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How does Griffith's dream have anything to do with becoming a demon lord?
Warning: Spoilers Ahead!
I just finished Berserk, and I'm left sitting here in confusion. I tried finding the answers on the wiki and forums, but had no luck. Came here in hopes of finding a Berserk fan online.

Griffith dream was to become a ruler of a kingdom, but at what point did his dream all go to hell? What exactly am I missing in the story that says "My dream is to rule humanity!"?
How did demons originally get involved in all this...?

Wasn't it because the Idea of Evil corrupted him after the God Hands convinced him to become one of them? i haven't read/watched anything of it and was only looking into some claims about the series today, am now going to just skim wikis since i don't want to see what happened to Casca

My dream is to rule humanity! -- I think this is an assumption independent from the storyline. AFAIK, Griffith didn't mention even indirectly that to rule  humanity is his goal. The way story moved forward, the Idea of Evil through fate turned a lot of people into apostles, enough to be ready as a war-demon army for one reincarnated God Hand. While Femto is an angel, the apostles or any ranked monster aren't obliged to follow him. His goal might also be to rule both the Human and the Astral World which fits his goal of having a Kingdom, not necessarily to be comprised of humans.

If you recall in (the original run of) the anime, they call the Behelit the "Egg of the King". There are other Behelits too. In the manga, something similar happens to many other people. Typically, a demon in disguise intervenes when someone is down on their luck and gives them the Behelit. The Behelit warps their fate, giving them everything they wanted. Eventually, fate twists violently and brings them back to despair. When their blood comes in contact with the Behelit (which tends to happen at this low point), the God Hand appears and offers to grant a wish in exchange for a sacrifice. This process turns them into monsters known as Apostles. It's heavily implied that something like this previously happened to the Snake Baron in the first episode of the anime, as well as all the monsters in the last episode. It's been a while since I've read it, so the details may be off a little.
Basically the Behelits are human bait, leading people into situations where they will lust for power enough to embrace being a demon. Griffith's dreams and fate were also manipulated, or at the very least the darkness in his heart was cultivated until he chose the outcome.
The entire anime is just a small part of the entire storyline. It was canceled for obvious reasons.

"Cancel for obvious reasons"? Pardon me for being slow but... What is that obvious reason. The violence? The rape scenes? Gore? I eventually finished the manga and thought it was superb! A real shame...

Hey, I lost my account and made a new one then earned the right to comment. The last one or two episodes is ( I CAN'T GET THE SPOILER CODES TO WORK HERE) nothing but a literal blood bath, a monster rape scene, and everyone but a few die. I imagine they had a hard time renewing that one for broadcast anywhere.

Griffith's dream was to become a ruler of a kingdom.

While it has always been true for any form of Griffith (purebred human, angel Femto, reincarnation into human) that his goal is to have a kingdom, he has never mentioned the boundaries of or the terms for his kingdom. That is, a reader in early chapters of the manga could think of it as the kingdom of Midland; in middle chapters, as Empire of Holy See and of Ganishka; in recent chapters, a kingdom encompassing both Human and Astral World.

But at what point did his dream all go to hell?

As it is already clear in the manga, this dream of having his kingdom is the reason why Griffith in his human form lived, later took rebirth into an Angel (to get rid of human body restraints) to start his expedition of having a kingdom again (because of being feeling lost in the jail for so long when he was purebred human), and had reincarnation into a human to claim human world from the existing emperors. Accounting the development in recent chapters of the manga, there is no doubt that this dream has not been abandoned but has been invigorated with new plans.
In your words,

the dream did not got to hell but the hell has been brought to earth by him to rule both simultaneously from Windham.

How did demons originally get involved in all this...?

Some part of the following text is complete opinion of mine.
Humans follow the fate set forth by The Idea of Evil and the Behelit which the chosen ones receive draw them to the currents of causality, thus, reaching a point of despair and malice, that they decide to offer sacrifice to get rid of this feeling.
Turning into an Apostle doesn't end fate but marks a watershed moment. They are still headed for the destiny set forth by fate knowingly (like Emperor Ganishka thought) or unknowingly (like the tragedy with Count).
As for Griffith, his fate was set by The Idea of Evil and the Crimson Behelit made sure that he remains drawn to the currents of causality as answered by Gunfulker.
Now, to the question about involvement of the Demons.
Regarding their involvement into the eclipse
The Apostles might knew or could have received the information that their will be a feast on eclipse, or an angel, a member of God Hand, will be reborn, or it could be both. So, they came to the spot en masse.
The aforesaid conclusion can be deduced from the following events in the manga:

When Wyald tried to look for Crimson Behelit in Griffith's body (to call God Hand) during latter's rescue by his band;
When Zodd  interfered and killed Wyald for doing such and later accepted the position of front guard during feast;
When Rosine and Count among others ate injured members of the band of the Hawk (while Rickert was away to fetch water) in the night; and Skull Knight asked them to make haste for reaching the Eclipse spot.

Regarding the involvement of Demons in the army of War-Demons
It was not shown in the manga but can be concluded that,  since Zodd was seeking the strongest one to fight (as he witnessed the dream of a white hawk flying in a dark sky) he was defeated by Femto, thereby, Zodd became the first member of Griffith's army. It cannot be said how Locus, Grunbeld and Rakshas came to know of Griffith's presence on Earth, but they chose to join him voluntarily as witnessed in the manga.
It has also been witnessed that a demon cannot stand against Femto, irrespective of their wish. When Ganishka (extremely powerful Emperor and a demon) encountered Griffith the first time on the battlefield he felt been carried away by latter's presence, comforting voice, and the blood of demon realm that flows through Griffith too. Therefore, it can be concluded that while an Angel doesn't control a demon willingly, a demon cannot directly fight against, as well as oppose an Angel.
Hence, it can be ascertained now how did demons get involve with Griffith into his War-Demon army.
Note: The question has been answered by accounting episodes 01-337.

Warning: I just read the manga so I don't know if it happened the same way in the anime.
First of all, there were three facts that were given when Guts was in the Band of the Hawk:

 1) A Behelit was given to Griffith, that saved his life several times.
 2) For him, his dream was more important than anything.
 3) He was always considered as a special person, a chosen one that could do anything.

So, we can say that he was chosen by the God Hand. But the moment that precipitated things was:

 when Guts decided to leave the Band of the Hawk, at the end of the war. Guts was an important piece in his plans to conquer the throne. So, Griffith decided to fight Guts to force him to stay in the Band of the Hawk but lost and Guts left him.

After that, Griffith looked desperate so he rushed his plan and

 he was arrested when he took the virginity of the princess. He stayed in the darkness of an underground jail for a long time where he met the God Hand (Dream? Hallucination?). When Guts and the others freed him, he was already influenced by the God Hand.
 Because he had a broken body, he knew he couldn't rule over a country with human methods. So he thought that his dream was more important than the lives of his comrades and decided to sacrifice them to become the fifth member of the God Hand.

SPOILER :- Might you add a bit of this information as well of how exactly God Hand members convinced him. The flashback of his past was thrown onto him and he saw figures of the dead ones saying that you're this close to kingdom because you walked on the dead ones, your comrades who believed in you and laid their lives to realize his goal. To not to sacrifice now his contemporary comrades for his kingdom is to ignore the sacrifices made by previous ones making them a pitiable joke.

Griffith lost his way after Guts won the fight and only could think about how he lost to him and that Guts wasn't an equal. So when he was with the princess, he made a mistake and got thrown in the prison where he sat in darkness, broken and beaten.
At that point where he felt completely lost and broken, he felt he had no other way of making it out alive. However, Guts showed up and saved him. In the moment when Guts saved Griffith, he felt as if he was being punished and made his choice to sacrifice them in order to become a ruler over the land.
Griffith did that in order to become a god king and beat Guts once and for all.

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Birth of Maria's child in Shinsekai Yori
After having watched Shinsekai Yori, something is still bugging me.
From what I understood, the council received Maria and Mamoru's bones from Squealer/Yakomaru after they had gone alone in the wilds, behind the Holy Barrier.
To me, that would mean that the bones were received only a short time after they escaped.
If they were really dead at that time (the Council says that the bones were DNA checked), then when did they have their child? Did I miss/misunderstand something?

I am quite sure Maria and Mamoru have a child together, and then Squealer somehow kills Maria and Mamoru and give their bones to the Council. The child then grows up to recognize the queerats as the same species which explains why death feedback does not work when she kills human but works when she kills Kiroumaru.

@nhahtdh I thought the bones were given in order to make the council think they were dead, because Saki and satoru had a 3 days delay to bring them back and they didn't want to. They had a child before crossing the Holy Barrier ??

They do after crossing the barrier. Between the time skip, there is a period of 12 year: from when they were 14 to when Saki and Satoru is 26.

After Maria and Mamoru escapes from Kamisu 66th district, the story undergoes a time skip 12 years ahead, where Saki and Satoru are 26 years old1.
As we all know, in episode 18, Asahina Tomiko, the head of Ethics Committee, reaffirmed the death of Maria and Mamoru. After they received the bones from Yakomaru/Squealer, they have checked that the bones are from human and there are no inconsistencies in age and gender. They even further confirmed by doing DNA tests and matching the dental record from Harmony School. Therefore, at the point when Saki and Satoru are 26 years old, both Maria and Mamoru have deceased.
However, it was not mentioned when they received the bones in the anime (or maybe I have missed it).
I only found reference in the manga2 (volume 4 chapter 13), where it was mentioned that the bones are recovered 2-3 year after their disappearance.

Therefore, it is safe to conclude that during the period of 2-3 years, Maria and Mamoru had a child together, then Maria and Mamoru were killed by the queerats and had their bones sent back to the district. Their child was raised by the queerats, which made the child recognize the queerats as his/her3 own species and enable him/her to freely massacre other humans. In the anime, the child is shown to be around 10 years old, which matches the timeline of the story.
1 This is confirmed by Wikipedia, both English and Japanese version. In the summary of the chapter 5 of Japanese version: 12 years passed, Saki and Satoru are now 26 years old. (12年が過ぎ、早季と覚は26歳になっていた。)
2 There are many differences between the manga and anime. However, the key part of the story remains: Maria and Mamoru leaves the district, their child raised by the queerats later helps the queerats attacking the village.
3 The child is male in the novel and female in the anime. According to cite note on Wikipedia.

