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What is the difference when a jutsu is performed by weaving only some of it's seals and when performed by weaving all of them?
Well, I noticed that plenty of times ,for instance Itachi performed the great fireball jutsu sometimes with one hand seal and some other times with all the ones necessary

Weaving signs is a chakra manipulation technique that enables you to gather it in specific ways to execute specific techniques based off the chakra nature of the individual.
These signs are defined as seals and can be read about in the seals wiki in narutopedia.
As quoted in the wiki :

While techniques may require a number of hand seals to work, a skilled ninja can use less or even one to perform the same technique.

It is also noted that some shinobi can master a technique so well that they can perform instantaneously without weaving signs but this takes years of training or an abnormally strong level of chakra control.
For instance Sasuke and chidori in the shippuden series is a common example of mastery as he learned to perform the technique seamlessly without needing time to weave.
Minato was also known for this with the flying raijin and rasengan.
As a shinobi masters a technique they are able to use less seals, one hand, and even no seals.

Correct me but wasn't Chiyo the first to make seals with one hand, that was pretty cool at the time.

Chronologically I'm not sure. But in the anime. Haku was the first to weave one handed in the bridge battle when they fought zabuza

Oh right, yes you are correct.

I don't think the rasengan is an example. It's just pure chakra, no hand signs are ever needed.

@MichaelMcQuade you are right the rasengan never used handsigns. I had a mistake in context because when naruto learned it he had to have a clone rotate his chakra for him which for some reason I remembered as seals. My answer has been edited.

Though to add in, I recall Naruto using weaving for the shadow clone jutsu and then not needing. But I'm not 100% sure.

The rasengan might be a good example when he mixes it with his fuuton chakra, he would normally need to weave seals yet,he doesn't

Basically, when you need to do a jutsu you need to wave the seals.As usually said in the movie that a shinobi who can't wave sign is useless. Itachi wave all the seals, maybe in the vedio or mangga it's not projected. Just like Kakashi, I've also seen him using the chodori or raiki without weaving..
Maybe that's the reason.

It'd be boring to see the hand seals every single time they use the jutsu. Besides, since the jutsu are formed using various hand seals, it would add workload to the animator.


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Do we know the timing of all of the events in the anime?
To the best of my knowledge, in the Joker Game anime, we are not consistently given information about when the different events shown occur. I do know the following:

"Joker Game" clearly occurs shortly after the founding of D-Agency in autumn of 1937.
"XX (Double Cross)" occurs in spring of 1939.
"Robinson" and "Asia Express" take place in 1939.
"Double Joker" includes a flashback that takes place six months before the main events. In the flashback, the D-Agency has recently been created; the main events then probably are in 1938.
The spy in "Miscalculation" had a one-year stay in France planned, starting from June 15, 1939. France was occupied in June 1940, so it seems likely that "Miscalculation" is set in 1940.
"Pursuit" makes reference to the events of "Robinson", and so must have occurred afterwards.

We also see a character in "Coffin" comment that a behind-the-scenes three-way alliance between Japan, Germany, and Italy has been formed. This restricts the possible dates of the main events of that episode, but I still do not have anything narrow enough for want of sufficient historical knowledge.
I am left without knowing when "City of Temptation", "Pursuit", "Codename: Cerberus", and "Coffin" take place. (It is obvious, for instance, that "City of Temptation" takes place when Shanghai was occupied by the Japanese, but the resulting timeframe is still rather large.) Is there any official information on when the various events happen? If not, can we make any inferences (based on details we see, or details in other adaptations of the same material) to make educated guesses?

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/4p5nh4/spoilers_joker_game_episode_12_discussion/

the chronological order of the episodes goes as follows:
D Agency founded in autumn 1937
Episodes 1 & 2 ("Joker Game Part 1 & 2") - Spring 1939
Episode 12 ("XX - Double Cross") - Spring 1939
Episode 6 ("Asia Express") - July 25, 1939 (this is the only episode with a specific date)
Episode 5 ("Robinson") - Autumn 1939
Episode 7 ("Code Name: Cerberus") - Early summer 1940
Episode 10 ("Pursuit") - Summer 1940
Episode 3 ("Miscalculation") - Summer 1940
Episodes 8 & 9 ("Double Joker Part 1 & 2") - Early autumn 1940
Episode 11 ("Coffin") - Autumn 1940
Episode 4 ("City of Temptation") - Summer 1941

Image from the official website of the anime : http://jokergame.jp/story/

Interesting. I realised later that "Joker Game" might be in spring (given the cherry blossoms), but placed it at most in 1938. (I assume, perhaps incorrectly, that recruitment was nearly finished when the agency was officially created.) I also knew that "Double Joker" was in autumn, but since my placement of it depended on my sense of when people would have learned of D-Agency, the year might have been wrong. Do you have any idea where these dates come from though? For instance, I couldn't find information on the date in the episode "Cerberus", unless I've missed a detail.

@Maroon : If there is not any mention of the date or season, then I think the reddit user has probably guessed it from the weather and/or some events that are related or connected to the events in other episodes. Try find it yourself. I am too lazy to rewatch it. Sorry. Good luck. :)

in some of these cases, I can understand where they got the season or year, based on some guesswork or minor historical knowledge or details within the show. In other cases, however, I can only say that the suggested date isn't implausible. In the case of Joker Game, and thus, Double Joker, I'm not convinced . . . Maybe I'll do some research of my own later, if I have time.

@Maroon : http://jokergame.jp/story/

@Maroon : Above link is from the official website of the anime. It shows the timeline of the events. However it is in Japanese. This is as much I could help. :)

@Maroon : I added the image here. :)

Thank you, I think that should confirm things, although I'd need to take a closer look. (I don't really know Japanese, but I know how to read katakana, which helps here.)

Okay, upon a closer read and some slight guesswork, I can tell that this probably confirms the Reddit user's timeline.

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D.Gray- man Hallow. Remake? Or continuation?
I'm not sure if this is a remake of the old D.Gray man or if this is a continuation of where the anime left off. Does anyone know anything about this anime? And maybe have a credible source to link?

Have you tried wikipedia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.Gray-man

Nope. I saw it in my stream queue but ran off to do homework. And then I had work in the morning so I just posted.

as per Hakase's link to wikipedia

A new TV anime series was announced at Shueisha's 2016 Jump Festa event. The anime will feature a new cast, with Ayumu Murase voicing Allen Walker and Shinnosuke Tachibana voicing Howard Link. Despite the changes, the series creator has stated that the new series will continue from where the first left off, rather than being a reboot. The new series, titled D.Gray-man Hallow, is directed by Yoshiharu Ashino and written by Michiko Yokote, Tatsuto Higuchi and Kenichi Yamashita, featuring character designs by Yosuke Kabashima and music by Kaoru Wada. It will begin airing on July 4, 2016, having a total of 13 episodes.

following Wikipedia's citation and the source on that page to Anime News Network this comes from the D.Gray-man's mangaka Katsura Hoshino on her Instagram account

Thanks to everyone who went to the D.Gray-man stage today. As was said in the announcement, a new series has been green-lit. Because the staff will be completely different, the story will be a continuation, but I think it will become a completely new D.Gray-man anime. Thank you for everyone who's supported me until now.

Thanks for the streamline @memor-x do you know how many episodes it is?

@KazRodgers that's in the answer which too came from WIkipedia

Zomg! I'm sorry I didn't even get to read it all the way. I'm super scatter brained today :-(

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Why don't Harlequin and Elaine have wings?
When Helbram's history is revealed, I realized that Harlequin as the Fairy King and his sister Elaine should have wings. How come they don't have wings?

Recently picked up NNT and had a similar query immediately when King's old friend was revealed. Searching around I've found that no concrete reason for the "Wingless King" of the Fairies.
However there are a couple theories around with some supporting evidence.

King's Wings have not yet matured
Though King may be quite old, it seems that he can't yet spread his wings. The age old cocoon to butterfly theory.
King's wings growing may also allow him to "level-up" to fight the 10 Commandments on an equal footing.
This is shown in Chapter 134 of the manga, when King and Meliodas square off Meliodas counters King's spell. While it did nothing immediately, we see that King's back gets hurt and he has a dark spot. Maybe the spell weakened something that was holding back the growth of King's wings?
King and Elaine are not full fairies
Since only the siblings are the only fairies shown without the wings, we can assume that it may be due to their ancestry? Maybe he is just half-fairy. Apart from this there is no evidence for what mix they have.

Given that the wingless nature of King has been addressed in the manga (Chapter 134.10), we can assume this is a part of some reveal that the mangaka has planned and will be shown in the future releases.


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What happens when you perform Izanagi/Izanami with Rinnegan?
When Madara used the Izanagi before Hashirama killed him, he survived at the cost of one of his eyes. But when he activated his Rinnegan decades later, his eye was restored.
So if you have Rinnegan and you perform Izanagi/Izanami, does that mean that there are no drawbacks? If that's true, then that would be invincible, since someone like Madara can use it endlessly and never lose in a battle.

I don't think you can perform those Kinjutsu using Rinnegan. They are unique to Sharingan. As for his eye that Madara got after decades, it was by using the Hashirama cells.
He collected those cells during his fight with Hashirama and cultivated them during his time with Black Zetsu.
So to answer your question, NO you can't perform Izanagi/Izanami using Rinnegan.

Ahh, so it was Hashirama's cells that restored his eyes, not the fact that we awakened the Rinnegan. Is it?

Ya he infused Hashirama's cells with his body , which gave him incredible regenerating powers and since its the combination of both Indra and Ashura's chakra, He was able to activate the Rinnegan eyes.

Rikudou Sennin was able to perform both Izanami and Izanagi with a completely active Rinnegan. They're not unique to Sharingan. Tomoe-Rinnegan owners should be able to do a Rinnegan Izanagi/Izanami as well.

Can you cite a source where someone with Rinnegan used Izanagi/Izanami. Only Sharingan users have been shown using this skill and they all lost the usage of the eyes after. Thus answers would be speculative at best.
Speculating.
Though these skills might be used by a rinnegan user, they will become dark once used. Hence using Izanagi/Izanami with an eye that can awake Rinnegan is a waste. This is similar to how Danzo was confused about whether to use Shisui's eye for its Genjutsu or for Izanagi. Thus a rinnegan eye would also go blind if used for these kinjutsu.

