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Was Saitama sweating with worry when he saw Garou in this scene?
In One Punch Man manga chapter #159,

 Saitama and others see Garou sort of one punching Sage Centipede and splitting him in half (Sage Centipede which is larger and more powerful than the Elder Centipede Saitama one punched and killed). 2 persons in the panel next to Saitama's are clearly sweating and screaming, and Saitama has an emotionless poker face, but his face is covered with drops, though the drops are facing upwards instead of facing downwards like the other 2 characters, so it isnt really clear for me if he's sweating, if those are supposed to be stains or what.

Was Saitama sweating with worry when he saw Garou in this scene? Perhaps a manga artist can clarify if drawing drops like that mean to be sweat, or stains, or something else?

No, he's not worried or sweating. It's water drops because he just ran across the ocean

 to one shot the Evil Ocean Water monster.

Check out chapter 157, page 18 to see similar drops on his clothes and face. As you already noticed, his face is expressionless and the drops are drawn differently from sweat, because it is not sweat.

Great observation. I thought they could be stains of blood or something


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Is it Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero set after or before the Dragon Ball Super Granola saga?
A new Dragon Ball Super movie has been released in Japan, and certain events makes it interesting to know when it happens.
Is it Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero set after or before the Dragon Ball Super Granola saga?

Before. There was a tweet showing the moments from Piccolo showing some key moments from his perspective, until the Galactic Patrol.
https://twitter.com/DBSChronicles/status/1519433239236313088/photo/1

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Which anime does the idea of the afterimage comes from?
In Dragon Ball, Goku has an "after image" technique, where he moves so fast that he leaves a false image of himself in the air, where actually there is nothing. I've seen this idea also in One Punch Man , where both Speed of Sound Sonic and Saitama do it, and now I've just seen it in Kimetsu no Yaiba, when Tanjiro is fighting a demon, the demon attacks where he's supposed to be, and he was no longer there because he moved so fast and left a fake image of him in his place.
Which anime does the idea of the afterimage comes from? Is it an idea from Dragon Ball or was it done before it?

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Is Endeavor the number one hero only in Japan?
In the My Hero Academia movie "world heroes mission", the police officer from a foreign country calls Endeavor "the number one hero in Japan". Does this mean all the rank list we knew for heroes was only for Japan? And also All Might was never the number one hero of the world?
Is Endeavor the number one hero only in Japan or this is just a non canon invention from the movie?

Related/possible duplicate: Why do the top 10 heroes in Boku no Hero Academia only come from Japan?

Your analysis is correct.
With the question Aki linked, Why do the top 10 heroes in Boku no Hero Academia only come from Japan?, it is shown canonically that the ranking board mentioned throughout the anime and movies refers to the local Japanese hero rank. So yes, Endeavor is currently the number one hero of Japan; with All Might being the former number one hero of Japan
To further support this in the manga:

 Cathleen Bate was revealed to be the number one hero of the USA in chapter 328


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What does Juan Diaz tell to Tsubasa in japanese in this scene?
In this scene from Captain Tsubasa in Spanish, Juan Diaz (argentine) says to Tsubasa, "how many cups do you have?"
Captain Tsubasa - Juan Diaz tells Tsubasa, How many cups do you have?
In Latinamerica, we have a lot of football discussions between the different countries, because many of us like football a lot. We argentines are famous (or infamous) for telling people from other countries we consider to have a football level inferious to us, "how many cups do you have?" to end a discussion like saying, I'm not even going to argue with someone whose country football level isnt close to ours.
Now, I highly doubt japaneses know argentines in this level, it would be epic for us if they would, but I'm guessing this was made up by the spanish dub, since the spanish dubs of animes are mainly done by mexicans, and mexicans are the ones who tease us the most  about us (argentines) repeating this phrase all the time.
So I was wondering if in japanese, Juan Diaz actually told Tsubasa this, or it was made up for the spanish dub.
What does Juan Diaz tell to Tsubasa in japanese in this scene?

If you provided the Japanese audio this question would be a lot easier to answer.

@ocean eventually I might find it, but I dont know the episode. I just watched the original series (in spanish), this episode is from a sequel or movie I guess

It's either from the 2018 or the 2023 anime.


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Why Piccolo doesnt remember his original planet, if he fused with Kamisama and has his memories?
In Dragon Ball Z, Piccolo fused with Kamisama and got his memories. After leaving the The Sanctuary of Kami-sama right after he fused, he called Popo his friend and before he fused Kamisama told him, he would get his knowledge.
Now in Dragon Ball Daima Piccolo is asked by Bulma if he missed his own planet now that he's there, but Piccolo tells her that it was his father King Piccolo who lived there and not him. But it was actually the fusion of King Piccolo and Kamisama who lived there, and since he's fused with Kamisama he should have memories of that planet
Why Piccolo doesnt remember his original planet, if he fused with Kamisama and has his memories?

I don't know the exact phrasing, but could it not be that he remembers the Nameless Namekian (on a side note, why not Nail, for that matter?) living there, but not himself, and therefore he has no longing for that place.


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Is Mario Bosh/Bossi Triela's real father?
Is Mario Bosh (or Bossi) Triela's real father?
In chapter 3, Triela captures, and later frees, a former mafia leader, Mario Bosh.
He claims to have come to the town to meet his daughter (Triela?), whom he hasn't seen in several years.
He later sends Triela a bear as a Christmas present. (He claims to have sent his daughter a Christmas present every year, and Triela has received a bear for Christmas every year, supposedly from her handler.)
It seems odd that Triela also received exactly what she asked for for Christmas from Mario even though she never had the chance to tell him what she wanted.
Side note: this would actually make it the first year Triela has received a gift from her handler, not the first gift from Mario.
Also, Triela's handler hides around a corner, and doesn't show himself, allowing Triela to release Mario.
Is this an actual thing, or am I overthinking it?

As the background story on the wiki states (I believe this part is handle further on in the manga so do consider this a spoiler)

Originally from Tunisia, Triela was kidnapped and smuggled to Amsterdam by the Mafia, where she was drugged, tortured, and sexually assaulted during the routine taping of a snuff film. Victor Hartmann and Rachelle Belleut, acting on a lead from guilt-racked Camorra mafioso Mario Bossi, stormed the warehouse where she was being held captive and subsequently rescued her, just as she was succumbing to her injuries and to cardiac arrest.

I assume "Bosh" = "Bossi"?  That's a translation difference, right?

@Builder_K most likely a translation difference

I just can't tell from watching & reading if they are the same person or not.

@Builder_K The name Mario Bossi is the name used in the official released manga, there are some fan translations out there that use the name Bosh instead.  But in the end they are without a doubt the same person.

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Do normal titans have humans in them as well?
There are several humans which can transfer into titans at will. What about the normal titans? Hange said that titans do not weight as much as they should. Their only vulnerable area is where the real human body would be for shape-shifting Titans. They also look like humans, are there humans inside normal titans as well?

Massive manga spoilers here, should clarify whether you want them or not

yeah. but you might want to censor it and warn people in your answer cause other people may not.

This was explained titans were humans at one point. The ones from the Ymir's village were turned into them against their will.  http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Titans
It was also hinted at by experiments with Eren that the more he uses shifting without resting the more he merges with the titan.
Ymir also wandered aimlessy as a titan without ability to shift or control her actions for a while, indicating most titans are in the same situation as her.

The most reasonable explanation is that the Beast Titan turns them into full titans.  If you read the manga, it says the Beast Titan can turn humans into titans without a serum.  They revealed that a SERUM turns humans into titans.  They cannot break out of this form, unless eating one of the nine titan shifters.  Only 9 can change form, no more than that.

Although the manga hasn't actually confirmed this, but here's a theory.
Honestly, don't read the manga spoiler if you don't want it. You will regret it.

 As we already know, Eren and Annie are humans who can turn into Titans. In the manga, Ymir, Reiner and Bertolt are revealed to be able to do the same. There is also this Beast Titan, who is very intelligent and can speak. It is also able to turn humans to titans through some unknown means and give them orders. The manga also reveals that there are titans inside the walls. Maybe that would explain the last scene after the ending in the anime (the Colossal Titan inside the wall Sina).

 So my theory is that the Beast Titan can convert humans into titans. Most are stuck in this form, and their human bodies eventually merge with the titan's and they become full titan, thus become unable to return to human forever. Some are able to break free, and they become Titan Shifters

whats needed to break free? a serum? willpower?

Maybe a serum is needed. When you think about it, we still don't know what did Eren's dad inject into Eren when he was younger. Although such details haven't been revealed

spoilers but it is explained here: http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Titan_Shifter

Regular titans have had their weak area cut into.  The visible result was that there was no human in that or any other part of the body.  The weak area does, however, correspond with the size of the person's spinal cord but that isn't their either.  The ability to transform back into human is a special power special titans have... they can obtain it by eating other transforming human/titans.

well than, how did the first one have that power? why didnt the bearded titan get that power when he ate eren?

@Esq That isnt explained yet but presumably bearded was destroyed before absorbing eren.

No, the regular titans, not the titan shifters, were humans who were injected in the back of their nape with some sort of liquid, most presumably titan spine fluid, by the nation of Marley. It's kind of like a punishment, for example Ymir was taken in by a religious group and got turned into a mindless titan as a punishment due to the religion going against certain things that are classed illegal. However, the beast titan can turn people into mindless titans so he also plays a role in this.
Titans don't weight that much because technically they're a fabrication of the normal human anatomy, meaning they only use what they have, the human body, to make a titan out of it, so as the human body doesn't weight as much as a titan would look to weight, they don't look their weight.
My guess would be that when you would be turned into a titan, your body will change and become something new, a titan, and this is reversible due to the fact that if a titan eats a human who possesses one of the (now 8) titan abilities, it will turn back into a human but it will possess that titan ability. The only reason titans eat humans is because all they know is that eating humans is the only way to pretty much end what they're going through.

No, because titans can't absorb people when they eat them because they don't have a digestive system. They just vomit the people back up.

