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What is the significance of the swamp demon's horns?
While re-watching Demon Slayer, I noticed that each of the three copies of the swamp demon has a number of horns that seem to correlate to which copy they are:

Notice here that each copy has a different number of horns ranging from one to three. After reviewing the wiki on the swamp demon, it seems there is no significance outside of numbering each replica:

His first body had one horn on its head, the second had two that took the place of its eyebrows, and the third had all three horns

Is there any documented significance to the swamp demon's horns, outside of correlating to the replica number?

Not sure in case of swamp demons or any demons who has horns but spoilers for season 3 (Armhxb nyfb terj n ubea va frnfba 3. Gurer vf ab ybtvpny ernfba va eryngvba gb gur cybg gung fhttrfgf jul fur unf n ubea.) So, my not-so-strong guess is that it was just used as aesthetic purpose by the author to depict that it is a demon and not human.


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Where is this kind of pictures originated from?
The following kind of pictures has always reminded me of religion. I don't know whether they are meant to arouse such feeling, though. Where are they originated from? What is the meaning of such kind of pictures?
By the way, I can't understand the words in the pictures.
The one from the op of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood(see: the video):
The one from the op of Neon Genesis Evangelion:

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Is there a name for Goku Susano-like avatar?
Goku has a power that is being shown over a year ago (in 2020) which makes him capable of creating a giant energy form similar to Sasuke's Susano. He has since then used this power again.
Does this Goku Susano-like avatar have a name?

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What is Violet and Major Gilbert's relationship?
Violet wants to become an Auto-Memory Doll because she wants to understand the meaning of "I love you," the last words she hears from her Major.  Throughout the series and the movie, we learn that Violet became attached to the Major because he essentially raised her. Throughout the series, Violet encounters various forms of love: romantic love, sibling love, parent-child love, friendship love etc. However, it's not clear to me which love we are supposed to assume that Violet and Gilbert share. And whether or not it is even the same kind of love?

The relationship between Gilbert and Evergarden seems to first be commander and soldier, but as time goes on, especially after the 4th War, Evergarden wants to understand love, which brings her closer to Gilbert. I think that Evergarden really loved Gilbert because she finally understood "Love" but at the same time, she may have loved him because he raised her.

Haven't seen this series, but from r/VioletEvergarden FAQ here:

You are not the first; most people do. We encourage everyone first to watch the series (and read the novels) in order to come up with your own impressions of this relationship that lies at the heart of the series. If you have done that and are still confused, here briefly are some of the mods’ thoughts on the matter. For deeper dives into this complex relationship, please see the collections tab of this subreddit which contains several posts on the topic.

 It is somewhat ironic that while Violet’s journey is a quest to understand Gilbert’s “I love you.” that same “I love you” confuses so many viewers of the anime. Some are quick to conclude (often based on a faulty understanding from the previous question) that Gilbert’s words are simply an expression of romantic love, which, given their relationship and ages at that moment, can be disturbing. Unfortunately, the tendency to categorize Gilbert's relationship to Violet as a solely romantic, and then treat Gilbert's dying words the same as a confession from some generic high school romance is quite common. That simplistic categorization may seem to make things easier to understand, but the series and movie (and novels) go to lengths to show his concern for her humanity and free will was primary. This love is something that defies simple categorization into standard categories of human relationships precisely because it was forged in unusual circumstances. Thus, Violet needs to learn what love is through encountering love in its manifold forms as an Auto Memory Doll.

 That is how the atypical nature of Gilbert’s love synergizes with the series' episodic structure as Violet's exploration of various incarnations of love. Even Gilbert's word choice in Japanese makes his "I love you" clearly distinct from those romantic confessions as shown above. One can see romantic love as a part of this declaration of love, but to see their relationship solely in this light would be a mistake and a detriment to appreciating the show, which portrays the communication of love in its many forms.

For the anime and movies Kyoto Animation

 chose to leave their relationship more ambiguous for a variety of reasons that can be speculated. This ambiguity shifts the focus onto Violet's growth in learning about the various types of love and allow examinations of guilt less prevalent in the novels.

The novels, on the other hand, by their nature

 lend themselves toward making the internal dialogue of Gilbert clear to the reader. And following the conclusion of the second volume, it is unambiguously romantic.

My note: Lol you'd think 'on the other hand' would be in spoiler text.


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2nd event Sally versus Fake Maple
In the second event there is a part where Maple and Sally have to fight a fake version of each other. We end up getting the details of how Maple beats the fake Sally but the only information on how Sally beat the fake Maple is her showing her skill screen to Maple.
Is there any information on what skill Sally used to beat the fake Maple?

I had originally thought she did it in a similar way to how Maple defeated fake Sally: by flooding the room with water and waiting for fake Maple to drown (Sally has Diving X, Maple has no Diving skill).
However, the skills that Sally had acquired during that battle seem to tell a different story:

Cyclone Cutter;
Combo Blade;
Martial Arts I -> V;
Wind Magic II -> III;
Leap I -> III;

It is likely that some or even all of the above are red herrings. I'm not sure how to defeat a Maple in an enclosed space with the above. Suffocation probably wouldn't work with Wind Magic at such a low level, and the room isn't so tall that fall damage is a viable option.
Unless someone provides a viable alternative, I'll headcannon the drowning version of events.

Interesting information and maybe we will learn more as new events happen.


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Why do characters in anime and manga tend to have long bangs or fringes that (can) cover their eyes?
In real life, if your bangs are so long as to cover your eyes, then you would find it difficult to see clearly whatever is in front of you. However, in anime and manga, the characters often have long bangs that (can) cover their eyes. Why do they use this kind of design?
The following are some examples.
Romm from Mieruko-chan

Yuusuke and his dad from Koi to Uso

Vladilena from 86

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlindingBangs ? https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EyesOutOfSight ?

Apparently there is a term for this: mekakure. though it just literally means "hidden eye(s)".

One thing anime characters will typically have are exaggerated characteristics which I'm sure we've all noticed. The animator does this to focus on their personalities rather than making them look realistic. Like when you see a person with long unkept hair, they're typically unpredictable/wild, or bangs that cover their entire face, they're typically shy or hiding something.

Besides the 2 tvtropes links I gave: Link 1, Link 2...

I can't speak for partial covers for Romm from Mieruko-chan, but as for full covers like Yuusuke's dad from Koi to Uso:
Eyes are said to be windows to the soul, and the way we recognise others is through their eyes, so the lack of eyes suggests
I think the bangs are to cover up the eyes to

Case 1: de-emphasise the character's/characters' importance either to the reader/viewer or to another character/s or

Case 2: to show how such characters are viewed by other characters.

Obviously for Yuusuke and Yuusuke's dad, it's case 1.
Here are 2 examples from Kaguya-sama s2 but instead of bangs, they just don't have eyes:
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S02E06 re Miko Iino and the elections

 Initially, Miko doesn't see the others' eyes. I view it as that Miko sees them as arbitrary haters but then later comes to realise their were Miko's (political) fans.

In this case, I guess it's just Case 2.
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S02E11 re Yuu Ishigami and the cheerleading team

 Initially Yuu Ishigami doesn't see the members of the cheerleading team with eyes. I view it as that Yuu doesn't really see them yet as colleagues/friends but then later does when they see how supportive they are.

In this case, I believe it's both cases given how some of the characters play bigger roles in s3.

Another answer:
I've even heard about cases in hentai (not that I've necessarily watched. I've just heard) where the male protagonist's eyes are usually covered so as to be an avatar/a placeholder for the viewer. See for example:

YandereDev explains why hentai protagonists don't have eyes

why does every hentai protagonist looks like this?


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Are Goku and Vegeta at full power when they face Freezer in chapter 87 of the Dragon Ball Super manga?
In Chapter 87 of the Dragon Ball Super Manga,

 Freezer gets a new transformation, and he hits Goku and Vegeta at the same time, apparently making them lose their power ups and transformations

Are Goku and Vegeta at full power when they face Freezer in chapter 87 of the Dragon Ball Super manga?


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What are some famous policies for students to guess the correct answer in a test in Japan?
In The Quintessential Quintuplets, when taking her mid-term exam, Yotsuba doesn't know the answer to a question, so she uses a policy to guess the answer.

I think this policy is a meme among students in Japan. In fact, in where I live, students also have similar policies. The most famous two might be:

Choose the evidently different option. If one of the options is ridiculously simple/complicated/short/long compared to the others, then it's probably the correct one.
If 1 doesn't work, the most probable answer is the 2nd last option, the 2nd most probable answer is the 1st option.

Of course, 2 may vary slightly across the country.
What are some famous policies for students to guess the correct answer in a test in Japan?

There are also some kind of meme-like tricks for SAT, see this for math and this for reading.

I’m voting to close this question because this is only tangentially related to anime, and is looking for an answer more centered around test culture.

@Makoto Yet this is a well-known culture to Japanese students, which shows up in anime. You can always tag cultural related stuff as irrelevant if you like, since not many of them would appear in most anime.

@Makoto Not knowing this picture or the meme won't hinder your understanding the plots. You can always happily move on with your anime while turning a blind eye to its memes or culture related stuff.

I'd argue that this question is opinion-based/polling instead of a cultural question since anyone may have their own policies.

@AkiTanaka Some policies are common, e.g., 'choose the option ridiculously different in length' is a broadly acknowledged (even by many teachers) one in my country. Here, I'm asking about those well-acknowledged or at least well-known-to-be-meme ones.

@AkiTanaka Etiquettes are based on people's opinion on what's suitable, and laws and morals are also based on people's opinion on what's right and what's wrong. An opinion, once held by quite a few people, is no longer merely an opinion but becomes part of the culture.

Opinion or not this is more of a Japanese cultural question than one that relates to anime and manga. You could have posed it as a list question asking for examples of guessing techniques depicted in anime and manga specifically, realistic or not. Be here we are hovering around test guessing techniques from Japan.

I don't think there is any specific policy that is commonly followed.
If anything, the answer is random choice. One common thing that any Japanese student has heard of is rolling a pencil (Enpitsu korogashi). A typical pencil has six sides (hexagonal), and students roll it to decide which one to mark as correct when s/he has no idea for the question.
Of course, if you think the 3rd option is correct for 5 questions in a row, it will make you nervous. And people may think the first and the last option is unlikely to be correct, but these are rather a matter of (folklore) psychology.


