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What happens in the end of the Tokyo Ravens anime?
Harutora's attempt to resurrect Natsume supposedly succeeded, but Saotome Suzu, who had helped to perform the ritual, told the other characters over the phone that it technically was a success.
In the end, we see how Natsume is resting in a bed inside a brightly sunlit room with a window open. Harutora says he'll be looking forward to see her and disappears. It's not clear whether he was real or not, and whether the whole room is some metaphor of sorts, considering the "astrology" stuff in the previous episode.
What's really going on in the end of the anime?

This is still unclear in the anime. As of the time of writing, there are 11 volumes of light novel and the anime adaptation has covered up to volume 9 (titled to The DarkSky).
From volume 9 chapter 5 (emphasis mine):

Was it a dream? She wasn't sure. Her fuzzy brain still wasn't working well. The sheets completely covered Natsume, and everything was unclear, so she couldn't make a normal judgment.
Natsume softly touched her lips with her fingers. The sensation lingering there was inexplicably fresh, clear, and real. Natsume's face reddened and she buried her face in the covers again.

He is real. The incident did happen but we are not sure where. Resurrection was successful but there may other thing needed to be done for Natsume to live in real world.
The technical success Suzu was talking about is explained more clearly in volume 10 chapter 3:

 "Yes. I won't hide it any longer. My name is Tsuchimikado Natsume. I was adopted by the Tsuchimikado main family not long after birth and was raised as the next family head. Tsuchimikado Harutora is my childhood friend."

 "Also...... It's true that I'm a dead person. Last summer, I was resurrected from death. ......No, I was just awakened, and right now I'm still barely maintaining my current state."

In the future, there may be an OVA for the remaining part of LN which may go into detail on it.

According to the light novel, Natsume is revived through the ritual but there was a problem - she had to be fused with her dragon, Hokuto, or else she will die. Her current situation is just like Toji (half ogre). The onmoyo agency declared Harutora as a most wanted criminal & he also acts like one. Harutora suffers from memory conflicts from both his lives. Sometimes it's Harutora dominant & he cares about Natsume & others, while most of time its Yakou dominant......
I can't wait for season 2.... Hope they release it soon...

What I personally think has happened... Since Harutora has now full control of the raven cape and also knows that Kon has transformed into Hishamaru, and when she did transform into her, Harutora knew her name. This shows that he regained his memories of being Yakou.
As Yakou was a genius omnyoji and visionary, he was able to create the ritual of Taizan Fukun. He was able to reincarnate himself into Harutora, this is proven in the premise of the first paragraph. We can then conclude that when Harutora was in the white room with Natsume and he said "I hope to see you again", in addition to Suzu Saotome's response of the ritual being "technically successful", we can infer that Natsume will be reincarnated. Since Harutora's memories of Yakou developed so have his skills and memories of his own Taizan Fukun ritual. Yakou is the only person capable of performing this ritual, and it succeeds. The last season of episode 24 was Harutora and his shikigami's walking away from the ritual after it has succeeded. Harutora will meet Natsume again, her reincarnation that is.
Just a theory. I really enjoyed this series and I hope to see a second season, with proof of my assumption.

As of now more has been translated for us since to work with. Because of that I had to disagree on  Senshin's statement that Harutora had to sacrifice something to save her.
Because from what I read and how I understood it the ritual was a success. But it was not the exact results they were trying for.
Remember it was pointed out that the name of the ritual is actually the system the ritual is based off of. It was also pointed out that there are many different things this system is capable of.
We also know that Suzuka was forced to study the ritual further to either verify what all was known about it or to try and learn more about it. I'm leaning more towards the possibility that it was both.
Either way we now know for sure that not everything is known about this ritual. Soi would say when he revived Natsume he did the same thing the omniyo agency did when they performed it. Which means he revived her as a familiar. But she doesn't have a master thus making her a rogue familiar and not a living spirit like it is explained.
Now before anyone says she is one and they say she is in the story let's remember a few things. Hokuto was a familiar. Hokuto was used to bind Natsume's spirit. Logically that would mean Natsume is now a familiar.
Following this vein of thought I have the belief that because she is a familiar without a master her spirit is unstable and will be until she A. dies B.gets a master or C. Harutora finds a way to separate hokuto from Natsume's without destroying the bond that is keeping her alive.
That is what I came up with to explain how the ritual could "kinda work" when Natsume is now alive but having trouble staying stable enough to live.

FYI, I haven't commented on or answered this question - you probably mean some other user said that "Harutora had to sacrifice something to save her"

I think a hint was shown in the blonde-haired girl's star reading (I forgot her name). Being that there are many universes.... What if Harutora had to sacrifice his place in the current universe he is in (so he sacrificed his place in the world for Natsume)? So to sum that up, the ritual "kind of" worked as Natsume has been placed into the universe she left, but Harutora sacrificed his position. Also, when she got kissed it was somewhat real? Like, being Yakou, he managed to travel to her universe for a period of time. When you see him walk off with his familiars he is in another universe. When he says "I hope to see you again" I'm guessing he meant "hope to see you again in another universe," like see her other self in another universe.
I have no idea where this popped out from but this is my theory.

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Well, it seems like Natsume has been reincarnated, but for some reason, Harutora had to leave her behind, right? The obvious answer is, he did something taboo, forbidden, and there seems to be some unfinished business with the Taizan Fukun ritual, which makes it logical that he make his escape so that he could finish what he started.
Also, it seems logical for Natsume to be left behind like that...I mean if you think about it, Harutora must have sacrificed something bigger than life to dabble on something as taboo as resurrecting the dead--which in any other anime I've seen--is more seriously labeled as evil magic.
Given Natsume's character, she wouldn't have allowed Harutora to do something like that--in fact, she had already voiced her objections back when Suzuka attempted to use the same ritual. This reason alone puts Harutora in a precarious situation where he must resurrect Natsume against her consent. Her objecting to the process might only complicate things and distract him from his--should we call it romantic or obsessive--goal of prolonging her life or resurrecting her completely as a normal human being.
If I were Harutora, it would be too frightening to face someone you love only to tell her that her life depends on certain `uncertainties' including the help of other-worldly gods, demons, or what-have-you and doing all that for what reason? For love that is pure and true? I don't think Harutora even has the slightest understanding of what he truly feels for Natsume, though the fact that he does feel something profoundly and frighteningly deep is itself beyond doubt...
Having said that, I'd probably put on my best sneakers and prepare to run, if only to save myself from the embarrassingly disturbing explanations--and confessions--I'd have to make to satisfy Natsume's excruciatingly probing curiosity..
Finally, if Harutora had to sacrifice himself eventually, as that could be the only possibility left to complete the ritual, I'm sure he wouldn't want to do it right in front of her. He knew what that felt like, having witnessed Natsume's death first-hand, and being the cause of it too. I think he wouldn't hesitate to give up everything for her, but just so he didn't have to feel so bad about it, he could do that on his own, like some supreme, heroic sacrifice that nobody should interfere with, especially Natsume, who might reject that offering--a rejection that to Harutora would be even more tragic because as is surprisingly obvious, he's just that kind of guy who doesn't know when to give up. Or maybe it's just the case of stubborn true love?
What's clear is that he is unwilling to go on with his own existence without Natsume, as is obvious when he touched the missing pentagram on his upper left cheek right after the death incident and mourned her loss crying out her name repeatedly--something he was only able to do when he was imprisoned by Kurahashi/Yashimaru in the Onmyou Agency headquarters.
The feeling that somebody has to die somewhere down the road towards Natsume's final resurrection depresses me as this seems ominous from the very start... That Harutora might have to figuratively die to give way to Yakou's complete awakening as a means to perfecting the forbidden ritual is a strong possibility, then there's the more poignant possibility of Natsume giving up her life to free Harutora from the obligation he had set upon himself to resurrect her, especially when she realizes eventually the depth of his sacrifice... I don't know which way the story might go, but there's bound to be something romantically tragic in the end... and it almost makes me reluctant to know how everything might really turn out... huh, talk about 50 shades of reincarnation, right?

I strongly suggest you go over your answer and review just to check if the paragraph breaks i made made sense not to mention i do not know what the purpose of the -- in some sentences are

I can only see the first 2 paragraph answering the question What's really going on in the end? The rest derails into an analysis of Harutora's action.


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Anime with special weapons and female characters fighting?
I am trying to find an anime that I had watched years ago. It has these female characters that are trying to fight each other. They have special weapons which they can summon and that I think they wear something that represents their team. They have these toys that help them to have these weapons summoned. I can't seem to remember this anime.
Does anyone know what it might be?

The anime that you are trying to find is most likely to be Kämpfer.

Plot:

The plot revolves around Natsuru Senō, a normal high school boy with blue hair. One day he wakes up and found himself turned into a girl. A stuffed tiger "Harakiri Tora" comes to life and tells him that he has been chosen as one of the "Kämpfer", a female fighter. The Kämpfer are destined to fight with other Kämpfer. The story starts when he is attacked by an unknown girl who happens to also be a Kämpfer.

This is it!. Thanks for finding this anime out for me.

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Who is this black haired girl with a massive sword and gun
I found this anime picture:
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And I'm wondering from which anime it is.
Unfortunately I can't give any more information since I don't know what it's about or anything.
I only have the picture.
PS: I used the google search picture as suggested when adding the tags. But all I came across was people using this as profile picture and only 1.5 page of search results in google. Search results
I hope some of you know from which anime this is.
Thanks in advance!

This is Black Rock Shooter (anime & character both have the name). It originally was a drawing from Ryohei Fuke on Pivix. This later spawned an OVA and subsequent anime series in 2012 and also a PSP game

Original Design

Black★Rock Shooter (ブラック★ロックシューター Burakku Rokku Shūtā?) [...] revolves around its eponymous character, a mysterious black haired girl with a blazing blue eye.
The original illustration inspired a song of the same name by Supercell, which gained popularity on the Nico Nico Douga website. A 50-minute original video animation based on the franchise was produced by Yutaka Yamamoto's studio Ordet, written by Nagaru Tanigawa and Shinobu Yoshioka, and directed by Shinobu Yoshioka. A "Pilot Edition" was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in September 2009, before the full version was released on DVDs bundled with select magazines from July 24, 2010, subtitled in seven languages, followed by a retail release on December 17, 2010. An eight-episode television anime series, produced by Ordet and Sanzigen, aired on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block between February 2 and March 22, 2012. The franchise has also spawned several manga series and a video game for the PlayStation Portable titled Black Rock Shooter: The Game, each set in their own universe.

