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How can Kyros run so fast?
I know that Kyros is a legendary gladiator from Corrida Colosseum who was turned into a toy by Sugar. He cuts his left foot off to save King Riku (if I'm not mistaken). But, how can he run so fast with only one foot? Even when he is a toy, he can run quite as fast and in a human body, he can take the stairs to Flower Hill faster than Luffy. How can it happen? Is he using something like Sanji's Sky Walk or CP9's Geppo?

He cut off his leg, not just his foot. As a toy he moves fast by using roller blades. As a human he moves fast, because he has a lot of strength in his right leg. It was never explained though.

The physics behind walking/running is:

Kyros has a much sturdier and bigger body as compared to luffy and hence the action and consequently the reaction force on him increases. Instead of running, he is actually leaping, and his leaps are consequently bigger, which makes up for the loss of his leg.
Even if people are of comparable sizes, I believe that a one legged person can run just as fast as (or only a tad bit slower than) a two legged person. The main problem that we have when trying to run on one leg is keeping our balance. Kyros has been 1 legged for a long time and hence, clearly doesn't have a balancing problem. This may also be a factor contributing to his fast speed.

While it's interesting, I do not agree with Ashishgrup's answer. What he shows is only one step of the entire run movement. It can be entirely decomposed like this:

You push on one foot (steps 3/4), leap (step 5), push on the other foot (step 6/1), then leap again (step 2) and back to the starting position.
If you miss a leg, you are basically leaping four steps and pushing during only two steps! No matter how sturdy you are or how big your muscles are, if you have only one leg, you can push yourself forward only half as often and thus half as fast as you can with two legs.
I think the greater contribution comes from the fact that Kyros does not have to wear the weight of the missing leg. What he misses is almost 10% of his entire full-body weight or - given his size and stature - around 9 kg or 20 lbs!


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Apps for offline manga reading
Recently my partner has grown very fond of Anime/Manga of all sorts. She has several applications on her iPhone allowing her to view manga. I would like to know what you all believe the best method is, to perform:

Buy Manga sets in an electronic form, such as Naruto Season 1;
Have an application (iPhone and Windows preferably) to allow us to categorise the manga; e.g. By Rating, Type, Language etc. ;
Allow transfer of library between platforms so that we can read on Windows and iPhone

Here is an example:
I buy Naruto, Season 1 in electronic format and download it to PC as *.mobi, *.pdf
I then edit fields such as category, author, rating, etc.
I then sync with my iPhone using App_X

Now I understand that there are plenty of online sites where you can read Manga, but I want to be able to own the manga titles and be able to access them offline, on the road etc.
I had a look for Book Crawler for iOS which seems like a wonderful application for book management in the sense of "what have I read and what did I rate:, but not for what I need.
Viz seems like my best option to own the Manga. I am not entirely sure if there are any cheaper alternatives on the market. If I buy via their application then it appears that I am locked onto an iPhone to read the manga. Fair enough, she never uses a computer however I'd like to be able to edit it.
I've used applications like Calibre to edit and tag my books before on Android..so I was hoping for some integration with iPhone to PC.

there are apps for reading manga where you have to download them and read it offline so you want them in android or ios , where you can search manga with title

You question is not clear as the actions in list you have are not mutually exclusive. As stated by @mirroroftruth, the apps allow you to store them after downloading and you can read them offline at your leisure ("offline, on the road etc")

@mirroroftruth Yes, I understand this. I am looking at purchasing the content exclusively in electronic form so I can sync it across devices and manage custom tags.

@Tyhja I was half way through editing the question. See the reviewed answer here. This is more of a question of where do I obtain legal copies of manga? I do not want to download the content through a torrent then manage the book through a web client for tagging, then sync to a phone.

Viz Media offers their own apps and digital releases which allows you to read their Manga on a tablet device however i don't know what DRM is used. their main app is a subscription app for Weekly Shonen Jump while it appears you use the native book reader on tablet devices to buy other manga

@Memor-X Thank you. I have just updated this question with that reference! I am looking at the iOS application now. Are you aware if I am able to self-tag the files, and also sync them across devices such as a PC? I know you mentioned tablet but would like to know if I can login to a browser and access to. Please add this as an answer so that I may accept it if it works. :)

@MichaelNancarrow Viz Media is the only one i know and i don't use it myself so i don't know if it meets the other requirements or not, thus the comment.

@Memor-X Thank you for your post. The software question should definitely be posted on SR but was hoping I could get a store and editor in the same field. If I had 15 rep I would definitely mark this up. Thank you for your help.

Well there are a couple of resources but this review page [alternate webarchive link because it was down] might interest you pertaining to certain uses. I'll just leave it as an answer here instead of the comments.
The author titles the post :

This is How You Can Read Manga Legally in 2013

While not quite 2013, it has still many relevant links:
First the author mentions E-manga

Where you can read it: It’s a worldwide service.
How you can read it: Bunch of ways: you can download it in 7 formats (PRC, MOBI, EPUB, PDF, CBZ, Apple EPUB, Kobo EPUB), for a bunch of devices, though it depends for some: PC, iPhone, iPad, iPod, Kindle, Kindle Fire, Android, Nook 6”, Nook Color, Kobo 6”, Kobo Tablets, Sony Readers, Linux, Mac, Windows, and Palm OS, Windows Mobile, Motorola Xoom, Abode Digital Editions, Blackberry, Bebook, Aluratek Libre Pro, Cybook Opus, Digital Reader 1000, EZ Reader by Astak, Hanlin, iLiad, iRiver Story.

The author further provides their social media, email and about links in the review page:

Anything Extra: Registration here
Email: customerservice@emanga.com
Social Media: Twitter, Facebook

He also does a mini-review or commentary of that particular site that he lists which I found quite nice:

They have just about every type of manga you want: Shoujo, Shounen, Seinen, Josei, Yaoi, Yuri, Hentai, the works. They are pretty pricey though, ranging from the $9.99 range or higher for a good portion of their titles. As far as I know, most people don’t like to spend that much for physical books; they’ll probably just laugh at seeing the prices here. Otherwise, they’re one of the few publishers that actually allows you to have files for you to keep.

He goes on in this format, mentioning other sites:

MangaReborn
Gen Manga
Viz Media
Weekly Shonen Jump
Netcomics
Kodansha USA
Yen Press
Vertical Inc
Dark Horse
Seven Seas
SuBLime Manga
Rental
Amimaru Manga
J-Comi
Crunchyroll

While the sites are directly linked here, if you need more information other than where to buy electronically scanned manga, like the reviews for each site, support the author by going to the site.

Thank you for marking this as an answer. Whilst it does not provide software (I can easily use Calibre and import), it definitely provides enough sources to get me going.

@Tyhja this is a wonderful answer, well done and thank you!

It might be worth keeping an eye  on https://www.humblebundle.com/books - they've done manga bundles before , and you can download them as .PDF , .mobi , etc.
Also, a lot of devices have Kindle reader apps, so you could check out Amazon's selection of Manga ebooks too

That is definitely a good find for purchasing bundles and I love the fact you can ask where the money goes. I will bookmark this as a great offer but find their repository a little small. Thank you for this post. Sadly I cannot vote this up as I'd like due to rating.

@MichaelNancarrow yeah, unfortunately it's mainly novels & comics - but it was the first source I could think of - I'll try to think of more :)

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Is there a standard energy consumption on the usage of Devil Fruit powers?
Im on Episode 685, and while Captain Law runs out of energy after using his ability to deflect/slice about 4 meteors the size of the Sunny (rough estimate), I'm seeing this guy with Flamingo now controlling enough stone to be an actual mountain in a human shaped form, smashing his fists all over the place, with no apparent attempt at conserving energy.
So are some Devil Fruit powers just lucky, and allow infinite or a massive amount of usage, for example moving a mountain constantly for a hour or two, while others are extremely limited? Does it have nothing to do with the amount of work being done, for example?
In other words, is there any gauge or limit for the usage of all DF powers, or does it vary just completely randomly?

No, there isn't.
This answer is based on my observation throughout the series:
Paramecia Devil Fruits:

These fruits give the users a power that can affect their body, manipulate the environment, or produce substances. In general, Paramecia Devil Fruits are fruits that give their users powers other than transforming into natural elements, like Logias, or transforming into animals, like Zoans. (Source)

The amount of energy required for the Devil Fruit user varies from one to another based on their power, with some requiring a good amount of energy while others requiring pretty less.
Most importantly, I think the exhaustion arises from the level of concentration or the use of the fruit to its extreme, rather than from using the fruit's ability directly. My basis for saying so is that:
Luffy expends that energy because he's doing hyper-physical activity, not because the fruit powers innately require energy as a source.

Gear Second uses even more oxygen and energy, using up more food and causing Luffy to pant heavily. The increase in his metabolism causes him to be hungrier than usual or even have a paralysis type effect after prolonged use of it, like in the second fight with Rob Lucci, where Luffy was only able to lie on the floor.
Essentially Luffy increases the blood flow by forcing more blood through his blood vessels thus increase his fighting ability. (Source)

Similarly, Law does not get tired just by using "Room". What makes Law tired is the concentration it requires him to control the things in his "room".

Furthermore, while Law can control everything within a particular area, if he loses his concentration on an opponent, then they can still move freely, as seen when Vergo was able to retrieve Law's heart while he was distracted. (Source)

Logia Devil Fruits:

Logia Devil Fruits allow a person to create, control, and transform into a natural element or force of nature, depending on the fruit. The user can transform partly, or completely. It is characterized by giving its user the ability to turn into a natural element or force of nature. (Source)

These devil fruits are almost never tiring because the user doesn't have to expend themselves to use the basic powers of the fruit, ie, to convert to an energy/element. Neither have I ever seen a Logia user get exhausted after using his/her energy for a long time.

Zoan Devil Fruits:

This type of fruit allows the user to transform into another species and inter-species hybrid forms at will. Zoan types are especially effective in close combat. (Source)

Like other devil fruits, using the Devil Fruit directly, ie, to convert oneself to convert to another species isn't exhausting. The way it's used determines the exhaustion level of the user.