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What's the first anime and manga to use the sweat drop to indicate embarrassment or similar atmosphere?
Nowadays, many animes use the sweat drop to indicate an atmosphere of embarrassment like the following examples. But what's the first anime and manga to use the sweat drop to indicate embarrassment or similar atmosphere? Did this sweat drop idea originate in Japan or cartoons in other country?
From 5-toubun no Hanayome

From Kanojo mo Kanojo

? - https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SweatDrop


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Is there a cooldown for Nezumi's superpower?
In Juuni Taisen, Nezumi have the superpower of the Hundred Paths, which means he can create a game save/life save at a certain time and if he gets killed or something, he can return to the save point and start over again with all his memories retained and others' wiped. He says that he has at most 100 chances to start from the save point.
Since he can make a backup game save at any moment, then he in fact has infinite chances to start over. Say he creates a game save at time t, after he has exhausted 100 paths, he can create another game save at time t+1s or t+1ms shortly after his last save point, and then he has another 100 chances. In this manner, he legitly has infinite chances.
What's confusing is that in practice, he seems to try only 100 times. For example, after the battle royale, the host gave him an interview. He didn't want to tell the host about his ability, so he used his Hundred Paths, but after 100 failures, he gave up and told the story. Why didn't he just keep using his Hundred Paths? Then he may be able to avoid divulging his secret ability.
Is there a cooldown for Nezumi's superpower?


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Why do Nino and Miku need to fight for the TV?
At about 3:20 in the 2nd episode of 5-toubun no Hanayome ∬, Nino and Miku are fighting over the TV.

Do parents in Japan forbid their children from having computers or tablets?
If not, Nino and Miku could just watch their favorite shows in their computers or tablets and there would be no need to argue. But in the 1st episode of Season 1, when Uesugi entered the quintuplets' room, there seems to be no computer in their rooms.
If so, why do the parents do that? Do they think having electronic gadgets would have negative influence on children's study (, which might be consistent with Japanese schools' strict rules)? However, having the internet is a great convenience while studying and can save you much pain when you fail to solve some difficult problems. As a doctor who works in a hospital, the quints' father must have a high degree. It would be unbelievable if he is unaware of that.
So, in the end, why do Nino and Miku need to fight for the TV?

Even in late 2010s/early 2020s, people still use television sets.
It's not necessarily about cable or whatever, but a TV has a bigger screen. It's even better than a laptop/desktop computer.
In your screenshot the remote is blocking the way.

We can see how huge it is in a later screen.

Re computers:
They have. Or at least Miku does. See S01E02:

Since the game was borrowed from Yotsuba (see below), Yotsuba must have too. I mean, we haven't really examined their rooms in detail have we? Just because you don't see a computer doesn't mean there isn't one.

Actually you can see the same computer Miku has in S01E01

An interesting point, but they still don't have computers or laptops.

How do you know Gasai? Maybe you/we just haven't seen? (or maybe it's in the manga?) Miku in particular...maybe S01E03 re gaming has a desktop/laptop computer? @Michael

Who's Gasai? Besides, Miku didn't play games in that ep.

Gasai is the last name of yuno gasai. i like to add the word 'gasai' after saying 'you know' in real life because 'you know' sounds like 'yuno'. oh it's s01e02 not s01e03. i'll edit

I think BCLC's answer is one factor. People usually prefer larger screens.
Another thing is rather simple. You can't watch TV on tablets or PC in Japan, without additional device (which is not so commonly used). So whether or not they have those gadgets may not be that relevant.
Nowadays high school kids should have smartphones at least. Due to the covid-19 and tele-education, I think there are many tablet distributed among students, so it is not unusual that they have those gadgets.

What do you mean by 'additional device'? Do you mean they need to pay for extra TV service, such as VIP or something?

@Michael What is called 'tuner', like these. I don't really watch TV and don't know the details... Also, younger people don't watch TV nowadays (e.g. this says about half of 10-29 year olds don't watch TV more than 15 mins on weekdays.)

@sundowner when you say you don't watch TV, you're really true to your description 'A manga fan' like you don't really watch anime but you read manga?

@BCLC Right. I've never really been an anime watcher though I used to be an avid manga reader.


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How many Dragon Balls Dragons are there in Dragon Ball now?
So far there is a Dragon on Earth, there was a Dragon of the nameks though not sure if he's still alive, there was an universal size Dragon, and another one introduced in the Dragon Ball Super manga. Are they all? Are all of them still alive?
How many Dragon Balls Dragons are there in Dragon Ball now?

The number of wish granting dragons is 5.
This includes Shenron (dragon from the earth dragon balls), Porunga (dragon from the namekian dragon balls). Adding the dragons from the dragon balls from the other canon series, we get the Super Shenron (dragon from the super dragon balls in DBS), Toronbo (dragon from the planet cereal in DBS), and a currently unnamed dragon from the demon realm (from the 3 dragon balls in Daima).
If you wish to include GT, there is additionally Ultimate Shenron, who is the dragon of the black star dragon balls. It's not currently clear why there is not a set of dragon balls on the namekian planet in universe 6, but it is evident from the fact that they had to collect the super dragon balls.

The seven Shadow Dragons include Naturon Shenron, Eis Shenron, Syn Shenron, Rage Shenron, Nuova Shenron, Haze Shenron, and Oceanus Shenron. They only possess one Dragon Ball, though. And if you include Porunga, Shenron, Super Shenron, Ultimate Shenron, and Black Smoke Shenron, there are a total of 12 Dragons and 42 balls throughout the Dragon Ball series.

Your count of the Dragon Balls is wrong. There are 7 for Shenron, 7 for Porunga, 2 for Toronbo and 7 for Super Senron, for a total of 23 in DB+DBS. If you add GT, you have 7 more for Ultimate Shenron. Normal Shenron shares the same set of Dragon Balls with its evil versions, just like Dende's Shenron shares them with Kami's Shenron and both incarnations of Porunga share one set.

@Gae.S., sorry for the incorrect feedback.

Are you going to do anything about it?


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Why did Yotsuba say 'are you actually a boy'?
At around 17:50 in Episode 10 of The Quintessential Quintuplets, Uesugi failed to lift a log, then Yotsuba said, 'are you actually a boy, Uesugi-san'.

But, wait! Let's take a closer look at how Uesugi was trying to lift the log.

According to law of the lever, you really shouldn't lift a log from one side. Uesugi did well in all subjects, including physics, so he couldn't be unaware of this. The correct way to lift a log should be like this:

So, he didn't intend to lift the log by himself from the start. He planned the failure to get Yotsuba to lift the log with him. Then he could probably get the chance to talk with Yotsuba.
How about Yotsuba? She helped the sport club a lot, so it's impossible that she didn't know the common sense how one should lift a log. Yet she still thought Uesugi was too week to lift a log.
Is this a clue that Yotsuba was too simple-minded to get the message from others? Or there is other reason to say, 'are you actually a boy'?

Why do you keep referring to Fuutarou Uesugi by last name when there are 3 Uesugi's? Do you say the person beside Fuutarou Uesugi is Nakano instead of Yotsuba?

Anyhoo, that's how 1 person should lift. Yotsuba said when they were already both lifting...Soooo you're talking about a different thing from Yotsuba?

@BCLC After saying that line, Yotsuba immediately comforted Uesugi, 'b-b-but it's always easier with more help'. This line implies Yotsuba planned that she and Uesugi each lift a log, but anyway, two people lift one log made it easier. Since it was comforting, what she previously said, that is, the line in this question, is more or less a complaint about Uesugi's inability to lift a log by himself.


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Why is there a letter 'R' on the rooftop?
In the ending part in Episode 1 of The Quintessential Quintuplets, there is an upper case of letter 'R' on the rooftop of the department where the quints live.

It looks pretty much like the landing pads in GTA.

Is it actually a landing pad? Are there usually landing pads on the rooftops of those high-rise department buildings where the really rich live in Japan? What I mean here is not the building owned by a millionaire individual but the building where many rich people buy or rent their apartments and live.

It isn't landing pad.
Normally, landing pads are roughly 1.2 to 1.3 times the size of the helicopter  on which they are operated (IIRC), but where this type is marked, they are not that size. Therefore, helicopters cannot land on them, but some places are marked with this notation as a place for Rescue operations in a hovering state.


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What did Uesugi mean by his hand gesture?
In the second episode of The Quintessential Quintuplets, while talking to Miku, Uesugi showed this hand gesture:

What did he mean by that? Is this a common gesture in Japan or just a weird gesture of Uesugi?

I can't exactly tell what the context is, but this sure looks like the "time out" gesture, which is AFAIK pretty international in sports.

@蛞蝓真宵 They weren't playing any game, so it couldn't mean time out.

It would be metaphorical...

@Michael time out, hold up, etc?

This sign is known as the T-Sign in ASL.
It's used to indicate a time-out or pause, and is often used in the context of sports.

In this particular scenario, it is used as an indication of pause.
Without additional context, we can assume that Miku said something, either in general or targeted towards Uesugi, that would require additional clarification in the eyes of Uesugi.
For more info about the time-out sign, you can refer to How do you sign "time-out"* in ASL?


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Do we ever learn who Meowth's trainer is?
In the episode Island of the Giant Pokemon, Ekans and Koffing give a speech about Pokemon not being bad, but rather obeying bad masters.  Meowth responds saying his master is never around and he still does bad things, implying that Meowth is not owned by Jesse or James.  Do we know who his trainer/master is?

Not sure if it counts as an answer, so posting as a comment. According to bulbapedia, this might be a plot hole caused by original Japanese script having a dual meaning -  "One implies that he has a master, and one states that he doesn't have a master"

Whenever I watched that episode I always assumed that Meowth was referring to Giovanni. Giovanni, of course, somewhat rejects Meowth in favour of Persian, but I was under the impression that Meowth still viewed Giovanni as being his master, even if he didn't technically belong to him.