Wikipedia
If you want to watch/play you don't have to worry about the order too much as the stories are separate

To be more precise, the character from the picture in the question is Insane Black Rock Shooter, the antagonist form of the titular main protagonist character Black Rock Shooter.

Compared to Black★Rock Shooter, Insane Black★Rock Shooter has purple eyes with a flame of the same color emerging from her left eye and fangs.

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What's this anime film involving a phone's ringtone?
I can't remember the title or the name of any of the characters and it's driving me nuts @-@
It's an anime film around half an hour long, and I think it was part of some kind of anime film festival or contest (?). I'm not sure.
The film is a fairly recent one, I believe it was released around 2012 or 2013.
This is what I can remember about it, though I'm not sure if it's 100% accurate. It's not necessarily in order:
The MC is a boy who has two friends and I think they talk about an anime or a manga a lot. Anyway, there are three girls the MC takes notice of. They're talking when the phone of one of the girls rings. Her friends comment about her ringtone being dull. Later, the girl leaves for a bit and her friends change her ringtone as a prank.
During class, the girl's phone rings again and she is surprised at the ringtone, which is a piano song.
The MC hears it and he keeps note of the song.
After class, the girl gets mad at her two friends, but she forgives them later on.
The next scene I remember is where the MC and his friends are talking, and his friends go home ahead of him. He stays behind at school and starts playing the song in the girl's phone on an app in his phone. The girl hears it and gets surprised, then she asks him not to play that song. The MC then asks her for the song title and the girl says she made it herself. The MC praises the girl but stops since she clearly doesn't want to do anything with the song.
The MC then goes home and goes to sleep.
That night, he has a dream. The dream is about a female doll or something, a tower and there are three multi-coloured glasses.
I also remember a scene where the girl has drawings about this exact same dream, but I don't remember how the MC got those drawings u_u
There's also this scene where the MC and girl are talking, and then the boy mentions the colours of the three glasses. The girl asks him how he knew the colours, and he says he saw it in her drawing. The girl pulls the drawing out and apparently, the drawing isn't coloured. The MC realizes that it was from the dream and the girl is shocked that they had the same dream.
The girl then lets the boy listen to some recordings in her phone. It turns out that the song from earlier wasn't made by her but it was from her dream. Her mother thought she was going crazy because of the dream and had her gone through therapy.
There's another scene where a boy who is in love with the main girl fights the MC for "stealing his girlfriend" or something.
There's another scene where the MC accidentally rips the drawing of the girl and he draws another one as a replacement. The MC apologizes and gives the girl the substitute he made, and the girl says something along the lines of "We're the same" or something.
Anyway, sorry about how long and messy this is >_<" I just really want to know what the title is. Any help is appreciated!

Harmonie is the anime you're looking for.

Synopsis (MyAnimeList)

Every person has his or her own little world. Among the 34 bustling students of classroom 2-1, there are many such worlds.
Honjou Akio's world—my world—is filled with passionate talk about last night's anime with Yoshida, Watanabe, and other friends. It's an fun, comfortable place... But, I always wonder. Wonder about the world of Makina Juri, smiling and surrounded by gorgeous friends on the other side of the classroom.
One day, I enter her world. But it's not as simple as it sounds.

Synopsis (IMDB)

A girl's phone rings during a class. A boy tries to reproduce the ringtone and this becomes the spark that makes them meet, dream together and discover each other personal world.

plagiarize - take (the work or an idea of someone else) and pass it off as one's own. we don't plagiarize the images with ID requests since no one claims to make them, if it's fan art we always give due credit. also if you had just posted Harmonie is the name you're looking for, then it would be a bad answer as it doesn't give evidence to validate the answer, a Synopsis helps in that regard and also high voted answer serve not just the need of the asked but for anyone else who reads upon the question and is interested in the title the asker wants identified

Yup, that's the one I was looking for! Thank you!


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Anime with a character that changes genders when he/she touches water?
I saw it once on TV and the only thing I can remember is someone changing genders when he/she was dumped in water (presumably hot).
Can anyone match up these details to an anime series that might have this?
Thanks.

can you provide some more info - when you saw it, what the main character looked like, etc?

@ToshinouKyouko like i said this is the only thing i remember i didn't get a good look at the main character and im not even sure if that was the main character

This sounds like Ranma 1/2 - The main character changes gender when they get splashed or come in contact with water

Ranma Saotome and his father, Genma, both practitioners of the Saotome school of anything-goes martial arts, fall into the cursed springs of the legendary training ground of Jusenkyo in mainland China during a training mission. Each spring holds a different curse for any who come in contact with its water, all of which involve who or what has drowned in the spring in the past - Ranma emerges from the spring a girl and Genma a panda, both now cursed to change forms each time they come in contact with hot and cold water.
  MAL

Hot water change them to their original state while cold water change them to "curse" state

could be this one but are there any others and the character changing genders doesn't have to be the main character

@NoLifeKing You should try watching something about the anime in hand, to see if it triggers your visual memory. IF you are asking for a list of gender-changing-in-water anime, then...


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How did Morgiana get her Household Vessel?
Alibaba got Amon from a dungeon capturing a Djinn, yet Morgiana was able to get some sort of relative to Amon from within the dungeon of Zagan.
How does this work? I don't think they explained this anywhere.
Note: I haven't read any of the manga, which might be where the answers lie.

When Alibaba got Amon from a Dungeon, his sword became a Metal Vessel, because Amon moved inside Alibaba's sword after he completed the dungeon. In other words, Alibaba became a Dungeon Capturer.

Dungeon Capturer (迷宮攻略者, Danjon Kōryakusha) is a person who
  “completes” or “clears” Dungeons. If they survive the Dungeon, most of
  the time that person acquires wealth and magical items, like a flying
  cloth or Djinn Metal Vessel.

But Morgiana has a Household Vessel. Because Morgiana isn't a Dungeon Capturer she is a Household Member.

Household Members are people who help a King Vessel capture Dungeons
  and forms a Household Vessel from that person's Djinn, or if they form
  a strong connection to the King Vessel. If the King Vessel does not
  have his/her Metal Vessel, the assistant can not use their Household
  Vessel

So, Morgiana was at the Dungeon when Alibaba got Amon and his Metal Vessel, then Morgiana made a connection to Alibaba's Amon. After this connection, was necessary an activation, and this only happened when they were at the dungeon of Zagan.
Here is the list of all Dungeon Capturer and their respective Household Members.


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Where do the terms "Law of Wheels/Cycles" come from?
In Puella Magi Madoka Magica, before Ultimate Madoka's universe, I read that the system where a Magical Girl would become a Witch was referred to as the "Law of Wheels", while after that, the new system and Madoka herself is known as the "Law of Cycles", this term actually being used by Homura and the Incubators in the Rebellion movie.
I am wondering, where did these terms come from? Neither system seems like a wheel/cycle as in neither one does a Magical Girl ever return to normal (the origin).
EDIT: I seem to have made a mistake as Mami may have said "Law of Wheels" in Episode 12 in Ultimate Madoka's Universe, but still it doesn't change my question of where these terms came from.

Kyubey explained that when a Puella transforms into a Witch, it gives energy to its world. And the Puella change when they fight Witches. So the Puella exist because of the Witches and the Witches exist because of the Puella. Here is the cycle.

Please include the source (by whom) of these translations so we may have better context. Translations may vary between distributor and translator (official and unofficial).

@ɹǝzɐɹʞ you talking to me? doing a bit of backtracking to where i heard of the terms, Law of Wheels seems to have been said by Mami in episode 12 (my mistake, shought she said cycles) while Law of Cycles can be found here but also Homura does say in the Rebellion move she altered only apart of the the Law of Cycles to allow Madoka to exists

Also when Homura wakes up after learning she's actually a witch the Incubators talk about how they know of the Law of Cycles but can not understand it and thus explain their plan to capture it, study it and ultimately manipulate it

By interview of Gen Urobuchi, Law of Wheels/Cycles is a folklore talked between Magical Girls.
Following idea is my (and some Japanese anime fan's) guess.
Law of Wheels/Cycles is translated from "円環の理".
理 is principle or reasonable.
I think 円環 is circle or ring instead of Wheels/Cycle.
Madoka is officially written as "まどか", but most Japanese have a name in kanji.
By a naming dictionary,
most common kanji for the name "まどか" is "円"(circle).
By this two facts, I guess 円環 means Madoka.
In the rewritten world, most people forgot about Madoka, but Homura found some affected things from Madoka.
I guess the folklore was named Law of Wheels/Cycle because of such a effect.

May I ask what do you mean by "affected things"?

For example, Madoka's mother say she didn't know Madoka but she feel she heard the name "madoka" before.

and also there's Madoka's little bother who was saying her name and drawing her in the dirt to which Homura replied "yeh, that really does look like her"

Interesting how the name of the Law of Cycles is comprised of "Madoka" (円) and "Tamaki" (環) as in Iroha

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Name of an anime show
I am trying to recall a show from my childhood.
I've watched it sometime before 2000/2001, but it could have been from many years before that.
I really don't remember the story, but

It was about a school girl (which anime isn't ;) )
She traveled to some kind of fantasy world (I don't remember if she traveled back and forth, or if the school-time was flashbacks)
There was a water well that had something to do with this traveling
She had skills in shooting arrows
The title screen or the commercials screen had two dice on it - I clearly remember the dice
I think the title was like "foul-play" or "role-play" (again the association with dice) or something, but I am very vague on it.

Do you remember anything about the story? i.e. How did the girl survive/live in the fantasy world?

Not really. It was more about relationships and romance than anything else.

Pretty odd remembering Inuyasha anime without remembering himself.