Welcome to [anime.se]. Could you provide some references to back up your answer?

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What is the connection between The Delgados and Gunslinger Girl?
The excellent "Light Before we Land" by the Delgados is used as the theme-tune for the first season of Gunslinger Girl (ガンスリンガー・ガール / Gansuringā Gāru)
Why (and how) did an obscure track by a Scottish 'Indie' band end up as the theme song for a Japanese anime series based in Italy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTxoH_5CnhM

And bonus points if your answer contains an explanation of why the second season sucked so badly

I've twitted at the members of the Delgados. Hopefully one of them can shed some light.

Just a note in case the bounty doesn't seem attracting any attention: I have searched about this before the bounty and also when there's a bounty, but I failed to find any relevant information about their connection, even in Japanese (seems I couldn't find any interviews about it). Hope your tweet helps...

@AkiTanaka - Alas it did not.

I can give some insights into the why. The how probably was through the usual process of licensing foreign songs.
The anime was made by Madhouse who contributed two episodes to the 2003 anime Animatrix. This project was important at the time, since it was a direct result of the anime-craze in the west in the early 2000s. Anime studios in Japan started to pay attention to foreign markets and with people behind a major Hollywood success like The Matrix reaching out to Japan to create something like the Animatrix, chances with the western market seemed good.
And thus a lot of studios did some projects betting on that western market. For Madhouse, these projects included Texhnolyze, Monster and Gunslinger Girl, each of them featuring a song by a foreign artist and deviating from usual expectations of anime fans, who just discovered their fetish for maid characters in their moeblob harem shows, that casual western fans didn't even knew existed.
The songs:

Texhnolyze (2003): Guardian Angel from Juno Reactor
Monster (2004): for the love of life by David Sylvian

Gunslinger Girl was part of the studios efforts to appeal to the western market, which is why obscure foreign artists ended up in anime of that time. At least that's my attempt at explaining how this came to be. I don't have any inside knowledge and am speculating from an observer's point of view.
The second season came out five years later and was handled by a different studio. To be specific in 2008. It was at a time everyone betting on the western market realized that this was a huge mistake. Studio Gonzo who made the biggest bet was in the most miserable state and talks of bankruptcy went through the news.
It was under this circumstance, that the studio handling the second season tried to deemphasize the appeal to the western market and therefore changed the character design towards something I described above as moeblob. This is purely speculation on my part, but it seems like a valid assumption that this was the motivation behind the change.
It also didn't help very much, that the manga itself wasn't exactly going strong. Most of the story weaknesses were copied directly from the source. It just so happened that the first season made subtle changes in the presentation to appeal to western audiences, which the second season avoided.


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Can the Soul society exist without the soul king?
It was once stated in Bleach manga by Urahara that,

 Urahara details that without the Soul King's existence, Soul Society would be rent asunder. The Soul King is the "linchpin" and if that linchpin is lost, then the world would simply crumble away and that is the way of the world. Wiki

But then afterwards,

 Yhwach completely absorbs the Soul King.Wiki

How does then the Soul society continues to survive into the future?

If I'm not mistaken, Yhwach got the Soul King's power, so the Soul Society doesn't collapse.

True. But then he dies.

Oh, I think you asked after Yhwach absorb Soul King's power, not after the death of Yhwach. If so, I don't think it's explained in manga at all if Soul King really "dead" or not.

@JTR If Soul King was absorbed by Yhwach and Yhwach died without leaving even a trace of his reiatsu, which means he is completely obliterated, then Soul King too is completely gone. Sadly, we might never know how to answer this question since the manga has ended without addressing this issue.

@AyaseEri yeah, I'm not matching anime, but I hope there's some explanation in anime. There's so many questions about the end of bleach I think

Yeah, no explanation in manga for this one, in fact the manga end so sudden for my taste.

this question is one of the mysteries left by kubo , he has not answered the question anywhere directly , some speculate aizen could've taken his place , while other's speculate that soul society may not need a king considering yhwach's last words ,he said that due to his death the realms of the living and the dead will probably never become one .

@絢瀬絵里 Well, given Urahara's message, I would assume it really did fall apart. Ichigo messed everything up. Right from the beginning, without Ichigo, Yhwach wouldn't have gotten to the palace.

The Soul King by himself is not the key to Soul Society's survival.
It is true that someone of transcendent power needs to act as the linchpin holding the three dimensions (Earth, Soul Society and Hueco Mundo) together. However, that person needs not to be the Soul King himself.
The requirements to become a Soul King are to possess reiatsu from the two spiritually-attuned species (Shinigami and Hollow) combined with a fragment of the Soul King. Alternatively, possessing an organ of the Soul King may also make one a viable candidate for the title of Soul King, even if that person isn't both shinigami and Hollow.
It should be noted that each and every Fullbringer possesses a fragment of the Soul King ; and that their Fullbringer powers derive from that fragment. Even though it is explained within the manga that Fullbringers gain their powers when their pregnant mother is attacked by a Hollow and survives (as explained in Chapter 433, page 10), that explanation apparently was incorrect. The Hollows attacked the mother BECAUSE their offspring bore a Soul King fragment.
Several characters have been noted (including within the canon-ish Can't Fear Your Own World light novel) to be Soul King candidates :

Yhwach : Since he absorbed the Soul King's entire power, he became a suitable candidate for the very title of Soul King himself.
Ichigo : Notably possesses both Hollow and shinigami reiatsu. He also mastered Fullbring, thus proving he possesses a Soul King fragment.
Kūgo Ginjō : Former shinigami and proficient Fullbring user. Upon stealing Ichigo's Fullbring, he also copied his reiatsu structure, thus gaining Hollow properties, as explained by the Bleach wiki : "Upon absorption of one's Fullbring, he also incorporates their own Reiatsu into the attack, making it virtually identical to the original user." (Chapter 470, page 8)
Jūshirō Ukitake : Was used as a host body by Mimihagi, the Soul King's chopped-off, conscious right hand. By sacrificing himself and unleashing Mimihagi, he could have taken, theoretically, the Soul King's place (although his attempt thwarted by Yhwach).
Hikone Ubuginu : A character exclusively developed within the light novel Can't Fear Your Own World. In short, an artificial individual built from shinigami, Hollow and Soul King fragments to achieve transcendent power and take the place of the Soul King.

The Can't Fear Your Own World light novel implies that a high amount of spiritual pressure is needed to be a Soul King candidate, although since we are lacking an official translation, I cannot vouch for this information's truthfulness. Likewise, this light novel shows that a defeated Yhwach has been sealed and now replaces the Soul King. This information is most likely canonical. If Yhwach had won, it is very strongly implied within the manga (and confirmed in the CFYOW light novel) that Ichigo was to be forced to take the Soul King's place.
TL;DR : The three dimensions' structural integrity can be preserved if a Soul King candidate is sacrificed to become the linchpin in stead of the original Soul King.


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What's the "right" order to play the Grisaia Spin-offs?
I just played through the main branch of the "Laybrinth of Grisaia" game, and afterwards went looking for the following game ("Eden of Grisaia" or something like that) in the steam store.
It seems it isn't released yet but I found three spin-offs:

The Leisure of Grisaia
The Melody of Grisaia
The Afterglow of Grisaia

My question is, is there any order that I should take in playing these? I guess "Leisure" should be first, since the other two are spin-offs to the labyrinth and this to the original, but especially for "Melody" and "Afterglow" I'm not sure which to read first...
I'm sorry if this is off-topic for this side, but arqade didn't seem like the right place, either...
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I found this graph showing the relation between the different games but it didn't help me in deciding which of "Melody" and "Afterglow" to play first.

Leisure of Grisaia = Grisaia no yuukan
Melody of Grisaia = Grisaia no senritsu
Afterglow of Grisaia = Grisaia no Zankou
Le fruit de la grisaia = Grisaia no kajitsu
Le laberynth de la grisaia = Grisaia no Meikyuu
Le eden de la grisaia = Grisaia no Rakuen
Right order

Parent game: Grisaia no Kajitsu.
Side story: Grisaia no yuukan

Sequel: Grisaia no Meikyuu.
Side stories: Grisaia no senritsu and Grisaia no Zankou. Since you completed the main game the side stories can be played in any order.

Sequel: Grisaia no Rakuen

To summarize, by English names:

The Fruit of Grisaia (main)
The Leisure of Grisaia (side)
The Labyrinth of Grisaia (main)
The Afterglow of Grisaia (side)
The Melody of Grisaia (side)
The Eden of Grisaia (main)

(4 and 5 can be played in any order)

Source: knowledge I have. I also went to vndb and checked each VN to make sure I'm not mistaken.

ok, that's how far I got, too, by looking to vndb...
but goes zankou before senritsu or the other way round?

It doesn't matter. They literally take 1 hour to finish reading and aren't plot-driven. It's just a series of short stories to make you enjoy the characters you grew attached to. They also deal with some events previous to even the parent game.

Senritsu as some plot but it isn't very relevant.


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Can water created using water jutsu be drunk?
The earth and wood style can create permanent trees and walls, can water jutsu create pond or smaller body of water to drink? Is there any instance of this in the series or manga? And where does the water came from.

I would say yes.
As chakra is a special matter that can transcend body pains (in Naruto story of Kaguya and his two sons, the elder brother relieved the pain old man who tried to thug people in name of fake medicine), so possibly the water made would be pure enough to drink, although it's never been mentioned in the anime.
Another proof is that during the Fourth Shinobi War, the arc in which genin exams were conducted in the village of the hidden sand. One group had the ninjutsu to create healing water in order to cure some mosquitoes bite.
So in that way, I can deduce that the water would be drinkable.

if you take a look at the water release in wiki, you can see that:

Water Release is one of the basic elemental nature transformation techniques that allow the user to manipulate pre-existing water, or create their own, by turning their chakra into water.

But not everyone can do it:

It takes much more ability to create the water outside the body than to manipulate what is already available or expel it from their mouths.

So based on this as long as they have chackra they can have water, but probably they will spend more chackra creating water than if they were using the water that already exists.
Since it is possible to create water, probably it is possible to drink it!