In the anime, Team Rocket's Meowth is technically a wild Pokémon. Which is to say he isn't bound to a Pokeball and thereby has no trainer.
The strongest evidence of this is during the Black & White series when Iris and Cliff try to catch Meowth at various times with a Pokeball. Meowth actually gets sucked into the Pokeball but breaks out before being properly captured each time. In the anime, when you try to catch a Pokémon that already has a trainer, the ball is shown to simply not work, it bounces off without opening or sucking the Pokémon in. This has something to do with some kind of tagging system which I don't think is ever explained in detail but for the most part Pokeballs somehow "know" if a Pokémon is already bound to a Pokeball so that you can't arbitrarily catch other people's Pokémon. Therefore, since Pokeballs are working on Meowth he is not already bound to one and thus does not have a trainer. He hangs out with the Team Rocket crew by choice, not because any of them own him.

I'm not sure about the Pokeball thing.  The earlier episode where Ash gets Charmander, it does get sucked into the ball before popping out once.

The answer will be none.
Meowth's whole backstory has been shown in multiple flashbacks in the show and his whole journey was without a trainer (unless they retcon it in the future.
In a flashback in Go West Young Meowth, Meowth's earliest memory is being alone at Camp Pokéhearst without food and trying to eat a basketball basket. There only he watches a movie called That Darn Meowth! which inspired him to go to Hollywood which he believed would be a paradise. But he was treated as a stray there and later taken under a Meowth gang, led by a Persian. There only he saw his crush Meowzie. But she rejects him for human and he tries to be like humans by changing his walk and learning the human language but got rejected for being a freak. Heartbroken, Meowth remembered the first human word he understood—"rocket"—and was inspired to join Team Rocket.
In Battle Aboard the St. Anne he referred to himself as Top Cat of Giovani before Persian. But in Training Daze, he was at Team Rocket HQ with Persian already being there. And Meowth became a servant to Giovanni, bringing him food and drinks unsuccessfully. Giovanni didn't appear to be angry, but he assigned Meowth to Jessie and James's team.
Covered in more detail on Bulbapedia.


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Why do anime girls tend to wear long socks?
In real life, a pair of short socks as the following seems to be more common.

However, anime girls tend to wear long socks, at least knee-high.

Why do anime girls tend to wear long socks? Is it because this is actually a trend in Japan or just for the sake of the fans' preference?

Just doing an image search on Google for "japanese school uniform socks" shows that the socks also tend to be long in real life.

@Turamarth Yes that is true. In junior high school and above, socks are often specified as knee-high socks. Colors are also specified as white, black, or navy blue.

Long socks are a part of Japanese "Moe" culture and a common theme in the anime and manga world.
A bit of history!
Knee-high socks developed from "high socks" socks that covered up the calves. These were around since the 1980s and female idols wore them as part of their costume for their performance in television programs, and often coordinated with a mini skirt or short pants. Since 2006, knee-socks were introduced to the public as a fashion item that makes legs look thinner. Every fashion style in Japan incorporated knee-high socks to spice up the cuteness. Soon, the item itself was abbreviated as "Nii-hai" or "Nii-so" which made young females in Japan to be more familiar with it. From there, people have made different varieties according to their preferences and currently, there has been a set definition as for length for each type of knee-socks. "Knee-high socks" are considered to be about 40 to 50 centimeters long. “Over Knee-high socks” are 50 to 60 centimeters long. “Thigh-high socks” are over 60 centimeters long.
Why do people stick with "Knee High socks"?
There has been data collected from the male population who would consider that legs and thighs to be an important part of sexual attraction and since knee-high socks do emphasize those parts of the female body, it explains why that male population recognizes the attraction.
Then there's Zettai ryōiki
Ref: Why Can’t We All Stop Falling In Love With "Knee-High Socks"?

It's part of the school uniform and students are not allowed to change their school uniform for school.

This might be true in real life, but I don't think it holds true in anime. There are numerous examples of anime characters wearing non-standard school uniforms, with absolutely no consequence. It seems apparent to me that they could get away with wearing ankle socks if they wanted to.

@F1Krazy it depends on the school, obviously. The reason the girls wear it is because the school demands it, not because they like it. That was the question and not why the creators chose schools with this type of uniform.

This does not provide an answer to the question. To critique or request clarification from an author, leave a comment below their post. - From Review

@AnkitSharma how does it not answer the question? Students have to wear the school uniform of their school and the socks are part of that uniform. It's just one of the real life things that anime doesn't often change.


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What does it make Cell Max to be stronger than the original?
So apparently Akira Toriyama stated that if Cell Max would have been completed, he could be stronger than Broly. And Cell Max gave serious problems to Orange Piccolo and Mystic Gohan. So, what's the reason this version of Cell is stronger than the original? Is it ever stated what made Cell Max much more powerful than the original Cell?

Do you happen to have a reference to where Akira Toriyama said this?  Although, in either context, it could just be raw speculation since it didn't happen and at this point in the franchise, I don't think Toriyama was as deeply embedded with character design and scale as he was in the early days.

There are many websites stating it, where was the interview I dont know.  "Akira Toriyama himself suggests that Broly is still stronger than Cell Max, but only because the latter was released in an incomplete form.  Otherwise, Cell would have been stronger than Broly." https://www.opticflux.com/is-cell-stronger-than-broly-in-dragon-ball-super-super-hero-akira-toriyama-brings-unexpected-answer/22006/#:~:text=Akira%20Toriyama%20himself%20suggests%20that,t%20even%20capable%20of%20speaking.

In a series of statements, which were translated and shared online by Twitter user @Herms98, series creator Akira Toriyama offered a few new details about Super Hero's surprise antagonist, . According to Toriyama, Cell Max is also substantially more powerful than the original incarnation of the character https://www.cbr.com/dragon-ball-super-hero-cell-max-broly-toriyama-movie/


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How did the students discover that the calamity comes from the existence of an extra person?
In the Another anime, they show how the students discovered how to end the calamity. But as far as I remember, (or may be I missed it) they don't mention how they came to the conclusion that the calamity comes from the existence of an extra person in the classroom.
How did the students discover that the calamity comes from the existence of an extra person? Is this mention in the manga, in a prequel or something?

This was obvious that the calamity came from an extra person. They had sensed a pattern based on history of the class. Various countermeasures came up but they were unsure of a permanent solution.
Let's look at the timeline:
1972: A student named Misaki Yomiyama died in a house fire. The students didn't believed he was dead and put his desk in the class. Over time, their memory garbled and completely forgot about him next year.
1973: The class founds that there is an extra person and one desk short (the soul of Misaki converted into a physical being that gave a illusion of extra person). The students ignore but calamity struck in order to give space for the extra. People got killed
1983: Katsumi Matsunaga and his friends went to shrine. He got an argument with the extra and accidently killed him. Next day, he didn't found the body. Calamity ended prematurely. He come to conclusion that if you kill the extra, then the calamity will stop. He taped the conclusion in a video recording. It is to be retrieved in 1998.
1988: Over the years, the students tried many ways to prevent the calamity, nothing proved to be successful. Eventually, they came up with a plan to ignore one student as if he/she doesn't exist, in order to make up for the presence of the dead person. For a whole year, the class would not acknowledge their presence or speak about them during school hours. This measure is followed in coming years.
1998: Kouichi Sakakibara got transferred to class 3-3. Believing that he might be the extra, students ignored him. Calamity struck before he transferred, thus proving he was not extra. Finds the tape. Kouchi finds out the extra amidst chaos. Kills her. Calamity stops.

Vote up but it isnt quite clear to me. How did they know the "extra person" is the cause of the calamity? When they killed the "extra person", they know it stopped the calamity because of the action-effect relation. Here any random repeating event could be the cause, also how did they know there was an "extra person" and not simply someone just removed a chair?

Also, for example, you have 21 persons this year and 20 chairs. Wouldnt it be as easy as seeing who the 20 persons the year before were to know who the extra person is? Or would they remember 21 persons? If they remember 21 persons, wouldnt they know where all of them were sitting? If they remember 21 persons sitting in 21 chairs, wouldnt they know what the missing chair this year is and therefore the extra person?

@Pablo if you browse some other [tag:another] questions, you might notice that the Calamity has a side-effect that made it difficult to notice who is the extra. Related: Can someone explain about the attendance record in "Another", How does Teshigawara create the recording

so, when the extra appears, he already was in the class and nobody remembers him, or did I get this wrong? Why did they think the extra could be anyone and started to killing each other then?

@Pablo 1. It is difficult to predict who was/is the extra because their memory is garbled and they themselves don't the extra but they know for a fact that there is an extra that is causing the calamity. It is not necessary that the extra will be a student. It can be a teacher who has a direct relation with class 3-3.

Let's say you have 21 students and 20 desks. How will you point out who is the extra? It was a lucky coincidence that Katsumi happened to kill the extra that stopped the calamity. If you remember the chaos scene, one student pushed another student to death thinking that was an extra but the calamity didn't stopped. 3. The Extra doesn't know themselves that they are an extra unless confronted (I said the soul manifested into a physical being, so that person doesn't even know how did they ended up being an extra unless confronted)


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Are the angels known to public?
We know that SEELE leaked the information about the Second Impact as a "meteor impact" into the public to cover up the contact experiment.
Since the angels are huge entities and surely visible from afar, is the public informed about what the angels truly are?

I thought the answer was an obvious "yes" (for a definition of "what the angels truly are" that doesn't extend much further than "giant monsters"), but when I skimmed episode 3 for clear evidence, I found some contradictory implications, and in any case they would only apply clearly to the civilian population of Shin Tokyo-3 at most. Looking forward to seeing someone cobble together something more coherent.


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How is that the vampires wanted to kill all humans, if they needed humans to feed themselves with blood?
In season 2 episode 3 if I recall correctly, a vampire says they have a plan to kill all humans.
How is that the vampires wanted to kill all humans, if they needed humans to feed themselves with blood?

Humans with their greed attempted to take over seraphs and use them as weapons, and after doing stuff such as reseructing death(guren squad) they caused apocalypse after releasing a virus.
Humans killed 90% of their own population.
Reason for seraphs murderous intent against humanity is most likely because of being stuck in human host and experimented on for weaponry.
Vampires apeared after these events, they came out of the underground world to save as many humans(livestock) possible seeing their diminishing numbers.
Therefore if a vampire did say that they would kill humans i highly suspect it is either limited to a certain group or just his personal wish.
Since they initialy came out to preserve the human population.