@Lohoris I know, I was thinking the same. Once I saw the screenshot, the memories immediately returned, including Inuyasha. But before that, I remembered only what I posted in the OP. I just remembered that there was an anime show that I watched as a kid and liked it for all the "character development/relationships", something that was not present in mainstream western cartoons at the time (like G.I.Joe)

This sounds like Inuyasha, based on a manga by Rumiko Takahashi. The girl in question is "Kagome Higurashi" and her male counterpart is a half-demon named Inuyasha. She also shoots arrows that are tipped with a special jewel shard. She travels back and forth from the fantasy world through a well in the back of her temple.

More info:

Wikia
Anime News Network
My Anime List

OMG yes that's it!

I guess the "dice" are those octagonal shapes. And somehow "(Fairy) Tail" sounds like "(Foul) Play" to me.

@Slav Yeah, I wasn't sure about the dice part or the opening. The show is really long and has like 6 or 7 openings (or maybe more). I haven't seen all of it so I couldn't tell.


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Comedy anime about an American student going to Japan
I'm looking for a short anime (don't remember if it was a single or a few series).
It was about an American student, obsessed with martial arts, who gets an invitation from his Japanese friend to visit her family in Japan. He got a sword from her (I think it was symbol of marriage or something like that).
So they go to Japan, and meet the weird family - I remember there were two undercover chicks with the father, some female agent, and lot's of craziness around.
Lots of nudity too, as I remember, but it was definitely a comedy :)
Couldn't finish it back then, and I can't find it anymore.
The American boy was blonde, I believe. There was an American woman there, with a Jeep?
There are some monsters and sword fights, but in a comedy manner. The monsters were like mechanical scarecrows, controlled by someone.

When did you see this anime? (How many years ago?)

Like an year ago, maybe two ...

@fan are you sure it just had nudity and that it was not in fact a hentai anime? Did you remember what the MC looked like

yep, just some nudity - no sexual scenes, as I remember. Some monsters, swordfights ... but in a comedy manner.

@fan did you remember how the MC or girls or monsters looked like?

hm, now as you said it - the monsters were like mechanical scarecrows, controlled by someone ... Can't remember what the charecters looked like. The American boy was blonde I beleive ... There was an american woman there, with a Jeep? ... Hell, I don't remember enough even for a google search :) (I tried it, no results). Anyway, the plot is desribed in my first post.

@fan its funny because some of what you said triggers my memory but not sure yet I will try searching a bit when I get home. The mechanical scarecrow is not very common, maybe that will be the key to find it

Editing: most of the action was arround the family hose.

That sounds a bit like Labyrinth of Flames. (Ignore the plot description on that page; it's absolutely, utterly wrong. I just linked it for the extra picture.)

The main character is a Russian obsessed with samurai who's invited by a Japanese girl to her family estate, which is a big ninja mansion. She gives him a sword to seal their marriage since she wants him to defeat her rich fiancé. Her father is spending time with two sexy women who turn out to be ninjas in disguise trying to steal something from him. There was a blonde American cowgirl in a Jeep who I think was some kind of reporter, although she carried a gun (a revolver, of course).
There was a ton of nudity and barely any plot. It sounds quite a bit like what you're describing.

quote: "There was a ton of nudity and barely any plot"
Thanks @Torisuda - this is the title and your desciption is absolutely ... explicit :)

@fan Glad I could help. This was such a weird show that I remembered it almost right away when I read your post.

Base on what you've said so far, I think it should be one of those (ordered from what is most suspect to be your answer):
Saber Marionette J

In a world of only males, they have created female looking marionettes
  (androids). A handful of them have been given special 'hearts' called
  maiden circuits that give them emotion and human personality. Three of
  these are found by Otaru, and they soon are caught up in a war against
  Lord Faust and his 3 'human' marionettes.

Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!

It's one thing to honor your ancestors and keep old traditions alive, but there IS such a thing as taking it to a ridiculous extreme. In Kawakami City, having a samurai ancestor and enormous 'fighting spirit' isn't just an interesting fact, it's a huge part of how you end up being ranked on the social totem pole. That, in turn, rolls over into the school curriculum. Fortunately, that's something the local kids like Yamato Naoe have learned to deal with by forming into small 'bands,' (that's the samurai type, NOT music). However, while the delicate sexual balance of Yamato's group seemed fine when there were three girls and four boys, the sudden addition of two MORE girls starts to send everything spinning out of control!

Kakutou Bijin Wulong: Rebirth

Mao Lan continues growing into her path in life through what she learns while fighting. Her grandfather thinks that she has grown complacent and decides to train an adversary for her next Prime Mat appearance. Training with her friends and companions Mao Lan slowly advances through life.

Karakuri no Kimi

Princess Rangiku lost her entire family to Lord Karimata, who invaded her home seeking her father's life work, puppets with unique capabilities. As her duty, Rangiku sets out with three of her father's greatest puppet warriors to seek revenge. She can manipulate these to battle the strongest of warriors, however manipulating the puppets leaves her own self vulnerable to direct attacks, so she seeks a ninja warrior named Manajiri to aid and protect her in her quest.

Kenyuu Densetsu Yaiba

Kurogane Yaiba is a boy who doesn't want to become what any regular kid would: He wants to be a samurai. That's why he undergoes a hard training with his father, knowing only the forest as his world. Then, one day, he is sent to Japan, where he has to deal with a whole new civilized reality, meeting the Mine family, the evil Onimaru and even the legendary Musashi, having lots of dangerous adventures, becoming stronger everyday.

That's pretty much sums up my guess

where are the blonde American MC?

The first one is a blonde guy. But you can't always assume that the guy description is 100% accurate...

That's not a blonde guy, he is Japanese, not American and his hair is brownish dark with blonde lightning or whatever they call when the MC have part of his hair in another color.

@prix and Hashirama Senju - thanks guys, the title is 'Labyrinth of Flames", but I'm about the have a look at these suggestions too.


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Old drama anime about a dog and a kid
I watched this anime when I was a kid. It was really old anime, probably 15 years ago. I remember very little about it but here it goes:

It's a drama anime. I remember it was very sad story.
I think this kid is a boy. He lives alone, probably orphan.
His guardian, maybe parent, father or uncle died protecting him (not really sure about this one)
This kid has a dog, and most likely a monkey, and probably has another pet but I can't remember about it.
I think later on this series, one of his pet died or got an accident, probably the dog.
As far as I remember, it was TV series, not movie. It aired long before Rorouni Kenshin in my local TV station.

That's all I can remember right now.

So when did Rorouni Kenshin air on your local tv station?

10 years ago? so maybe more than 15 years ago...

Nobody's Boy Remi fits quite well. It's a drama anime from 1977 and is indeed very sad.

At around the midway point in the series, his guardian dies along with several of his animals, leaving him to fend for himself. He is always accompanied by his loyal dog Capi and has a monkey named Joli-Cœur. Hulu Plus has the complete series if you're a subscriber.
The anime was remade in 1996 as Nobody's Girl Remi (switching the gender of the main character), but it isn't as highly regarded.

Wow, i never thougt that it was 70 anime. I watched the original one in mid 90, thanks!

@exatma - Glad to be of help! It's one of my favorite animes growing up and is directed by Ismau Dezaki, one of my favorite directors.

Ach. Helps to spell the guy's name correctly: Osamu Dezaki

I think it could be Dog of Flanders (1975, 52 episodes) or My Patrasche (1992, 26 episodes), adaptations of A Dog of Flanders.
This is the plot summary of the original A Dog of Flanders from Wikipedia (emphasis mine).

In 19th century Belgium, a boy named Nello becomes an orphan at the age of two when his mother dies in the Ardennes. His grandfather Jehann Daas, who lives in a small village near the city of Antwerp, takes him in.
One day, Nello and Jehann Daas find a dog who was almost beaten to death, and name him Patrasche. Due to the good care of Johaan Daas, the dog recovers, and from then on, Nello and Patrasche are inseparable. Since they are very poor, Nello has to help his grandfather by selling milk. Patrasche helps Nello pull their cart into town each morning.
Nello falls in love with Aloise, the daughter of a well-off man in the village named Nicholas Cogez. Nicholas doesn't want his daughter to have a poor sweetheart. Although Nello is illiterate, he is very talented in drawing. He enters a junior drawing contest in Antwerp, hoping to win the first prize, 200 francs per year. However, the jury selects somebody else.
Afterwards, he is accused of causing a fire by Nicholas (the fire occurred on his property) and his grandfather dies. His life becomes even more desperate. Having no place to stay, Nello goes to the cathedral of Antwerp (see Rubens' The Elevation of the Cross), but he doesn't have enough money to enter. On the night of Christmas Eve, he and Patrasche go to Antwerp and, by chance, find the door to the church open. The next morning, the boy and his dog are found frozen to death in front of the triptych.

According to Wkipedia, A Dog of Flanders spawns many adaptations. Considering the fact that you watched the anime around 15 years ago, and it was a TV series, it can be either of the series above.

Please flesh out your answer like this the next time you answer an identification question. Thanks.

@nhahtdh Will do; I think -1 is pretty harsh though.

The -1 is not mine. If I downvote, I wouldn't bother editing your answer.

@nhahtdh I see, my mistake. Thank you for the advice and expansion of my answer.


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What anime is this dakimakura from?

I was wondering what anime is that girl on dakimakura from? The screenshot is from NCIS series, season 9 episode 21. She's similar to Wendy form Fairy Tail, but have different eye color. I'm curious!

I wouldn't be too surprised if the creators based the design of this character off of a bunch of anime girls (for the reasons similar to why we see "Dawd Ostrakh" instead of "David Oistrakh" in Madoka Magica). Great question though!

i'm curious which episode of NCIS this is and if Tony makes any comment about the pillow (i can see him doing it)

@Memor-X: the OP stated which episode and season this was from...

@Maroon oh! i didn't see that *facepalm*

Tony said that this girl is kinda hot :D

Looks like a bootleg version of Manatsu Kuroki from the anime Uta Kata

Oh well... hmm I don't think so that they look similar :). The hair color should be darker and more blue.

That's like saying this isn't Doraemon because it should be blue and not red. It's most likely a China-quality dakimakura using an "original" colour palette.

Okay Okay you got me... xD. Well if you ignore the colors it is actully a pretty good guess I have to say. If you extend your answer where you say so or even better you find a source where the color change is stated, I would say that your answer could be right :o.


