is their growth rate? The Witches in the series never seem to handle more than 10-20 people at once, maximum, so it may not be that viable, considering the Witch must need feeding too. Food for thought. (haha)

Does it mean a magical girl can become more than one witch?

By the logic we've been presented with, I can see no reason why not. Though, there's no mention of whether a Familiar grows into it's parent Witch, or something else. It does raise questions about "Witch Farming" as a viable tactic though.
Kyouko's "Wait around until they become Witches" seems a very passive route. Why not directly feed your Familiars humans if you really don't care? Looks like the goodness of a girl's heart is the only thing keeping us safe. Fitting, non?

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From discussion in the comments, it's become clear that we don't really know if Familiar!Witches actually drop Grief Seeds apart from these lines from Kyouko

"You just have to wait until it eats four or five people and becomes a witch. That way, you'll be able to get a Grief Seed from it. Why would you want to slaughter the chicken before it lays any eggs?"

Yes, Kyouko thinks they do, but we never actually see it happen. Thus, it makes the next section only relevant if they do. If they don't, everything's fine and there's no imbalance in the first place, so potato-patato.

Also, how does this affect the universal entropy?

The same way the rest of the series does, this doesn't necessarily change anything.
Initially thinking about this, yes, I got a little freaked if you could potentially get fifteen witches where you had one, and that'd definitely throw something somewhere down the line off.
But when you get down to it, there are a few points of information we can use.

Magical Girls have been around for a looooong time. Consider the historical ones we see for sure. In fact, Kyuubey flat out states we'd still be in caves without his kind, so that kind of dates them. Though, if you trust his word is another matter entirely.
Only with "The Most Powerful Witch" will Incubators have offset Entropy for any reasonable amount, and she was ludicrously powerful. I won't reason about it here for plot's sake but she's a complete fluke is my point.

So, threading this together.
If Magical Girls have been around for a long time and only now, with this completely, universally, OP Witch, will we actually make a dent, we can infer that the Entropy paid back for a "normal" witch isn't actually that much. Kyuubey can harp on about his "tremendous amount of energy" all he wants, but from the looks of things they aren't really doing a whole lot.
The way Kyuubey treats the girls, even apart from his alien detachedness, would suggest that they're disposable to him. And they are, because this entire scheme is ultra-long-term. He has a quota to reach, yes. But his deadline is literally the death of the Universe. A girl here or there, a few witches, it doesn't matter. Thousands, millions, now they might matter. But the impact of the average individual Girl or Witch doesn't seem to. Thank you for making me logic out this horrifying new revelation, I really enjoyed it. :)
Thus:

Normal Witches are worthless in the grand scheme of things, since we've been fighting them for years and Kyuubey makes no mention of progress.
Entropy would need many multiples of the time Magical Girls have been around to even begin to be repaid.
So you can have ten, fifteen witches from one girl and it's still chump change.

And yes, this means there are ten, fifteen Witches in the locality now. But all Kyuubey has to do to rebalance the teams is lie to three, four little girls. And we all know how good he is at that!

About the witch farm. It doesn't seem possible since not every witch drops a soul gem and it looks like only the mother witch has a soul gem, familar based witches only posses the power of barrier it suppose. Good one btw.

@Entei I like the idea of Soul Gem == Grief Seed, thus only "Mother" Witches have one. Though, Kyouko's line in episode 5 is "You just have to wait until it eats four or five people and becomes a witch. That way, you'll be able to get a Grief Seed from it. Why would you want to slaughter the chicken before it lays any eggs?" It's ripe for retconning if they wanna do that, but as it stands that's all the info we have to go on.

It seemed to me that information is incorrect if you look from her point of view. They know some witches contain grief seed but they don't know which. They just think it randomly drops so it's reasonable to let them kill 5 people if there is a chance of greif seed to drop from the characters perspective, even though they're wrong.

Also, adding to the entropy Answer: Another explanation is that despite how "Tremendous" Witch energy is, the Universe may use many times that amount in the time it takes to destroy a Witch. So in the grand scheme, it's still not worth a whole lot. Another explanation is Entropy has been in a tentative balance, with Girls adding and Universe subtracting, maybe we've been hovering around like, 40% Total Energy forever? The events of the series could then push that to like, 400%, creating free energy for everyone and releasing Incubators from their duties (for a time)

@Entei You're right, there's no reason to take Kyouko's word for it that that's how it works. Yeah, she's been around a while, but the whole Magical Girl thing is a bundle of lies to begin with, so who do we trust? Kyuubey, by definition, can't lie, but he can not tell the whole truth. Really this whole thing hasn't been nailed down enough in-canon to do anything but speculate.

The "projections of the heart" could mean a few things. The interpretation that I get from the wiki, is that the familiars are based off strong feelings. These can be regular everyday emotions or they can be a strong like towards something. I.E. Charlotte desires a certain type of cheese above everything else so her familiar Pyotr only duty is to search for cheese. As for how they are created not much is really stated. One can assume that the familiar is born alongside the witch or the witch creates the familiar using the "projections". ref(Madoka Magica Characters)


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Who is the "dinosaur guy with the nasty attitude"?
It has been a while, so I can't seem to remember, but who is Beerus referring to, when he is talking about "that dinosaur guy with the nasty attitude" that he asked to destroy Earth?

More than likely it's a yet to be introduced character, but it might be Bibidi, who knows?

If you took this from the Manga Stream, please note that they take a lot of liberties with their translations, so they are not always accurate.

From Stark Uprising's review of Dragon Ball Super Chapter 2:

Also, note how Beerus says he asked "the dinosaur guy with the nasty attitude" to destroy Earth. In "Battle of Gods" Beerus says this a little differently--he says he is the one who destroyed all the dinosaurs on Earth. This could be an error in translation, or it could be Toyotaro changing it up, since we all know dinosaurs are still alive and well on planet Earth in Dragon Ball (I explain how that is at the bottom of my "Battle of Gods" post). Maybe this "dinosaur guy" is someone we'll meet eventually? Maybe it's a reference to King Piccolo or Babadi? Or maybe it's just an off-handed joke to a Godzilla-like kaiju that'll never be followed up on.

It could well be a translation error as Dragon Ball Wikia confirms what Beerus said in Battle of the Gods:

Beerus also claims that he once went to Earth, and dinosaurs took a rude attitude toward him, so he wiped them out.

This could be revealed in the future or be kept as a mystery element. Only Akira sensei knows how its going to be.

Toriyama is not known for his consistency. This is probably just an error: they must have forgotten that dinosaurs are alive in their world

I have a theory the dinosaur guy maybe kami before he extracted piccolo from him but then he saw the beauty in earth and decided to protect it rather than destroy it that's just my guess though

I think it's Azala from Chrono Trigger http://chrono.wikia.com/wiki/Azala
I think Beerus make a few other Chrono Trigger jokes like he destroyed the time ship Epoch. That's why I think he's talking about Azala the dinosaur guy with a rude disposition.


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Manga about a boy who participates in battle to expand his god's shrine and uses rope to fight
I read this manga a few months ago, but I forgot the title.
The story is about a boy who met a lone god and participated in battles which would expand her shrine every time he won. I remember the guy using a rope to fight.
I really want to read it again. Hope you guys can help me :)

I'm quite sure it's Gan-Kon (English title: My Wife Is Beautiful God).

Tagamori Shinta is a student who routinely confesses with complete sincerity to any girls that he likes, failing every time with good reason. One day, after another failed attempt, he stumbles upon a strange shrine and ends up making the most important wish of his entire life. A romantic comedy packed with action on a celestial scale.

The main character battles with the red thread of fate, which becomes thicker the more affection he has towards the girl (his god).

After every winning battle, his god gets more territory and her shrine is also upgraded accordingly.


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Anime with house with girls with different hobbies?
A few year ago, I saw an episode of an old anime. This anime was probably from the late 90s or early 2000s. It starts with a teenager on a boat that was talking to the boat driver and thought he was going to an acadamy on an island. But actually it's just some house or castle. (I don't remember which.)
In this house were a lot of girls of different ages, younger and older then the boy. Each girl has a different kind of hobby (I would say) like magic (with cards and a broom) or sports.
That's everything I know.