Vampires know humans are their enemies, so they have to kill humans before they kill them..
It's raise war of survival like all our history.
And if you talk about food.. they will evolve to eat other things to survive as we saw in the anime Prototype.

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How many previous civilizations were there in Desert Punk
Desert Punk begins by describing a great war that destroyed the previous civilization, and it describes weapons that are recognizable to use as being relics from that war.
The lead character then finds a succession of relics that are greatly in advance of our own, suggesting that the civilization that fought the great war wasn't our civilization, but instead another civilization far into our future, which itself was based on the ruins of an even greater civilization that was destroyed by an even greater war.
This goes on and on, until we get evidence of some kind of robot war, and possible even earlier wars and civilizations.
Is it known exactly how many previous civilizations there were between Desert Punk's civilization and our own?


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Which Anime/Manga introduced Physical Pilot Damage/ Synchro Rates in a Mecha?
Which series introduced Damage Transfers (i.e. Mecha Takes Damage and this Damage is transfered to the pilot) aswell as Synchro Rates between pilot and mecha?
Are there series before EVA?

I think evangelion is the 1st to introduce that type of series

Evangelion is a genre deconstruction, so all the aspects from it are taken from previous entries into the genre and just played straight/realistic. If I remember right Eva mostly referenced some show from the 1970s or so, but I forgot the title.

Looking over the TV Tropes page it seems that Magic Knight Rayearth (1993-1995) and Mobile Fighter G Gundam (1994-1995) both have the damage transfer aspect and they were produced before Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995-1996).
Magic Knight Rayearth

The Knights are synchronized with the Rune Gods they've established a contract with. If the Rune God they're riding is injured, it will wound the Knight herself — to the point that breaking the Rune God's weapon will destroy the Knight's own Escudo sword. This synchronization is particularly evident in the Alternate Continuity OAV, where Alcyone's hand was torn apart (and remained a bloody mess afterwards) when Hikaru punched through her Rune God's claws.

Mobile Fighter G Gundam

In Mobile Fighter G Gundam, Gundam Fighters control their Mobile Fighters via the Mobile Trace System, a skin-tight uniform with various receptors on the outfit to control them through movement. Blows to the Gundam translate to blows towards the pilot and severe damage to the Gundam can really harm a pilot as shown when Sai Saici was forced to rip off one of Dragon Gundam's arms to trick the Mermaid Gundam. It's also said that only the best pilots can handle the suit as those unsuited for it can be injured or killed.


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Did Midoriya surpass All Might in his prime in the manga?
So I've been reading and hearing in videos that "Midoriya surpassed All Might in his prime already", presumably after he got some of his last quirks. Is there any statement or proof of this in the manga, or is it just fan speculation?

There are no claims that support this as of yet, but we can conclude that Midoriya has surpassed All Might in terms of effective power and ability. But on the other hand, in my opinion, Midoriya hasn't surpassed All Might in the raw OFA abilities (excluding past owners of OFA) and strength that All Might had in his prime.


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When did Arataka Reigen increase his psychic powers?
At the begining of the anime series, Arataka Reigen didnt have any psychic powers. Then, at the end of season 1, after being lent Mob's powers, according to him, "he could only see Dimple". And now at the begining of season 3 of the anime, he can see other spirits.
When did Arataka Reigen increase his psychic powers?


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Can Arataka Reigen exorcise spirits now?
In season 3 episode 1 of the anime, Arataka Reigen tells Mob that he lets them do the work of exorcising the spirit because "he's too powerful" or something like that. Arataka was only a bluff, but now he not only can see Dimple but other spirits, so he increased his powers.
Can Arataka Reigen exorcise spirits now or he is still bluffing?

Aren't this and your other recent question addressed by the same answer?


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Why do characters in anime rarely change their hairstyles?
In real life, people wouldn't change their hairstyles every month, but they will change one day. However, most of the characters in anime never change their hairstyles, even if the time span of the story last for years.
Why do characters in anime rarely change their hairstyles?

Frame challenge: changing hairstyles is actually a pretty common way to symbolize character development (and/or a timeskip). The obvious reason it tends not to happen otherwise is simply that hairstyle is part of a character design.

And animators don't want to take the extra effort. They can reuse the character design and frame how they want and not doing creating new frames.

Keeping the character's look the same is easier for the animators, because it allows the reuse of art work, and for the audience because it makes recognizing the character easier.
This also allows changing the hairstyles for actual purposes, to symbolize character development, or to reflect that there has been a long period of time skipped.  Having characters change their hair styles just because means that these changes lose impact.


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Who are these two girls appearing in the OP of Shuffle?
At around 1:10 in the opening of Shuffle!, there is a shot picturing two girls that seem to never appear in the anime.
Who are they? What's their arc/story?

It's been a long time since I've played the original VN or watched the anime, but are these not Rin and Sia as imagined in their respective kingdoms? Matching features and both are princesses (kingdom of devils and kingdom of gods respectively) before coming to the human world.

Oh, that makes sense. Immediately after that shot, there are shots of the other three female characters.


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Are these 2 MCs in Monogatari Series: Second Season separated in the end?
In the OP6, Kogarashi Sentiment (木枯らしセンティメント), of Monogatari Series: Second Season, there are a red crab and a white snake. Since:

The male mc has a red car (the same color of the crab), and the female mc wears a white dress (the same color of the snake). The colours of the animals in effect remind audiences of the MCs.

At about 0:57 of the OP, there is a shot where  the snake wraps around the crab, which seems to be a metaphor of the intimacy between the two MCs and may even indicates that she's more aggressive in their romantic relationship.

(ready to eat/bite the crab?)

It's obvious that then crab is a metaphor for the male MC and the snake is a metaphor for the female MC. (Of course, there are more witnesses of this, but a complete list would make the post tedious.)
In the spirit of this interpretation, let's see what are in the last 2 scenes. In the 2nd last, the female is falling down when she explodes into some snake-like threads. In the last scene, the white hat of the female MC falls by the side of the red crab. These seem to indicate that in the end of the story, the female MC left the male MC (maybe due to death or something like a doomed fate), and he becomes lonely again, missing her.

A few questions about the story induced by the interpretation:

Are the two MCs separated in the end of the story? What separates them?
Is the female MC the first to make a move in their relationship?
Are they by any chance nonhuman, maybe actually a crab and a snake?

i haven't seen this far into the series but the guy looks like Deishuu and the girl looks like Nadeko, more so given the Snake generally being a reference to the oddity related to her. i don't think they were ever in a relationship when Nadeko is in her teens and Deishuu is in his 30's and last i remember Deishuu's connection to Nadeko was being the one responsible for the Snake Curse that afflicted her in Nadeko Snake

@Memor-X It's Senjougahara. She got a haircut. (Also, do watch the rest of the series some time!)

The "female MC" and "male MC" in question are, of course, none other than Senjougahara Hitagi and Kaiki Deishuu. Koimonogatari spoilers follow:

 Your interpretation of the snake and crab as standing for them is, however, most likely wrong. The crab is Senjougahara, as she was once afflicted by a crab, and the white snake is most straightforwardly Sengoku Nadeko, who has at this point become a white snake god. Seeing as the arc's plot revolves around Sengoku's intention to kill Senjougahara (and Araragi) on their graduating high school, I can only conclude that the snake wrapping around the crab symbolizes this impending doom. It's not impossible that the matching colors are something more than coincidental (they seem like logical choices from a purely stylistic perspective), but this is the most obvious interpretation.

 However, your conclusion about a broken-off romance is correct. As Senjougahara states in Nisemonogatari, Kaiki was the first of the five con men hired to cure her mysterious illness, and over the course of Koimonogatari he progressively reveals that they developed feelings for each other, until he decided to end whatever relationship they had for her sake, as he "weakened" her, on top of the obvious problems with that large an age gap. (Although the viewer is welcome to doubt that this is true, coming a self-professed unreliable narrator, it's most expedient to treat as literal truth for the purposes of the arc.) Also, I doubt this is directly related to the symbolism of the OP (except maybe the choice to involve a car, but that seems like a stretch), but Kaiki's prior romantic entanglement--a one-sided crush on Kanbaru's mother, Gaen Tooe--did end with the latter's death in a car accident which he still hasn't quite gotten over.


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Is there a way to know which manga/anime is on in a particular country?
I'm curious which manga/anime is published/aired in which country and how they are accepted.
Background
I feel that manga popularities vary from country to country (or region to region). To mention a few impressions, I feel

Outside Japan, Naruto is generally more popular than One Piece. (In Japan, by most measures, I believe One Piece is more popular). This claims now One Piece is the most popular in the US, but since Naruto is no longer active, I think the popularity of Naruto is rather confirmed by the fact that it still competes with One Piece.

An anime/manga like Doraemon is significantly lesser known in Western countries. I've heard it is known in Asian countries. Just to give an idea how well-known it is Japan, meeting a person who has never seen a Ghibli movie would surprise me, but my eyes would pop out if I meet someone who has never seen at least a few episodes of Doraemon (or I would automatically conclude the person did not spend childhood in Japan).

Questions

Is there a way to know which anime is published in which country, other than manually searching individual title on the web?

Is there a way to know the difference of popularity across countries/regions?

Or since people can watch most things online now in some way, the questions does not make much sense?

A related question:

Is there an official site for anime and manga ranking?

I'm looking more for how well-known, not necessarily how popular. (It may be the same thing since unpopularity may lead to an end soon enough abroad.)

For 1) AFAIK, there's no such site yet, and it's complicated with licensing and geoblocking for anime (ignoring piracy, of course).

is there maybe a way to filter myanimelist ratings to see like accounts from say the philippines only? or indonesia only?

@BCLC filtering accounts on MyAnimeList may still not be reliable because they can still watch while on overseas, or from buying DVD/BD, or well... bypassing geoblock.


