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Does making a TV anime series cost less than making a typical TV series?
According to this post, 10 million yen per episode is the minimum price for making an anime. I am wondering how this price compares to making a typical TV series that film human actor?
I guess if the story includes lots of special effects (story like Harry Potter which needs special effect for magic, or story like Star Wars where most background needs CG), it doesn't cost much when making anime as those are still drawings after all. It may cost a bit more if there are battle scenes, but compared to filming using human actor, anime should be a lot cheaper to make?

Depends on the actors used in the TV series. But in general, I think Anime should be the cheaper one.

It sounds like voice acting only would be cheaper than live acting (where the whole person in on scene, acting out their lines both with voice and the rest of their body) but idk the real numbers. Also you'd probably want to splurge on an attractive live actor, whereas you don't care about looks for voice acting purposes.

http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/9558/how-does-the-budget-breakdown-for-a-us-tv-season-compare-to-a-uk-tv-season

In most of the cases, yes.
As mentioned in the article: "How Do Anime Budgets Compare to American Animation Budgets?":

The answer is still "much, much cheaper." The average American 2D TV series like The Simpsons or a Nickelodeon show can cost quite a bit of money, typically US$1-2 Million per episode. The longer a show goes on, the more it costs to produce because most of the creative staff get a bump in pay every season. Recent episodes The Simpsons now cost over $5 million per episode to make -- and Fox has been desperately trying to renegotiate everybody's contracts because the show has become unprofitable. Nobody envisioned the show being on the air for over 20 years.
On the low side of things, cable shows like Avatar: The Last Airbender and Invader Zim are estimated to have cost a little over $1 Million per episode, and the really low budget stuff can go down to about $350,000 to $500,000 per episode. It's not cheap.
Anime, however, goes much, much lower. A typical show can cost as little as US$125,000 per episode. On occasion a very well-off production can go north of US$300,000 per episode, but that's pretty rare. Budgets for an anime are never made public, but that's the general level things are at.

There's also a breakdown of the costs in the Crunchyroll article: "How Much Does One Episode of Anime Cost To Make?" as follows:

Original work - 50,000 yen ($660)
Script - 200,000 yen ($2,640)
Episode Direction - 500,000 yen ($6,600)
Production - 2 million yen ($26,402)
Key Animation Supervision - 250,000 yen ($3,300)
Key Animation - 1.5 million yen ($19,801)
In-betweening - 1.1 million yen ($14,521)
Finishing - 1.2 million yen ($15,841)
Art (backgrounds) - 1.2 million yen ($15,841)
Photography - 700,000 yen ($9,240)
Sound - 1.2 million yen ($15,841)
Materials - 400,000 yen ($5,280)
Editing - 200,000 yen ($2,640)
Printing - 500,000 yen ($6,600)
If you suppose an average episode has 5,000 frames, the price per frame for an in-betweener is 220 yen or just under three bucks, which apparently is a rate that hasn't really changed much in the past 30 years. Japan Animation Creators Association rep, Osamu Yamasaki, commented [roughly translated], "30 years ago it was said that one person would draw 1,000 frames per month, but now if you can do 500, that's considered good." Under these circumstances, it's no wonder young animators are having trouble making it in the industry.

However, that's the general trend in expenses. There are ofcourse exceptions. An anime may cost way more than a particular show for the same duration of airing time. There are many such cases. To list a couple of them:

The Wind Rises had a reported budget of US$30 Million, and The Tale of Princess Kaguya, with its infamous ten year production schedule, likely cost even more. Back in 1987 Akira was made for a then-record ¥1.1 Billion, which would be around US$10.6 Million today.

The reason for this general trend is because a TV show has to entail the payment of actors, writers, director along with sets and equipment such as cameras, studio space or shooting on location which adds more money to the show.
There are some extremely high priced sitcoms as well, such as Friends. In 2000, it was reported that each cast member was getting $750,000 per show. (After all of the perks were added it was $40 million per actor or $240 million dollars).

There is a lot of information here, but was the question answered? Does 1 anime episode cost less than 1 live-action episode?

I think the first sentence answer that: "In most of the cases, yes."


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What anime does this girl greeting the KFC mascot come from?

Hi guys/girls, I'm looking for the source of this Gif, can't find it anywhere, obviously its from an old anime, maybe someone who has seen old subbed things will be able to find it at glance.
Thanks.

This scene is from Miyuki, an anime adaptiation of the Manga by the same name written by Adachi:

Synopsis:

Wakamatsu Masato lives with his step-sister, Miyuki, whom he does not have blood relationship with. Their father is always working oversea and left the two of them living by themselves in Toukyou. Miyuki is cute, nice, sensitive and very popular among guys around Masato. Masato has a girlfriend at school whose name is Kajima Miyuki, who is pretty and gentle, the ideal dream of every highschool boy.

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Is there a significance in the names of the artificial spirits?
Each of the Rozen Maiden Dolls has an artificial spirit. Since there is so much in this series that has a deeper meaning of some sort (episode titles and doll names jump to mind) I’m assuming that their names will also have a deeper meaning — especially since there are names such as Pizzicato (Kanaria’s artificial spirit) that are clearly not Japanese at all.
The only one that partially makes sense to me though, is Berrybell, Hina-Ichigo’s artificial spirit which fits into the general word-cloud strawberry. What significance is behind the names of the other dolls’ artificial spirits?

This is a community wiki starting point of an answer. Feel free to either contribute to this or append your own answer.

Shinku’s artificial spirit is Hollie. This could be connected to Ilex (e.g. Ilex aquifolium), the prickly plant with the red berries.
Hina-Ichigo’s artificial spirit is Berrybell. Potentially a connection of a ringing bell and a (straw)berry.
Kanaria’s artificial spirit is Pizzicato. This is a violin playing technique also referred to as plucking — fitting with the general violin/music theme of Kanaria.
Souseiseki’s artificial spirit is Lempicka. This has the same spelling as the Polish art deco painter Tamara Łempicka, although the katakana spelling of the spirit implies a different pronunciation. I don’t know if a connection exists.
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In Revolutionary Girl Utena, what's the power to revolutionize the world?
I made this question before but since a single answer won't suffice, I have broke it down into different post as suggested by other users. TL;DR: I'm tring to understand the story, not the analogies.
So, What is the power to bring revolution? Is it actual power (like the type you see in shounen animes) or is it just an analogy about making the world accept behaviors like homosexuality and incest (as seen in events related with Akio & Touga or Akio & Anthy)?

Touga's explanation in the manga
In the third volume of the manga, before their second duel together, Utena asks Touga:

Why do you want it so much? "The power to revolutionize the world" … I've never understood it.

Touga's response to this is:

Oh. That's easy. Tenjou, have you ever felt that you were an outsider? That this place we look down upon … It's like another world, far away from the real one? Our true world exists someplace else. We all want to get that world back so we can finally return to our deepest selves. This world we inhabit — it's like an egg … A small world encased in a hard shell. The chick will die, unborn, if it doesn't break through that shell … Die without ever knowing that it's a bird! If we don't break the world's shell, we'll die without beyond born, without knowing we can fly! And I want to fly. That is why I will revolutionize the world … So that I can be myself!

(Italics are from original text. Some of the punctuation is my own.) This implies that in the Utena manga, this "power to revolutionize the world" is not necessarily about physical power. Rather, it is about being able to make a proper place for oneself in the world.
Can a similar interpretation apply to the anime?
The anime diverges from the manga somewhat in plot, but this interpretation helps clarify the anime's own discussion of the "revolution." We often are shown a sequence where the student council members say:

If it cannot break its egg's shell, a chick will die without being born. We are the chick. The world is our egg. If we don't crack the world's shell, we will die without being born. Smash the world's shell! For the revolution of the world!

This is very similar to the second half of what Touga says in the manga. There is the same notion of self-realization and overcoming the world here. Furthermore, Mikage's response in the anime after students recount their troubles — "Your only choice is to revolutionize the world." — shares the element of "revolutionizing the world" for personal reasons.
When Nanami substitutes for Touga, she introduces a variant in the sequence:

If it cannot break its egg's shell, a chick will die without being born. The chamber of freedom and the cage of freedom. Without revealing the vastness of the sky, both care for the chick. Smash the world's cage! For the revolution of the world!

The meaning of this is less immediately clear, but it does not seem inconsistent with the interpretations earlier.

My interpretation of the series was that every candidate had their own impression of what it meant to "revolutionize the world". When Utena finally managed to do it, I understood that she had created an alternate reality, given Anthy the opportunity to follow her there, and left Akio oblivious to its existence. This changed the world completely for all three of those parties, getting Utena out of a situation she didn't care for and offering freedom and friendship to Anthy.


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Why didn't the writer reveal the contents of the disk that fell on the ground?
As mentioned in this question, I am wondering why the writer or the creator of the anime Chobits didn't reveal a crucial thing such as the contents of the disk in question.
According to this answer, the manga revealed the contents of the disk in the late chapters. Why did they not do so in the anime?
As I am not very familiar with finding writer's or creator's comments on their works, I am having a hard time understanding this.
Any reference linked to the subject matter or facts referring to the creation of this anime is very much appreciated.

Finding information like that can be very hard for anime. Anime creators for the most part don't seem to spend as much time explaining their work as Western creators.The information that does exist is probably in Japanese.

@Torisuda hmmm Thank you for explaining this. too bad creators didn't much explain their work ,this is a great anime.Should I put a bounty on this question to attract other users to answer? I don't know if many of our japanese friends are members here. :(

@Torisuda I'm gonna edit my question so that any information considering the anime creation and production can be accepted as an answer.


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What does this grinning gesture signify?
The gif below shows Noriko from minute 11 of GunBuster's episode 3.

This is the dialogue directly preceding it:

Noriko: I should at least memorize basic space manoeuvring patterns. [...]
Smith: All that stuff is useless in real combat.
Noriko: Why do you have to keep patronizing me?
Smith: 'cause your such a cute little freshman.
Noriko: I'll have you know that Onee-sama and I are the best
  team in the entire Top Squadron! A "solo" like you with no partner
  couldn't possibly appreciate everything we've been through together as
  a team. So long!