My english isnt very good since its my second languge and im self-taught,sorry for my mistakes

That sounds like Sister Princess. It came out in the early 2000s and started with the main character, Wataru, on a boat going to an island with a big mansion. The mansion had Wataru's twelve younger sisters. One sister, Chikage, was a magician who had tarot cards and a crystal ball, and I believe also a broom, as you describe in the question. Another girl, I believe named RinRin, was a sports nut. There was also a girl who was a detective (Yotsuba), a girl who was a French noblewoman (Aria), a girl who was trendy (Sakuya), and several others.

@Niko144 If this answers your question, you can accept it by clicking the green check mark underneath the voting buttons. You and I will both get some reputation for that, and it tells other users that the question is answered.


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What does the title "Aldnoah.Zero" mean?
I recently watched "Aldnoah.Zero" and started with "Aldnoah.Zero (2015)". I was wondering about one of the main elements in this anime.

 Aldnoah is something that was found on Mars ("Vers" as it's called by the Martians) and is something old from an ancient civilization no one knows much about. They power up their "weapon systems" (mechs) with this thing too.

What is Aldnoah really? Is it some sort of stone, or some sort of energy? If it were just energy, they wouldn't have so advanced weapon systems, or not?
Where does the "Zero" in the name come from?

The physical nature of Aldnoah isn't touched on in the show or in any of the side materials I've read. To be clear, though, Aldnoah-the-power-source (what the royal family has direct control over) seems to be a distinct thing from Aldnoah-the-hyper-advanced-technology (the cataphracts, the Deucalion, the Landing Castles, etc.). It just so happens that the precursor Martian civilization had both of these things and used the former to power the latter.

@senshin Well ok, this seems pretty right :D could you post it as an answer so I can accept it and this one is closed :D

I've now found something out: 1. the producers of this anime worked together on "Fate/Zero  so this name was used in this anime too. and 2. The ".Zero" could reffer to the types of fighting of the protagonists which don't use Aldnoah (so "Zero"). But nevertheless they have a Aldnoah-powered airship and so I don't think that's the answer :D

@JetStream I'm not going to post that as an answer; there's still a fair bit of stuff I haven't read (like Twin Gemini) that could answer the question.

I believe Aldnoah refers to the power/energy itself. "Aldnoah.Zero" or "Aldnoah Zero" is never named or stated in-series. It could just be meant as a cool title, but I like to imagine it refers to the Terrans who fight without Aldnoah or other Versian weapons/technology. ;)


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Humanoid harem - Kissing makes them stronger
So there was this anime I watched but never finished and I forgot the name of it.
The anime was a harem, and the story was about humanoids fighting each other until only 1 survived. All the humanoids were girls and had the power to become stronger if they kissed a person.
A few things I remember:

Humanoids 1-9 (possibly 1-10) were stronger than the rest.
At one point, the main character helps a man and his humanoid escape the city (a forbidden act) which was heavily guarded with a few of the 1-9 humanoids.
The main character's sister had a humanoid that was trying to find it's sister, which turned out to be the main character's humanoid.

I'm sorry if this is confusing but it's probably the most simple way I can put all this down. I'm 99% the girls were some type of humanoid or something but I'm not 100% if the term in the anime was humanoid.

Probably Sekirei.

the story was about humanoids

Which are called "Sekirei".

All the humanoids were girls

Most, but not all (Shiina is male; Homura may also be). Equal-opportunity fanservice!

the main character

Generic McProtagonist-kun.

helps a man and his humanoid escape the city

Shigi with his Sekirei, Kuno.

the main character's sister had a humanoid that was trying to find her sister which was the main character's humanoid

sister = Yukari; her Sekirei = Shiina; Shiina's sister = Kusano; Kusano's "master" (Ashikabi) = McProtagonist-kun.

Definitely Sekirei. They're fighting until only one Sekirei is left, and get stronger when they kiss their Ashikabi. The single-digits (1 - 9) are more powerful than the rest too. Shiina isn't the only guy though; there's a single digit who's also a guy, and quite a huge one too.

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A manga about two boys originally from an orphanage
First, I want to inform that I'm French, so I'm sorry for my bad English...
I'm desperately looking for a manga that I can not manage to find despite all my efforts. On the dozen forums where I was searching, I found nothing. I remember only few scenes of the story:

It talks about two boys in an orphanage who plan to flee when one of them is going to be adopted. But in the end, they are taken together.
Some years later, they are in a kind of army. For a reason that I don't remember anymore, one of the boys escaped from the organization and hid himself among the society, where he attended high school.
But one day, his old friend is ordered to get him.
I read it around 3 years ago. One of the boys has black hair and seemed to be cold with others. And I think the second boy was blond.

Here's all I know, I hope that I've been understood.
Thank you in advance!

Welcome to Anime & Manga! Your English is fine, and you've used formatting properly - which is a very refreshing sight! If you can remember any other details, make sure to edit them into your post -  the more you tell us, the more likely we are to be able to help you out.

When did you read the manga? What do the characters look like? Details like that will help immensely.

I edited the post to answer your question.

Do you remember what kind of weapons they fought with, guns/blades or something different? In what kind of setting is it set, Post apocalyptic or anything else?

I said two days ago that I have found the manga. Aegis is the title and actually I totally forgot it was a manhwa. I also mixed some parts of what I remembered with another manga, sorry! Thanks anyway.

Oh, I finally found it! It's Aegis. Someone just told me the title on a forum. I also mixed some parts of the story with another, sorry. Thank you again for your answers.


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Why does NARAKU NINJA wish to slay other NINJA?
DŌMO, I am SENSHIN.
Fujikido Kenji's NINJA Soul is that of NARAKU NINJA, a NINJA who wishes to slay NINJA. And thus, Fujikido becomes NINJA Slayer. I understand why Fujikido wishes to slay NINJA - his family was killed by the NINJA of the SŌKAIYA, so of course he would want to perform FUKUSHŪ1.
But what is NARAKU NINJA's motivation? What drives him - a NINJA himself - to slay other NINJA indiscriminately?

1 Note: FUKUSHŪ means REVENGE.

Why do you use ALL CAPS and stuffs? I also see you rolling back Vogel612's revision. From what I can see, Wikipedia doesn't use ALL CAPS for those terminologies.

I am merely keeping with the style of the official subtitles.

It's likely that Naraku-san might not be one spirit, but rather a collective of vengeful spirits bent to revenge against the ninjas that killed them.  Nakraku can mean "hell" or  rather "abyss." As Fujikido laid dying, his lust for vengeance against those ninja that killed his family probably was on the same wavelength as the Naraku spirit, attracting one to another. As to the real identity of the spirit, followers of the manga would probably have a better idea.


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Why are some scenes in shows on Funimation very dark or very oversaturated?
The Funimation version of episode 6 of Arslan Senki had some incredibly dark scenes, to the point where you basically couldn't tell what was going on. In the versions broadcast in Japan, the scenes were still dark (since much of the episode took place in a poorly-lit sewer), but not that dark. For example:
Funimation:

Broadcast:

(Or, check out this screenshot comparison.)

And on the other hand, in brighter Funimation shows, the light colors end up being incredibly oversaturated. Here's an example from Death Parade:
Funimation:

Broadcast:

This is less egregious than the scene from Arslan Senki above, but you can still clearly see the difference in this screenshot comparison.

This is a consistent problem with anime on Funimation. Why?

It's incredible how Funimation is always able to find new and innovative ways to be terrible.

The short of it is that Funimation's video player is completely borked.