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In Yosuga no Sora, why is Akira Amatsume portrayed as having a big head in gag shorts?
Amatsume Akira (the shrine maiden girl) in Yosuga no Sora seems to always have a gag where she's portrayed with a huge head. This happens during the ending gag shorts (first pic), as well as the ED song (second pic). This literally only happens with her, and consistently. Is there some joke/pun I'm missing for why this is done? In the actual anime itself, she seems to look totally normal, without a big head or forehead or anything.

Akira Amatsume falls into the Genki Girl character trope. The Genki Girl character trope describes a girl that is usually energetic, enthusiastic, and is a klutz. That character perfectly describes Amatsume, so it could be the artists adding to her Genki Girl trope, and with context of the trope, this alludes that she's quite literally an airhead. Figuratively and literally.


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What is the origin of the child don't look scene?
If you watch some anime, chances are you gonna see that scene where the character doing something kind of out of the norm in public space and most likely a mother with her kid is passing by or stopping and then the mother proceeds to block the kid's view and saying "Don't look at that" or something like "Just ignore them / Let them be".
Anyone knows what this particular sscene is called and maybe any origin information. cause this gag seems quite used a lot but I don't really know if this kind of scene have any nickname or something like that.

I'm not sure what you meant by the origin considering this is a normal action done by parents to their children in real life. Did you mean the origin in manga/anime context?

@AkiTanaka yes in the manga/anime context

@AkiTanaka Normal in real life? I've never seen something like that in my experience. Acquaintances of mine, when asked, confirmed that they do not experience this from their parents, either. I've always taken that as something that only happens in TV.


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Why does Kaede hold her chopsticks up while talking?
In Shuffle!, Kaede seems to always hold her chopsticks up while talking at table. According to a blog on chopstick etiquette, it's rude to do that.

You may be used to talking while holding your fork and knife. However, talking while holding your chopsticks is deemed to be terrible manners.

Is this a sign that Kaede does not care much about others, which is verified later in the anime by her being yandere?

"which is verified later in the anime by her being yandere" - Doesn't this statement answer your own question?

@Wondercricket I meant her not caring about others is verified, not the purpose of the design that she holds up chopsticks is verified.


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Who's the first cross dresser in anime history?
Thanks to the improvement of tolerance in the society, there are more and more people cross dressing, say, Rei Dunois. In anime, cross dressing is also not that rare. In Nanana's Buried Treasure, Daruku appears as a maid in a costume but turns out to be a boy. In Blend S, Hideri is also a boy in a maid costume.

Daruku

Hideri

So, it's not shocking to see a cross dresser in an anime now. But who's the first cross dresser in anime history?

Princess Knight could be the first. It is animated in 1967, and the original manga dates to 1953. From the article:

Princess Knight is the story of Sapphire who must pretend to be a male prince so she can inherit the throne of Silverland as women are not eligible to do so.

Since the author Osamu Tezuka is usually considered the/a founder of Japanese animation, it should be among the first cross-dressers at least.

Not anime, but the author draws a boy in girls' costume as well in 60s (source).

Maybe Oozora Hibari from Stop!! Hibari-kun! (1983) is the first by choice.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GtP2XUvKT7g


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Is a job in the hentai industry widely frowned upon in Japan?
The Anime Man has some interviews with people working in the anime industry. In the one with a creator of Redo of Healer and the one with a Ǝ voice actress, the interviewees wear masks, while in the one with a normal innocent anime voice actress, the interviewee does not wear any mask. It seems that the 2 interviewees working in the hentai industry do not want others to know that.
Besides, there's also a similar phenomenon in Kakushigoto, where the father doesn't want her daughter to know that he's an eromanga sensei. Here's the synopsis from MyAnimeList.

Kakushi Gotou is a somewhat popular manga artist whose works are known for inappropriate content. Because of this raunchiness, when his daughter Hime was born, he vowed to keep his profession hidden from her, believing that she will be disillusioned if she finds out.
This paranoia-induced belief leads Kakushi into hectic situations. Despite being a single father, he does his best and often resorts to extreme ends just to protect his secret, such as guising as a salaryman every day or holding emergency drills in case Hime somehow finds her way to his workplace.

These materials make me wonder whether a job in the hentai industry is widely frowned upon in Japan.

Note that Redo of Healer is not hentai despite the content, and Tamiyasu Tomoe is using her Vtuber persona despite her real-life photos being everywhere on the internet. Hiding the appearance for privacy reasons seems common in Japan, even for non-hentai works like Tokyo Ghoul's Ishida Sui.

@AkiTanaka Redo of Healer lies at the borderline. You probably can find it in hanime. Tamiyasu Tomoe using avatar actually adds to the evidence that people in hentai industry don't want others to know the truth.

I guess that's one of the problems with the Westernized term "hentai", since in Japan, the light novel and manga of Redo of Healer are sold in non-adult (18+) sections, and it's also broadcasted on TV...

@AkiTanaka In general privacy is a big thing in Japan I heard? Like Tsugumi Ohba for Death Note and Negi Haruba for TQQ - they use pen names for anonymity and stuff?

To add to this, I know that a lot of Japanese VAs use pseudonyms when they appear in hentai.

@F1Krazy  Then, why don't seiyuu in innocent anime, say, Hanazawa and Atsumi, use pseudonyms? That boils down to people's opinion of that industry.

I know next to nothing about voice actresses, but just in general hentai industry is generally frowned upon for obvious reason. In particular there is discussion about banning pedophile manga/anime (legally). But why they use pseudonyms  or cover faces seems to depend on person. (this seems relevant, not seeable from Europe).

Hentai seiyuus do use aliases: https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/36207/why-do-seiyuu-famous-for-doing-eroge-still-use-alias/66105 and the reasons are pretty obvious. It's not that the business is frowned upon - there is a reason it is still going, but they tend to hide their faces because of the mentioned reasons. Again, it is their choice to hide their faces or not.


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Why are there more harem anime than reverse harem anime?
Harem anime's target audiences are mainly males while reverse harem anime's target audiences are mainly females. So, it makes sense for the producers to make as many reverse harem anime as harem anime, since the number of females roughly equals that of males. However, there are a lot more harem anime than reverse harem anime.
I know that some females also enjoy some harem anime, like Detective Conan and Inuyasha, just to name a few. Yet this kind of harem anime attracting females are rare, so this can't be the main reason for that phenomenon.
Besides, it's said that in Japan, many females are housewives, which allows them more time to watch anime, and that males often need to work day and night. That said, it seems that there should be more reverse harem anime than harem anime; in fact, the reverse is true.
The above being said, it's natural for one to wonder:
Why are there more harem anime than reverse harem anime?

"Harem anime, like Detective Conan", huh, what???

@AkiTanaka Members of Shinichi/Conan's harem: Haibara Ai, Mouri Ran, Yoshida Ayumi and other girls/women that get to know him in the cases.

Reverse harems are a subgenre of shoujo that doesn't seem to be that popular. Anime are mostly adapting manga and they cannot adapt what doesn't exist. Then there's the thing where women will happily watch shounen anime like One Piece, but the reverse is not true.

You are missing the fact that the market for shonen/shoujo comic are very unsymmetric. That is, there are much fewer girls who read comics in the first place, accordingly fewer female anime consumers.
Just to give an idea, in the list ordered by the number of copies sold, the most selling shojo comic Hana yori Dango is ranked the 33rd. Also this is a similar list exclusively shojo. You can see how smaller the shojo comic market is.

From this questionnaire, below suggests that the difference is less drastic than comic sales, but female anime watchers are consistently less.
Do you watch anime often? The manually underlined columns are for women.

Do you like anime movies better than those with human actors? (The pink-ish bar indicates human actor movie; the blue for aime)

Curious about the stats for TL (Teens' love) works which sometimes is about reverse harem though, compared to shoujo. But I guess they are much lower...

@AkiTanaka I don't think anything is practically comparable to shonen. By googling a bit, this says the best selling comic magazine for women 20Q3 was BE LOVE (maybe not TL, but anyway) and the sales was 52K copies. Shonen Jump sold 1.5 million copies (source) in the same period.

Then why are there much fewer girls who read comics? Is it because they were not originally the targets of the industry?

@Michael I think basically yes. One thing may be that in early days comics were considered to be inappropriate for girls.

Why was it considered to be inappropriate for girls?

@Michael Because comics tend to be violent, obscene, etc. So in a sense they are thought to be bad for children in general and especially not for girls because characteristics like innocence, chastity, etc. are expected more of girls.

BTW Hana yori Dango is a reverse harem, I think.

@Michael as the graphs show the difference between men and women that report watching anime isn't that big. What you are missing with manga is that girls enjoy shounen manga. Boys do not enjoy shoujo manga on the other hand. So now we are at a point were a bunch of shoujo stories get published in shounen magazines and try to not let the shoujo vibes show too much as to not turn off the boys and lots of people just pretend that they are shounen. For example Spy x Family. That's a shoujo story published in Shounen Jump.

@sundowner or maybe they targeted both boys and girls but girls were discouraged from reading due to sexism? kinda like sports/gaming in general?

As @Ocean aptly said that Reverse harem as a subgenre of shoujo doesn't seem to be that popular and that women does watch shounen anime but the vice versa is not true. Because of this viewership difference, it is much more difficult for the industry to make profit out of them. @sundowner provided some statistics on Japan viewership and this is more or less similar when extended globally.
A 2020 survey conducted in the United States found that anime movies were generally more popular among men than women, with 13 percent of male respondents reporting that they found anime to be very favorable, compared to nine percent of women who said the same. Women were also less likely to have heard of anime in general or to have any particular opinion on the genre.

If we consider country wise, this skew towards male viewership is far more pronounced in English-speaking markets like the US, the UK, and Australia. Only some markets like Vietnam, Russia, and France see female majorities and in countries like Korea, China and India, the statistics is even.

References

Frequency of watching anime among high school students in Japan in 2021, by gender (According to a survey conducted in Japan in from October to November 2021, 57 percent of male high school students watch anime at least once per week or more, compared to 50 percent of female high school students. The share of respondents who stated not to watch anime at all was slightly higher among girls than among boys)
Attitudes to anime movies among adults the United States as of January 2020, by gender
https://project-anime.org/tag/demographics/

tldr;

Q: Why are there more animes focused on harem in comparison to reverse harem?
A: Because of how much difficult it would be for the industry to profit from making reverse harems.

