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Did Kiyoshi have an injured knee even before being seriously injured by Kirisaki Daīchi High?
In Kuroko no Basuke, Kiyoshi missed the first half of the year because he was undergoing rehab due to his injury against Kirisaki Daīchi High in the final match of Prelims the year before.
However, on rewatching Episode 8 of Season 2, where the flashback of the previous year's journey and Kiyoshi are focused on, I noticed that Kiyoshi looks down at his legs a number of times throughout the episode, even before the injury.
The most specific scene however is ~15mins into the episode, just after Hyuga compliments Kiyoshi on his dunk, we see Kiyoshi wincing and see his leg is quivering. This seems like a stretch that he injured his leg twice in the match.
More probable (my theory, anyway) is that he was carrying this injury before the tournament and didn't tell the others because he didn't want the team to pull out without him in the first year itself.
TL;DR - Was Kiyoshi injured before his match against Kirisaki Daīchi High or it is canon he had another injury?

From what we've seen, Kiyoshi clearly had some issues with his knee before Hanamiya injured him. However, we have no canonical evidence to tell us how serious that injury was. We know it wasn't bad enough to keep him from playing, but we don't know if it was something he'd been dealing with for years or if it had just started in that game.

Well, he technically was but it wasn't that serious until Hanamiya made it worse. It's like after sports, sometimes you might have pulled a muscle or something which is considered kind of minor. From the strain Hanamiya was giving Seirin, it was possible that he got a sort of pulled muscle or something during the game and Hanamiya noticed this and, concluding that he was weaker in that area, injured Kiyoshi even more.

After watching the episode, I think Kiyoshi started having the injury on his legs for playing too much. He may have known about it because he is tall, thus he will likely to injure his legs more than average size person (I read an article about tall basketball players are more prone to injury).
So yes, he was injured before his match against Kirisaki Daīchi High, and Makoto Hanamiya made it worse by injuring him.

As I watch it again, maybe it was caused by overworking. When a flashback happened while in the middle of the match between Yosen and Seirin, while he was practicing back then in Shoei Middle School, he said to his playmates that he would protect them while dunking the ball.
Maybe it is like the case of Kise as of overworking for the match of Toou. But as slightly different, Kise injured his foot while Kiyoshi injured his legs.
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What happens with the Pokémon of a trainer after the trainer dies?
What happens with the Pokémon of a trainer after the trainer dies? Will they go back to the wild or will they also die?

I don't think they will also die, they probably go back to wild, or someone else will took care of them. That, or they will stuck on pokeball forever..

which doesn't seem to be a huge problem considering people just keep their mons in balls for days and sometimes balls with mons are lost for a very long time at the bottom of some lakes

I would assume the pokemon a trainer has in their pokeballs would still be in there like normal.  There's nothing about the trainer and the pokeballs that keeps them in there, so my guess is it'd be just like if you died and had pets.  Family members, friends, looters, etc. would take your pokemon and re-purpose them, i.e. use them, donate them, release them into the wild, etc.
If the pokemon were a free-roaming one, like Ash's Pikachu, then it may just get sad and mope around, find a new trainer, find family, etc.
They've actually demonstrated this few times on the show. Kind of how Ash got Charmander. Granted, his Charmander was abandonded, but you get the idea. http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP011

The Pokémon captured by the trainer belongs to the trainer; when he dies, he has the choice of releasing them or keeping them in their Poké Balls. They will definitely not die with the trainer.
If some other people such as family members releases the Pokémon, it will go back to the wild and become a very strong wild Pokémon. If they don't however, there are many cases such as the Pokémon being passed down to the next generation (if they are qualified). It is similar in our world where if the parents die, some of their belongings goes to the next generation. Someone gives them to a professor somewhere, or the Pokémon just stays in the ball which will have two more cases:

it will eventually break out and escape or stay in the Poké Ball until someone finds it.
Or as Hakase pointed out, the Pokémon can stay in the Poké Balls for a very long time where no one knows what will happen to it. From the cases shown in the link by Hakase, the Pokémon seem to be fine after a few years without food and water.

My sources of info are the link posted by Hakase and the Pokémon anime.

If the trainer dies, how does he even has the choice?

@Darjeeling let me correct it

@Darjeeling done

In one ep a Ninetales stayed at her Master home for about 100 years waiting for his return. So i would guess depending on the bond a pokemon have they would stay near where their trainer died or a place their trainer lived. In a Black and White ep a couple of pokemon defended a place where their pirate trainer died. They stayed in a ship for a possible hundreds of years gaurding his treasure of evolution stones.

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Why did the Bleach anime stop airing? And did the manga also end its serialization?
After I watched episode 366 of Bleach, I waited for a couple of months. As I expected, no new episode of the Bleach anime has been released since then. And yet, I don't believe that the anime has reached the ending.
Why did the Bleach anime stop airing? And did the manga also end its serialization? Though for the case of the manga, I am not sure if it has actually finished.

According to Wikipedia, the original run of Bleach anime in Japan has finished since March 2012. It seems that you follow the English dub, which finished airing on November 1st, 2014, so you don't realize that it stopped airing in Japan long ago.
As for the reason, from the posts I have seen on the Internet, there seems to be no official reason given for the cancellation of the anime series. (Usually, the official reason will be cited before people give their own interpretation or speculation of the situation, but I don't see any).
This page by edas88 gives 2 theory as for why the series was cancelled:

The anime was sub-par and had too many fillers1.
I don't know if this source for TV anime series viewership rating is reliable or not, but viewership for Bleach started out at around 5%, gradually dropped but still managed to get 2-3% up to the point of Aizen's defeat, but it reduced further and sustained at 1-2% till the point it was cancelled.
Compared to the other two series in the Big 3, One Piece sustained at around 10% viewership over the same period, and Naruto at 7-9% at the beginning, but still got 3-5% at the point Bleach anime was cancelled.
1 Wikipedia says that 111 of all 366 episodes are fillers.
The anime stopped to wait for more material from the manga, instead of continuing with filler episodes as what they had been doing.
On this side, at the time of writing, there are some speculations that the anime will restart production in 2015, since the manga is expected to end in 2015.

At the time of writing (May 27th, 2015), the manga has not ended its serialization yet. According to mangaupdates, chapter 627 was released on May 21st, 2015 by scanlation groups. There is no news headline regarding the imminent end of the serialization (except that it is confirmed to end in 2015), so I think it is going to continue for at least a few months.

Kinda funny how its over a year later, months after the expected ending of Bleach, and it is still going strong, with a lot of interesting stuff left to cover.  I guess Kubo changed his mind about ending it quickly.

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What does Krillin's "Tacos" shirt refer to?
In Dragon Ball Super, Krilin wears a t-shirt with the word "Tacos" on it. What does it mean? Is it the Mexican "tacos" food, or is it the Japanese "takos" (which means octopuses, which are eaten in Japan, and may also be spelt "tacos") or is it something else?

 This is an interesting question. I would say it's definitely one out of these 3 possibilities, It refers to the Japanese word Tako, ie "Octopus". This word is also a cheeky way of referring to someone's baldness (Example: Tatsumaki uses this word to insult Saitama in One Punch Man(Where the Main character's baldness is a recurring joke)). Krillin's baldness has been made fun of in the show. So this could possibly be a reason for the same.The Mexican dub of Dragon Ball Z was very popular and considered to be one of the best. So perhaps it could be Toei acknowledging them as a fanbase considering they chose "Tacos" in specific when they could've possibly put anything else on his shirt.Perhaps we are thinking too much of it. Just like in countries like the U.S where we see T-shirts with random Japanese Kanji on it, T-Shirts with random English words are indeed popular in Japan. So it was probably randomly chosen.Personally, I would like to think they gave it some thought and it was perhaps chosen on account of the first reason. However, it could very likely be for absolutely no reason at all and something only the artists know.

As far as I know, tako is more a general insult than one specifically about baldness.


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Exactly how did Whis bring this character back?
In Episode 131 of Dragon Ball Super, Whis brings

 Frieza

back to life. How did he do it?
This is more of a question seeking confirmation on Whis' powers. Is he capable of bringing back the dead, or was it some other technique coordinated with Beerus?