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What is this anime that has a strange flying sun totem?
I don't think the one I watched is a full episode or something. It should be a trailer, and I assume it is an anime because I watched it on a VCD of a magazine about manga/anime.
I watched it during 2000-2003 if I didn't remember it wrong. But it doesn't necessarily mean that the show is a 2000-2003 production. The magazine should be older than the month I watched it.
The background of the anime seemed pretty dark. I remember a flying sun totem (not sure if it flew by itself or was the face of something else) appearing in different places and in each place there are characters fighting. And the character on the sun totem's side (I assume) always won and killed the other -- an invasion maybe.
The flying sun totem looks a bit like this pic: abstract flare around the circle, and a face (but filled up the circle part in that anime).

Sorry for giving unclear information about the anime. The only thing that still impresses me is the strange flying sun totem.

Update:
The totem was in yellow or similar colors, and was larger than the characters.

did the sun look like, uh... this? it's from Rave...

@ShinobuOshino I don't think so... it should be yellow. And the plot should be darker. Were many people killed in Groove Adventure Rave?

I don't really know the anime but some people die in manga

Do you remember the magazine's name?

@ToshinouKyouko it was a magazine in China. Can't remember the name. Actually I only got the VCD at that time.

Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge (1997–1998)

The world is a dark, brooding place populated by humans, but ruled in reality by powerful beings known as the Darkstalkers, and there is constant conflict between them as they try to determine who is the most powerful of them all. Zombies, vampires, werewolves - all of them compete in contests of strength and sheer will to attain their own personal goals.
All of this becomes moot when a race of Aztec robots called the Huitzil decide that humanity isn't worth saving, and start waging war on the world, while in the sky, a solar god from outer space plots the conquest of Earth. And the Darkstalkers must become unwilling allies in order to save the world.

The sun totem spits out Pyron, the boss of the series, who challenges every monster character and wins all battles until his defeat in the end. The background of the anime is pretty dark most of the time, as you can see in this screenshot of the sun totem:


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Why didn't Yukikaze vanish?
In episode 20 of Tokyo Ravens...

 Natsume dies. At the beginning of episode 21, Hokuto (who is Natsume's familiar) appears to dissolve or vanish or something like that. However, in episodes 21 and 22, Touji is seen riding Yukikaze (her horse). Given that Yukikaze is also Natsume's familiar, why didn't Yukikaze vanish?

Actually, it's her father's familiar, she was just borrowing it.

I figured that might be the case, but I just rewatched all the currently-available episodes the other day and didn't catch that. Where is this explained?

If you see episode 9 between 9:54 - 10:03, Kurahashi Miyo says, "Take this. It is the Tsuchimikado family familiar, Yukikaze. Nastsume's father sent it".
This explain why Yukikaze did not vanish

 but Hokuto vanishes after death of Natsume.

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What's the proper reading order for the manga in the Steins;Gate series?
I ended up reading Steins;Gate, but after I had finished it, I wasn't sure which one I should read next. When searching for Steins;Gate cartoons, I found all these different parts and I started reading Bokan no Rellion and it looks like it's the same story, but from a different character's perspective. So what about the other parts? Are they the same story too or are they sequels and is there a specific order I should use to get the most out of the story?

Steins;Gate
Steins;Gate: Bōkan no Rebellion
Steins;Gate: Onshu no Braunian Motion
Steins;Gate: Shijō Saikyō no Slight Fever
Steins;Gate: Hiyoku Renri no Sweets Honey
Steins;Gate: Aishin Meizu no Babel
Steins;Gate!

Good question; I've been wondering, myself. There's also "Hen'i Kuukan no Octet", "Hiyoku Renri no Future Honey", "Hoshikuzu no Droplet", and "Mugen Enten no Arc Light". And then there's all the novel spinoffs, too...

By "reading Steins;Gate" do you mean a Light Novel of the Visual Novel?

@Memor-X With "reading" I meant the comics. If the novels are translated into English, I might consider reading them too, although it isn't quite sure in what they should be read.

in what order

if you read them in order of publication date, you should be fine.
All of the manga to date (excluding the multi-artist anthologies), listed in order of publication date:
『STEINS; GATE』11/2010~9/2013 (the main storyline)
『STEINS;GATE 亡環のリベリオン』(Rebellion of the Missing Ring) 2/2010~9/2011 (side story, focused on Suzuha in the 0.000000, 0.337187, and 0.409431% World Lines)
『STEINS;GATE 史上最強のスライトフィーバー』 (The World's Strongest Slight Fever) 2/2011~10/2011 (the main storyline, focused on Kurisu)
『しゅたいんず・げーと!』(Steins・Gate!) 3/2011~5/2012 (parody of the main storyline)
『STEINS;GATE DROPS』8/2011~3/2012 (a 4-panel gag comic, the storyline of the comedic Xbox360 fandisc game『STEINS;GATE 比翼恋理のだーりん』[Loving Vows' Darling], set in the 3% World Line)
『STEINS;GATE 星屑のデュプレット』(Stardust Duplet) 8/2011~3/2012 (the storyline of the fandisc, focused on Mayuri)
『STEINS;GATE 比翼恋理のスイーツはにー』 (Loving Vows’ Sweets Honey) 10/2011~3/2012 (the storyline of the fandisc, focused on Kurisu)
『STEINS;GATE 恩讐のブラウニアンモーション』(Braunian Motion of Love and Hate) 4/2012~7/2012 (side story, focused on the past of Mr. Braun)
『STEINS;GATE 比翼恋理のフューチャーはにー』(Loving Vows’ Future Honey) 5/2012~? (the storyline of the fandisc, focused on Suzuha)
『STEINS;GATE もっと比翼恋理のスイーツはにー』(Even More Loving Vows’ Sweets Honey) 6/2012~12/2012 (spin-off from the storyline of the fandisc, about Lab Members going to school)
『STEINS;GATE 変移空間のオクテット』(Variant Space Octet) 6/2012~1/2013 (the storyline of the game of the same name, which is a non-canon crossover with Chaos;Head)
『STEINS;GATE 比翼恋理の+ニャン2 くらいしす☆』(Loving Vows + Meow2 Crisis) 6/2012~1/2013 (the storyline of the fandisc, focused on Feris)
『STEINS;GATE -哀心迷図のバベル-』(Babel of the Grieved Maze) 6/2012~2/2014 (the storyline of the CD drama『STEINS;GATEドラマCDα「哀心迷図のバベル」ダイバージェンス0.571046%』, which is the main storyline focused on Kurisu)
『STEINS;GATE 比翼恋理のスイーツはにーふぁいなる』(Loving Vows’ Sweets Honey Final) 1/2013~6/2013 (sequel to the fandisc storyline manga)
『STEINS;GATE 閉時曲線のエピグラフ』(Epigraph of the Closed Curve) 2/2013~12/2013 (side story, the storyline of the light novel  of the same name, set in winter 2010 in the Beta Attractor Field around the 1.129848 and 1.130205% World Lines)
『劇場版STEINS;GATE 負荷領域のデジャヴ』(Loading Area of Déjà Vu) 5/2013~12/2013 (the storyline of the movie of the same name, set one year after the events of the TV series)
『STEINS;GATE -無限遠点のアークライト-』(Arc Light of the Point of Infinity) 3/2014~present (the storyline of the CD drama 『STEINS;GATEドラマCDβ「無限遠点のアークライト」ダイバージェンス1.130205%』, focused on Mayuri)
『STEINS;GATE 永劫回帰のパンドラ』(Pandora of Eternal Recurrence) 5/2014~present (side story, continuation of Epigraph of the Closed Curve, set in the Beta Attractor Field in 2010)

Could you add where you found this list?

@Peter Raeves, I'm sorry I didn't see your comment until now. Some of this list comes from the Japanese Wikipedia pages and the Steins;Gate Wiki but I compiled it myself from a fair number of Japanese and English-language websites since I didn't find a singular comprehensive list (it took me well over an hour)

I've only watched the anime so I can't 100% confirm, but:
Wikipedia says all of those mangas are side-stories. Most of them are the story from a certain character's point of view, and I believe one is material from a fandisc. Steins;Gate! is a spinoff comedy.
So pretty much, whatever order you feel like.


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Please help identify this anime or OVA from 14 years ago about magic
OK this is a long shot as I only remember two scenes. It's just stuck with me and I would be very interested in finding out what anime it was. I saw it about 14 (maybe 15) years ago and I don't know if it was new then or not (probably not anime was never a big thing in the UK back then). I think I saw it on the Bravo channel but I'm guessing as it was the only channel willing to show anime that had anything remotely interesting (other channels had heavily edited Kiddy stuff).
The first scene I remember was a stand-off from two wizards (or magic users). One was an old man on the ground, I think he had white hair. He was facing an evil wizard who was levitating some distance away (yet they could hear other as they always seem to do in anime). The old wizard shot some kind of magic arrow that he seemed very certain would kill this evil wizard but the evil wizard blocked it with the palm of his hand which was in a white glove with an up-side-down pentagram. The old wizard clutched then clutched his heart, bleeding as if struck by the arrow (which was still in the evil wizard's hand who seemed unaffected by this), shocked at what had happened, and then fell down, presumably dead. The old wizard laughed.
The other scene was of some woman, supposedly important but I can't remember why - I think the evil wizard wanted her for something? She was writhing in pain on the floor. It's daylight and they'd in a meadow or plains (short grass and where she rolled there was just dirt). She stops writhing but continues shaking and starts wretching, heaving. Suddenly something pokes out from her mouth and starts coming out of her, it ends up being a giant white-pink maggot which promptly wriggles away. She survives the ordeal and lays there shaking, recovering. There's a voice over of two men who I think were with her but not showing at the time. One is younger asking what happened and one is older (possibly the old wizard I mentioned earlier) explained she gave birth to a maggot and this was due to dark magic. Oddly, neither seem surprised by the fact there is a maggot almost the size of an adult human or concerned that the maggot might become a giant fly (which are annoying pests when tiny and swattable - a giant fly is just... Ick).
From the haziness of my memory I am not sure what kind of setting it is. The clothing is all simple but also something you'd expect in older Japan - robes and basic plain cloth type. I don't recall the buildings but I think it is pre-machine times so I don't think there's cars or guns.
The animation style has that older grittier texture to it which all the older anime seem to have - something between Violence Jack and CyberCity Oeda 808. I think it was a movie/OVA rather than a series but I may be mistaken. I get the impression it was a "not for kids" kind of anime (even though I was a kid at the time) but I'm guessing on that because back then those were the only ones I watched (except for Vampire Princess Miyu) and because it was an 'after 10pm watershed' thing.
I don't really have much more detail than this I am sorry but it stayed with me and can't seem to find it when I do my searches. If you could help at all it would be appreciated. If you solve this you will have my undying gratitude and I'd even give you my last rolo if I actually ate those.