There were two years between the moment they had escaped and the moment the bones were received.
When Saki was 14 years old, Maria and Mamoru escaped.
When Saki was 26 years old, she knew the council received the bones 9 or 10 years earlier.
At least they were alive for 2 years.
This is enough time to create a child.

Isn't it strange that the council thinks everything is all right even though they only received the bones 2 years after ? (ie weren't they searching for a quick solution ? what did they do during the two years (do we even know ?) ?

Because they are 14 years old. I think.

I mean the top answer's obviously what the writer was going for, but it has a plot hole in it, or at least it's not really believable.. The kids said they'd report Maria and T-whatever his name is as dead, Squealer suggested that they should say an avalanche killed them... Really? An avalanche killing 2 kids with superpowers? And on top of that, they'd have to see it actually happen, so, in order for this story to work, they'd have to have found them first, then either they agree to come back (unlikely, but hey, could be made believable), or, they run away again (the scenario that would've happened IF they found them). In the first scenario, the avalanche happening wouldn't have a time restriction, so sure, an avalanche randomly going off would be believable i guess. But it would have to kill ONLY those 2, again, nevermind their powers and all, BUT ALSO while the other 2 kids, WHO ALSO HAVE SUPERPOWERS, watch it all happen? Nope, nobody would buy that, the board would know somethings off.
In the second scenario tho, the avalanche would have to happen the exact same moment they decide to run away, which is really convenient isn't it? And again, 2 kids with superpowers doing nothing, the other 2 kids with superpowers just watching it happen. Nope.
Let's say that the board does buy their story though, searching for those bones would be the highest priority, the kids would probably be forced to show them where it all happened, which would narrow the area greatly obviously. Now they start the search from that area, and keep widening it. If they don't find it in like a month with their psychic-powers, the kids obviously lied, somethings off, they investigate, consequences. But let's imagine that in this world where grownups are paranoid as fuck, paranoid enough to kill innocent children, even their own at times, let's just imagine that they keep on searching forever without questioning it, and then dig the bones up in 2 years. Where would Squealer put them? A Queerat couldn't hide them deeper then the superpowered humans didn't already dig. So if they found the bones in layers above what they've searched, it would be obvious that they were put there recently. Again, let's imagine that the paranoid humans wouldn't notice this, and that the depth of it doesn't matter. Squealer could either put them where the kids said they saw the avalanche, or, somewhere random in that entire snowy biom. First case, it becomes obvious that the bones weren't there 2 years ago since it's been thoroughly investigated already. Second case, the kids lied and the bones were nowhere near, they get to the bottom of it (hypnosis etc.), smell something fishy's going on with Squealer, consequences.
So there's not a single way that this lie could be hidden from the board, and in turn saddens me cause it makes the story unrealistic :(.
Also, if anyone were to die in an avalanche, their body wouldn't rot since it would be kept frozen until the snow started melting, so they wouldn't find bones, they'd find the entire body intact. Well, mostly. There have been cases of humans finding frozen bodies that were 500 years old. Would an educated society with access to all the previous civilizations knowledge miss that fact :) ? Doubt it, since anyone could deduct that using simple logic. Keep in mind that freezing to death probably happened in their civilization often, so they'd be even more aware of this fact then we are.
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       Just rewatched episode 18, apparently Squealer was the one who brought them the bones? So i guess I didn't even have to try and develop those other theories that had more potential of working out, the anime just decided to go with the one that's not possible at the slightest. A Queerat finding bones deep in the snow when superpowered humans couldn't, alright.

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Why doesn't Conan reveal his identity at least to Ran in Detective Conan (Case Closed)?
Why doesn't Shinichi Kudo tell about his problem to Ran in Detective Conan, when he completely understands how much the girl loves him and suffers from pain due to him? While the truth is many times she was almost certain that Conan was Shinichi himself.
The series now has so many episodes. Come on! She needs some sympathy.

Saying Conan doesn't reveal his identity is wrong, there are 10 people who know about Conan true identity, and Conan told 2 of them. (Link contain spoiler) Conan never told Ran because it's dangerous for her to know the truth. Professor Agasa warn him about it at the first time he know about Conan, Second Chapter - The Shrunken Detective
Knowing her personality, Ran will risk her life to save others and most likely too help Conan to fight the Black Organization. This chapter (chapter 434 Rotten Apple) is when Ran tried to save Ai from Vermouth, she risk her own life to save her
On several occasion, Shinichi wants to tell Ran the truth about his identity but chooses her safety above their happiness.
Beside, different from the others who know Conan's secret, Ran might unintentionally tell anyone about it. Closest possible, she will tell her best friend, Sonoko. For example, when Ran accidentally tell Sonoko about Oogami. (He's a wrestler who cover his real identity by wearing a mask - Chapter 389 The Man Who Can Never Be a Wolf)
At one point Ran knew that Conan is Shinichi and actually waiting for him to tell her by himself, but as always Conan was able to trick her again.

Remember the very first chapters which creates the setting for the story of a primary school detective. Shinichi Kudo was caught by the Black Organization when he was doing some investigation, and he was force-fed the drug, which is supposed to kill him (but he only shrink to the body of a child).
Although his small body is inconvenient in everyday life, it is the best possible condition for Shinichi to continue investigating the Black Organization, since the Black Organization doesn't know that he is still alive and in the form of a child.
If he were to reveal his identity to Ran, knowing her personality, she is likely to help him in his investigation, which would put her in danger of being eliminated to keep her mouth shut. Not to mention that it might involve not just her but many people around them.

(This is an answer cooked up from my patchy memories of the series)

Because the writer wants to create a kind and strong maiden who is waiting for Shinichi.
After all, the reason the writer has given is baseless and fans who are supporting it are just pawns trying to prove a baseless reason right created by the writer that if he tells her his identity then she will be in danger
According to me, only foolish people will support this. It doesn't matter if Shinichi tells her or not, her life will be in danger because the organisation will kill her too upon knowing Conan's identity no matter if she is innocent.
And according to me, Rachel (Ran) would have supported him like Hattori. After all, if she had known about the organisation, she can also take necessary precautions and can cover his identity more effectively.

I’ll say revealing his identity to Ran is wrong because she might tell it to her best friend Sonoko, and Sonoko might tell others about it too and it's not all, the Black Organization might know and Ran could be their target and others might get involved and get killed.

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Regarding Shirou and Kiritsugu's attempt to destroy the grail
So, I just finished Fate/Zero, and since Fate/stay night happened, clearly Kiritsugu was unable to destroy the grail to end the cycle (as I understand his intentions to be).  However, it seems like Shirou and Saber did the same thing, but this time without the massive devastation, and it seems like maybe he succeeded.
Why did Shirou succeed while Kiritsugu failed?
I would also appreciate any links to resources to better my understanding of the Fate universe regarding the animes' endings.

The Lesser and Greater Grails
What we see in Fate/Zero and the Fate and Unlimited Blade Works Routes of Fate/Stay Night is the Lesser Grail, this is just a vessel to summon the Great Grail which is hidden beneath Fuyuki. so long as the Greater Grail exists the Wars will continue.

Why did Shirou succeed while Kiritsugu failed?

It depends on which route you take in Fate/stay night.
Kiritsugu's plan
He knew that he wouldn't be able to destroy the grail for good. After the Fourth War, Kiritsugu knew that the war would begin again and planned for that

Kiritsugu had planned to demolish the ritual as of the proper scheduled time of the Fifth Heaven's Feel by arranging for the physical collapse of the Great Grail System before the originally estimated date. The process involved utilizing stocked dynamite and the manipulation of ley-lines to ensure a severe localized earthquake in the targeted area within thirty to forty years of the Fourth War.

But this plan failed as there was a build up of Prana in the Greater Grail that was not spent after the Forth War because of how it ended. In the previous 3 Wars, it would take roughly 60 - 70 years to build up the Prana again because it would have been spent. However, since it wasn't spent in the Fourth War, Kiritsugu's plan would have failed to stop the Fifth War (but may have stopped a Sixth War though).
Fate/Stay Night - Fate & Unlimited Blade Works Routes
In both of these routes from the visual novel (adapted in the Fate/Stay Night Anime Series and Unlimited Blade Works Movie and Anime Series), we only see the Lesser Grail manifest, so Saber only ever destroyed the Lesser Grail even with Archer's help in Unlimited Blade Works. As such, a Sixth War can still happen.
However Lord El-Melloi II and Rin (now the proper head of the Tohsaka Family) return 10 years later to take apart the Greater Grail

He arrives in Fuyuki and, together with Rin as the head of the Tohsaka clan, sets out to completely take apart the Greater Grail. They are opposed by members of the Mage's Association wishing to retrieve it instead, leading to great turmoil of the same magnitude as the Grail War. His side eventually is victorious, and the Greater Grail is completely dismantled, marking the conclusion of the Fuyuki Holy Grail Wars.

Fate/Stay Night - Heaven's Feel
This time we don't see the Lesser Grail. Rather, Shirou comes to the Greater Grail in order to destroy it to prevent Angra Mainyu's birth and to save Sakura, while destroying the Lesser Grail would have done nothing. Depending on your choices in the route, there are 2 ways it ends.
Normal End

 Shirou defeats Kotomine and sacrifices himself to uses one final Projection to destroy the Greater Grail. Sakura waits for him in the Emiya Estate because of their promise and grows old before passing away.

True End

 Shirou defeats Kotomine but he is about to die before Ilya, wearing the Dress of Heaven, arrives and assumes the role she was created for and uses the Greater Grail and closes the gate, sacrificing herself in the process. The final scene is told by Rin 2 years later. She is called to Trail at Clocktower in London because of her actions in the route, but Zelretch intervenes and she spends the 2 years in London before returning to Japan. She also reveals that before closing the Gate, Ilya used the Third Magic, Heaven's Feel, to save Shirou's Soul, which was later found by Rider and put into a Puppet Body made by Touko Aozaki.