Here's the long of it: it has to do with 1.) differences in how televisions and computers handle RGB color; and 2.) Funimation being incompetent.
What's the RGB color model?
In the (8-bit) RGB color model, colors are represented as a 3-tuple of numbers ranging from 0 to 255, which represent the amount of red, green, and blue in the color. For example, (0, 0, 0) represents no red, green, or blue, and is thus black; (255, 0, 0) is 100% red, no green, no blue, and is thus a maximally-red red. (65, 105, 225) is a nice shade of royal blue.
Now, here's the thing: on a computer, your colors can have all three values in that 3-tuple be anywhere from 0 to 255, and your monitor will happily display whatever color that is. This is referred to as "RGB Full", or "0-255".
But on a television, your colors are expected to have all three values range from 16 to 235. Any values higher than 235 are treated as pure white (for that component of the 3-tuple); any values less than 16 are treated as pure black. This reduces the dynamic range of your video a little bit, but this doesn't really make too much of a difference. This scheme is referred to as "RGB Limited", or "16-235". This page has a nice overview of the subject: RGB: Full vs. Limited.
How does this impact anime?
So when anime airs in Japan, the broadcasters receive video that uses RGB Limited, and then they broadcast it to homes in Japan, who watch their anime on TVs that expect RGB Limited, and all is well, since the color range used by the broadcaster matches the color range expected by the receivers.
When a competent streamer like Crunchyroll receives RGB Limited video from the studios in Japan, they re-encode the video to use RGB Full, and then stream it to their client-side video players, which expect video that uses RGB Full. All is well, since the color range which Crunchyroll's video uses is the same as the color range that the Crunchyroll player expects.
Alas, Funimation is not competent. While I'm not privy to the internal workings of Funimation, the behavior their player exhibits is fully compatible with the following sequence of steps:

Funimation receives RGB Limited video from the studios in Japan (just like Crunchyroll does).
Funimation re-encodes their video to use RGB Full.
Funimation streams video in RGB Full to their client-side video players.
The Funimation video player is broken in some way that makes it think that the video it's receiving is still in RGB Limited, and thus converts any colors below 16 or above 235 to black or white, respectively.

What does this mean for the viewer?
Consider a dark scene, like the Arslan Senki one mentioned in the question.

When Funimation receives it from the broadcaster, there might be a lot of dark grays - let's say those are RGB (24, 24, 24), in RGB Limited [remember: in RGB Limited, (15, 15, 15) is 100% black].
Then, Funimation re-encodes to RGB Full, meaning that we have to scale the 16-235 range up to 0-255. This converts our (24, 24, 24) gray to roughly (9, 9, 9) gray.
When Funimation's video player receives the re-encoded video, it treats it as being in RGB Limited, and hence displays the (9, 9, 9) [which would be gray in RGB Full] as black.

See what happens? Dark colors get further desaturated to the point where they're pretty much just plain black. And on the other end of the spectrum, light colors get oversaturated, by the same mechanism.
And now you know.

Crunchyroll's mobile app was absolutely awful for a long time. If the network signal fell below some mysterious amount of strength, it would just boot you back to the video list and make you watch twenty minutes of commercials to get back to where you were in the video.

@Torisuda or they would just deliberately do that to earn more ad revenue from choice victims.... or to spite you into buying premium


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Senki Zesshou Symphogear season 1: Does anyone know the name of the track that plays at 23:46 during episode 12?
Senki Zesshou Symphogear season 1: Does anyone know the name of the track that plays at 23:46 during episode 12?
It plays just after the classmates sing over the PA near the end of S1 ep 12; the track starts playing when Hibiki realizes she can still fight due to Miku's song healing.
It has a very 80's techno vibe and it leads directly into the ending song "Synchrogazer" for the ep 12 credits.
Any insight would be appreciated, I've been going through the OST for all 3 seasons without luck. The amount of character music for the show is impressive, but it also makes it rather difficult to find a non-vocalized track.

Boy oh boy do I have a treat for you, my good fellow! The track you're describing is actually a long-intro remix of "Synchrogazer", titled "Synchrogazer -Aufwachen Form-".
It's no surprise that you had trouble finding it - this remix doesn't actually appear on any of the Symphogear soundtracks! Rather, it's part of Mizuki Nana's album "Rockbound Neighbors". Similarly, her album "Supernal Liberty" comes with another glorious remix titled "Vitalization -Aufwachen Form-". That's the version that plays in episode 13 of G when they all follow the Nephilim into the Treasury.
(Alas, I don't think either "Exterminate" or "Glorious Break" have analogous remixes.)


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Why are Rin's classmates afraid of him in the first episode of Kyoto Fujouou-hen?
The first season of Blue Exorcist ended with Rin lauded by his friends. Even in the movie, they are still on good terms.
What happened between these seasons to make everyone afraid of Rin? They already knew him to be Satan's spawn... Is it shown in anime media, or only in the manga?

The current season picks up part way through episode 17 of the first season. Episodes 18-end of the first season (and I believe the movie also) are retconned out of existence - this is where the first season diverged from the manga, I'm told. So this is just shortly after Rin has revealed himself to be borne of Satan, so not everybody has come to terms with his demonic nature yet. (Someone with more details is welcome to turn this into an answer; I don't actually read the manga.)

@senshin Agreed, The anime gave its own ending, diverging at about the point where Rin revealed himself to the class, or a little after that. I havent seen the kyoto fujouou-hen anime yet, but indeed Rin went back to class shortly after revealing himself and everyone was afraid of him. It lasted at least a little while before they warmed back up to him. Ill try to remember to post an answer later when I can, after catching up ofcourse.

Direct Answer: Senshin is correct, everything after episode 16ish and the movie doesn't actually follow the manga's original story-line. Therefore this second season ignores it in order to follow the manga.
Now for some clarity on the timeline divergence:
 We see numerous flashbacks in Kyoto Fujouou-hen to Blue Exorcist but only right up to the point that he's taken into custody, at that point you'll notice that while there are later flashbacks the details are different from the original series.
These details, start with things like Shiemi turning her back on Rin as he's dragged off, and then him not being encased in a blue crystal at the trial, and no earth-king attack, etc...
They did take some parts from the manga and integrate it into those last 9 episodes of the first season and you'll notice they are almost identical between the 2 seasons. Eyebrows(Izumo) is the first to approach him and tell him that offspring between demons and humans has happened before and isn't uncommon in exorcists. The candle training also proceeds in almost the exact same way in both, though obviously in different settings.

Bon/Ryuji is mad at him because he didn't tell him he was the son of Satan. The others are afraid that his fire will get out of control and burn them just like he did in season 1 when he lost control and his powers took over him. But in the end, they are still kinda in the middle, but they gained trust like when they went on that little trip.


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Per-Episode Original Air Dates for Early 1980s Anime (Golion, Dairugger)
I'm looking for a reliable source of information about the original air dates of the individual episodes of two 1980s anime programs: Beast King Golion (百獣王ゴライオン H) and Armored Fleet Dairugger XV (機甲艦隊ダイラガーXV フィフティーン).
Wikipedia lists what are purported to be original air dates of the first and last episodes of each program (March 4, 1981 – February 24, 1982 for Golion, and 3 March 1982 – 23 March 1983 for Dairugger), but I'd like to know the original air dates of every episode of each program, and I'd like to be reasonably confident that the information is complete and accurate. (Anyone can edit Wikipedia, and I don't know how reliable other online sources might be.)
Does anyone know how I might obtain this information? If it matters, I am in no way fluent in Japanese.

The ja.wikipedia page for Golion has a table of airdates; col 1 is episode #; col 2 is the airdate. Likewise for Dairugger. Should be easy to interpret even without knowing Japanese. I don't know anything about these shows, so I can't speak to the veracity of this information.

"1981年3月4日" means "year 1981, month 3, day 4" = "March 4, 1981", and so forth. Generally speaking, Japanese Wikipedia has proven to be an accurate source of information for anime topics I'm familiar with, so I would be inclined to believe that this information is correct as well.

@senshin, although I would prefer a more reliable source than Wikipedia, I'm super-impressed by the level of detail on the pages that you provided links for. Thank you for replying!


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Which song was played in Naruto Shippuden episode 378 at about 20:00?
Which song was played in Naruto Shippuden episode 378 at about 20:00?
I can't find the song. Please help me.