Throughout the series we have seen Whis demonstrate different special abilities and some which we haven't seen before. Some of those would be: Being able to travel across Universes (The episode where Whis takes Goku and Beerus to Universe 10).Healing abilities and ability to create physical items like clothes.(We see Whis demonstrate this on Beerus's world during the course of Goku and Vegeta training).Being able to revert back time.(We see Whis demonstrate this twice after when Zamasu kills Gowasu and Freiza blows up the earth).We also see Whis having the ability to create an entire stadium and also undo all damages(In the Universe 6 vs 7 tournament and baseball match).So in other words, Whis is indeed a being who possesses lots of special abilities. In terms of physical combat alone we know Whis's power is off the scale. Jiren was said to be God of destruction tier and his power alone was strong enough to shake the world of void ie infinity and Whis is strong enough to knock a God of destruction tier character like that out without even trying. If mere Namekians have the ability to create Dragon Balls strong enough to create creatures that have the ability to bring someone back to life, I don't see why a character associated with the  highest hierarchy across the multiverse not have this simple ability.So to answer your question, I am fairly certain that Beerus has nothing to do with Whis having the ability to bring a character back from the dead. Beerus has known Whis for centuries and it would only make sense that he knew the full extent of Whis's power and abilities which is why he asked him to go about doing the same. I expected Whis to reveal this ability at the end of the show to revive both Android 17 and Freiza(When we thought he died), because the  Earth's Dragon Balls can only bring a person back to life once, and both Freiza and Android 17 have been resurrected with the Dragon Balls before. So I'm guessing they didn't want to retcon that theory or have sufficient time to include the reviving those 2 with the Dragon Balls bit, so decided to have Whis use this ability considering the fact that it makes a lot of sense based on who he has and some of the prior abilities he has demonstrated.

I understand your explanation. But can you give me the reference for Whis bringing back Android 17 back to life? IIRC, he never died during the TOP. He self destructed and was buried in the rubble. But not dead.

If you read the paragraph I said (I expected Whis to have this ability when it was assumed that Android 17 died in episode 127). This is because the Earths Dragon Balls have already been used to revive 17 and Freiza and the rushed last few epiosdes of the show wouldn't have allowed Goku to go to namek and revive use their dragon ball.


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What if a Poké Ball was lost and couldn't be opened?
I was reading a question on what it is like inside of a Poké Ball. It made me wonder what will happen to a Pokémon if the Poké Ball is lost or damaged. If the Poké Ball was unable to open, would they simple die?

There have been several instances in the show where a Pokémon was in its Poké Ball for a long time, such as in Sandshrew's Locker. In this episode, Ash and friends helped Mira recover Sandshrew's Poké Ball from the bottom of the lake, where it's been for a long time. Additionally, Mira and her friends discovered Sandshrew's Poké Ball themselves. In the episode Two Degrees of Separation! James found his Carnivine's Poké Ball inside a box containing one of his bottle cap collections, where he left it as a child. So, the precedents in the show indicate that Pokémon can survive a long time unattended in their Poké Ball, though it is unclear as to why since how the Pokéballs work is not well explained.

Perhaps when inside the pokeball, the pokemons are in cyrosleep state

If we go with the idea that Pokémon get save digitally to the PC for storage, it isn't much of a stretch to save Pokémon at specific points in time that get loaded again when their Pokéball re-opens

@Gorp except in the anime Pokémon aren't stored in the PC like in the games, instead they are sent to the person who gave that trainer their Pokédex (usually the regional professor) so that they can take care of it for them.


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Why don't they complete all an anime's episodes before it airs?
In Shirobako (an anime about making anime), they only make the first few episodes and then continue to finish the others while the anime is airing. This causes some problems when they can't catch up to the deadline, and also may affect the quality of an episode, too.
In real life, there are some anime that do have this kind of trouble, like Kekkai Sensen or God Eater in the last season.
So why they don't just finish all the episodes before airing, at least for short-range anime (~12 eps)?

That's the way most episodic TV is produced, anime or live-action, both in Japan and in the west. Probably so they don't have to pay the entire cost of producing a season before they get paid. They only need the money to pay for a few episodes or so. Also if the show gets cancelled or its run shortened they don't waste money on episodes that will never air.

There's the points the other people are saying that are correct, but think of long running series like One Piece, Bleach, Naruto, Toriko etc, One Piece is already over 700 episodes, do you imagine the employers making all those episodes while the company only spends money and doesn't get any profit from it while it could have done tons of money during that time? It makes a lot of sense that they do it.

Yes, I understand, but with short range anime like about 12 episodes it seem practical

Nope, it is the same thing, they'll still make profit from it during the production, it doesn't matter whether it is a long running or a 1 cour-only anime. Actually most of the profit from the animations doesn't come from the blu-rays/DVDs, the majority of the profit usually comes from advertising and merch. So like I said, it makes sense that they do it. They can choose in which episode they will use more budget as well, etc.

As Justin Sevakis mentions in his article on The Anime Economy:

Anime production is an extremely labor-intensive proposition, employing the services of up to 2,000 people per episode around the world. Most of the grunt work is now done in third world countries across Asia, and the use of digital technology has reduced costs across the board. Anime production is now as efficient as it's ever been.
That said, a single anime episode costs about US$100,000-300,000 per episode, according to various producers we've talked to. That might seem like a lot, but in reality it's pretty cheap, about on par with an American deep-cable TV show. (An American prime-time TV show can cost well into the millions.) But multiplied across 13 episodes, that nonetheless turns into a total budget of US$2-4 million.
That's a lot of money. Few companies are rich enough to invest that much in a single show. If it tanked and they lost all that money, most would never be able to recover.

What we understand from this is:

The production of each episode of anime is costly and most often, the studios cannot afford to produce a whole season before they air it.

The truth is, producing an anime is a herculean task: a gigantic amount of money and manpower get poured into every production well behind the scenes, before a single drawing is even created. The stakes are huge for every company involved, and every season will have a number of winners and losers.

They cannot afford to "risk it all" on an anime without airing it and noticing how it is received by the public. This doesn't mean that they can air a special episode before airing the main anime to decide whether the anime has a potential to be popular on not. There are many anime and shows which lose viewership during the course of the anime and all this has to be taken into account while making another episode. As Ross mentions in the comments, "Also, if the show gets cancelled or its run shortened they don't waste money on episodes that will never air."

As mentioned in this article:

While many people describe studios as being cheap, only around half the budget is often given to the anime studio, with the rest going to broadcasters and other contributing companies.
Once things get going, the producer has two basic responsibilities: make sure that the show is made well, and recover all the millions of dollars that the Production Committee spent in the first place.

They need to maintain a flow of money to tackle the loan they've taken and to arrange for the remaining budget of the show.

Note: This answer has been compiled assuming that the adaptation material for the manga is sufficient for the anime in question.

TL;DR: The main reasons that anime production does not involve finishing the production of the entire anime before airing it are:

Anime production needs as many as 2,000 people for the production of a single episode with the price ranging from US$100,000-300,000 per episode. In most of the cases, the studios cannot afford to produce a whole season before airing it because even a 12-13 episode series takes as much as US$2-4 million.

The stakes are huge for every company involved and every season will have a number of winners and losers. Hence, they cannot afford to "risk it all" on an anime without reviewing the reception of the anime by the fans and it's popularity. If the show gets cancelled or it's run shortened, they can avoid wasting money on episodes that will never air.

Only around half the budget is often given to the anime studio with the rest going to broadcasters and other contributing companies. Hence, it's the producer's job to ensure that the show is well received and to recover the millions of dollars that Production Committee spent in the first place. Hence, they need to maintain a flow of money to tackle the loan they've taken/to arrange for the remaining budget of the show.

I've also contacted Justin Sevakis asking him this very question, since he seems to be an expert on these matters and his answers cover almost all points. If he writes back, I'll update this answer to mention the highlights of what he writes as an answer.

Every anime has a budget though. They, roughly, know how much they are going to spend, which is why they can say, this anime is going to be 12 episodes long... They don't go into it blindly.

It's a good question, and frankly, doing so would save these studios a lot of trouble. So why don't they do it? Frankly, it's because of the money.
Anime studios need to take as many projects as they can to keep themselves afloat (an issue that studio Manglobe recently was bit in the butt for). Studios tend to work on at least one show per season, or at least as much as they can, if not even more than one per season. Why would an animation studio work on a show for next season, when they have the ability to work on a show for the season airing right now? They're constantly in a time crunch because they want to get to finishing up this current series so they can find another one to begin working on, and getting money for.
The other thing is that anime studios tend to work on contract, meaning that as they work, the money they get is already pre-determined by the anime's production companies (which are generally, but not always, separate from the animation studio). This means that anime production companies, from the start, need to pay the animation studio, even if the show hasn't aired yet.
The animation production companies usually don't get their money back until during or after the show airs (DVDs, Blu-Rays, merchandise, music CDs, etc.), meaning that until this money starts rolling in while the show airs, the production companies have a negative balance, as they've had to pay the animation studio, the voice actors, etc. So, for these companies, it makes more sense for them to have production start closer to when it airs, so they'll get their money back sooner.
There's most likely other reasons, but these are the biggest ones I can think of.