Now since you are asking "regarding the animes' endings.", I should point out that the Heaven's Feel Route, at the date this answer was posted (10/9/2014), has yet to receive an adaptation, however there is a series of Heaven's Feel Movies planning to come out yet currently we don't know what ending they will choose to go with. that aside, apart from reading the Wikia you'd need to get the Visual Novel (and Translation Patch if you want English). In the link to Lord El-Melloi II, there is a citation note to Fate/complete material III: World Material, which to my knowledge is only in Japanese.
With that said and done, from just the anime (Studio Deen's anime and move + ufotable's Unlimited Blade Works series), Shirou and Saber had only destroyed the Lesser Grail just like what Kiritsugu and Saber did previously, and a sixth war was a possibility. However, other material will explain how the Greater Grail is later destroyed/dismantled/shutdown.

Why didn't the "curses" spill over like they did in Fate/Zero though? I was wondering if the vessel was just more contained or something, but such an explanation doesn't quite make enough sense to me.

@Maroon in Fate/Stay night the grail was spilling the "curses", that's what the mud was that Kotomine used in Fate and what Saber was going to walk through before Rin stopped her in UBW. also the vessel did spill over in Fate/Zero because that's what happens in the middle of Kiritsugu's and Kotomine's fight before Kiritsugu met with Angra Mainyu (assuming the form of Iris at first). the reason why the Grail itself didn't spill out as much as it did at the end of Fate/Zero was probably because the summoned Grail itself was attacked rather than the vessels

Kiritsugu's wish was for world peace, not just destroy the grail. In a certain episode (I can't remember its title,but it's the one that flashes back to Kiritsugu's boyhood) is shown how Kiritsugu believes that peace can be achieved, (in the example with the boats) by killing the larger evil. Though he understands that this way isn't possible so he trusts the grail to achieve it using super-human measures. Now Kiritsugu's wish ended up in a devastation because by the time he summoned it there were more than one heroic spirits alive
meaning that the grail wasn't omnipotent in order to create world peace in a super-human way that Kiritsugu couldn't think of. But at that point it was strong enough to realize his wish
at the human-possible level in other words in what Kiritsugu did in the past. By killing the larger evil, and thus such devastation occurred


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What happened to Lupin?
In Episode 3, after Death the Kid makes his appearance in front of Lupin, Kid "senses" Patty is off center and thus the formation is no longer symmetrical. As he complains about it to Liz, Patty watches Lupin escape though the manhole.
Now Lupin had a huge sack of Human Souls with him when he escaped, which is obviously a bad thing since devouring human souls allows one to gain power quicker but leads one down the path of being a Kishin. This would be something that can't be ignored by Death or the Overseeing Death Scythes.
So I am wondering, is it ever explained what happened to Lupin and the souls he stole after he escaped from Kid?


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When did BlackStar and Tsubaki swap?
In the second episode of Soul Eater, during BlackStar's fight with Mifune BlackStar, Tsubaki used Shadow Star to swap places with BlackStar and disguise herself while BlackStar attacked Mifune's blind spot.
Just before this, Mifune noticed BlackStar (apparently now Tsubaki) is a different person from the way he was breathing. He also commented that BlackStar's eye colour had changed.
So when exactly (episode time) did BlackStar and Tsubaki swap? Was BlackStar's eye color different at that moment or did it change suddenly later? And if it changed later, when was that?
NOTE: I ask this question as every time I re-watch the episode, I'm engrossed in the fight and keep missing it


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How did Kirito's Illusion actually kill?
In Episode 19 - The Lugru Corridor, Kirito and Leafa are blocked from entering Lugru by Salamanders and are forced to fight with them. In the middle of the fight, Yui tells Leafa to use all her magic to heal Kirito from the damage of the incoming barrage of Fire Spells, while Kirito is chanting an Ilusion Spell that Leafa taught him when they entered the corridor.
Kirito turns into The Gleam Eyes from Sword Art Online and begins to kill everyone (save one Salamander who Kirito then bribes with the loot he just got, while another fled by diving into the lake, only to die).
Leafa explained previously that Spriggan's spells are mostly useless in battle, and by definition Illusions shouldn't damage enemy players or even kill them (unless they are intimidated and back off falling into an abyss of a monster filled lake). If they could do damage, they'd technically be summoning/conjuring.
Kirito isn't a hacker who made Leafa, Yui and all the Slamanders think that a giant beast was throwing them about, when really he was just stabbing them. And in Sword Art Online, Kirito didn't have any sort of summoning abilities (at least in the anime). So how did Kirito's Illusion pick up, throw and kill the Salamanders?

It's been a long time since I was familiar with this, but in this case it was a simple transformation magic. It can only turn you into things weaker than you that you're familiar with. In Kirito's case this includes the Gleam Eyes, a frightening beast no one else was familiar with. The advantages it gave were reach and intimidation, both of which we see used copiously. Biting a guy to death is scarier than a sword strike, and Kirito used this to break their morale and strategy.

Rather than an illusion magic, it seems what Kirito used is a transformation magic instead. The following is based from the 3rd novel.

"Well, I somehow remember the battle earlier. I used the magic Yui suggested, and became very big. Since my sword disappeared, I had to use my hands..."
"Also with the teeth bite yo~"
On Lyfa's shoulder, Yui added with pleasure.

Remember that Yui is an AI from Aincrad and that upon arriving at the Alfheim world, Kirito noticed that Alfheim is based on Aincrad, including the skill sets and player data.

In the skills window, I saw several skills side by side. These skills included: 1-H Swords, Unarmed Skills, and Parry, the Combat skills, as well as Fishing, a support skill, but the proficiency values were abnormal. More were just about 900, and some had even reached 1,000 and had a tag denoting MASTERY.

Later when asking Yui, Yui confirmed that.

"It seems this world is based on a copy of the Sword Art Online server."

This explains how Kirito can turn into The Gleam Eyes. Since it is a copy of the SAO, some resource file might be still left intact. While it is not normally accessible by the players, with Yui giving assist, it is possible that she hacked the system a bit and granted access to Kirito to transform into The Gleam Eyes. This wasn't explicitly mentioned in the novel, however.

Errr... No. This is only mostly right. She didn't hack the system or anything of the sort. The spell Kirito used transformed him into a monster with stats equal to his own. This basically means that the Gleam Eyes boss had the same stats as Kirito did when he finished the game, and the game assigned him the Gleam Eyes model because of it.

Illusion magic can transform you for viewing as another thing. The strength of the result depends on the stats of the player (I don't remember very well where they told this). If i remember correctly, Leafa told this to Kirito on Lugru Corridor when she's explaining about the Spriggan's spells. Kirito have the best mastery on the server (At these time two years of experience, when the server have only one year of life) and lot of stats from SAO legacy. Maybe some of this are the reason.

@SakuraKinomoto You might want to expand that into an answer

Ok, I can try to do it in another moment, when i have time for document the answer.

It is a spell called metamorphosis. Here's the description from the wiki.
"Once the incantation is completed, the spell turns the caster into a monster. The shape of the monster that the player is transformed into depends randomly on the player's combat skills. However, this spell is not popular, as the end result is usually a weak monster with no change in stats, thus it is usually not viable in actual combat."
It is also an illusion spell.

From the scene, it seems implied that Yui had worked out a plan with Kirito to turn into the Gleam Eyes monster ("Do it now Daddy!").
It obviously isn't an illusion - he was killing other players with it.  The only possibility you're left with is that although Sprigins normally have only illusion magic, he had a special ability which gave him access to transform into to this beast.
Since Yui could not hack the systems as was mentioned earlier, the best we can say is that she recognized that he had higher level magic skills in his inventory that could be used to his advantage.  And although Leafa was generally aware of what Sprigins were capable of, she may not have been aware of what one at Kirito's power levels were capable of.
Thus I'd say he had the ability to transform into a real monster, given his ability, and perhaps Yui pointed this out to him and he made use of it.

Let's not forget that the Salamanders' remain-lights were extinguished as soon as they were formed. This means that Kirito also got the special stats of the monster he became. GLEAM EYES was the first demonic monster the SAO players faced, according to the wiki. In Alfheim this must mean that any damage a demonic monster does cannot be healed by magic and anyone it killed could not be revived, thus they all faced the penalties for dying in Alfheim with no chance of escape through revival.  That's pretty terrifying if you ask me.


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Why is there a difference in number of episodes between anime and TV broadcast of Haruhi?
I am planning on re-watching The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, and all of a sudden I see that there are 28 episodes now when I was pretty sure the anime had ended at around 14 episodes (?).
Is there a sequel or did I just not see the other 14 episodes being released?

Officially, Season 2 is a sequel to Season 1; it was released after Season 1 and doesn't repeat any material. The US DVD releases for the two are completely separate. But because of the jumbled continuity of the Haruhi Suzumiya series, the Japanese TV broadcast of Season 2 included a rebroadcast of Season 1. That's why when you looked it up, your source said there were 28 episodes; it was going by the TV broadcast, and wasn't being careful about the distinction between Season 1 and Season 2.
Since the timelines of Seasons 1 and 2 are interleaved, when Season 2 was broadcast on Japanese TV, it was shown along with a rebroadcast of Season 1, with all the episodes in chronological order. For example, The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya (in Season 2) was played before "Live Alive" (in Season 1) because The Sigh takes place before "Live Alive". (The movie the Brigade shows at the culture festival during "Live Alive" was filmed during The Sigh.)
The merging of Season 1 and Season 2 was only for the TV broadcast; if you buy the DVDs, they're separate, so if you haven't bought the Season 1 DVDs yet, make sure to get those along with the Season 2 set. The Season 2 DVD set only includes the new episodes. The DVD sets don't have the episodes chronologically ordered; they have their own ordering for the episodes which is different from both the chronological ordering and the TV broadcast. You can read more about that on the Wikipedia page, but I'll give a little summary:

Season 1 was originally broadcast in weirdo order, then later broadcast in chronological order without the Season 2 episodes.
When Season 2 came out, it was shown along with the episodes from Season 1; the entire series was shown in chronological order for this broadcast.
The US DVD sets have their own ordering. The Season 1 DVD sets are ordered chronologically amongst themselves, except that "The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00" is the first episode. The Season 2 DVD sets are ordered chronologically amongst themselves.