There is no song around 20:00 in the episode. at that time minato's kunai was broken and he lost his one hand. however if you are referring to the ending song then it is "Never Change feat.Lyu:Lyu" (around 21:00)


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Who did the Spinning Wheel song in the English dub of the Garo Season 1 OVA?
There's "Spinning Wheel" (YouTube link) song sung near the end of the Garo Season 1 OVA. Who sung it?
My guess is Saxton/Rial, but I can't find any answer.


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Aren't Harutora and Natsume related?
So in the end, Natsume and Harutora kissed. Isn't that weird? They are supposed to be cousins, right? Or was Natsume adopted? Which wouldn't explain her natural talent.

Yes, they're first cousins on their respective fathers' side.

Whether this is weird or not depends on your cultural background. In certain Hindu communities in north India, a relationship between fourth cousins would be deemed illicit, never mind first cousins. On the other hand, in certain parts of the Middle East, first-cousin marriages are quite prevalent, accounting for upwards of 30% of marriages in some places (e.g. Jordan and Saudi Arabia).
What about Japan?
My understanding is that first-cousin relationships in Japan are rare enough that they would be considered unusual (this 1986 paper suggests 1.6%; table 15 of this whitepaper suggests rates as high as 2.89% in some parts). However, they are not forbidden by law or by religious doctrine, and are generally not stigmatized to the same degree as in, say, the United States or most of Europe. Indeed, Naoto KAN (prime minister of Japan 2010-2011) is married to his first cousin.

Getting back to the topic of anime, it's worth noting that same-generation incest is considerably overrepresented in anime and related "otaku" media relative to its occurrence in real life (for proof, observe that Who is "Imouto"? is a thing that exists). So, not only would a relationship between Harutora and Natsume not be that weird in real Japan, when you look at it from a "meta" point of view, it's even less weird that such a thing would happen in an anime.

Even 10000th cousin is deemed in India. Anyone with same last name cannot mary. No matter which number cousin. In some areas, you cannot mary even one with your mother surname, and in other places not even in same village, no matter what your last name is.

According to volume 11 of the light novel, Natsumi was abandoned on the Wakasugi's door step after Harutora's mother died. So, yes, she is adopted.


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Why are certain anime not on YouTube?
Anime like Naruto Shippuden are there on YouTube, but One Piece is not there.
Why is it so?

The default state of existence for all anime is "not on YouTube". If the rights-holders for One Piece have not uploaded it to YouTube, it won't be on YouTube...

I'm not sure if they are full episodes but Funimation who holds distribution rights for the US posts anime on their channel. though with it geoblocked from Australians i can't confirm if they are full episodes

@Memor-X: they do upload full episodes, but only of some series, and sometimes, they only have the first 1-2 episodes of the series. (I recently watched the entirety of Noir through their YouTube channel; in contrast, I was only able to watch 2 episodes of Selector Infected Wixoss on YouTube.)

@Maroon well that more or less confirms that anime can be on youtube however in regards to say Noir, if anyone else uploads it on youtube Funimation can flag for removal

Not sure if that Naruto Shippuden is legal on YouTube....

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because this is asking why a certain anime series is not in a certain video sharing site and not about the anime itself. Thus, not within Anime SE's scope.

@AyaseEri:  I'd argue that this isn't wildly off-topic, as we've even got a list of legal streaming services which really should be moved over to this side.  Perhaps a Meta post on it would suffice?  There's a concise answer to this question but policy/procedure would benefit if we had a side discussion about it.

@AyaseEri i would argue that it is on topic because we have had questions on the logistics of anime localization and distribution like if Gitama on Steam is any different to Crunchyroll or if it's ok to start a new site and upload anime, albeit that i shouldn't assume bad will but this questions reads like "why can't i pirate One Piece through youtube like i can with Naruto" (though that can be cleared up by verifying that the channel these series are on is a licensed distributor)

@AyaseEri I'd expect to find a dupe to a more general "why anime/manga is not published in every country/media?" but apparently failed to do so.

@^ which is why I vote to close this.

My view is that this is a fair question from someone who has not yet learned about copyright law.  Instead of shutting him down, an explanation like that provided by @senshin is the way to go.  I'll add to senshin's response by saying that the copyright holders for popular anime make much more money in licensing their properties than they would ever earn on YouTube, and putting it on YouTube devalues the property to the point that no one will license it.  What you see on YouTube is either illegal and not yet caught, or the rights holders don't expect to make any decent money in any case.

People may have uploaded episodes of One Piece on YouTube, but they have been taken down by copyright claims, therefore causing them to be inaccessible or disappear. Another possibility is that no one has uploaded an episode to YouTube yet (which is however unlikely).


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Are the Japanese names of the characters from Ente Isla references to something?
I feel like there is some kind of joke with the characters' fake names that I am missing.
One of the characters I think asks if their names are outdated. Is that the joke, just that they are using archaic names? Or is there something else?

If you're asking what "the joke" is with names like "Maou Sadao" and "Yusa Emi", the joke is that their Japanese names sound suspiciously similar to their Ente Isla names/titles:

"Maou Sadao" is very close to "Maou Satan" / "Demon Lord Satan"
"Yusa Emi" is very close to "Yuusha Emi" / "Hero Emi"
"Ashiya (Shirou)" is sort of close to "Alciel" (Arushieru)
"Urushihara (Hanzou)" is sort of close to "Lucifer" (Rushiferu)

As a side effect of this, some of their Japanese names sound curious/archaic, since you kind of have to stretch to find Japanese names that sound similar to Christian angel/devil names.
Separately, some of the names are also "translation jokes", so to speak:

The "Suzu" (鈴) in "Kamazuki Suzuno" means "bell". Indeed, her Ente Isla name is "Crestia Bell".

I got the feeling that Maou Sadao's name is also a reference to Madao (maru de dame na ossan i.e. a good for nothing) from Gintama.

@Ayase Eri There's no relation whatsoever. Sadao is a legit Japanese name, whereas Madao is not. Also, their personalities bear no resemblance (I'd hardly call Maou a "good-for-nothing"), so I'm not sure why you saw this to be a reference, outside that it's a one-letter difference.

He is a good employee, but a good for nothing when it comes to being a Maou.

@AyaseEri Not really. He is actually really good at being "overlord" as he drove humans into corner only to be defeated by Emilia.


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What happens to Kaneki's Kagune?
At the end of season 2, when the reaper guy says in the manga "I'm gonna need a new quinque", does that mean in season 3, Kaneki won't have a Kagune anymore?

One thing to note, Ghouls regrow their Kagune sacs. Rize was used to farm them, and made dozens of failed experiments after Kaneki. In the manga, It was Kaneki eating them that triggered his transformation into a Kajuka. It is not confirmed what happens when you loose all of them though, since farming would probably be most efficient if they leave at least one in there to help the others regrow faster. Regardless, there have been no confirmed cases where a ghoul lost all of their Kagune Sacs and was not also dead, usually by the hands of the one who took their last sac.
However, when the CCG make a quinque, its almost always been by harvesting the Kagune sacs from dead ghouls. There is one exception, but I'll get to that in a second.  With that in mind, there are 2 ideas. One, that Kaneki just broke his quinque (which he did) and he needs a new one, which could come from any powerful source, or specifically that he wants Kaneki's Kagune sacs, which would probably be extracted from his corpse, because he is implied dead at the end.
However, since the anime diverged from the manga, Its impossible to say if they will actually make season 3. It is heavily implied that at the end of Season 2, Kaneki is dead. In the last chapters of the Manga, he was all but announced dead, with 2 holes in his head. That is where Tokyo Ghoul ended.
The only hope here, is that they decide to create season 3, and follow the Tokyo Ghoul sequel, Tokyo Ghoul Re:. That story follows Haise Sasaki who is a member of the CCG and (spoiler)

 He has Rize's Kagune, just like Kaneki

If they do season 3 and tell us Haise's story, He does discover the Fate of Kaneki.
If your impacient, there is well over 100 capters of Re to read, Though, you are going to be hard pressed to find a Tokyo ghoul Fan on reddit who would say you read Re having only watched the anime. Many would tell you to start Tokyo Ghoul at chapter 1 first, because a significant amount of both season 1 and 2 are not faithful to the manga.
As for that exception I mentioned earlier, Arima (the reaper guy) in Re: had all his lighting quinque destroyed leaving him with none of his normal weapons, and was forced to pull out his strongest quinque, which was made by a sac he pulled out of one of the Owl's during his fight with them years earlier. I do not recall if they said which Owl he got it from, but both of them have multiple Kagune sacs, as well as Kajuka sacs, so it did them no harm in the long run.