This sounds like Doomed Megalopolis.

(From Wikipedia):

Doomed Megalopolis (帝都物語 Teito Monogatari?) is a supernatural/dark fantasy anime. It is an adaptation of the historical fantasy novel Teito Monogatari by Hiroshi Aramata. The anime is darker, more violent and sexualized than any previous adaptations of the novel; an artistic decision probably inspired by the financial success of the OVA Legend of the Overfiend. Like its live-action predecessor, Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis, the anime is only an adaptation of the first 1/3rd (the first four books) of the original novel.
It was released by Toei in 1991 as a 4-part OVA. In 1995, ADV Films gained the rights to the anime and released it on a four-volume cassette series in the US, under the title Doomed Megalopolis. In 2001, ADV re-released the entire series on a 2-Disc DVD edition. However, this release did not have the original Japanese soundtrack or any special features. Eventually, ADV gathered the rights to the original Japanese voices, and in 2003, re-released an enhanced version entitled Doomed Megalopolis: Special Edition, wherein the Japanese language option was available and bonus features, such as interviews and documentaries were added.[

It's around the right time frame, though it's not listed under the programs broadcasted by Bravo.
The main antagonist is an evil wizard with white gloves with a pentagram on it, and in the beginning of the movie, he blocks the arrow:

The start of the movie has this old guy:

There's also this scene:

More info:

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Trying to remember a possible Sci Fi Anime/Movie
I had seen this anime/movie when I was pretty young, so it's probably from the late 80's early 90's. It was also dubbed in English.
I vaguely remember the scene, it was with a man and a dark wolf like creature. I assume the wolf had just finished doing a killing/deed. The man congratulates her(the wolf) saying something like, "You did good work, you can have the rest of the day off." As to which she replies with glee, then turning into a woman. I think she had dark hair, perhaps purple?
The scene then cuts to her blissfully taking a shower. When she finishes, she walks into a hotel room where there's a robot. (For some reason the only comparison I can think of is Wheatley from Portal2.) To which when the robot sees her, "malfunctions" as a response to her being only in a towel.
I can also remember that the hotel overlooks a city scape, though that's all.

Seems an interesting anime. Do you know what kind of genre is it? Are they the main characters, or only the girl? Also, maybe the background setting of the anime? I'm thinking "Wolf's Rain", but certainly not sure about the robot.

I imagine the genre to at least be sci-fi and fantasy, due to the robot and the woman turning into the wolf-like creature. From what I remember, the robot can also talk, as she talks to it in a familiar manner. It's also possible the woman is a main character, but I'm unsure.

I managed to find the answer!
It's Choujin Gakuen Gowcaizer
It seems I mistook the wolf and the dark haired woman for the same person.
They are actually two different people.
Also, the film seems to have been released in the late 90's, not late 80's early 90's as I had previously thought.


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Why did the Hunter x Hunter anime stop in episode 148?
The Hunter X Hunter anime stopped in episode 148. I wonder why?
Is it because Hunter x Hunter is already finished?

I would wager a guess that they didn't want to continue producing it with the fact that the next chapter isn't complete and Togashi is too busy going on hiatus to actually write anything new.

Hunter X Hunter Anime is not yet done. According to Togashi, he says he's on hiatus and that he's eventually continuing but the demand from the manga company is too much stress for him and he doesn't want to continue. The quota he has to fill is a chapter a week which is a lot for anyone in the manga industry.
From a blog post by AlyZoldyck on Hunter X Hunter Wikia.

Please keep in mind this Twitter account is not official or anything. He says his information is coming from interviews and such, but provides no sources.

@キルア - yes, and if the time stamp is correct: the wikia post was made on March 11, 2014. This is not up to date as the latest manga hiatus was last August and HxH anime episode 148 was last September.

As what Miramiel stated, the mangaka of Hunter X Hunter, Togashi Yoshihiro is on an indefinite hiatus but will be back eventually.
However, it is worth nothing that the reason behind this hiatus is the mangaka's illness. Togashi has been experiencing serious back problems
(sources: FANDOM, ANN-1, ANN-2)
which have caused him numerous short breaks over the years. This illness (along with chest pains and sleep loss) has been with him for a quite a while and may have started back when he was still doing Yuyu Hakusho
These back problems, particularly in the lower back area - makes it hard for a mangaka to deliver weekly chapters. When this condition worsened this year, he was forced to take a hiatus. The anime will not progress with the mangaka's storyline nor will it be filled with fillers because Togashi would not allow it (and frankly, it would be a waste). It is also rumored that Togashi could just ask an assistant/s to draw Hunter X Hunter with his storyline but chooses not to for various reasons.
You can read this related (old) question here for more links: Why did the Hunter x Hunter manga go on hiatus??


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What Geass was Anya still afflicted by?
During the battle of Damocles, Jeremiah Gottwald fights Anya Alstreim, and after damaging the Mordred, he is about to kill her. However, from what I remember, he doesn't; instead we see him about to activate his Geass Canceler.
Now by this point in time, we already know that Anya was afflicted with Geass by Marianne when V.V. killed her, and Marianne's power allowed her consciousness to reside in Anya. Before Ragnarok begins, Anya is taken over by Marianne before leaving with C.C. to a Twilight Gate to reach the Sword of Akasha. At this point, she leaves Anya's body, and later dies when Lelouch uses his Geass on God.
This would mean the Geass Affliction Anya had is now dispelled. So what was it that Jeremiah saw in Anya which prompted him to use the Geass Canceler on her?

It was not officially said but it was implied that Charles had actually been using his Geass on Anya for years to erase her memories. If you remember Jeremiah activated his Geass Canceler right after Anya revealed that she had no memories. Presumably, the memory erasing was to prevent her from discovering Marianne's presence or some similar event. Throughout the series Charles is the only one was is able to erase or delete memories and he is also in a key position to be erasing them and he would want to keep Marianne existence hidden.


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In terms of sales, how popular was Sword Art Online II?
A pretty straight forward question, what were the sales and/or projected sales of Sword Art Online season two?  How popular was it compared to season one, which was really popular?

maybe we can count on BD sales, but BD not come out just yet.

@SeptianPrimadewa Well, the first two volumes are already on sale. OP might like to compare Sword Art Online and Sword Art Online II. As is virtually always the case with sequels, season 2 is selling less than season 1 so far, and that is unlikely to change.

According to Newtype magazine, Sword Art Online II Volume I Blu-Ray DVD sales ranks 5th in the charts. Volume II sales are still ongoing. In total and as of this post, the average sales ranks 4th when compared to other anime DVDs/BDs sales with a total of about 20,000 sales.
Source for Newtype (bottom-middle column): https://i.sstatic.net/wYRUq.jpg
Average sales: https://web.archive.org/web/20140825012552/http://www.someanithing.com/1045


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Has there been a anime that used its OP as ED and/or vice versa?
Running along the list of unanswered questions, I came along the question about different EDs each episode. And I wondered, has there been an anime that actually switched its OP and ED during the runtime of the show? And if so, which one(s) would that be?

I don't know about switching both around but in Puella Magi Madoka Magica Episode 10 rather than the ED play the OP is played at the end and Magia didn't play as the ED until episode 3

This is not uncommon - a number of shows will have a first episode with no song at the beginning, and with the OP at the end of the episode. I'll pull in some examples of this later.
There are also somewhat more unusual cases like Madoka (as Memor-X points out in the comments), in which "Connect" (usually the opening) was used as the ending song in episode 10.

But, for a particularly amusing example of this, look at Hanamonogatari. In the Monogatari series, OPs are always sung by the voice actors, and EDs are sung by other singers. Hanamonogatari's OP was "the last day of my adolescence" (by Kanbaru Suruga / Sawashiro Miyuki), and the ED was "Hanaato -shirushi-" (by Kawano Marina).
Since Hanamonogatari was broadcast as a continuous ~2-hour long special, the OP and ED each only ran once - but the ED was played at the beginning, and the OP was played at the end! Imagine that!
(I think this is because the OP visuals and lyrics are spoilery for Hanamonogatari, whereas the ED visuals/lyrics aren't? But I'm not sure about that.)

i wouldn't think saying Connect playing at the end of episode 10 isn't a spoiler itself, the reason why it does i would believe would be

@Memor-X Hm, yeah, I guess not.

For two more random examples I watched recently, Asobi ni Iku yo and Wagnaria both play their openings at the end of the first episode.

This questions seems answered to me, but since it isn't accepted yet, maybe I can add some more info.
From this question I have a local copy of the database powering ANN's encyclopedia. So with this in hand I looked for titles, that had the same songs as both OP and ED (at some point, not necessarily the same episode).
All title comparisons are done case insensitive to catch annotation inconsistencies. There are no checks for episodes - as long as an OP becomes and ED or vice versa at some point during the anime, it counts (once). The code can be found here.
Results
If we only take the song's title independent of the artists performing it, there are 233 cases from 216 animes. You can see the full list of titles here. If we only consider cases where not only the title was swapped, but it was also performed by the same artist, there are still 210 cases from 194 animes (full list here). In other words, there are 23 titles that not only swapped positions, but at the same time also got a new artist. Then again, upon manual inspection only 14 of these cases turned out to be true, the rest can be attributed to some kind of inconsistent annotation by ANN.
It is probably safe to assume there are more errors, but the numbers should at least be roughly correct. I did my best catch all of the systematic inconsistencies. (The results also confirm the three cases mentioned in senshin's answer)
Most swaps:
The only title to have three songs swapped is Major. The openings Saraba Aoki Omokage, Play the Game and Kokoro e were used as endings in 4 episodes in total, even with the same artists. The full lists for the number of swaps per anime is here (including same artist, title only).