(I'm not even going to go into whether the various repetitions of "Endless Eight" have a chronological ordering or not--the metaphysics of time is off topic here.)

so in short i should just watch the second season since it includes the first season plus new things and it is chronologically ordered?

@xwillflame I re-read your question and realized I wasn't totally clear, see my edits to the answer.


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What is the light source in inverted world?
At the end of the movie, we know that

 Age's (Eiji) world was the inverted world and Patema's world was the normal one. However, when Age and Patema fell to the "sky" in Age's world, there was a ground on the other side of the "sky" with some kind of building there. And when it became "morning", there was some light source like a sun, and the ground in the "sky" was burn. Also, through out the movies, there was morning and night in Age's world. How could that happen?

What exactly was the light source? Was that the planet's core? (It wasn't look like that on Earth) Or was that some kind of device?

I've made a little picture to explain the orientation of Patema's world:
WARNING: This explanation would be impossible without spoilers, so exit this question if you don't want to reveal parts of the story!

We'll explore this planet from the outside in. So, on the outside is the world like we the one we live on. It may have continental differences and other things, but nothing overly dissimilar to Earth. The light sources here are the same as ours - The Sun, Moon & Stars.
This layer (with the seas and continents) is actually where they end up at the end of the movie revealing that Age's civilisation were actually the inverts who were caught in the scientists' disaster and had their gravity reversed - despite their teachings otherwise.
The next layer is Patema's home (brown)- Tunnels in between Age's world and the outside. The cave dwellers who are her family are decendants of the people who burrowed into the earth in order to keep contact with the inverted civilisation. Despite the title - Patema is not in fact inverted - She is the correct way up. This is indicated on the picture by little red people. The light source here is mainly electric or oil-based. Some areas would have light leaking from Age's land.
The blue sector is where Age's civilisation resides. I think what people found confusing about this is the fact that looking up they were able to see the stars. But this is not actually the case, which we find out when Patema & Age take the flying ship to the innermost section.
Behind the stars that Age's civilization sees is actually a huge feat of engineering. Boiling hot machines shine light down on the citizens at timed intervals (nighttime). You may have noticed Patema & Age suffering from the heat - as not only were the machines hot with activity, they were also getting closer to the molten core of the earth [not shown in diagram]
So to answer your question, it is actually normal light from the sun and etc. All other light throughout the movie was man-produced. You can see your screenshot adapted in my diagram on the surface of the planet here (Age represented by the white person):

(I am accepting any job offers as a lead artist for anime)

 In movie, it is said scientists who caused the whole catastrophe felt responsible for what happened and went along the inverts to underground as form of atonement. And as part of the atonement, they helped inverts in creating suitable living environment. And part of this environment was system to simulate sun, moon, daylight and starry sky. That is what we saw in the movie.
 And it is obvious that after whole thing finished, they went their own way both forgetting about what really happened and thinking they are actually the opposite side.


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Is the anime called "Working!!" or "Wagnaria!!"?
I just started watching Wagnaria!! and noticed that it says "Working!!" in the opening. I do understand that the title Wagnaria!!, as printed on the Box, DVD Cover and listed on NISA's Website, comes from the name of the restaurant in the anime which the story mostly centers around.
So I am wondering, does Wagnaria!! mean Working!! in Japan? Why is the anime titled Working!! but in the West it's labeled Wagnaria!! (with the second season being Wagnaria!!2), since normally in the West either the Japanese name is kept or it's translated to English?

Just a bit of editorial comment: it has been listed on the Box, DVD Cover and NISA's Website. Do you mean "it has been listed on NISA's website"? it would make more sense for the anime to be named after. I'm not sure which one are you referring to - Wagnaria or Working?.

@nhahtdh the first sentence is correct as i am pointing out that it's not just NISA using a different term, it's on the Cover/Box. RightStuf is blocked at work so i can't confirm what they list it as (RightStuf normally sells NISA Licensed Anime which is great considering NISA's new "No Shipping to PAL" Policy)

I tried to rewrite the flow a bit. Hope that it doesn't change the meaning too much :)

The original Japanese title was "Working!!". It was changed to "Wagnaria!!" by NIS America for the US release. Source. "Wagnaria" is the name of the restaurant where the main cast works, so it makes sense as a title, even if kind of sounds like the name of a world of magic and wonder where knights and princesses adventure.
THEM Anime claims in its review of Season 2 that the title "Working" already belonged to a 1997 sitcom starring Fred Savage in the United States, which precluded NIS America from using it. I'm skeptical; as far as I know, US law does not prevent two works from having the same title as long as neither infringes the copyright of the other by copying major plot elements or other protected aspects of a work. Otherwise, I don't see how every US TV series ever written could have an episode titled "The Gift" (warning, TV tropes). I think NIS America just felt the title was too plain to catch attention in the US; in Japan it stood out because it was in English, but in the US, it's just a gerund.


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What does recontruction of Van's body mean?
During the testing phase of Dann of Thursday with Van, Gadved said, "Your body is not compatible, so your body need reconstruction".
After The Claw attacked Van and Helena, she ask Gadved to reconstruct Van's body, so that he can use Dann at full potential.
What do they mean by "reconstruction"?
Below is a screenshot from episode 12, where Van is asking Gadved to reconstruct him after The Claw's attack.

Though there has not been any information about what reconstruction means, but Dann of Thursday has the ability to regenerate.

It is seen that this reconstruction process is what gives them their regenerative capabilities.

So the main reason to reconstruct is to make Van body feasible to use Dann's regenerative capability.


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How would Annie's going underground prove anything?
I'm wondering how Annie's going underground (in episode 23) would prove she wasn't the Female Titan? Also, was her reason for not going there only because she knew it was a trap, or did she have another reason as well? It feels like I have missed something..

one possible reason is, she knew it was a trap.

The problem is that Mikasa was with them. Were it only Armin and Eren, Annie might not be that afraid of going underground. Annie knows that in human combat, Mikasa can match her if not best her. The only way for her to defeat Mikasa and take Eren with her is for her not to go underground. Going underground will prevent her from transforming, not because of the dark, but because if she transform there, she will be trapped in the tunnel, preventing her from moving. Being unable to move will cause not only:

her identity as the female titan be exposed
be captured by the Scouting Legion
failing her mission of capturing Eren alive

that's why.

A well written answer. +1

Warning : possible spoilers from the manga
The power of the titans comes from light. So, during the night, they lose their power and become inactive or, at least, less vigorous than during the day.
So, Annie may have feared that she would be unable to transform in the dark or to fight well against Mikasa and Eren.

i think that doesn't apply to titan like, Eren,Annie and other who can turn them into titan, because there is chapter where titan attacking at night.

@mirroroftruth It may be less effective on them but I think it still applies since Annie, in her crystal thing, is guarded underground

less effective can be the reason but not "unable" and underground provide more security, doesn't allow full transformation and can be confined, so will be less difficult to control.

Does this mean that confined spaces can prevent the full transformation? It seems like the light might play a role here, since they could've lure Annie to any other confined space (such as a regular house) if it was the space itself preventing the transformation..

@thosetinydreams confined place like underground where a lot of work it required to break and IIRC in manga someone did transform at night to keep promise.

@mirroroftruth Thanks for the clarification! I definitely need to read the manga now :)

Annie's titan transformation was her main weapon. If indeed she was the Female Titan, she wouldn't want to go underground because that would put her at a huge disadvantage (she wouldn't be able to properly transform in such a small space).


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Would it be possible to indirectly kill people?
When John Zeärtö would write: Johnny Riler Accident. Tomorrow Johnny Riler will receive a piece from the death note. He writes the true name from the person who uses the alias Xavier. Would that work? (And yes Johnny knows the true name)

This scenario is totally possible. As long the 2 main factors can be reached.

This note will not take effect unless the writer has the person's face in their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected.
The conditions for death will not be realized unless it is physically possible for that human or it is reasonably assumed to be carried out by that human.

So if he knows the real name, and can bring the face of the person to mind. And it is physically possible for that person to obtain a piece of death note and write in it. Then yes it is possible indeed.

Whether the cause of the individual's death is either a suicide or
  accident. If the death leads to the death of more than the intended,
  the person will simply die of a heart attack. This is to ensure that
  other lives are not influenced.

I'm sorry but I don't think Dimitri is correct.  This appears to be the same as telling L's bodyguards to shoot L. This does not work. There are quite a bit more than just those two rules.

I thin it could work because i only wrote, that Johnny Riler writes the name of the man who uses the alias Xavier. I didn't wrote Johnny Riler kills Xavier by writing his name on a scrap from the death note.

Wording is never really the point of the Deathnote.  The search for loopholes does get tiring. Saying "shoot L" and "kill L by shooting him" are both not allowed. The only way to answer this question for sure it to get ahold of the deathnote and try it.  Light used this tactic to kill the Feds. He made the director send the names.  He coerced one Fed to write them in the book.  He had to coerce him, not order him via the death note.  Again, if this obvious loophole existed, he would have used it. Unlike us, he had the opportunity and will to try it out.

I do believe one of the rules indeed states that the users death may not be the intermediate cause of death. So if you were to write down somebody controlling a plane, he will die without people being injured. But I don't believe that rule also covers the fact that you can use the human to kill before making him die himeself.

The exact rule is above! I dont doubt that if you wrote both names, you could make them kill each other. If the persons name isnt in the deathnote, however, there is nothing to support the claim that he could be killed by a me5hod of death for some one else. The rule explicitly contradicts that. The question whether you can use the deathnote to make someone else write in the deathnote is debatable but not the claim you just made.