Quite some time has passed since you asking this question, and with the progression of the manga Tokyo Ghoul;Re there are some spoilers that do answer your question:

 Kishou Arima (the reaper guy) takes in Ken Kaneki after defeating him in battle. This battle makes him temporarily forget his memories, in which time Arima takes him in to the CCG with the nickname Haise Sasaki. He then trains "Sasaki" to "Become his new quinque". Armia's motives are revealed later on, but do not relate to your question. So in a way, yes he does use Kaneki's kagune as a quinque but...

No, Kaneki still keeps his Kagune.

If you read the spoiler, here is the source from the manga:

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Who exactly is running the One Piece government?
I'm a bit confused here - who is running the world government? Only those five un-named people who only get screen time when a catastrophe happens? Do we know their names or backgrounds?

Your question in the title and in the message aren't the same so I'll answer the first one.

The World Government is a political organization comprised of the
  majority of the world at large, ruled by the Gorosei.

The Gorosei is composed of 5 members and on the wiki they say :

The Gorosei (literally meaning "Five Elder Stars") are the heads of
  the World Government, and as such, they essentially rule the entire
  world. They are the five men who rule above the Marines, Cipher Pol,
  and the ones who made a pact with the Shichibukai, making them one of
  the main antagonists of the series.

As you said :

So far, none of their names have been revealed.

And about their screentime since they are the organization recruiting the Shichibukai, we can guess they will be the last organization that Luffy's team will fight. But this is just a guess since your question can't be answered until the manga is finished.
Here you can check my source and learn more about them : http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Gorosei


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Why is Goku not using instant transmission?
In the recent episode of DBS we see that Goku is seen flying to Krillin and Dendy - why he is not using instant transmission? If he used it, he could save some time and train for the tournament of power. Why is he not doing it?

Goku is not about optimization or not concerned regarding the tournament. He is only looking forward to meet people with great power and test his limits against them.
Plus, many times it was shown many times (I know I'll get roasted for this) that Goku has become over confident of his power and even becoming vulnerable to attack during battles.  Also, its fun to fly around at high speeds.
So, he doesn't use instant transmission until its absolutely necessary and doesn't think he needs to train in the mean time.

Goku is not an engineer, he does not aim to optimize his lifestyle nor does he plan  that far ahead.
If he started doing that he wouldn't be the Goku we know of he simply wouldn't be the character we know and love.
There are lots of things he could have done that would have been smart in Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, GT and now super but he is who he is because he doesn't do those things.


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ClariS and Fushimi Tsukasa
Watching Ero-manga Sensei's song (forgot if it was the opening or the ending), I immediately noticed that it was sung by ClariS. Now, interestingly, both Ero-manga Sensei and Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai are written by Fushimi Tsukasa. Both also has their theme song sung by ClariS.
Is this just a coincidence, or there's more than meets the eyes?

And both light novel are illustrated by Hiro Kanzaki (Also responsible for the character design for anime) who also happened to draw character illustration for ClariS

ClariS also had a cameo in the Ore Imo novels and got the To-Love-Ru treatment from Kyousuke.


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Akagami no Shirayukihime letters or font?
What type of letters or font is used in Clarines? I've been searching for it and I can't seem to find an answer.
Here is a screenshot of Shirayuki's Clarines Castle "pass tag/ID" from episode 6. I can somewhat read the "Clarines K • D Wistal Court" part.

And can you please link where can I download it?
Sorry for my bad English. It's not my first language. Thank you.

Interestingly, the website for Hakusensha's LaLa (the magazine in which Akagami no Shirayuki-hime is serialized) has a nifty little thing where you can enter your date of birth and your name, and it invents a life for you somewhere in the world of Akagami. (For example, I am apparently a "nervous boy awaiting the incipient start of the tournament of arms in Yurikana".)
As a bonus, it also displays your name in Clarines script. I used this to extract the Clarines glyphs. Here they are:

Turning this into a genuine font is left as an exercise for the reader.
If you're looking for a name for this, there isn't really one; Japanese sites just call it クラリネス文字, meaning "Clarines letters".


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Who is the being with 2 eyes in Magi chapter 323?
So I am confused about the identify of the 2-eyed thing.
I assume the person with 3 eyes is Ugo for that's how he looks when David fights him. For it to be Arba seems rather out of character to me, in later pages of the chapter.
Was 2 eyes some sort of amalgamation of Rukh/will of the world or something more individual?

You are correct on the 3-eyed guy being Ugo. As for the 2-eyed guy, I believe it is an amalgamation of Rukh from old kings. If you notice, Ugo states you guys implying there are more than one and the 2-eyed being says that Sinbad has done enough and unveils him from inside.
Another hint would be the fact that the 2-eyed being is seen above speaking directly to Sinbad as Sinbad is crawling on the ground and says, "Divine providence...the one that reaches the top will fall...Old kings?."
Sinbad's Rukh leaves his body near the end of the frames as it goes to join the old kings.
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Which route is the Rewrite anime based on?
I watched the last episode of Rewrite the anime. I am well aware that it is based on the visual novel of the same title. I have a question regarding the end of the anime. The end is rather unusual.

 At the end of the anime, Gaia successfully evoked Kagari's salvation. Humanity, including the main character, Koutarou, and the heroines are all wiped out too.

Because of that, I think that the ending is based on the

 bad end

route. Is that really the case? If not, then which route was it based on?

The rewrite anime is a "new" route which is basically an amalgamation of all the routes. It grabs events from all routes that are in the VN, plus some new content with Kagari (most probably inspired by the Harvest Festa fandisc, where Kagari has a similar personality).
Spoiler for Moon and Terra (i.e. second season)

 As for the ending, all of the routes that branch off from the common route are "bad" endings. In some, humanity is either wiped out or reduced to a state where it has no future. In others, even if there are no obvious bad effects, it is hinted that humanity has a few dozen years of survival, maximum. The ending of anime is closest to Shizuru's end, where possessed Akane instruments Salvation through Kagari, but a few humans are just barely able to survive. But they probably die off, unable to rebuild human civilization.

As for Terra:

 It is in Terra's route where humanity actually gains a future, thanks to the sacrifice of one random guy, which is central theme of the route (and the whole VN by extension).

So the ending of the anime is based on Shizuru's bad end. Is this what your answer is?

@AyaseEri No. It is not based on any end. It is closest to Shizuru's end, but there are some things that are different.


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Why do people keep comparing Shinji to Yesod?
Several analyses of Shinji Ikari's character compare him to Yesod.
Now Wikipedia has this on Yesod:

Yesod (Hebrew: יסוד "foundation") is a sephirah in the kabbalistic Tree of Life. Yesod is the sephirah below Hod and Netzach, and above Malkuth (the kingdom). It can be seen as the vehicle, from one thing or condition to another (the power of connection).

I read some more on that, and I really didn't get it.
What is this connection / what traits does Shinji have in common with this sephirah? What symbolism does the MC of Eva have, in this context? Is it intended by the canon, or is it just an interpretation of the material?

Can you add a few examples of analyses (or links to such analyses) that compare Shinji to Yesod?

I bet it's because the creators didn't intend to have any specific ties with christian figures but the viewers/readers try to interpret things by finding the closest similarities they can find, just because it's human nature to want everything to have an explanation and a meaning.

@senshin: I found a few examples, including this essay, which other fans cite. But I can't assess whether or not these essays understand Shinji or the Tree of Life correctly (I don't know anything about Kabbalah and don't intend to study it in the foreseeable future), and for all I care, the religious imagery in EVA is probably only there for atmosphere, so I'll leave it at that.