Take note that the last jutsu about Water Creation Technique is from fanon wikia, which is certainly not canon, but fan's creation.

Oh right, didn't notice that, thanks for the warning, now i'm not so sure! :P

I removed it since it was not oficial

Yes in kakashi new novel (kakshi retsuden) kakashi give some water to a kid

It would be great if this answer can be expanded by [edit]ing to mention the chapter number/title and a little longer description on the related scene to show that the water is created using water jutsu.

Assuming they can use wood-style and earth-style in such a sense, I would like to believe water can be used in such a sense. I don't recall personally, because I never remember 'seeing' any characters actually drink anything besides sake or tea.
Zabuza created mist from nothing (that lake/river was nearby, but I would like to assume he was created from his chakra).
I think the water would do the same as fire jutsu. It comes from the chakra, and the jutsu turns it into that pure element.

Thanks, this made me curious, since in the new Boruto, there's an arc about a village having problem with water, and in the latest episodes, Boruto used tools for water jutsu and made a big wave of water, in short, I wonder if they can use chakra to solve many resource problems.

Most likely yes, because there are many scenes where a certain someone used jutsu to produce water out of nothing and the water didn't vanish.
However, what I think is still not clear yet in Naruto world is, is water-producing jutsu really creates water with only chakra? Because, there are scenes (I forgot the episodes. If someone, knows please leave a comment) where people were like, "Wow, he can produce this much water in the middle of the desert? Without lake or anything around?" I wonder if this implies that water-producing jutsus actually somehow uses real water, they just transport the water to them, where high-rank shinobis are able to transport the water even if their location is far away from the water source.
This is just my thought, though. My answer to your question is my first sentence.


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Is it possible to wield a weapon similar to Lubbock's?
In "Akame Ga Kill!",Lubbock is wielding a very complex weapon (a Teigu actually) named Cross Tail,Infinite Possibilities I think...He used it in countless ways,as the name implies,so I was wondering if it would be at least theoretically possible to use such a weapon in an actual fight,with the enemy knowing about your presence and intentions.
I know that such a weapon could only be used for suffocation (stealthily,from the back) or by setting traps,and I'm not very sure about the second one anyway.
Now,I'd like to hear some opinions!

Erm... Are you asking if one could use a thread-based weapon in real life, or are you asking if Lubbock is capable of wielding his Teigu in an actual (non-stealthy) fight? If it's the latter, Lubbock did use his Teigu in actual combat several times, most notably when he confronted and killed 2 Rakshasa Demons single-handedly.

I'm asking if one could efficiently use a thread-based weapon in real life,sorry if I wasn't clear enough...

Purely theoretical? Yes, you would be able to apply it in real combat. The usage of the weapon would probably be similar to that of a whip or Kusarigama. Yet allot harder, due to the lack of weights. This would mean that the user requires the whiplash effect for this weapon to be even have the slightest effect. And this is not even taking armored opponents into account. And in case you were wondering, it would be possible to create such a wire. WorldBuilding.stackexchange seems to deem it possible.
Realistically speaking, it would be highly unlikely that a weapon such as this would be used in real life combat, as it would require a tremendous amount of skill to effectively use it as a weapon. And most likely wouldn't be feasible against armored opponents.
Finally, with the above said it is save to conclude that the way Lubbock wields the wires would not be realistically possible. With the exception of a few moves.


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Why does season 2 of Gurren Lagann start so differently compared to season 1?
Episode 1 of  the second part of season 1 of Gurren Lagann features more political themes than those seen in season one. However from episode two onwards it returns to being more about action.
Is this to do with how they were aired? Was this change enforced, so as to move away from the Mecha stereotype, by a 'higher up' in Gainax...and simply ignored from episode 18 onwards? In western TV, ratings that are seen by executives can influence the show...has something similar happened here?
Why is this?

Are you just asking "why did they write the story that way"? Because none of us know what was going through the heads of the people at Gainax when they were writing Gurren Lagann. (Aside: Gurren Lagann is only one two-cour season. I presume you're referring to episode 17 [right after the time-skip] as the beginning of "season 2".)

@senshin Yes it must have been episode 17. I'm not sure what you mean by two cour...two part? It's been a long time since I watched this anime. I was wondering if this was a normal part of anime production; to change completely after a 'break' or if it was enforced to meet requirements? Do we know if it was planned?

Ah, sorry, "cour" is a piece of jargon which refers to one of the four 11-13 episode (3-month) blocks of anime that occur through the year (Jan-Mar, Apr-Jun, Jul-Sep, Oct-Dec). The point I was making is that, though Gurren Lagann was "two seasons" in the sense of being six months / two cours in length, it was aired as one continuous season (airing weekly from with no break from Apr 1 till Sep 30, 2007). This being the case, I think it goes without saying that the events immediately after the time skip were planned to be the way they were.

@senshin that certainly clear that part up!

Regarding your edit - short anime like Gurren Lagann (i.e. not multi-year behemoths like Naruto/etc) are usually planned out and mostly produced well before the anime ever starts airing. It isn't really feasible for them to be significantly modified in response to viewer reaction. So I'm going to say no, the change in tone probably has nothing to do with ratings or anything like that (there just wouldn't be enough turnaround time for that).

Could you compile your comments into an answer? That would be useful, thanks.

Your question appears to be premised on a bit of a misunderstanding of how anime in general (and Gurren Lagann in particular) is produced.
The two so-called "seasons" of Gurren Lagann (ep 1-15 vs. Lord Genome, and then ep 17-27 vs. the Anti-Spiral) were not actually discrete seasons. They were aired together as one continuous block of 27 episodes (with episode 16 being a recap of the first arc), from April to September of 2007.1 As such, any changes in theme that you may have perceived immediately following the time-skip cannot have anything to do with there being a break in the show - because there was no break! (Besides the one week for the recap episode, anyway.)
Furthermore, it isn't really possible that any changes in theme could have resulted from public reaction to the first arc of the show (ratings/etc). According to folk wisdom,2 a typical 1-2 cour anime spends over a year in production before it airs, meaning that the vast majority of work (storyboarding, character design, art, etc.) is done by the time the show starts airing. Given the timeframes in question, it isn't feasible for a studio to make significant changes to an anime during a season.
Between seasons, of course, anything is possible - the classic example of this is Code Geass, which saw some major changes in its second season, in part due to a change in its airing time slot. But during a single few-cour season, there are serious limits on how much the studio can change on the fly.3
In sum, whatever changes you may have noticed after the time-skip were almost certainly present because that's how the producers planned for it to be; not because of external factors like viewer opinion or high-level execs or whatnot.

1 Note that a single "cour" of anime will almost never be 15 episodes in length, which is another tip-off that the two "seasons" weren't separate.
2 If you have something better than folk wisdom, please answer this question!
3 Note that none of what I have said applies to super-long-running anime like the big shounens (e.g. Naruto, One Piece, etc.). I don't know anything about what production cycles look like for them, but it's pretty obvious that they have to be running all the phases of production in parallel, meaning that they should be able to react to viewer opinion (though I have no idea whether or not they do, in practice).


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What was the first Hentai ever made?
I just want to ask what is the first Hentai manga and what is the first Hentai anime?

The first hentai manga depends on what exactly qualifies as a manga. Pornographic drawings have been made in Japan since the Heian period if not earlier, and they could qualify as manga under some standards. Under other definitions, the origin of manga was likely in the 18th century, but regardless of what definition you use, it seems likely that the first pornographic manga was quite early in the history of manga and probably not known today. For anime, the question is somewhat more tractable.

The history of Japanese hentai manga is very, very old.
For example, The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife (NSFW) was drawn in 1814.
The work is also known as the earliest tentacle erotica.
In 1722, the government created a law to ban hentai manga.
This means hentai manga had already been known in public.
For Japanese hentai anime, Wikipedia entry says Suzumi-fune (1932) is oldest hentai anime.
But well-known oldest hentai anime is the Cream Lemon series.
This series was ranked in the best-seller video list (which contains non-adult videos.)

This is just additional information with regards to the previous answer.
The first hentai OVA is credited to Lolita Anime, which was first released in February 21, 1984, not to Cream Lemon, which was first released in August 11, 1984, although both series are one of the earliest to be released. Due to its sensitive nature, you would have a hard time finding a copy of Lolita Anime legally, because as described in Wikipedia,

Containing eight episodes, the series focused on underage sex and rape, and included one episode containing BDSM bondage.

Urotsukidōji, on the other hand, was the first hentai film brought to American viewers.

Often cited for creating the hentai and tentacle rape genres, it contains extreme depictions of violence and monster sex.


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In Epiode 378 of One Piece, what is the first song that Brook played?
I know this song was played in other times of the series, but this time it caught my attention.
edit: The time is around 14:30
edit: It's used as background music in most of the comedic parties that the characters have in One Piece.

nope, I mean the one before it.

The song is called Minato Mura.
After some additional searching I found that the piano solo is part of the song called Village Harbour (or Minato Mura in Japanese), which is supposed to be part of the second song of the second OST collection as shown on Youtube

More information:

Youtube
Piano sheet on Everyonepiano


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When would Sakamichi no Apollon have taken place?
I have a clue on one event as I saw two of the characters saying that John Coltrane passed away and that was 1967.
Edit: I know it started in 1966, but is there a rough estimate of when the episodes/events took place?

The story goes from 1966 to 1977. Here's a breakdown for every episode with some exemplary screenshots for every period. This doesn't detail every single event since many episode span a larger time, but it should be easy to extrapolate from this:

1966, start of the first year in high-school. I found no mention of 1966 in the anime, but it's in the manga. At the latest we can infer this later on, when we hear about Coltrane's death in ep7.
Still summer 1966

End of summer 1966

Christmas 1966

January 1967 (first day of school after winter vacation)

April 1967, start of the second school year

Summer 1967

Since they have the festival afterwards and festivals tend to be held in autumn afaik, the episode might span a few months.
Winter 1967 (plans for Christmas)

Since Jun came back this summer and wasn't disowned yet when he last appeared, the flashbacks must be referring to the very beginning of the Anpo protests, which according to Wikipedia started only in 1968.
Christmas 1967

Starts (probably) after winter vacation, so it's January 1968. Continues until summer 1968 (by now they are in their third and final year).