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What did Elsie type at the first try?
On first episode of The World God Only Knows Season 2, Elsie types something like a game, but her first try is wrong.
This is a picture of what she type:

What did it says? And how can she mistype that? It looks really different with the right one, which is 'kami nomi zo shiru sekai' (神のみぞ知るセカイ), but I don't know anything about Japanese so I might be wrong and Google translate didn't help much...

It is the Dragon Quest 2 log in screen (hence the DQ2 password).
The first thing she types in is a resurrection spell from the Dragon Quest series

The Spell of Restoration (復活の呪文, ふっかつのじゅもん, fukkatsu no jumon) is the name of the password system used in the Famicom and MSX versions of Dragon Quest and Dragon Quest II. Similar to other games of the time, the player's accomplishments were converted into a password, which was then written down and entered later to resume the game from the point at which the player left off. With the advent of battery backup (first seen in the series in Dragon Quest III), password systems became obsolete, and the Spell of Restoration was never used again. It differs from the passwords of other games in that it is recognized by some characters as a convention of the game world and not simply a means of resuming gameplay.

"Kami nomi zo shiru sekai" follows the same pattern used, which is 3-3-4:

Ka-mi-no
mi-zo-shi
ru-se-ka-i

Dragon Quest II
Due its broader scope (three-member party, multiple flagged plot events, and a wider array of equipment), Dragon Quest II employed a larger 52-character Spell of Restoration: Four lines of 3-3-4, followed by a final line of 3-3-4-2.

As to why she mistypes, it is most likely a reference to the fact you load a life. A life only you know of, hence The world god only knows, Keima's world.

Dimitri mx's answer has explained about the origin of the screen: it is Dragon Quest 2's password input screen.
As to why she mistypes, the input was actually part of a real, valid DQ2 password that's famous for its effect (in short: new game plus (Japanese YouTube link)):
ゆうて　いみや　おうきむ
こうほ　りいゆ　うじとり
やまあ　きらぺ　ぺぺぺぺ
ぺぺぺ　ぺぺぺ　ぺぺぺぺ
ぺぺぺ　ぺぺぺ　ぺぺぺぺ　ぺぺ

YUUTE  IMIYA  OUKIMU
KOUHO  RIIYU  UJITORI
YAMAA  KIRAPE PEPEPEPE
PEPEPE PEPEPE PEPEPEPE
PEPEPE PEPEPE PEPEPEPE PEPE

It needs proper spacing to understand the background of the password:
ゆうて　　い■みや　おう■きむ
こう■ほ　りいゆ　　うじ■とり
やまあ　　きら ...

YUUTE  I|MIYA OU|KIMU
KOU|HO RIIYU  UJI|TORI
YAMAA  KIRA ...

ゆうてい/ゆう帝 (yuu tei): Pen name for one of Weekly Shonen Sunday's game introduction corner staff.
みやおう/ミヤ王 (miya ou): (same as above)
きむこう/キム皇 (kimu kou): (same as above)
ほりいゆうじ/堀井雄二 (horii yuuji): Yuutei's real name
とりやまあきら/鳥山明 (toriyama akira): Dragon Quest's character designer

It's also parodied in Dragon Quest 11 (Japanese YouTube Video) and Gamers! (light novel, volume 2, chapter 6).

Source: Dragon Quest wikiwiki (Japanese)


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Is it possible to kill people indirectly with the Death Note?
Rule X in the Death Note states:

Whether the cause of the individual's death is either a suicide or accident, if the death leads to the death of more than the intended, the person will simply die of a heart attack. This is to ensure that other lives are not influenced.

However, Rule XXVI states:

Even though only one name is written in the Death Note, if it influences and causes other humans that are not written in it to die, the victim’s cause of death will be a heart attack

Besides the fact that I find these 2 rules to be contradicting (correct me if I'm wrong), it still made me curious: Is it possible to kill people indirectly with the Death Note?
For example, writing a heart surgeon's name during a operation, or a pilot's name while mid-flight.

I agree with James on this on though. Logically it is indeed implied that they still die of a heart-attack. Especially because if it isn't, Light would have been able to make himself immune to the Death Note, by putting a device in his and Misa's body that would both explode if Light dies. If nobody but him knew about this device, he would be immune to the Death Note forever, which is just too big of a loop hole to believe in.

People who name is not written in the note shall not die due someone else that will die due his name being in the Death Note, both rules can be boiled down to that. That is what the If the death leads to the death of more than the intended means. As long as the death of the person leads to someone else dead, or the conditions prior death can cause death to others, they will die of a heart attack.
There's no contradiction, both rules says the same just in different ways.
In the example you made: both will die in such way that nobody else dies. The surgeon will step back of the table and die, the pilot will die when he's not piloting. Of course, this is mere supposition and details could escape.
Light made some experiments trying to kill in such impossible ways (like a Japanese prisoner died in front of Eiffel Tower), those died on hearts attacks.

What would happen in this case? http://anime.stackexchange.com/q/21874/6166

Going by the letter of the law,

If the death leads to the death of more than the intended, the person will simply die of a heart attack.”

logically implies that the surgeon and pilot will die of heart attacks.
This probably makes the most sense. Were it otherwise, people who know the rules could make themselves (nearly) invincible to the Death Note by having a system by which, if they die, someone else is killed (or kills themself). I say “nearly” because the cause of death could be made to say “die at midnight” for both people, and that might kill them. Obviously, the Death Note user would have to know both people involved, which could be made near-impossible quite easily[1].
Though, there is the further question of whether “die at midnight” would work. One person's name has to be written first, and at the time at which it is written, it is not allowed. However, writing the other person's name after then makes it allowed again. When are the rules evaluated, and by what means? Death Note has the power to predict the future of its victims, but can it predict the future of its own use? This is into the realm of time paradoxes!
Or, you could just say that they die of a heart attack. ;-)
Edit: [1]For example, if L wanted to make himself invincible to the Death Note, he could have some system by which someone from Wammy's House is killed if he dies. Then, to kill L, a Death Note user needs both L's name and the name and face of that person who gets killed. Even for someone with shinigami eyes, that's virtually impossible to work out.

what do you mean by: die at midnight?

@user6399 the time (midnight) isn't important. But if they die at the same time, having killed one wouldn't lead to the death of the other; they'd be dead before any effects have propagated.

thanks but i also don't understand what you mean with: Obviously, the Death Note user would have to know both people involved, which could be made near-impossible quite easily. sorry for my bad english.^^

For example, if L wanted to make himself invincible to the Death Note, he could have some system by which someone from Wammy's House is killed if he dies. Then, to kill L, a Death Note user needs both L's name and the name and face of that person who gets killed. Even for someone with shinigami eyes, that's virtually impossible to work out.

wow thats smart.^^but that would mean, that ryuk shouldn't have been able to kill light. because after light died, misa killed herself. but yeah that's pretty smart.^^

+1, because this is exactly how I feel about this. Although your midnight example is a bit vague in the answer, you should edit your last comment to the answer, because it is much clearer. I also don't believe Light would be able to make himself immune to the Death Note and he would still just die of a heartattack, taking down the other person as after effect.

If you are interested, a similar question was asked here. There, the counter-argument for your scenario would be that "the system Light created would malfunction. And because it malfunctioned, Light would not take another life with him, thus not breaking the rule and would just die, despite the system being in place."

The rules aren't contradicting. Both say that you cannot use the death note to kill other people whose names aren't written in it. For example, you can't write

John Doe went to the mall, took out a rifle, shot everyone in the moll dead, then had an heart attack

Because that would mean other people would die.
As for your specific examples, you cannot write passenger plane crash as the cause of death for a pilot, because that would kill other passengers too. If you wanted, you could write "The pilot disabled the auto-pilot, then had an heart attack". That way, the plane crash has nothing to do with his death, and the plane would still (probably) crash.

In the first case you say, crash as cause of death. Then he would just die of a heart attack, the crash will then most likely still happen. It contradicts the Other lives not influenced part

I doubt the pilot could disable the autopilot if it causes someone else dead. I think that the Death Note rule should be interpreted: as long as someone death leads to other people die, such person will die of a heart attack.


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Why is Mew numbered 151?
Mewtwo is the clone of Mew. This means that Mew existed before Mewtwo.
So why is Mew numbed 151 in the Pokedex and Mewtwo 150?

Never thought about that before, probably because i haven't watched Pokemon in a while. Too many seasons.

It's been ages since I last watched Pokemon, so maybe I forgot, but - does the anime ever reference Pokedex numbers? I don't seem to remember that happening.

@senshin Yeah I was thinking the same thing. That this is a video game question as opposed to an anime question.

@senshin, krikara. late as it may be. Chapter 17 of pokemon adventures mentions Mew as number 151.

Because Mew wasn't intended to be one of the 150 pokemon you can acquire through normal gameplay. It was the "mystery" Pokemon, no one was supposed to know its existence. It was  only attainable by

Nintendo events
Gameshark
Game glitch

So yeah it makes no sense, but, if Mewtwo had been #151, your Pokedex in Red and Blue would have a gaping hole in it at #150.
Mew was considered extinct when the Pokedex was made. But as Mewtwo was alive and known, he was placed first. Later, Mew's resurrection of his species in Emerald by a scientist meant they could now get his info for the Pokedex. Mew's original form in the Pokedex was actually just "???" Pokemon, who could learn any move.

Let us be reminded that the Pokemon franchise started off from video game, and its initial release was Pokemon Red and Green in Japan in 1996. So Mew's very first appearance can only be in Japanese Pokemon Red and Green.
According to Bulbapedia, in the Trivia section of Mew:

Mew was a little-known secret when Pokémon Red and Green were first released in Japan. Even Nintendo was not initially aware that Shigeki Morimoto had programmed it into the game.

In an interview with Game Freak and Creatures, Inc. in Nintendo Power issue 134, Shigeki Morimoto revealed that he created Mew two weeks before game development was finished.