I'm a native Hebrew speaker, and "Yesod" (יסוד) literally means foundation or an element (like the table of elements). I'm not an expert when it come to Judaism (FYI that's because not all Jews are religious, Judaism is also a nationality), but in the Kabbalah Yesod is one the ten "Sfirot" (plural, ספירות). "Sfira" (singular, ספירה) literally means a count or to count, and in the kabbalah the Sephirot are the ten different ways or levels in which god 'reveals' itself in our world.
The Wikipedia page on the subject is much clearer in Hebrew than in English, so don't feel bad for not understanding it. It uses a ton of religious terms that even I do not recognize...
If you're wondering how does all of this relate to Shinji, beats me idk, maybe it is a reference to something else in the bible that I don't have the time to explain, but in short it could mean that Shinji is influenced by god and possesses some of his powers.
I do find it hard to believe that a Japanese writer/director would know all of this, and if they do then wow. The writers and director of the series do seem to be very knowledgeable, though.
I hope that answered your question!


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If he even has one, what is Dragon's devil fruit power?
What is Dragon's devil fruit power?
In Loguetown, it became stormy out of nowhere when he showed up. Also, I think I remember Smoker saying something about it.

The only accurate answer is we do not know.  There is no proof Monkey D. Dragon has a devil fruit or that he does not have one.
There are many theories attributing the lightning strike that saves Luffy from the gallows to Dragon and, therefore, lightning to his devil fruit.  They hypothesize that he could have the storm storm fruit or air air fruit.  These are all speculation, however.

Just wanted to comment and say that I can't wait to see Dragon actually throw down in the future. He has gotten next to no action through out the series.

If he has one, I'd say it's either Kaze Kaze no Mi (Wind) or Topu Topu no Mi (Gust). Based on;

In Logue town to save luffy and repelling smoker away (Chapter 100),
In Goa Kingdom, to save the people from trash mountain in Goa Kingdom by opening a path (Chapter 587)

Even though it's not really clear in the manga what Dragon did in Goa, but in Anime it is clear that it's a similar thing that he used on Smoker back in Logue town. Video source here

I always thought in Goa Kingdom it was one if Ivan's winks that opened a path..

@Gravinco I've edited my post. IMO, it's impossible if iva's wink could cause huge wind and put out the fire, and it's too hard to believe if it's a coincidence.. And if I put it together with the event in Logue town, there's only one man who exists in both of events when such wind happening.

As you said there is no way to be sure so it will always be an assumption until we know more

@Gravinco exactly.. i even said if he even has one..


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What's the name of the song at 9:53 of episode 471 in Naruto: Shppuden?
I can't find the name of the song anywhere, and it's really bugging me. I need it as relaxation music. The song is at 9:53 of this episode.

Have you tried music recognition apps like Shazam? Have you looked at the soundtrack listing?

I think the song you're looking for is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkbQ71K3n1M. I'm not sure what song your referring to because there is like 3 songs in this episode.


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Is Chi's Sweet Home 3D a sequel or a reboot?
Is "Chi's Sweet Home 3D" an anime sequel of "Chi's New Address" or is it just a reboot?

Chi's Sweet home is the Prequel to Chi's New address.
Chi's sweet home aired from Mar 31, 2008 till Sep 25, 2008.
Around the same time the following year Chi's new address aired from Mar 30, 2009 till Sep 24, 2009
Source: Chis Sweet Home &  Chis Sweet Home Atarashii Ouchi.

Chi's Sweet Home started as a (wonderful and highly recommended by me) manga by Konami Kanata. It ran from 2004 to 2015, though nobody seemed to age in those 11 years. :3
It was adapted into an anime series (of 2.5 minute episodes) called Chi's Sweet Home in 2008. This basically adapts the first book of the manga.
As a follow-up, Chi's New Address (2009) further adapts Kanata's manga, but takes some serious deviations when it outpaced the source. It tries to bring some of that together by the end of the series. For some reason, this "season" is on Crunchyroll, but the previous one is not; however, both are available to buy on Region 1 DVD.
Additionally, a 13-minute special adapts Chi's first meeting with Cocchi ("Chi Meets Cocchi", 2010), another kitten character who hadn't otherwise appeared in the animated version. As far as I can tell, this hasn't receive a North American release.
The 2016 series is itself a reboot of the original series, or, more appropriately, a re-adaptation of the manga.


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In chapter 507, what did Eileen mean when she said they are one and the same?
I know they are somehow related, but what does it mean when Eileen says she and Erza are one and the same? Is it like what? An Elodas version of Erza? So there would be 3 Erzas now?

Update: Turns out that

 Eileen is Erza's mother.

Source:

OMG! Dude Spoiler tag! SPOILER TAG! You just ruined my week. :-(

Extremely sorry about that :( @KazRodgers

I will accept your apology and quell my caffeine induced rage :-)


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What is "Vrajass" a reference to?
There's a Keijo character who's ethnically brown with a rock-hard ass when she flexes, and she's nicknamed "Vrajass"/"Vajrass". I don't know what the reference/joke is besides presumably some Indian god maybe?

金剛 (kongou) is the Japanese term for diamond (though diamond is more common in modern days) or material incredibly hard, taken from the Sanskrit word "vajra" which can mean either thunderbolt or diamond.
It is also a weapon in Hindu and Buddhist legends with both lightning and diamond (or basically the hardest material) properties, though Japanese usually makes this distinction, calling the weapon 金剛杵 (kongousho), diamonds 金剛石 (kongouseki). The Keijo!!!!!!!! name 金剛尻 replaces the last character with the character for "butt", and whatever translation you saw probably took the opportunity to combine "vajra" with "ass".  Note when she attacks, an image of one of the 金剛力士 (kongo rikishi)、阿形 (agyo) is shown in the background, as in in Buddhism, he wields a 金剛杵, or vajra. (Pic of Agyo here for comparison)
It also ties in with the the joke when the announcer says 南無阿弥陀仏 (namu amida butsu) when Yoshida falls, as that is a Buddhist phrase to send off someone after death.


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Could Goku actually be an earth "Prince"?
Ok so in the Dragon Ball/DBZ/DBGT/DB Super universe, everyone knows that Goku and Chi Chi are married and that Chi Chi is the daughter of the Ox King. That technically makes Chi Chi the Ox princess. But am I crazy or wouldn't that technically mean that by marrying the Ox princess Chi Chi, that Goku is unofficially the "Ox Prince"? And what do you think Vegeta would do if he realized that Goku was also technically a saiyan "prince" (quote unquote)?

Well, Goku may be the Ox Prince but I don't remember being ever stated how big that kingdom is, or how wealthy.
As for Vegeta, he's a real prince, but of a now destroyed planet.


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What are Amanchu's uniforms inspired by?
The first time I saw uniforms of this kind was when I was watching Amanchu.

Are there any Japanese schools which use this kind of uniform?

Answering the title, it looks a bit similar to Aria which was written by the same author. Answering the question body, seems there's no school with this kind of uniform.


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How did Crocodile become a warlord?
Crocodile doesn't even know the basics of Haki and was defeated by Luffy. How did such a weakling became a warlord?

I wanted to say that Oda didn't even think of haki when he made that part if the manga, but then I realized haki appeared in the first few chapters when Shanks defeated the Sea king (I assume that was a Sea king).

Also, Buggy became a warlord too. So pretty much everyone can.

Devils advocate here; warlords are likely chosen for strategic and political reasons as opposed to just strength. Before revealed to be Mr 0 publicly he was portrayed as being benevolent  (if I remember right). And he has at least one big secret according to Ivankov. There is a possibility he was chosen for more than just strength and we don't know the details. Nevertheless, he is not weak.

@Bálint it was a sea king. It was brought back up that Luffy beat the same sea king when he first set off in the flashback sequence after Sabo's "event".