Physical powers granted are restricted to just the capabilities of the proportionate physical equivalent of the animal they are able to transform into. In hybrid form, these strengths of both species may be combined, but again seems to be just a mixture of both forms. While it is true that they enhance the strengths of the consumer, they rely primary on the consumers fighting skills and capabilities. (Source)

TL;DR: The devil fruits do not innately require energy as a source for their use and what makes the user tired is the way he/she uses it and their stamina also plays a huge part in it.

if that so, then why wouldn't Ace make an Entei as huge as Marineford? or Kizaru make a huge explosion by radiating his body? or Akainu spamming meteor lava non-stop?

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Why was the Osiris Egyptian God Card translated as Slifer the Sky Dragon?
In the Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged parody, the names of the three Egyptian God Cards are:

Obelisk the Tormentor
Slifer the Executive Producer
and Mega Ultra Chicken

The second name is a reference to a producer of the Yu-Gi-Oh English dub, who is also called Slifer (Roger Slifer, to be exact). I thought that this was just a funny little coincidence that Little Kuriboh picked up on and made a pun out of.
But then, I looked up the actual names of the Egyptian God Cards on the Yu-Gi-Oh wikia:

Obelisk the Tormentor |     オベリスクの巨神兵 (lit. Giant Divine Soldier of Obelisk)
Slifer the Sky Dragon | オシリスの天空竜 (lit. Sky Dragon of Osiris)
The Winged Dragon of Ra | ラーの翼神竜 (lit. Winged Divine Dragon of Ra)

Huh? "Slifer the Sky Dragon" is called "Osiris the Sky Dragon" in the original Japanese. That... actually makes way more sense, because Osiris is an Egyptian God in real life. So, was Slifer an intentional reference to Roger Slifer made by the official translators?
I notice that most of the other languages use "Slifer" as well (including French, German, Italian, Spanish, etc.), and only the Chinese and Korean translations use "Osiris". What happened here? Why did the translators make this decision?

The name Osiris was changed to Slifer by 4Kids employee Sam Murakami, possibly due to religious symbol/reference.
According to Wikipedia,

A god card in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game, originally named Sky Dragon of Osiris (オシリスの天空竜 Oshirisu no Tenkūryū), was renamed "Slifer the Sky Dragon" after Slifer by 4Kids Entertainment employee Sam Murakami.

which sourced the interview with Roger Slifer himself where he answered with

As for Slifer the Sky Dragon, despite the rumors on the web, I did not name that character after myself, even though I was a producer on Yu-Gi-Oh at the time. What happened was this: Another 4KIDS employee, Sam Murakami, was our liaison with the producer of the cards. Some names of the cards had to be changed because there was concern their names would be considered demonic or sacrilegious or something here in the states. It never made much sense to me, but when you're broadcasting here in America, it's something that has to be accommodated. Anyway, Sam renamed a bunch of those characters after people on staff at 4KIDS. It just so happened that the one he named after me happened to be a "god" card and much more prominent than the others in the series. I attribute it to the cosmic forces in the universe trying to balance things for me being made a demon in Ghost Rider. And again, just to set the record straight, I wasn't even aware of it until after the names on the cards had been changed and it was too late to go back.

This is just another case of censorship that affects some cards (also refer to an unanwered question: Was Kazuki Takahashi involved in the modifications made in Yu-Gi-Oh! for reasons of censorship?)

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What is an "Enchousen situation"?
I came across this phrase in this r/Gintama thread about the Porori Arc mentioned in a "new season" announcement. The original poster said:

Now this could STILL turn out to be an Enchousen situation, which I am hoping, but for now all we know is that we'll be getting a pool episode rerun.

A commenter also said:

im sure its an enchousen situation
  at least i hope!

What is an Enchousen situation?

At that time, it was still not clear exactly how many new episodes will be in the Porori Arc and I believe they are just referring to the possibility of Porori Arc being a full cour of Gintama like the Enchousen instead of just a couple of extras like Aizome Kaori.


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At the end, did Naruto skip Chunnin and Jounin rank before becoming Hokage?
In chapter 700 of Naruto manga (last chapter) it was shown that Uzumaki Naruto finally reached his dream of becoming Hokage. It was also shown that he didn't achieve it immediately after the 4th Shinobi War ended as Hatake Kakashi was the 6th Hokage and Naruto was the 7th.
AFAIK, even when fighting Otsutsuki Kaguya, Naruto was a Genin as he never passed the Chuunin nor Jounin exam (as far as the manga is concerned). There is an anime where Naruto took the Chuunin exam, but he failed after disqualified due to using Sage Mode.
It was shown in Naruto the Movie "Road to Ninja", that to become Jounin, one must become a Chuunin first. However it is also to be noted that double promotion is also possible.
4th, 5th, and 6th Hokage were all Jounin prior to being Hokage. I'm not sure about the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Hokage, although strength-wise they are stronger than your average Jounin. The next Hokage was chosen either by the current Hokage, or the Daimyou of the Land of Fire. No other requirements was listed on the Wikia.
So, to the question, has Naruto reached the rank of Jounin when he was selected as the 7th Hokage? Or was he still a Genin, since it didn't actually matter much considering that everyone knows who he is, that he was the hero who saved Konoha from Pain, and more importantly the world from Infinite Tsukuyomi.

Yes, he took at least the Chunin exam. I don't remember the episode but it was shown that he was studying and working hard for the written part of the Chunin exam.

Taking the exam and passing it is a different matter. I already mentioned that he did took a Chuunin exam, and failed since he broke the rule.

That was a filler. but in this one, it did not show the actual exam it was just indicating that Naruto did not skip or use any shortcut to achieve his goal.

In regards to Naruto's rank which remains as the lowest one, Genin, due to Naruto spending most of his Part II's time fighting and training, Kishimoto decided Naruto would skip the following ranks to become the Hokage, which he felt was appealing.

Taken from Wikipedia, which references  Cinema Today: "Boruto: Naruto the Movie" (in Japanese).

The thing that he studied for the written test was a very long time ago. Don't forget that he did take the exam as a kid but it got cut short by orochimaru and only shikamaru got promoted.
TBH Naruto didn't need to; Kakashi admitted that he had already surpassed all the past Hokages and he saved all the villages. If he takes the Chunin exam he would be way too overadvantaged over everyone.
The chunin exam only tests the abilty, and naruto has shown that he has a lot more than the capability of any chunin or jounin. He didn't need the exam.

While it is true that we never see him get promoted even to chuunin, notice that in one of the episodes after the end of the fight between him and Sasuke (around Shippuuden 490), Kakashi tells him that he would be promoted to jounin after studying hard for it, since Naruto already proved that he had enough strength and skill, but lacked knowledge.
We're shown that he became Hokage, but we're not shown that he finally became a jounin. Maybe I've skipped something though.

"but we're not shown that he finally became a jounin"
Because he never became a jounin.


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How did Busujima Eiji figure that it was about boobs?

On the third koma on "As Is" chapter, Nanako wrote,

Eighty and a five
    Prolly about fifty five
    Eighty plus a two

How did Eiji figure that it was about the president's breast size?

This relates to how clothing manufacturers measure the bust, waist, and hip of women, also known as a woman's "three sizes".  From this, Nanako is basically reading off [what she thinks are] the club president's sizes are.

Also, the first koma where the club president said "How about we try describing this scene the way it is in words?" and her reaction on the fourth koma are the obvious hint. Eiji described the scene outside the window, Nanako described the club president...


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Is the gun mention a subtitling error?
I'm rewatching the Naruto Chuunin exams, and in the Crunchyroll subs in episode 40, when it's being explained by Zaku's arms blew out, the explanation mentions gun barrels. However, as per this answer, there are no guns in Naruto. I don't remember the Japanese word for gun or gun barrel, and my listening isn't good enough to tell what they're saying in this particular part. Is this simply a subtitling error, or do they actually use a gun analogy in this case? If they do use a gun analogy in the anime, do they use the same analogy in the Japanese manga--that is, do they canonically explain the result using a gun analogy despite the lack of guns in Naruto?

For reference, Dosu's explanation begins at 18:05 of the Crunchyroll stream.

I think the subtitles are okay. The Naruto manga does use a similar gun analogy. In chapter 70:

...Like a gun barrel when the path of a bullet is blocked, Zaku blew his arm off.

In the anime, I believe that the word that Dosu is using is 砲身 (ほうしん), which translates to "gun barrel". For context, in that sentence, Dosu was saying something along the lines of:

砲身【ほうしん】であるザクの腕【うで】は暴発【ぼうはつ】し使【つか】い物【もの】になるなくなる

Technically, 砲身 refers to the barrels of an artillery cannon. Alternatively 銃身 refers to small arm gun barrels. The context seems to imply the former over the latter.

Actually in the wave arc wean sakura gose to the store with the bridge builder theres a gun behind the counter. Or at least in the manga there is.

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Why are titles in Touhou often formatted like "Japanese title ~ English subtitle"?
I've noticed that a lot of Touhou games, music, and print works seem to have titles that consist of a Japanese part and an English part, where the two are separated with a tilde.
For example, most of the main game titles follow this pattern, although some of the .5 games seem to use "Japanese title ~ Japanese subtitle" instead?
- TH01: 東方靈異伝　～ The Highly Responsive to Prayers
- TH02: 東方封魔録　～ the Story of Eastern Wonderland
- TH03: 東方夢時空　～ Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream
- TH04: 東方幻想郷　～ Lotus Land Story
- TH05: 東方怪綺談　～ Mystic Square
- TH06: 東方紅魔郷　～ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
- TH07: 東方妖々夢　～ Perfect Cherry Blossom
- TH07.5: 東方萃夢想　～ Immaterial and Missing Power
- TH08: 東方永夜抄　～ Imperishable Night
- TH09: 東方花映塚　～ Phantasmagoria of Flower View
- TH09.5: 東方文花帖　～ Shoot the Bullet
- TH10: 東方風神録　～ Mountain of Faith
- TH10.5: 東方緋想天 ～ Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
- TH11: 東方地霊殿　～ Subterranean Animism
- TH12: 東方星蓮船　～ Undefined Fantastic Object
- TH12.3: 東方非想天則　～ 超弩級ギニョルの謎を追え
- TH12.5: ダブルスポイラー　～ 東方文花帖
- TH12.8: 妖精大戦争　～ 東方三月精
- TH13: 東方神霊廟　～ Ten Desires
- TH13.5: 東方心綺楼　～ Hopeless Masquerade
- TH14: 東方輝針城　～ Double Dealing Character
- TH14.3: 弾幕アマノジャク　～ Impossible Spell Card
- TH14.5: 東方深秘録　～ Urban Legend in Limbo
- TH15: 東方紺珠伝　～ Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom
- TH15.5: 東方憑依華　～ Antinomy of Common Flowers
- TH16: 東方天空璋　～ Hidden Star in Four Seasons
- TH16.5: 秘封ナイトメアダイアリー　〜 Violet Detector
- TH17: 東方鬼形獣　～ Wily Beast and Weakest Creature
- TH17.5: 東方剛欲異聞　～ 水没した沈愁地獄