Narutopedia: "But Madara had planned ahead: he had scheduled an Izanagi to activate sometime after his death, changing reality to bring him back to life in exchange for his right eye's vision ... It was not until decades later, towards the end of Madara's natural life, that the cells had any effect, awakening the Rinnegan (in the process restoring his right eye)."

@JefferyTang and we know it was restored because he gave both of those eyes to Nagato, who never showed a lack of vision in one eye.

Rinnegan may have restored a used Sharingan, which used Izanagi, but its never shown that a rinnegan user sacrifice his eye. Also Madara may have used another set of eye for the "planned ahead". I don't really trust the wiki unless it cited a source.

The Sage of the Six Paths had the power of bringing illusions to reality. Obito explains this when he's talking about Danzo's Izanagi. You can say the ultimate Izanagi is that of a person who's combined Senju's power and Uchiha's power which is the power of Rinnegan, so I'd say Rinnegan has the unlimited Izanagi ability.

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Where was the conservatoire entrance exam held?
In the beginning of ch. 53, Chiaki comments that it is their first day in Paris. Later, in the flashback in the dinner scene, we learn that the entrance exams to the conservatoire that Nodame is going to attend were a month ago, in February. After I also saw:

Nodame's demand in the morning to be taken sightseeing
Nodame's comment in the "Prelude" to ch. 53, which takes place around a month before the entrance exams, that she could hold off her departure from Japan until June but would not because Chiaki wanted to leave with her and as soon as possible

I assumed that Nodame did not have to take the entrance exams in Europe, or at least not in France, and that prior to ch. 53, Nodame and Chiaki had not stepped foot in Europe. (Nodame's severe lack of French competency and her response after Chiaki tells her to look up and admire the nighttime Paris scenery also corroborates this for me. However, the former could simply indicate that Nodame and Chiaki simply were not in France for most or all of the period before ch. 53, and the latter makes sense so long as they arrived in Europe relatively recently.)
However, at the end of the chapter, we learn that Frank, who lives in Nodame's new apartment building, is French, and that he was the person whom Nodame met at the exam. As a result, it occurred to me that the entrance exams might have been in Europe — the conservatoire is in Paris, and it would thus be strange for someone already based in France to have to travel a long distance to take an entrance exam for it.
Is there actually an inconsistency, or is something wrong in my logic (particularly with how I am dealing with (2))? (If my logic is wrong, I imagine the anime adaptation, which shows Nodame and Chiaki landing and moving in in the same episode, might have played a part in confusing me.)

In chapter 109, Kuroki says, in February, that he is taking care of Rima Namura, as a favour to his old teacher. Rima is in Paris to take a conservatory entrance exam. From details in ch. 110, we can tell that Rima is preparing for the exam in the conservatoire that Nodame attends.
With this in mind, the most reasonable interpretation is that Nodame needed to fly out to Paris to for her entrance exams, and that afterwards (and with the results in hand), she returned to Japan before moving to Paris with Chiaki in March. In her conversation with her friends then, she must have been referring to when she was planning to depart "for good". Her need to go sightseeing when she returns to Paris in March is not too implausible either: perhaps she was on a tight schedule and would not have been able to do any tourist activities while there for the exam.


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Does Luffy have "Gomu Gomu no Jet Yari"?
In Gear 2, 3 and 4, Luffy has several of his original attacks improved according to his respective gear forces.

Gomu Gomu no Pistol is Jet Pistol in Gear 2nd, Elephant Pistol in Gear 3rd and Culverin in Gear 4th.
Same goes for Bazooka, and without Gear 4, it stands for Gattling Gun as well.

These just mere examples, as he has quite a lot of attacks. I wouldn't even ask about all of them, so I'd like to focus on one absence I noticed.
Luffy has Gomu Gomu no Yari which appeared as Rhino Schneider in Gear 4. Does it have Gear 2 (and 3) versions?

I think it's possible but given that we've only seen gear 4 once so far we don't have enough info to draw that conclusion

In the anime: Gomu Gomu no Jet Lance was used against Blueno and was a Gear 2 attack.  Note that Lance is similar to a Spear which is what Yari refers to.
Gomu Gomu no Jet Spear was used after the timeskip against Monet as a Gear 2 version.
I am not aware of a Gear 3 version.
This is all from the wiki.

Just to be clear a yari is a traditional Japanese spear weapon.


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Who's Charlotte?
Where does the title "Charlotte" come from? I don't remember a character or concept with that name. I don't remember the word even being spoken during the series itself. Do we know where it comes from?

This contains a little bit of a spoiler, so I'll give a little warning....

 Charlotte is the name of the comet that passes over the earth every 75 years and gives everyone their super powers.

 They mention this in Episode 11:


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Which is the biggest character shown so far in One Piece?
From what I can tell the candidates for largest character in One Piece are:
1) Laboon, enormous whale of questionable scale at the entrance to the grand line.
2) Surume, the enormous kraken tamed by Luffy was shown to wear the Thousand Sunny on its head like a small hat.
3) Sanjuan Wolf, from pictures posted in the Manga he has been shown to be the size of Navy Headquarters
4) Seakings, some of the seakings shown in the calm belt seamed enormous, and perhaps they aren't even the largest.
5) Island Eater, the island eating goldfish was shown to be several times larger than the giants on Little Garden. Though I'm not sure it's size matches up.
I think Sanjuan Wolf is the largest, but I'm honestly not sure.

Zou, the living elephant on which the animals of Mink reside is the largest character so far shown. The entire back of the elephant has so much space that there are forests, rivers and even entire towns on it. There's an entire country there.

Still think the Florian Triangle Monster >> Living Island Zou. Since Thriller bark ~= Island in itself and the monster bigger then him.

Also, I'll recommend removing the images having mangafox and mangapanda on them.

Couldn't find the sources but lets take a look at some of my top candidates.

Wolf is a giant of extraordinary size, towering over even the largest beings known to date like Oars or Little Oars Jr., as well as being so big that he appears to be roughly the same size as the Marine Headquarters at Marineford, and is thus the biggest known giant to date, living up to his well-deserved nickname.

Wolf maybe huge but still a giant. But I am guessing his size is that of a Marine batttleship.
Coming to Island Eater GoldFish and Island Whales(Laboon). Both were able to swallow the Going Merry with ease, though Laboon seemed larger. However I can still see them being larger than San Juan Wolf. Seakings were almost the size of Noah the ship, so they are bigger.
But this is clearly the biggest thing shown (but not explained) in One Piece. In anime, this was shown as something with red eyes
This thing clearly eclipses the Thriller Barque ship, which we know San Juan Wolf is smaller than :P

I'd like to mention that at the battle of Marineford we saw that even Oars Jr was about the size of two battleships stacked on top of each other. And if Sanjuan Wolf is about four times the size of him, then we're talking about someone about half the size of Thriller Bark.

@Ethan722 Good point. But thrller barque was way bigger.. Since Little Oars was "little" and Oars at max was half the size of Wolf. No way Sanjuan wolf half the size of Thriller barque. Thriller barque imho has the same island area as that of Living Island Zou.

If you seen the one piece: heart of gold, then there Bonbori sama which is a football fish. Inside its body, Bonbori has three stomachs which hold several islands, including the island of Alchemi in its third.

Is heart of gold canon?

The biggest thing is definitely the huge shadow at the start of the Jaya arc. I mean its at least 100.000 times bigger than  The Going merry


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Why didn't Light Yagami tell Teru mikami that he can kill people using just the paper?
What I'm trying to say is should Light tell Teru that killing from scrape paper is possible, then if Teru kept a real deathnote paper with him 24/7, surely that in the final showdown, whoever names written on that piece of paper they surely will die, won't they?
That way you don't even need to worry about the book switching scheme.

He did tell him. Teru Mikami (X-Kira) did lock away his death note, sending pages to Kiyomi Takada so she can do the killing. They even work closely together to trick the SPK into beliving that X is doing the killing.

Whole point of Teru was to be a decoy. If SPK had seen Mikami using a seperate paper of the real death note would be a give away. For example. Instead of visiting the bank to retrieve the real Deathnote, Megami might have used the paper. Which would still give him away.
Light made sure the Mikami had NO access to the real DeathNote and explicitly said him to only take it out on the D-Day.
This is basically an speculative question containing the What-if Scenarios. You can plausibly say that something might've worked out, but as I have just said above... Chances are it would have blown up more easily. Because SPK would have been dead if Mikami had trusted Light and not gone to retrieve the Real DeathNote from the bank.
EDIT: I get the question was why didn't Mikami keep a seperate real piece of DN paper for the day of the final D-Day instead of the DN. I answered this What-if scenario with a plausible explaination that Mikami may have used it to kill Takada. Then I went on to explain this was why Light didn't want ANY piece of real Death Note with Mikami, to keep the plan full proof.
Tl;dr Mikami didn't keep the DN paper because Light told him not to. This was because Light just like Near wanted to play complete and full proof game but lost to the external factors of Mello and Mikami

You're kinda answering a little bit different kind of question, but I get what you're trying to say. In my what-if scenarios, base of your answer I can see that Mikami used the paper to kill outside the D-day then Near would either assumed the deathnote in the bank is fake or Mikami had paper or such(though I'm not really sure though that if Near know that killing is possible with just the paper, but I assumed he at least think that there's something that mikami could use to kill), at that point there's highly chance that Near will either change the method of meeting or just cancel the meeting

@Wendy added an Edit to explain. Light explicitly told Mikami to cut off ties with the real DN to make his plan complete. The situtation I created was just to highlight what may have been the reason for this. The answer to the question is, because Light told him not to.

Also, It is assumed Near knew everything L/Mello knew. Mello had discovered how to kill using pieces of DN. So Yeah.. Near knew.

This is the email x-kira should be recieved prior to Jan 28th...
In exactly 1 month and 29 days from today, the 26th of January. Do not go to the bank to pick up the note. Instead and I suggest sometime in December. Make 2 copies not one of the notebook. Keep one in your brief case and the other in the bank vault. Keep the original but burry it by using a name to do so for you. That way you cannot be tracked. Then keep a page on you and on the day of 28th January at 1pm. Use this page to rest on the fake that the spk will use. Write down Nate River first. Then kill the rest except light Yagami.
-LY ;]

Hi. While some people might understand your answer, please explain it, still, and do not just cite something and leave it at that. Thanks!

My apologies, if light and teru had planned this accordingly then Kiras legacy would remain in tact. Even if Mikami still went to the bank that day, by making two copies instead of just one would mean the SPK picks up the fake thinking they have swapped the fake for their own, basically a fake for a fake while the real one remains hidden. Also by using another victim to burry the note book means you only need to bring one page with you on the day of the spk meeting. What you end up doing is making three fakes, and this third one is for that.