Awesome information, senshin's answer did not trigger a alert for me. Strange ;s. Oh well guess i should pay more attention next time, and awesome information there ;)

authors: Георги Бранков

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What changes were made to Shirobako episode 6?
The original version of Shirobako which aired on TV was pulled off streaming sites like CrunchyRoll due to rights issues (see ANN for more info). Since then, an edited version has been added to replace the original. What were the issues,  and what changes were made to the episode?

I've watched the original (now pulled) and the edited version (currently on CrunchyRoll). The only change I noticed was with regards to the dialogue in the play which Shizuka attends, about 11 minutes into the episode. The original dialogue was clearly taken from Samuel Beckett's famous play Waiting for Godot. This play is still copyrighted. To make things worse, as is described in the Wikipedia article linked, Beckett was strongly opposed to having female actors cast in the play, which the episode has. While the amount of the original it used was quite small (there's only about 15 seconds of dialogue), Japanese copyright law has no fair use policy, and so this could still be an issue.
The modified version only changed the dialogue during the play. Rather than taking lines from the original, the new dialogue is a noticeable reference to Waiting for Godot, but not taken directly from the play. The animation did not seem to have been modified, so the characters' lips didn't exactly match the new dialogue; this will likely be fixed in the final DVD version.
The references to Space Runaway Ideon seem to be unchanged. Both the original and new version called it "Idepon". While many initially suspected that these were the source of trouble, the Godot references seem to have been the bigger problem.


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What's this edited image with a man lying in bed and a spectre haunting him from?
I was looking at this Buzzfeed page and have been trying to figure out the series some of these screencaps belong to. I managed to find a lot of them by a combination of reverse image search and looking up the quoted text, but I'm not sure about this one. (Note: some offensive language that I edited out.)
I didn't have much success with a reverse Google image search, although I did find out from one of the results that the text was probably edited in by someone. (The link here also contains the original profanity, which I blacked out in the image in the first link.) Since I can't remove the text without also editing the rest of the image (at least with my rather limited image editing tools), I don't think I'll have much success finding what this is originally from by simply erasing the text (e.g. by making it grey) and searching with that either.
From the Imgur link, it's clear that this is originally probably from a horror manga.
Update: I found an unedited version of the image, which is below. Still haven't had any luck with reverse image searches, so I'll probably try looking at lists of horror manga and possible TV Tropes pages later. As such I removed the earlier image from the post so as to avoid redundancy (and added a link to it).

With some google research I found that it comes from a manhwa whose chinese name is
万人夜话: I don't know if there is an English translation of that. Maybe someone who understand Chinese knows the translated title (if it exists).
This is the link to the scan from which the picture is taken (vol. 5).

I salute your google-fu! AFAIK, there is no English translation. I would translate the title literally as "Ten Thousand People's Night Talks".

@GaoWeiwei: Seems accurate. I tried looking up Baidu and similar sites to see if there was a synopsis somewhere, but unfortunately had no luck.

It is basically the Cantonese version of Fuan no Tane, a collection of very short and mostly atmospheric stories dealing with urban legends, ghosts and superstitions all organized around a specific theme (school, visitors etc.).


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A extremely lazy girl that goes to the barber
I remember watching a anime not to long ago. I don't remember anything but about what happed in the first episode. So I hope that is enough info.
What I remember of the first episode is it starting of with a girl laying in bed with extremely long hair. And I believe her brother came to the room to tell her not to go out of her room as he had just cleaned.
She decided to go outside for once. She was walking in the town looking for a barber, and she met some random guy here which takes her to a park and cuts her hair there. After which she went home without paying. After telling this to her brother he got pretty mad, saying she shouldn't trust people so easily and that she should go back to pay him for the hair cut.
and I believe her brother said something that pretty much stated you are mine, and mine alone in the end of the first episode.
Hope this is enough been looking around allot to find it again :)

not too long ago is 2-3 years? is it Dansai Bunri no Crime Edge

@ShinobuOshino Nope that aint it. Im pretty sure it started off inside of a house as described I think she never left the house. And was always laying in bed.

What is the genre?

@Lex Not to sure, but believe it was slice of life.

oh its Rapunzel.

Do you remember her hair colour?

@ToshinouKyouko believe it was brown hair but I aint to sure.

By googling anime hair cut in park I got this:
Kuro to Kin no Hirakanai Kagi
The synopsis seems to match quite well with your description:

Katagiri Kanade is a hikikomori who spent her days lazing off in her room. Her specialty is her broad imagination which often leads to various wild delusions. One night a weird cowboy guy appeared in her dream, saying that he's her heart's hero. Due to his encouragement, Kanade decided to try and go have a haircut the next day. It was then when she met a mysterious guy who cut her hair in the park, giving her courage to resume her school days.

OH, this sure looks allot like it. I'll check it out once I get home

Nice zombie slaying! Keep it up!

Like Shinobu Oshino said, it seems to be  Dansai Bunri no Crime Edge/The Severing Crime Edge.
It is a story about a short girl with extremely long hair that can be cut only by the hero. The hero decivde to come cut her hair everyday because it grows extremely fast.

Well, in the comment after you looked, Dimitri said that it wasn't Dansai Bunri no Crime Edge.


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Is someone who wrote his name in the Death Note allowed to make the eye deal?
Bad example:
Bob Hyrule writes his own name in the death note:

Bob Hyrule, peaceful heart attack. Dies peacefully from a heart attack in 20 days.

So let's say, he then decides to make the Shinigami eye deal. Can he make the Shinigami eye deal? If yes, will he die in 10 days, because he gave his remaining lifespan, or will he still live 20 days?

According to some of Kira's tests, if a person can't fulfill his/hers cause of death, he/she will die of a heart attack when the time comes.
If someone write his own name to die of a heart attack in 20 days and then make the shinigami eye deal. It will only have 10 days of lifespan. Therefore that person will die from a heart attack in 10 days because he can't be alive in 20 days.

But the person already shortened its lifespan, by writing its name in the death note. And the death note has nothing to do with the original lifespan. But thank you very much for answering my question.


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What are the names of these Characters?
If am not mistaken this anime was aired in 90's, I forgot their names and the title of it.
I tried so many times to search this on google, but I failed.
I really want know their names and also the title of it.I remembered that this anime was based on a period time of japan.

The anime is Gate Keepers
You can find the list of characters with pictures here. They are in order from left to right:
Shun Ukiya - Ruriko Ikusawa - Misao Sakimori - Reiko Asagiri - Kaoru Konoe

That's from the anime Gate Keepers


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If heroes cannot die because of the fairies' protection, how did Minowa Gin die?
It is overtly stated in the second half of the anime that the Heroe cannot die, since their fairies protect them.
Togo attempted suicide in every way possible to her, even by carbon monoxide asphyxiation and poisioning, and the fairies protected her every time.
Even when battling the Vectors, the worst they get is a bashing against the fairies' shield and powering down.
In the prequel novel there seems to be a character by the name of Minowa Gin that died.
What were the circumstances of her death?

In Gin's era, the Hero System wasn't fully developed yet. The girls didn't have fairies to protect them, so they could and often did get hurt. They also didn't have the sealing ritual or Mankai at first either, so in the early battles they had no way to kill a vertex; the best possible outcome was to drive it off without any of them sustaining any serious injuries, but they weren't always that lucky. Gin died protecting the other two girls after they had both been injured in a battle, but for the full story (which is both heroic and sad) you really should read the light novel - it's a good book, and answers several questions that were left open by the anime. All of the chapters have been fan-translated into English and posted online.


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Check and circle marks in test papers
While watching anime, especially ones that focus on slice-of-life or high school, I often come across a test paper containing a character's score. However, it is interesting to note that the correct answers are circled while the wrong ones are ticked (checked?). As far as I know, ticks are for correct answers and circles are for incorrect answers (unless I've been living in a shell, which would be embarrassing).

The image is from The World God Only Knows OVA: Four Girls and an Idol, where Keima Katsuragi intentionally placed an incorrect answer for question #1. As you can see, it is checked while the rest are circled. Does this mirror how Japan marks the test papers of students? If so, why?

Yes, this does mirror how Japanese teachers mark the test papers of students.
Let's see an example each of a marked test paper in anime and in real life Japan:

Circles and crosses indicate right and wrong answers, but you'll often see check marks used in place of crosses to save time and effort.
Check marks are sometimes called reten for bearing resemblance to the katakana re, but should not be confused with the return marker reten that annotate Classical Chinese.
Check marks call forth the attention of students to incorrect answers, which they should check again.
The check mark as an error mark also sees usage in countries like Korea and Sweden, but as you can gather from online discussions, e.g. on Reddit and Wikipedia, there really is no universal standard for marking right and wrong answers even within a country.
The graders may choose whatever the mark they want.
My teachers in school thought that ticking off wrong answers wastes too much ink, so they just cheaply impressed a dot by the wrong answers.
Occasionally, you might also encounter the flower circle, double circle and triangle marks, which denote, respectively, perfect, good and average (poor) work done by the students.


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Who is this third character and what is her connection?
I have had this image for a while now

I know the brown hair in the middle is supposed to be Taiga Aisaka from Toradora and the pink hair on the right is Louise de La Vallière from The Familiar of Zero, but who is the third character with the red hair on the left? And is there some sort of connection between all 3 characters who are in different anime to make them almost look identical? (e.g. the light in the hair and the face seems to match perfectly yet the shirt on either side doesn't)

kinda look like Shana IMO

@OshinoShinobu It's definitely Shana (even image search says so). Reference to the fact that the three characters have the same personality, seiyuu, etc, and the fact that J.C. Staff is rather lazy with this kind of thing.

@LoganM when i did the google reverse image search i just got Taiga but i remembered Louise looking like Taiga but with pink hair, i just know Shana from dvd covers and she doesn't really look like Taiga or Louise but it could be the covers have a different art design. you seem to have also answered the rest of my question so you just being lazy in not posting an answer?