Most production studios can't afford to pay 4 million all at once so they take out loans thus your last paragraph doesn't really make sense.

My apologies for that. That paragraph is basically just stating that they've had to pay all these people (which probably would happen with taking out loans), so they need the money to recuperate.


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What does it mean when an anime character has small eyes?
As we know, the Japanese have smaller eyes than western people, apparently as the result of an evolutionary adaptation against snow-blindness. But in anime, the Japanese draw everyone with big eyes. If an American cartoon were to draw a character with small eyes, it probably would mean they're Japanese, Korean, Chinese, etc. Though sometimes, anime have characters with small eyes.

What does it mean for them? Does it mean the character is from a specific area, or that they're old?

According to TV Tropes the physical trait of "eyes always shut" is commonly used for the "wise guy" character type, in which case they'd be referred to as "kitsune No me," or in English, "fox eyes"/ "shifty eyes."
Depending on the way they are drawn the eyes can represent anything from serenity, dignity, smugness, humor, indifference or even someone trying to fake any of those.


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What is the symbol on Boruto's right hand?
In Episode 66 of Boruto, there is a symbol that appears on Boruto's right hand.
What is it? Is it a curse mark or sealing jutsu? What does it represent?

Related: Does Naruto know that Boruto has a curse mark on his hand?

The symbol on Boruto's hand is known as a Kāma.

Kāma is a seal that takes the shape of a black diamond on the user's palm

Boruto received the Kāma after he defeated Momoshiki. With this, Boruto is able to absorb different techniques

After defeating Momoshiki, Boruto received a seal on his right hand in the shape of a diamond, with which Boruto can absorb other techniques, like fūinjutsu and nature transformation

in the manga, they call it KARMA. I think karma in cooler if the context is built around it well enough.

The mark indicates that pure otsutsuki chakra is flowing inside of Boruto, during Shippuden when the sage of six paths gave naruto and sasuke chakra you could see the marks on their palms. This is basically the same thing but instead boruto has permanent Otsutsuki chakra due to his Jougan :)


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Why is there a Nepali poster in Boku no Hero Academia?
I was curious as to why the animators would use a language other than Japanese and English, given the fact that no one in Japan understands Nepali. This is from season 2 episode 15. The Nepali in the poster means "cat". Does anyone have any idea why is it here?

I just want to point out though that Nepali and Hindi are different languages

Yes I know. Hindi is one of my native languages but anyway these two are not so far apart languages they both are almost mutually intelligible to their respective natives.

Given that this question has received at least two "answers" that only say "that's Nepali, not Hindi", without actually trying to answer the question, and given that the question already acknowledges that the poster is actually in Nepali, I've submitted an edit to remove any reference to Hindi.

I would dispute your claim that:

... no one in Japan understands Hindi

According to Wikipedia, the population of Indians living in Japan as of 2017 is 30,048. Given that Hindi is one of the official languages of India, I would imagine that a good portion of them speak it.
This is quite a small chunk of the population (the population of Japan is 127,084,082 as of 2018, making 0.024% of the Japanese population Indian migrants), but it is still not an insignificant amount.
I'm from Canada, and I see signs in other languages all the time around my city. There are often small pockets of people from other countries living in communities, and as a result, there is bound to be some signage catered to them.
The animators may have added this for any number of reasons - perhaps as a nod to Indian fans watching the show, or simply for some interesting background imagery.

I see. Well, obviously by "no one" I meant no significant population. It's something just not expected. :P Thanks!

@シャシュワト Fair enough. I hope my answer was helpful!


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In the Monogatari series, who is Araragi's true love? Hanekawa, Shinobu, or Senjougahara?
I am kinda confused right now because after seeing Kizumonogatari, it seems like Hanekawa was Araragi's first love.
In the Bakemonogatari series, Araragi also turns out to like Senjougahara.
But Shinobu and Araragi also like each other too, right?
So which one is Araragi's true love?

Let's go case by case:
Hanekawa: In Kizu, Araragi sees Hanekawa as a perfect being. Good grades, good ahem assets, being president etc. After talking with her he starts to love her. As for Hanekawa, I am pretty sure she likes Araragi from the start. Now, we already know how imperfect Hanekawa is. Even in the Kizu, she tries to "gain" Araragi by manipulating him (emotion-wise). The "chicken" scene in Kizu 3 is actually about this however because of the fanservice, people tend to miss this. So at the end of Kizu, both are in love with each other.
In Nekomonogatari, Araragi also sees how imperfect Hanekawa is. To understand this, you might want to check out Nekomonogatari Kuro episode 4. In the middle of the episode before fighting, there is a really good exchange between Hanekawa and Araragi. Yes, at that point Hanekawa is talking, not the sawari neko. Again you can understand it better by watching.
Anyways, because of that Araragi loses his interest over Hanekawa. However, Hanekawa still loves Araragi and finally admits that in Nekomonogatari: Shiro. She is rejected by Araragi thus finally Hanekawa can move on. So this is the basic summary of character development for Hanekawa-Araragi love. Now let's talk about Shinobu.
Shinobu: This is always a grey area for me. Because what he did to Shinobu, Araragi always feels bad for her. Shinobu, of course, is really mad about it too (End of Kizu). That is why she never talks in Neko: Kuro and Bake. I think the best place to start our character study is Nisemonogatari episode 4's famous/infamous bath scene. That is the first time we hear her voice (broadcast-wise). I highly recommend you to rewatch this scene. It tells a lot of things. However the basic idea is, "I am not forgiving you nor you should forgive me but let's move on from that". If you think about it, Shinobu had weeks to think over her situation after Kizu. From now on, they kinda became partner in crime. That "I am not forgiving you nor you should forgive me" becomes their base of this relationship.
I have to skip lots of arcs here because I really can't list all of them but because of their character developments through the Monogatari (for example time travel arc), they start to care each other. Actually, the time travel arc in Second Season gives us a good perspective. Even while not talking to Araragi, Shinobu still cares about him. Let's remember the end of Kizumonogatari: "If tomorrow you die, then tomorrow my life will end. If today you live, then today I will live on". Ironically, even Gaen-senpai, she knows everything, couldn't comprehend the reasoning behind their "taking care" relationship in Owari S2. Please also watch that scene.
So in the end, the relationship between Shinobu and Araragi is a complex one. It is not love as we know but they really care each other. Not in a romantic way. Now for the last entry, I don't have a good analysis but I will try to explain my points.
Hitagi: First of all Hitagi really falls in love with Araragi after helping her. That's obvious. This is happening in Bake, after Neko: Kuro, so Araragi isn't in love with Hanekawa. This is kinda my interpretation but I think Araragi falls in love way after they agreed on dating. Maybe it's really true love or maybe it's Stockholm Syndrome but we know for sure that they really love each other at the end of Owari S2. There is no real development I can talk like above however I believe Zoku Owari will give us a good explanation over this.

Nice explanation and also give some info on where to clear my question. Thanks!

There is no real right answer. The fact that the relationships between the characters are not simple is what drives most of the underlying everything of the Monogatari series.
There's no rule saying he has to love only one of them, or that the way he loves them is necessarily romantic. They're all teenagers, hormones are running wild, emotions are running even wilder thanks to all the supernatural stuff going on. He's saved most of them from the various things afflicting them, some of them have saved him in return, so he potentially feels responsible and/or indebted to them all to varying degrees, and honestly it would be hard to separate those feelings from any romantic ones.
He goes out with Senjougahara partially out of fear for what she'd do if he said no, but at the same time he does care for her and her wellbeing. He respects Hanekawa as a classmate and as the class rep, and knows that her repressed stress (which includes her feelings for him) can draw out the cat in her. His affections towards Shinobu are usually more brotherly, but are also mixed with the complication that she's an ancient being who frequently has the body of a small girl, but who is also his sire, but whom he also has some level of power over, and let's not forget what happened in that alternate reality.

Your answer also kinda reasonable but this is not my answer, anyway thanks for your participle but I up vote yours too.