~Autumn 1968, last school festival

~March 1969. Graduation from high school.

"Eight years later", so probably 1977

brilliant answer! +1


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In One Piece, why doesn't Robin tell Luffy what had happened during her training?
Why didn't Robin tell Luffy what had happened during her training since she met Dragon, Luffy's dad.
Also meeting,

  Sabo

In the Dressrosa arc.
It seems odd that no one else in the crew shared their stories with each other.

Since the strawhat Pirates reunited, they have been on a rollercoaster ride of events. In the One Piece universe, not much more than a few days or maybe a week has passed and they just did not have time to "catch up". They always have had bigger things to worry about. The thing is, suppose they would have had the time, it actually makes a lot of sense for Robin to keep quiet about her whereabouts and it quite fits her character as well. The following list are reasons why Robin should clearly not have told Luffy about Sabo.

Robin did not know about the relationship Sabo, Ace and Luffy shared. She only knew Ace and Luffy were brothers.
Even if Sabo did tell Robin, she did not know Luffy considered Sabo to be death.
Even if Robin did know about all of this (which seems very unlikely), Sabo was to be considered death for the rest of the world too. So if anything, he probably wanted to keep it that way for the time being.
Sabo might even have asked Robin to keep it a secret, to not spoil the surprise. He probably wanted to tell Luffy himself, similar to how Shanks did not want to meet Luffy during the Marineford War.
Robin has been hiding her activities since she was just a child, so it was just natural for her, not to talk about it anyway.
Even if Robin wanted to share her whereabouts, she was probably told not to do so by Dragon himself, because being associated with the Revolutionary Army has major consequences. The World Government might want to interrogate her about the Revolutionary Army as lots is still unknown about them as of chapter 787. They want to keep a low profile as long as possible.

Edit as per Masked Man's comment:

Robin doesn't really "socialize" much, she is serious most of the time and doesn't get into "personal discussions" too much, so it would be totally out of character for her to talk for hours about what she did during the timeskip.

Good answer! One other point is Robin doesn't really "socialize" much, she is serious most of the time and doesn't get into "personal discussions" too much, so it would be totally out of character for her to talk for hours about what she did during the timeskip.

It's probably because Oda wanted the appearance of Sabo to be more of a "surprise" to the reader (not that it was particularly surprising in the first place).
If Robin had mentioned anything before that, then the payoff would have been lessened.

sounds reasonable.


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Did Shinji activate EVA Unit 01's Berserk Mode?
During the fight with Zeruel when EVA Unit 01 loses all power, Shinji enters somewhat of a demonic state, stating the Angel give Ayanami back or face the consequences. After he says this, EVA Unit 01 reactivates and enters its berserk mode, thus starting its "awakening" process.
Now, this got me thinking, did Shinji himself activate EVA Unit 01's berserk mode in the heat of battle or was the timing just right for both EVA Unit 01 and Shinji?

In the original anime series, it was established that the berserk mode can't be triggered voluntarily. Moreover it was at least strongly hinted that the "berserk mode" is in fact

 the manifestation of motherly love and protection, as it always activated when Shinji's life was in immediate danger.

In the Rebuild continuity, there is the so-called "beast mode" that can be activated by the pilot, but it is only ever shown working for Unit-02, not for Unit-01. Therefore it is at least very improbable, if not outright false, that Shinji could have willingly activated this mode.

I think berserker mode is activated by

 the soul of Yui Ikari. She is inside the Eva and activates her full power when she feels Shinji is in risk.

from my understanding Rebuild has yet to establish the whole loved one's souls in the Eva's thing and the OP is referring to events from the Rebuild series


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Does Koyomi ever get more powerful in the Anime or Light Novels?
Looking back on Bakemonogatari and Nisemonogatari, it seems that

 Koyomi is really weak compared to all of the oddities he faces. Suruga's monkey form easily defeats him (even though his power was temporarily boosted). The snakes in Nadeko snake would have killed him had Kanbaru not intervened, he needed to be saved from Black Hanekawa by Shinobu. In the latest episode he would probably have died if Yozuru had decided to prolong the fight. This is in spite of him getting the largest power-up yet from Shinobu.

Considering that he once told his sisters that

The first requirement of being a hero is to be strong, and the they're fakes given their lack of strength, it seems odd that Koyomi is so underpowered compared to the oddities he faces.

Does he ever get stronger in later episodes or in the Light Novels?

Even if he does, his opponents are more than likely to be at least strong enough to be of equal power. It's that kind of story. Not the other kind where the protagonist is all-powerful and can single-handedly solve all the problems.

Yes, I get that. Right now, though, he's seriously underpowered compared to all the oddities. It just seems odd that he'd give the whole "you're weak fakes" speech to others when he isn't strong compared to his enemies either.

@user1306322 I guess he's very unlikely to get stronger. It's not like other typical Shounen anime where the main protagonist getting stronger every new arc, like Luffy or Naruto. Even after Monogatari Series: Second Season, he still pretty weak, not much progress from first season.

In prequel, Kizumonogatari, when Araragi meets Kiss-shot for the first time:

 Araragi becomes a vampire whose power comes from Kiss-shot. Then when he fights one of the vampire hunters that are after her, he notes that Araragi is second strongest oddity in the world right after Kiss-shot, even if he has no clue how to use his power to his full potential. This strength comes primarily from his and Kiss-shot's regenerative abilities making them practically immortal so they can continue to fight no matter the damage opponent does to them. This power went away as he reduced Kiss-shot into Shinobu, but he still retains bits of it. He could easily get that power back by having Shinobu regain her powers by drinking his blood, but then he would become full vampire who need to kill and eat people for sustenance. Something Araragi would never do.

i thought he might have been powerful when he was a vampie and by curing the vampirisum would reverse that

You are wondering how can he can

 tell his sisters that you have to be strong to be a hero despite being rather weak himself.

But does he ever

 claim to be a hero?

I can't recall that he did. Thus, there is no discrepancy in his words and the story he sees in himself is not invalid.
His sisters, however

 did, quite proudly, claim to be heroes. He only (rightfully in his opinion) pointed out that they can't live up to that standard.

On a meta level: Not every story needs a strong hero - many great pieces (commonly for adults) rather tell about the weaknesses of a person rather than their strengths. I would consider Monogatari well fitting in this light.

I did not read all of Monogatari yet, so if this answer is wrong, please let me know.

I think Araragi was quite strong in Kizumonogatari, I mean he beat all of them 3 exorcist guys to get Shinobu's arms and legs back, but then he kinda downgraded that told because he wanted to be human again. I really think that if Araragi had his full powers like in Kizu, Kanbaru wouldn't stand a chance like people say Kanbaru would beat him even in his full vampire form, but i don't think that's true.


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What kind of Sage mode does Kabuto have?
Is it a Dragon sage or Snake? I thought it was Snake until I read this:

It's Snake.

Sage Mode can be learned in two places, Mount Myōboku of the toads and Ryūchi Cave of the snakes. Learning Sage Mode at Mount Myōboku or Ryūchi Cave grants the user with a toad and snake style of Sage

Source: Sage Mode - Narutopedia

After Orochimaru's sealing, Kabuto travelled across the world and ultimately discovered the location of the Ryūchi Cave. There, he was taught senjutsu by the White Snake Sage and gained access to Sage Mode. Physically, Kabuto undergoes little alteration in this form, with the only visible changes being the markings around his eyes extending onto his back and the growth of four horns on the back of his head, as well as darkened sclerae.
[...] Kabuto also gains access to further snake anatomy, such as their brille, which allows him to severely impair his opponents through the use of intense light whilst remaining completely unaffected himself. [...]
Due to his research and self-modifications based on Jūgo's clan's abilities, Kabuto's body can passively and continuously absorb natural energy without aid even when moving, allowing him to potentially maintain his Sage Mode indefinitely. According to Kabuto, this meant that he was no longer a snake, but had instead transcended into a dragon

Source: Kabuto Yakushi - Narutopedia (emphasis added)

ohh.. for a moment i thought he really became Dragon sage. Thanks! :)

A little bit of correction: Sage Mode can be learned at least in two places. There may be other places too (as there are other types of summons) we just don't know about them. (Of course I'm not saying that it makes Kabuto a dragon.)

How are the summoned beasts related to sage mode? I mean does every summoned beast come from a place where their respective sage mode can be learned??


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What does the fist bump mean in Naruto?
At first I thought Killer Bee only used it as a rap gesture.  Later on it was shown as a way to compare and equalize forces between two people. Even later, Naruto was shown doing it with Kurama, to fuse their chakra together.
Does the fist bump have any special meaning? I doubt it originated in Japanese culture or mythology, so where did it come from?

Fist bumps make you cool.

I think there isn't a single meaning, and sometimes it might be a simple brofist, showing respect to one another. But there's also to consider that Bee, in a way, uses fist bumps to read the other person's mind/heart/soul, to feel the other person; he does it with the Raikage.
But for example

 When Naruto exchanges fist bump with Kurama (The Nine-tailed fox beast):
 There happens that the two chakra meld/connect, as a sort of energy transfer. Perhaps it's also more than that, but that's basically to show that we don't simply have brofists in Naruto.

I think I found the chapter but it's not flat-out stated. When Bee first exchanges fist bumps with Naruto, he says he won't train him to control his beast: first because he "made a fool out of his rap", but also because when they exchange the fist bumps,

 Bee feels the Dark Naruto inside Naruto himself, through them. So unless Naruto solves this problem, he won't be able to proceed to the next stage, i.e. the training with Bee.