It's not clear how this answers the question that was asked.


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Why does Neptune give Broccoli the nickname Puchiko?
In other anime some characters get nicknames like in Yuru Yuri Akari = Akarin and in WataMote Tomoko = Mokochii.
I can understand how these names get created but in Hyperdimension Neptunia Neptune calls Broccoli Puchiko. where does Puchiko come from?

Like other character's Broccoli's name is from that of the company she represents, in this case Broccoli
her nickname, Puchiko actually comes from another of Broccoli's works called Di Gi Charat, from the Wikipedia Article on Broccoli

Broccoli is well known for the Di Gi Charat franchise and series.

in Di Gi Charat there is a character called Puchiko

Petit Charat (Puchiko, プチ・キャラット), is Dejiko's little half-sister and is a catgirl.

there is also character called Gema. looking at Puchiko and Gema from Di Gi Charat and Broccoli from Neptunia they look similar

As you can see both Puchiko and Broccoli look very similar both having the same hairstyle, hat and being catgirls. also Broccoli's weapon Gema (seen under her) looks the exact same as Gema from Di Gi Charat
Also Puchiko and Broccoli both share the same Japanese Seiyuu and English Voice Actress.

Broccoli (ブロッコリー Burokkorī)
  Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro (Japanese); Karen Strassman (English)
  A little girl first appearing in Victory. In Re;Birth 1, she can join Neptune's party near the end of the game. She represents Broccoli.

Source: List of Hyperdimension Neptunia characters - Supporting characters

Petit Charat (プチ・キャラット Puchi Kyaratto) / Puchiko (ぷちこ Puchiko)
  Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro (1999–2008; Japanese and English in Leave it to Piyoko!), Nao Minakami (2008), Karen Strassman (English)
  At the beginning of the story it is explained that Puchiko, also known as Capuccino, is Dejiko's five-year-old sidekick and is a catgirl.

Source: Di Gi Charat - Characters
So Neptune's nickname for Broccoli, Puchiko, is actually a throw back to a character in Di Gi Charat which was made by the company Broccoli


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Backstories of Naruto
The back stories of Naruto, for example how danzo has so many Sharingans. These are only found in the wiki pages. Why aren't they made into anime or manga? OR are they already included in anime and manga? In my opinion, They can be made as new anime episodes instead of those fillers that don't have any connection with story.

keep in mind that generally Wiki's aren't maintained by the mangaka but by fans. when reading back stories you should check to see the citation references as to where the information is coming from. common sources, aside from Anime, Manga and Light Novels are Art/Material Books, Sound Dramas, Booklets that have came with Limited Edition/Preorders or from Q&A Sessions with the Mangaka. if it's not coming from any of these then you have to question how accurate the information is

A lot of these backstories are covered either by the filler episodes or the Naruto games. They are not necessarily canon, or legit. Only stuff from the manga are true to the series.
All the wiki info of course comes from the manga or anime. So if you see it in Narutopedia, it's in either an episode or chapter.
Side note: Danzo's Sharingan arm is actually surprisingly covered by the manga. Read Naruto chapter 700 Special 2.


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Does Izanagi really require both Senju and Uchiha DNA?
From the Chapter 510, you can see Tobi talking to Konan

Tobi happens to mention that Izanagi is available only to those with the power of both Senju and Uchiha. Is it really true? Because in the very next line he happens to mention that it is the power of the Sage of Six Paths.
That means either of the below 2 things are not-true.

We know that when Itachi explained Izanami to Sasuke, he happened to mention why the Izanami was created. It was because the Uchiha folks back then, used Izanagi for all wrong reasons. And most of those Uchiha certainly did not have the Senju DNA. So if what Tobi said was true, this has to be false.
If what Itachi explained about Izanagi's misuse is true and that every Uchiha who knows the jutsu Izanagi can use it, then what Tobi mentioned to Konan was wrong.

So which of the following is true? Or probably what Tobi told Konan was a plot-hole by Kishimoto?

My doubt is that if both Senju and Uchiha cells are mixed, then won't the Rinnegan get awakened?

This is a comment. And they shouldn't be posted as an answer. Nevertheless, since you've the doubt. I'll tell you. Just by having both the DNAs doesn't awaken the Rinnegan. It is evolved from the Sharingan. It's your Sharingan that evolves and becomes a Rinnegan. That's why Danzo did not have the Rinnegan.

Summary
Izanagi is a technique available to all Uchiha members with the Sharingan, but it has various levels of effectiveness:

The Uchiha, descended from the Sage, are able to perform Izanagi with their Sharingan ... To use Izanagi to its full potential, users must also have the genetic traits of the Senju, who are also descended from the Sage.

So, Itachi didn't lie, Obito didn't lie, and it is not a plothole. You can see how my answer clashes with the accepted answer.
Normal Izanagi
For normal Sharingan users, Izanagi can help you change reality for a brief moment.
Incomplete Izanagi (it's better)
For Sharingan users with Hashirama's DNA, it extends the lifespan of the jutsu. Since Danzo had Senju DNA in his right arm, he was able to extend Izanagi for each eye up to a minute.

Danzō had some of Hashirama Senju's DNA transplanted into his arm, which extended the time span of each Sharingan's Izanagi to a minute. However, because Danzō is not an Uchiha, his chakra levels drop substantially every time a new Sharingan is used to activate the technique.

The Complete Form of Izanagi (the best)
Finally, we have the Uchiha members who can control Hashirama's DNA — Obito and Madara. Obito's Izanagi can last much longer than Danzo's (surviving Konan's signature move), and he doesn't need to use any hand seals. As for Madara, he never uses Izanagi with Senju's DNA transplanted into him, although it is shown that Senju's DNA heals his right eye in the end.

Obito also makes use of Hashirama's DNA but, in contrast to Danzō, he claims to have gained control over Hashirama's DNA and as such, boasts the completed form of Izanagi. Showing evidence to this claim, Obito could maintain this technique's power much longer with a single eye than Danzō and could perform it with no hand seals at all.

Madara's Izanagi Trick
Madara had the Izanagi activated after his death, and his blind eye was healed by Hashirama's DNA.

But Madara had planned ahead: he had scheduled an Izanagi to activate sometime after his death, changing reality to bring him back to life in exchange for his right eye's vision ... went into hiding with ... a mouthful of Hashirama's flesh that he transplanted into his wounds .. in the process restoring his right eye.

Okay. Before answering, we have to consider the fact that Kishi sensei doesn't leave chances for plot holes.
The two instances where Izanagi is discussed formally are during :

Itachi and Sasuke's fight against Kabuto
the Konan vs Tobi fight

Itachi explains to Sasuke how the Izanagi and Izanami are very much related and what role they played in the Uchiha history. However, Itachi mentions that the Uchihas were able to use Izanagi. This contradicts Obito's explanation. Well, not really.
What Obito said was

Notice how he said incomplete form of Izanagi. In the fight between Obito and Konan, Obito was able to surprise Konan by escaping her 10 minutes of paper bomb explosion, using Izanagi. This was considered the complete form of Izanagi (Obito's thoughts) because Obito had control of Hashirama Senju's DNA. Whereas Danzo's Izanagi was considered incomplete because of the control he lacked over Hashirama's DNA.
So there exists two types of Izanagi: the complete form and the incomplete form. To perform the complete form, you need full control of Senju DNA and of course, Sharingan. The incomplete form however, needs only the Sharingan and a good amount of chakra.
Hence, both cases are TRUE, leaving no plot holes. Seems both Itachi and Obito were right, but the entirety wasn't revealed.

So as for your theory:

We know that when Itachi explained Izanami to Sasuke, he happened to mention why the Izanami was created: it was because the Uchiha folks back then used Izanagi for all the wrong reasons. And most of those Uchiha certainly did not have the Senju DNA. So if what Tobi said was true, this has to be false. TRUE

If Tobi was true, then Itachi statment (or his explanations) would be false. But unfortunately Itachi statments are true; therefore Tobi's explanation was wrong.

If what Itachi explained about Izanagi's misuse is true and that every Uchiha who knows the jutsu Izanagi can use it, then what Tobi mentioned to Konan was wrong. TRUE

Tobi did bluff Konan prior to her death. Tobi's explanation was wrong. He did try to exaggerate himself.

Whether it is a plot hole by Kishimoto.

I wouldn't say that it was a plot hole as Tobi always had a tendency to exaggerate himself. He does call himself Madara all the time (before the actual Madara got reanimated).

Tobi/Madara was incorrect in many of his statements. Whether a plothole/lie/etc.
There was this example of the Izanagi...
Then there was also the time where he swore to Sasuke that the 9-tails attack he himself perpetrated, was a natural disaster and wasn't perpetrated by anybody, specifically Uchiha. Although he himself is Uchiha...
But then again, so was Itachi. When he stated that Sasuke could be only the 3rd to master the Mangekyo. Implying himself and Madara. But then, there were all of those in the Izanagi story, they all had Mangekyo. Let's assume he didn't know that history at the time. There was still Madara's brother, who he told Sasuke had achieved the Mangekyo, which was then stolen by Madara for the EMS (according to that story). Then let's assume he didn't know about THAT story at the time either. Shisui GAVE HIM his Mangekyo (the only one with a 4-sided design, and likely would have been the most powerful EMS pair if they were able to be implanted into anyone. PLUS, Fugaku, who could control the 9-tails with his. Though Fugaku could be considered filler and not cannon, Shisui is DEFINITELY canon. So the whole Mangekyo, EMS, Izanagi/Izanami situation is extremely confusing if you try to sort it out based on their statements

Rinnegan only awakens in Indra reincarnation with Senju powers in Uchiha body, plus in point of death (Like Madara for old age or Sasuke vs Madara while Kabuto saved him injecting Hashi cells) It's not a plot hole, but true facts, that's why Obito didn't awakened Rinnegan while Sage path yep

Well, we all know that:

Izanagi can be used only by those with the genetic traits of the Sage of the Six Paths. The Uchiha, descended from the Sage, are able to perform Izanagi with their Sharingan. In exchange for the brief control of reality that it allows them, the Sharingan with which Izanagi is cast becomes blind.

so by this, you have to be the descendant of the Sage Of Six Paths, but it doesn't state that you must have both Senju's and Uchiha's DNA. As you've explained the Itachi tale, those Uchihas were not Senju's, nor did they have DNA, so Obito lied (maybe he didn't know, since he possessed Senju's DNA + Sharingan, so he just thought), more likely this one than a plot hole.