In terms of usage it seems somewhat interchangeable with the Eyelid pull taunt. I assumed it is meant to show defiance, kind of like baring one's teeth but in a more cheeky way?
The sound she makes is "bi-" I would say, but her action doesn't really fit any of the common uses of that onomatopoeia which I'm aware of.
I feel I've seen this before but I couldn't find it among any of the teeth and smile realated tropes on tvtropes.
So, TL;DR, does this have a name, is it repeated throughout anime and signifies something particular or is it just Noriko being random and I'm overthinking it?

Kiznaiver happened to have a recent example of this. Guess I'm not imagining things then but Chidori makes a different sound (i-da?).

That's not a grin, though I'm not sure what to call it. I'm pretty sure that this is a feature of Japanese gestural communication in general (and not just anime in particular).

@senshin Hmm, may well be, but japanese.SE is too language specific for this I think. I'll try some more Google myself. If nothing comes up here soonish I'll delete it.

Right, I'm not saying we should move it to Japanese.SE. The question is fine here; just adding some information.

My understanding of it is basically that they are making a face, except it's different to how we usually know it. These are how they do it nowadays:

They are all making a face and saying "bi~". It is exactly the same as how we make a face, but Japanese style. I don't have research evidence to support this, but I have consulted quite a few Japanese people who lived in Japan for quite a while and they all agreed to my statement, so I do think it's very reliable.

Thanks for your answer, however I don't think this applies here. Your images all show akanbe which is somewhat similar, but clearly not what the characters in my two examples are doing. I'm also not sure I understand the last part: Are you saying you showed some people that lived in Japan my example? What were their answers exactly?

i sorry for the wrong answer, i understand how the image doesn't apply but Noriko in the gif is still undoubtedly making a face. what the Japanese people(a few are my friends) said was that it was simply making a face in disapproval of the grey haired guy on the train. when i put the images up i didn't know there was the term akanbe for those paces specifically, i just thought that they were making a face that's commonly used and i am sincerely sorry for my misleading idea. however the face is rarely used in anime and manga, it's just making a face. i can't find it's name however, i'm sorry.

please excuse my poor English if there is anything hard to understand

While even assuming that is the case, the movie in question predates your examples and "common" examples. Something can become commonplace over time, especially in this case, with a span of nearly 30 years ! (28) For example, when smart phones came out, it was not common, yet it has become rather commonplace now (and in less time than here!). What you need is an example of something that has been in place before the movie and thus can be referred to as a real life example. If unsure reread the question and specifically refer to the eye-pull taunt link for a good example.

@Tyhja Thank you for letting me know my mistake, i'll make sure i get it right next time.


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Is Platinum End meant to refer to the Biblical story of Elijah (1 Kings 19:4-7) who was suicidal and God sent an angel?
Also asked on reddit.
Re Elijah:

http://web.mit.edu/jywang/www/cef/Bible/NIV/NIV_Bible/1KGS+19.html
https://ibpf.org/the-prophet-elijah-was-depressed/
https://bible.org/seriespage/15-crisis-elijah-1-kings-194-14
https://wordsbymatthew.com/blog/7-lessons-depression-elijah-suicidal-prophet
https://believehim.org/how-god-dealt-with-elijahs-depression/

I looked up just now "platinum end" "elijah" but wasn't able to find anything (except the obvious). Is Platinum End supposedly a reference to Elijah specifically? Or is this some common thing in religion or mythology, where a deity sends an angel to a suicidal person? (Of course we are very blessed that deities send angels to us everyday through our struggles in life, esp during this pandemic. These angels are what we call some fellow humans.)

I note that you've cross-posted to SFF:SE. If you want to have that question running there (so soon), you need to delete it from here;

@Richard i think it's ok. someone hopefully is about to answer using 'it's a wonderful life'

@Richard re 'note', why note when i've already mentioned in the OP?

It was mentioned by another user (Valorum, who is free to post h own answer) that that angels' appearing to suicidal humans is a pretty common trope in fiction, for example in the 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life.
Perhaps it's more appropriate to ask not if the movie or the trope in general originates from the story of Elijah, which of course would be the subject for another post.

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Which "My Hero Academia" volume should I start, if I want to read Season 2?
I started watching My Hero Academia as an anime, and finished the first season. But now I want to switch to reading the manga instead. Which volume should I start reading from?

According to the BNHA wiki for Season 1 of the anime and Chapter 21 of the manga, since Season 1 has 13 episodes, Season 2 starts with episode 14, and Page 18 of Chapter 21 is where episode 14 starts from.
Therefore, you should probably start reading from Chapter 21, or if you don't care about skipping the one page, you can just start at Chapter 22.
Volume 3 starts with Chapter 18, so you can start there too.

@DominikDev No problem; glad I was able to help!

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Why didn't L check for fingerprints or hair?
Related to this: Death note handwriting check
A lot of DNA must have rubbed off on the Death Notes. Unless the Death Note has a rule about fingerprints or DNA, I don't see how this isn't a plothole.

@ton.yeung What? I think that in general books can examined for DNA. I'm guessing the Death Note has a rule for such things. If not, this seems to be a plothole.

@ton.yeung Oh drat. I guess forensic knowledge is needed. You mean to say just because you press your finger on a book doesn't mean that your fingerprint will be there? I see in a lot of movies and series that people shine some fancy flashlights on walls or guns and then can see fingerprints. So that's just artistic license?

i am quite sure the entire task force touched the Death Note to see Rem. unless they did the testing before then there would be (to my knowledge) no way to check if Light had touched it previously as his fingerprints and DNA could just have been from when the task force touched it

Since my answer at the linked question answers this question as well, I will only copy it in a quote:

After handing over the Death Note to Rem in the plan to free Misa out
Light says (chapter 54):

In other words, he tore the pages out and checked there's none
of the fingerprints or his handwriting, so it's no surprise that L
didn't check out the handwriting since there weren't any other names
written beside Higuchi's.
All though it didn't mentioned in the anime, it's unthinkable that
Light would missing do such an obvious thing.

And as for hair and DNA as mentioned in the question, I think it's obviously.

I find it weird that Light could somehow completely wipe out all traces of physical evidence, but eh at least it was mentioned. Thanks!

it's light we are talking about, the one who even were ready to burn all his desk and family so the Death Note won't be discovered, so he won't be able to remove all his traces from the Death Note?

USerNAme, eh, idk. it's so hard for people like dexter, but apparently it's a piece of cake (or potato chip) for light. i just view it as part of suspension of disbelief or whatchamacallit

@BCLC we have official source, why to think too hard on this?

USerNAme, i don't really buy it, but i'm not really thinking hard as to whether i should really buy it or not

@BCLC you compared light to dexter. you should remember that dexter killed by hand with blood and all. light just had to clean the notebook from hair and stuff. lol

'just' ? hair and fingerprints are really big deals i believe.

When the Kira Task Force recovered the Death Note from Kyosuke Higuchi there is 2 things which contaminated any DNA evidence on the Death Note:

The Kira Task Force touched the Death Note to see Rem
Light was holding onto the Death Note as part of his plan to reclaim ownership (when his memories returned)

To my knowledge there is no way to tell "when" fingerprints or DNA first made contact with an object being tested as such any of Light's DNA found on the Death Note can easily be explained by his interactions with it when the Death Note was recovered.
Remember that the idea was to capture Kira and convict him in a court of law and DNA on the Death Note would be inadmissible due to how it was handled. This is why the police tend to block of crime scenes ensure that the proper Chain of Evidence is met. In some cop shows there are times that, when a seal is broken or multiple undocumented people handled a particular piece of evidence, it can't be used in court.
Even if Light didn't touch the Death Note when it was recovered and L found Light's DNA on it, suspecting Light again after the 13-day rule seemed to show his innocence would not help L since up until now Light had been very cooperative in aiding the Task Force and they were all on good terms. He would first need to prove to the rest of the Task Force/Police that the 13-day rule is fake  thus returning to what I have explained here and then rule out any other way Light's DNA could have gotten onto the Death Note after it's recovery.

That about sums it up probably. Though I honestly don't think they would've found much by way of DNA even without being contaminated. Light knows about that and is anal about it. The switching of notes happens with him using a handkerchief to keep his DNA off it and I wouldn't doubt he wiped them both clean beforehand to clear him and Misa on the chance that they did try forensics testing.


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How was the Black Bull squad ranked at the beginning of the Black Clover anime?
At the begining of the anime, it is stated that Golden Dawn and Silver Eagle are the best squads. However, in the wikia,

 It is shown that Black Bull is the second squad with more stars

This makes me conclude they progressed as the story advanced. How was the Black Bull squad ranked at the begining of the anime among of the other squads?

It was Last with -31 stars in the beginning.

@Ch.SivaRamKishore If you have the source for the numbers, it might be worth posting your comment as an answer

The Black Bull is last in ranking in terms of the number of stars they have gathered
The fist time they talked about how many stars the black bull have is after Asta and Noelle's first mission. The Black Bull have -31 stars while Golden Dawn have 70 stars at that time.

 Asta and Noelle earned a star for their first mission making it -30 stars for the Black Bull

The first time we see the full ranking of the nine magic knights squads is they are at the bottom though this is the last year's ranking. Based on what Yami said, Black Bull is always last in the rankings of previous years.

Yami: Man.. What a pain in the butt. Were always last anyway.

Sources: Black Clover: Chapter 10 and Chapter 102 for pictures respectively

The Black Bulls had gathered -31 stars due to destructive behaviour that caused their performance to be more harmful than the threat of the missions themselves.
https://blackclover.fandom.com/wiki/Black_Bull

but how did it compare with the others? were they the last?

yes, they were. Until the year Asta joined them. they became second

Black bulls especially known as Worst of the worst. This term also came as they were always last in the tournament. They only started getting points after the entry of Asta and Noelle. But they are more known for the bond of friendship that they all so cherish.
Truly they never really cared about the damn trophies.


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Is Naruto still a Genin after becoming Hokage?
While watching "funny Boruto moments" on YouTube, I came across a scene where Naruto tells Iwabe and his team, that he is still a Genin, but he is a Hokage. In the starting episodes of Naruto, it is shown that Hokage is a rank above Jonin, so I want some clarification on why he could skip all the ranks and land at Hokage.