Lots of songs from the main game series have tildes in them as well. There are a number of songs that don't follow the pattern though, so the following is only a subset of all the main game themes:
- TH06 (EoSD):
    - 上海紅茶館　～ Chinese Tea
    - ラクトガール　～ 少女密室
    - 月時計　～ ルナ・ダイアル
    - 紅楼　～ Eastern Dream...
- TH07 (PCB):
    - 妖々夢　～ Snow or Cherry Petal
    - 無何有の郷　～ Deep Mountain
    - 人形裁判　～ 人の形弄びし少女
    - 幽霊楽団　～ Phantom Ensemble
    - 東方妖々夢　～ Ancient Temple
    - 広有射怪鳥事　～ Till When?
    - 幽雅に咲かせ、墨染の桜　～ Border of Life
    - 少女幻葬　～ Necro-Fantasy
    - 妖々跋扈　～ Who done it!
    - さくらさくら　～ Japanize Dream...
- TH08 (IN):
    - 永夜抄　～ Eastern Night
    - 幻視の夜　～ Ghostly Eyes
    - 蠢々秋月　～ Mooned Insect
    - 夜雀の歌声　～ Night Bird
    - 懐かしき東方の血　～ Old World
    - 永夜の報い　～ Imperishable Night
    - 少女綺想曲　～ Dream Battle
    - シンデレラケージ　～ Kagome-Kagome
    - 狂気の瞳　～ Invisible Full Moon
    - 千年幻想郷　～ History of the Moon
    - 竹取飛翔　～ Lunatic Princess
    - エクステンドアッシュ　～ 蓬莱人
    - Eternal Dream　～ 幽玄の槭樹
- TH09 (PoFV):
    - 花映塚　～ Higan Retour
    - 春色小径　～ Colorful Path
    - 東方妖々夢　～ Ancient Temple
    - 狂気の瞳　～ Invisible Full Moon
    - 幽霊楽団　～ Phantom Ensemble
    - もう歌しか聞こえない　～ Flower Mix
    - ポイズンボディ　～ Forsaken Doll
    - 今昔幻想郷　～ Flower Land
    - 彼岸帰航　～ Riverside View
    - 六十年目の東方裁判　～ Fate of Sixty Years
    - 魂の花　～ Another Dream...
- TH10 (MoF):
    - 人恋し神様　～ Romantic Fall
    - 厄神様の通り道　～ Dark Road
    - 芥川龍之介の河童　～ Candid Friend
    - フォールオブフォール　～ 秋めく滝
    - 妖怪の山　～ Mysterious Mountain
    - 御柱の墓場　～ Grave of Being
    - 神さびた古戦場　～ Suwa Foughten Field
    - 神は恵みの雨を降らす　～ Sylphid Dream
- TH11 (SA):
    - 封じられた妖怪　～ Lost Place
    - 少女さとり　～ 3rd eye
    - 死体旅行　～ Be of good cheer!
    - 霊知の太陽信仰　～ Nuclear Fusion
    - エネルギー黎明　～ Future Dream...
- TH12 (UFO):
    - 感情の摩天楼　～ Cosmic Mind
    - 空の帰り道　～ Sky Dream
- TH13 (TD):
    - 聖徳伝説　～ True Administrator
- TH14 (DDC):
    - 輝く針の小人族　～ Little Princess
    - 始原のビート　～ Pristine Beat
- TH15 (LoLK):
    - ピュアヒューリーズ　～ 心の在処
- TH16 (HSiFS):
    - 秘神マターラ　～ Hidden Star in All Seasons.

Tilde usage for songs seems to have decreased for more recent games?
The titles of most of ZUN's music albums seem to follow this pattern as well. For example:
- 蓬莱人形　～ Dolls in Pseudo Paradise
- 蓮台野夜行　～ Ghostly Field Club
- 夢違科学世紀　～ Changeability of Strange Dream
- 卯酉東海道　～ Retrospective 53 minutes
- 大空魔術　～ Magical Astronomy
- 鳥船遺跡　～ Trojan Green Asteroid
- 伊弉諾物質　～ Neo-traditionalism of Japan
- 燕石博物誌　～ Dr. Latency's Freak Report
- 旧約酒場　～ Dateless Bar "Old Adam"

Additionally, some of the print works seem to have a binomial nomenclature thing going on:
- 東方儚月抄:
    - 東方儚月抄　～ Silent Sinner in Blue
    - 東方儚月抄　～ Cage in Lunatic Runagate
    - 東方儚月抄　～ 月のイナバと地上の因幡
- 東方三月精:
    - 東方三月精　～ Eastern and Little Nature Deity
    - 東方三月精　～ Strange and Bright Nature Deity
    - 東方三月精　～ Oriental Sacred Place
    - 東方三月精　～ Visionary Fairies in Shrine
- 東方茨歌仙　～ Wild and Horned Hermit
- 東方鈴奈庵　～ Forbidden Scrollery

Spell card names also sometimes seem to have a binomial nomenclature thing going on, though with quotation marks instead of tildes. For example, Flandre's spell cards in EoSD:
- 禁忌:
    - 禁忌「クランベリートラップ」
    - 禁忌「レーヴァテイン」
    - 禁忌「フォーオブアカインド」
    - 禁忌「カゴメカゴメ」
    - 禁忌「恋の迷路」
- 禁弾:
    - 禁弾「スターボウブレイク」
    - 禁弾「カタディオプトリック」
    - 禁弾「過去を刻む時計」
- 秘弾「そして誰もいなくなるか？」
- QED「495年の波紋」

Is there an explanation or system or backstory behind this tilde naming convention? Or am I overthinking this and is the explanation just "ZUN did it because it looks cool"?

I'm guessing it's mostly because it looks cool and is an easy way to denote a translation/subtitle. It may also be used because one thing that might be used in English, the m-dash, looks a lot like either 一 (one) or ー (the line denoting a long katakana vowel).

The naming scheme for the game title has been like that since the first game, 東方靈異伝　～ The Highly Responsive to Prayers. Though, AFAIK, I've never heard the reason why it's done like that.

First, it should be noted that the japanese do incorporate English text into their media frequently. However, I am assuming why Touhou seems to make use of it especially is the matter of consideration here.
However to be more Touhou specific, something that needs to be noted about Touhou in particular is that the theming of Touhou was, at least at some point, supposed to be an east meets west kind of thing. The Wikipedia page for Team Shanghai Alice, which is licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0 terms, notes:

The name "Team Shanghai Alice" was chosen to fit the overall theme of the Touhou games. "Shanghai", in ZUN's mind, is a multicultural city where the East and the West meet.

 There are many examples of western cultural influence in the series. Marisa is very much a western style witch, Alice Margatroid is supposed to be the same Alice from Alice in Wonderland, and one of her theme songs is doll maker of bucuresti, where bucuresti is an alternative name for Burachest in Romania. He makes references to the moon landing when the Lunarians are involved: Imperishable Night has a song entitled Voyage 1969, and Clownpiece's costume very much resembles an american flag. Japan has no native folklore regarding vampires as we know them, like Remilia or Kurumi. Recently, in Forbidden Scrollery there was even a chupecabra.
Something else that needs to be noted is that Touhou means Eastern and Amusement Makers also made some Seihou project games, where Seihou means Western. The Windows era designs of Marisa and Reimu are first shown in the Seihou games, where the characters made cameo appearances as extra stage bosses.
In the music rooms for the games, Zun sometimes comments on how certain songs seem distinctly Japanese to him, and in Lotus Land Story's music rooms he comments about how he was trying to make the pieces feel western. In the Music Room description of Song of the Night Sparrow for Imperishable night, Zun comments that it was supposed to be a blend of eastern and western styles.
Unfortunately, the closest I can personally find to Zun himself explaining it at present moment comes to commenting on this is in Afterword Correspondence Vol. 1 for Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil, where he acknowledges that his music used to follow the format, but any reason why is omitted from that observation. However, in consideration of these facts, I think it is reasonable to assume it was done to give the games a somewhat western feeling to them by blending eastern and western languages, to match the original theme.

Zun haven't explicitly mention this but it is obvious that the titles should contain japanese characters since the actual development of the touhou project was based on the premise that there were few games based on japanese folklore at the time (I was looking for  the interview where he said this but couldn't find it). The left kanjis are more like "titles" remember that kanji convey a more wide range of meaning than actual words and then romaji in the right due to the nature of being a videogame in a computer also even the japanese themselves sometimes can't memorize all the kanjis, so we got the first ones 東方 telling you 'eastern history' then followed by the title such as:
紅魔郷 koumakan 妖々夢 youyoumu 地霊殿 chireiden 星蓮船 seiresen and so on, having a kanji title can give you the whole picture of what the game is gonna be about let's do ten desires for example:
東方 eastern history 神 god 霊廟 mausoleum so you would get something like eastern history of the mausoleum spirit/god - ten desires.
It could be just a format without any special purpose but either way I think this looks really cool and truly feels eastern

Ah, regarding the part about Spell Cards specifically, it looks like ZUN discussed it somewhat in the Spell Cards FAQ in Strange Creators of Outer World Volume 7.
In short, the part before the quotation marks means "this attack fits into this particular genre", and the part inside means "this is the attack's name". That's the idea that ZUN started with, but apparently even while making EoSD, there ended up being so many variations and exceptions that this format is less of a concrete format and more of a loose guideline.