Moderator's note: this question looks like asking 2 different questions: 1) How did Crocodile become a Warlord (as per title), and 2) Is Crocodile weak? (mentioned in passing). Please focus the answer on the Warlord part, not only on the weakness. Answers that only address the latter without the former may be deleted as not answering the question.

The exact nature of how Crocodile was selected to be a Warlord is not known.
However, this is what Oda has to say about it

Similar to Luffy, back when he was young, Crocodile's name spread across the seas with incredible momentum, but soon after he was admitted into the Shichibukai in his mid-20's, he tried to fight Whitebeard and was completely and utterly crushed by him.

Source: SBS Vol. 78, Ch. 779, emphasis added

Aside from that, the following is my explanation:
Crocodile was one of the strongest Warlords. He had a powerful Logia fruit with great control over its abilities. He could use its effects over large areas of land. His strength is compared to Jinbei and Ace in the Impel Down Arc.
Bartholomew Kuma, Gecko Moriah, and Jinbei may or may not have Haki.
Crocodile was one of the most important villains in the One Piece universe. He beat the protagonist not once but twice. Had an interesting power, introduced us to the Shichibukai, and created a very vast organization almost taking over a country single-handedly.
Also, I am not sure if Crocodile doesn't have Haki. He considered himself strong enough to attack Whitebeard head-on. We simply don't see him having any need for it to be used anytime he has been onscreen.
Moving out of the universe,
Oda had thought of Haki before the series started, but hadn't used it before the Sky Island Arc (Mantra as Observation Haki). We have at least one clear example of this. Shanks scaring off the sea king. Mihawk may have used Observation Haki to beat the shit out of Zoro on Baratie too.
These may be the reasons that he had left them for later,

He was still fleshing out the idea about Haki. The three colors, their interactions, etc.
He saved them for the time skip region to show a clear way that our protagonists could have a major power-up. Ussop, Zoro, and Sanji after Haki are a thing to be feared as learnt by Doflamingo.

It's not really hard to understand. Crocodile was just simply strong enough to be a Shichibukai/Warlord. You can't become one unless you demonstrate your power and influence in some way (the only exception is Buggy) and that includes Crocodile. Don't let Luffy beating him fool you, Crocodile was/is still a veteran who's leagues beyond him in skill/experience like any other Shichibukai (again, excluding Buggy lol). We simply place limits on Crocodile's capabilities because he lost to Luffy but the fact is he's never shown his full strength, especially against Luffy.
He was able to directly clash with Doflamingo (resulting in a massive shockwave), tank a blow from Jozu, the physically strongest fighter on a Yonko crew, and recover immediately, he was able to party Mihawk's blade and emerge from a battle with him unscathed (whereas Luffy could only Dodge and run away from him), and he's one of the most skilled DF users with one of the deadliest DFs and knowledge (and highly likely mastery) of DF Awakenings. All these feats are a cultivation of his physical abilities, skill, and battle experience.
The problem is a fairly simpleminded segment or the OP fanbase population has gotten so caught up in the increased usage of Haki in the New World chapters that they were misled to believe any and every Logia (minus the hyped Admirals) is helpless against Haki, even a highly trained Logia like Crocodile with techniques that can counter conventional Armament Haki defenses and decades spent in Paradise/New World.
Different people have different strengths. The level of effectiveness depends on its user, whether it's relying primarily/solely on Haki, DF, etc.

You're missing some critical details.
Crocodile handed Luffy his very first huge loss. Luffy was at such a disadvantage against him in their first fight, through five minutes of futile attacks. If it wasn't for Robin saving him, Luffy would have been dead from impalement and being buried alive in the desert.
The second time, even when Luffy comes prepared with Crocodile's weakness, he still loses. Why? Because Crocodile was smart enough to train his power to counter its own weakness. The fact that he can absorb moisture from both humans and even the land around him to create his own personal desert just highlights how experienced he was. And once again, Luffy was brought to the brink of death.
Do you see where I'm going with this? It wasn't that Crocodile was weak, but for the purposes of the story, he couldn't keep defeating the main character over and over. The fact that it took so many times to actually succeed in the fight just goes to show how dangerous a threat he was.

Power Scaling
I can work with the premise that Crocodile is weak, however, I would first like to point out how ridiculous the power scaling is in One Piece, because no one seems to be acknowledging that it makes the entire world nonsensical. In fact, any story that follows the Sorting Algorithm of Evil and involves the protagonists training and powering up tends to become nonsensical, often because there are no guardrails to keep everyone else in the world from getting as strong as the protagonists.
I examined Koby in this question, but let's examine another case. That would be Rebecca and her father. These two are pretty strong. They go toe-to-toe with Doflamingo's officers, so I would guess that they could curb stomp most of the early bad guys in One Piece, probably all the way up to Crocodile before they get into trouble. Heck, give them some free haki, and they might even be able to beat Crocodile and Eneru.
What did Rebecca and her father do to get so strong though? Nothing but ordinary training and fighting, as far as I could tell from their backstories. Their power is scaled up simply because the story needs them to be on the same level as Doflamingo's subordinates. This begs the question of why everyone in the East Blue doesn't just do some training and get this strong, and there's no real answer because this kind of power scaling is nonsense.
So, power scaling is nonsense. And it's a continuous process due to always needing a bad guy tougher than the last (Sorting Algorithm of Evil). That's why we get cases like Crocodile in the early series who seems to be incredibly weak when compared to characters later in the series like Doflamingo and Whitebeard, etc.
Justifying Crocodile Being a Warlord Despite Being Weak is Easy
With all that being said, there's a very easy explanation for why Crocodile would be a warlord even though he's so weak. He's stationed at the beginning of the Grand Line, and he's knocking out all the rookie pirates before they get too strong. As Rayleigh would say, he's nipping all those buds before they sprout. And since the power scaling works the way it does in this world, Crocodile is an invaluable warlord for stomping out threats early on.
There's proof of this claim, of course. Initially, the people of Alabasta view him as a hero for protecting them from pirates. So he is indeed fulfilling his warlord obligations to the World Government.

Shichibukai is not selected based on strength, like a bounty, it is determined by how big the threat posed by the pirates. For example, Buggy is not that strong, but he has control over the dangerous pirates who are free from Impel Down.


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Does anyone know the violin song that Toshiya Miike plays after Kousei's performance in episode 13?
Does anyone know the violin song that Toshiya Miike (Mikke-kun/-san) plays after Kousei's performance in episode 13? I wish I knew the exact time but I don't. I've searched everywhere trying to see if anyone figured it out or knew what it was but no luck. Help please?

FWIW I had the exact same question back when I saw Your Lie in April, and found the answer while skimming this Reddit thread after searching for your lie in april episode 13 soundtrack.

It seems to be:
Elgar: Violin Sonata in E minor, Op 82 Vengerov
Or [エルガー： ヴァイオリン・ソナタ ホ短調 作品82 ヴェンゲーロフ] if in Japanese.
Here is a link to the piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOutOaSMHZ4


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What manga chapter is episode 219 of Naruto Shippuden from?
What manga chapter is episode 219 of Naruto Shippuden from? I think there are differences between the manga and the anime and I want to check them out.

Episode 219 is towards the end of the Fourth shinobi world war: countdown
This arc lasted from volume 52 to 55. Or chapter 484 to 515.
IIRC they covered roughly 2 chapters per episode during this arc. Leading me to believe that episode 219 should match chapter 493-494


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How is the Rinne Sharingan awakened?
How is the Rinne Sharingan awakened? I know Madara and Kaguya were the only people to do so but I don't remember it ever being explained in Naruto Shippuden.

Sasuke got it as well. Though it was in his eye socket instead of in his forhead, so there was some kind of difference which was never explained.

To awaken the Rinne Sharingan I believe that you need to:
1.) possess the Rinnegan, and
2.) approach the moon/be near the moon.
Based on the Rinne Sharingan Naruto wiki page, it was written on the stone tablet handed down in the Uchiha clan that "when one who wields the power of Rinne approaches the moon, the eye which can reflect off the moon and grant the infinite dream will open". The eye here refers to the Rinne Sharingan, which Madara was able to acquire after approaching the moon.
You could read the rest on the wiki page about how Kaguya awakened it, if you would actually call that awakening. I'd like to believe that the logic behind approaching the moon to activate it was because the moon is essentially where Kaguya is, after being sealed by Hagoromo and Hamura.