Quoting from the interview which is cited in the Bulbapedia page:

Morimoto: We put Mew in right at the very end. The cartridge was really full and there wasn’t room for much more on there. Then the debug features which weren't going to be included in the final version of the game were removed, creating a miniscule 300 bytes of free space. So we thought that we could slot Mew in there. What we did would be unthinkable nowadays!
Ishihara: This is in spite of being told after debug ended that you weren’t to tamper with even a single bit! (laughs wryly)
Iwata: What’s the point of going through all the trouble of the debug process if you’re going to go and fiddle with the game afterwards…? I’d venture that this all came from Morimoto-san’s mischievous nature.
Morimoto: Well, it was a prank that everyone right up to Tajiri-san was in on. But even though Mew was in there…
Iwata: …It wasn't actually supposed to appear in the game, right?
Morimoto: Right. Unless we could think about any good opportunity to do so, the existence of Mew wouldn’t have been revealed to the public. It was left in there in case it was suitable for some post-launch activity. But if there wasn’t anyone among ourselves who wanted to use it, I thought it would be fine to just leave it as it was.
Iwata: Mew could very well have ended up never appearing in the game.
Morimoto: Right. But then due to an unforeseen bug, Mew ended up appearing in some players’ games. It looked like we planned all of this, but that wasn’t the case. So although it caused all sorts of problems to many concerned, fortunately enough it ended up having a positive effect.
[...]
Iwata: That’s how the “Legendary Pokémon Offer”8 came about.
8 The “Legendary Pokémon Offer” was announced in the April 1996 edition of CoroCoro Comic. Twenty winners would be selected who could send their game cartridge in so that the Mew data would be uploaded onto it. There were approximately 78,000 entrants.

From the quotes above, it is evident that Mew was not supposed to appear in the first generation. It was only programmed in at the last minute, occupying the space of debug feature.
The interview hinted at the fact that Mew was added after the debug process had ended, so swapping the number of Mewtwo and Mew at that point would have been disastrous, since Mewtwo had an event in the Cerulean Cave, and its stats, move set, flavor text, ... record would have to be swapped with Mew's. Appending a record at the end was safer, especially when the record was not supposed to be used at all during the normal game play.

I wish I could upvote this more than once +1

Mew was a Pokemon long forgotten (10,000 years ago in the series). So in this sense, when a Pokemon is found or discovered that is not in the records, it will be added after its discovery. Mewtwo was created using Mew DNA, thus Mewtwo came before Mew in the records

I would say that Mewtwo is number 150 instead of 151 because Mew was said to be extinct and forgotten, but that's just my answer.  Plz don't sue me.

Ok aside from the what is stated in the video games, if I remember correctly, Mew was more of a myth and thought to be at the very most extinct. Dr. Fugi, who had already been working on cloning, went in search for any remains of Mew. After having found what he thought to be fossilized Mew remains he began to clone it for the leader of Team Rocket, Giovanni (having to tweak the DNA a bit). The name Mewtwo comes from the way Dr. Fugi named all his clones (Bulbasaurtwo, Charmandertwo, etc) although Mewtwo was the only one to survive. It was only after Mewtwo escaped that the original Mew was discovered to not be extinct.

Editor's note: I had to do some digging to get something more solid than my own and similar vague souvenir. I know the answer is a bit old but I figured I'd share my findings since the comment inquiries for sources.
The information above comes from comes from the first 2-3 minutes of the 10-minutes long short Myutsuu To Ai / Mewtwo and Amber (Ai in Japanese), more commonly known in English as The Birth of Mewtwo, which was shown on Japanese television the first time Mewtwo Strikes Back aired.
The whole short (specifically the last 7 minutes) was rated PG-13 due to the somewhat troubling/controversial topic(s) for children and thus, 4Kids Entertainment decided not to include more than the G-rated first 3 minutes intro (under the title Mewtwo's Origin) in the theaters and DVD releases of Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back, which was enough to grossly explain to the Western public about the origins of Mewtwo.
The full ten-minute short is now available in the DVD release of Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns.
The entire short's transcript is available at multiple locations online, the specific website that sent me on the right track was: http://www.lchr.org/a/23/et/amberkins.html

Do you maybe have source material to back up this statement ?


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Is the story of Momonosuke, the boy who transformed into a dragon, based on any folklore in real life?
During the Punk Hazard arc, the boy Momonosuke transformed into a dragon. The story of a boy who turned into a dragon sounds really familiar to me for some reason. I believe I might have heard it somewhere before as some sort of tale, or maybe even as a part of some myth. I have been searching quite a bit to find something similar, but I couldn't find anything.
So is the story of Momonosuke, the boy who transformed into a dragon, based on anything?

There are a couple of cartoons/anime/movies where a boy transforms into a dragon.

American Dragon: Jake Long, an American cartoon.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, a movie based on the novel with same title, which has a boy who turns to a dragon.
Legend of the Dragon, another cartoon.
Fafnir, a legend connected to the idea of a person turning into a dragon:

In Norse mythology, Fáfnir (Old Norse and Icelandic) or Frænir was a son of the dwarf king Hreidmar and brother of Regin and Ótr. After being affected by the curse of Andvari's ring and gold, Fafnir became a dragon and was slain by Sigurd.

A Chinese legend of carp turning into dragon after passing through the Dragon Gate.

Oh.. i know all of these . Would not suprise me if thats indeed the case.

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How can Gilgamesh become an Archer?
On Wiki it state that "Archery"

Archery is the art, practice, or skill of propelling arrows with the use of a bow, from Latin arcus.

While "archer"

A person who participates in archery is typically known as an "archer" or a "bowman"

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Gilgamesh didn't use any bow or arrow at all, he basically just throw lots of sword or spear. (Wouldn't this make him a sword thrower?)
This is Archer from Fate/Zero

And this is Archer from Fate/Stay Night

Actually Gilgamesh ca also be a caster as he becomes the wise king after his journey. Fate/Grand Order added this class too.

Gilgamesh could possibly be fit in any class mainly thanks to all the items he has in the Gate of Babylon. He was quite possible chosen by the Holy Grail to fill the Archer Class as his personality would fit a very high level of Independent Action, the Wikia page also says:

He is able to easily ignore his Master's orders, making it possible to stroll around without making his Master aware of his whereabouts. The only way to command him is through the use of Command Spells, but his disposition that does not even contain an ounce of respect for his Master makes utilizing them idly a bad move.

It should be noted that the Servant Classes except the special classes (like Ruler, Avenger, Funny Vamp) allows a hero to be classified under more than 1 if they display the potential to be summoned as a different class. With the Archer Class, Heracles and Lu Bu were both summoned as Berserk but could be summoned as Archer, while Karna was summoned as a Lancer
Another example is Archer in the 5th Holy Grail War. The weapon he mainly uses in fact a pair of swords Kanshou and Bakuya, which we see him use for the first time during the first night as he fought Lancer. This annoys Lancer because he figured out Archer's Class but he was skilled with sword. Archer’s Bow is mainly just a normal Bow he projects and uses weapons like Caladbolg II as ammunition.
Though with that said, after the 3rd Holy Grail War and Avenger's corruption of the Great Holy Grail - the main engine to the ritual, the system for assigning classes to heroes may have been damaged. Both the 4th and 5th War's Archers didn't clearly fit the Archer Class, and normally only the Hassan-i-Sabbah should have been summoned as Assassin in the Fuyuki System, however Caster was able to summon Sasaki Kojiro.

Some misconceptions here. Gilgamesh is eligible for the caster class because of the Mystic Codes in his treasury. Archer's main weapon is actually his reality marble, Unlimited Blade Works. Archer has no noble phantasm to call his own and uses the reality marble for projection and reinforcement without fully deploying it.

@кяαzєя i didn't think about the mystic codes in Gate of Babylon. also by main weapon i really meant he most used weapon as if i recall the majority of the time Archer used Kanshou and Bakuya. the Archer Card is shown with a bow and i recall character commenting that Archers generally are skilled with Bows but the 5th War's Archer used twin swords more often and his bow (which i only recall was used twice, against Beserker the final battle in the Unlimited Blade Works Route to help Saber escape from the Grail Vessel)

If you apply that logic, all of his weapons are direct products of his reality marble. A weapons does not have to be one that you wield physically to be considered one. The twin sword are preferred by him as they are quick to trace and have the unique attribute of attracting one another, on top of magic resistance properties. The running meta joke is that the archer class is made up of archers. You don't have to be an archer in a traditional sense to qualify. Most lancer class servants are spearmen rather than actual lancers, just like not all casters are mages.

You're being too literal.  Archer as a label for a Servant class does not mean "This guy was badass with bows".  It means "this guy is versatile and has potent long distance attacks."  Several of the other Servant classes aren't particularly literal, either.