After the first meeting with Bee (when Naruto uses the Erotic Jutsu), Motoi does ask him whether they exchanged fist bumps. I think this is a hint to that, because when Naruto confirms,

 Motoi takes him and Yamato to the waterfalls. They ask whether that's the place but Motoi says that that's just the first step: Naruto needs to see the truth first, which is where the Dark Naruto is revealed.
 Naruto will help save Motoi from the Squid attack that happens then and Bee trusts Naruto can defeat the Dark one.

Hope that helps.

Do try please, because I don't remember such explanation.

@MadaraUchiha Done, let me know if it answers your question.

It's mainly a character trait of Killer Bee, he uses it kind of as a symbol of frienship, greeting or mutual respect; however he also uses this gesture to sense other people's chakra and channel his chakra to the other person.

 which can be seen when he trains naruto to control the tailed beast

Only when Kurama did it with Naruto, I doubt he meant it as a symbol of friendship.

I am from the Caribbean and out here fist bumps are a sign of greeting or respect. Not sure where it originated tho.. probably America (most likely since Bee likes to Rap).

Bumping fists to naruto is the form of highest respect, in the the anime bumping fists is a way to read someones heart and soul without exchanging fists in a fight, when kurama and naruto bump fists it symbolizes acknowledgement between the two who at one point despised each other it's a brothers in arms bond between them now, bumping fists even in culture and reality symbolize respect and acknowledgement.

I rewatched the first real fight at the falls between Naruto and Sasuke with my daughter for the first time and it was Sasuke who asked Naruto if he knew that the higher shinobi could tell each other what they were feeling/thinking without saying a word just by bumping fists. Original Naruto Season 3 Episode 132.

Are you saying that it was a way of commuicating?


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Why do anime always have an eye glow arbitrarily drawn in
It is a circle on the eyes. Often lazily drawn in that is fixed without reference to lighting. Totally detracts from any quality of the drawing. For some characters, it used for personality showing but generally it is just of no value. What I mean is something like this.

Why do  nearly all human-like characters have it in both eyes?

Here is another terrible eye glow. The first example just this looks eye  cancer.
People are giving answer examples for when the animator gave a damn about drawing eye glow for a point whereas the question is more about the enormous of examples where the animators added an eye glow for no point- to really answer the question what is guiding junior animators e.g. is it that senior animators say you have to add eye glow. Maybe there are better guides to animation but this particular one doesn't eye glows at all.
http://kotaku.com/a-serious-look-at-big-anime-eyes-1737751337

Are there any example images you could add to your question?

Would you mind adding a picture showing what eye trope you are talking about?

http://kotaku.com/a-serious-look-at-big-anime-eyes-1737751337 Are you probably talking about the white spots on the Iris for the eyes. Use the images in the link for reference?

Because it is moe!

did you mean something like this http://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/9434/what-are-the-highlights-in-eyes-called

Yes Arcane that is an example and the character labelled cannard is example of starting to be really bad- put another dull circle  at 9 o'clock position. They have in western animation but the circle isn't too much.

because your edit, @AyaseEri for a moment I thought this was my question and I wonder where is the vote and why the answer is gone

I will point out the same thing I did when answering http://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/9434/ - photographs of actual eyes invariably have catchlights whenever there are nondiffuse light sources in front of them. By default, animation tends to imitate this for realism's sake. The question you should be asking is: why aren't catchlights always present? - and that's more interesting to think about, as Makoto's answer addresses.

Depending on the series, the fact that these eye highlights appear can be exploited to add the effect of unhappiness, shock, horror, or any other emotion outside of "normal" for a stock character.  The general trope for this is called Dull Eyes of Unhappiness, and has prevalence not just in anime, but in other media as well.
For a particularly jarring example, let's take Kotonoha from School Days.

In this shot, Kotonoha is at a bare minimum in a "normal" state; she's happy and in general, relatively in her right mind.
I won't go into the details of that series, but let's just say...she goes through some things1.  And we can tell due to the lack of eye lights.2

Almost immediately, even those of us who aren't familiar with this story, we can see that this character is acting or feeling outside of the norm, which is a strong plot-driving point.
In other cases, it can be used for comedic effect.  In the series Morita-san is Taciturn, the main character always has eyes like this.

However, very much unlike any stock example of this trope, Morita is a very happy-go-lucky person, even with her eyes in this shade (and everyone else's without).  In this scenario, we could even call this "normal", and if her eyes were to go suddenly include eye lights, we'd have a similar reaction.
This doesn't even include scenarios in which the eye lights are exaggerated for a character that is crying, either.

Here, the overabundance of eye lights gives the illusion of tears forming, which can be either the emotion of sadness...

...and with this example from Trigun, the overabundance of eye lights gives the illusion of frustration or anger.

All of this to say that this effect very much has a purpose and very much has a place.  In series that mandate it, the lack of it can (and often should) shift a person's perception about a scene or the state of a character, and is used for theatrical effect as well as a plot device.

1: I'll accept my Understatement of the Century award, thank you very much.
2: Oh, and the tears are a dead giveaway, too.

of course, Makoto would understate Kotonoha's feelings... :p

That poor Pikachu.. smh.. that makes me sad :(

Because when you look at a person, generally you will see the light from the environment reflected back from both eyes.  Even in low light situations, photographs of people reflect the ambient light sources.
It's there because the absence of the reflection looks more unnatural and flat than the "lazily" as you call it drawn in reflections.  I would suggest that it would be prohibitively expensive for every frame of every face to be checked with every scene to accurately depict every strong light source.

Yes- but it could be there for personality purposes or at least be a standard glow like number 3 example or not include it all together.

Yes, you pointed that out in your first post.  The animators use the eye glow for personality and/or emotions.  But I thought you were referring to when they were NOT specifically trying to call out an emotion or personality.  So in that case, I'm saying they would look "off" without an eye glow, rather than the eye glow being lazy or distracting.

Further, perhaps you are seeing something wrong with the three pictures that you posted that I am not.  They look fine to me.


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How lucrative is being a psychiatrist or mental health professional in Japan in Psycho-Pass?
In our society, psychiatrists are among the lowest paid physicians/medical doctors/medical researchers/medical professionals. (see Note 1)

The Best- And Worst-Paying Jobs For Doctors

I Don't Know - Med School Parody of "Let It Go"

However, in Japanese society in Psycho-Pass, mental health is anything but swept under the rug, so in Japanese society in Psycho-Pass:

How lucrative is being a psychiatrist relative to other medical professions? (Well you could answer in absolute amounts, but...)

How lucrative is being a psychiatrist relative to other professions? How about a mental health professional relative to other professions?

Feel free to spoil the figures if any and even the context. I'm expecting some kind of twist to reveal that MHPs are actually paid much higher or much lower than public perception. Or you could just give the public perception of the figures then put the true figures in spoilers or something.

Elaboration:

I'm not sure I saw a figure in season 1 (haven't seen past that), but

based on the existence of Sybil system and all that, I'm guessing it takes a lot of mental health expertise to maintain.

Even though Sybil is...

 ...made up of brains of people with ASPD or something (well technically those who can't be read by Sybil system...or something),

I don't see how mental health expertise isn't as highly valued in other aspects.

People want to keep psycho-pass levels low right?

It's not like there's some

 additional

conspiracy about manipulating psycho-passes.
Even if there was a

 n additional

conspiracy, how would you do that without mental health expertise right?

Note 1: of course ceteris paribus: I'm adjusting for things like country, experience, etc so with sufficiently high probability, a psychiatrist will earn less than a non-psychiatrist doctor assuming they're both in the same state and have the same amount of experience

SEVERAL SPOILERS ALERT
I don't know how to answer this question, honestly, but I think at least I can put forward some ideas. From here, please feel free to elaborate, refute, agree or disagree.
My idea is that there is a wide demand for psychological and psychiatric services in the psycho pass universe. It is observed that in the second season

 they confirmed how much the pharmaceutical industry profits in this universe, with the investment in remedies for the "control of the psycho pass".

However, when we speak of psychological services, we are not referring to the prescription of remedies, but the use of therapies to deal with problems of psychological order / origin (at least this is where I live, but how a psychologist acts tends to vary widely in several countries). This leads me to reflect a few things: in the psycho pass universe, most people, with a few exceptions

 (akane, Makishima, and the enforces possibly),

would tend to live with the fear that their psycho pass may be overcast, so investment in therapy and remedies would tend to be more accepted and even encouraged. From this, it could be concluded that the profession in Japan of psycho pass would be much more valued and, consequently, much better paid than it is today. Now, I do not know how to estimate values, since I have no idea of current values, but it can be assumed that I would be in a top 10 occupations well payed. HOWEVER, there are some other facts that make me think that, although well paid, the profession might not have so many interested parties. My argument is based on the character of

 Saiga Jouji. Formed in psychology, he is supposedly responsible for making people's psycho pass up just by talking

and this probably has a very simple explanation:

 people are not prepared to do what he says.

Fear of stress

 (which is actually the fear of clouding the psycho pass)

causes people to avoid exposing themselves to stressful situations

 (some, as shown in the anime, until they become lethargic / vegetative)

and because of that they would be ill prepared to cope with stressful situations. Now think: how will you be a therapist or psychologist if you do not know how to handle it? Your job is to listen to your patient about your fears and problems, and lead him to clarify these issues, the best possible way.
Well, to summarize everything I think, my answer would be: yes, it would be a very well paid profession (because it is necessary), but I do not think there would be a lot of people wanting to be a psychologist. More than that, even if the system selects people who have the profile to be psychologists, there would be few people who could actually be.
By the way, the second season opens an interesting question. In this world, would people tend to bet more on remedies than on psychological treatment? Therapy presupposes that you would have to face certain things it's hard for you to handle yourself, but doing so, at least temporarily,

 the meter of your psycho pass could rise.

Anyway, that's what I think. For any mistakes, please indicate that I will try to fix it!