Related: https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/43854/at-the-end-did-naruto-skip-chunnin-and-jounin-rank-before-becoming-hokage?rq=1

@Turamarth In the link the answers goes around fillers,OVA, personal opinion but nothing is Canon, and I also watched the the episodes,OVA mentioned so I don't think I got my answer there.

The accepted answer is based on an interview with Masashi Kishimoto. It pretty much can't get more canon than that.

He is still a Genin. It was stated by him. (Episode 48)

What people most of the time overlook is, that the scene with Kakashi and Naruto isn't actual canon though, it should still be noted that these are the requirements.
But we're talking about Naruto here he doesn't do things the normal way, which is important later on with the Kishimoto bit.
If we look into the databook book specifically for The Last: Naruto the Movie that plays 2 years after the 4th war, Naruto is still a Genin.
下忍 = Genin.

Sakura and Shikamaru on the other hand are already Jōnin.
上忍 = Jōnin.

And the rest are Chūnin.
中忍 = Chūnin.

Kishimoto specifically let Naruto stay a Genin. And yes, TheLast is canon. He did the character designs and was chief story supervisor. It was also the first time for him that he'd completely written everything from the start, including the lines in a movie production. That came up during the Interview that is linked.
He confirmed that Naruto went from Genin to Hokage.

Q：ナルトといえば火影（忍者の里で一番偉い立場）の夢をかなえましたが、上忍（階級が一番上の忍者）
  の試験はいつ受けたのでしょうか？
A: ナルトは上忍になっていないんです。下忍（一番下の忍者）のまま火影になりました。サスケも上忍でも中忍でもないし、むしろ里を出ちゃっているから、抜け忍ですよね。あいつら、もうなんなんでしょうね（笑）。でも下忍のままでいきなり火影になった方が、ナルトらしくて面白いかなと思いました。

Translated:

Q: Speaking of Naruto, his dream of being Hokage came true, but when did he take the exam to become a jounin?
Kishimoto: Naruto didn’t become a jounin. He became Hokage as a genin. Sasuke is not a jounin or chuunin either, but rather, since he left the village, he is a nukenin. That’s enough for them (laughs). But I thought that having him suddenly go from genin to Hokage would be amusing and Naruto-like.

-> To the original Interview (Japanese)
->To the Translation
Even if he never achieved the Jōnin rank he should be as smart and as capable of Chūnin and Jōnin. People can't just become Hokage, not even Naruto. He must have still learned everything that needs to be learned for the Hokage position but just didn't get the chance to actual showcase this in the exams. But I don't think he needed to, I mean everyone (at least the Shinobi part of the Village) saw him during the 4th war and his prowess/abilities. The only thing that was missing was the educational part.
Well, according to Kishimoto, Naruto became the Hokage as a Genin. That should answer it.

Does that mean Gaara is also genin hokage?

No, it was stated in his character profile in the second databook that he became Chūnin at age 14. He must have gotten the Kazekage position between 14-15 as he was 15 at the beginning of Shippuuden. It is possible that he became Kazekage as a Chūnin but there aren't any more informations about his achieved ranks. But if you ask me, he most likely became the Kazekage as a Chūnin, I don't why Kishimoto would have left it out in Gaara's profile if he was indeed a Jōnin before becoming Kazekage.

@Ōtsutsuki so kishimoto covered every possible one thank you. Me too +1

Isn't Hokage its own separate rank though? Can one be a Genin and the Hokage at the same time, or are they mutually exclusive?

Naruto had a Jounin title before he took up the Hokage title.
What a lot of people get wrong is the Hokage title. It is not only a rank, but also the title given to the leader of Konoha. Each Hidden Village will have a ruling Kage, but also have predecessor Kage (retired). A person could be classified as Kage level, but it is not a rank. It is the scale of power that Shinobi has.
Every Hokage, after Tobirama, before taking up the mantle was a Jounin. It is the custom and tradition of Konoha to appoint a leader who is not only powerful, but wise and collected. He should have a great deal of knowledge regarding major governing factors of the village.
This was the reason Kakashi, after the Great War, offered Naruto the Jounin rank. Of course, with conditions. That would include more studying. Naruto comically declines, but Iruka sensei helps him out (Naruto: Shippūden episode 479).


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Is Ash's explanation for the origins of his name correct?
In vol. 11, Eiji asks Ash about his real name while they are on the Staten Island ferry. Ash claims that his first name, Aslan, is a Hebrew word referring to daybreak.

Eiji: Remember what you told me once? That your mother gave you your name — your real name, "Aslan". It's not a common name … What does it mean?
Ash: It's an ancient Hebrew word that was used in prayer. It means "daybreak," cuz I was born at dawn.

But as far as I can tell, the Hebrew word for dawn is שחר (shachar). I tried guessing various Hebrew spellings that could be read as Aslan and looking those up on the internet, but I haven't yet found anything convincing. Aslan also happens to be a variant of a real Turkic name that means "lion," so Ash's etymology could also be the result of author error. I am not proficient in Hebrew or Aramaic, however, so I'm not sure if I'm missing something.  Is there any truth to Ash's claim at all?

Aslan is not a name in hebrew and it is not common in israel at all but,
Atslan (עצלן) means lazy in hebrew sooooo... maybe and most likely that it is an error, but maybe by some sort of fluke it's a very good joke.

Yes, this quoted dialog response by Ash is incorrect.
Aslan is not even a Hebrew word, it is a Turkish word, and it does not mean "daybreak" in Hebrew. Daybreak can be "shachar" (שחר) as you found, which is a very common name, or "zricha" (זריחה) which is the action of the sun arriving, and isn't used as a name.
Aslan, in Turkish, means a lion, and it is used a lot for names, even in Hebrew (not very common, but we do have this name as last name), this might be the source of confusion for that author.


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Which kind of Overlord is Momonga?
On the Wiki I've found that there exist three types of overlords:

Types of Overlord

Overlord Wiseman: They're skilled in magic.
Overlord Cronos Master: They could use time-related special abilities.
Overlord General: They're adept at controlling armies of the undead.

Which type of overlord is Momonga (Ainz Ooal Gown)? It seems that he has a bit of each one ability...

He is extremely powerful using magic. (Actually, I haven't seen any other lvl 100 mage so I can't say if he is "stronger" than other mages...).
He can stop time. (In the Overlord 3rd season chapter 13 of Anime he frozen time for a few seconds).
He can create undead creatures. (He has made Death Knights from corpses and he is able to give them orders).

Before I answer your question, I'll briefly elaborate on the overlord species. Overlord is the highest race of undead who primarily have the appearance of skeletons.  Just like other undead species, the overlord class  is the final form of both the skeleton mage and Elder Lich class (most undead would have to gain enough levels to evolve through up to that point). However even within the overlord race, there are different levels.
According to the wiki: "Momonga has an Overlord racial level of five." Even though we aren't told exactly how many levels are within the overlord class. It makes sense to say that the higher the level within the overlord race, the more powerful the individual overlord. I'm guessing this makes Ainz Oal Gown pretty special when compared to the typical average overlord (more like the 5 overlords that guard the nazarick grand  library, there is big difference between them and momonga in terms of power level and abilities). This could explain why he has characteristics of the 3 different types of overlords.
So to answer your question, Momonga is not an ordinary Overlord, his superiority in level among the overlord race probably gives him the advantage of being an overlord with abilities similar to all 3 types. ( He also has dark wisdom, allowing him to learn spells that he probably couldn't. This cheat ability makes him nearly invisible because we don't know for sure which specific spells he learnt from the dark wisdom ability) I hope that answers your question.

Interesting answer, maybe is he "superior" due to its very specialized build into necromancy?. By the way, it seems to me or you have said that Overlord race has more than 5 levels? Maybe, I've misunderstood. I'll wait a day or two before accepting your answer, maybe another user wants to answer in that time.

NAh what i meant is there are levels within the overlord race(because if momonga is level 5 then it makes sense to hypothetically say that). Neither the anime nor the wiki expressly states exactly how many levels are within the race. But i'd guess that since Ainz is max level he is probably pretty close to highest level of overlord if not the highest

From what I remember reading the overlord class does not unlock until 95 levels in other things which would imply that level 5 is the highest they can get.

@Rumpelstiltskin We learn that Overlord is a Rare class, and that all rare classes max out at a total of 5 levels.

The “Overlord Wiseman” and “Overlord Cronos Master” are “stock characters” that are repeatedly created by various effects in the Yggdrasil game, much like there was also data for a generic “Goblin Archer” and “Goblin Wolf-Rider” that each got used MULTIPLE times when Enri Ermot used the first Horn (and then differentiated into different PEOPLE). PCs and custom NPCs don’t necessarily match generic stock characters that the game has on hand for summoning spells, and random encounters.


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What is the reference to Kiba's speech and Issei's flashback in episode 2 of High School DxD Hero?
I've just started watching the 4th season of High School DxD (Hero). I know it's been a while since I've last seen the previous episodes. However, in episode 2, this line in Kiba's speech made me wonder if I had missed any episodes/OVA.

Kiba: I heard you had to deal with the four Great Devils?

A few seconds after, Issei had a flashback and then I was sure, I missed some episodes.

Unknown character: Right now, you are finally in front of many doors with a key in hand.

Is Issei's flashback from any OVA/movie/episode? Which one?

That's referring to the events in one of the short stories from Volume 8, Extra Life: The Fun Gremory Family. It was never adapted in any form, so the only way to know what happened is to read the novel. Fortunately, Volume 8 is a collection of short stories, so they can be read in any order; you could even read that short story alone and not feel lost at all as long as you've watched the first 3 seasons.
I'd still recommend reading the whole series in its novel form, as the 3rd season really butchered the series, pretty much mixing the stories from volume 5 and 7 into a single arc, and then closing the season with the events from volume 6 but with an anime original ending that was scrapped by Episode 0 of the 4th Season. It was THAT bad. Especially since mixing vol. 5 and 7 ended up in cutting the Rating Game between Rias and Sona, which Issei references in the latest season when he talks about wanting to pay back Saji after "losing" against him.
TL;DR read the books.