Saber just means they have potent close range melee weapons (usually swords) and great skill with them.  None of the Sabers actually uses a Saber.  They use longswords, greatswords, bastard swords, etc.  A saber is a curved blade used by cavalry.
Lancer is potency in melee weapons with reach. None of the Lancers actually uses a lance.  Mostly they use spears.  And don't have horses with which to use a lance.
Casters are not required to literally cast anything.  They simply have great facility in some fashion of magic.  5th war caster casts; 4th war caster uses a magical tome to summon; Cu Chulainn could have been a Caster thanks to his runes; Apocrypha Caster of Black fashions golems exclusively; Apocrypha Caster of Red writes stories in a book which makes them come true...
Assassin is normally very literal, though by system fiat rather than anything else.  The grail was designed to only ever summon a Hassan of the Mountain, the head of the prototypical assassin's organization.  But with sufficient manipulation of the grail anyone capable of stealthy or fast kills can be an Assassin.  Fake Assassin is a Japanese Swordsman, summoned by a Caster whose magical talents were so great she could bend the rules of the grail to her will.  In Apocrypha this restriction was lifted entirely.  Apocrypha Assassin of Black was a serial killer that could summon an obscuring (and deadly) fog.  Apocrypha Assassin of Red was typed as an Assassin because her history includes poisoning powerful people (and is a very bizarre Servant, in the technical sense of what the system usually does, for other reasons).
Rider need not have actually ridden the mounts they get as a Servant.  They just need a strong connection to something that could be ridden.  5th War Rider's legend doesn't normally include her actually riding Pegasus, just that it was spawned from her corpse's neck.  It was Bellerophon and Perseus whose legends are associated with actually riding the Pegasus.  But that's her mount all the same (and is summoned by stabbing herself in the neck).  And she had a skill that let her ride most anything short of dragons, despite an absence of riding anything at all in life.  Riders also don't have to have animals involved in what qualifies them for "Rider".  One of the PSP games let a ship captain qualify as a Rider, with their ship as the "mount".
Berserker's reasonably literal in the sense that what you get pretty solidly embodies the emotion of "berserk".  But it's not literally the Nordic berserker the word comes from. And it's also a fairly simple requirement: the hero must have "gone berserk" at least once in life. Lots of great heroes are said to have flown into a fit of rage over something or another; often the death of a loved one. Hercules qualified because the Gods forcefully afflicted him with an insane, murderous rage at one point, not because he usually fought with near mindless rage and passion.  Hercules was normally considered a very intelligent and cunning warrior. At various points in the FSN LN it is remarked that Berserker is probably Hercules' worst class to be summoned as, as he loses access to most of his greatest Noble Phantasms and abilities, and he probably would have been at his most powerful as an Archer.  One can also intentionally summon a hero as a Berserker (as was done in both the 4th and 5th wars), even if this moment of rage was a fairly minor part of their history.


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Who were the survivors in Danganronpa?
In the last episode, many survivors were shown in the outside world. Who were these people? Is there any reference anywhere telling about these people, who they were and how they managed to survive?

AFAIK no one that died, survived. They did say there was some leaked information that those who participated and died, didn't actually die or something but besides that what is displayed during the anime is recollections of what happened before the school turned into a survival school or so I think. Like they were enrolled there before it became what it was and had their memories erased or partially removed.

I haven't seen the anime yet, but in the game's version of events the survivors  who are living in the outside world are the general public who have fallen into despair (and somehow gained monokuma heads)

You can see them rioting in the image above, and it wouldn't be a wild stretch of the imagination to say that they were probably looting stores also. [note the broken window at the very right] which is where they could get themselves provisions and other necessities.
The academy was sealed off by the students themselves so that they would not succumb to the miserable world outside.

At the end of the game, the students mention that there are people out there who are still clinging onto remnants of hope, and that they will go out, meet them and join forces. But as far as I can tell, it's just conjecture on their part.

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Is it possible to make such a clean cut?
I started reading Rurouni Kenshin, and came across this scene:

Is it possible to perform such a clean cut, or is this just some made up anime fiction? If so, what is the name of this style/trope? (I don't particularly dislike seeing it. It has its charm.)
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As it seems materials seem to play a large role in the possibility, the tools used in this particular setup are:

A daikon radish
A kitchen knife in the 11th year of Meiji (1878) made by a legendary swordsmith's son.

@Maroon Oh the trope name is clean cut? Well guess I made a good guess on naming it then, was just some random naming I came up with thou :/.

not every carries a whole daikon radish on their person like that.

I'm not sure if the Sceptics site would be a better fit for the "is this possible" portion of the question, but I'll give my attempt at an answer.
As stated by my comment, TV Tropes calls this Clean Cut (which it argues is sometimes related to Absurdly Sharp Blade). Given that their naming for this is very "straightforward" (i.e. this trope describes making very clean cuts with blades) compared to others (e.g. "idiot hair" or "ahoge") it seems reasonable to conclude that this trope is generally referred to as "Clean Cut".
It's not very clear whether or not this is possible in real life - this would most certainly depend on the sharpness of the blade, the thickness of the material in question, and the exact material being cut, among other things. For example, in my experience, it's much easier to cleanly chop reasonably sized vegetable segments (at least with carrots, onions, turnips, etc - vegetables that aren't of the leafy type) than to cut meat that way.
As per the now edited question: the vegetable here is a daikon, which is used in a lot of East Asian cooking. I'll need to look further to check the possibility of cutting daikon very neatly in that form. With this specific vegetable, a relatively clean cut (assuming good technique) seems possible, as per videos such as this one and this, but I'm not really sure.

Note: I'm not particularly comfortable referring to TV Tropes as a reference for naming without any further corroboration from other sites, but the naming makes sense given that it's also a relatively intuitive name anyway.

I'm not sure about putting it back together, but can confirm that getting similar cuts from carrots is possible.  I haven't bought any daikon here to check (although they grow to monster size).  Heck, you can get this from meat, too - provided it's frozen first.

@Clockwork-Muse I don't think he is putting it back together to stay together, I think he is just placing them next to each other to show the sharpness of the cut.

@Cyberson You taught wrong, in the manga it said there was no fibre damage. And that the vegtable healed up again as if never cut.

@Dimitrimx I wasn't trying to teach wrong just that it appeared to be that he was just putting them back together.

No. The sharpest blades ever made are composed of obsidian and artificial crystals, as they can fracture down to an edge mere molecule thick Even under magnification they retain an edge that are sharper than metal. Even so they are incapable of producing such a cut. Cells adhere to each other through cell-surface proteins called cell adhesion molecules (CAMs), they bond cells together and bond on the molecular level, far smaller than any blade edge.


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Do the Sharingan dots decide their power/ family tree?
In chapter 674 page 9, Madara says that Sasuke is the only one who awakened a Sharingan with straight commas, just like his. After that, he says that there might be a connection between them, something beyond blood.

Does this mean that an Uchiha can be distinguished by their Sharingan? Does this also mean that the power of their eye is decided by the type of commas (tomoe) they have?

i beleive we have to wait for successive chaptors as no clear evidence are currently present which could highlight different power/family tree based on sharingan commas or tamoes.

We do know one thing for sure. The more tomoe (commas) an Uchiha has, the stronger he is.

I believe what Madara means by "straight commas" is that Sasuke awakened the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan just like he did. No one in the Naruto series has been shown to possess Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan(s) besides these two, so that must be what he meant.
As for the average Sharingan, 3 commas is the mastered form. However, Kakashi, Obito, Itachi, Sasuke and a handful of other Uchihas have been shown to have those 3 commas in their regular Sharingan. Also, all the Sharingan(s) embedded in Danzo's arm had three commas. So for Madara to say that Sasuke is the only one who awakened a Sharingan with straight commas like him, he couldn't be pertaining to the regular Sharingan, but the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.

Could be because they're both the reincarnations of the Sage's son of this and the previous generations why their Sharingan have straight lines. Itachi and Sasuke are brothers and their Mangekyo looked nothing alike

I think the statement does have something to do with the Eternal Mangekyo, but it's not the only reason. If you look at Sasuke and Madara's Eternal Mangekyo, they are the only ones with straight lines (straight commas) within them. I think that is what they are talking about, as their normal Sharingan has normal commas.

The straight tomoe that they are referring to is the straight whole lines concept and pattern that sasuke and madara had after awakening their regular mangekyou. The black in the red of their sharingan shows their advanced range of perception or (power) compared to a normal eyed person. In a sense every black part is their pupil,red is their iris. The red is What allows them to see chakra since it would shade the pupil or the black tomoe differently and allow them to see things the way they do.

Could you cite your sources on this?


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What are the names and grades of Zoro's swords?
Zoro always (almost always) carries 3 swords with him. So the question is, what are the names and the grades of those 3 swords he is currently carrying?

The following are the names and grades of the 3 swords currently (as of 16-April-2020) carried by Zoro.

Wado Ichimonji

The Wado Ichimonji is a sword of great personal importance to Roronoa Zoro, and it was once Kuina's and her family's sword. It is also one of the 21 O Wazamono grade swords.

Sandai Kitetsu

The Sandai Kitetsu is one of the Wazamono grade swords, a "Sharp Sword". Like all of its predecessor Kitetsu swords, this one is said to be cursed.

Enma (exchanged with the Shusui)

Enma is one of the 21 O Wazamono grade swords. It was once wielded by Kozuki Oden alongside his other sword, Ame no Habakiri, and is one of the two only weapons known to have ever injured Kaido.
  After Oden's death, Enma was inherited by his daughter, Kozuki Hiyori. Hiyori would later gift the sword to Roronoa Zoro in exchange for the latter allowing Shusui, a national treasure, to remain in Wano.

Past Swords:

Yubashiri (now destroyed and replaced by Shusui)

Yubashiri was one of the fifty Ryo Wazamono grade sword. Roronoa Zoro obtained this sword for free from a sword shop owner.

Shusui (exchanged for Enma)

Shusui is one of the 21 O Wazamono grade swords and was once wielded by the legendary samurai Ryuma. It is considered the national treasure of the Wano Country. After his death, the katana was buried with Ryuma, until his grave was robbed by Moriah's crew. Ryuma appeared as a zombie on Thriller Bark, who had been given Brook's shadow. After his defeat, Ryuma bequeathed the sword to Roronoa Zoro and said he was satisfied with Zoro as the sword's master.

Enma is zoro's new sword, he got it at wano. Enma was Komurasaki's sword whom also gave the sword to Zoro for his Shisui.Since Shisui is Wano's legendary sword. Enma was one of Oden's sword; the only man who dealt damage to Kaido. (Which is why Kaido has that huge X on his chest, kinda like Luffy.)


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Why weren't the people underground affected by the nation-wide transmutation?
In chapter 104 of the Fullmetal Alchemist manga, we see people collapsing after the nationwide transmutation circle has been activated by Father. However, on page 8 or so of chapter 105, it seems that (at least some of) the people who were still in the tunnels underneath Central are still conscious before Hohenheim reverses the absorption of the souls of the country's citizens - Scar, Darius, Zampano, Jerso, and Hawkeye still seem "fine". Why is this the case?