I like how @sundower answers the question with numbers that bring light to the comparatively low number of female anime consumers (and even lower number of female anime consumers that watch reverse harems). Profit companies must try to cater to the bigger audience groups, and anime studios are also companies.
That said, I would like to try to provide some of the reasons behind the numbers with the following two points:
Response to visual stimuli

(...) men still had higher ratings than women even for women-selected films. Together, these data demonstrated that men responded more to visual sexual stimuli than did women, and this sex differences was strengthened if the stimuli were chosen by a male. [1]

This shows two sides of the same coin:

Male interest is an easier target to capture through visual media (harems).
Female audience will be harder to please with visuals.

Culture focused in catering to male audience
Culture is another factor that contributes to the situation. This wikipedia entry shows a fairly complete list of harems and reverse harems in existence; 272 vs 35 as of 11/2022. This implies that anime studio employees and directors are at least 7 times more familiar, experienced and confident making and selling harem content than doing it with its counterpart. Going against a deep-rooted culture is hard.
Given this culture (or inertia) mostly pushes towards the creation of more harem animes, there is less interest, talent and funding for making reverse harems.

[1](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2739403) Rupp HA, Wallen K. Sex differences in response to visual sexual stimuli: a review. doi: 10.1007/s10508-007-9217-9. Epub 2007 Aug 1. PMID: 17668311; PMCID: PMC2739403.


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Who's the first cat girl in the anime history?
Cats girls are quite common today in anime. For exampls:

Chocola and Vanilla from Nekopara

Cyan from Show by Rock!!

Nozomi Kiriya from Mayoi Neko Overrun!

But, who's the first cat girl in the anime history?

It should be Neko Musume (literally "cat young woman") from Gegege no Kitaro. (I don't know if it is aired abroad.)
She is

普段は人間と変わりないが、ネズミ（ねずみ男を含む）や魚を見たり怒ったりして興奮すると、眼が金色に染まり[注釈 1]、耳まで裂けた口に鋭い牙をむきだした化け猫の形相になる
(roughly translated) normally just a human, but when excited e.g. by finding a mouse or fish or by getting angry, her face becomes a monster-cat, eyes getting golden and the mouth getting large with the sharp teeth.

The first series was in 1968 and the latest ended in 2020.　You can see how her design changed e.g. here.
The following article is relevant as well (it mentions about original cat girl in manga):

Wikipedia/Catgirl

If you go with a more general understanding of cat girl then Neko Musume from Gegege no Kitarou (1968) is probably the first in anime history.
This is her character design over time:

As you can see, she doesn't have cat ears. Not back then and not now and I feel your question implies the first cat girl with actual cat ears.

As far as I remember the first one to make a big impact was Liru from Renkin San-kyuu Magical? Pokaan (2006) - a wolf girl. You might have seen her before:

Though, that was by no means the first instance of the Kemonomimi trope.
1997, Hyper Police

1995, Fushigi no Kuni no Miyuki-chan

1993, Kouryuu Densetsu Villgust

1984, Wata no Kuni Hoshi


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Why didn't Hayase's Nokker control her like other Nokkers did with other humans?
All other Nokkers which attacked humans controlled them. But Why Hayase's Nokker didn't, instead it coexisted with her. Why did this happen?

It's implied that this specific Nokker was different from the rest of it's species for some unexplained reason (given that it appears to work against the other Nokkers in one case), and developed a desire to follow and aid Fushi. This lines up with Hayase's goals and it likely decided it could achieve that goal more effectively by coexisting with her (and her lineage).

I think it was ironically afraid of death and wanted to develop individual personality. Hayase offered shared immortality. At least that's my head canon cause it just doesn't tell us why. What makes me think this is what the Nokker says in episode 14 of season 2 at 14:53
"I don't know what will happen to me when I leave here. Everything I've built up until now might be erased. I'm scared."


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What's the first shotacon anime?
There are many anime portraying shota, but most of the female characters there do not have interest in the shota. What's the first shotacon anime where some female character is attracted to the shota?

I suppose it's Natsu e no Tobira (1981).

It's an erotic drama and not really part of the otaku culture that brought us classics such as Boku no Pico (2006). Speaking of which, that also happens to be the first shotacon anime that had a big impact, even though the romantic relationships were all among guys.
Also worth noting that Natsu e no Tobira is geared towards a female audience, while Boku no Pico is geared towards a male audience.
As far as otaku culture is concerned, though, it is very rare for female characters to be interested romantically in shotas. The topic is mostly played for gags, unless you are consuming pornographic content. And for that Boku no Pico was a trend starter.


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How many years have passed between the first season and the second episode of the second season in Fumetsu no anata e?
Between the first season, and the second episode of the season,,

 Fushi has met the granddaughter of Hayase, and the daughter of her, and the daugter of the daughter, and so on until he meets the first male descendant of Hayase who inherited her will.

How many years have passed between the first season and the second episode of the second season in Fumetsu no anata e?

About 40 years as stated by the hisame, granddaughter of hayase in the first or second episodes. (not sure which one it was)


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How is the Nokker in Hayase's successors passed through?
All the descendants of Hayase inherit the Nokker she had in her arm. But how does this happen? Is the Nokker passed to the child when the child is conceived? (and therefore the mother would lose the Nokker at that point?) Is it replicated? Is it passed when they get children get older or something?
How is the Nokker in Hayase's successors passed through?

The Wikipedia article says the Nokker is not even known to be the same カハクの左腕に寄生しているノッカー。ハヤセ、ヒサメ、ウシオなどに寄生していたものと同一の固体かは不明。.

So I suppose it is not described in the story, but it should be kind of cut and paste (if it is the same) because there are obvious influences of Parasyte.


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Why are there so many incestuously suggestive anime?
There are many anime that have incestuous theme. For example, OniAi, Eromanga Sensei, Kiss X Sis, Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai, Yosuga no Sora, Saikin, Imouto no Yousu ga Chotto Okashiinda ga and so on.
Why are there so many incestuously suggestive anime? Some of them were even aired on TV, which probably could spoil public morals. Wouldn't people, especially parents, protest?

In Japan, they are midnight anime for mature audiences though, not for children or teens.

@AkiTanaka But a child can find them on the Internet freely.

Also related, an article by Answerman in 2017: Why Is Incest Such A Common Topic In Anime?

Does this INCLUDE step-siblings? or EXCLUDE?

@BCLC That depends on their relation before they become family. Step-siblings like those in Domestic na Kanojo are fine, because at least they are in relationship before they become family, and therefore the incest is due to bad luck, while the one in Eromanga Sensei is kinda immoral.

This article may give some insights into the incest thing in Japan.

OreImo isn't merely "incestuously suggestive", it's just incestuous, period.

@Michael immoral is subjective. It's either legal or it isn't. Personally I find all step-sibling relationships weird and consequently I find all co-parent-in-law marriage weird but eh it's either that or we run into this who-came-1st problem. What's illegal about the Eromanga Sensei thing? (Heard of it but haven't seen.)

There aren't really that many. You'll have a tough time counting to a mere 30, let alone 100. It's the same for tentacle anime. Maybe people just feel that a couple are already too many?

@Ocean i was told the opposite. i myself can't think ANY actually but people tell me like in kaguya-sama 'oh wow miyuki and kei shirogane are the most realistic opposite gender siblings i've seen in anime. so many others are incestuous.' but i haven't really seen any like all sibling relationships in and out of anime are realistic to me.

@BCLC it's probably more of a meme than it is reality. Try pressing someone making such claims for an actual list and see how many titles they can get.

@Ocean Well according to them...what do you say to No Game No Life, Mahouka, Sword Art Online, Code Geass, Attack on Titan?

@BCLC sounds like they are grasping at straws, but even if you count those you still have a hard time to count to 100. For perspective, there are about 14.000 anime in existence.

@Ocean THANK YOU. GOD BLESS YOU. There is another matter though. A lot of anime main/major characters are only children. I tried to think of a lot of anime examples that 1ST have relevant sibling characters AND THEN to see if they are incestuous or something. Of the 14k anime, how many do you estimate have relevant sibling characters? If it's like only 1k, then 100/1k = 10% I think is already a noticeable minority.

@BCLC Among those 14K about 1K are pornographic in nature and the number of anime with relevant sibling characters is a lot less. I mentioned grasping at straws because as soon as you count stuff like Code Geass you are essentially counting all anime with mixed sex siblings, but even if you do you'll have a hard time counting to 100. Though, if you reduce it purely to siblings existing you might make it past 100. It's still going to be tough and I'd be surprised if you can make it to 200. Unless you count siblings where neither is the protagonist.

@BCLC for a bit more context on the anime porn number; there are about 1000 hentai, maybe even close to 1500. For that to happen they had to make about 40 hentai every year since 1980. (There arguably weren't either hentai or otaku anime before 1980.)


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Best way to find translation of onscreen text in anime?
i.e Tomodachi Game EP01 13:20 - Relevant text displayed on chalkboard not translated.
I see this all the time and it bothers me so much.
Is there a simple way to find this translated information?
Would fansubs have this? If so is there a community I can find them in?
Is there an archive of translated information for anime that I can reference?
I'd like to avoid having to manually translate through screen capture and translation software if at all possible.
I am hoping there has been someone with this problem before and an acceptable solution was implemented and i have just failed to locate such a solution.

Fansubs may add TL (translator's) note, though this community can't provide resource due to it being gray area.

If you just want to get a quick grasp in the moment, google lens tends to work to give you the general gist.

Fansubs usually translated these kind of things, but then fansubs aren't really a thing that exist anymore in the sense that they all just rip from streaming sources instead of translating themselves. Truly a shame, their translations were more accurate.

@AkiTanaka Are you referring to the famous meme "According to keikaku"?

To OP: I don't have all the information for a complete answer but you can have a look at this video made by a popular Anituber.

@FumikageTokoyami not really, just based on my recollection back then that fansubs may add a translator's note for non-conversational text. Apparently, official subs also do that to some extent, like Netflix Komi Anime Doesn’t Translate Some Of The Text In The Series and its linked Twitter conversation mentioning how Crunchyroll did it.