I think she looks like Shana from Shakugan no Shana

All of them has similar trait, small stature, and tsundere. All of them also has same seiyuu, she's Rie Kugimiya. And all of them also produced by J.C. Staff.
The reason of why they look similar probably because (as @LoganM says) J.C. Staff is rather lazy with this kind of thing. They also have similar art and animation style among their series even when they have different Character Designer.

To expand on Shinobu's answer:
These three (Shana, Taiga, and Louise, in that order) are commonly referred to as the "big three" tsundere characters.  They each take a different perspective on what "tsundere" implies, but are the "guideline" characters when creating a tsundere.
These characters were all voiced by Rie Kugimiya, who has probably voiced the most tsundere characters of any voice actor.
Sometimes, due to fan's personal opinion, the "big three" is stated with other characters, often from Rie's portfolio.  Common replacements are Nagi (Hayate the Combat Butler), and Aria (Aria the Scarlet Ammo).
However, it is generally accepted that the three listed earlier are the "big three", irreplaceable even with the passage of time.  (Since fans have decided that "tsundere" is defined by the three's combined personality, and not the other way around.)
To dive into the strange side of anime for a moment; the "fans" I have been referring to are mostly those gathered around the TsunDere GiRlS RuLeS facebook page, and the corresponding wiki, http://tsunderegirlsrules.wikia.com.
(As a side note, Shakugan no Shana is well worth watching.  (My favorite anime.))
Reference(s):

http://tsunderegirlsrules.wikia.com/wiki/Tsundere_Girls


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Are Servants also given knowledge of future heroes?
When a Servant is summoned by the Holy Grail, they are gifted with the knowledge of the modern world so they can easily adjust. When it comes to determining the strengths and weaknesses of an enemy Servant, the Servants themselves seem to be able to rely on a pool of data, as shown during the prologue of Fate/Stay Night: when Rin and Archer face Lancer, Archer reveals that he has deduced Lancer's true identity.
However, during this same scene, Lancer is frustrated because he doesn't know of any hero who was an Archer but also used twin swords, given that we know that Archer is

 a future alternate version of Shirou who became the Counter-Guardian EMIYA.

When a Servant is summoned, are they also given the knowledge of the legends for heroes who appeared after that Servant's death? (i.e. Gilgamesh is probably the oldest legend, and as such he predates most others and thus wouldn't know about other legends that occur after his death unless supplemented by the Grail)

In episode 4 of Fate/Zero anime, when Lancer identifies Saber as King of Knights, he says:

No Heroic Spirit summoned by the Holy Grail could ever mistake that
  golden blade.

That's the only indicator I can think of that somewhat points to the answer for your question.
Furthermore, Lancer's true identity,

 Diarmuid Ua Duibhne,

is hero of a myth in the period between II and IV century, while Saber's true identity is

 King Arthur,

whose legend took place between late V and early VI century, which means that Lancer couldn't have known Saber's legend when he was alive.
After writing above, I looked at TYPE-MOON Wiki and found this:

They [Servants] are not granted knowledge on other Heroes through the Grail, but
  rather from knowledge gained within the Throne of Heroes. Witnessing
  traits of other Servants can allow them to deduce their true names
  with the knowledge even if they are from incompatible eras.

 Aberrations like Saber, who is not part of the Throne of Heroes due to
 her circumstances, are able to identify those whose legends would have
 been known to them in life, such as Cú Chulainn, but cannot identify
 the legends of later Heroic Spirits like Gilles de Rais even after
 being directly named.

No source is offered for the first part, and if that's true, it would indeed contradict with Fate/stay night's Archer's case, since he is a complete heroic spirit who properly entered Throne of Heroes, yet other heroic spirits have no knowledge of him.

Excellent thinking with 4th War Lancer! It seems like the best way to understand the Grail's function is that it equips Servants with knowledge of all persons who are famed as heroes in the time into which they are summoned. Since (5th War) Archer is not famous by the time of the 5th War, Servants are not granted knowledge of him.

Since Saber is an aberration who never entered the Throne of Heros at the time it seems Lancer's words contradict what the wikia says that Servants gain the knowledge of other Heroic Spirits, unless Gen Urobuchi made a mistake when he wrote Fate/Zero (provided Lancer's line in the anime is from the original book)

@Memor-X Not necessarily.  The simplest reason being that a large number of Arthur's knights were part of the Throne, and secondhand knowledge could trickle out from there.  And Gawain is supposed to have personally handled Excalibur on a number of occasions as part of being the public face of the King.  So the legend could have been easily available to Heroic Spirits, even if Arturia herself was not.  I think this may be supported by Diarmuid recognizing the sword, but as I recall he was still surprised at the appearance and gender of Arturia.

@Memor-X I believe it may only work one way - that is, a Heroic Spirit that enters the Throne of Heroes gain knowledge of every other Heroic Spirits, but doesn't have to enter ToH to be part of that knowledge itself. Saber may have been "incomplete" but she still was a Heroic Spirit, otherwise she couldn't be summoned by the Grail. That way both sources are satisfied (though Archer remains contradictory). It's peculiar, but Nasuverse is full of such peculiarities.


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An anime where the main character lives with a bunch of "outcasts" and has to take care of a girl without any social skills
I was watching it by the Japanese name and lost it.
The main character goes to a college that is divided between the art section and all the others. He lives on a house where the "outcasts" stay. I remember he was put there because he refused to leave some kittens he found on the street, but he couldn't stay on the main dorm if he kept them.
He lives with one guy that is that harem main character type who gets all the girls he wants all the time, one girl that is always teasing the main character although she's actually into this other guy that I mentioned. There's also a guy who never leaves his room and only communicates with the others by an avatar called Maid.
And there's also this female teacher whose niece (if I'm not mistaken, it's her relative of some sort) comes to this art college and stays on the house with them. She's slow as hell and doesn't really have any social skills (but it's not that she can't relate to other people). For example, when she wants to eat something from a store, she just gets it and eats it without paying for it because she just doesn't realize she can't do that). However, at the same time, she's a world famous painter and now she's trying to become a mangaka. Her name is Sora, and she resembles Sora from No Game No Life but older with the body closer to a woman than a little girl like this other Sora. And the main character is the one who takes care of her.
The main character also has this friend whose parents don't give her the proper support to pursue her dream of studying art, so she has to live by her own means. She works so hard and doesn't accept help from others so she passes out more than once. She eventually end up living in the house with them so that she could stop spending money on rent.
I guess that's all I remember. If I wasn't clear about something or if you want to ask some questions to help me remember, feel free to do it. Thanks in advance.

This sounds just like Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo (The Pet Girl of Sakurasou).
Some points that matches your description:

They all attend Suimei University of the Arts, which is divided into 2 divisions: Arts Division and Regular Division.
They all live in Sakurasou, where they do not fit in any other dorms because they are unique.
The main character, Sorata, had to take care of Shiina as the latter is incapable of doing anything by herself. She is a world renowned painter and is working to be a mangaka.
Nanami later moves to Sakurasou because she couldn't afford her rent. Her dream is to be a seiyuu, but her family opposes her decision and doesn't provide any support, so she had to word part-time for expenses.
There is an avatar called Maid-chan, an A.I developed by the hikikomori Ryuunosuke.

There are of course some things that doesn't match your description, but it might have been a mistake.

Exactly! Thanks a lot! And yes, some things I just coudn't remember quite well but I wanted to put as much information as I could anyway. It's Shiina. I had Sora on my mind because the first thing that caught my attention on her was that they look alike at least I think so.

But it's actually Shiro and not Sora anyway (I am really bad with characters names).

You got confused by the names, which is completely understandable IMHO since I get confused about them too :) The reason being their names actually overlap: (SnPnK) Sorata & Mashiro; Sora and Shiro (NGNL). And aside from the slight similarities in appearance, the two pairs are actually voiced by the SAME seiyuu: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka and Ai Kayano. IIRC, they were directed by the same person and although done by different studios, there are little yet noticeable art style similarities :)


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What is the name of the manga in the bottom right of this picture?

I was reading chapter 244 of Magi manga, and a picture on the bottom right of the magazine cover caught my interest. I am trying to figure out what manga/anime it belongs to.

I have reverse googled the bottom right corner of the picture to see if I got any results with the dude there. Closest I'm getting to the answer is the website of Shounen Sunday [archive.org on 2014-12-30]
If you scroll down a bit, you can see him sitting there. Searching for the title 闘獣士 on mangaupdates reveals that it is Toujuushi.
The cover says that it is the serialization of the 3rd episode of the story, which matches the description on mangaupdates.

I am thinking it is indeed Toujuushi after looking into it after seeing your information. Thank you very much for your efforts!
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I found it under the name Bestiarius as well and the date of the "3rd" episode was this year consisting of 7 chapters which leads me to conclude it is correct manga!

You found multiple chapters? The link I provided only contained 1 chapter split in 2 parts and it says it's a completed series from 2011 :-s

And yes, alternate names are: Bestiarii, Bestiarius, Toujuushi Bestialious

I am currently going off the information I found here https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=63645
It seems there was the one shot and then it has just had an irregular release pace.

You might want to 'accept' his answer by clicking the tick near the up/down vote symbols , rather than making another 'answer' to the question :)

Interesting, well if you find a good website to read it, let me know. I'll add it to the answer.

I have removed the link to illegal manga reading site (please understand that we want to keep this site professional) and edit the post to include some bit of information.

@nhahtdh Sorry for putting it there, I'm still new so I didn't know it was frowned upon :-p but it's actually the only manga website I know, I don't read manga that much :-s Thanks for the edits :-)


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What is Sakura's Chakra Element?
Naruto is Wind and Sasuke is Lightning if I'm not wrong. What would Sakura's Chakra element be? Was it mentioned in the series before?

From what I can tell, it was never announced officially. While she is shown to have some main skills--medical ninjutsu and strong resistance to genjutsu--her chakra element isn't mentioned.
Everything that I have found (NarutoHurricane.com, Naruto Wikia, etc.) either lists it as a ? or doesn't list it at all. Naruto Wikia lists her chakra transformations (Earth Release, Water Release, Yin Release and Yang Release) but doesn't give her element.

Her medical skills doesn't rely on any nature chakra's right.

well when you are good at healing you could say she has a yang affinity but it was never said officially

According to the Naruto Fourth Databook: "Although she doesn't usually use standard ninjutsu, Sakura's natures include Earth, Water, Yin, and Yang Release."