It could be because of how close they were to the center of the array, not just being in Central but being close to the actual point where the array was being activated from.
Remember in Xerxes Von Hohenheim didn't collapse when the nation wide array was activated because he was at the center of the array, not to mention the Amestris array must have been much larger than the Xerxes array so the "dead zone" of sorts was much larger.

that makes sense - for some reason I didn't really think of there also being some sort of vertical aspect to the "dead zone"...


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Does Sword Art Online Season 1 end at episode 25?
I saw a post on the anime Facebook page that season 2 was confirmed. However, I can't remember how long ago that was. (The post was really just an image with white text saying Season 2 Confirmed).
I know that sometimes anime seasons go for 20+ episode and sometimes they go for half that yet have a second season that goes up to episode 20+. And since the 25 episodes of Sword Art Online have covers 2 games, I am wondering, is season 1 all 25 episodes or is the 25 episode actually 2 seasons (each season being a different game)?

Can you put a link to where you saw this season 2 confirmed?

@Hopeless_Noob nope, it was on facebook and like i said i can't remember how long ago that was however it wasn't an image that was posted up by any random user, i know it was long before the English dub was available for pre-order, it'll take me far too long to search though all of it since they post like 3-5 times a day. i'll look on my ipad to see if i saved the image and do an image search on google to see if i can find a link but don't hold your breath, i have over 3,300 images sitting on there

I understand. I surfed the web for a while myself, but I couldn't find anything that I would say is extremely credible. Though I did find a lot of fan-art or fan-driven type stuff, and plenty of hype.

Season 1 of Sword Art Online involved two arcs.
There is the Aincrad arc, which spans the first 14 episodes and then there is the Alfheim Online which follows and makes up the remaining episodes to 25. These all aired sequentially, with no real "break" from the studio.

ACTUALLY, in order to properly answer the posters question, it goes like this:
the JAP version of SAO had 2 seasons containing exactly 55 episodes (25 in season 1 and 30 in season 2), but for the NA dubbed version, all 55 eps were condensed down to 25 only for North American audiences.
THEN, there is "Sword Art Online 2", which, in Japan, also ran for 1 season containing 24 episodes...and this, too has been dubbed for NA and, somehow, is 25 dubbed episodes for North American audiences. (1 more than Japan this time)
ALSO, there was a "special" episode that aired xmas of 2013 titled "Sword Art Online Extra Edition", which is 101 mins long so is actually more of a movie than an episode
ALSO, there is a "Sword Art Online Offline 1 & 2", which were companion series developed for the special edition Blu-Ray versions of SAO
and last, but definitely not least we have the movie that came out in 2017, "Sword Art Online The Movie Ordinal Scale"...and if you're a fan like myself, trust me, you NEED to see that movie!!

do you have sources for the first part how the japanese version was 2 seasons with 55 episodes that was condensed down to 25 for the west? according to wikipedia japan only ever had 25 episodes

Aside of the extraneous info regarding SAO 2, SAO Extra, SA Offline and SAO Ordinal Scale, the info about SAO having 55 episodes is wrong according to Japanese Wikipedia


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What is the hole in Obito's chest?
In Chapter 629, when Obito and Kakashi fought in Kamui's dimension, Obito revealed a hole in his chest and told Kakashi that the hole was opened by the hell of this world. It didn't seem to be a literal hole in his chest (like the Hollows in Bleach), because it wasn't present in the later part of the battle.

Was this hole used figuratively to indicate that Obito's heart was void of emotions, or did he teleport that part of his chest just before Kakashi stabbed him with Raikiri?

Good question! And it seems to be something like the former, as Obito teleports to the other dimension when trying to avoid attacks. In this case, they are already in the alternate dimension, so it should be something figurative to the fact, Obito has no emotions and is too much consumed by what Madara had shown him of the world, long back.

This requires a good analysis to decipher. This is a good question but the answer, if not explained well, can be merely speculations.

@NaraShikamaru Yeah, I think if one reads the chapters carefully, the answer can be found there. Right now, I don't feel like doing it, so asked the question here. ;) But if the answer is not clearly available, then multiple explanations supported by good evidence are also acceptable.

he teleported it.

It seems there are blood dripping in his chest hole, so it's safe to assume that he didn't transfer it out to the real world (we all know that he's phased his body countless time before without any injury received), also his shirt looks like it's been torned from a real physical attack. My guess is that he somehow make Kakashi sees Obito like that, just like later in that same chapter Kakashi sees the younger Obito and Rin. It must be because this is the Kamui's dimension, which belongs to Obito.

There was never any real hole in Obito's chest. It was a genjutsu, as shown in Chapter 636.
The genjutsu was activated right from the moment Obito pierced himself into Kakashi's Raikiri. Kakashi realises the genjutsu after a while, asks Obito to drop the act and fight for real.

This is the right answer. :) Can you please expand on it?
I thought I will wait for a week for someone else to answer, and then answer it myself if no one answers it.

@Happy : I have added some content with edit hope it helps :)

It was actually a genjutsu but after the "real fight", he got a real wound on his chest(a deliberate attempt by Obito to undo Madara's Seal and become the Ten Tails Jinchuuriki)


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How come Naruto's Chakra responds to Wood Elements?
Till now it's shown that Naruto is good in Wind Element alone but Naruto's Kyuubi chakra affected the Wood Style technique used by White Zetsu and even Captain Yamato's Wood Style.

 If that's the case, then why can't Naruto use Wood Element technique?
Why does Kyuubi chakra affect the Wood element alone?

The kyuubi chakra's life force affected the wood!

Its the 'Yang' part of kurama doing the trick. It has great life-force which naturally affects the wood release technique. Its very hard to control the wood release since it requires very strong life force. When a wood release user gets close/direct contact with naruto's kyuubi chakra mode, they are not able to control it. http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Wood_Release

@RikuduSennin Thanks for the info!!!!! +1 to ur answer!!!!!!

Kakashi doesn't know this? ;)

@InfantPro'Aravind' my bad!!!!! but now i know it thanks to you guys :)

@Kakashi, was just kidding, even I didn't know before running through your post ..

@InfantPro'Aravind' ok :)

From the following Naruto Wiki

Whenever Naruto is in Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, Wood Release techniques
  will react to the Yang chakra's life-giving properties and mature into
  full-grown trees within a matter of seconds, either by contact or
  close range.This was also shown to have the same effect on White
  Zetsu Army clones, whose genetic make-up is similar to that of
  plants.

Thus, Naruto himself doesn't directly control the effects his yang chakra has on the wood element or the white zetsu.
Also,

The Yang Release (陽遁, Yōton; Viz "Light Style") techniques, based on
  the physical energy that governs vitality, can be used to breathe life
  into form.

Thus, Naruto is not explicitly using the wood element technique, as with the first hokage, yamato or the white zetsu, rather it's the yang element chakra that is resonating in the wood elelemt that provides the wood element the vitality to grow.


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Are the clothes of Devil Fruit users made of a special material?
We have Akainu, who is a Logia user with magma capabilities, and Luffy, who can stretch with the Gomu Gomu no Mi. Are their clothes made up of some special material that doesn't burn or tear apart?

One would assume not, given that they probably don't go out and change clothing after they eat a devil fruit. It's probably just anime/manga logic of the clothing going with the person.

From the Devil Fruit article on One Piece Wikia (emphasis mine):

Like many series, One Piece follows the trope that a Devil Fruit power also generally affects the clothes the user is wearing. Paramecia fruit users alter their clothes along with themselves automatically (for example, Luffy's shirt will never burst a button when his chest is swollen in Gear 3rd, Mr. 1's pants become blades along with his legs, etc.), Zoan fruit users' clothes will fit in the same proportions after transformation (Chopper's hat grew big when he was in Monster Point, Jabra's shoes are considerably stretched when in the hybrid form), and Logia fruit users transform their clothes (and subsequent accessories) to their element along with themselves. Oda explained in a SBS once that if he had done it realistically, the comic would have too much unnecessary nudity. However, some users do not seem to apply to this, such as Jewelry Bonney and Honey Queen, whose clothes do not change proportionally to their powers.

So basically, their clothes are just normal clothing. Just that the Devil Fruit's power also affects the user's clothing.
And Oda even explained the reason why he did it that way.

+1 For Oda's answer. Apart from the nudity, imagine how many suits Sanji would go through on a daily basis. He'll be killed by Nami in no time for the money expenses.

@peterRaeves Sanji has no Devils Fruits, so in fact his suit is fireproof to withstand the intense friction he uses to generate his Flaming Legs.


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Why is anime version of Pikachu so much stronger than game version of Pikachu?
Why is the anime version of Pikachu so much stronger than the game version of Pikachu? It's disappointing when you try to simulate the anime in the game by constructing your team as Ash does his.

I can distinctly remember that same Pikachu losing to a level 5 (starter) Snivy.

True. But that would mean this question would also apply to that Snivy.

It was probably because in the anime, Ash & Pikachu are the protagonists of the story. So it is only natural to have Pikachu very strong to defeat the antagonists. In the game however, it's up to the player's strategy on how to make Pikachu stronger. Furthermore, in the game, the player can choose any other Pokemon to train to be stronger, other than Pikachu.

In the first episodes, Pikachu wasn't that strong. The first fight against Rocko, wasn't a good fight, as Pikachu fainted quickly. The problem is, that the fights in the anime often have some factors that aren't covered in the games, like the spinklers of the first arena (you know, water and electricity. However, Ash never won that fight :D).
All in all, the anime-Pikachu isn't very strong. It's more like the enemies aren't very good (who are his enemies? Team Rocket? Ha.). Ash also never won one of the conferences(? why must they have different names? D:).
The main-reason why the anime-Pikachu may be a little stronger is, that it must be at least at level 100 now, after 5 regions (plus the orange-islands).

But we've seen Pikachu take hits from evolved and legendary pokemon and still stand. In the game, that wouldn't be possible.

@iOraelosi: It would. Sure, a level 5 Pikachu can't stand against a Lv. 70 Moltres, but on equal level, at least it won't die too quick. Legendary pokémons aren't as strong as they seem, most of the time.