There really isn't a solution, unless the subtitles provide it for you.
This is actually fairly common in that, on certain occasions, the subtitles will include the text that is on a screen or on a sign somewhere.
If they do not, then there's not much other recourse to solve the issue besides using Google Translate on your own (which is always going to be hit or miss).


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Why didn't Jotaro go to Italy and confront Giorno himself?
At the beginning of JoJo's Part 5, Jotaro sends Koichi to Italy to find the son of Dio. Koichi. Really? Not saying Koichi isn't capable but if his suspicion of Dio having a spawn was correct, wouldn't Jotaro take this family business into his own hands? Why send Koichi instead of going himself?

Jotaro would've been sensed by Giorno if he had gone to Italy. People with the Joestar birthmark can feel each other's presence, therefore Giorno would've been alerted by Jotaro and he wouldn't have allowed himself to be observed quietly. Koichi is, according to Jotaro, reliable, so he sent him to observe Giorno and determine whether or not he was evil or dangerous without being spotted immediately.


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Is fear the only factor which makes Devils powerful?
In episode three of Chainsaw-Man, Makima explains how fears and phobias give certain devils strength amongst other devils. This works out seeing that people fearing guns makes the Gun Devil so powerful and huge.

Another example of a devil which becomes omnipotently powerful because of fear is the "Darkness Devil" because, go figure, a significant percentage of the world population is afraid of the dark.

An instance where the situation is reversed when Bucky the "Chicken Devil" is introduced. He claims to be incredibly weak, so weak that even a common cat would tear him apart.

Given this, fear seems to be the overarching power boost for devils. But does that apply to Denji? Eventually Chainsaw Man become a popular hero amongst Japanese society, with some fans and haters.

With several people idolizing him rather than fearing him he still manages to become more powerful. So, my big question is what if fear isn't all that makes devils powerful, but their notoriety in general?


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Why did Denji pass out, and why was he dizzy in Himeno's appartment?
In episode 7, everyone's out eating and drinking at the izakaya, and Denji explicitly mentions he's only drinking tea:

However, later in that episode, he is apparently passed out and Himeno takes him on her back back to her apartment. Later, he wakes up in her bed and says he's dizzy.
Do we know why he passed out, and why he was dizzy? Did he get intoxicated from the vomit he swallowed earlier from the kiss with Himeno, since she had been drinking heavily? Or was there some other reason for his passing out and dizziness?

Vomiting profusely takes a lot out of you and leaves you dehydrated too

He was sick firstly from having vomited from Himeno vomiting in his mouth, and then secondly he may have been dizzy because he hadn't drunk alcohol before and she momma-birds it into his mouth when he says he is thirsty.
His passing out may have been from just exhaustion but who can say.

The question is more about why he passed out before getting to her place, though, so her "momma-birding" it wouldn't be relevant yet. In any case, even when he wakes up, he says he's dizzy almost immediately, and alcohol doesn't go to your head that quickly.

I don't believe Denji passes out before getting to her place. The timeline of events is that they're at the bar and they drink a lot (except Denji), Himeno kisses him, he vomits in the toilet, and then he carries her to her house since she had passed out. After reaching her house, he probably passed out as well due to sheer exhaustion and having vomited profusely before, and that is why he is dizzy and thirsty. Vomiting causes dehydration.
Translations of the manga in different languages show both Himeno carrying Denji and Denji carrying Himeno, but since the anime showed her carrying him, it is safe to assume that is the canon event. Even then, it makes sense for Denji to have passed out after being awake late and vomiting over and over.

I believe she carried him to her house, not the other way around.

@JNat I don't know when it happens in the anime, but in the manga, Vol.3 Ch.21 "The Taste of a Kiss" Page 15, you can see Makima ask where Denji is and Fushi says "I'm pretty sure I saw him head off with Himeno on his back?"

In the anime it definitely happens the other way around (ref). Will try to find the exact text in Japanese to see if it might've been a translation error.

The exact text in Japanese appears to be "デンジ君なら姫野先輩が背負って連れて行きましたよ？" (ref). I plopped that into Google Translate, and despite some confusion surrounding the right pronouns for each person, the grammatical structure hints at Himeno having carried Denji on her back, as the anime shows.

I am trying to find the original source in Japanese but if in the anime it shows Himeno carrying him, then it is most likely the right transaltion. I checked some translations in other languages and they also can't decide who was carrying who. Regardless, it still makes sense that Denji passed out and was dizzy from sheer exhaustion and dehydration. I will edit this into the answer


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Is Bleach:Thousand-Year Blood War based on the manga?
I am on episode 4 of this series and I swear to Yamamoto-sama that I've seen this story before. Either on a manga or some movie.
Going to Hueco Mundo, rescuing Dodon-something, fighting that soldier guy, etc. I could have sworn I've seen it all before. I haven't found anything on Google, though, so I'm not actually sure.
My question is there material this series is showing that already was shown before or is this going to be another Sinbad Shazaam situation?
TLDR; is this story from some manga or OVA that I might've already seen before?


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English translation for original Getter Robo manga
I’ve found the complete first series of Getter Robo (the 1974 manga) online, translated in English.
I would love to get a physical copy of this but I can’t find anything to buy, the listings on eBay seem to be for the original Japanese prints.
Does anyone know of a place to obtain this?

Could you mention where you found it online? Looks like it hasn't been licensed in English yet, so there's no way to buy it legally.

Oh that would explain it. I'm kind of new to the manga world, but I'm suprised such an influential series hasn't been published in other languages yet (though I think there's been an Italian translation, but I may be wrong). I will try to find the link to where I found the English version I was looking at.

According to Baka-Updates Manga, as of April 2023, Getter Robo hasn't been licensed for English audiences yet. Thus, there are no official copies of the English version but only unofficial scanlations on the internet which is a complex issue: What are the legality rules in terms of manga translations?


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Musical performances for early 70s super robot anime
I was always blown away by the music of some of these tv shows, like Getter Robo G, Danguard Ace, Gaiking, etc.
It seems to be mostly orchestral music, with maybe some early analog electronic effects and electric guitar and modern drums for some of it.
Who wrote most of this music? Are there recordings of the performances, video of the orchestra or any CDs of just the music available?
I’ve found one name that stands out, Shunsuke Kikuchi. I’m looking into what I can find (so far some music for the Grandizer series).
My main interest is to see a recording of an actual performance, I’d like to see what instruments are used, how the conductor drives them all, what combination of modern and traditional instruments are used, etc.

I read a particular article with details and history of the early days of music from anime and has the references of his research that also links to more details on music and anime in general in other locations - https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/7/4/59

While this might be an interesting topic overall, I'm afraid there are too many questions asked here, and some are only tangentially related to each other.


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KonoSuba Manga chapter 100 in the LN?
Recently, i readed the chapter 100 of the KonoSuba Manga, and since i'm a huge fan of the series i wanted to start reading the LN right away. So, dos anyone knows in which chapter can I continue the story where the manga left off?

Not an answer, but according to this, manga vol 8 corresponds to novel vol 6. Assuming 10-11 chapters per manga vol, chapter 100+ should be roughly equivalent to novel vol 7 or 8. (Total volumes are 16 for manga and 17 for novels).


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Why are hentai censored?
Why do Japanese censor hentai while they themselves also produce a myriad of uncensored lewd videos where you can see everything clearly? Isn't this just absurd? Besides, the nature of hentai as well makes the censorship beyond common sense.
The common defense by Japanese against the criticism on lolicon anime is, no one in real life is harmed. Then, I would like to ask the question, who could be harmed by not censoring hentai?

"[...] while they themselves also produce a myriad of uncensored lewd videos where you can see everything clearly?" JAVs are censored just as hard if not harder, under the same laws.

@蛞蝓真宵 well OP might want to ask about that but that's off-topic here? And wherever OP asks that, why can't someone else say 'hentai does the same' and so you get a catch-22 ?


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Is this Sanae Tsukimoto's older sibling?
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From S03E06:
There's someone who looks like Sanae Tsukimoto who is beside

 Tanabe-sensei who is crying.

But this can't be Sanae who appears earlier:

I heard Sanae has an older sibling who teaches in the school. (Or maybe it was actually mentioned in the anime.) So I guess it's Sanae's older sibling. I looked up fandom and it says Sanae's older sibling's anime debut in S03E02...
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From S03E02 where Nishikata and Takagi are on library duty:
Is this Sanae's older sibling?

For S03E02 yes. From fandom:

The librarian was change into Sanae's sister in the anime.

But I didn't see any mention in S03E06 fandom that Tsukimoto-sensei is in S03E06.

Just finished original series manga. Yes that's her. Tsukimoto-sensei is Sanae Tsukimoto's big sis.


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When did 'onii-chan' start to become a fan service stuff?
'Onii-chan' is just how a girl addresses her big bro originally. But now, it's widely used as a fan service in anime. When did 'onii-chan' start to become a fan service stuff?

1 - Maybe the same time 'imouto' became a popular trope in anime? 2 - how do boys address their older brothers in anime if not onii-chan too?

Don't have full answer but you can check this KnowYourMeme page to know when was this meme started: https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/onii-chan

Has always been like that as far as I remember. Maybe it was different in the 1970s, but it has been like that since at least the 1980s. Of course, it depends on the anime.

@Ocean Relevant?

@FumikageTokoyami Even imouto in general? like imouto to onee-chan not just imouto to onii-chan


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Can people be killed with conqueror's haki alone?
We know that conqueror's haki is said to be strongest haki that only a few people are lucky enough possess from birth. But so far it has only be used to telepathically knock people unconscious or make your attacks stronger.
Is it possible to kill someone without touching them using only this haki? If yes will it look any different from scaring someone to death?

There have been no examples of this and there isn't enough information at this time to make a prediction. I personally don't find it likely due to certain developments at the end of the Wano arc.

!> ! You mean when Shanks scared Ryokugyu.

@SuperSaiyan99000 just FYI, spoiler block doesn't work on comments, only on posts

Seems very likely, even if there are no concrete examples of that happening.
You say "only be used to telepathically knock people unconscious or make your attacks stronger" but apparently Haki is capable of applying actual pressure on objects too.