Q: Most cards have names like OO Sign "XXXX", but what's the difference between the OO and the XX parts?
ZUN: Well, I felt that I'd struggle quite a bit if I tried coming up with a unique name for every single special move from scratch, so I made some rules to follow. The part before the quotation marks says "this attack fits into this particular genre," and the part inside says "this is the attack's name." That's the format I used to come up with names when I was starting out. The left-hand part is the category of attack, so there's quite a lot of Spell Cards that share a single term. Like, "this is what kind of attack this is". This one's fire element, this one's water element, just thinking about it on that sort of level. The part in quotations really is just a name, nothing more.
Q: I see. So, when it comes to cards with just the "XX" part and no category... cards like "Red Magic," for example. What significance would that have?
ZUN: Spell Cards without a genre attached are special; they have nothing in common with any others. It's like saying, "look out! This attack is so special that it doesn't fit into any category!" The name given to a card serves as part of its dramatic impact as well, after all. I named a lot of cards like this too, but honestly, I don't even know what the rules are supposed to be anymore. When it comes to my initial way of thinking about it, that part was the category of amulet. Like, imagine that there was an amulet called "Spirit Sign", for example. I'd picture it as a single special move that made use of that amulet.
Q: Perhaps Immaterial and Missing Power might be the work that visualizes the concept most directly? When you use a Spell Card in that game, you have to input the "Declaration" command before you can attack with it. And during the declaration animation, you pull out a little paper amulet, with a different color for each character. I can picture you giving Tasogare instructions back then, about that concept of how they were used.
ZUN: Yeah, that! That's how I pictured them starting out. But as more and more variations came about, there wasn't really any need for that rule anymore, either. There's so many exceptions that the rules hardly even matter by now. I used to come up with them in this format that I'm describing now, but even that got really vague while I was still in the middle of making Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. I already found myself thinking "wouldn't it be fine to just give them regular special-move names?" in the middle of production. But I thought "nah, this is fine too." Having a concrete format isn't the main point to begin with, after all.


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Did Arataka Reigen retain or unlock some psychic powers?
At the end of the first season, Mob lent his powers to Arataka Reigen and after that he's able to see Dimple. Before when Mob's brother started to see Dimple, Dimple said this was because he was about to unlock his psychic powers. Did Arataka Reigen retain or unlock some psychic powers after Mob lent his powers to him?

As far as I know, not really.
At the end of episode 12 of season 1, Reigen says that the only thing he gained from that experience was the ability to see Dimple now, and that aside from that, not much has changed.

like Ritsu Kageyama the abilty to see dimple is the first of his psychic abilities then dimple helps training him by occasionally possesing him to stabilize his psychic out put. Eventually Ritsu was strong enough to decimate entire legions of claw members and if you watch the spirits and such consultation offices firs holiday. you will see at a specific time reigen has the ability to speed up while becoming intangible. Reference to when he had spent some time on the train and was going insane. Katsuya walks in and then Riegen activates his power unknowingly for a split second...


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Order of reading Danganronpa manga and light novel?
I found a lot of danganronpa manga series and light novel. So what is the order of reading Danganronpa manga and LN?
Manga

Danganronpa: The Manga
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc 4koma KINGS The Manga
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: The Manga
Super Danganronpa 2: Sayonara Zetsubou Gakuen: 4-Koma KINGS The Manga
Super Danganronpa 2 - Komaeda Nagito no Kouun to Kibou to Zetsubou
Super Danganronpa 2 - Nankoku Zetsubou Carnival!: The Manga
Super Danganronpa 2: Nanami Chiaki no Sayonara Zetsubou Daibouken
Super Danganronpa 2: Sayonara Zetsubou Gakuen - Comic Anthology
Zettai Zetsubou Shoujo - Danganronpa Another Episode: The Manga
Zettai Zetsubō Shōjo: Danganronpa Another Episode - Genocider Mode: The Manga
Zettai Zetsubo Shojo Danganronpa Another Episode - Comic Anthology

Light Novel

Danganronpa/Zero
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc IF
Danganronpa: Togami
Danganronpa Kirigiri
Ultra Despair Hagakure
Danganronpa 1 ・2 Beautiful Days
Makoto Naegi's Worst Day Ever

Order of what exactly?

in terms of the manga Trigger Happy Havoc is the subtitle to the first Danganronpa game but the fact it's 4koma would make me think that they are side stories set during the first manga/game. Another Episode is apart of the full title of the third game Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls which if i recall is set chronologically after the first game.....assuming that the Another Episode Manga you list are adaptations of Ultra Despair Girls. Goodbye Despair is the second game so i would assume it's an adaption of the second game as such it should come after Ultra Despair Girls

Zettai Zetsubou Shoujo also roughly translates in google as Absolute Despair Girl so i wouldn't be surprised if the manga is an adaptation of Ultra Despair Girls, though i don't know why there is a Genocide Mod and Anthology Manga


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How did Tobi suck in Foo using Kamui without touching him?
In Naruto Shippuden episode 208, when Tobi fought Foo and Torune, he grabbed Torune by the shoulder and used Kamui to suck him in, but then when he sucked Foo in (at 14:14 in the episode), he didn't make contact with him.
It's been said that Tobi needs to become tangible to suck someone in because he needs to make contact. They say it in the anime and I read it on Narutopedia which I find to be right on all the time.
How did Tobi suck in Foo using Kamui without touching him?

This can't be possible since Tobi must materialize and touch his opponent in case he wants to absorb him. This is a mistake that was made by the animators. See the quote below from narutopedia:

Occasionally, in the anime, when Tobi goes to absorb his opponent he does not touch them, this is a mistake that the animators made as in the manga there is always bodily contact. A notable occasion of this is when Tobi fights Danzō's bodyguards, he does not have any physical contact with Fū when he absorbs him.


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How does an official anthology for a manga series get created?
So, doujinshi are rather common in Japan. However, it seems that doujinshi, especially ones that are derivative works of an existing series, usually only appear in limited non-commercial circulation, such as at doujinshi conventions, in doujin shops, or on art sites like Pixiv.
But sometimes, there are official doujinshi anthologies that seem to be officially endorsed by the publisher, and are published commercially alongside the source material?
These anthology volumes are typically collections of non-canon oneshots from various third-party manga artists. These stories are basically the same kind of stories that you'd find at a doujinshi convention; the only difference is, these stories are being officially published, so I guess they're not technically doujinshi, although they do feel very similar in spirit...
Some examples that I know of:

Lucky Star: Comic à la Carte
Haruhi Comic Anthology
K-On! Anthology Comic
Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Anthology Comic
Kagerou Daze Official Anthology Comic (including Upper, Downer, Summer, Winter, Spring, Bitter, Sweet, Spicy, Fantasy, etc.)
Pop Team Epic Hoshiiro Girldrop Comic Anthology
Slow Start Anthology Comic
Citrus Comic Anthology
It looks like Bloom Into You is getting an anthology too...

So my question is, what is exactly the process for the creation of an official comic anthology?
For example, how does the publisher decide whether to create one or not? Why do some series have official anthologies while others don't? Is the original creator involved?  How do they decide who will be included in the anthology and who won't? Do they just call up various manga artists directly, asking if they want to contribute a chapter to the anthology, or do they put up a notice somewhere?
Just something that I've been wondering about.

First, we call the genre as "Anthology" or "Anthology comics".
The main difference between "Anthology" and doujinshi is
they get permission from original author and publisher or not.
The origin of "Anthology" is anthology of TV game.
Ex. Mario or fighting game.
In late 80' and early 90',
many book publisher starts create "Anthology" of TV game
under permission from game publisher with the style (one book from multiple manga creator).
In middle and late 90', They expand the style to manga/anime.
Usually, a publisher doesn't give a permission to other publishers to create "Anthology" for their manga.
It's because of conflict of business.
And some publisher always create "Anthology" if the manga is famous enough.
But some other publisher never create "Anthology".
I think this is the main reason that some manga have it and others are not.
For example,

Kadokawa (Lucky Star, Haruhi) is supportive for "Anthology"
Houbunsha 芳文社 (K-On, Madoka Magica) is supper supportive.
"Anthology" page of Japanese Wikipedia has list of supportive publisher.
Shogakukan/Shueisha never create "Anthology", So there are no anthology from the manga from this publisher.(at least legally)

For who will join the "Anthology", I don't know the answer.
But I can imagine that the editor ask manga creator (who already know in person) to join their "Anthology".
I think that's the reason usually manga creator in "Anthology"
also already have manga series in the publisher.


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Is there hard proof for the Curse of Ymir?
As far as I know, the Survey Corps (and other relevant Elderians) learned of the Curse of Ymir (that a titan shifter only has 13 years to live and if not eaten, will die to have his titan power born again with a random Elderian) from the memories of Grisha Jäger, who in turn learned it from the Owl. The Marleyian army seems to be aware of the course as well. Owl probably got his information from the army or the Taybar family.
Now I wonder, is it guaranteed that this information is correct? From a narrative POV I don't believe the author will just wave his hands and say "The curse never really existed, sorry!", but from an POV from within the world, it would make sense that this is misinformation, deliberately given by King Fritz to protect Elderians outside Paradise (so they are not deliberately killed off as long as they can be used).
I want to know if there is hard proof that the curse is real? This can be witnessing it in the main series or spinoffs (I didn't really follow AoT - After the Fall so much) or in interviews with the creators.
Something ominous, deliberately question-dodging like "Well, the characters got told so." in the interviews would be interesting too. After all, the characters got also told that titans are mankind's enemy, that you die if eaten by a titan, that Paradise Elderians' are devils etc. Information given in AoT through characters cannot be trusted, as we know after all these years :D

Without going into too much details, the Curse of Ymir is mentionned by Eren Kruger to Grisha, and Eren Yagger has the memories of Eren Kruger, so at least we can be sure that Eren Kruger was not lying

@Ikaros Did Eren relive through all the memories or were these just exemplary flashbacks? As it currently stands, I believe they didn't had the time to go through all the memories that are available to Eren? I also believe that Owl believed the information, but that doesn't means it's true.

Their is no way, daughters of Ymir can reproduce if their life were not compressed in 13 years.

I noticed that Grisha Jaeger did not suffer the rapid aging that other titan shifters experience in their later years. There is one major variable however, Grisha didn't use his powers nearly as much as the others, or suffer major injuries very frequently.
  Aging is caused by the inevitable genetic screw-ups that occur during cell division. The Matter and Energy may com from Paths(whatever they may be). But instructions for building the titan titan bodies and growing back limbs? That comes from the shifter.
Grisha Only used his titan form twice(Getting to the walls and supper with the Reiss family), and he doesn't get major injuries like a soldier(You know, like Eren Kruger) might experience. It would also explain why Grisha slacked off on his mission for 12 years until he heard about some big-ass titan kicking a hole in the wall.

After the manga had ended, it can be concluded that the Curse of Ymir is actually a lie, and no titanshifter actually died from the curse.