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Why did they air all four Tsukimonogatari episodes in one day?
The most recent story of the Monogatari series, Tsukimonogatari, has just aired and has all of its four episodes aired on one day. The same thing happened with Hanamonogatari which aired on August 6, 2014. They aired all of its five episodes on that day.
Why did they do that? Why didn't they wait and air 9 episodes over multiple days, or maybe wait some more to make Monogatari Series: Third Season with Owarimonogatari and Zoku-Owarimonogatari? Why did they air all its episodes in one day? What's the point of making it have 4 or 5 episodes when it could also fit in a movie as well?

The answer to "why 4-5 episodes rather than a movie" is, I think, straightforward - movies come with a whole host of challenges, e.g. fewer people are going to watch a movie than a TV special; there's an expectation of higher quality for a movie than a TV special; it creates a barrier to viewing future installments of the series (which is a big deal for Monogatari, since there are multiple installments still to come); etc.

The reason why Hanamonogatari was all aired on one day was because it kept being delayed because of production issues, it was supposed to come out the Spring season but ended up airing at the very end of Summer season (basically the Fall season). The studio decided to delay it no longer and release it all at once.
See this ANN post
I'm not sure of the exact reason for Tsukimonogatari's bulk airing, but it could be a related reason.

@nhahtdh I think in this case when we have a quote in a foreign language, we also need the English translation of that quote

@OshinoShinobu (and Kyouko) I probably have to remove the content I added, since it doesn't say anything about production issue. (The last 2 lines are "In order to deliver high quality works, our staff will continue to strive in production". The first 2 lines are along the line of saying sorry to fan for making them wait). The thing is, the MAL post doesn't cite any other source, so it is not too convincing.

I'm confused - is this the correct answer, or not?

@nhahtdh then I think you need to add another answer based on that translation because official website should be better source than MAL or Kyouko can edit this answer

I'll look for some other sources to confirm this (I'm pretty sure there are a couple).


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What dance is Araragi dancing?
As Koyomi gets ready to make his sister a boiling hot bath in episode 1 of Tsukimonogatari, he does a little dance:

It seems familiar - is it a reference to another series?

it could be some sort of signal sequence like the airplane signalers

Just out of curiosity, when does this scene happen? I don't remember it.

@Torisuda Roughly 10 minutes into episode 1 of Tsukimonogatari.

@senshin Ah, Tsukimonogatari! I didn't even realize it was out. I can't believe I let a Monogatari release sneak up behind me like that.

I'm pretty sure this is just supposed to be Tsukihi's schtick from her OP in Nisemonogatari (Platinum Disco).


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Where can I find the Sunday Without God light novels in English?
Just as the title asks, where can I find the Sunday Without God light novels?  The anime lacked some detail and plot that I feel it needed, but I can't find the English translations anywhere.  If there isn't an official one, could you give me a fan translated one or something along those lines?

There is no licensed English translation of the Sunday Without God light novels. There probably never will be, since the show and the light novels are at best moderately popular in Japan.
Site policy is to not link to fan translations, so I'm just going to wink in the general direction of Google. (But you're not going to find much - the fans don't appear to be interested enough to translate the novels either.)

Would you be able to find me the sales of the ln and the anime separately or tell me where/how to find them?  It would be much appreciated!

@BradWhoville For the anime, see here and click through the various weekly sales lists (all volumes sold <1000, which is almost certainly below break-even). I don't think the light novels have ever charted, so I don't have sales figures - but the fact that they've never charted says something.


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A manga about a girl helping demons but can't touch anyone because of it?
I remember a scene where a boy is riding a bicycle (?) and he runs into a girl. They both take a tumble, but when he goes to check on her, she is more worried about him. I believe she takes in or helps demons that the guy can't see. For each one she helps, she becomes more powerful, but the power is misfortune (?), I believe.
There is another scene where the demons are checking on the guy when he's taking a bath, and the demons are telling the girl they have seen him naked just to embarrass her.
I recall that she also helps a demon that is a store mascot (?), possibly a panda, and he joins her group. The demons learn that he does a ritual of some sort or has a charm that prevents them for doing any harm.

I'm quite sure it is Renai Kaidan Sayoko-san.
Synopsis from mangaupdates (emphasis mine):

Sayoko is an incredibly kind, but solitary, young kimono-clad lady who has certain supernatural abilities. She can see ghosts, and she frees them from their places of death by agreeing to let them haunt her instead. As a result, everywhere she goes, she is followed by an army of well-meaning spirits that only she can see. Her weirdness tends to throw any normal people who would have otherwise possibly become her friends.
Inaba is a poor college student who happens to accidentally run over Sayoko with his bicycle.
Sayoko normally is unable to interact with people for long periods of time, because since she is haunted she endangers the health of other people just by being close to them... But for some reason Inaba is completely fine with being around Sayoko even for long periods of time...
.... Just what's going on?

The scene where Inaba runs over Sayoko with his bicycle happens right at the beginning of chapter 1. Sayoko was bleeding from her head, but she was more worried about the boy's well-being than herself.

Also from chapter 1, Sayoko asked Inaba to lead her to the cursed shop where Inaba was supposed to work at but the manager ran away without paying his wages. When she arrived, she had a talk with the panda mascot, who died from a heatstroke. The panda mascot loved the smell of the restaurant, so he stayed and tried to advertise the shop, but every new shop opened there shut down in the end. She let the panda mascot possess her near the end of chapter 1.

The scene where the ghosts (not really demons, they are well-meaning ghosts) teased her about seeing the boy naked is from chapter 2.


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Need to find anime with a half-demon protagonist and his demon-killing gang
The protagonist was a half demon man. He was wandering with his group (a black/dark blue haired man with glasses), and some other guy. They were killing demons.
As I remember, he used bullets that killed demons. I remember 2 episodes.

In one of the episodes, he and his group arrived at a village. The villagers were working at the fields, and they didn't greet the strangers. As they passed the villagers, they found a big Japanese house. There was a woman in it, who sang every night. Later it was revealed that she was a demon, who extracted people's "bad memories", and kept them in oval spheres. The spheres had a vision of the person whose memory was extracted. Whomever she did this to became her slave. She was like a siren with her voice.
In the other episode, there was a village in a forest. A famous restaurant/dumpling shop opened, but the owner, a young woman's cook was uneatable. It was revealed that she had the special ability to KILL DEMONS with her FOOD. She threw dumplings into the demons mouth to kill them, or just sprout her soup that will make the demons melt.

I don't remember the name of the anime, but it was old school.

It seems to be Saiyuki

Saiyuki is the story of four anti-heroes: the monk Genjyo Sanzo (or just "Sanzo"), the monkey king Son Goku, the half-demon Sha Gojyo, and the man who turned into a demon Cho Hakkai (formerly known as Cho Gonou). They have been dispatched by the Sanbutsushin (the Three Aspects of Buddha, who relay the orders of heaven) to travel to India to stop the possible resurrection of the Ox-Demon-King, Gyumaoh. Along the way they are beset by inept assassins, bad weather, and their own tragic personal pasts. Meanwhile, the villains, two unlikely confidants, Gyokumen Koushou (Gyumaoh's concubine, a demon) and a mad scientist, Dr. Nii Jianyi (a human), continue their attempts to restore the long-dead king. These experiments, a forbidden mixture of science and magic, spawn the "Minus Wave", infecting all of the demons in Shangri-La with madness, shattering the fragile peace that once existed between humans and demons.

In particular the episodes you are referring to are from the series Saiyuki Reload

Episode 5:

A peaceful demon, Suika, who cooks wonderful meals allows the Sanzo Party to stay at their village overnight. During the night, she sings and visits all of their dreams, extracting their painful memories from them and making them "happy." The next day, Sanzo and the others, except Goku, are all acting funny and lifeless. When confronted by Lirin on the road, Sanzo tosses the Maten Scripture at her when she demands it and goes back to Suika's village with Hakkai and Gojyo. Yaone tells Goku a story about a demon that extracts painful memories. Goku and the others head back to the village to try and free the others

Episode 8:

The Sanzo party meet a woman who cooks so terribly, people actually use her food as weapons against demons! Goku tries her food and gets sick, though. Hakkai realizes, however, that she really wants to be a good cook for her boyfriend, even though her horirble-tasting food makes for a handy weapon. Hakkai gives her cooking lessons, but when he tries her food, he passes out! Her boyfriend is horrified to hear they're eating her food, and Hakkai tries to explain that she wants to cook well. Her boyfriend decides he'll try her food for himself, as horrible as it may be. As she makes a dish, a demon attacks. She throws the soup on the demon and he disentrigrates. Her boyfriend tries her food, though, and finds it delicious. Sanzo decides that her food kills demons, similar to the way the banishing gun bullets kill them. As thanks for helping her, she gives them all a plate of meat buns, but Hakkai, Gojyo, and Goku don't want to eat them. On their way out, though, they run into a bunch of demons...


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Romance manga about a group of legendary children
So there are 6 (or 7) legendary children. They need to protect the humanity, but one of them is demon (they don't know who it is).
So a girl (the main character) and a boy don't like each other, they are walking home from school and a legendary kid appears and saves them from a weak demon. Then he says he hates that the boy is useless and that he should die and then swears to protect the protagonist.
After that, they all go to a shrine and a priest tells them they're legendary kids and can have powers. One of them starts to punch the idols because he wants power, then you find out the girl is the demon.
The girl has hair that's up at the back of her head. One of the guys has light hair (I don't know what color) and the other guy has black hair and black eyes. This is a romance manga.
Please help me find this manga. Thanks

It really sounds like Yuki wa Jigoku ni Ochiru no ka (Fujiwara Hiro)

The "military history story concerning boys and girls" revolves around
  Yuki, a girl who has lived in the rural area of Kyoto with her six
  childhood friends who all share a secret that they cannot tell anyone.
  On her 16th birthday, Yuki's fate begins to change.

The story begins with the main girl and boy (the one with dark hair), their friends are not present at the beginning, then the light hair boy comes back and argues with the dark hair boy.
Each child has specific kind of the power, and the girl power...

 comes from Hell

you're welcome, I'm glad that help you