Uchihas can only preform an incomplete Izanagi. That's why your above quite says brief control of reality, although that really isn't too clear. But many previous episodes, that people have shown here already, prove it's not a plot hold because Obito does know that a Uchiha's Izanagi isn't complete like one who also possesses Senju's DNA.
People seem to think a big difference is Obito creating much longer alternate realities and he doesn't need hand signs. I'm not sure but I don't think Danzo using hand signs has anything to do with it being incomplete. Most likely he just needs to sign to direct his chakra to those eyes because they are on his arm, rather than a normal eye connected to ones brain.
We also don't know for sure that Obito's Izanagi is complete because it can last 10 minutes. He would not have had to continuously change reality for 10 minutes. He would just need to alter the event before he fell or use it for a second to get out of the pit. Surely not using it for 10 minutes. He would fall in the pit for 10 minutes. So he would transport body so he doesn't get hit by the bombs for his 5 minute maximum. And then 5 minutes of using Izanagi to change each result of every bomb explosion? Just doesn't sound like that's what he did


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What's a himouto?
I'm guessing himouto (干物妹) is some kind of pun on imouto since Umaru lives with her brother. But what's the joke? Googling the term in either kanji or romaji just returns results about the series.

himouto is a blend of the words imouto (妹: Little sister) and himono (干物).
himono literally translates to dried-fish, however the slang himono-onna is used to describe girls who put on a different face for when they're out of the house.
The top Urban Dictionary listing defines it as:

"himono-onna - girls in their twenties whom outside their home puts on a lively face, but as soon they get home, they change into their shirts and their hair are tied up like a samurai-style topknot, and they might even scratch their ass. snack in one hand, and canned beer in the other. on weekends they don’t go to blind dates, when they don’t have work they eat and sleep and eat and sleep and not a single guy around them." -- from Hotaru no Hikari (jdrama).

Apparently (as the UD listing says) the definition stems from the franchise Hotaru no Hikari.
As you can imagine, Hotaru no Hikari has a similar plot to Himouto Umaru Chan:

Hotaru works for a famous interior design company. It's a glamorous job but Hotaru's private life is totally the opposite of glamorous. She lives alone, and when she isn't working she's mostly lazing about her rented house in training wear. She's not interested in men. In fact, she isn't interested in anything. "I'd rather lay around than fool around," is her motto.

from here

Is that girl a himono-onna? (as seems it's a Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge spoiler, I linked her profile instead of saying her name)

yeah, I haven't seen that specific anime, so I wouldn't know, sorry @Gustavo


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How strong is Ash?
Ash is occasionally observed to carry Pokémon besides his 5 kg companion Pickachu, which most often can be found on top of his head / shoulder.

or even heavier

Those are some heavy creatures for are teenage protagonist.
So has our teenage protagonist been hitting them gym(s)? Or is this all just caused by another perception of weight/strength in the Pokémon universe?

Probably Pignite is jumping at the time while Ash is lifting him xD

I think the problem is in the averaging weight and trying to apply it to every pokemon of that type. Remember that Pikachu refuses to go into the pokeballs, and so he walks a lot and thus is likely to be fitter and slimmer than an average Pikachu which dwells inside pokeballs all day.
Also there is a matter of age. I'm not sure if pokemon of one type are supposed to be born, live and die never changing their weight, but it would seem counter-intuitive, as they're supposed to be living creatures, much like animals.
Those weights could be either averages of wild pokemon prior to capture and at their fittest, or after having lived a few years of lazy pokeball life. I don't think anyone has explained it in depth.
Not entirely serious, but consider these images:
Pikachu's game sprite and anime depiction have changed over the years:

Combine this with the fact that Ash is probably stronger than he looks, since he spends so much time camping and living outdoors.


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What is the origin of dance done by Terakado Tsuu's imperial Guard?
In episode 126 of Gintama, Shimura Shinpachi was seen supervising the Terakado Tsuu's Imperial Guards dance training. However, seeing μ's concert, none of the fans do such dance in both the anime and in the live concert.
Where does the dance origin from and does it have a name?

The dance is called Wotagei or Otagei. It is a dance done by Idol Otaku (called Wota) to show support for their idol during the concert. Quoting Wikipedia,

Wotagei is particularly associated with fans of Hello! Project and AKB48 idols, as well as fans of anime voice actresses, who often perform theme songs for the series in which they appear.

Thus, it can be said the the dance Terakado Tsuu Imperial Guard was practicing is originated from the real world wota of AKB48 and other idol groups. I never watched idol concert other than the μ's one, but such dance is possibly done often by AKB48 wotas, considering that a member of AKB48, Sashihara Rino, has done a mimic of wota dance during one of AKBingo show, suggesting that such a thing is common during AKB48's concert. This is further reinforced by the fact that each idol group, and possibly each wota group has their own dance and chant pattern as shown here and here. Morning Musume wota and AKB48 wota has their own chanting pattern.
As for why μ's wota are not doing wotagei during their concert, it might be due to the seating disabling them from moving too much. It might also be because among otaku culture itself there are categories of otaku, such as Anime Otaku, Idol Otaku, Game Otaku, etc. Since μ's comes from anime, the fans attending the concert would be a mix of different types of otaku, thus, the wotas might refrain themselves from doing such a dance so that they won't bother the other fans. This might also be a rule put by the concert management.


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Akito's motivation?
In the anime Fruits Basket, what was Akito's motivation behind allowing Tohru to live with Shigure, Yuki, and Kyo?
Did he hope that Tohru would reject them, thinking that no normal person would ever care for them, and heartbroken, they'd all return to his side at the main house?

This answer is full of unmarked spoilers to the manga and the anime. The anime ends maybe halfway through the manga, and further on in the manga it is revealed that Akito is

 a girl.

From the wiki:

After Yuki left the Main House to live with Shigure, Akito's mother Ren commented that the cursed Sohmas were abandoning Akito, just as Ren always predicted they would. Akito denied this and claimed they would all come back to her because of their inseparable Zodiac bonds. She and Ren made a dare in which Akito was to allow the cursed Sohmas to form bonds with "outsiders" to test whether they would return to Akito's side. If they did not return, Akito would have to bow before Ren then leave the Sohma family.

Ren is not fully sane. Her obsession with Akira and jealousy of Akito's relationship to him caused her to emotionally abuse Akito. There's a whole backstory on why Ren is so abusive, but I don't think it's entirely relevant. Due to Ren's emotional abuse focusing primarily on Akito being unloved, Akito's deepest fear is that she ends up alone, with everyone having left her. She recognises the power, as God, she has over the cursed Sohmas so she abuses that to ensure they never break the curse and presumably leave her. When Kureno, the Rooster, breaks free of his curse (about ten years before the events of Fruits Basket), Akito confines him to the Main House for fear of him abandoning her. She even goes so far as to attempt to keep him there through seduction, and although Kureno does not fall in love with her, he does have sex with her. At the same time, however, Akito pursued a relationship with Shigure, whom she truely loves. Shigure recipricated those feelings, but Ren intervened and convinced Shigure to sleep with Ren in revenge for Akito's sex with Kureno. When Akito discovered this, she exiled Shigure from the Main House.
Years later, Hatsuharu convinces Shigure to allow Yuki to stay at his house due to the extreme emotional abuse Akito inflicts on Yuki. Kyo also winds up staying at Shigure's as he is forbidden from staying in the Main House. Ren continues to torture Akito by declaring that all three's departure suggests that they are abandoning her, and, since Ren sucessfully convinced her that, given the choice, the cursed Sohmas would rather abandon Akito than support her, Akito pitifully clings to the belief that the Zodiac bonds will force them to return. In defiance of her mother, Akito allows Tohru to stay to prove Ren wrong, and reaffirm Akito's conviction that the Zodiac bonds trump all.


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Zeref Darkness Technique?
In episode 117 - Thunder Roar at about 7:50 into the episode Zeref regains consciousness and attacks with a technique resulting in the following picture.
Does anyone know the name of that move? Or what type of magic it is and how it works?

MANGA SPOILERS BELOW

 Orphaned after Dragons killed his parents and his little brother, Natsu, an extremely young Zeref became a student at the Mildian Magic Academy, where he researched the connections between life, death and Magic to revive his brother. After creating things such as the R-System and the Eclipse Gate, he was expelled from the academy for breaching the sacred teachings of Ankhseram, however he was cursed by Ankhseram and then killed everyone around him with his newfound, unwanted Curse of Contradiction.
Thus simply speaking Zeref wants to die, but can't and the Ankhseram's Curse of Contradiction kills everyone around him instead

Source: Manga. Wiki page: Only Open for spoilers on Zeref, Mavis, DragonSlayers and the Heartfilias


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How is Asura using Rasengan?
In Naruto anime episode 468, Asura is shown to be using a Rasengan based jutsu against Indra. If I'm not wrong, the Fourth Hokage Minato invented Rasengan several years later. Am I missing something here?

It's a filler episode, so any plotholes created from it can be disregarded. This question can still be answered, but I just wanted you to keep this in mind.

It may not have been rasengan, but just gathering chakra and rotating it for more power. My defense of this would be Indra's using a similar jutsu to chidori in this filler arc. Both jutsus are similar to the modern day jutsus we know, but not quite the same

also, Key word is Filler. Animation studio does whatever they want in a filler arc, whether it breaks continuity or not.

I think it was just to show how Indra and Ashura are similar to Sasuke and Naruto. Like how Indra's sharingan is the same as Sasuke's. And that Ashura inherited the Truth Seeker Orbs like how we see Naruto with them.

I think there are different variations and people just didn't know about the original origins of the Chakra so alot of information must be stored somewhere unknown or lost in time explaining alot of the past wish it was kept to humans and the ninja world instead of aliens etc though


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What is the dimension of Karuta cards?
Chihayafuru is an anime about card game called Karuta where players compete to touch the right card based on the poem being read. Chihayafuru wikia lists all 100 of the poem. However, I can't find the dimension of the card they use in the game. What is the dimension of the card used by Chihaya in the matches? Like how many cm x how many cm? If possible, the thickness of the card too.