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In Danganronpa, how can a classroom trial be called if there is no corpse?
Unlike the games in Liar Game, the rules of a Danganronpa game (at least from what I've seen in s1 of the anime) are sometimes made up or stated midway, which for me kind of sucks but is tolerable so long as the rules are consistent.
In Liar Game, afaik, the dealers always account for all possible situations and state consequences of the situations outright especially when there are changes. For example, in games involving voting, the dealers state what happens in the event of a draw, even if it later doesn't occur or even factor into some calculations made by the characters. In one voting game, a draw was not possible because of an odd number of players (well, actually, assuming everyone votes). Later, the number of players became even, so the dealer of  the game immediately stated what would happen in the event of a drawn vote.
Going back to Danganronpa, iirc, what happens is: After 3 students discover a corpse, there's an announcement that there will be a classroom trial called.

What if there is no corpse to be found, like the body was burned (alive or dead, preferably dead of course)?

What if student A is murdered, and the corpse is hidden for a long period? Can the game continue with an unannounced or unresolved murder?

PS I'm done with s1 of the anime. Go ahead and spoil other media. But please use spoiler tags for others.

There might be no corpse found, but when one of your classmates didn't show up for days, there sure is death.

If the body not found, there is no trial, thus make you safe until graduation. Doing that will still make you a murderer and fulfill the graduation (Rule no. 6).

@SeptianPrimadewa What do you mean? When exactly is the murderer declared to have gotten away with the murder? Afaik the rules give only one sufficient condition: There must be a trial and the class has to convict the wrong person in order for a murderer to get away with a murder. So there are other conditions?

@AyaseEri And sooooo....?

And so there would be a classroom trial. Before the trial begins, everyone have to find the corpse. That or everyone will have to do a wild guess.

@AyaseEri How many days exactly is needed? Monokuma calls for a trial after three people discover a corpse. How will Monokuma call for a trial if there is no corpse to be found?

If there is no corpse then there can be no class trial. If it takes a long time for the body to be discovered then the class trial will take place whenever the body is discovered, the game will have continued as normal until that point. The rules of the death game clearly outline the trigger condition for a class trial, Rule #9 (D2:GD) and Rule #11 (DV3:KH) "The Body Discovery Announcement will play as soon as three or more people discover a body for the first time" (This was not written in the rules in D1:THH but it was in effect regardless. Byakuya informs Makoto he missed it while passed out in Ch 1 and then it plays normally thereafter which is relevant in Ch 3). The body discovery announcement serves as the prelude to the investigation which leads into the class trial, it cannot be skipped.
This seems to conflict with a different rule in the rulebook Rule #7 (D1), Rule #5 (D2) and Rule #2 (DV3) phrased as "Once a murder takes place, a class trial will begin shortly thereafter. Participation is mandatory for all surviving students" in D1 and D2 but "Once a murder takes place, all surviving students must participate in a class trial" in DV3. The first phrasing implies that an investigation will trigger soon after the murder no matter what but this isn't even true within D1 (expanded upon below) and the DV3 phrasing better communicates the core of this rule, that being all surviving students must attend the class trial or else (although the consequences of missing the class trial are never explained).
The proof that there is no class trial without a body discovery announcement is integral to the plot of D1 spoilers for Trigger Happy Havoc:

 In Ch 5 the body discovery announcement plays for the half blown up body of Mukuro Ikusaba, The Ultimate Soldier and "yet unseen" 16th student in the killing game. One would initially assume she had died just prior to the announcement but in actuality she was the first student killed. Mukuro was in cahoots with and posing as Junko Enoshima in the prologue but the actual Junko had decided rather than their agreed upon stunt of having a bunch of harpoon guns barely miss her to scare the students into fearing Monokuma to kill her for real before lowering her still breathing body into the floor where she died and was put into cold storage until Ch 5. A class trial was not held for Mukuro as this happened (presumably because the rule pertains to corpses and Mukuro hadn't died by the time she disappeared from view). It was only held in Ch 5 when her body was discovered. This says a few things, class trials do not need to follow the order of the murders (contradicting the rule saying a trial shortly follows a murder) but they do need to follow the order the bodies are discovered. A class trial is not held until the body is discovered which implies if a body is never found, no class trial is ever held. This makes sense in the framework the killing game, the only way to graduate is to kill another student, let the trial happen and not be voted guilty. Never having the body found is counterproductive. We also know from the alternate ending of Ch 5 that if nobody is murdered the remaining students never graduate and remain trapped in the school forever.

An additional note pertaining to what it means for a "body" to be discovered.

 A half blown up body counts (D1 Ch 5)

 A skeleton picked clean by piranhas counts (DV3 Ch 2)

 Even a blood stain and sleeve sticking out from a hydraulic press counts (DV3 Ch 5).

This suggests that "evidence of a body" counts as a "body" for the purposes of the body discovery announcement. Whether this applies to a body thrown in an incinerator or a volcano is unclear, but again, a murder without any trace of a body is counterproductive to winning the game, if the body cannot trigger the body discovery announcement then the class trial needed to win will never happen.

As of this moment, in both Danganronpa games and the anime adaptation of the first game, in the case the body is hidden or disposed in a way it is impossible for three witnesses to find it...

 There are no rules about how such thing would be dealt with. No such scenario happens, and no person seems to ever plan to go to such lenghts and question Monokuma about the rules for such situations, leaving us only with speculation on how this specifc situation would be dealt with.

So long as the evidence of someone being dead occurred, it is going to hold a classroom trial. It will merely be impossible to investigate the body itself. Take the Chapter Five death in Trigger Happy Havoc: Miss Victim had half her body burnt to a crisp, and she, as a victim, was unidentifiable. I’d spoil the other games, where a similar thing to what you describe happens, but... it’s not included in any of the animated features.
Once a body is discovered, that is when the class trial will be held. If the culprit  can hide the body well enough, they can very well “get away with murder.” and graduate. At least, that is my theory.


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Was Miyuki Shirogane's dad simply respecting Kaguya's privacy?
In line with the chess / 9LX references of this series, I find the last part of S02E10 (specifically Chapter 86) to be something like a potential checkmate/resign or at least a flag (losing on time, particularly in a winning or drawish position) for Kaguya. I imagine:

Dad: Well, Miyuki, I caught this girl cheering for you privately and then afterwards Kaguya was talking about how you have 'well-defined' eyes. (In the manga, this is 'beautiful, piercing eyes'.) I also asked if Kaguya has any romantic interest in you, but Kaguya didn't answer.
Miyuki: Oh, is that so, Shinomiya? 'O kawaii yatsume.'

(Your move, Shinomiya. Now, this isn't necessarily a losing position. But Kaguya is gonna have to come up with a response fast or get flagged.)
Question: Anyway, it seems Miyuki's dad doesn't say anything like this (I checked the next few chapters to be sure, but there might've been something later on. IDK). Is Miyuki's dad, then, simply respecting Kaguya's privacy or something like in Bakuman S01E03 (or Chapter 4) where Miyuki Azuki (Miho Azuki's mom) respects Moritaka Mashiro's privacy? (Maybe Miyuki Shirogane's paternal grandfather did the same for Miyuki Shirogane's mom?) Something like...

Miyuki: What did you talk about?
Dad: Oh, that's our little secret.

Or perhaps Miyuki's dad thinks 'If my son's gonna win love is war, then I don't want it to be because of me. I want the win to be of Miyuki's own accord' ? Something like... Mr. Shirogane Wants to Pry, but Mr. Shirogane doesn't want to interfere?

Based on S03E06 (specifically Chapter 111)

 Yes. Looks like it. Guess I was overanalysing. Lol.

We see Miyuki's dad

 whisper to Kaguya re Miyuki.


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Are there Japanese 2 player variations of Sevens/Fan Tan/Domino/Shichi Narabe (7並べ)?
And in particular, when you play with 2 players do you deal out all the cards the from the deck? Or is there some undealt part that players draw from during the game? I mean, if you deal them all then you'll just know what's in your opponent's hand?
This is going to sound trivial, but actually it's part of this theory/hypothesis I have for this anime/manga series The Quintessential Quintuplets, where I think the game Sevens(/Fan Tan/Domino) is symbolic of something in the series (namely something to do with the number 7). My thought is that the card game Sevens (and thus the number 7) is so important that it even leads to a mistake like this. So if this were a mistake, then it's possible that Sevens is really important. Or something.

Actually there have been previous discussions of the game Sevens in this series. See: The importance of "Sevens"

From S02E12 of The Quintessential Quintuplets

The 2 kids pictured above, a young Nakano and the young Fuutarou, are playing

in the English dub version: 'Sevens'. (This is also in the English subtitles for the Japanese version.)

in the original Japanese version: 'Shichi Narabe (7並べ)', which is what Wikipedia calls a(/the?) Japanese variation of Sevens. In the upper right part of the Wikipedia page, you can see that it says 3-8 players, so I guess that includes the Japanese Sevens.

You can even see how the cards are laid out that they really are playing (some variation of) Sevens.
Other notes:

I've read only a bit of the manga, but I'm pretty sure no other kids were playing with the 2.

Additionally, Sevens has been played earlier in the series (S01E09 where it's still Shichi Narabe [7並べ], but it's translated as 'Fan Tan' instead of 'Sevens', again by both the English dub and the subtitles for the original Japanese), but there were at least 3 players then.

This question has little to no bearing to the the series in question and since you already posted this on boardgame.se, I'm closing this question.

Cross-posted to BoardGame.SE: https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/57425/is-there-a-2-player-variation-of-any-of-sevens-fan-tan-domino

@кяαzєя Are you sure? Devil's proof. That depends on the theory/hypothesis I have maybe. My thought is that the card game Sevens (and thus the number 7) is so important that it even leads to a mistake like this. So if this were a mistake, then it's possible that Sevens is really important. Or something. For all we know in the future negi haruba could say 'I chose the game sevens to foreshadow this thing in this sequel/spin-off series'

@кяαzєя see this reddit post: 'The importance of "Sevens"' sevens has been discussed before re 'This question has little to no bearing to the the series in question'

@dungarian Eh I already got an answer here though?

@BCLC re: the edit about "The importance of 'Sevens'", it bears almost nothing since it's just a fan theory (while an elaborate one, looks like a confirmation bias), not an official statement.