When Shanks boars the Mobydick you see that many members of the crew almost faint even if he is still kinda restraining himself. But more importantly ou can also notice that Conqueror Haki applies physical pressure on inanimate nearby objects, causing actual damage to a ship that had traveled in the Grand Line for years and therefore is probably build to be more resistant than average.
It is true that somehow a tired Law managed to withstand Fujitora tremendous gravity powers, but I doubt your "average Joe" could do the same and withstand Yonko level of Haki pressure. I expect that a random passerby could and would be crushed if the Haki user intent was to cause damage.
To put that into context, here are some feats of Conqueror Haki clashing (notice: do not confuse Armament Haki infusion and Conqueror Infusion - the second one is the one with the black lighting effect).

Remember Kaido henchmen fearing that he would simply destroy the whole fortress (and the whole island) if his fight with Big Mom would go on for too much.
I totally expect that it would be reasonable that such force could crush an untrained background character to death.
Anyway it is worth noticing that most of the  extreme example of Haki "explosions" were caused by two users clashing. Yet, Shanks example above seems to indicate that an extremely skilled user could at least cause a serious amount of physical pain on a weak, untrained person.

Good examples, but I think it is important that all the most destructive cases involved the clashing of two extremely powerful wills, often amplified by them infusing it into weapons. If one Conqueror's Haki user is targeting a weaker user directly, the worst we've seen is them fainting (i.e. their willpower being crushed, not them physically). It's possible this becomes another "advanced" application, but neither Kaido nor Big Mom did it and very few remaining antagonists have the potential to be Conqueror's Haki users.

@TheGamer007 point is that you see Haki breaking the wood on a ship. The crew "only" faints, but those aren't average humans. My argument is that if Shank Haki can cause damage to reinforced wood, it probably can cause physical damage to normal persons too.

That is interesting. But I think crushing someone's will would be easier than applying pressure to kill them. As the later seems like just the side effect of haki.

Woop Slap would instantly die from Luffy's Conquerors Haki.


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What are the requirements for making a call on the Transponder snail (Den Den mushi) in One piece?
The Den Den Mushi (DDM) is not much like a traditional telephone. It seems you don't need to know much about the other person's Snail (DDM) to make the call. And, It seems its signals can extend infinitely in any direction without much loss in Amplitude or quality.
I mean how exactly does the snail know whom to connect. And where they might be?
Are there hints about this?

Wiki claims that, while the telepathic ability of transponder snails is natural, when they "work as telephones", the snail that "makes the call" usually receives instructions on what snail to contact through an artificial, non-invasive device that works exactly like a normal telephone dial. If true (I can't really find the reference in manga or anime), then I suspect we can only assume that this works somehow.

Personally, I think that "where" people are might not be relevant to telepathy: the author could just decide that it works on pirate-snail magic and that it has nothing to do with real-world radiowave transmission.

The Transponder Snails have the ability of telepathy. They know about the thoughts of each other. And there power of telepathy likely extends all over the world, so a person with a Transponder Snail can readily contact another person on the another side of the world.
Person 1 says something to the Snail 1. The Snail 1 sends the message via TELEPATHY to Snail 2. Snail 2 then interprets the message just like the voice of Person 1 and vice-versa


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Why does All Might appear with a yellow aura inside Midoriya's One for All?
Inside Midoriya's One for All, All Might appears with a yellow aura, when other former users of One for All dont appear with an aura at all. Why is this so?
Why does All Might appear with a yellow aura inside Midoriya's One for All?

I think, it is because he's the only user of the all for one who is still alive. He already gave the power to Midoriya, so he is no longer a user. But as all the users manifest as a part of the One for All, Allmight does aswell, but partially. Once he dies (if he dies) we will see him "full" inside the one for all.


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Could One for All be received by someone who had a quirk but who had his quirk removed like it happened to Mirio Togata?
I know Mirio Togata recovered his quirk, we could see that in the anime in one of the last episodes, but could have he received the One for All quirk when he had his natural quirk removed and became quirkless, since One for All can't be transfered now to people with quirks?
In the anime there are bullets which removes quirks, could One for All be received by someone who had a quirk but who had his quirk removed by a bullet of those like it happened to Mirio Togata?

since One for All can't be transferred now to people with quirks

This isn't entirely true. Even with One For All becoming extremely powerful, there is no hard limitation against giving it to someone with an existing Quirk that we know so far.
The rationale behind preferring quirkless people is noted by the Weaknesses section of the wiki as follows (emphasis mine). I'm putting everything under a spoiler just to be safe, because Mirio regaining his quirk is Chapter 293 and most of this information is discussed in Chapter 304, though it is foreshadowed in Chapter 284. If the anime has some episodes left this season, it might get covered.

 Following the research conducted by All Might, as well as the
 discourse of the One For All vestiges, it is revealed that One For
 All can affect the user's lifespan. If a person who already has a
 Quirk receives One For All, the extra Quirk places an enormous burden
 on their body, depleting the user's life force and shortening their
 lifespan.

 It is analogous to adding water to an already-full cup, causing it to
 overflow and breakdown. The rate at which the person's life decays is
 unknown, but Hikage, the fourth user, received One For All at the age
 of twenty-two and died of "old age" eighteen years later, at the age
 of forty.

 This weakness can be circumvented if an inheritor does not
 already have a Quirk, since the Quirkless user would be an "empty
 cup" that is filled by One For All.

While past users have all had existing quirks, it seems that All Might's research is what made them aware about this side effect. Whether they would still pass it on to someone with this knowledge is speculation, but nothing is preventing it and I'm not sure if any of their approval is needed beyond the current wielder who has to willingly pass it to a successor.
If the quirk removal was permanent, then

 by the water analogy the cup has been emptied

and the user should be able to use One For All without the side effect.
Again, the caveat is that there might be more factors that nobody knows about, like whether the mere possession of an original Quirk alters the body in a way that the removal doesn't change. We know Quirks are genetic and there's an in-universe theory about their singularity, so a lot can change by the end of the series.


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What's the joke when Yuuko makes two closed hands except for both her index fingers pointing upward, and her right hand holding her left index finger?
In episode 1 at 12:36, right after the scene of the principal's bad jokes (which is the subject of this question: How do principal Shinonome's jokes in ep1 work (what's the joke), and what could they have to do with the meaning of hard work?), Mai discovers a squid tentacle in Yuuko's hair and laughs at it with tears coming from her eyes. Yuuko thinks Mai is laughing at the principal's bad jokes, and seeing that Mai is laughing more than she has ever seen her laugh, sees it as an opportunity to try cracking a joke of her own. She then makes two closed hands except for both her index fingers pointing upward, and her right hand holding her left index finger and tells Mai to look.
Here are some screenshots:

What's supposed to be funny about this here?
Is there some cultural reference I'm missing? Is the joke building on anything to do with the principal's previous jokes?
My intuition tells me that there's actually a meaningful mechanism to the joke here that I'm just unable to understand as an English viewer without anything more than shallow knowledge of Japanese culture.
I know that absuridty ("randomness") and non-sequiturs are often used as a mechanism for humour in Nichijou, but from what I remember, Yuuko's efforts to make her friends laugh are honest attempts at humour. Absurdity is more Mai's thing. Yuuko does use non-sequiturs in her poetry, but that's different. Yes, the joke here falls flat- as if Mai doesn't understand it (the question mark that appears above her head), but so do most (all?) of Yuuko's attempts at making her friends laugh through jokes.

Maybe https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Hand_Seal

@Turamarth can you elaborate? It would seem weird to me if that came up with no meaning or connection to any of the surrounding context when she did that.

Though basically the same thing, it could be hattori-kun's handseal. The anime is quite old, and as such resonates with the pricipal's outdated joke. I don't know nichijou well, but I guess that kind of unpredictable/surreal behavior is part of the fun in that anime/manga.

@sundowner hm. isn't that pointing with thumbs though? Yuuko's is definitely pointing with index fingers. And yes, as my last paragraph states, it's true that absurdist/non-sequitur humour is quite common in Nichijou, but read whole paragraph.

@user I never thought it's thumb... maybe neither the animators. Or the thumb is actually hidden and it's index finger.

@sundowner ok on closer inspection, at the bottom of that page you linked, the character is drawn with four fingers and one thumb (5 total). I didn't see that before and assumed this was a case of characters being drawn with three fingers and one thumb.

@user Re: attempts to make Mai laugh. It is an honest attempt from Yukko's perspective, but from the watches', it is absurd (the connection between the principal's joke and the handseal is too remote) - that's what I felt.

Are you sure that you're not missing any cultural context that explains the joke? (don't take this question as a challenge or insult. I'm not you, so I wouldn't know. And I'm not sure that I'm not missing any cultural context that explains the joke). And if so, is this instance consistent with the rest of Yuuko's jokes? Are the majority of her jokes only explainable by logic that only she would understand?

I'm Japanese. I'm sure there's no (widely common) cultural element. If anything, it could be specific to the anime or narrower circles (which I could be unfamiliar with).


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Who did Rin love romantically?
In Obito's fantasies, it seems like Rin does have feelings for Obito, but we know that she did have a crush on Kakashi.
We know that she loved both Kakashi and Obito, but whom did she like in a romantic sense?

Rin's romantic interests are not explored in-depth in canon media, and as such, the answer to this is simply, "we do not know".
It's clear that she held feelings for both of her squadmates, but it's unclear if those feelings were more than that of camaraderie or romance.

Yes, her true love is only Obito, not Kakashi.
She loved Kakashi as much as Ino loved Sasuke, and she waited for 20 years to spend eternity. And remember, from Team Minato, Rin was the 1st who died and 2nd was Kakashi, but she appeared only for Obito when he died. And after the rejection, she never tried anything with Kakashi and stopped blushing around him. So yeah, ObiRin is canon. Rin's true love is Obito.
In short, in the Naruto who never understood whom she truly loved, and Obito is the Hinata who loved only a person.

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Which manga is Puri Prisoner's dialogue inspired from?
Puri Puri, in One-punch man, always has a star in his technique names to go along with over-the-top expression. I find this style eerily similar to something I can't recall. My best guess is Jojo's BA, but I haven't read that manga, so idk for sure. Could you confirm? If yes, which character in Jojo has that style? If not, what manga it is then? Especially the "star" part, lol.