Thickness wise i would assume it's the same as Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon, Cardfight Vanguard, Magic: The Gathering and Cards Against Humanity Cards. at least i assume they are all the same, they look and feel the same thickness wise

This is the best image I could find for thickness

Competition cards are 74x53mm (~2.9x2.1 inches) in size, and made from "pasteboard". Reference: Japanese Wikipedia article on karuta.  The pasteboard used to make Japanese playing cards tends to be thicker than what we are familiar with in the West for cards. It's called 厚紙 (atsugami = thick paper) and can be quite thick -- I have some Japanese playing cards that are 0.4mm thick, which is thicker than Western plastic playing cards, and I've seen images of atsugami that look quite a bit thicker.
Alas I don't know exactly how thick karuta competition cards are since I never held any.


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Will there be another Avatar series?
Will DiMartino and Konietzko make another Avatar series now that Avatar: The Last Airbender and Avatar: The Legend of Korra have both ended? Will Korra be the last installment in the Avatar franchise?

More than likely we will see more continuations of both The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra but these won't be animated.
In regard to The Last Airbender, there have been a number of comics that have been released since the end of the original series such as

The Promise
The Search
The Rift
Smoke and Shadow

all of these were released in 3 parts by Dark Horse Comics with the latest one being Smoke and Shadow Part 3 released in April 2016.
There is another The Last Airbender comic to be released called North and South with Part 1 expected to be released in September 2016 and the last part, Part 3, to be released in April 2017
In regard to The Legend of Korra, there isn't anything out yet however in 2015 at the San Diego's Comic-Con it was announced that The Legend of Korra would continue

According to the co-creators, they have three volumes of Korra comics planned, with DiMartino taking point on the writing. Don't worry Konietzko will be involved just with a limited role. He wrote on Tumblr:
"The Legend of Korra will continue as comics written by Michael DiMartino, published by Dark Horse! I’ve been working on the story with Mike, and I’ll be consulting on the art (once we secure an artist/artists). I made the images above for our announcement at the Dark Horse panel, which just finished up. Exciting stuff!"

Source: Latin Times
The link also showed there was artwork for these new books and a hint of what the story might be like.

Dark Horse also revealed new key art for the first volume, which you can see below drawn by Konietzko. The artwork features Korra and Asami walking back out of the Republic City Spirit Portal we saw them enter at the end of the series. "We're definitely going to focus on Korra and Asami's relationship," DiMartino said.

Like the other Avatar Comics the new Legend of Korra Comic, titled Turf Wars will be a 3 part title with Part 1 set to be released in June 20, 2017 according to the pre-order on penguinrandomhouse. As indicated by the Wikia page. Turf Wars is set after Korra's and Asami's honeymoon trip in the Spirit World which began at the end of Book 4 of the anime.

22/1/2019: after the posting of the above answer The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars has been fully released in 3 volumes and according to Wikipedia's list of Graphic Novels there is a new Korra trilogy coming out starting May 21, 2019 called Ruins of the Empire which according to Rightstuff Anime

Korra must decide who to trust as the fate of the Earth Kingdom hangs in the balance!
On the eve of its first elections, the Earth Kingdom finds its future endangered by its past. Even as Kuvira stands trial for her crimes, vestiges of her imperial ambitions threaten to undermine the nation’s democratic hopes. But when Korra, Asami, Mako, and Bolin don’t all see eye-to-eye as to the solution, drastic measures will be taken to halt a new march to war!

No, Korra will be the last installment. There are currently no plans for continuation. Both TLA & TLoK ended. At the end of Korra, you'll see something like "The End" in Chinese.

But, if you haven't read them, The Last Airbender comics are a continuation of the original The Last Airbender series.

Are these comics considered canon by the writers of the original show? Or are they done by other studios?

...created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. ~ Wikipedia

I know it says that, but it also says that they were published on a variety of different comic book studios, so I was just wondering. Thanks

@ThePickleTickler according to Wikipedia the Creative Team (Writer, Artist, US Publisher, etc) for all the current Aang Comics have been the same.


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Why Nami calls him Sanji-kun?
Since both officially joined the crew (by this, I mean after Arlong Park), they use special suffix when talking to each other. In case of Sanji, this is not surprising as he does the same with every girl he meets (as far as I noticed).
Nami, on the other hand, rarely uses such suffixes, with Sanji being the only none she calls Sanji -kun.
Is there any canonical reason for this?

could you specify where, because i'm pretty sure, she doesn't do it all the time, only when they're relaxing.

As far as i know she only does that when she wants something from him

I'm pretty sure she does in 90% of the time. In the anime at least.

I thought she did it to flirt with/manipulate him

Kun (君【くん】?) is used by people of senior status addressing or referring to those of junior status, by anyone addressing or referring to male children or male teenagers, or among male friends. It can be used by males or females when addressing a male who they are emotionally attached to or have known for a long time.

My guess is she's just being playful.


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Where does the 'J' in SSJ and SSJ2 come from?
In Dragon Ball Z, the abbreviations for Super Saiyan 1 and 2 are SSJ and SSJ2. However, there is no 'j' in Saiyan, so where does this 'j' come from in the abbreviation?

It comes from the Japanese original name for Super Saiyan: 超{スーパー}サイヤ人{じん}, pronounced Sūpā Saiya-jin.
You can read more about it at http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Saiyan.
Jin means "people/person." 'Gaikoku-jin' means foreigners.

Jin mean "People/person" . Gaikoku-jin mean foreigners

It means Super Saiya Jin , jin is "people"
Saiya Jin      = saiya people ,
Namekusei Jin  = namekusei people ,
Nihonjin       = japan     people


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What music plays in Hunter x Hunter SLOW MO?
2011 release of Hunter x Hunter (Chimera Ants arc):
In the episode where Gon and his friends enter the castle of ants through the hole made by Knov , everything goes like a slow mo and an epic music hits. I apologise for not mentioning the episode number. This music is repeated several times during the arc after the inception.
I have listened to various OST's from Hunter x Hunter but I don't think any of them are the one which I am looking for...
Can someone Identify the music that was playing??

Okay after quite a bit of research, I think I may have found some stuff that may help you.
The episode that you are looking for is Monster x And x Monster (ep. 112). The slow motion part is largely the first half of the episode.
There are a number of tracks that play during the slow motion scenes. Here's a playlist of tracks from the Chimera Ant arc (30 tracks), of which I think your best bets are either Hegemony of the Food Chain, Kingdom of Predators, or Legend of the Martial Artist. Of the three, I think Legend of the Martial Artist is the song you are referring to, but you can go through the playlist to find the specific song for which you are looking. Keep in mind that multiple tracks were playing during the time you are referring, so it might be a mix of a few different songs in that playlist.

It was legend of the Martial Artist I shazamed it

@NirmalRaj one of my personal favorites, and one of the best tracks of the whole anime


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How many pokemon did Ash catch?
Ash is fairly well known for his catch phrase "Gotta catch em all".
But recalling the series, it feels as if he did not even manage to catch a quarter of them.
So how many did he manage to catch?

Let's count? I am including pokemon such as Charmander, Chimchar, etc, which joined Ash of their own will without a battle as "CAUGHT".
List of Ash's Pokemon:
Kanto and Orange Islands

Pikachu - Given. Not caught.
Caterpie - Caught. Released as a Butterfree.
Pidgeotto - Caught. Left in the wild as a Pidgeot
Bulbasaur - Caught.
Charmander - Caught. Joined Ash of his own will. Left to train. Rejoined and with Oak now.
Squirtle - Caught. Released back to the Squirtle Squad.
Krabby- Caught. With Prof. Oak as a Kingler
Raticate - Traded for Butterfree. Got back
Haunter - Joined Ash for fun. Left for Sabrina.
Primeape - Caught. Left for Fighting trainer.
Muk - Caught in the power plant.
Tauros - Caught in Safari Zone.
Lapras - Caught. Released with family.
Snorlax - Caught on Orange Island.

Johto

Heracross - Caught.
Chikorita - Caught. With Oak as a Bayleef
Cyndaquil - Caught. With Oak as a Quilava
Totodile - Caught
Shiny Noctowl - Caught
Beedrill - Caught in Bug Catching Contest. Released to Casey.
Phanpy - Hatched.. With Oak as a Donphan
Larvitar - Hatched. Released

Hoenn and Battle Frontier

Tailow - Caught. With Oak as a Swellow
Treecko - Caught. With Oak as Sceptile
Corphish - Caught
Torkoal - Caught
Snorunt - Caught. With Oak as a Glalie
Aipom - Caught. Traded to Dawn

Sinnoh

Starly - Caught. With Oak as a Staraptor
Turtwig - Caught. With Oak as a Torterra
Chimchar - Caught. With Oak as an Infernape. Left Paul to join Ash, like Charmander
Buizel - Traded. From Dawn
Gligar - Caught. With Oak as a Gliscor
Gible - Caught

Unova

Pidove - Caught. With Oak as a Unfezant
Sewaddle - Caught. With Oak as a Leavanny
Roggenrola - Caught. With Oak as a Boldore
Palpitoad - Caught. With Oak
Scraggy- Hatched. With Oak
Oshawott - Given by Juniper. With Oak
Tepig - Another fire starter left by a trainer. Caught. With Oak as a Pignite.
Snivy - Caught! With Oak
Krokorok - Caught. With Oak as a Krookodile

Kalos

Froakie - Caught. Released. With Squishy and Z2
Fletchling - Caught. With Oak as a Talonflame
Goomy - Caught. Left in the Wetlands
Noibat - Hatched. With Oak as a Noivern
Hawlucha - Caught. With Oak

Alola

Rowlet - Caught! Ash has caught his first pokemon in Alola.
Rockruff - Caught! In Alola as Lycanroc
Litten - Caught! in Alola as Incineroar.
Poipole - Caught! In ultra space. Came back as Naganadel for Pokémon league
Meltan. Caught! In Alola as Melmetal.

Galar

Dragonite - Caught! With Ash in various regions.
Gengar - Caught! With Ash in various regions
Riolu - Hatched! Given to Ash by Nurse Joy.
Farfetch’d - Caught! With Ash in various regions:

Tl;Dr Ash has got 57 unique pokemon species. He got 2 (Pikachu, Oshawott), Traded for 2 (Raticate, Buizel), hatched 5 (Larvitar, Phanpy, Scraggy, Noibat, and Riolu). Also, Haunter just traveled with him so not counted as catching.
Thus Ash has CAUGHT [57-(2+2+5+1) = ]47 unique species.
Edit: As requested by OP removed a quote referencing the number of pokemon dexed by Ash. Dexed pokemon are a larger set of pokemon, which include hatched, evolved, and owned in any other way (Gift/Trade, etc.).
Also, couldn't resist.