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What is the so-called "GUDAGUDA ship" involving Oda Nobunaga and Okita Souji?
I was reading this piece of short comic remake titled "How you play it" illustrated by Kawacy and it says

Oda Nobunaga and Okita Souji from Fate/Grand Order
a.k.a the GUDAGUDA ship.

So I search about it, it seems like an event from Fate/Grand Order called GUDAGUDA Honnouji Event. From here, I know gudaguda (ぐだぐだ) mean exhausted; tired. But the event summery says

Something like a "GUDAGUDA Honnouji" suddenly appeared in Chaldea, and Oda Nobunaga is ready for action!

which suggests it's an object rather than a state
So what is GUDAGUDA exactly in relation to Fate/GO? And why did the Oda Nobunaga and Okita Souji pairing get called GUDAGUDA ship? I tried to Google GUDAGUDA ship and I got lot of Oda Nobunaga and Okita Souji pairing so it's not something only from Kawacy above

Note: I have zero knowledge of Japanese language and I never play Fate/GO

i am shamed! i was beaten to posting this

Direct translations questions are off-topic, per this discussion. If you would like to ask a Japanese language question in the context of a specific series (e.g., What does Osakabehime's designation as a "hikikomori" have to do with the origami bats she uses? [tag:fate-grand-order]), it might be more on-topic.

@кяαzєя I never ask for direct translate, I know (from Google) GUDAGUDA mean "exhausted"; "tired" but what does it have to do in Fate/GO and why does the pairing called as such

Voted to reopen, though I have a misunderstanding about GUDAGUDA ship at first. Note there are guda-ko and guda-o in FGO, but it's not about them. In this case, it's more about the main characters from GUDAGUDA event.

Okita and Nobu predate FGO and are from Koha Ace, a Typemoon fate parody manga. Shipping characters from the same series is hardly anything new.

@кяαzєя true but from my current understanding it's the naming of the ship is odd. like in fandom you have the obvious ones like MadoHomu, and NanoFate but even when they aren't obvious like with RWBY's Monochrome and Bumblebee it has some relation back to the characters in the ship (Monochrome = Weiss (White) x Blake (Black), Bumblebee = Blake (Black) x Yang (Yellow)). previous research shows that GUDAGUDA is a F/GO Event but this wouldn't explain why the fandom has taken it as a ship name (especially when Nobunaga and Okita predate the event)

I'm actually doubting if the term "GUDAGUDA ship" is not originated by Kawacy himself. Googling that returns mostly his images on DA, or Tumblr that refers to his DA.

Some time ago, there was this parody manga written by Keikenchi called Koha-Ace, featuring Kohaku from Tsukihime as an main character of sorts, along with several characters of the Nasuverse. Although it's a joke-series, it's still considered official, some of it's segments were part of the Carnival Phantasm animation.
One of the stories that ran in this manga was Fate/KOHA-ACE, an alternate Third Holy Grail War, where Oda Nobunaga (Demon Archer) and Okita Souji (Sakura Saber) were summoned.
After the mobile app based on the Nasuverse, Fate/Grand Order, was announced, Keikenchi was asked to author a short series to be released on the game's website some time before the game even released. It was supposed to be a showcase of the servants that would be available on the game, though it kind of degenerated into random shaenaenigans. The web series was titled Fate/GUDAGUDA Order, and the MCs of sorts were Nobunaga and Okita, and they ended up being shipped by the fandom. Eventually, they actually made it to the game during an event around 4-5 months after the game was released, which was called the GUDAGUDA Honnouji event.
You can legally read this manga on the F/GO (US) site here.


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Why was Light only targeting Japanese criminals when he was in the US?
When Light's sister is kidnapped by Mellow's gang and the Kira Task Force goes to the US to do the trade for her with the Death Note, when things start getting out of control Light yells at Misa to keep writing in the Death Note.

Light: MISA! Just shut up and do like I told you, all right?! Look! I need you to keep killing Japanese criminals so just do that! This guy’s obviously investigating Kira and he won’t give up. If the killings are delayed, we are in trouble. Don’t you understand?

But as shown when L was investigating, Light focusing on an area is what lead to L's conclusion that Kira was Japanese and at this moment Light knew of Near's SPK in the US, not to mention Kira targets criminals around the world and gets a lot of the information from the internet.

Soichiro: But still, it’s impossible for us to sensor everything on the Internet. And we haven’t had any new leads in a while.
Matsuda: But posting names with faces online, I’m sorry, but if you ask me, it’s the people doing that who deserve to die. But I guess, that’s never gonna happen. Kira gets a lot of his information from the Internet so he’s not gonna kill those people.

I get why Light doesn't want the killings to die down but why is Light targeting Japanese criminals while he was in the US?
NOTE: I'm watching the English Dub released by Madman in Australia which I assume is the same Dub released by Viz Media.

Notice the "keep killing Japanese criminals" part; this seems to suggest that (mostly) Japanese criminals were being killed by Kira during the time right before this incident. L had already previously established that Kira was operating from Japan on live TV. Any aberrations in killing behavior during Light's time in the States would appear highly suspicious to Near, who already distrusted the Japanese Kira investigation team at the time. Light could just be getting paranoid and probably wanted to reinforce the idea that Kira is operating from Japan during his visit.


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How do hand-seals work when performed with another participant?
This is related to: What is the difference when a jutsu is performed by weaving only some of it's seals and when performed by weaving all of them?
According to the answer, head-weaving is a technique used to manipulate chakra to perform the Jutsu. Some users require more hand seals to perform the Jutsu whereas other do not require as many due to their chakra control.
In Naruto Shippuden, Episode 374

 We see Kakashi and Obito having their battle in the realm where their Mangekyou Sharingan takes them. At roughly 8:30, Kakashi and Obito are in close quarters and Obito takes Kakashi's hand to perform the hand-seals for FireBall Justu.

How does the charka manipulation through hand-seals work when performing them with another participant?

Following to this, if both shinobi are skilled, can the other person also perform the jutsu? For example, obito uses kakashi's hand to perform fire release technique. Can kakashi do the same?

As said in the linked post, the hand signs are for the manifesting chakra, while weaving hand signs. More the shinobi's skill and chakra control increases, less the hand signs he needs to use. While techniques may require a number of hand seals to work, a skilled ninja can use less or even one to perform the same technique.
In the whole series, we've seen shinobi using hand signs with two hands, one hand and even no hand signs, which requires a very precise control of chakra. As mentioned in this post, at various instances shinobi of great skill like Itachi, Minato, Sasuke or Naruto used even one hand signs or no hand signs.
But When using hand signs with another participant, they both need their chakra to be in perfect sync with each other and should have a great control over it. That's why Naruto and Sasuke could accomplish some jutsu.
Also, there were instances, like in  Obito Uchiha using Kakashi Hatake's hand for the Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique or  Anko Mitarashi using Orochimaru's hand for the Twin Snakes Mutual Death Technique. For these instances, a shinobi needs to have a great amount of chakra, which he forces to make it flow into other participant's body and gains control of other's chakra (momentarily) to get his jutsu done.
Hope this answers your doubt. :)

As we don't see much of these two-man hand seals, nobody really uses them. The only practical time someone would use it is when someone needs to perform a jutsu that requires a lot of chakra. You do this by weaving hand signs like a normal person would. The only thing different is that the two people would have to merge and cooperate their chakras into that of one person. This is very complicated and rarely used, and the only time I thought two-person hand seals were necessary was when Naruto and Sasuke were doing the Reverse Tsukiyomi jutsu. It required an enormous amount of chakra, and only two people with a lot of chakra, like Naruto and Sasuke could accomplish it.


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When and in which order should I watch One Piece movies?
I have One Piece movies, but I don't know in which order to watch, means after how many episodes should I watch each movie:

One Piece: The Movie
Clockwork Island Adventure
Chopper's Kingdom on the Island of Strange Animals
Dead End Adventure
The Cursed Holy Sword
Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island
The Giant Mechanical Soldier of Karakuri Castle
Episode of Alabasta: The Desert Princess and the Pirates
Episode of Chopper Plus: Bloom in Winter, Miracle Sakura
One Piece Film: Strong World
One Piece 3D: Straw Hat Chase
One Piece Film: Heart of Gold
One Piece Film: Z
One Piece Film: Gold

and which movies are filler?
any answer will be helpful. thank you :)

Technically speaking, none of the movies is considered canon.
They are all unrelated to the story that we can follow in the manga. Maybe one of the exceptions is Strong World because the main villain does exist in the manga storyline, but the event itself is not placed into it. So from a storywise perspective, you can watch them as/when you want, nothing major from the storyline will be spoiled for you.
The only things that can be "spoiled" are new character that join the crew later on or some mentioning of events that have already happened in the manga (the latest Gold movie is an example of that).
If you don't mind, you can watch them in any order you want, but because of joining character, maybe you should start in the order they were released.

Strong world was written by Eiichoro Oda. It's the most canon-like movie you'll ever get to see.

i know, i said it can be viewed as an exception, although it was never directly mentioned in the manga


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What, if anything, was the early 90s anime creativity crisis?
I fairly often hear or read about how the anime industry had stagnated during the early 90s. It's mostly brought up in the context of Neon Genesis Evangelion being the first influential anime in several years back then as mentioned on this answer:

Eventhough they never directly admit it, I'm sure there's some amount of influence that Evangelion had on Rahxephon, intended or not, simply because Evangelion was an incredibly influential show, at a time when it seemed anime in general was stagnating. So everything that came after that, for better or worse, could have had some influence from Evangelion.
(Emphasis mine)

Is this true? If so, what exactly was this crisis and why did it happen?

nice question :)

please add some references to where you've seen such statements about stagnation in the 90's

@Hakase apparently it's mentioned on Jon Lin's answer. I've added the quotation as the reference.

@Hakase Sorry, I won't recall all these posts scattered around the web. I saw the answer linked above (and kindly quoted by Aki Tanaka ) and remembered that this isn't first time i saw it mentioned, so I posted this question. I am totally sure that I have encountered this opinion several times in various places.