Hi, did the manga reveal this info specifically, or it's more of a conclusion from personal observation? If the manga did reveal this info, could you mention the chapter?


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Does Touhou 9: Phantasmagoria of Flower View reference a specific real world event in 2005?
Some background: ZUN released the full version of Touhou 9 at Comiket 68 on August 14, 2005.
The premise of the story is that the protagonists are investigating an abnormally high number of blooming flowers. At the end of the story, they find out that the flowers are blooming because of a sudden spike in the number of deaths. It's also revealed that a similar flower incident occurred 60 years ago. Perhaps coincidentally, perhaps not, this happens to line up with events from the end of World War II in 1945 (including the Battle of Okinawa and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki).
If this isn't a coincidence, then this might imply that there was another event with a large death toll in 2005. So my question is: Was there a specific event in real life in 2005 that ZUN might have been referencing?

I'd say probably not, but the 60 years cycle is a reference to Jiazi.


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Tanaka-kun Is Always Listless has a decimal volume number? Volume 13.5?
I did a double-take, but it looks like Tanakeda volumes 13 and 13.5 are to be released simultaneously. Volume 13.5? A decimal volume number? I mean, I've seen decimal chapter numbers in Nichijou, and decimal game series numbers in Touhou, but this is the  first time that I've seen a decimal volume number...

According to the Tweet, 13.5 is going to be some kind of memorial book. Is it known what kind of content is going to be in this book? Is there some kind of special occasion that prompted the release of this unusually numbered volume?

Considering vol. 13 is the actual last volume, looks like 13.5 is more like an omake...

As Aki has mentioned, the .5 means that the volume is an "omake". These usually contain short side stories or alternate endings, I don't know what the Tanaka one has specifically.


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Is Nico Robin able to use her DF power though impassable but transparent obstacles?
In episode 337, Robin is shown using her Demon Fruit ability to save Usopp when he is hunting octopus in the aquarium of the Thousand Sunny, but I can't remember, whether it has ever been used in a similar manner, so I assume it's possibly an exceptional case.
Was it shown at any other points of the series if she could do it?

Although there may be others, so far I've only been able to think of one other time where she used her powers in a similar manner. The picture below is taken from the Strawhats' trip to the Fishman Islands (Chapter 605). The ship is coated with the resin from the Yakuriman Mangroves in order to withstand the very large hydrodynamic pressure. There is therefore a "impassable but transparent obstacle" as the OP puts it between Robin and her use of her DF power.


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How did Deidara get mouths in the palms of his hands?
Deidara uses the mouths in his palms to prepare clay for his explosion release. How did he get these mouths? Was he born with them or did he acquire them some other way?

Somewhat contrary to the other two answers, it is actually unknown how Deidara got the mouths in his hands, as it is not revealed in canon.
The Wikia does mention the hands in their Iwagakure Kinjutsu article, however it's important to note that the part talking about the hands is merely speculative.
Quote from Wikia (emphasis my own):

It is likely that the mouths on the user's palms and chest are the result of using this technique

The technique he stole from Iwagakure is talked about in the third databook:
In this Data Book article, it mentions the technique that he steals from Iwagakure is the ability to fold his chakra into clay. It can be guessed at that this is where the hands come from, but it's possible that he got the hands elsewhere and can merely use that ability through those mouths.

The first thing to say is that he was not simply born with them, after he lost both arms fighting gaara and then naruto and kakashi, he had replacement arms grafted on and the donor arms also had the mouths. Naruto wikia has this to say on the subject:

Deidara also possessed special mouths in the palms of his hands and on
  the left side of his chest as a result of stealing and using a
  powerful kinjutsu from his village on himself.  Deidara was forced to
  leave Iwagakure when he stole a kinjutsu to develop his passion for
  art.

During the fight with Kakashi Deidara's arms was not destroyed. It was ripped off. Kakuzu latter stitched it back. I forgot the details about his fight against Gaara, though.

I'll need to look into this further, i recall him finding the stump of the arm kakashi hit with the mangekyo sharingan, but a large chunk of his arm was destroyed; sucked into another dimension or whatever that vortex was. and it could not simply be sewn back on.

If you're going to copy text, please at least make the effort to citing the pages you got it from. You quoted copy from Deidara's page and the Kinjutsu. If you don't make an effort to properly cite your sources, your answer may be removed.


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How did abridged versions of anime get started?
I was watching anime clips on YouTube and I stumbled upon an abridged version of an anime. The process of dubbing an anime using the same scenes but with a different voice and script, they were changing the dialogues of characters to make it funny.
This is an example video
It was Gundam Wing (Entitled "Gundam Abridged-ning")
So how did this kind of voice dubbing and making it more funny get started?

I don't have the source for it, but I believe it all started with Yu-Gi-Oh abridged. I can be wrong though.

@Frosteeze Would this fan-dubbing (from 1989 or so) count as an abridged series?

@Maroon I don't think that YGOTAS (inarguably the progenitor of the modern phenomenon of "abridged series") is "genealogically" related to fandubs from way back when, if you get what I mean. YGOTAS probably isn't the first fan work to do the "put funny English voices on anime" thing, but it was definitely the impetus for all the copycats of recent years.

LittleKuriboh's Yu-Gi-Oh! Abridged is often cited as being the first abridged series and the one to start inspiring others in a chain reaction like manner. (The latest episode even makes fun of this fact.)
The linked wiki page mentions that he originaly

... was inspired variously by the editing process of The Blair Witch Project, and Reduced Shakespeare Company's The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged).

The series is notable in that it was for a long time voice acted and edited by a single person.

Credit to Console Argonaut for linking the wiki site. That made writing this answer easier.


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Is Lightspeed Flash faster than light?
I'm wondering if Lightspeed Flash has the power to travel at the speed of light, or is faster than it, or is it just some kind of hero name?

Flashy Flash hasn't shown any of his abilities or powers in the manga or at the tv show. But in the webcomic series of ONE (the original manga), which it has a lot more chapters, we know some of his abilities and his powers.
SPOILERS
So according to the webcomic:

 One of his moves, was to fly to the enemy within milliseconds and attack him from any distance. Flashy Fist (閃光挙, Senkōken): In only a matter of milliseconds, Flash traverses the distance between himself and the opponent and unleashes a barrage of punches.

So you have to wait until to the point where the manga, will show more about this character.

In short, it's just a hero name which is flashier than reality.  Pun intended.  Some more recent translations have switched to using "Flashy Flash" instead of "Lightspeed Flash" specifically in order to avoid the light speed comparisons, and to better reflect the silliness in his Japanese name (Flashy Flash is a fairly literal translation).
In a couple pages of the webcomic we're actually given a timer on one of his actions, which allows some rough estimates of travel and attack speeds.  This forum post (which is itself a summary of a post somewhere else but which I don't have a link for) contains the calculations on said pages, and estimates both his movement and attack speeds (arm speed during a punch) at around 2.3% of the speed of light, which isn't even fast enough to warrant relativistic corrections.  It's hard to say what the error margin is on those, for a variety of reasons, though it should be well within an order of magnitude—20% of the speed of light would warrant the use of special relativity, at least.  However, the calculations also assume that ONE's depiction of the scene is reasonably close to scale (and his drawing skills make that questionable), and that he actually drew it to that scale after deciding how fast he really wanted Flashy Flash, aka Lightspeed Flash, to go.  The scene in question also occurs during a very serious sequence where Flash knows that many of the best combatants in S class have been defeated, so it is reasonable to assume this is near or at his maximum speed.
There hasn't been an official description of how fast he truly is, so this is the best we've currently got on his capabilities.
Here are the webcomic pages in question:


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How old is Conan meant to be?
I was rewatching an old episode of Detective Conan with a friend and we started discussing how weird it would be to hear a young child say some of the things Conan says. Then, I realized I didn't know the exact age that Conan was really supposed to be acting. I don't recall Conan's age to ever be mentioned in the show. How old is Conan supposed to be now? What was his age before he shrank?

Of course, Conan's real age is the same as his age before he shrank. He was 16 at the time he shrank.
Conan does mention his age in the first volume of the manga in File 2, when he almost accidentally tells Ran that he is 16, instead of 6.

Later in the series, Conan's age is 7, as he has experienced a birthday.

Conan is also around the same size as other kids that age, which is probably why he was put in class 1-B when he started going to grade school. In Japan, first-year grade school students are between the ages of 6 and 7.

In Chapter 2, one of the policemen who found him just after he passed away from the Organization's experimental poison estimates that he is 5 or 7 years old.
Later in the same chapter, he tells Ran he is 6 (as mentioned by @giraffesyo)

In 1996 he was 16 and was made to take a drug that makes you ten years younger, so his appearance is that of a 6 year old.
Fast forward over twenty Christmas and New Years specials and he's still the same age.

He is 6 in the manga 7 later (probably had a birthday).
In the subbed anime, he was 17 before he turned into a kid and he is currently 7 years old.
In the Funimation dub, he is 8. During episode seventeen, Conan thinks to himself “Man, being an 8-year-old is embarrassing”.


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From which media does this redhead in lingerie painted on a car come?
I'm looking for the name of this girl... Does anyone know who she is?

This girl is from the eroge Platinum Wind ~Hoshi no Uta ga Kikoetara~
Description :

Albeit tiny, the kingdom of Quartet is prosperous thanks to a mysterious magical light (known as "Platina") that envelops the region. In this bustling city, an alchemist returns home after his apprenticeship.

Here is the original image (/!\ Not Safe For Work /!\ )


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Why did Itachi's amaterasu not burn the entire inn?
In the original Naruto series there is a confrontation between Jiraiya and Itachi. Jiraiya tries to stop Itachi from escaping by trapping him and Kisame inside the stomach of a toad. Itachi was able to escape the stomach by burning a hole through to the other side using amaterasu.
The flames produced by amaterasu are supposed to burn for seven days and seven nights. Also, the flames cannot be extinguished with water.
So, my question is why was the inn they were in not destroyed? The flames should have spread and burned the entire inn.

After the encounter, Jiraiya was able to seal the flames inside of a scroll. This kept the inn from being destroyed.