That sure is not even close to all of them. Nice answer.

Ash is terrible at catching them all.

cant even dex them all

You forgot about Snivy in the count for the Unova region. This article on Bulbapedia gives a brief description of the circumstances around it's capture.

According to Bulbapedia, Ash has owned a total of 80 different species of Pokemon, although he currently owns 68 (including 30 Tauros) thanks to evolution, trading, and other changes of ownership.

But how many of these did he catch and not receive in some other way?


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Do we ever find out about Ash's dad in Pokemon?
When Ash was 10 (and I think he somehow is still 10?), he left his home in Pallet Town to begin his journey. When he leaves home, we meet his Mom, Delia Ketchum, who we see at various points in the anime after Ash leaves. However, Ash's father is rarely mentioned, and we never meet him. Ash has stated that his dad also began his journey as a Pokemon trainer from a young age, but that is about it.
Does anyone know anything about Ash's dad?

I found this VERY Funny.. Lmao. http://myanimelist.net/featured/1522/Anime_Fan_Theories__Who_is_Ash_Ketchums_Dad

No We don't.
According to Wikia,

From very minor portions of dialogue, it can be assumed that his father started on a journey from Pallet Town much like Ash. Never formally introduced, the identity of his father has always been under heavy speculation. These speculated characters however, have attained no hard evidence that they are in fact related to Ash in any way. In addition to that, during an interview with a storyboard artist for the Anime series, the artist stated that Ash's father is a man who is on his own Pokémon journey as a Trainer's.

Trivia,

In The Spell of the Unown's commentary, the producers announced that more about him will be revealed in season 5, which eventually turned out to be untrue.

Has there ever been any mention of parents of any of the main pokemon characters in anime series? And by main I mean specifically people who travel along with ash for a season or more. I've never heard of it but at the same time I don't think I paid that much attention. @Arcane.

@KazRodgers Without checking wikia, I seem to think Brock's dad left the family leaving brock to take care of his siblings, Dawn's mom was shown I am sure. I don't remember about any other companions' parents.

Ok now I'm just going to assume that parents occur randomly. They are actually the rarest pokemon. So rare that we haven't realized it collectively yet.

In the second Ep of the anime, when ash arrives at Veridian City, Ash's mom tells him that his father took four days to get there while Ash arrived there in one day.

And found this on MAL:

The identity of his father has remained unknown. One reference to him exists in the anime. During a phone conversation between Ash and his mother in the second episode, [...] A line from the play, Pokémon Live!, suggests that Delia, at one time, had a relationship with the leader of Team Rocket, Giovanni when she was a teenager, but in the anime, no evidence of Giovanni being Ash's father has been shown currently.

https://myanimelist.net/character/2473/Satoshi
Just adding to the above.


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Why do we never hear from Elsa Granhiert again in Re:Zero?
In the beginning of Re:Zero Elsa played as a major character and roadblock for Subaru. We also learn that she manages to escape alive and says that its not the end of her. Elsa is one of the people who seems to be against the Royal Election. The anime is already 19 episodes in and we never hear from her again. I find it strange since both Felt and Old Man Rom plays a role in the Royal Election but Elsa doesn't comeback.

I'm not really sure, if she is against Royal Election. She had a employer, and her target was Emilias insignia. It is possible, that one of dragon priestess candidates is her actual employer, trying to sabotage Emilias chance to become elected.

https://translationchicken.com/ - you can see her again in Arc 4 :)

Elsa will not play an active role in the current arc. but she will return as one of the major antagonist (like betelgeuse) in the next arc.

Oh wow. I hope this confirms season 2. Thanks for the answer.
I mean who doesn't want to see more cute gothic knife girl.

@Enkrypton As i recall, there is a light novel the anime is based on/taken from, so knowing what is going to happen several arcs ahead is common, but means nothing for the anime continuing.

@Enkrypton at best you need to wait for Tappei Sensei to finish arc 4 related volume which im guessing around (10 -18) which takes at minimum 2 years. 23rd/25th September 2016 will be the released of Vol 9

She is already deceased as it was stated in the wiki. Although the cause of her death is still unknown. More details here.


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Why was the nudity not censored in Dragon Ball?
In the beginning of Dragon Ball (not DBZ), Goku was shown quite often either partially or completely naked. Some may make the argument that this was necessary to showcase his tail in the beginning of the series. However, according to Toriyama, Dragon Ball started as a gag reel, and then was a show for children. If this is the case, they why did they allow Goku to be vividly naked without censorship? Was this interpretted differently in Japan, because I feel this would have been odd to American viewers at the time.

First time DB airs was in the 90s where pedophilia issue was not as rampant as now. Because of that, maybe at that time they wasn't thinking that the nudity needs to be censored.

Japan is a different culture from the US and Europe, nudity wasn't considered so sexual as it was elsewhere at the time.

FCC and other networking standards were still in their infancy back then. Recall that DB came out in the late 80's so filtering and editing content from imports wasn't as established back then. DB was after-all one of the first anime seen by most Americans.

because he was a little kid, a boy, so they didn't think it was weird

First, in Japan, it was a non issue. Different culture. Check out all the different animes and mangas that pull off similar or even worse moves.
Once it went to the western world where it is an issue... Networks did not realize (sold as kids show -> didn't bother checking the tapes).
Back here there was an issue where, at a kids show on national tv, the host presented the newest show!, ranma 1/2's first episode. Turn out it was the uncensored version, after the episode was over and the camera returned to the host, she was evidently quite upset and embarrased. Myself and my brothers were watching along with our parents, all of us were quite embarrased as well (and most likely everyone that watched that show). It was only then that more attention was put on these shows :)


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Law's goal with the One-Piece?
Does Law have a particular goal with going after the one-piece? I'm not sure if he or the other major players in the running for the one-piece have had their motivations put front-and-center yet.
But so far everyone that is member of the straw-hats has had their goal explained. But aside from wanting to crush Doflamingo does Law have an actual goal?

No one is after the One-Piece in the straw hat crew, not even Luffy.
As it was explained many times, each member has a different motivation to go trough the Grand Line:

Luffy wants to conquer the Grand Line to be the pirate king, because the pirate king has the most freedom in the world
Nami wants to draw the map of the entire world
Sanji wants to get to All blue (wich supposedly is close to One-Piece)
Zoro wants to be the biggest swordsman in the world (aka.: He need to defeat Hawk)
Chopper wants to find the cure every disease
Robin wants to learn the void century's history
Franky wants to be on the Sunny Go when Luffy becomes the pirate king, so he can complete his dream
Brook wants to meet Laboon when they finally get back to the beginning of the grand line

This is why they seem to be better than most of the pirates as they don't want to get to the end of the Grand Line to get rich.
Law only wants to find the One-Piece to become the Pirate King and because that's mostly treasure.


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Why is it that many anime and manga depict being a virgin male as something embarrassing?
From the long list of manga I read and anime I watched, especially in romance genre, including romance comedy, harem, etc, being a virgin has been depicted as something bad, especially a male virgin. Many of them have the virgin guy pretending that he is not. When his close friend, who happens to know that he is a virgin, blurted about the fact, he was seen embarrassed as if being a virgin is something bad despite them being High School Students. Another even said that if you are a virgin until 30 then you will become a wizard (IIRC it was Haganai).
Why is it that anime and manga depict being a virgin as something embarrassing? Does this reflects the Japanese society, mainly the teens?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AManIsNotAVirgin

Seems like every time there's a question about sex on our site, it hits the Hot Network Questions. Like when we had Why are anime girls drawn without pubic hair? all over the sidebar on every site from Puzzling to Parenting.

Because it's embarrassing. And not in just Japan, it's that way in literally every Western country. It's been for thousands of years. How in the world is this surprising to you, OP?

Don't have time to make an answer, but someone should probably approach this from the angle of "This is a sign of adulthood, or more specifically manhood, in many cultures."

Sex is an important part of human life, as each life usually starts with somebody having it. People like discussing it because it's pleasurable. And there are other things comparable in popularity, like drinking alcohol with friends, going to parties, cursing and swearing (especially for kids) and other less legal or healthy activities, like taking drugs.
Often when people express their concerns about feeling embarrassed that they don't do one of those activities as often as their surrounding, they say that it is such a common topic of discussion that even if they didn't initially think it was something to be embarrassed about, after some time they started to think they are less of a person for not doing it too.
This is a common response for people when they're being told something again and again − they start doubting themselves and whether they should change what they do. And so, this isn't unique to Japan or the teens. People of all ages and nationalities are susceptible to peer pressure about most things, given enough time.
One might get the impression that this is mainly an issue for teens in Japan because anime tends to depict topics that might hit close to home for certain target audiences better than others using the characters who are worried about the same things as the target audience. For example, you don't often see anime marketed for very young children in which adults are discussing complex issues of marriage and dealing with personal issues and trauma.

in japan specifically, the population is on the decline. their census has detected lower reproductive rates for the population, leading to problems.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30653825
google reports: 1.41 births per woman (2012)
clearly, 2 people having 1.41 children is not sustainable for a country.
japanese culture is such that nobody leaves before the boss, and the boss has to maintain respectability by staying long hours. this essentially means there is little time to consider raising a family. the government has addressed this by attempting to allot time away from work to allow conjugal visits. furthermore, the media is encouraged to promote reproductive efforts ableit with heavy censorship (due to the conservative culture).

It would be much better if you added some statistics from other countries so it would be possible to compare them.

While this is true, we need to be careful not to blow this out of proportion. I have a hard time believing that anime writers are sitting there writing these scenes into their shows while thinking "I'd better do my part to help reverse the declining birth rate by making sure teenage boys feel like garbage for being virgins". It seems more likely the scenes were inspired by real-life peer pressure of the sort mentioned in ton.yeung's and Hakase's answers.


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Why didn't Korosensei use his absolute defence form against the orbital laser?
I've been rewatching S1, and something popped up in my mind the last few episodes: Why didn't Korosensei use his absolute defence form to protect himself against the second attack of the orbital laser? Isn't he supposed to be indistructable in that form?

the absolute defense form is still part of himself is it not, doesn't that mean that the things that penetrate his cells will tear it as well?

In one of the final episodes, Koro Sensei specifically states that the orbital laser is so powerful it will break through even his Ultimate Defense Form - after all, it was designed based on all of the data gathered both from the experiments conducted in places like the ISS, as well as from observation of Koro Sensei and the class.
And from an out-of-universe perspective, it was needed to be an inescapable situation, to set up everything that would happen in the finale.