@Hakase Wikipedia mentions it, too bad the source is in Italian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion#Influence_and_legacy It mentions the economic crisis as answered by Nevios, but also a crisis in creative ideas that interests me. The two are probably linked but I'd like to hear more about the latter, if possible.

I don't know where you heard about a creativity crisis but in the early 90's there was indeed a huge crisis which weakened the anime industry for a few years, along with a lot of other industries: an economic crisis.
In the world, we more-or-less refer to this crisis as the "Early 90's recession". In a few words, it was a massive and worldwide economic crisis which started after the market crash called the "Black Monday" (Monday, October 19, 1987 to be exact).
In Japan, they specifically call this period the "Lost Decade" (sounds like an anime event, right?). I don't think economics courses interest you here so I'll just show you how hard Japanese growth crashed.

So, to summarize, Japan had huge economic troubles during that time, so it's normal that both anime quality and quantity were seriously harmed.
As this article explains, even if the number of television anime gradually recovered, because of these economic issues the whole anime industry has never recovered the greatness of the 80s.

A slump in advertising revenue, a lower birthrate and the popularity of others forms of entertainment like video games and cell phones have led to sluggish prime time ratings and a decline in the number of anime since the peak in 2006.

I add that the death of Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy) during this period could have contributed to that "creativity crisis" you were talking about.

To go further :
  - Osamu Tezuka
  - Black Monday
  - Lost Decade
  - Japan's GDP
  - The struggle of the anime industry

Do you have any information on how the Lost Decade specifically impacted the anime industry?

Sure. I recommand reading this article : http://www.nippon.com/en/features/h00043/ . I'll edit my answer as well.

As you mention the edit in the comments, I don't think that's necessary.

That article does not have a single citation supporting its claims. Was the 80s really that great? Was the 90s that bad? And have it only gone downhill since 2006? Especially the last point I have a hard time believing, as from looking on MAL the number of anime (as noted in the article) appears to be a bit stagnant after 2006, but started to rise around 2010 and was a fair bit higher in 2012 the year before that article, even though the author claims it has decreased since 2006. And that was ~4x the amount of the 80s. What was so great about the 80s? Proper objective sources are appreciated.

Though it is only for 2002-2015, it is a very interesting summery of the anime industry from a financial standpoint: http://aja.gr.jp/english/japan-anime-data
It at least did answer some of my own questions from my previous comment, though I would love to see such data for the 80s and 90s as well. The drop in revenue after 2006 is noticeable, though it can be viewed from multiple angles and you can spin it in any way you want.

@SebastianWahl I think you have forgotten this, but we had the great recession in 2007ish. that economic decline could also be effecting anime production post 2007.

I want to add to Nevios answer that as a side effect of an economic crisis investors don't like to take unnecessary risks, so they bet on safe funding productions with themes that trendy, think evangelion influencing the mecha genre or madoka magica influencing the magical girl genere.
Notice, for example, how many magical girl animes after madoka magica are darker like mahou shoujo keikaku.
TL:DR if it's popular, similar animes will be produced to cash in the trend


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Was the phrase "Zawsze in Love" generated using Google Translate?
In chapter 216 of the manga, it was revealed that the title "Zawsze in Love" was actually a mistranslation from an translation program. It didn't specify whether it was done using Google Translate or any other translation program.
The first volume of Nisekoi was published in 2011. At that year, Google Translate was not as good as it is now. I don't know the quality of Google Translate's Japanese to Polish translation in 2011 since I don't use Polish and never learned it, so there was no reason for me to translate from Japanese to Polish. My question is, has the author ever mentioned what translation program he used so that he ended up with the phrase "Zawsze in Love"? Or did he generate the phrase himself and used translation program as an excuse in the story?
Note that I'm not asking about the meaning of "Zawsze in Love", which already explained here. I'm asking about it's origin.

every, translation, differs, abit

The manga shows that it was translated from Japanese to Polish and the program shows the Polish translation as Zawsze in Love

At the time of writing, inputting 恋を永遠に (forever love) in Google Translate returned the exact phrase "Zawsze In Love".

Other, like 永遠の愛 returned a whole phrase in English, "forever Love", but some didn't: 愛を永遠に, 永遠の恋.
In the end, this can't be a definitive proof that the author used Google Translate or whether Google Translate gave this result at that time, since now anyone can suggest a translation and skew the result.
Update as of 2018: as stated before, Google Translate's results may change:

恋を永遠に ("Zawsze In Love") and 愛を永遠に ("forever Love") were replaced with "Miłość na zawsze"

making them more consistent.

Further reading: How Google Translate works - Latin.SE

Actually, when she wanted to name the story book, she wanted to translate it in English, but she translated it to Polish instead by mistake. However, she was still attracted to the Polish version, and hence she named it "Zawsze in Love".
So, it's not any translation error mentioned. It's actually an error done by the author by choosing a different language by mistake.

It'd be best if you could provide references for this, because the Polish-English mixed translation is still weird (understandably, it's a translation tool that is bound to any mistake)


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Is there such a thing as an 'Indie'/Alternative anime scene?
Having followed anime for some time, one thing I have noticed, at least from my perspective, is that there is no equivalent of the Indie/Alternative scene when it comes to anime.
What I mean by this is that the vast majority of anime seems to be produced and distributed by some corporate production studio(s). While my knowledge of anime production is quite limited, this would seem to hold for most anime.
What reasons are there for this trend or am I wrong in assuming the lack of an alternative scene?
If I am wrong, then what can be considered as Indie anime?
Notes: In response to Euphorics's comment, 'Anime' in this context refers to any and all forms of Japanese animated media. The form of distribution, length and animation style are the kind of details I'm looking for in the answers.
Additionally, I am aware of the existence of Doujinshi as a form of independently made Manga, although I wasn't aware of the fact that it included music as well (Thank you Rapitor for that) but I am mainly interested in the animated medium in the context of this question.

How do you define "anime" in this context? Does 5 minute long animated skit posted on Youtube/NicoNicoDouga count as anime? Can it be 2D or 3D? Does it need voice acting?

Although Doujinshi circles primarily focus on Music and Mangas It wouldn't surprise me to see a few animators in that massive collective as well. but distribution rights and such of animation is far messier than music and manga, which is why we wouldn't see much of it.

I believe there is a bit of an underground manga scene. I don't know any titles or artists of the top of my head, though. The art I've seen was very non-manga-like.

@Rapitor There are indeed doujin anime, though they're relatively rare.

There's Voices of a Distant Star, which was "directed, written, produced, character designed, storyboarded, cinematographed, edited, and animated by Makoto Shinkai". Essentially an individual effort except for some voice acting that was done by his wife Mika Shinohara. The DVD release had to go through a manufacturer and distributor, of course but I think that's as close as Indie/Alternative as you'll get.
There aren't many anime like that, as anime TV series or movies are very expensive and time consuming to produce. This is why even small anime studios often rely on production and backing from larger companies (like TV studios). Instances like Voices of a Distant Star is rare because it's short, and probably made no money.

As Euphoric mentioned in the comment, what is the definition of "anime" in here?
Because in Japan, "anime" is anything animated, whether it's:

a 3-episode 2D anime (45 minutes total):
1 (5 minutes), 2 (7 minutes), 3 (33 minutes)
a 5-episode, 30-minute 3D CGI anime (considered as doujin anime):
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (only 18 minutes), or
a 1-hour stop-motion clay anime (got an award in Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival).

(All links are from NicoNicoDouga).
The reason has been answered by Jon Lin, that "making anime is time consuming, and it doesn't making money". Another reason is, because it's hard to be recognized (or even found) in other countries than Japan without proper media (thankfully, there's YouTube for international audience).
The keywords are 自作アニメ (jisaku anime) or 自主制作アニメ (jishu seisaku anime) for "independent anime" in Japanese:

NicoNicoDouga: 自作アニメ, 自主制作アニメ
YouTube: 自作アニメ, 自主制作アニメ


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Why did Suzaku laugh at the end of episode 17 of Code Geass R2?
Near the end of episode 17 of Code Geass R2, we see Suzaku suddenly laughing. There's even a meme about that:

I don't quite get it. What made him laugh?

Basically he's losing his s**t.
He was trying to stop terrorism and ended up committing mass genocide for reasons outside of his own control. Imagine if you were trying to save a burning building full of people, but instead caused the fire to spread to other buildings and kill more. Add to that: Suzaku has spent all of his life trying to "better things from within". He has fought and fought to make the world better but no matter what he does things only seem to get worse.
For much of the series, it's noted that the difference between Lelouch and Suzaku is that Lelouch believes results are more important than means, and Suzaku believes the reverse. This very incident shocks him to the core in part because it so strongly mocks his worldview. If you recall that Britannia wanted him to use the FLEIJA "if necessary", it becomes clear that Suzaku did everything "the right way" and wound up becoming a mass murderer. In other words, the proper means led to the deaths of thousands.
TL;DR He killed a lot of people, and as a result perhaps saw how ridiculous his own worldview was. The laugh is him snapping.

Hmm, it doesn't seem to have any definite identifiable reason. I'd say it's an outburst of emotions. Seeing the destruction he was able to cause with the FLEIJA gives him an overwhelming feeling of power, being able to (as he thinks) destroy the Black Knights with one attack. He's completed one of his biggest goals too, destroying the Black Knights, who had killed Euphy.


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Where was it revealed that Jubstacheit is an A.I?
So I read this question, where it says:

the only exception being Jubstacheit, who is supposed to be an A.I. controlling an array of humanoid golem bodies.

I've never read this before, so I looked it up on Jubstacheit's Wikia page, where it says:

Jubastacheit is an artificial intelligence made to control the Einzbern Castle, Golem Jubstacheit (ゴーレム・ユーブスタクハイト, Gōremu Yūbusutakuhaito?). It manufactures humanoid golem terminals, and Acht is the eighth generation.

However, this was not the case as on June 11, 2015, the same paragraph said:

Declared the eighth head of the Einzbern family, Jubstacheit was not around during Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern's era, but kept himself alive for nearly two centuries by continuously prolonging his life.