*SPOILERS IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED THE ANIME UPTO DATE *

The Rinne Sharingan (輪廻写輪眼, Literally meaning: Saṃsāra Copy Wheel Eye) is a dōjutsu kekkei mōra and the predecessor to the Rinnegan and Sharingan.

I got the above from the naruto wikia page here.
From that we can conclude that Rinne-Sharingan is a predecessor of both Rinnegan and Sharingan.
From the anime, i know that in order to awaken the Rinne-Sharingan one must possess both the chakras of Indira and Ashura.
The fact that Hagoromo, father of these two had it proves the above line that both their chakra are needed.
Thus only Madara and Kaguya have the Rinne-Sharingan. Kaguya got it by eating the Chakra fruit from the God tree during the time of her pregnancy in order to save herself.
Madara got it when he was awakened with the cells of Hashirama infused in himself.

As a result of Black Zetsu's actions, Madara's body then served as a vessel for the resurrected Kaguya, who retained the Rinne Sharingan.[4]

This is during the 4th war, when Kaguya emerges from the body of Madara.
The above quote was also taken from the same wiki page.

If all you need is indra and asura's DNA then why didn't obito have have the rinne sharingan ? Or even sasuke ?

how do you say that they have both chakras?

@UchihaMadara i know Obito has Hasihirama's(Ashura's) chakra because of the white Zetsu infused in his body but not Indra's chakra, and the opposite goes for Sasuke(who is already reincarnation of Indra) but he kills all the white Zetsu cells in his body after he awakens Mangekyou Sharingan during the 4th war.

@Bej
What are you talking about? Of course he has indra's DNA he is an uchiha.
And as for sasuke, he got powers directly from hagoromo which is Indra+asura's DNA and why he has the rinnegan.

@UchihaMadara i accept the plot-hole about Sasuke not having Rinne Sharingan , maybe he is yet to awaken it. But in Obito's case, i don't think having the DNA is enough, you have to be their direct descendant or contain the DNA of the Descendant like Madara or Hashirama. So this cancels out Obito from getting Rinne Sharingan since he doesn't have Madara's DNA.

@UchihaMadara  Can you share any references that says any Uchiha who has Ashura's DNA can awaken Rinne Sharingan?

What kind of eye did Sasuke get? He seems to have some kind of Fusion between Sharingan and Rinnegan, but is apparently not the only Fusion we know of called Rinne Sharingan based on your answer.

I read the wiki of Madara, and got that while Madara was fighting, Black Zetsu used Obito to use Kamui and transport them to the real world. Then Madara took back his Rinnegan, giving Obito back his Mangekyou Sharingan. So Madara stalled Sasuke and Naruto with several Chibaku Tensei. So, Madara got into the proximity of the moon, during that time awakened the Rinne-Sharingan and succeeded in casting Infinite Tsukuyomi. I'd say to unlock the Rinne-Sharingan, you'd need the Rinnegan, basically the cells of Indra and Asura, and have the full clear view of the moon infront of you. If this is wrong, please correct me.

You have to posses the power of the Divine Tree. Kaguya awakened it simply by eating the chakra fruit. But with Madara, things were a little bit complicated. Since the Divine Tree's chakra basicly became the Ten Tails, you have to absorb it by becoming Jinchuuriki, and absorb the Divine Tree. To cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi, you need to posses the Rinne-Sharingan. Since Kaguya currently has one, you need to, essentially, take it from her, by nearing the moon. Stone Tablet says this: "When the one who possesses the power of Rinne should draw near the moon, an eye will reflect on the moon in order to activate the infinite dream." Rinne, not Rinne-Sharingan, not Rinnegan, because these probably are the same, but you cannot cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi with Rinnegan. So you come close the moon with the power of Rinnegan, and Divine Tree, basically taking Kaguya's Rinne-Sharingan, and awakening your own. Then you can cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
Hope I explained you :D
By the way, Sasuke's left eye is not Rinne-Sharingan, it's Rinnegan with 6 tomoe.

Please include relevant sources/references.

To awaken the Rinne Sharingan, you have got to be the ten tails jinchuuriki.
Additionally, Sasuke's left eye is not a Rinne Sharingan but a Rinnegan given to him by the Sage of six paths, which is probably the reason for the tomoe.
We don't know if there are other variations of the Rinnegan, since we only see two pairs of them (Hagoromo's and Madara's since those we're the eyes Nagato and Óbito had).
I don't know why Obito didn't awaken his though, since he was the ten tails jinchuuriki for a while.


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What song plays in the beginning of Noragami episode 12?
I'm looking for the song that plays in the very first scene of Noragami episode 12 (first season). I've searched many times but for some reason I can't find it.
The closest thing I could find is the song titled "Yatotan" and while that song is similar, it is not the one I am looking for.

This is "M28" from Noragami Aragoto OST (disc 2, track 15). However, this track is only on the reprint version, not the original version. Here is a 20-second extract from the beginning of the track.


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Besides Naruto, Jiraiya and Minato, who else is in contract with Toads?
Besides Naruto, Jiraiya and Minato, which people were/are in contract with Toads?

Unless you can read Japanese, then you might be able to read the names. In the manga it was never shown or said who the rest were, and I think it wasn't mention in the anime either.

Aren't the toad sage and hagoromo in contract? Thought the so6p can summon toads.

Yes. We don't know who they are, but the Toad contract Naruto signs lists down names, which are more than those 3.
Naruto Chapter 92. Pg 19.

There are possibly have 6 summoners of the toads. Here are a clear image of the scroll.

Apparently the last 3 are Jiraiya, Minato and Naruto. While the first 3 summoners haven't been seen in the series. You can't really read or recognize the first 3 summoner's name as the writings are just completely chicken writings. It's probably the way or style of old generations write their name.

I suppose unless they appear in Boruto they were just made up for some random reason

I suspect and this is speculation that there where other toad summoners among the Senju clan. The naruto wiki mentions that

"The Mount Myōboku, the Ryūchi Cave and the Shikkotsu Forest are
  called the "Three Big Unexplored 'Sage' Regions" (「仙人」三大秘境, "Sennin"
  Sandai Hikyō), despite there being no apparent connection between
  Senjutsu and the snails of the forest.[1]"

Seeing as the Senju clan was renowned for their Senjutsu it makes sense that they could have spent some time in one of these three places in there attempts to master Senjutsu.
In the anime when the second Hokage gets reincarnated, he shows that he has good knowledge of Senjutsu and the toads of Mount Myōboku. He even compliments Naruto on his skills with Senjutsu.
Although not conclusive I think you can at least speculate on the other toad summoners

Gamamaru
Hagoromo (To Mount Myōboku with Hamura Otsutsuki)
Fukasaku
Jiraiya
Minato (Since he can summon Toad during Obito and Kyubi invasion)
Naruto

how do you know this? why would toads write their name in this thing?


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Why didn't Tobi capture Sora for his 9 tails chakra?
In the third season of Naruto Shippuden, Sora used Nine Tails chakra mode up to 4 tails, so why didn't Tobi capture him like he did with Kinkaku and Ginkaku?

I'm pretty sure Sora only appears in anime filler episodes.

Yes, Sora only appears in anime filler...

Even without "Sora is a filler", he didn't really had Kurama but it's charkas, Akatsuki were hunting Jinchuriki, not Chakra

Like Noted in the comments, Sora was a Filler only character. He does not exist in the manga at all, which the anime is based off of. His entire arc was just added in to lengthen the anime, buy time for the manga to progress, and make money. The Gold and Silver Brothers are in the manga as written by Kishimoto, and were the only source of 9 tails chakra Tobi ever got his hands on, which he

 did use to create an incomplete 10 tails.

The Wiki Notes Sora's appearances are in the anime only, and lacks any time in the manga, supporting this.