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Is it possible to have absolute obedience using Death Note?
We've seen Light completely manipulating the robber in the bus-accident case (in which he figured out the identity of the FBI stalker). At the end, though the robber died, but everything went according to the book or in other words the robber was completely manipulated.
So my question is, is it possible for Light to gain absolute obedience over the victim without killing him? If so, why doesn't he utilizes this power?
One possible way to gain absolute obedience is to write a task for the person and make the person's death to occur after a long period (say fifty years)

There are a few practical limits.
In the movie the death had to occur within 23 days.
In the anime, Light experimented with what he could make the victims do. If it was physically impossible for them to do something, nothing would happen.
Also, remember one of the rules:

After writing the cause of death, details of the death should be written in the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds.

That's not a whole lot of time to write down what someone should do.
Apart from that, the victim would be forced to do what was written, as Light discovered when he did his experiments.
Also, it only seems to affect the target of the death. It was pointed out somewhere early in the anime that others could not be coerced. When Light tried to find Ray Penbar out, he had to create a pretty complicated scenario. He could not just write "Any FBI agent will now reveal him- or herself".

The time limit for death is specifically 23 days (see http://anime.stackexchange.com/a/909/).

It is possible to make someone do everything that would be within his/her normal behaviour but only within 23 days before the death. What happens in this time also must not kill other persons.
The correct time you have to specify the actions and circumstances of the death is 19 days if you first write the cuase and circumstances of death and than the name (Rule VIII).
So if you want a clown/ acrobat to perform at you birthday party, showing this and that trick and so on, it is no problem as long as you write it several days early and make him die shortly after this - he will cancle other arrangements and come to your party. Try the same with a monkh and he has a heart attack beacause ha can't ride a unicycle over a high wire while playing trumped.
Or you can write the name of some hundred workers make them revolt and get shot by the police. That should be fine too as long as noone else woud die because of it.


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Could Hidan possibly get out of his hole?
I'm just wondering, in the episode where Hidan lost his head against the Konoha jounin, which he killed eventually (forgot the name). There is a scene where he lost his head, and his body is still moving, looking for the head. Until Kakuzu stitched Hidan's head to his body. Then in the scene where Shikamaru buried him, Hidan is literally disconnected with his body (or did some of his parts even get vaporized?) But his head is still working. Supposing his body parts could still move on its own regardless if they are not connected with a central nervous system, could Hidan "chew", "claw", "divide" his way out of the hole? and then from some bit make himself whole again? His becoming whole again would incur maybe centuries, lets just say that somehow his tissues would become whole again over time. The topic would be, if he could get out of the mound which Shikamaru created from him.

this is too opinion based, but theoretically no, because the earth's crust is constantly moving and stuff, who knows what will happen to him. also the hole might close up due to rain which create mud which dries up to produce dirt which would likely to seal the hole.

It is impossible for Hidan to crawl out of his hole.

His body was destroyed. When he was captured by Shikamaru, his body was exploded using exploding tags, leaving only his head. So, having his body digging the hole would be impossible.
While Hidan is immortal, he doesn't seems to possess healing ability. This is proofed by the fact that he needs Kakuzu to stitch his head back to his body. He can't do this himself by means of regeneration. So, it'd be impossible for him to regenerate his already lost body and have it dig for him.
He was buried several meters underground. It wasn't said how many meters but from the image shown in the manga and the anime, I'd say it is about 3 meters or more with the diameter approximately 1 meter. So using the formula for tube volume, pi x r x r x h, we get 3.14 x 0.5 x 0.5 x 3, which is 2.356 meter cubic of soil. 1 meter cubic of soil is about 1,200 kg, so that means he have 2,827.433 kg of soil weighing his head.
Digging from inside is an impossible task. When digging from outside, you move the mass from one place to another. However, since his head is surrounded by soil, suppose that he use his mouth to try digging, he would not have place to put the soil away, not to mention that when he do so, the soil above would fall down. His option would be to swallow it, but I doubt he would be able to swallow 2,800 kg of soil and then using his mouth to climb out of the hole.
Hidan is buried in a forest belonging to the Nara clan. Suppose that somehow he managed to climb his way up, as implied by Shikamaru when he buried Hidan, the deer in that forest would contact the Nara clan and someone would send his head back into the hole and bury him again.
He can't wait for centuries. Naruto Second Fanbook stated that while Hidan is indeed still alive, he is dying from malnutrition.

You killed me here, but your info is great! thank you!

Nice one. But the diameter of the hole is at least 4m in diameter from the manga images. Coming to the math, You cannot expect the whole weight of the soil cylinder to be crushing his head because he wasn't buried with a circular structure with the area of the hole placed on his head to take all the weight of the soil dumped on him. The ground around him takes the weight of the soil as well. Plus there seems to be boulders dumped in too, making it impossible to guess the structure of alignment of them pressing on the sides of the hole hence reducing the downward weight on Hidan.

hes not dead
When kakuzu was reanimated he said himself that hidan was alive
kabuto didnt use endo tensei!!!
By a bunch of snakes and a scroll, to revive a real corpse through edo tensei you need their dna for it

He's dead.
Because he was resurrected with edo tensei by Kabuto Yakushi in the naruto arc Chikara (Power)

Did he? I thought he isnt because Kakuzu is looking for Hidan's chakra. Then he concluded that Hidan isn't dead because he can't find him

That arc is a filler.

That arc maybe a filler but it still related to the main story. The arc takes place in the middle of the Fourth Shinobi World War: Confrontation.


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Why did Misty leave the Pokemon anime?
I remember watching the Pokemon anime when I was a kid, and I was absolutely obsessed with Ash, Brock, Misty, and Pikachu. I remember when Brock left, and then there was Tracy, and then Brock came back. After a while, I stopped watching, but then resumed a few years later, to see that both Brock and Misty were gone, and they were replaced with May and Max (I think this is correct).
I must have missed what happened to Misty and Brock during my brief absence from the Pokemon franchise. I'll leave Brock for another question (or maybe bonus points if you know about what happened to him too), but what happened to Misty? What was her reason for leaving the original team? Separate from that reason, what was the executive reason for deleting Misty? For example, when the writing staff got rid of Brock the first time, they said it was due to his flirtatious manner, and were worried he would not be well received. Was there any reason similar to this for Misty's disappearance? Could she ever return, like Brock did?

i thought she have to take over her family gym for her sisters

Misty left at the end of the original Pokemon series because her sisters won the lottery and wanted to travel around the world, so they asked Misty to stay at the gym to be the gym leader. This is in episode 273 of the anime. Of course, Misty didn't want to and wanted to travel more with Ash, but eventually she left to become the gym leader after a battle with a nasty kid along with Ash, who was showing signs of unwillingness (which made her feel a tad bit better).
As for Brock, he needed to go home and visit his family, and he pretended he forgot about this until the very last minute. So Brock, Misty and Ash each went back to their home and that was the end of the little team. Then, when Ash got home, Gary left as well, so he got bored and decided to go to Hoen where he meets Max, May, and reunited with Brock.
P.S. it was at the end of the anime too so they needed to find a reason to finish the series.


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Does Hajime Isayama have an ending in mind for Attack On Titan?
I have read somewhere that Isayama already knows the final ending of the Attack on Titan manga, but the route which he will get there is unknown to him.
Are there any interviews where he specifies this?

There are high chances that the answer is Yes.
He does have an ending in mind even though it is a different one and not the original end which he planned when he started the manga. As you can see here:

In an interview with White-Screen.jp, Isayama has said that he's been evolving his manga, with new elements being added.
  However, one of the more substantial changes to the series' direction is that he has abandoned plans for an audience traumatizing ending..... With all the support that the series has received, he didn't want to slam the fans with a traumatic conclusion.

The interview is here (only in japanese) and another source of information can be found here.
In another interview he says:

It seemed like my editor wasn’t going to let the series start to be published unless I had an ending in mind.

There are high chances that the situation is like this:
He had the dark ending planned up, then he abandoned it due to the reasons above and changed the route of events to a happier end but he may or may not have a clear and set in stone happier end with all of the characters' fate decided, only a general idea which is still left to be polished.

I am now led to believe that humanity was going to be ultimately wiped out as his "audience traumatizing ending" >:]

Or maybe a gruesome fail for the main characres in reaching their objective and finding out the truth

Thanks for the detailed response. This manga has always caught me off guard, and yet I am naively hoping for a positive ending. I guess the show has too much of an impact to allow a traumatizing ending.

I bet the original ending must have something to do with why it is called Attack on Titan. Hopefully after he released the happy ending he'd also release the original ending.

@surveyCorps  It was my pleasure

please do not kill Jean :(


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Song playing in Kanon (2006) episode 8
I would like to know what song plays in episode 8 (The Fantasia of Reminiscence
〜fantasie〜) of Kanon (2006) anime starting around 12:50 when snow starts to fall.

That song is called "Yume no Ato", which means "After the Dream". It's Track 2 of the Kanon original soundtrack, which I was pleasantly surprised to find can be purchased on iTunes, along with lots of other great anime music (including the OSTs for Clannad, Little Busters, Charlotte, Angel Beats, Planetarian, and Rewrite).


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Are there any religions in Pokemon?
From what I remember, no character in Pokemon is shown going to any sort of religious house of worship, and there doesn't seem to be much if any mention of religion/religious beliefs until Sinnoh, where there is lore following Arceus's creation of the world. Are there any organized religions in the world, worshiping either Arceus or some other deity/pantheon?

There is a church in Hearthome City (Sinnoh). It looks pretty much like a Roman Catholic church would look like in Europe. (On second thought, it is never called a church, so it is possible that it is not used to worship any gods)

It may not such proof but in the first season ep39 "Holiday Hi-Jynx" the whole episode about Christmas.

It's not a religion from the present Pokemon World, but in the manga series The Electric Tale of Pikachu (Dengeki Pikachu), in the fourth chapter (Haunting my Dreams), Brock says to Ash that in "ancient times" the people who lived near the Pokemon Tower in Lavender Town worshipped Pokemon as gods:

Interesting.  At least in one canon, there is some evidence of this.

Neither in the Anime, nor in the Games or the Manga is ever mentioned something about religions. Religious aspects can be seen sometimes (like your example of Arceus, but also the wise men in the Sprout Tower or the Slowpoke-temple in the anime), but they aren't a real topic.
Either in the anime or in one of the games, it's mentioned that most of the people at least in Lavender Town are religious. But besides of that, nothing was mentioned in the anime/manga/games.