@AkiTanaka Re 'This question has little to no bearing to the the series in question'. In general, there's often a lot of symbolism in shows right? Like say Breaking Bad when they choose blue for the meth or whatever.

@BCLC looks like you're thinking too much about symbolism in anime/manga when there's usually none. I have to agree with the meta post that this is to the point of "over-analyzing".

@AkiTanaka Devil's proof?

You're grasping at straws here. Whether or not  the game has relevance to the plot and if a game can be played with two people are separate matters. Please do not use the comments for this sort of back and forth. If you wish to dispute something take it to meta.

Yes, it is possible to play Shichi Narabe with only 2 players.
First of all, there is no exact requirement for the number of players, though most sites recommend at least 3 or 4 players:

English Wikipedia: 3-7 (intro body) / 3-8 (infobox)
Japanese Wikipedia: theoretically 1-20+, preferably 4-10
Nico Nico Pedia (Japanese): usually 3-5
Magic Door (Japanese): preferably 3-4, 2 is not recommended
Trump Stadium (Japanese): 3-8 (summary) / 4-7 (online in-game setting)
Trump & Board Game Rule Book (Japanese): 3-7
Introduction to Trump Games from Small to Large Amount of Players (Japanese): 3-8
Sites about Killing Time (Japanese): 2 is possible, usually 3, preferably 4-6

(Emphasis added)
Japanese Wikipedia also mentioned an optional rule for games with 2-3 players called combo, so it acknowledged that there is also a variation for 2 players.
Thus, while it is still possible to play with only 2 players, there are a few reasons why it is not really recommended. Magic Door mentioned in short that it is because both players know each other cards (because all the cards are dealt). A more thorough discussion on Yahoo! Chiebukuro (Japanese) explained further that since both players know each other cards, it is a perfect information game and the winner can already be decided since the beginning, given both players play perfectly. In the end, it becomes a game to play without mistakes instead of a game of strategy.

Btw re 'First of all, there is no exact requirement for the number of players, though most sites recommend at least 3 or 4 players' Actually to clarify, my issue is just mainly 2 players vs at least 3. basically 'is the minimum 2 or 3?' as our preceding discussion hopefully shows

@BCLC this answer is specifically about Shichi Narabe which is the only variant that Japanese people are familiar with, not about Fan-Tan, Sevens, Domino, or other variants. And theoretically, it's also possible to play with only 1 player, which is basically a solitaire game; perhaps a boring one because it always guarantees a win, but still a game.


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Why is Raiha Uesugi much taller in 1 particular scene?
In S01E04, Raiha is about up to the quints' lower necks.

In S02E11, Raiha's (relative) height seems to be about the same.

But in S02E02, Raiha is somehow almost as tall as Itsuki, like up to Itsuki's forehead. What's going on? (Minor spoiler for S02E02)

Here's a non-spoiler answer:
In Ch2, Raiha is standing on a footstool:

So presumably in S02E02, whatever is happening in that scene and wherever that scene takes place, Raiha is probably standing on a footstool or something.

It's just that the studio doing the animation did not pay that much attention to these details. If you are meticulous enough, you will discover deficiencies like this in many anime. It's in fact a common pitfall for animation studios.
There are also deficiencies in anime other than height. For example, the location of the mouth is also widely criticized. As you can see in the scene below from Sora no Method, the girl's mouth is totally on the left-hand side of her face, which would be considered as abnormal in real life.

Michael, how did you know (Gasai) that the studio did not pay much attention to detail rather than that you think maybe the studio didn't? I posted an answer just now based on the manga that I believe answers this. However, you may be interested in my other question What is the height of Kei Shirogane?

Reminds me of the chapter in Nozaki-kun where his inconsistent height issues are remarked and he responds that he just draws the characters standing on boxes to fix it (and that carrying boxes around is popular in-universe).

But really...a 9 year old girl same height as a 17 year old girl in the middle of a season only for no particular comedic reason? Come on

@BCLC You won't be surprised by this kind of height inconsistency if you have watched Detective Conan and payed attention to its awful height variation.

@BCLC If the studio have payed enough attention to this, then they should tell the audience what cause this sudden 'change' in height rather than left out the cause and let the audience try to guess the reason. It's just like that a good anime should be self-contained and tell the full story rather than make it a job of audience to make up for it by using their imagination or reading the original manga.

'It's just that the studio doing the animation did not pay that much attention to these details.' - would you consider adding an 'I think' to this sentence?

Ok actually, the scene in the spoiler image in the question doesn't exactly happen in the manga, BUT...
There's a similar scene in the manga around Chapter 40-42 (which is adapted into S02E02, the episode in question). You can see that Raiha is again up to Itsuki's forehead in, what I believe is, a similar situation as in the spoiler image in the question post.

To say explicitly:

 Raiha is standing on a footstool.


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Itsuki and Raiha - some meme about eating
What is going on here in this meme please? Source: Eatsuki pleading with Raiha after running away

Well it says

おなかが空きましたぁ i.e. Onaka ga sukimashitaa i.e. I'm hungryy (double y I guess).

So Itsuki says e is hungry to Raiha...begging for more food? So the joke is how Itsuki is like Eat-suki...and that's it? Why is it Raiha? Why not, like, Nino or something?

Could you mention the source of this picture/meme? Without context, it's difficult to understand the meaning, or even if it's a meme.

Well, that Reddit link doesn't help at all since there's no info/source about the picture itself... Edit: never mind, looks like the source of this picture is from the "commemorative illustration" (dunno what that means, unless it's an "end card") from E14/S2E2, which is usually just a random theme without any meaning.

It's not a meme. It's a "commemorative illustration" from S02E02. Source: https://5hanayome.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_14
Thanks to Aki Tanaka ♦ for finding out!


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Do VAs in visual novels usually reprise their roles in anime adaptations?
Maybe related: Why do drama CDs and anime series of the same franchise use different voice actors sometimes?

I notice in WTC / Umineko / Higurashi: Based on fandom, it seems like for umineko the only difference is Kasumi Sumadera. Seems the case for higurashi is similar: the VAs reprise their role from the VN in the anime (or vice-versa in the cases where a VN is released after an anime episode).
I'm not familiar with VNs in general, but afaik, it's not common for, say, live actors to play animated or vice-versa...exceptions include Haruka Fukuhara from Kaguya-sama (Tsubame Koyasu), Riisa Naka from the girl who leapt through time (Akari Yoshiyama & Makoto Konno) or Patton Oswalt (Dementor) from Kim Possible.
But unlike the above case, I guess the idea is that a VN is basically an anime with multiple endings, less animation and more dialogue and so why not just get the same people to reprise the roles?

Note: this is a repost of the same question that got deleted automatically by the system

Answer by MajinAkuma in this reddit comment:

In the case of Higurashi and Umineko, I‘m sure the anime cast was
casted first and they reprised their roles for the visual novels. The
original sound novels had no voice acting, so fans wouldn’t able to
hear the characters of the first badges until the anime got released.
Same as with Fate/stay night. But in some cases, if later visual
novels got full voice acting releases on the PS2 editions, then the
new characters would get their voices for the visual novel first
before the characters appear in the anime. This happens with many
other anime adaptations where the original source material didn’t have
full voice over, like many of the early KEY VNs.
Whether or not a seiyuu doesn’t reprise their role depends on the
numerous factors, factors we might never know. The Umineko example is
probably easy to explain. Tanaka Atsuko did voice Kasumi in the anime,
but Kyrie was her primary role in Umineko. She obviously reprised her
role as Kyrie in the VNs, but apparently it was unnecessary for her to
reprise her role as Kyrie‘s sister Kasumi, so they gave her another
seiyuu to distinguish the sisters better. That might be the right
choice, since multiple Umineko seiyuus voice multiple versions of the
same characters or characters that are intended to be copies of each
other, which is why they have the same voices. Kyrie and Kasumi are
just sisters, and they don’t disguise themselves as each other like
the Sonozaki twins from Higurashi.
In Little Busters!, Tamiyasu Tomoe voiced both, Riki and Rin in the
original visual novel, but in the anime, Riki is voiced by Horie Yui
instead. Horie probably wasn‘t in the visual novel because Little
Busters! was original an eroge with H-scenes, and having both
characters having the same seiyuu in the anime might have been not the
best idea, so they casted Horie for Riki.
Here’s a funny tidbit. CLANNAD originally came out without voice-over
like other early KEY titles. The characters wouldn’t get their voices
until the Toei anime films. The full voice-over version of the visual
novel would later be released during the run of KyoAni‘s TV series.
Kuwashima Houko is, of course, the voice of Tomoyo in the Toei films,
the KyoAni TV series and in the full voice version of CLANNAD.
However, she didn’t reprise her role for Tomoyo After, which unlike
CLANNAD, has H-scenes. In Tomoyo After, Tomoyo was voiced by Tanaka
Ryouko instead. Bur recently in Kaginado, Kuwashima voices both
versions of Tomoyo: the CLANNAD version and the After version, and the
anime makes a point to treat both versions as different characters.


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What do witches say when they refuse a repetition request (復唱 要求)?
For example Episode 18, Eva-Beatrice refuses a repetition request by saying 'I refuse!' Sounds like 'kyohi suru wa'.

In episode 9, Beatrice says 'I refuse.' Sounds like 'kyohi suru'.

In episode 14, Beatrice says more elaborately 'I refuse to repeat it.' Sounds like '復唱 kyohi suru' (Fukushō o kyohi suru).

What exactly are they saying?

Are they actually removing the personal pronoun 'I' (eg watashi or whatever) and so are just saying just 'Refuse' or 'Refuse to repeat' ?

Just a tip, you can try an online dictionary first. Note that there's also a minimum threshold for Japanese language questions to be accepted on Anime.SE. Not just asking random Japanese phrase that appears on anime/manga.

@AkiTanaka ? https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/66585/what-is-battler-saying-in-japanese-whenever-e-asks-a-witch-to-repeat-something

To be honest, that question was also kind of problematic.

This is a purely language question but this is also the type of question that Japanese.se does not like. So I'm just going to close it without migrating.