The author hints in one of the later arcs, Musubimonogatari, that Araragi will most likely marry only one woman in his life, and that is Hitagi Senjougahara. But to answer your question, the obvious choice is Shinobu. Otherwise why would the author have Araragi say that line in Kizumonogatari over and over if it wasn't even that important? Over the course of their relationship, Araragi had 4 break-ups with Senjou with most reasons being quite petty... On the other hand, his relationship with Shinobu has always been consistent, unshakeable, and stable despite everyone moving on, including Hanekawa and Senjou who started working overseas.
At the very least, Musubimono's silence as regards Shinobu's and Araragi's relationship is still in keeping with Araragi's promise that he has no intention of letting Shinobu go even if he ends up seeing his loved ones/family die before he does.
As for Hanekawa, there are enough hints to suggest his feelings for her must have been far deeper than he's willing to let on. In fact Senjou continues to be jealous of Hanekawa who is unaware that she's partly the reason Senjou seems dissatisfied with her relationship with Araragi. Both Senjou's and Araragi's insecurities about living apart from each other seem to stem from some subconscious feeling that if they stay apart for too long, they might never reconcile at all.
This kind of insecurity may be relatable, but it's also far from being psychologically healthy...
More disturbing is that when Araragi is told that Hanekawa returned from overseas just to visit him, he says (again, in Musubimononogatari) that such likelihood is impossible. After all, he's become nothing but insignificant through the years, and yet, his becoming the man Hanekawa least cares about only makes him the happiest...
Ironically there are arrangements between Araragi and Hanekawa as to how she might let him know in case she dies. Araragi seems hell-bent on not letting her die and even says at one point that his love for Hanekawa goes beyond wanting to be with her forever.
So again whatever Araragi admits as to his feelings for Hanekawa sounds miserably dishonest. It is as if until the very end, pushing away Hanekawa is a life goal in itself, a heroic act of self-denial and sacrifice that he also attempts at Kizumonogatari, except that the pretense back then was too illogical to be convincing at any point.
One way of explaining it is to go back to those arcs relating to Shinobu's past. Shinobu says that in the past she's been cursed to have people sacrificing their most treasured possessions (even taking their own lives) as a love offering to her. It's possible that Araragi had made up his mind to be with Senjou as a way of keeping Hanekawa or his most prized possession at a safe distance. One proof is that when Oshino asks him if he's in love with Hanekawa, Araragi merely repeats the same denials. Yet while speaking his eyes become emotional, as if he's finally made up his mind to not love Hanekawa even if that decision hurts like hell.
But this only goes back to Shinobu being the ultimate love interest even if Araragi doesn't express it verbally all the time. It might be the workings of the curse on Shinobu, but Araragi had all the chances to break that curse or bond, but he just kept reviving it when it's broken. Apparently the author wants Araragi to keep his hold on Shinobu as his true lifetime partner who outlives all his other precious relationships, including both Hanekawa and Senjou.
Even getting a job as a police officer for the first-ever agency in Japan investigating oddities and apparitions only says how much his ties with Shinobu influenced his major life decisions, whereas both Hanekawa and Senjou decided to take entirely oddity-unrelated professions. Araragi is smart enough to pursue similar careers, but he didn't do this.
There are various other hints everywhere (both in the LN and the anime) but the strongest ones are convincing enough.
For example, in the end of the world chapter/episode where Araragi and Shinobu time travel, Araragi says how he was more shocked that he wasn't shocked at all that everybody, including Hanekawa and Senjou, must have disappeared or died, and that he and Shinobu were the only remaining survivors. As for Musubimonogatari, even if there are vague hints or foreshadowing of marriage between Hitagi and Araragi, we don't really see how Araragi intends to have a "normal" family life with Hitagi. I mean, it seems pretty obvious that his vampire blood may result in Hitagi giving birth to monsters or oddities if he impregnates her.
Although Araragi says he'd do anything to be with Senjou more, he merely falls back on that overly-repeated and bland "I love you" to comfort Senjou who seems to be in tears because of their previous break-up (the 4th).
To his benefit, Araragi's only 23 yrs. old so we can excuse his somewhat immature and reckless attitude toward his future with Senjou. In Shinobumonogatari, which happens a few years before Musubimonogatari (which is the latest arc chronologically speaking), we instead see an aspect of Shinobu's past, this time Araragi meeting Shinobu's original human soul in heaven and getting a direct kiss from her even if the original intention is different.
And believe me, the author comes up with ridiculous and obvious excuses like this everywhere.
So what is this all about? For me it's the author throwing hints that the bond between Araragi and Shinobu extends to the after-life that they can't help finding each other no matter what the circumstances are. Ironically, there are no signs that a deeper bond exists between him and any other character.
Next to Shinobu's and Araragi's intentional and accidental soul-mate moments, the I love you's with Senjou sound like hello.
Or basically you have Araragi being married to Senjou but continuing with his casual I love you but you're not the only special relationship I have sort of approach. He seems committed to the idea that he'll eventually die with Shinobu since he makes no move to break the vampire bond with Shinobu despite having plans to live together with Senjou as a married couple.
What kind of a guy is that, you might ask. Here's my answer.
Musubimonogatari gives closure to Senjou/Araragi fans (it seems all they ever ask is when the two are ever gonna get married). But the closure doesn't have to apply to Shinobu and Araragi. If only as a test of loyalty and true love, it's fairly obvious that all Araragi needed to do was to break his bond with Shinobu to be able to live a normal life alongside Senjou.
Instead, what Araragi does manage in Musubimonogatari is to regulate Shinobu's encounters with oddities, perhaps to minimize her getting injuries. We know that the more either of them gets injured, the more they needed to drink each other's blood to recover.
In the LN, Araragi describes his blood-drinking sessions with Shinobu as euphoria that makes him almost lose himself with pleasure. In other words, over-dependence is like sexual intoxication... hence there's enough reason for Oshino and the other oddity killers to caution Araragi lest his vampire instincts overtake him someday.
Sadly for Senjou fans, the author never lets Araragi give up his vampiric ties. Araragi doesn't even get bothered by the need to be a normal human to be able to have a normal future with Senjou, and Senjou, for her part, doesn't seem to ask much, as she probably knows Araragi will not sever this bond anyway.
And let's not forget that no one understands why he and Shinobu chose to remain bonded against all odds. But it does give us clues as to why Shinobu has never been seriously jealous with Senjou to begin with.
And most likely, Araragi also needs to be in a relationship with Senjou to keep the balance, as being with Hanekawa arouses his intense desire to be completely human, while being with Shinobu does the same for his vampire insticts.
Still, the best solution is to go back in time and fix things before Shinobu gets cut down by vampire slayers and meets Araragi. The problem is, the author doesn't want that route to untangle Araragi, Senjou, and Hanekawa... ^_^
He prefers the sado-masochist route that is a notch away from turning the story into absolute trash. In short, Senjou's and Araragi's foreshadowed marriage is nothing more than plot convenience that gets him to keep his harem even after marriage.
Hitagi and Araragi having kids possessed by apparitions or carrying "oddity" genes doesn't seem to be a bright future at all as Shinobu's Master even reveals that there are such things as vampire genes (see Shinobumonogatari). But Araragi doesn't even seem to be thinking of their relationship that far to bother with the scary consequences (tsk, tsk).
In any case, Musubi epilogue gives us the usual/typical Araragi saying in the usual, overly-casual way that he loves Senjou. Then she says the same thing she said back in Bakemono. But the mechanical, robotic echo effect of all this is troubling. Araragi's relationship it seems, has not really made any progress that might suggest that his love for Senjou has gone any deeper or made him more mature. He doesn't call her "beloved" or "my one and only" as a sign that their relationship has moved on from being just "lovers."
If you recall, it took him some time to call Senjou "Hitagi" though he had called Shinobu by her first name rather quickly and even used her nickname Kiss-shot just as easily. (When he realized that Shinobu's minion still called her by the same nickname he gets a bit jealous.)
To cut this short, nothing much changes.
Hence, we can say that for all intents and purposes, Araragi's desire to live and die with Shinobu has never changed either. Downplaying it for Senjou fans didn't mean that Araragi has chosen Senjou over her... in fact Shinobu can't be chosen over any other woman since Araragi has already decided a long time ago that whatever happens, he'll never let go of Shinobu even if it makes him feel guilty that he's the one who tied her to him forever.
In Kizu, we all know that heartbreaking line he keeps repeating in various arcs with regard to Shinobu:
"If you decide to end your life tomorrow, I'm fine ending my life by then. But if you decide to live for me for one more day, I'll try to live on for you as well... Perhaps ours is a story of scars, but it is a story I don't intend to recite to anyone..."
Therefore the curtain closes on Araragi not telling us his future with Shinobu but going so far as to suggest that even as he gets along with Senjou, his promise with Shinobu will go on with no one else needing to know how far they plan to take that master-servant/soulmate bond.
For me this is the only ending no one, not even Senjou, can overwrite. And it's the only ending that rescues this pseudo-philosophical, quasi love story from deteriorating into another teenage, harem-ecchi fantasy that desperately wants to be both entertaining and profound.
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Araragi does love Hinekawa in Nekomonogatari; however, he is afraid of his feelings so during their fight he tells her that he hates her. Remember that hate is close to love! At the end of this arc, in his own mind, he thanks her and promises to love the next girl for real.
My interpretation was that his first real love was too intense for him to act on. He was just too confused by the difference between lust and love.