This part started to change on January 13, 2016, and this new information had not been cited, as the only reference on the page is the Fate/Zero Season 1 Boxset - Drama CD 1, which has been there for quite some time.
So I am wondering, what Nasuverse title/material book says that Jubstacheit is an A.I?

According to Japanese fan-wiki, the Fate/Zero Blu-ray Disc Box I's Drama CD 1 only tells a story in which Jubstacheit has a major appearance.

長い間殆ど設定上の人物に近かったが、『Fate/Zero』Blu-ray Disc Boxの特典ドラマCDにて、ようやく出番らしい出番が与えられた。
After a long period in which his character has been described as such, he finally appeared in Fate/Zero Blu-ray Disc Box special Drama CD.

However, according to a summary of 2channel posts (in Japanese), his true-form is explained on Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] Blu-ray Disc Box II.

Fate/stay night[UBW]Blu-ray DiscBoxⅡにて明らかになるアハト翁の正体とアインツベルンの成り立ちとは【ネタバレ注意】
Old-man Acht's true-form and Einzbern' rising becomes clear in Fate/stay night[UBW]Blu-ray DiscBoxⅡ (Spoiler alert)
9: ＵＢＷのＢＯＸが密林から届いたで。
アインツベルンとアハト翁の正体とかかなり意外だった
9: The UBW Box from mitsurin (jungle/dense forest, net slang for Amazon) has arrived. Einzbern and Old-man Acht's true-form was quite unexpected.
17: アハト翁はアインツベルンの城の中枢制御用に作られた人工知能ゴーレム・ユーブスタクハイトの8代目人型端末。[...]
17: Old-man Acht is the 8th-generation humanoid-form terminal of Golem Jubstacheit, an artificial intelligence in charge of Einzbern Castle's operation. [...]


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Why did Ash need to go back to Pokemon School?
I was watching Pokemon Sun Moon. In the answer to this question "Why did Ash became a child back in Sun Moon Series?" it says that Ash never age so obviously he didn't became child.
But why did he need to go to Poke-school? He knows a lot on Pokemon and he went on till the finals in last league (Kalos)

It's just that at each new series, they do as if Ash as everything to learn again. It was already like that in black & what if I remember it right. He didn't knew how to catch Pokemon at the beginning.
And I think the reason comes from the fact that if he kept how he knew and all is Pokemon nobody would be able to defeat him I think (see how many league he did for example, why isn't he already the best master ever ?)

@Ise U can transform it into a good answer if so plzz answer ...

He didn't need to. He wanted to. He always gets caught up in whatever interests him.

As I said in the comments, Pokemon is a series which has been on air for a long time. But it's still mostly aimed for kids.
Whereas kids watching the first ones are now adults, it would be strange to have a Ash kid, pro at Pokemons and already knowing everything.
So at each beginning of a new series, they explain everything again for the new kids watching and because it's important to see a progress. If Ash knew already everything, had all the Pokemons from various regions, then it would become boring to follow him on his journey as he will certainly be a lot stronger than most of his opponents.
By doing as if Ash knew nothing at the beginning of each series, you can then follow again is evolution and grow up with him.
(Sorry for bad English as I'm French, and hope that you still understand)

Ash goes back to school because he wanted to. In the first episode of the Sun and Moon series, Ash and his mother go on vacation to the Alola region. There, Ash gets excited about seeing new Pokémon and visiting the Pokémon School. Since he loves Pokémon so much, the idea of learning even more about Pokémon appeals to him, so he decides to stay in Alola to learn at the school. There was no need for him to go back to school, but Ash always gets caught up in the excitement of whatever is going on and whatever interests him. So the reason he went back to school is because he wanted to go.
While it may seem unusual, there isn't anything terribly out of character here. Ash routinely gets caught up in excitement about competitions and festivals, particularly ones that have to do with Pokémon (which is most of them, if not all). One need only examine all the contests he's eagerly entered, which includes a bug-catching contest, various aerial sports, various races, a firefighting contest, filmmaking contests, and many more. In Sun and Moon Ash has already entered a pancake race, played a game of Pokémon Base, done a scavenger hunt, and competed in a Charjabug race. So other than the time commitment school takes, it isn't much of a change for Ash to get excited about school and enroll (and anyway, he apparently still has plenty of time to train, explore Alola, and take the island challenges).

He didnt become a child, it was his own decision to join pokemon school because he thought it was cool and it had cool pokemon

Until now, the games the anime were based off were a big map with 8 gyms with routs connecting to each town and city and the player needed to take all the way to each different towns and cities, which in the anime comes out as an adventure to ash like the player.

But in Sun and Moon games, GameFreak changed the formula, there isn't any more large towns and routes but central areas and maybe even little village on 4 not so big islands, making the player go back and forth doing the scattered Island Challenges to obtain Z-crystals, although the gameplay hasn't changed very much the adventure make a big difference from the other Pokemon games, the long gameplay isn't because of the big map as in the previous game but due the missions and the story, so in the anime, the usual Ash's adventure style won't work with the Sun and Moon formula or either will be a really short one (much like the Orange Island league), so the studio decided to change the formula of the anime too and bring back Ash to school while meeting the new species, Alola forms and the island challenge in the school framework, although Ash ash himself have very much knowledge of Pokemon.


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Sword Art Online - is Offline season 2 included in the DVD?
As seen in this question, there are 18 episodes of Sword Art Offline in total, 9 for each season.
In the DVD product shown here on eBay, the back of the DVD case says it includes seasons 1 and 2 (dub), along with Extra Edition 1-9 (dub) and Offline 1-9 (sub).

I'm wondering if episodes 1-9 of SAO Offline season 2 are included, since the case isn't clear on that.

I would suspect that the DVDs, like the Bluray I own, would normally come with them, however I suspect what you have there on eBay are bootlegs.
Quoting Madman Entertainment:

How can I help stop DVD Piracy?
There has been a recent increase in these DVD sets being spotted and these are most certainly not real products but rather an illegal bootleg copy, usually imported from South East Asian countries and contain extremely bad subtitles and are of low quality. Easy signs to tell if they are real or not include:

Region 0 or All
Very low disc count for entire series - eg. 26 episodes on 3 DVDs
Anything with the company logos 'Anime Cartoon', 'AniDVD', AV, 'Manga Cartoon' and other companies with similar names usually linked to crime syndicates as well.
A web based email address printed on the DVD cover such as addresses ending with @yahoo.com or mail2000.com.tw etc

Should you come across any of these products do not purchase them and if you feel this isn't right report it to the authorities or to piracy@madman.com.au, please include the store's name and if possible get details of the distributor, the closer we get to the source of the problem, the eaiser it is for us to stop the flow. The Pirate Anime FAQ site also has a lot more useful information regarding these illegal bootleg DVDs as well as other knock off anime merchandise and how you can avoid them. Alternatively you can also report it to the newly setup Anti-piracy task force. Remember the more reports that are reported the more likely something will be done about this problem. Piracy hurts the industry and you can help by spreading the word and reporting these illegitimate practices.

Now the eBay ad is saying that it has 49 episodes + EX + Offline on 3 disks. The Sword Art Online DVD 1 On Rightstuf is 1 out of 4 for just season 1 and it says

Sword Art Online 1 covers Aincrad Arc Part 1 and contains episodes 1-7

The Bluray I own had 2 Bluray Disks and the 7 episodes were spread across both along with an episode or 2 of Sword Art Offline on each disk. There were 4 Bluray Collectors Editions Each Season and 1 for Sword Art Online EX (which was single disk) so in total there were about 17 disks ((2 x (4 x 2)) + 1). DVDs have a lower capacity than Blurays so they wouldn't use less disks.
Comparing this to what Madman has put on their website this leads me to believe that what you have is a bootleg.
Another problem with the cover is that it doesn't state which DVD Region they are and if you're buying a legit DVD you need to know this so you can either get a DVD Player which plays that region, can be set to be a different region or set to Region 0 which ignores it (that's what my DVD/Bluray Player is set for DVDs. Bluray there is no Region 0).
Also while the eBay ad says

With Malaysia Government issue Hologram

take this with a grain of salt. I got Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha on eBay which came with Season 1-3 and the 2 movies on 5 disks. It had a Hologram yet the episodes were clearly fan subs someone downloaded and burned onto a disk with whatever art they could find for menu backgrounds (since one used character cutouts but did a poor job removing the white around the character, blurring the edges to try and cover it up).

So basically any of the ones on eBay claiming to have seasons 1+2 + Extra Edition + Offline all together for only $20-30 are the fake ones. They're all from Malaysia, too. In that case, I'm really glad I didn't jump at the offer. Thanks for your quick answer. :)

@mbomb007 yeh i would suspect they are all bootlegs. you're probably best to buy from Right Stuff unless there's a problem like they don't ship to your country but i don't see any exclusion list on their policies page which talks about international shipping from the US

Wow. On DVD, the standard editions total at $340, including Extra Edition. Blu-ray is 1.5 times that.

@mbomb007 sounds right. the other option is to stream on crunchyroll. the subscription cost per month is much cheaper but it's all online and thus you need net access to watch them and it appears Crunchyroll only has EX and 2 but Aniplex's own site has Season 1

we have a list of legal streaming sources which you can check out if getting the DVDs is too much but i prefer the DVDs/Bluray

I'll consider buying them, because SAO is my favorite anime so far, and it's likely to stay my favorite. I'll have to look more into those streaming sources though.

Let us continue this discussion in chat.


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When do Sanji's half of the crew board Big Mom's ship for the first time?
In Chapter 795, we jump from Dressrosa to the aftermath of Sanji's side boarding Big Mom's ship.
What chapters did this happen? It's not specifically listed in the Manga Story Arcs in the arcs up to and including the Dressrosa Saga.
Edit: Revoked the correct answer because I have a new doubt. In Chapter 807, Usopp says that the last time he spoke with the Sanji half of the crew was when they evaded Big Mom's ship, meaning they had a chance to speak after evading Big Mom but before meeting on Zou. Thus, it couldn't have been skipped, because the whole crew, or at least Usopp, was there with them.