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What are some free streaming services besides Crunchyroll which stream English Dubbed shows?
According to my information, Crunchyroll provides streams of anime and is legal. It has tons of anime, most of them are only english subbed. The biggest issue regarding Crunchyroll is that most of the anime are not available in all regions of the world.
I would like to know the names of a few free alternatives to Crunchyroll which have English dubbed anime and are legal.

several resources are listed on this answer but I can't guarentee they will have what you want.  http://meta.anime.stackexchange.com/questions/922/how-can-i-tell-if-a-site-is-legal?lq=1

Is there any region in particular that you might be interested in? Answers may different by locale. (For instance, Hulu has been suggested---and it indeed contains anime dubs---but IIRC it's only available in the US.)

As @Maroon stated, your question implies that your issue with Crunchyroll is partly because of some region-locking. In that case, it's important to know what region you're in so we can tag your question as such, and provide answers specific to that region. From what I know, there's not going to be a lot of free English dubbed streams available.

To stream a dubbed anime legally in a given region, you need to have the appropriate licence. The problem is that if you want to stream something across 10 countries, you will potentially need to arrange for 10 licences because the original producer (which would generally be a company in the US) may have arrangements with a different company in each of the 10 countries for that company to have the local distribution rights. It might be a bit different if (a) the US company has local subsidiaries in those companies or (b) there is no local licencee and the original producer is then the default license-holder - in both cases you can arrange with the parent company to licence off all of those regions together.
In any case, the end result is that out of (1) has a large range of shows, (2) lets you watch the shows in all regions, and (3) is legally allowed to stream the shows, you get to pick two. Also, licencing costs money, so odds are that if you want something that offers shows for free (especially the newest stuff) then you almost certainly aren't looking for something legal.
For most regions, CrunchyRoll is still going to be your go-to. They do mostly have subs, but for some older series they have dubs as either an alternative or the only option, and while not everything is available in all regions it's still a pretty good offering. Netflix is now available in many countries, and in at least some of those countries it has a sizeable anime selection, at least some of which is dubbed. Otherwise, you'll probably have to look for something specific to where you are, possibly run by a local distributor. For example, here in Australia both MadMan and Hanabee have some series streamable on their respective websites, and MadMan also set up AnimeLab as a kind of local Crunchyroll.

MyAnimeList compiled a list of The 18 Best International Sites to Legally Stream Anime. They do mention a few that offer dubs (and they mention Crunchyroll offers some dubbed titles), and they also mention the region availability. Not all of them are free, but most of these will offer at least some free content:

Funimation, Availability: US and Canada
AnimeLab, Availability: Australia and New Zealand
Hanabee, Availability: Australia and New Zealand
Hulu, Availability: US
Amazon, Availability: Global
The Anime Network, Availability: NA and UK
Animax TV, Availability: UK and Ireland
Manga Entertainment, Availability: UK and US
MyAnimeList, Availability: Global (dependent on title)
Anime Serien, Availability: Global (note: this site is not a streaming site, but rather one that helps you locate legal streams for anime subbed/dubbed in various European languages)


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What was Naruto's chakra nature before Shippuden?
According to the Naruto Wikia,

 Naruto currently has all of the chakra natures.

Before Shippuden, what type of chakra does Naruto possess?

It says it in the wiki you linked that his original nature affinity is Wind.

In the first series, Naruto was unaware of what his chakra nature was. It was not until episode 55, Wind, of Naruto Shippuden that Kakashi explained chakra forms and types to Naruto. This is when Kakashi helps Naruto identify what type of chakra he possesses.
He did this with a special kind of paper called Litmus paper, which is sensitive to chakra. When a ninja focuses their chakra through it, different things will happen to the paper.

When he focused his chakra into the Litmus paper it split in half, identifying his chakra as wind.

In the same same episode, we see that Kakashi's chakra nature is lightning because of the way the paper wrinkles. The fact that Kakashi can use (and has mastered) more than one chakra nature at this point shows us that the paper will only react in one way. So we can conclude that his original nature, in the Naruto series, was wind; his chakra nature was just not known until that point.

As far as the question is concerned, I believe the requester was interested to know Naruto's Chakra before the shippudin series. What you answered is correct but it happened while the shippudin series was running.


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What song plays from 7:20 to 8:05 of FMA Brotherhood episode 5?
Does anybody know the name of the song that plays at 7:20 - 8:05 on Brotherhood episode 5, or the OST it's on?

Can you describe what happens during the scene? There's no soundtrack playing at the specified time duration in the episode I have downloaded. The closest one is at 9:20 when Ed and Alphonse are talking, and it begins when Ed says "I'm an idiot" and plays until Scar attacks Ed. Is that the one you're referring to?

Have you tried Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood OST - Nightfall in Central City?

@Pratyush Manocha I have tried Nightfall in Central City, it's not the one I'm looking for.

@Ashish Gupta Yes, I'm referring exactly to the scene you mentioned! That's the one!

@KatarzynaNowakowska I thought you were referring to the one at 4. In any case, I had sent you a playlist with all the OSTs, try going through it.

The soundtrack you're looking for is Trisha's Lullaby from Fullmetal Alchemist Original Soundtrack 1 album.

It's the 21st soundtrack in the album with a time duration of 3 minutes and 31 seconds.


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What drove the hotel cook to start attacking students?
In the Another anime most of the students started to kill one another because they wanted to find the dead in order to stop. Even the cook was involved in the killings.

What's the motive behind her killings? Did she kill the manager and start the fire? Any clue?

I don't think they necessarily had any actual motives - it seemed more like the curse was causing them to behave erratically.

Well that lady (her name is Keiko Numata by the way) turned into a killer because of her grandson Ikuo Takabayashi who Died boringly by having heart attack. She were emotionally depressed by it and become mentally insane. That why she started killing everyone.

Who killed the managir and started fire ?

She killed him and stareted the fire.

But why did she killed manager ? he has nothing to do with it .

No reasons at all. She become mentally insane and turned it a psychopathic killer. Even if there is a reasons why she killed her husband in anime they didn't mentioned why she killed him.


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What does Hondo Eisuke mean when he says, "I think I stood up on the wrong leg as a child."
In Episode 462, Hondo Eisuke says, "I think I stood up on the wrong leg as a child."

I tried searching for this idiom online but couldn't find anything, most likely because I was searching the english text that the translator put and not the Japanese. However, the Japanese is quick for my beginner ears, so I wasn't able to write it down.
Hondo is a rather unlucky guy, and this happened right after getting coffee poured on him, so from the context I'm assuming it has to do with bad luck but I'd like to know if there is more info I can read about this idiom.

The translation is incorrect but was probably trying to convey a joke on Hondo Eisuke's bad luck in this show since every time I see him, he seems to suffer from some sort of event.
Anyway, what he said here was "Bou to tsutate ita boku ga doji de noruma data desukara." which translates to something like "Me standing here and daydreaming being careless and slow is at fault here." if I do it without caring for English Grammar.
However what I would translate it as would be like "It was my fault for standing here daydreaming and thus being a careless idiot."


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Where does Ciel get the key?
In episode 2, where does Ciel acquire the key to the storehouse that the drugs are in?

If you have several questions to ask, try splitting them up in several questions instead of all in one

In episode 2

His butler, Strongest

Several characters are portrayed in the pool room and in the tea room in the scene after.
One of these characters a Chinese male named Lau is responsible for oversight of the drug trafficking that occurs in London.
Ciel being the Earl of Phantomhive, received a mission from the queen to eliminate a rat who had been messing with Lau's business.
Lau gave Ciel the key who baited out his kidnapping and flushed out the rat. Which is why the main focus in the point of this episode was that Ciel likes to play games. He could have had Lau or Sebastian handle it but he would rather throw himself right in the middle a precarious situation for entertainment.


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Whose drugs are actually being kept in the storehouse?
In episode 2, entitled 'His Butler, Strongest', whose drugs are being kept in the storehouse? Are they actually Azzurro's drugs, or are they someone else's and he just wants to get his hands on them to sell them?

That would be drugs that do belong to Lau's operation to handle within England. But since they are being stolen and trafficked it was Ciel's job to track down and eliminate them.


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Why is "Meitantei Conan" translated as Case Closed?
I really like the "Meitantei Conan" anime, but I've always wanted to know, why is was the name translated to "Case Closed" when it was localized?

A good title in Japanese does not necessarily directly translate to a good title in English. "Case Closed" is a fairly snappy, memorable title; "Detective Conan" is somewhat less so, in my opinion. "A town from which I alone am erased" is a godawful title in English; "Erased" is way better. There is no good way to directly-translate "Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou" into English (because the title is a pun), so instead we have "The Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior" (also a pun, but a different one). And so on and so forth.

(That said, this seems like the kind of localization decision that a localizer might actually have commented on at some point, so someone might well be able to give you a more specific answer about this particular case.)

Well in my opinion a town from which I am erased is a lot better than the English translation actually all accurate japaneese-English translations are better than their simplified version, if I saw an anime in English called "a town from which I alone am erased" I would immediately start binge watching it, basically I would sacrifice simplicity, for an amazing title.

Who would ever think "a town from which I alone am erased" is a bad title? Whatever that's my opinion anyway, I'm sick of the "tradition" of simplifying amazing japaneese titles. In my opinion "Erased" is god awful

related Is it a common practice to change the title into something different?

IIRC the reason for changing the title was to evade potential lawsuits. Dunno which one but I found this, you might read it if you want. I haven't opened that link yet, I'll check it when I am available.

It  isn't related because I wanted to know why did they translated this one, not if it is a common practice

Whether or not Detective Conan was catchy enough isn't the cause for the change in name in this particular case...
At one point Funimation's "Case Closed" website had a FAQ page with this question asked. An archival copy of this page can be found here.

Q: Why did you change the name to Case Closed?
A: Due to legal considerations.

We see the same vague response in a 2004 news article published by Anime News Network:

FUNimation sent out an advisory today stating that due to unspecified legal considerations, Detective Conan is to be renamed "Case Closed" . . . Due to legal considerations, this highly anticipated series will be released in the United States as Case Closed. Working closely with our Japanese partners, Case Closed was chosen as the name best suited for the U.S. market.

While it seems to be mostly speculation, there have been forum posts mentioning that this renaming is due to the copyright held by DC Comics on the name Conan. I'm not convinced by that reasoning, but I included it for you to digest as you please.

the reason why the X-Men wont appear in the Marvel Movieverse is because of the studio who own's X-Men also owns the term Mutant in relation to superhumans or some sort as such Quick Silver and Scarlet Witch who are apart of X-Men can still be brought by another studio and used but they can't be referred to as Mutants. it's possible that there may be some similar weird copyright crap like that however those copyrights are done by lawyers who are trained in the ancient art of writing the most confusing piece of paper to say a single thing

In the U.S., names are not copyrightable. They are trademarkable, though, and a company named "Conan Sales Co. LLC" does have a registered trademark on "Conan the Barbarian" (USPTO serial #76097984).