I guess I would say there isn't any direct answer to that...
in hanekawa aspect he truly loves her, but hates so much something about her which he tells her she cannot change as that is who she is, the over righteousness stuff which he described as revolting, and hanekawa on the other hand also said she hates his guts while being possessed by the cat thingy.
I guess you can say this gave him the closure he needed to move on in nekomonogatari... As he realized that if he acts on what his feelings for her it would end up destroying their friendship and even the relationship as it would never work out, thus by bakemonogatari he has already moved on. But since hanekawa lost her memories from while being possessed by that cat she doesn't know any of the things that transpired thus she is still deeply in love with him. I believe the writer used nekomonogatari to show us the reason why the hanekawa ship can't work but still maintaining the whole harem thing by making hanekawa have no memory of it.
Hitagi on the other hand he loves her and everything about her including her imperfections which he says alot... I guess you could say she is the direct opposite of hanekawa.
Hanekawa might be the ideal woman with all her perfection as Araragi would always say but that is all she is the "Ideal woman" not his "ideal woman".
I believe that between the two hitagi is better suited for Araragi.

Welcome to Anime.SE! This is what you believe, but what was the author's intention? Who did he intend for Araragi to end up with? And where does Shinobu fit into the equation? You haven't mentioned her at all in your answer.


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How did Kakyoin get hit by The World when he was outside of its range?
It is stated that The World has an effective range of 10 meters. It is a close-range stand, and we know that if any of the Joestar group entered this range of 10 meters, they would automatically be killed by The World with the power of the time stop. It's why Dio doesn't kill the group immediately when they reach his coffin, and it's also why Dio has to chase them. Even with The World's time stop ability, the group was not in range. However, Kakyoin was near the edge of a 20 meter Emerald Splash, yet he was killed. How did this happen?

The stand has a range of "approximately" ten meters, meaning that Kakyoin could've been just inside the Stands Range (unfortunately for him).
Dio probably knows by eye exactly how far away his enemies are from him and whether or not he'd be able to catch them in The World, so he walks forward until Kakyoin is just in range and then uses The World - otherwise he'd be wasting a perfectly good use.
I think also that Emerald Splash was 20 meters in diameter, not 20 meters straight forward, making it more likely that Dio would've been perfectly in range.

Kakyoin says 20 meter radius, so I'm not sure, but the approximation would make sense...

Range means attack range of the stand, not range of time stop. Time stop affects the whole world and is measured in time that Dio can act while everyone else cannot.

DIO'S The world was by technicality also far more powerful than Star Platinum: The World ever was, as he had practice, and was a vampire. I'm also pretty sure that his effective radius was growing at the same rate that his ability to stop time was after consuming Joseph's Blood.


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Why hasn't Team Rocket's Meowth evolved?
This is a question I have been wondering about - why hasn't Team Rocket's Meowth evolved, or rather (since it's kind of easy to answer that question) will he or can evolve?
The core to that question is that we see Meowth is envious of Giovanni's Persian, and when he imagines himself being petted by Giovanni he isn't imagining himself as Persian but as Meowth, so it kind of brings the question - is Meowth like Ash's Pikachu and doesn't want to evolve? I mean, he sure can imagine himself being petted by Giovanni as Persian, since its evolved form is surely better than Meowth itself, so it's clear why Giovanni would want Persian over Meowth, and Meowth should know that even so he doesn't imagine himself evolving, so that means he can't evolve from some reason?
I have a pretty good theory for an answer but I would be happy for a more sourceable answer if anyone has.

I only played Pokemon but never watched the anime. In the Pokemon games, you can actually prevent a Pokemon's evolution. IIRC, you can mash the B button every time it tries to evolve so it's not that surprising. I just don't know how they did this in the anime.

@W.Are Everstone would be more effective :P

@Wondercricket Ah, yes. Almost forgot about that one :) You make your Pokemon hold it, right? Nostalgic. Might get back to playing it XD

Yeah, I'm aware of that, I'm a pokemon games fan as well, but it doesn't answer my question. PS - about the anime, pokemon can choose not to evolve, like Bulbasaur in the first season ep "Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden".

In different view to F1Krazy's answer, I would like to point out that evolution has shown to work differently in the anime it does in the games.

There is no apparent leveling system in the anime, so it doesn't make sense for Meowth to have "acquired enough experience" for him to evolve.

Trade-evolutions are also shown being handled different, as with Misty's Poliwhirl evolving into Politoed without the trade requirement; although a King's Rock as still involved.

With that said, Team Rocket's Meowth has not evolved into Persian for two reason:
1. Meowth despises Persian
There are two instances in the anime to which Meowth has shown a great dislike for Persian:

The first instance is poke-love Meowzie. This love is what lead Meowth to be more human like and taught himself to speak the Human language, as Meowzie preferred Humans. Long story short, Meowzie rejected him and went to a Persian who took her in under his care.

The second instance is Giovanni's Persian. As you stated, Meowth fantasizes himself being petting by Giovanni as a Meowth and not as a Persian. Meowth's jealous nature wants himself to be "Top Cat" and wants to be in this position as a Meowth and not Persian. This dislike towards Giovanni's Persian is related to an already dislike to Persian's as a whole

2. Meowth chooses not to evolve
It has been shown in the anime is that Pokémon can choose not to evolve, even if it were to be a level-based evolution in the games. A key example is Ash's Bulbasuar. In the episode Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden, this shows a special festival that supports Bulbasuars evolving into Ivysaurs. Throughout the entirety of this episode, Ash's Bulbasuar is shown resisting the evolution process.
In earlier episodes, Island of the Giant Pokémon and The Ghost of Maiden's Peak, it is shown that Bulbasuar has a fear of Venusaur, and thus does not want to become one. This supports Meowth's choice of not evolving into Persian due to the dislike of it's evolutionary forms

Although you right about that in the anime there isn't leveling system, strange enough that it isn't said except one ep, "The School Of Hard Knocks" ep 9 in the first season, it's said there that Pidgey evolve at Lvl18 and ect., strangely after that ep, the anime "forget that episode".

Meowth can't evolve because he can't battle.
As stated on Meowth's Bulbapedia article:

Meowth normally does not battle unless there are extreme circumstances; his explanation is that his ability to talk and walk upright came at the expense of battling ability.

A good example of this is Pokémon: The First Movie, where Meowth and his clone are two of the only three Pokémon that don't get involved in the final battle (the third being Ash's Pikachu, who refuses to fight back against his clone). Because Meowth never fights, he never earns any experience, and therefore he can never evolve.
I guess Team Rocket could just stuff him full of Rare Candies until he evolves into Persian, but that then raises the question of where they would get all those Rare Candies from, as they're consistently shown to be short on funds.

"Meowth normally does not battle unless there are extreme circumstances;" from the way it written it seems he can fight. "Because Meowth never fights, he never earns any experience, and therefore he can never evolve." so it's not because he cannot fight but, he doesn't have experience, that's different answer already.


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Is Light's insanity influenced by the Death Note, or did he make himself become that way?
Some were saying that Light's insanity was influenced by the use of the Death Note, taking note that Ryuk tells Light about what the Death Note makes people fear and so on. But having rewatched the first episode, Light tells Ryuk that creating a utopia with the Death Note needs to be done even if it costs you your sanity, so it occurred to me that this was the cause for Light's insanity over the series and not the Death Note, since his main madness is about winning and not about the Death Note.
Then again, in the manga Light's behavior is a little different than in the anime, when Light fears in his bed and mentions his nightmares (and I don't remember Light saying the above in the manga) while in the anime such behavior is not mentioned at all, so it might even be some difference between the anime and the manga.
Anyway, the question is: what influences Light's insanity, the Death Note or his godly craziness, and does this differ between the anime and manga?

I've only read the manga, but my reading was always that Light was arrogant and thought he knew what was best for everyone even before he got the Death Note, and the Death Note just gave him a tool to start imposing his ideals on other people. He does hide under the covers but I always read that more as him realizing that it wasn't an academic exercise anymore, and overcoming that due to his arrogant belief in his own righteousness. Later on he definitely also starts to take pleasure in beating others in intellectual contests.