That segment was never shown and was used specifically to prequel what is coming.
Similar cases have occurred in the anime but are usually filled in with filler. The story follows Luffy so when other characters go off and do their own thing away from him the manga doesn't reflect it.
With respect to the Edit: During the Dressrosa arc Usopp was one of the strawhats who stayed behind. IIRC there was an episode that had a cameo of sanji speaking to Usopp before things got too crazyin Dressrosa. It was when the coliseum event was still going on. We didn't see how the evasion happened but we did see that the ship was approaching. It wasn't brought up again until the Zou arc.

I have edited your answer with a link to a chapter that has a flashback to the events relevant to this question.

@MaxLi I have edited my answer taking your edit into account


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How does Gohan inherit his "Mystic" power while others do not?
Goten and Trunks in the current Z timeline are very powerful, but even the Fused SSJ3 Gotenks can't be compared to Mystic Gohan. He was more powerful than even SSJ3 Goku.
Even though Gohan didn't train for around 10 years between the Cell and Buu saga, he was able to surpass all Z characters except Vegtito and BuuTenks in power.
So, why is Gohan more powerful then other half-saiyan children?
In this question, the most upvoted (not necessarily correct) answer says that since Goku/Vegeta were more powerful when Trunks/Goten were conceived they were more powerful. Hence why Future Trunks was weaker. But, this doesn't explain why Gohan was the strongest of the lot when Goku was at his weakest in Z when Gohan is born. And, this directly contradicts the answer given above.
This question  may be related, but I believe that Gohan has a hidden power which was released by the Elder Kai answers the question. However, I can't find any source or the reason for the hidden depths to Gohan's power. So, that question may build on the premise of this question.
How does Gohan inherit his "Mystic" power when none of the other half-children such as Future Trunks, Trunks and Goten have it?

Some context before answering the question.

Gohan vs. Future Gohan (F-Gohan)

F-Gohan was never shown to be nearly as strong as Gohan SSJ2 vs cell, even though he was much older. This seems logical to me as Gohan trained for three years by Goku and Piccolo and then again for a bit less than a year in the hyperbolic chamber by Goku again, who was much stronger than him. F-Gohan never trained before the cyborgs arrived and probably spent his time studying as his mother always wanted him to. Then, after the death of most of the Z-fighters, Gohan trained by himself for years. This I think is the key point: when training with someone much stronger, one's power increases a lot more rapidly.

Gohan vs Future Trunks

Same reason as stated above. In Dragon Ball super, we see F-Trunks's power increase exponentially and close to reaching SSG, probably just by fighting along side Goku and Vegeta.

Gohan vs. Trunks and Goten

Trunks and Goten reached SSJ very young. Who's to say they wouldn't become stronger than Mystic Gohan much younger if they followed similar training? They both reached their current level with barely any training, so I'd expect them to become the strongest Z-fighters if they actually trained everyday with their fathers. However, one thing to take into consideration is that they had a nearly-perfect childhood, on the contrary of Gohan. Even when going up against Buu, they had a hard time taking him seriously, maybe never truly grasping the seriousness of the situation.
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I think there are three major deciding factors for the power of a hybrid human/sayian:

How strong the father is when he conceives the child.
How much pain he has gone through up to a certain point. This may have more effect the younger one experiences that pain
Training, and the power level of whoever you train with.

The potential you've mentioned in the comments is just in my opinion a combination of the above three points. Trunks and Goten lead in point 1 but are truly behind Gohan and F-Trunks in points 2 and 3. Compared to Gohan, F-Gohan certainly leads in point 2 but lacks even more in point 3.
The Great Elder on Namek says he's never seen such dormant potential before but he never encountered a Sayian before, let alone a hybrid human/sayian.
Also, Gohan's power-up against Raditz is not random at all. He sees his father getting beaten up, gets very mad which fuels his power. Raditz then mentioned human/saiyan hybrid may be more affected from rage than regular sayians.

You're going in the wrong direction. The level up for Gohan and future gohan is in line with other Saiyans such as Goku, Vegeta and even F-Trunks. The question I asked is pointing towards other such "random" powerups. Firstly against Raditz. Without training he smashed Raditz's ship, and his suit causing great damage, enough for Goku + Picoolo (Both highly trained martial artists) to defeat him, which they couldn't earlier. 1/2

Then he received another powerup from Elder Namekian, though the only comparison is indeed only Krillin. But he commented that Gohan had insanely more potential and he could only unlock a part of this power. "This" power is what was seemingly unlocked by the Old Kai. Goku didn't have this. Since it has been commented again and again and there is no indication of this power for either Trunks or Goten lead me to this question. 2/2

@Arcane I've edited my answer. I might have to clean it up later but I'm at work now. My point is that Gohan doesn't have anything special power. He just went through much more than any other human/sayian hybrid. Noone else has met the Great Elder or the Elder Kai, so we can't make a comparison. Also, in Dragon Ball super, F-Trunks become much more powerful than Gohan even was.

the updated answer seems more in line, with the question. I haven't seen DB Super yet so can't comment on F-Trunks but that does seem to provide more data points. I think I may be biased since I considered that Gohan having a mysterious power hinted again and again was in spirit of "Shounen" while finding that is not true is underwhelming!. +1, I'll mark as correct if you could point me in the direction of sources for both Z and super, I don't mind spoilers (Whenever you've the time ofc). Cheers.

Remember the Namek Saga? Dende upgrades both Gohan and Krillin. Gohan got 2 full magic upgrades in the DBZ timeline. That first upgrade unlocked his power, the second enhanced it.

The Namek Elder says he did not unlock all of Gohan's power, only a small fraction of it.  It's implied, but never said definitively, that the Kai unlocks the rest of it.

Well, the reason is simple, the only reason gohan achieved it is because the OLDER KAI unlocked it, and if trunks did it or anyone else they could unlock the power as well ok
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How different are the manga, anime and movie versions of Ajin?
Ajin is originally a manga, that has subsequently had a few adaptations into anime. In November 2015, it seems to have been adapted into a movie: Ajin Part 1: Shoudou (Ajin: Demi-Human - Compel). MAL's blurb for the movie reads:

For high schooler Kei—and for at least forty-six others—immortality comes as the nastiest surprise ever.
Sadly for Kei, such a feat doesn't make him a superhero. In the eyes of both the general public and governments, he's a rare specimen who needs to be hunted down and handed over to scientists to be experimented on for life—a demi-human who must die a thousand deaths for the benefit of humanity.

The movie lists two yet unreleased sequels: Ajin Part 2: Shoutotsu, set to be released in May 2016; and Ajin Part 3: Shougeki, set to be released in Seprember 2016. The blurb for these two is the same as the one for the first movie.
The manga was also adapted into an anime series, Ajin, released between January and April 2016 (the Winter 2016 season). This one lists the three movies as "Alternative versions", and its blurb reads:

Where there is life, there is death... or is there? What would you do if you could never die? The possibilities are endless.
Seventeen years ago, the existence of a special species called Ajin was discovered in Africa. They are said to be immortal beings, with several supernatural abilities, that look just like any other human being. Are these Ajin just random phenomena of nature or were they purposely sent to Earth to destroy it?
Since their first discovery, several other Ajin appearances have been reported worldwide. For the majority of citizens though, these creatures are less reality and more of something you see every once in a while in a textbook or on the news. This is how it was for the young protagonist of the series, Kei. That was until a sudden turn of events changed his life forever...
Ajin is a supernatural anime full of complex ideas about life and death, as well as the dark side of human nature. What does it mean to truly be human?

It's not entirely clear to me whether the first movie covers the anime series and the other two are new content, or whether the three movies are supposed to be recaps of the whole series (maybe there are supposed to be three anime seasons of Ajin, and each of the movies recaps one of them?).
What's the relation between the manga, the anime series, and the movies (given that two of the three movies haven't been released yet, that part may be harder to answer)? Are the adaptations faithful to the manga?

Having seen the first movie and first season of the series, I can confirm that the series cover all of the first movie, using the exact same scenes, and some more. I remember it surprising me because I didn't expect the series to cover more than the first movie when the second one was just released in theaters not so long ago comparatively. I didn't see the second movie or the second season of the series, though, so I cannot say if the end of the first season is different from the second movie or not.

I have watched the anime until the very last episode so far, which is the 8th of the second season, while I also keep on reading the manga (it is still on going). First season of Ajin is totally faithful to the manga until the last two episodes, then it just changes a little so it is not a big deal. But this second season is, from the 2 episode and on, super different from the manga. Now, this does not mean anime is not as good as the manga, this second season is very nice indeed, but what happens is that in the manga there were some really interesting parts involving important character backstory. For example,

 Izumi's which was very crude and harrowing but it seems like in the anime they have censored it, which really pissed me off. Then we got Kei Nagai's true feelings towards what is going on around him, which is not clearly shown in anime, and also and the most different thing: they have changed all the main plot.

Everything that happens in the manga that should have been in this second season is not there, the fights, the crazy af plans of Satou, etc. This, however, could be explained because I believe the second season started when this amazing arc in the manga was not over yet, so I guess production decided to just walk the FMA path. But as I said, it is still worth watching it, it is good and adds new stuff:

 we can see some development in Izumi and Tosaki's relationship and we kinda get 1 minute or less of fanservice with cute Nagai blushing.

So yeah basically, first season is completely faithful, second season is not but it still very good.


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How can a human like Yuto or Abe no Seimei live in Magano?
In the 16 and 17th episode, we can see that Yuto probably lives in Magano since he appeared out of nowhere and left by jumping around, presumably to his hideout, instead of using Magano Gate directly.
Also, in episode 18, we can see Yuto placing flowers on the Hinatsuki Dorm in Magano, waiting for Rokuro to arrive. This means he is somehow, at least, camping there.
Also, according to the wiki,

Abe no Seimei is still alive in Magano

Is it possible for humans to 'camp' in Magano? Do humans who pass through the Magano gate not need nourishment?

Two clarifications: (1) You wrote "in the episode" - which episode? (2) Who is Ichigo? Do you mean the fellow from Bleach?