@senshin I've had someone tell me it could be related to the Conan Doyle estate. I'm not finding what could let them block this show though.

For starters,
Conan is a name in the US that is closely associated with Conan the Barberian, and Conan is a name that sounds rather odd, the main reason why Japanese names are almost always changed in the US, e.g Kudo Shinichi to Jimmy Kudo. I believe the main reason other than that is probably for a more eye-catching name than simply Detective Conan.

What other people said is correct but I also believe they mention the phrase "Case Closed" in multiple episodes of the TV show/Anime so I guess whoever titled was like, that would make a pretty good title.

Please include relevant sources/references to support your answer.


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Why is Wolf's Rain so ridiculously expensive?
I am looking to add the complete set of Wolf's Rain to my anime collection, however after shopping around on E-Bay I see the following:
Wolf's Rain for over $300
This is a pretty common price-point for Wolf's Rain, I constantly see that this series is starting at over $300. Why is this? From what I understand Wolf's Rain was never really a huge hit. So why does it cost so much to obtain a legitimate copy?

@ton.yeung Wow that's crazy. Wolf's Rain is one of my all-time favorites. I thought there were some cool concepts, and am surprised it wasn't extremely popular. I just let a used copy slip away for $55... Should've nabbed it.

@ton.yeung Yeah but I don't think it's like Cowboy Bebop where you can walk into BestBuy 15 years later and see brand new copies on the shelves.

You're looking at the original run of Wolf's Rain, which is no longer in production, and as such is subject to secondhand supply and demand price increases.
I recommend that you look into the Wolf's Rain - Complete Collection Limited Edition DVD Set released in 2005. This set started at 149.99 and is listed on the related auctions on the link you provided to eBay for $195, a ~25% increase from its original price.


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Does water level determine the amount of power lost?
In the left image, you can see that Luffy and Brook have their powers drained. However in the right image, both Hancock and Luffy are in standing water but seem to keep their powers.

So, does the amount of power they lose depend on the water level?

Well, we don't actually see Luffy and Boa maintaining their powers, we just see them not weakened, so that might have a tie-in.

What episode is the first picture from?

@Cyberson in that specific episode, i do believe that bon tried to use her love beam on Luffy and fails but i'm not sure if she was standing in water or not

@MichaelMcQuade the first picture is from One Piece Film: Z, thanks by the way for editing, i don't know how to edit

@Dragon I believe that was not when she was in the water, because the beam did fire it just didn't do anything.

@Cyberson i don't think that's the case, in this link, there is a question on this site about why hancock's didn't work on luffy, take a look if you wish but it definitely wasn't because hancock was standing in water http://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/5896/why-didnt-boa-hancocks-attack-affect-luffy

Based on what I read and what I remember:

Rain normally doesn't have an effect.
If the Devil Fruit user's body is mostly out of water, then they get weakened a bit.
If the user is totally/mostly in the water, they normally can't move.
Seastone has an effect like that of being totally in water.

The difference of the above pictures: on the left, Luffy and Brook are mostly in water, so they are very weak; on the right, Boa Hancock and Luffy are only standing in knee-deep water, so they don't lose too much power.

I think the water level is not important, just because when some water is touching them they start losing their power. I think the most important think is the time they are being in contact with it.

thanks for your answer but i don't believe that's the case because whenever a devil fruit user touches the ocean or the sea stone, they start loosing their power, they may still have enough power to defeat someone, but they do loose their power just from touching it. SPOILER this is show in the bit just after the two year gap where they are underwater trying to get to the mermaid land.


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Two-armed Shanks after he saves Luffy
As a One Piece fan who doesn't read the manga I must ask this:
In this flashback when Ace meets Shanks, Ace says:

"My brother was always talking about you as his lifesaver"

As you are aware, Shanks lost his arm when he saved Luffy. However, at 0:43 you can clearly see both of his arms.
Does this happen in the manga or is it just an animation mistake?

The meeting between Ace and Shanks does happen in the manga, but according to the One Piece Wiki on Episode 461 where this happens, Shanks having two arms appears to be an error in the animation.
Personally, I do agree that it was an animation fail, since it was long after Shanks saved Luffy.

It would be worth noting that in the manga, Shank's cloak covers his left arm entirely. So the error is only in the anime.

@Thebluefish Feel free to add an answer with that piece of information (or if you are generous, edit it in this answer)


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Why is Dragon Ball Super's animation quality so terrible?
I've been watching the Dragon Ball Super series from the release date and I keep hating it more and more. I don't know if you guys have noticed it but all battle animations are terrible.
Here's an example:

Is there a logical explanation why a 2015 anime is so poorly animated compared to DBZ?

And that's not even talking about the filler content they put in there... What is Pilaf even doing there? And why did Vegeta become a wimp all of a sudden?!

I can tolerate the fact that Vegeta is so terrified. It's like a childhood trauma, and he has a wife and a kid now, in my opinion that's acceptable unlike the quality of the animation.

I don't know if this can be used for an answer, but there is a lot of posts that says that responsible for this is Toei Animations because they have really tide schedule for every show (not only Dragon Ball). So they push all people to work a ton of hours per day and payment it's too low. So that means maybe that these people cannot do good episodes if they have so much work ahead of them.

@pap If you can find a reliable source that says that, you'd have enough for an answer.

I find this a normal occurrence for anime that is aired on TV, especially when the studio has tight deadline until the animator has to rush to make it "watchable" (i.e. "ugh, bad animation" vs "there's no battle scene at all!"). Usually there will be DVD and/or BluRay version with most animation errors fixed. However, I just state the general case, which might (or might not) be the case for Dragon Ball Super.

@Torisuda is this enough: http://kotaku.com/dragon-ball-super-looks-super-crappy-1723059211

@pap The link you provide 1) doesn't claim Toei has a tight schedule and its employees are overworked & underpaid (there's only a mention by Thomas about the industry in general; his employer is not named) and 2) doesn't claim animators do not have the skill to produce quality work under such conditions (to be honest, this has no discernible bearing on quality of the product as it is the common working condition across all of Japan's industries [i.e. the salaryman] and has always been the case in the anime and especially in the manga industry, yet countless artists have produced quality work)

Anime budget does not have anything to do with the year it airs. It's related mostly to the main animation studio and to internal decisions inside the studio.
In the case of Super, I think it's because the studio making it is Toei Animation. I very similar example, if not the same, is the Saint Seiya anime which is currently airing , Soul of Gold. You can look at several episodes where the animation quality drops to substandard levels.
Each animation studio has its own characteristics that end up defining the brand, and quality consistency between titles and during a title run is one of them.
Toei is just not very good with this.

I don't think the OP was implying that the show should have a higher budget because it's made in 2015; the OP was implying that with the new digital animation technology, it should be possible to make higher quality animation on the same budget. Good point about studio quality varying, though; I've noticed that Gonzo is also pretty awful at maintaining quality across a series.

Indeed he wasnt. but he made an opened question about the possible reasons behind the low quality, so I tried to explain the rationalization behind it, as well as the known effect from the audience perspective, which is the quality inconsistency between series/episodes that some studios show.

Toei is the exact same studio that produced DBZ which the OP is comparing Super to (and Toei has produced many, many very high quality TV anime, including fully hand-animated ones before the digital period), so to claim that "Toei is just not very good with this" does not provide a credible reason that 2015 anime production is lower in quality than 1989~1996 anime by the same company.

I didnt say 'toei isnt good', i said 'consistrncy is a characteristic of animation studios, and toei is known for not being a very much consistent one', there's a significant difference. And it's not just toei, there are several animation studios where you cam see signoficant quality inconsistency between episodes.

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Did Bartholomew Kuma intend to send the crew to different places or was it by chance?
Did Bartholomew Kuma plan to send all of the crew members to different places or is it just a coincidence that he helped all of them in different ways?

He definitely didn't do it by accident. It was his last action while he still had his personality. Later he says, "I work for the Revolutionary Army. Since we have a connection, I want to help this group escape."

Kuma definitively knew what he did. Otherwise Zoro wouldn't have landed on Mihawk's island.
Also, I found this:

Sentomaru reveals that Kuma has the ability to make people fly through the sky to far away places. A Monster Chopper runs wild, trying to attack Sentomaru. Rayleigh is still seen dueling Kizaru, using swords while Nami reflects on Kuma's ability, where it was first shown at Thriller Bark.
Kuma Attacking Pacifista
Kuma intercepting a Pacifista.
She remembers that Perona mysteriously vanished. Luffy asks Sentomaru where Zoro could have gone, and Sentomaru says that anyone that gets touched by Kuma's paws would sail through three days and three nights and the destination would only be known by Kuma. An outraged Sanji gets ready to battle Kuma, while PX-1 tries to attack Usopp from behind, using a beam attack. Kuma then uses his Devil Fruit ability to send PX-1 away, which enraged Sentomaru.

source: One Piece Wikia

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Are these paper figures actually Origami?
So in my Collectors Edition for Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth3 it came with a sheet which can be made into this paper figure:

I have also seen similar things on eBay of the Puella Magi from Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
Are these figures Origami, or is there a different name for them which one could use for finding similar products?

The current most widely adopted definition of origami usually implies (amongst others): one sheet of paper, no cuts, no glue. So... no (but it might have qualified a few decades years ago, and might again in the future). There is also kirigami, which deals with paper cutting...

I think they can be considered Papercraft.
Also called Pepakura, from "pepa kurafuto", I guess.
If you search google for pepakura models, you can find sites with lots of designs to print and assemble.
Since you will need scissors and most times, glue, they are not considered origami.

Danbo is also papercraft ?


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Who is this girl in a blue witch costume and braids cosplaying as?
Could someone help me ID this cosplay?

I think its "Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea"
that is her, I think


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In which episode of Sailor Moon S did Michiru meet Mamoru?
In which episode of Sailor Moon S did Kaiou Michiru (Sailor Neptune) and Chiba Mamoru (Tuxedo Kamen) meet each other in civilian form for the first time?