This is kind of what I said - "so it occurred to me that this was the cause for Light's insanity over the series and not the Death Note, since his main madness is about winning and not about the Death Note." it is true to say that Light wasn't like that before but to say that the DN made him that is kind of far.

Yeah, I agree with you that his personality is the root of things. We see from other parts of the manga that you can own a Death Note for a while without murdering willy-nilly; L, Mello, and Near all have them for periods of time. I think his arrogance is the key thing that puts him down this path. It takes a fantastic amount of arrogance to be 18 years old and be so sure you know how the world should be run that you think any amount of death is justified, which Light does from very early in the manga. His later mania for beating L is also arrogance.

I've only read the manga, but from what I remember, the relationship between Light's craziness and the Death Note is complicated. The Death Note facilitates a lot of the steps he takes on the road to craziness, but things could have played out very differently if not for elements of Light's personality that we either see very early or can infer from what we know about his past. (Spoilers ahead, by the way.)
At the beginning of the series, Light is in his late teens, has grown up comfortably in a middle class modern Japanese family, and has been a popular, handsome, academically gifted student his entire life. People have been telling Light his whole life how wonderful and smart he is. This upbringing could easily make a person think very highly of themselves. And it could also easily make a person look down on others who aren't as smart or handsome as they are.
The Death Note drops into his lap, and after getting over his initial disbelief, Light comes up with an idea. He plots out a whole plan to change the world by killing criminals with the Death Note, eventually using the fear he creates to discourage all crime, and even merely unpleasant behaviors. For anyone to believe they know how the entire world should be organized is arrogant. For an eighteen-year-old who's never experienced anything but comfortable living and people telling him how smart and handsome and wonderful he is, it's the most ridiculous heights of arrogance. But Light barely questions himself. He does get scared and hide under his covers in one scene, but he's just committed his first murder and found out the Death Note is real, so there's a lot going on there. He ultimately does decide to enact his plan.
He starts using the Death Note to enact his plan, catching L's attention. He fights to stay ahead of L, and later Near and Mello, using every resource available to him. He takes obvious pleasure in winning and in manipulating other people, such as Misa and the police on the task force. He becomes more and more sure that he knows how the world should be run, and takes steps to solidify his control. When he finally does lose in the end, he doesn't go down gracefully. He screams, blames his allies, hurls insults, and tries to kill one last person with the scrap of Death Note hidden in his watch before being shot by Matsuda and then finally killed off by Ryuk.
There was definitely something in Light's personality that made him think his will should be imposed on the world. There was definitely an arrogance that made him think he was morally superior enough to start killing people to achieve his goals. But without the Death Note, he would never have had the tools to do what he did. So in that sense, the Death Note made him a murderer; with the tool for easy, consequence-free murder in front of him, he went right ahead and used it. The way he thinks about what he's doing seems to shift as things go on. Murder becomes less and less of an issue for him, and he shifts from murdering only criminals to murdering just about anyone who gets in his way, including his own father. And that too probably wouldn't have happened without the Death Note. The Death Note made murdering easy, convenient, and consequence-free (or so he thought, since he believed he could outwit anyone who came after him). He already looked down on other people. In his most charitable moments he thought of them as poor benighted fools who needed his protection. Usually he thought of them more as either pawns he could manipulate or roadblocks to be destroyed, and he shifts more and more to that way of thinking as the series goes on. So as he commits more and more murders, the idea of committing one more, of killing one more disposable inferior human, barely registers as a concern. So he kept murdering, and got in too deep.
But at the moment L started coming after him, Light could have decided it wasn't worth the risk and stopped using the Death Note. He didn't, because his arrogance would never allow him to admit defeat. When L pulls the trick with Lind L. Tailor and gets Light to kill his double on a global TV broadcast, Light doesn't get spooked and back down and sink into obscurity. He ramps up, declaring war on L, and that spirals out into everything else that happens after that point. So his personality, his arrogance, pushed him into the situation where he had to kill more and more people to stay ahead. That's all on Light; the Death Note didn't make him do it.

I will add only this - what you said is even showed in Light and L tennis game, Light didn't even dare wants to lose but either to lose to not being showed as a winner, in other words - not to lose, and that didn't even was about killing and stuff.

That's a good point about the tennis game. It definitely does show Light's arrogance and how much he hates losing anything. He never seems to consider that he might actually lose honestly and not throw the game as part of some scheme, and he considers throwing the game because it might mean winning some larger game L is playing with him to uncover his identity.

Now that I think about it, it may seem in the anime better the manga in the first ep - Light is translating eng to jap in the class and get bored since there's no competition, he sure want to be top in the class to be the "winner" even to be bored with it. I say in the anime since I don't remember it in the manga. (this may seemed speculated but it fits to your answer)

I think it is just Light in his pure essence, what I mean is that he is like that, but the power of having the Death Note motivates him to show his darkest side, no more limits or fear.

That's actually what I thought I put in my question, but it is still doesn't answer - is there a proof or evidence for that? because I can give a lot of theories myself.


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Why does Mewtwo look so different from Mew?
Mewtwo is a man-made Pokémon, created from the DNA of Mew. All the other cloned Pokémon in the movie Mewtwo Strikes Back look like the one they cloned from, but not Mewtwo. Mewtwo looks totally different from Mew. Why is this?

In the first movie, Dr. Fuji, the head scientist who worked on Mewtwo's creation in the anime, has this conversation with Mewtwo:

Dr. Fuji: "For years we struggled to successfully clone a Pokémon to prove our theories, but you're the first specimen to survive. That is Mew, the rarest of all Pokémon. From its DNA we created you, Mewtwo."

Mewtwo: "Mewtwo? Am I only a copy? Nothing but Mew's shadow?"

Dr. Fuji: "You are greater than Mew, improved through the power of human ingenuity. We used the most advanced techniques to develop your awesome psychic powers."

Then later in the movie, when Jessie, James, and Meowth are sneaking around in Mewtwo's cloning lab, they find a recording which Dr. Fuji made about Mewtwo's creation in which he says this:

There was sufficient genetic material [in the fossil his team had found] to replicate Mew. But [emphasis mine] Giovanni, who financed our experiments, insisted we try to create super-clones, more powerful than any living Pokémon.

All that, to me, implies strongly that Mewtwo was not just cloned directly from Mew, but also subjected to heavy genetic modification to enhance his psychic powers. The other clones did not go through this process, and so they resemble the Pokémon they were cloned from.
This would also seem to fit in with Mewtwo's general backstory in other versions of the Pokémon world. In the Pokémon Adventures manga, it's explicitly stated that Mewtwo was created by blending human DNA with the DNA from Mew, and in the games, Mewtwo's original Pokédex entry states that

It was created by a scientist after years of horrific gene splicing and DNA engineering experiments.

I don't see why anime-verse Mewtwo would be any different, and there's nothing in the movie that suggests he is.

I believe this is a plothole, stemming from the discrepancies between Mewtwo's origins in the games, and its origin in the anime.
In the games, Mewtwo is not a clone of Mew, but actually its child: the journals in Cinnabar Mansion refer to Mew giving birth to it. Mewtwo was then subjected to "years of horrific gene splicing and DNA engineering experiments", which explains why it only vaguely resembles Mew - its DNA is no longer solely that of Mew.
In the anime, however, Mewtwo was cloned using Mew's DNA, and there is no mention anywhere of it being subjected to any further experiments, only of it "maturing" into its present form. Prior to maturing, it resembled Mew more closely:

It's still possible that Mewtwo was experimented upon in a similar manner to the games, but in the absence of any evidence, I have to chalk this up to a simple plothole: there is no clear explanation for why Mewtwo should differ so drastically from the Pokémon it was cloned from, when the other clones exhibit no differences besides dark splotches.

Mewtwo is an altered version of mew, so that means it looks different. The scientists that created the Pokémon altered its structure and powers to be stronger than mew itself. And that's why Mewtwo is looks different.

In the Pokémon Adventures manga, Mewtwo was given human DNA as well as Mew DNA so Mewtwo should look different then Mew. More human. I don't see why this couldn't also have been the case in the anime and games. However, the Pokemon that Mewtwo cloned were given hardly any changes but the change of that they would obey Mewtwo. They were not injected with human DNA but with Pokemon DNA.

"Mewtwo was given human DNA" - do you have a source for this?

Yes, in the Pokemon manga, which i get if you don't agree, Blaine, the former team rocket   member gave an injection of his DNA to Mewtwo. I don't see why the TV shows and movies have difference.

I think it's because Mewtwo is not connected with the Tree of Life. Being connected to the Tree gives Mew shapeshifting ability, but it may also affect his appearance altogether.