Yes a fellow from bleach as example of energy gathering concept / mecahanism

Clarifications completed. If you believe Bleach spirit particle energy mechanism is off-topic, you may remove it @senshin

The fact, that Abe no Seimei is still alive in Magano, was just barely mentioned in manga, and there was no real proof for that.
Nevertheless, in ch. 17 of manga, it was shown, that exorcist may survive really long time without any supplies, based only on his divine powers. So, I suppose, the strongest exorcist in history may stay alive in Magano for really long time.
Regarding Yuto, question is slightly incorrect, since according to ch. 13,

 Yuto is no longer human anymore, he is much more like Basara being - he infected himself with Impurity, and managed to gain control over it.

Well he does mention about Onmyouji is human who can control Yin and Yang.. and Basara can use dark talisman. Also, Yuto 'transform' himself to Basara using some talisman that is usable by human, a young human even. I believe Abe no Seimei can also control Yin and Yang (of course) thus being some sort of 'natural' basara onmyodo creature. Note that Kuranashi had to kidnap a lot of Onmyouji to make a good talisman, and Yuto can make good talisman himself, so Yuto should be in similar situation to the Abe no Seimei, who is born from a Fox (ayakashi? kegare? bad talisman?) and a human (good tals)

Because he was born there. His mother is Abe no Seimei. But I think he is the light side of her. And she only gave birth to him to destroy her at the end.


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How is this game where you write a kanji on your hand supposed to work?
In Episode 6 of Bakuon!!, the Bike Club girls play some sort of strange game to decide who's going to organize the race they're holding for the school festival.

Hane: We're deciding by the popular vote system that Onsa-chan came up with. We each write a character on the palms of our hands, and whoever has the most wins.

Raimu and Hijiri both write 金 (gold) on their hands, which somehow means that Hijiri wins and that her idea has to involve "gold" somehow, which leads her to create a betting pool for the winner of the race.

Hijiri: I win with the most, which means...I'll be in charge of this matter.
  Onsa: But how do you make the race more exciting with gold?

How is this game supposed to work? According to Hane, "whoever has the most wins". The most what? It looks like "the most people writing the same character". But then why does Hijiri win, and not Raimu, who wrote the same character? (Aside from the reason that it's hard to organize a race when you can only communicate by writing on a notebook and no one officially recognizes your existence.)
Also, if you're allowed to pick any character, the odds of any of the 50,000 kanji in the Dai Kan-wa Jiten, or even any of the 2,136 Jouyou kanji, getting a majority among five people are quite low. Initially I thought the characters were limited to days of the week, but Rin picked 銀 (silver), which isn't a day of the week.
Since Hane mentions that Onsa invented this game, I assume it isn't a real game, but maybe it's based on something, or was explained more fully in the manga.

Out of curiosity, How did they choose those symbols anyway.  I have not watched the series, but Obviously if you are going to vote on something, you have to establish what you can vote on. Was Gold something Hijiri suggested earlier in some way, or are their names associated with those symbols?

@Ryan It wasn't shown how they chose the symbols. My screenshots show almost the entire sequence. I had thought maybe it was based on some real Japanese game or tradition. Perhaps the manga explained more thoroughly; if Raimu came up with it, it would be hard to have her explain through signs in the anime, but much easier in the manga.

It was indeed explained more fully in the manga in volume 3, chapter 18.
Origin of the "game"

Yes, the most people writing the same character win, and yes, you can theoretically write any kanji character there is, as long as you explain how you could make the race more exciting with the idea represented by that kanji.
Hijiri and Raimu both won, but Hijiri was especially excited because in the manga,

 it took the girls 15 minutes to play the game to decide on what to do at the school festival, and Hijiri was the only one who wrote a different kanji character in that first round of vote so she felt kind of a loner.

And in the Battle of the Red Cliff, only Zhou Yu was in charge of carrying out the fire attacks because Wu had more military power and was more hard-pressed for survival, just like Hijiri is compared to Raimu.
Lastly, I believe it to be an error on the part of the sub group to translate what Rin wrote as "silver" (銀) when in fact she wrote "bells" (鈴).

That turned out to be way deeper than I was expecting. They probably should have just cut the whole sequence instead of giving us the weird, choppy, half-assed version we got in the anime, because that really needs explanation.

@Torisuda Yea I've read in some forum that even the Japanese found it hard to comprehend what was going on without any mention of the name or origin of the game. I know the legend, too, but I didn't realize that's what they were playing.


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Is Squirtle's water potable?
From Arqade...
I've seen this photo on Facebook:

For sure I would take Charmander for the flame-throwing capabilities, but for the second starter I was thinking about grabbing Squirtle.
Gaining access to clean water would be one of the biggest challenges you would face in a zombie apocalypse, and Squirtle's water gun could be a very easy solution.
Question is, is that water potable?

Do you know where that water have been?

misty and brock was using staryu as a water fountain and ash used water gun to wash his face so i think it's ok to drink it but that's just a personal opinion

@Tyhja, I think he meant potable which means drinkable.

I'll answer this with an answer I found here via a user by the name of ItalianRapscallion.

I assume, since so much is generated, its just summoned from a point inside their mouth (or whatever aperture, gem, whathaveyou). That is, it comes into being right then (not teleported from somewhere or produced by an organ -- since you cannot compress a liquid, a squirtle, say, could not store the amount of water you typically see him emitting)...
My guess is no, because if you are materializing water from thin air, would that pokemagic create minerals / salt at normal levels too? It's probably pure water, maybe a little saliva mixed in depending on the aperture from whence it came (but if so it wouldn't be enough to make a difference). In other words, drinking it would leech all the minerals and saline out of your cells, it wouldn't hydrate you, and if you drank enough you would eventually explode on a cellular level.
Edit: further mulling made me realize an easy test, (which i don't recall from the show) Do we ever see electricity travelling along water spewed from a water pokemon? If so, the water is conductive, i.e. mineralized, therefore you can probably drink it.

Given the fact that Suicune has the ability to "walk across water and purify dirty water with one touch", I believe that the fact that the water Pokemon produce is in fact not pure due to the fact that it was never stated anywhere that it was indeed pure, as well as the fact that one Pokemon out of all of them was given the phrasing of pure water. (Suicune is legendary, so you can't just choose him and forget about the water purity issues.)
In all honesty through my searches of the web, I haven't found anything conclusive on the topic, so we can put it in a grey area, in which we are never really sure of the answer until we can see it for ourselves.
That said, the fact that Water Type Pokemon are weak to Pokemon of the Electric Type, it is safe to assume that the water they produce does indeed contain the minerals and nutrients it requires.
Even with this info however, we don't know just how bad the state of the water is, as that is never discussed. So even though it does contain the minerals, we don't know if it contains any virus, or disease that would harm us. (Considering the nature of the games and anime, I think it's safe to assume they don't, but for the sake of this, we can't rule it out. It could be life or death after all.)
My conclusion is that: It should be safe, however we can't guarantee it for multiple reasons, so keeping a Squirtle would be a good idea, though try to bring a form of filter with you, for a safety precaution.
Edit 2: Thanks to Senshin I was informed that distilled water would not kill you, unless it was the only water you drink. Meaning that, if you have some other source of water coming in, from time to time, on a regular basis, you would be completely fine in that instance.
This, sadly however, still doesn't cover the fact that:

You're in an apocalypse, so water sources other than rivers, the ocean, ransacked stores, etc, is not going to be the most reliable in a city environment, though in the countryside you have more chance of finding natural bodies of water.
It might be dangerous water, rather than distilled water, coming from the Pokemon.

I say again, bring a water filter of some sort, as well as a Squirtle, to ensure your own safety.

Throw in your analysis of the quote. The quote in itself does little but convert one question into another. If you answer the queston posed by ItalianRapscallion, then it would be a true SE answer. Right now i think it is a poor one.

I'll give it a go :)

Drinking pure (distilled) water isn't going to kill unless you that's the only kind of water you drink. See also: http://biology.stackexchange.com/q/2250/

I added a paragraph addressing the issue posed here. Thanks for informing of that.


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What type of glasses is Tsukishima wearing?
All it says is that they're prescription sports glasses. Are they similar to any brand or particular model? Below is a pretty zoomed-in panel of the glasses, although there may be more descriptive images online.

@ton.yeung no, I'm just looking for a possible similar model.

Mostly online. I'd just like a link to a similar model.

Tsukishima's seems to be a pretty common type of prescription sport glasses. It is easy to find some reasonable similar ones. See for example here, here and here.

This is called a goggle. Mostly it is to protect from any kind of eye injuries in high contact sports. Also can be used for those who have bad sights. I use the same as Tsukishima has when I play basketball. I bought it online like 2 years ago.


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Why did Cartoon Network never air the last four episodes of Zoids: Chaotic Century?
This question is on the fence between here and Movies & TV Stack Exchange, but does anyone know why Cartoon Network never aired the final four episodes of Zoids: Chaotic Century?
I loved CC as a kid, and went to great lengths to watch every airing. I watched it when it was on in the afternoon, and I set my VHS to record it when it came on at 5am CST after [adult swim] ended for the night.
In all the times I watched it, I never saw The Ancient Memory, The Zoid Eve, The Moment of Annihilation, or Return to Another Tomorrow. I have my own theories, but I don't want to poison the well and am hoping there actually is an official reason out there.

Of course, watching the English dub after 10 years also makes me realize how bad the voice acting is and how awful the ending was. Waited all these years for virtually nothing.

BUT(!) there was never a true subbed version of Zoids: Chaotic Century. The original had more scenes and completely different dialogue in Japanese, but when it was dubbed to English it was bastardized to make it kid-friendly.

It's about time to give this question the best answer it can get. There's no way to get this information without access to the Cartoon Network employees.

The Final Battle aired on 2002 May 2nd and almost a year later The Ancient Memory (1) aired on 2003 January 4th with the other three episodes. It is possible that Cartoon Network did air the last four episodes, or that it was Network 10/TV3 in Australia/New Zealand, respectively.
There was definitely some sort of discrepancy that prevented Zoids: Chaotic Century from being shown from start to finish. Sadly, the only people who can answer this question are those that worked at Cartoon Network at the time.

They actually did air the final four episodes. I remember watching it on Toonami. Usually the show ran in the mourning but Toonami for the last 4 epsiodes made it a special event. It took over the block for 2 hours I believe and they showed the last 4 episodes.

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