Note: I don't recall any earlier points where Michiru and Mamoru interact in civilian form, and I've been keeping an eye out for this since I started watching this season a week ago. It's possible I may have missed something though.
In episode 4 of Sailor Moon S, Michiru and Haruka observe Mamoru from a distance during and after the concert. (They are sitting some distance away from the five "confirmed" Sailor Guardians and Tuxedo Mask, and they have opera glasses. Haruka points out Usagi and her boyfriend, whom Usagi had been complaining of feeling inadequate for, to Michiru.)
In the beginning of episode 9, Mamoru explicitly interacts with Michiru. He has gone with Usagi and the other girls to watch Haruka at a motorcycle race. After the race, Usagi talks to Haruka and Michiru, bringing her friends and Mamoru. (It's worth noting, however, that there is no introduction---"This is Mamoru; this is Haruka and Michiru"---in this episode. Either the introduction is simply handwaved, or they were introduced at an earlier point, before they are shown explicitly interacting for the first time.)


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What is the other goal Zoro mentions in the Alabasta arc?
In episode 102, during the Alabasta arc, Zoro says:

As for why I still stay with him... being by his side all this time's given me another goal to strive for.

Another translation I've seen of this is:

Since we've been together for so long another purpose is starting to emerge.

This happens around the 9:45 mark during episode 102crunchyroll.
When chopper asks what that goal is Zoro responds:

Sorry. I don't know how to answer about it.

Chopper should know that Zoro's original goal is to become the world's greatest swordsman. Is the second goal that Zoro mentions but can't explain about making Luffy the king of the pirates or is it something different?

You're right. Zoro second goal is to make Luffy the King of Pirates. This has been demonstrated by him many times in the form of his loyalty
Here are a few instances where this has been demonstrated. As the One Piece Wiki puts it:

Zoro seems to have the most respect for Luffy and this deep respect has been demonstrated on various occasions. For instance, he was willing to throw away his dreams and ambitions for Luffy's during the appearance of Kuma in the Thriller Bark Arc without the slightest hesitation.

When he was almost on the verge of death from his wound from "Hawk-Eyes" Mihawk in the Baratie Arc he tearfully vowed to Luffy that he would never lose again, asking if it was alright with him as Pirate King.

You can watch the scene here

This respect is not only for Luffy as a person, but also because of his position as captain. When Luffy learned that Usopp was planning on returning to the crew during their time in Water 7 and was immediately ready to welcome him back, Zoro made it clear that a crew member who fought against their captain should not be forgiven so easily. Zoro explained to the others that one should respect their captain unconditionally and he would quit as well if Luffy allowed someone to walk all over him like Usopp, who wanted to rejoin without even apologizing for his actions. When Luffy was distraught after having to defeat Usopp, Zoro reminded him that those hard decisions are part of being captain, and that he can not lose himself. He reminds Luffy that if he wavers, the crew has no one else they can trust.

He gives the said speech here
I couldn't find this scene:

During the Long Ring Long Island Arc after winning the Davy Back Fight contest against the Foxy Pirates, Zoro implied of never becoming a pirate if it weren't for Luffy and commented that he'd have no point in being one if he had ever left the ship.

Finally, there's this:

In Chapter 597 he begged Dracule Mihawk to train him (despite it not being honorable) in order to become stronger for Luffy, his captain.  Mihawk comments that in order to make the request Zoro must have found something more valuable than his ambition

i knew the answer.in the same episode another goal which zoro mentioned to chopper.the goal is to always keep sail with luffy.of course ace said to vivi that luffy has strange charm so people can want always with him.so zoro said to chopper the reason he cant answer the another goal to chopper because zoro want to chopper feeling as the same thing as zoro.and i think chopper already feel it when they met foxy pirate.chopper said he just want sailing with luffy and only with luffy.


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What is the source of Saitama's enormous power?
I have seen only the anime and not the manga. I am utterly curious about the ability and power of Saitama.
In the starting episodes, he mentions that he trained very hard and also details his training regime.
However, I am still curious to know: is there any mention of the source of his enormous power somewhere in the Manga?

The anime version of One Punch Man is really accurate on regard to the manga so nothing has been revealed in the manga that hasn't in the anime.
As you mentionned, in the manga, Saitama followed what he would call a hard training every day :

100 push-ups
100 sit-ups
100 squats
10 kilometers every day
no air-conditioner

As a result, Saitama loses his hair, and becomes incredibly powerful.

This training is the source of his power.
Keep in mind that One Punch Man is intended as a shonen parody as it is making a parody of its codes.
In a lot of shonens, training is a main part of the manga.
As an example, in Dragon Ball, the sayans spend years in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber in order to become stronger.
By making the training of Saitama so simple (compared to the heroes capacities), One Punch Man is making fun of this Shonen code. Therefore we may not expect any more explanation on what Saitama did in order to become stronger.

Out of universe (aka, in the real world), OPM is definitely a parody of seinen and superhero stories (Power Rangers type stuff, in particular), especially at its inception.  So his power simply is, and serves to parody the aforementioned genres, as indicated in HamtaroWarrior's answer.  He is just the hero that shows up to vanquish the monster at the very end of the story, only in this case he doesn't do it for Love or Justice or any high ideals like that.
In-universe, though, there have been certain indicators that Saitama's power was obtained by constantly ignoring his limits until eventually he stopped having any.  See Chapter 56 of the webcomic*, in particular:

 The following is Dr. Genus speaking to Zombieman about why he has given up on the House of Evolution--Saitama made him realize it was futile, as all he would ever do was raise the limits of humanity, which could never compete with something without limits.

 There are a few panels before and after this one that continue to discuss Saitama's power.  Go read the rest of the chapter for them.

The manga is not quite this far along yet, but it's not terribly far away, and there are some things in the manga that are not in the webcomic (see the image and surround text below, for example).
Someone who is already in decent shape will not be fazed much by Saitama's exercise routine (see HamtaroWarrior's answer).  Their biggest problem, if any, would be the lack of rest days.  However, people in bad shape would take to it much differently. I know in my current couch-potato state I'd have a lot of trouble with jumping straight into that kind of routine, and would likely inflict several long-term injuries on myself from muscle pulls etc.  I've basically done so in the past, actually.  Years ago, when I was a scrawny little nerd who never really exercised, I suddenly decided to try to get some muscles and tried getting 100 push-ups done total throughout the course of a day (2 here, 10 there, etc.).  I pulled a stabilizing muscle around the spine and shoulder blade.  I collapsed face-first onto the floor with a scream when it happened.  For a few days I had limited use of one of my arms and spent most of my time in bed (which was still painful--you never really stop trying to use a stabilizing muscle, thanks to gravity), and I had painful muscle spasms in that area for many years.
Saitama was probably in better shape than that when he started, but he wasn't in particularly great shape either.  He was just a lazy, unemployed lay-about, after all.  I would expect him to be pretty firmly on the side of "doing this every day will lead to injuries and a lot of pain" when he started training.
The manga adaptation has a sidestory about Saitama's training days that shows him powering himself past intense pain, actually.

 It's worth noting that the pain was from a bad tooth, not his training.  He was already in his 300th day of training during this story.  Once the tooth was knocked out he felt fine, but before that he's in great pain and continues his workout and saves a few people along the way regardless.  There's another sidestory early on about his training days, but doesn't go into what pain he may have experienced in the early stages.  The anime adaptation of the scene from Hamtaro's answer includes a brief clip showing Saitama in pain while training, though.

Saitama essentially always trained beyond whatever his limits were--if he suffered an injury like I did, he would havewilled himself past it and continued to do 100 pushups and everything else every single day regardless.  For the record, this is a really bad idea in real life.  Please don't do it. Exercise programs and such should be taken seriously when they tell you to consult with a doctor before starting any exercise routine.
*Or you can now see chapter 88 of the manga ("88th Punch: Limiter") for essentially the same exposition.  Be careful if you go looking for this online, though.  This series is notorious for having completely different numberings according to different people/sites, to the extent that some sites still have certain earlier chapters out of order.  I see this chapter in question listed as chapter 135 in one location, for example.

isn't the explanation of his powers tied to the universe it's self?  the crab monster eating too much crab, the custom car guy becoming a custom car.
before he kills the crab guy he even says he wanted to be a hero not a businessman, a hero who could send scumbags like crabman flying with a single punch.  add all that together and then pay attention to the scenes where his eyes glow with intensity and I think you have the answer.
now why those powers form from the obsessions/desires I don't know but I think his powers come from his deep desire or obsession with wanting to be a hero + the universes ability to grant powers to people.

I think his powers come from his intense desire to be an all powerful super hero. He wants to be the strongest there is and so he sets himself what he sees as an intense workout program and unlocks his power and assumes it came from his workout regime.
I also see Saitama as a parody not just of manga characters but also as an homage and parody of the Superman from the 60's and 70's. That Superman was so overpowered that he literally could defeat anyone who came against him without breaking a sweat. It became hard for DC comics to have him fight villains because of just how powerful they had made him. They usually had the villain resort to tricks or hoaky scenarios to weaken Superman so he could be fought. He was essentially a god not a hero and he could have beaten anyone with just one punch.
If you look at the anime you can almost see Superman in the way Saitama moves at times in his costume and the way the cape flutters and moves. Even Saitama's costume is more of an American style costume than a Japanese style.

I would think there is more to his power than just insane training, if you remember genos once said that even saitama doesn't know the source of his power, and according one-sensei(the creator of the series) sitamas power equals to half of the power of big bang that created the universe, I think it's better to wait for sensei to reveal his secret

the big chin kid is prob a deity, and he got his powers from helping him. you see the glow in his eyes start during that fight. maybe big chin kids invisible guardian or such...but that would be my guess

Could you add sources to support the answer? Unless you add them, this is just pure speculation.

well what genos said is in the anime and manga , I believe is after the hose of evolution when they where fighting carnage kaboto, and when they where training , I can't seem to find the source for what one-sensei said but I will find it and come back to you


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How does Hiyori figure out Yato's real name?
Hiyori manages to save Yato from the underworld by discovering that his true name was Yaboku. How did she come to this conclusion?

Since calling him by his name "Yato" didn't work, Hiyori knows that name is fake.
Yet, she recalls how fondly Yato looked as his small shrine and the name engraved on it.
So she deduces the name engraved in the shrine is correct, but pronounced differently.
She changes the reading of the katakana ト(to) to the reading of the very similar kanji 卜(boku).

Hiyori said the name that written in his shrine is right. Because Yato is truly happy when he received the shrine. So, she realized that they probably misread his name.