Mewtwo was cloned from Mew. It is possible that Team Rocket made some modifications for the clone, whereas Mewtwo did not do any modifications to the DNA of the pokemon it cloned. Anyways, it is just an assumption.


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Is Edward Weevil really the son of Whitebeard?
Edward Weevil was introduced as Whitebeard's biological son, but everyone who was part of the Whitebeard Pirates refused to believe him, claiming that they were the only sons of Edward Newgate.
Is Edward Weevil really telling the truth about being Whitebeard's son? Are there any clues as to who his father is?

There is currently no proof on the claim that Edward Weevil is Whitebeard's son.
Weevil self-proclaimed himself to be his son and his mother supported this theory by self-proclaiming to be "Newgate's lover". It is also unknown why did the WG accepted him into the Seven Warlords ranks and if they only acted on this rumor or have some hidden proof of his claims.

Whether or not Weevil is actually related to Whitebeard was probably unimportant to the WG when they made him a Warlord. He was already acting in their interests before his appointment hunting down Whitebeard's former crew and allies (which include accomplished new world crews) with brutal efficacy. Dropping his huge bounty and thus allowing the simpleton to act with fewer obstacles would've seemed a good call. It doesn't hurt that at a glance you might think "ehhh... he might be related to Whitebeard?"

@Gatchwar Sure, but since it was in the NW, Weevil wouldn't need any WG support for him going on a rampage against other pirate crews. That is why I said that maybe the WG knows something more then the rest.


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Is fanservice considered good in anime?
I have watched the first episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion and at the end, after the credits, there was a short teaser of the next episode, ended with the sentence:

Tune in next time for lots more fan service!

I have watched much more American TV shows and movies than anime, so for me, the word "fanservice" has more bad associations, like some unnecessary things, not connected to the plot. So if fanservice is mentioned in a teaser, does it mean something else in anime, or do people watching anime like fanservice rather than looking down on it?

The concept of fanservice has existed since time immemorial.  The notion of whether or not fanservice is "good" genuinely depends on one's personal convictions or beliefs, and whether or not people like watching it depends on the former as well.  I'm not sure this is suitably answerable without it going kind of everywhere (and I can see a few answers below have done just that).

@Makoto I am mostly interested in what is the general opinion, is the general population leaning more towards it being good, or being bad, or ist it 50-50?

It's considered profitable.

Fanservice is content which is not necessary for the progression of the story but something which pleases the viewer/fan. In anime this is usually sexual in nature, but can also be hints towards ships in the fandom, cameos, or similar. It is something intentional added in hope it will increase viewers/sales.
Reception towards fanservice is mixed. Since it is often sexual in nature, it has a negative effect for the female viewer in a male oriented show (and vice versa). And for more plot heavy shows, extended and repeated use of fan-service can be distracting and end up annoying. For a 'ecchi' show, fan-service is expected and people would complain if an episode goes by without it.
In the end, fanservice is a balance of adding value without distracting from the show. Sometimes this will hurt certain demographics to boost the main one. But it is a balance which is taken to increase viewers.
In case of the mentioned example in Neon Genesis Evangelion, mentioning it so directly in the preview was something I found unusual when watching the show. Since it is not a fan-service oriented show, it appears as a pretty desperate move to increase viewers since it indirectly says there is nothing more interesting coming up in the next episode. Maybe I'm missing a historical context here, but the show was never expected to get as popular as it got.

Can you answer what is the more popular opinion amongst the viewers? Does the general population lean more towards it being good, or being bad, or is it really close 50-50 when it comes to considering fanservice as something good or something bad?

I think the word itself is not opinionated, it is not positive or negative. It is simply used to describe that type of content. Then people might add their opinion on top of that, but the word by itself does not mean it is good or bad.
For the general opinion on fanservice in a show, it is clear that most viewers don't mind. It exists in most anime, which means most people have either a neutral or positive response to the usual fanservice in the shows they watch. Otherwise it would not be there. I repeat, fanservice is intentionally added because it works.

All though I don't think we really can answer the "do people enjoy watching fanservice" part of the question. As this is left to the opinion of the viewer, lets get into what 'fan-service' entails in anime.
Your definition of "something unnecessary
and "not connected to the plot", except when talking about watching it for the plot (definition may be considered nsfw, look it up at your own discretion) is pretty accurate.
Fanservice content's direct intention is to please the audience, which often leads to content of a sexual nature in anime targeting the Shounen and sometimes Shoujo demographic.
These scenario's can come forth through a range of causes. In-universe reasons range from innocence of the character, to accidental walk ins. But it is not uncommon to have scripted 'beach episodes' or 'bathing scenes' where either implied nudity or absurdly small bikini's are featured as a form of fan-service.
Hence the fan service mentioned in the teaser implies that more such scene's will be shown. However, by my recollection of the series, no actual body parts are shown in those scene's. With the exception of the directors cut version, which did feature nipples on certain characters.

Can you answer what is the more popular opinion amongst the viewers? Does the general population lean more towards it being good, or being bad, or is it really close 50-50 when it comes to considering fanservice as something good or something bad?

@TK-421 Fan services sells to the target demographic where it is applied. With that we can at least say that a majority either likes or condones it. However, this stance will differ per series, per additional demographic, and even per Geo-localization. It is not uncommon for those kind of scene's to be censored when they become animes or when they release it in the USA or sometimes even within Japan itself. So, no, not really.

Most TV shows (Anime or not) engage in fan service of some sort. Generally speaking, it means you give the audience exactly what it wants. That can mean anything from seeing a long-brewing relationship brew into a romantic one, or it could mean two characters finally having a brawl that highlights their powers.
In Japan, though, there's more permissive rules about nudity than there are elsewhere, so "fan service" often became synonymous with a nude scene involving female characters. The anime Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross (which is the second arc in the US version of the Robotech series) features just such a scene in the first episode, where the main female character is shown topless in the shower (which is why the Netflix version is TV-MA, while the original broadcast TV series merely cropped it out).
As the US markets grew, however, they were toned down to more "acceptable" levels of sexuality involving things like community bathhouses (more common in Japanese culture) or swimsuits. The Naruto series featured the "Sexy Technique/Jutsu" (link may be slightly NSFW), where the main character assumes the form of a scantily clad or even naked woman (with the key parts obscured).
Evangelion was almost certainly using it as a tease to boost viewership, since the original TV series really didn't push those limits very much (if anything, the series revolves around how timid the main characters are with each other). The movie End of Evangelion, oddly enough, went the other way with scenes like

 a dying Misato kissing Shinji as a lover and remarking they can "do the rest later".

The Rebuild Evangelion movies have been even more racy with

 Shinji entering Rei's apartment to return something to her. He winds up knocking over a very naked Rei and falling on her in such a way as to avoid showing anything.

Is it considered good?
It depends. Kotaku reviewed No Game No Life and noted this

Shiro is 11 years old in No Game No Life. In the first episode alone, we get two panty shots of her. Over the course of the series she is naked several times (though of course it is self-censored in one way or another); and while the only one that young, she is far from the only girl seen in varying states of undress.

And later

But used as satire or not, that doesn't change the fact that the fanservice, while never superseding the plot, is still a constant presence—and 11-year-old Shiro is a part of that.

Some shows lean heavily on fanservice to draw viewers, to the point where the plot can suffer. Most Anime that is considered "good" tends to be those with a solid plot.

Can you answer what is the more popular opinion amongst the viewers? Does the general population lean more towards it being good, or being bad, or is it really close 50-50 when it comes to considering fanservice as something good or something bad?

Anime is entertainment. Fan service exists to entertain.
Just as there is lower or higher quality anime, there will be lower or higher quality fan service.
And as with any form of entertainment, it is highly subjective.

However, with regards to the final words in Neon Genesis Evangelion I'm not sure the translation is correct.
I believe that what Misato Katsuragi says is, "Kono tsugi mo sabisu sabisu".
Which roughly translates to, "The next one is on the house".
This would be a reference to her hard drinking.


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In Erased, why does Satoru refers to his mother as "okaasan"?
In Erased, when Satoru got transported back to 1988, he mistakenly referred to his mother as "kaasan". However, when pointed out, he quickly switches to "okaasan". Why is that?
As far as I know people usually refer to their own mother as "kaasan", and not "okaasan" as Satoru did.

The initial o- (お-) prefix is an honorific prefix. It is used to show politeness to parents, but it’s not uncommon to hear “Kaasan” or “Tousan”. In more casual situations the speaker may omit this prefix.

Pointed out what? Okaasan is quite common when talking to one's mother. I guess it is  more common than kaasan.