@кяαzєя ? https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/66585/what-is-battler-saying-in-japanese-whenever-e-asks-a-witch-to-repeat-something

NipoJu's answer in umineko subreddit:

Yes, they say 拒否する, which literaly means "Refuse".
In Japanese pronouns are not needed, and everything is understood by
context. So if the witches say 拒否する right after asking for repetition
in red, it really means: I refuse (to do so).
The わ(wa) that Eva says is just a particle to make a sentence more
""feminine"", it depends on the person/characters personality. I can
personally also see Bernkastel and Lambdadelta using the わ(wa) at the
end, however I don't see Beatrice saying it since she has a more
""masculine""-ish way of talking.
(I put quotes on feminine and masculine because it's a little
old-fashion way of seeing it. I, as a man, use わ(wa) and don't really
care if people see it as feminine)

I believe it's

A - Episode 18 - (Not sure) 拒否するわ (きょひするわ。 Kyohi suru wa.)
B - Episode 9 - (Not sure) 拒否する (きょひする。 kyohi suru.)
C - Episode 14 - (I believe I have a source.) 復唱を拒否する。

Looks like because whenever I type in 'I' in google translate, it gives watashi.

For example '私はそれを復唱ことを拒否します' translates to 'I refuse to repeat it.'


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What chapter is the Ai Hayasaka and Chika Fujiwara thing?
In Volume 16, apparently something happened previously in Volume 14 or 15, but I can't seem to find it (I scanned the WHOLE Volume 15 to find this. I don't wanna bother with Volume 14. Please just tell me). From here and here:

 During winter break, Hayasaka is constantly pestered by Kaguya who talks about her kisses with Miyuki in excessive detail. Eventually, she becomes frustrated and desperate to know what a kiss actually feels like. At the time, she's 'hanging out' with Fujiwara at a mall in order to distract and prevent her from ruining Kaguya's date with Miyuki. Hayasaka asks Fujiwara how she feels about kissing and when the other girl admits she would like to be forced into a kiss by surprise, Hayasaka does exactly that.

The only thing I've found about this is when it's described in a flashback in Volume 16 Chapter 152:

Question: Is it just this? Or was there something in a previous chapter?
Update: As answer shows below it's Ch162, the start of the very next Volume 17.

It actually appears later as a one-page episode, early in vol 17.

Ch162. The very start. THANK YOU sundowner


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Kaiji in Kaguya-sama S03E04: Why is zawa (ざわ) translated as 'ecstasy'?
From S03E04, there's this 1 second Kaiji reference/similarity where Miko Iino's face goes nobuyuki Fukumoto-style and either Miko or the narrator or some sound effect whatever says 'zawa (ざわ)'.

Source: Reddit user LouijaBoard.
Afaik, ざわ is a Japanese onomatopoeia meaning uneasy atmosphere (also see here) or a Japanese onomatopoeia for like unnerving or whispering or something.
Context of scene: The narrator says prior that

To gain even one extra minute of studying time would be a windfall for Iino!

What the narrator says is understandable, and it is understandable Miko would be ecstatic over such an extra minute, but...
Question: Why the ざわ, and why is the ざわ translated to 'ecstasy' ?

The translators for especially for those that to subtitles for simulcast anime, oftentimes receive what they need to translate on short notice and might not have the actual script or accompanying video and thereby not have time to properly grasp the context of a scene.
Despite the second hand accounts that you referenced, ざわ is broadly used to describe an atmosphere of anxiety or unease (like commotion in a courtroom), among other things (Japanese is a very contextual language). In this context, it can interpreted that the character is anxious, as one would be having the chills in this sort of situation.
The translator likely chalked it up to Iino being a masochist seeing delight in such a situation, without understanding or realizing the Fukumoto meta-reference.


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Are the Uesugi siblings, Fūtarō and Raiha, named after the Japanese gods of wind and thunder, resp, Fūjin and Raijin?
Their names are Fūtarō (Fuutarou) and Raiha. The gods are Fūjin and Raijin. Is there some Japanese article that possibly talks about this?

According to this, your guess seems to be correct.

名前の由来は風神雷神の雷神で、風太郎と対になっている。
(The origin of the name is Raijin from Fujin&Raijin, pairing with Futaro.)

Same with their dad? https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/66807/is-the-dad-isanari-of-the-uesugi-siblings-f%c5%abtar%c5%8d-and-raiha-named-after-izanami


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Attire for a Japanese wedding: Why does Raiha attend Fuutarou's wedding in school uniform? (S1 finale)
In the s1 finale, we see Raiha and the dad of Fuutarou and Raiha attending Fuutarou's wedding.

Based on the clothes that Raiha and their dad wore in the earlier scene, it seems like they were already in the clothes they wanted to attend in (except shoes and jacket/blazer).

Question: What is up with this?
Guess 1: It was a Saturday, and for some reason there was a morning only school day. Raiha had just come back from school in the morning.
But this easily disproved from that the earlier scene appears to be during breakfast, with the wedding taking place between breakfast and lunch.

Guess 2: Or maybe it's afternoon only and Raiha just doesn't wanna change.
Possibly related question: Attire for a Japanese fireworks festival: Why does Miyuki (Shirogane) REALLY attend in school uniform? (What is up with anime s1 finale's and students attending events in their school uniforms?)

Actually maybe it's the same reason as Miyuki. They're still poor:

It is simply quite common for teenagers to attend ceremonial events in school uniform. I don't think the code is very strict, but generally people are assumed to wear formally in weddings, funeral etc. And school uniform is considered formal enough.

Thanks sundowner. Quick follow up is this a different rather than a similar thing from Miyuki Shirogane ?

@BCLC Not quite. As I mentioned in one of your questions, wearing a black jacket even in summer is totally fictional. On the other hand, I'd say 90+% of teenage girls would wear school uniform in her brother's wedding.

sundowner ah so it's neither different nor similar but actually N/A ? What? I mean to ask if it's different like: Here it is realistic, there it is not realistic...right?

@BCLC I mean, uniform for wedding (boys or girls) is realistic while Shirogane's black jacket is not.


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1st episode: Why does Raiha call Itsuki by 1st name (presumably without knowing the existence of the other quints until S01E04)?
What I understand is that the quints are called by their 1st names, in situations where they would normally be called by their last names, for obvious reasons (that they're quints. Extend in general to half/step siblings of the same age an last name).
In the 1st episode, we see that 9-year old Raiha calls 16 or 17 year old Itsuki as Itsuki-san (or Itsuki nee-chan in the manga) instead of Nakano-san (or Nakano nee-chan). But it seems Raiha doesn't know about the other 4 quints until S01E04. (See below.) So what's going on? Guesses:

Itsuki's just being friendly to Raiha.

Or Itsuki in fact does tell Raiha about the 4 quints, but Raiha forgets about the other quints when seeing what simply looked like 4 doppelgängers.

Or maybe out of obvious lifelong habit Itsuki just tells people to use 1st name.

Edit: I'm actually not so familiar with all these honorifics and stuff. What I'm asking really is like

Do we really expect that Raiha to call Itsuki as Nakano-san but then for some reason Raiha doesn't?

If no, then why? If yes, then why the change?

See here:
Anime:

Manga:

I'm not very familiar with the manga/anime, but assuming Itsuki is a friend of Raiha's brother, I guess a realistic option is Itsuki-san/chan or Nakano-san. So the answer to Q1 is 'not really'.
The choice of 'Isuki-san' sounds natural enough mostly because it is acceptable for a girl (Raiha) to treat someone as a real sister/brother. Using 'Nakano-san' would sound polite and more distancing/less friendly. So basically using Itsuki-san etc. means that Raiha is generally an outgoing (not shy) type and being friendly to Itsuki.
[Edit] The above means, regardless of whether Itsuki has siblings, there is nothing strange about Raiha using Itsuki-san when calling her. But of course, if there are more than one characters with the same last name, it would be more likely that first names are used. So from the creator's point of view, he(?) chose Itsuki-san so that Raiha didn't have to change the way to call Itsuki later.
A crude explanation is that using first names is rude, but it is allowed (more) for children. For example, if a 25-year old man meets a partner of his 30-year old brother, and talks to her by first name-san, it may sound too friendly and last name-san would be more likely.
Another famous example of this is Conan the detective calling Ran Mouri as Ran nee-chan.

Even among Japanese people, how to call sisters/brothers is not strictly fixed, let alone brother's friends.

友達の姉、弟のこと、なんて呼びますか？友達に言う場合と直接呼ぶ場合どちらも教えてください。
「兄・姉のことなんて呼ぶ？」4000人に聞いてみた
名前呼び

1 is about friends' siblings (No1 says: when directly talking to brother/sister (of a friend), I would use 「○○（名前）さん（君）」, where 名前 should mean first name.); 2 is about real siblings; 3 is about calling-by-name in manga. But note this is talking generally and not about rules.

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Why was Itsuki about to eat alone in the 1st episode?
In the 1st episode/the pilot/premiere, we see that Itsuki was about to eat alone when Fuutaro 1st meets Itsuki. The next day (same episode), Itsuki eats with the other quints. Why didn't Itsuki eat with the other quints previously? Where were the other quints anyway?

Note: It goes the same in the 1st chapter of the manga.

See here:

Itsuki is about to eat alone, but then Fuutarou comes.

The next day, Itsuki eats with the other quints.

From reddit here and here, there appears to be no in-universe reason, but there may be an in-universe explanation for an out-universe reason.
The out-universe reason is based on something from Itsuki or Yotsuba's character books (from user Cave_TP) :

Because the scene was added later, Negi's original idea was to have Yotsuba as the first to meet Fuutarou.
The publisher told Negi to have Itsuki as the first one because a genki characters wouldn't have been the ideal as the "main girl" due to how the story is built so this scene got added later.

An in-universe explanation which talks about S01E04 too (from user Tusk_Act_IV) :

It's actually possible that only Itsuki bothered going to school that day to fill in their paperwork. Maruo did seem to rely on her for such things like with Fuutarou's pay.