Well, I don't know if this would work, but there was that big crystal flower tractor beam hidden underground under Geosenge Town in X and Y, and the long living AZ used it to kill off dozens of Pokémon to bring back his floette, correct? I think that Lysandre, for the sake of his 'beautiful' world, sought to unleash that crystal flower tractor beam and eradicate all Pokémon as his duty, so I guess he believed religiously in a world without Pokémon. (That's also a little rich from Lysandre, cause he would be seen using Pokémon, jk) Otherwise, I dunno. It in some aspects depends on how you view the games itself, and how it relates to real life beliefs, places, and all sorts. It was basically Lysandre's religion that, 'let's say there is a god, and he came to me and told me to try making a Pokemon free world, and I agreed, cause I liked the idea, and I want to achieve that.' Sorta like that. He sorta is following that 'God' that wanted him to do it. (Even though the god wasn't mentioned at all, that's still what I think)
I don't know, but hope this helped!
- Matt
Hope I don't get down rated.

If you don't want your answer to be down voted, include some sources to back up what you say.


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What is the name of the audio that plays when the gray king appears in K-Project?
I've done a bit of digging but I can't find the track anywhere. It's in episode 7 of return of the kings (the second season). I'd like the title of the track and if possible a link to download it. I really enjoy it's melody and would like to listen to it more often.
Does anyone know who made it or where I can find it?

It is called, "K vs K" (And, by the way, it is the Silver King, not the gray king)

After some more digging I found that the track is called K vs K from the OST a link to the track here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWjCr2bx9XU


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What happened to Yamato?
Is yamato dead? If not what happened to him. We saw him being taken prisoner by Kabuto and then we never see or hear from him again, even with Kabuto defeated we see no mention of him. So what happened to him?

Yamato was controlled by spiral zetsu (tobi) just before the infinite tsukuyomi. Since Yamato and zetsu both know wood release, their powers combined was enough to stop the Third Hokage with "Sage Art Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands".
Chapter 677

Episode 426


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How old is Marguerite?
As far as I checked in Google, there is no direct reference for the age of Marguerite - she was one of the female tribe members on Amazon Lily who've found Luffy.
Her age is ambiguous at best, as everything seems to qualify between 14 and 24 - or even beyond, knowing the way Oda handles age.
Is there anything known about it?

Like you said, her age hasn't been officially revealed yet. Judging from her physique and face, she could be anywhere from 16 to 24 years old, but until it is brought up in-story or Oda clarifies it in an SBS, her age will remain unknown.
EDIT: The Vivre Card Databook Vol. 4 finally revealed Marguerite's age; she is 16 pre-timeskip, and 18 post-timeskip.

It's funny how you say "yet". I highly doubt they will ever take him up again.

@Bálint  Never underestimate Oda's attention to detail... especially when it comes to young women.  Juggling the minutiae of thousands of unique characters is his bread and butter.


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What is the longest-running manga series that has already ended before september 2016?
Ah! My Goddess manga has run from september 1988 to june 2014, and that is 25 years, 9 months.
Of the manga series that have already ended by this posting (before september 2016), what is the longest-running one?
Is it Ah! My Goddess? Or is there an even longer one?
I'm more interested in the time between the first and the last chapter, but if you can in addition to make a point for the one with more chapters, that is also acceptable

I thought for sure this was a duplicate or at least related to a question that was already asked, but I looked around and didn't find anything, so +1 and I'm interested to see the answers.

Off the top of my head, Sazae-san already beats it out at 28 years (1946-1974). I'm sure there's other old stuff out there that ran even longer. From this ja.wikipedia page, there's apparently a baseball manga called "Abu-san" that ran for 41 years (1973-2014).

Longest running as in longest continuous running or what? Please clarify.

@AyaseEri time between first and last chapter. It is assumed that some series might have some long hiatus.

Kochikame is ending this month (September 2016) and is usually given as the manga series with the most chapters/volumes (its final volume will be Volume 200). Chiisana Koi no Monogatari still wins for span of years, though; Kochikame started in 1976, so it's been going for a mere 40 years.

The series mentioned by senshin in the comments are hard to beat. But here is a new record:
Chiisana Koi no Monogatari (小さな恋のものがたり) ran for 52 years, from 1962 to 2014.

It was created by Chikako Mitsuhashi and published by Manga Time. A total of 43 were published.
Sources: wikipedia and myanimelist.
According to the same wikipedia article, the record to most chapters seem to go to Sazae-san, with 6477, and the one for more volumes published to Nijitte Monogatari with 111.

Good find (but note that Kochikame is still ongoing, and so probably not what OP is looking for). It's important to keep in mind, though, that the amount of content in "one chapter" or "one volume" can vary a lot, both by genre and over time. Page count is probably a better measure of "which series has the most content" (though, again, the amount of content in a page varies, too, albeit less so).

@senshin You are right. Sazae-san actually has more chapters, and ended in 1994. I've edited accordingly. I also agree that page count is a better measure for amount of content.

@senshin that is why i worded the question to mention time lapse between episodes. And I put a stop at the month of posting, to exclude ongoing series. It somehow breaks SE timelessness requirements, but it can remain as a research reference.


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Why, in the dub of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, were the Earthbound Gods renamed the Earthbound Immortals?
In the original series, the Egyptian gods remained as they were, and later in the very same series a set of cards is called the Nordic gods; what makes the Earthbound Gods so different?

i don't recall when the Earthbound Immortals were called Earthbound Gods, is this from another version other thank the 4Kids English Dub?

@Memor-X The original Japanese.

I don't really follow Yu-Gi-Oh anymore, but I think this can be explained on purely linguistic grounds.
Leaving Obelisk (and "Slifer") aside for a moment, Ra and Osiris take as their namesakes beings that we, in English, call gods. Ra is "an Egyptian god" because he was worshipped by the Egyptian people, and the same is true of Osiris. So we call their Yu-Gi-Oh counterparts "the Egyptian god cards".
Likewise, we conceptualize Loki, Odin, and Thor as "Norse gods" because they were worshipped by pre-Christian North Germanic peoples, and so we call their Yu-Gi-Oh counterparts "the Nordic god cards".
But do we call the figures drawn in the Nazca lines "gods"? No, we do not. Perhaps the Nazca people who created them did worship them (though it's difficult to tell, given that they produced no texts), but we - the target audience - think of them as "just" a spider or a bird or a tree, not as targets of worship. It would, in my opinion, be weird to use the word "god" to describe the Yu-Gi-Oh versions of these Nazca figures. I suspect that whoever made this translation decision followed a similar line of thought.
I hardly think this has anything to do with censorship. If they cared about not offending monotheists, well, that boat sailed long ago.
(It is perhaps worth noting that though the Japanese word 神 kami is typically translated as "god", there isn't a one-to-one equivalence here. The English word is heavily colored by the Christian sense of capital-G God, while the Japanese word is colored by indigenous worship practices that treat a wider variety of entities as kami. Just because the Japanese name of the Nazca figures is 地縛神 jibakushin, that doesn't mean that the "correct" translation of it must involve the word "god".)


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Who is the "emperor of BL"?
In episode 4 of Fudanshi Koukou Seikatsu, there's a gag where Sakaguchi mentions "the emperor [or empress?] of BL, Mori███████yuki". Judging from the bleeping-out of the name, I assume this is a reference to a real person who draws BL manga. But who?
I had a look through all the people on MAL whose family names begin with "Mori" and whose personal names end with "yuki" and didn't come up with anything.

This is likely to be a reference to veteran male voice actor Morikawa Toshiyuki (森川智之). He is known to have done dubbed voice-overs for many famous (and handsome) Hollywood actors,  as well as the voices of several well-known bishounen anime characters such as Griffith from Berserk,  Sephiroth from FF7, and Naraku from Inuyasha.

Ah, that makes sense. I incorrectly assumed that the person would be an artist, so I skipped over all the voice actors on MAL. Oops.

Based on the name, the one dubbed as the Emperor of BL is Toshiyuki Morikawa. There is an interview in MAL that supports this.

Q: We've got many, many female fans today. In addition to regular anime, you've been playing many roles for female-oriented drama CDs. What's the major difference between the two types of performance, and how did you feel when you first started voicing female-oriented drama CDs?
A: I'm very happy to see so many female fans, but I also noticed a few guys among them. At first I worried for them, fearing that they might feel uncomfortable in the overwhelming female crowds, but I was relieved when I saw them enjoying the autograph session very much. As for boys-love (BL) drama CD: you know that I've played many BL roles, and I love those titles very much, for their storytelling are often superior to those of regular anime, plus I wouldn't be able to play so many different roles without BL drama CDs. The most memorable performance was with my good friend Shinichiro Miki in Embracing Love: Cherished Spring (Haru wo Daiteita), which had two actors as male protagonists, thus in addition to playing the character we had to deliver the message of the work as well.

As far as I know, he don't draw BL manga, but he do voice many of them as he said himself.


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Does a ninja have to be a Jōnin to be a Kage?
I mean does a ninja have to go through the ranks of being a Genin, a Chūnin, a Jōnin and then finally a Kage?
In the movie Road to Ninja Naruto asks Iruka to fill his Jōnin  form but Iruka refuses it saying that Naruto will have to be a Chūnin to fill out the application form of Jōnin. But when Naruto became Hokage he still has to be a Genin right? If thats a case can any of the a Genin, a Chūnin, a Jōnin become a Kage?

According to Naruto's case, it might be possible. Hokage is praised to be the strongest shinobi in the village, while strong shinobi is capable of passing Chuunin/Jounin exam. Naruto has only participated in the Chuunin exam twice throughout the whole series. One is during the Chunin Exams Arc, and the other one is in the 5th OVA of Naruto Shippuden. He failed both exams anyways. Nevertheless, he's still strong, but his silliness made him failed the 2nd exam. Shinobi rank might not be the most important fact to consider when electing a new Hokage, they need to be loyal and trustworthy, as Naruto has all of it.

Note also that at the end of the aforementioned OVA, his friends said that Naruto don't have to take Chuunin exam as they all recognized his strength.

as well, its entirely possible that he went and attained those ranks in the approximatly 13 years kakashi was Hokage.

@Ryan can't imagine the face of the other exam participants. Remember how they looked when he participated in Chuunin exam after he defeated Pain. Now that he have defeated an even greater adversary...