I suppose you're referring to the following exchange (from here).

悟　 ：あっ・・・母さん・・・(Ma・・・)
佐知：母さん？("Ma"？)
悟　 ：えっ？お・・・お母さんって言ったでしょ？(I said "Mom.")

In Japanese, a large majority of kids call their mother either okaasan or mama, depending simply on the custom of each family (and switch very rarely). A kid ( <12 years old, say) saying kaasan is relatively rare, that is why it sounded weird to the mother.
So Satoru apparently switched from okaasan to kaasan at some point when he grew older. He first used kaasan due to his 'current' (i.e., as a grown-up) habit, but it sounds unusual to the mother, then he 'corrected' it to okaasan, which should have been the way he called his mother.

If I remember correctly, Conan (or Shinichi) the detective called his mother kaasan, but he is 15 or 16 years old. As people grow older, use of kaasan becomes more common, while it is by no means strange that a 50-year-old man calls to his mother by okaasan.


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Why doesn't Golden Dawn follow the naming scheme of the other squads?
In Black Clover, all the squads' names consist of a colour followed by an animal, like Black Bulls, Coral Peacocks etc. However, Golden Dawn is an exception. Why?

If that's the case, then it seems "Blue Rose" is also an exception? (color+flower)

We haven't gotten an actual reason in-universe. It is likely that a previous captain simply liked the name ; we know that captains can decide to rename their squad (Aqua Deer was called "Grey Deer" under the captaincy of Julius).
However, the meta reason is that the squad probably took inspiration from the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a real-life organization dedicated to the study of the occult and paranormal. Two of three founders of the occult group were named William, much like Golden Dawn's captain William Vengeance.


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Is Zoro stronger than Luffy?
When watching One Piece, I sometimes feel as though Zoro is more powerful than Luffy, even though he don't have a Devil Fruit power.
Is Zoro stronger than Luffy?

there is no objective answer to this and Oda hasn't said anything. This question should probably be closed as opinion-based. My guess though is that Luffy is overall stronger.

The short answer is: as of chapter 1037, no.
Physically, Zoro is stronger than Luffy, that is if Luffy does not use his DF powers and Zoro does not use his swords. That is to say, in a fair arm-wrestling match, Zoro will win.
But once DF is involved, the answer becomes quite complex. In East Blue, Luffy being stronger than Zoro is extremely debatable. In fact, till Luffy showed his Gears, Zoro and Luffy were comparable in power. But once the Gears started, we can see Luffy starting to leapfrog Zoro in terms of fighting.
Post-time-skip, it was definitive that Luffy was stronger because he can freely control his COC Haki and Zoro didn't even know he could use it till Zoro v Kaido. And not to mention G4 gives Luffy a lot more mobility which Zoro lacks as an evident by the King v Zoro fight. Thus making it even more difficult for Zoro.
Luffy v Zoro will be an intense fight. But Luffy will be able to beat Zoro at the end once he goes to G4.
In fact, Wano makes Zoro and Sanji more comparable in power levels than Luffy and Zoro ever were.

About physical factors: strength, speed, endurance; they are really close
About Haki: they have the 3 forms, but Luffy has the advantage of better control
DF: no surprise here
X factor: the big weakness of Luffy, except for massive water, is a weapon able to cut and Zoro is a swordsman
For me, they are really close but there is an advantage to Luffy.

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How many Death Note anime and manga are there?
I just finished watching Death Note, but I am still confused whether I watched the full story or not. I binged through the anime with 37 episodes.
For example, there is Beyond Birthday's theme on YouTube, but I never heard his name in the anime?
What is Death Note Relight? What is Death Note Rewrite? Where can I get these?
How many books/novels about Death Note are there in total?

The core of the Death Note series is comprised of the 108 manga chapters created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata and its 37 episode anime adaptation which covers the same material. Consuming either covers the entire main story of Death Note and everything beyond that is supplemental which you can peruse if you want more from the Death Note universe.
In roughly chronological order the pieces of Death Note supplemental media are:
The Death Note one-shot (2003) is the pilot chapter for the Death Note manga which does not share a continuity with the main series and features a different main character and a Death item not seen in the main series.
Death Note 13: How to Read (2006) is the unofficial 13th volume of the manga which is an encyclopedia style tie-in book for the Death Note manga featuring character profiles, interviews with the creators, etc. along with an exclusive set of yonkoma (4-panel) comics.
Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases (2006) is a prequel tie-in light novel penned by Nisio Isin (not the duo who made the Death Note manga). The story features Mello's retelling of a case L was involved in prior to the start of the main series.
The live action film Death Note (2006) is a mostly faithful adaptation of the first 2 volumes of the manga and its sequel Death Note 2: The Last Name (2006) continues the story where the previous film leaves off but veers away from the source material and concludes with a film original ending which differs from the manga/anime.
These live-action films lead into the spin-off light novel L: change the World (2007) penned by someone going by the pseudonym M and its film L: change the World (2008) which are both spin-offs from Death Note 2: The Last Name and not the Death Note manga due to the differences in endings.
The anime films Death Note: Relight - Visions of a God (2007) and its sequel Death Note: Relight 2 - L's successors (2008) are cinematic recaps of the first and second half of the main story respectively with a framing story involving an unnamed Shinigami asking Ryuk for a tale and Ryuk retelling the events of Death Note.
The live action film Death Note: Light Up the New World (2016) and its associated light novel adaptation Death Note: Light Up the NEW World Film Novelization (2016) are a direct sequel to Death Note 2: The Last Name and not the manga. This is a wholly original story set 10 years after the events of DN2: TLN.
The C-Kira story (2008) and The A-Kira story (2020) are epilogue one-shot manga made by the original creators which take place after the events of the main series detailing the further exploits of Ryuk. These one-shots along with the pilot chapter, a pair of short manga chapters (L-One Day and L-The Wammy's House) and the yonkoma from Death Note 13: How to Read were collected into a collection titled Death Note: Short Stories (2021) which is set to be released in the West in 2022
We're going to stop here because this already covers a huge breadth of supplemental material beyond Death Note's core story and the rabbit hole goes even deeper to include things like a photo book, video games, a musical and the Netflix adaptation featuring everybody's favourite American high-schooler Light Turner.


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How does Ryuma end up in Thriller Bark?
In the Thriller Bark arc, Ryuma was brought back from the dead after combining his corpse with Brook's shadow. Ryuma was admired by his home nation Wano. But Wano has been isolated for ages. It couldn't be possible for Gecko Moria to steal his corpse.
How did Ryuma's corpse end up in Thriller Bark?

This question is answered in later arcs, so please skip this answer if you don't wish to be spoiled. Spoilers for Chapter 969, and small mention of Chapters 456, 481 (Thriller Bark Arc) and 699.

 Gecko Moria did in fact steal his corpse and Shusui from his grave in Wano. As revealed in Chapter 969, this happened around a year after Roger's execution, when his old crew the Gecko Pirates clashed with Kaidou's Beast Pirates. This battle resulted in Moria's entire crew being killed, which is why he seeks a zombie crew. We see mentions of his enmity with Kaidou and his motives during the Thriller Bark arc itself, in chapters 456 and 481.

 Additionally, Kin'emon gets angry in Chapter 699 because he thinks Zoro is the one who defiled Ryuma's grave. So the citizens of Wano didn't really know who did it, even though it seems they were aware of the incident.

Thanks for ans. I didn't remember about it.


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Why does the Deus in Mirai Nikki still exist?
In cycle 1, Yuno has become god and the Deus is dead, and after that, Yuno enters cycle 2. Why is Deus still alive after he is dead?
The same confusion also applies to the Deus in cycle 3. Cycle 3 takes place after Yuno and Yuki killed the other diary holders. At this moment, the Deus in cycle 2 has 'died' or become a red crystal-like stuff. How come in cycle 3, Deus still exists?
Furthermore, Deus is said to be the manipulator of space and time, both of which are eternal, and even so, they are mortal! The logic and causality of this premise seems quite messed up to me.

Cycles 2 and 3 take place in alternate dimensions, each of which diverges from the previous cycle at a point before the survival game began. I believe the exact divergence point is somewhere around the time that Yuno killed her parents. Therefore, anyone who died over the course of the previous cycle is alive again in the next cycle. This is the entire point of Yuno creating those new cycles in the first place - so she can be with Yuki again after his death in Cycle 1, and his planned death in Cycle 2.
Naturally, the creation of each cycle also resurrected Deus along with everyone else, as time was reset back to a point where his powers hadn't yet degenerated.

In the ending part of the anime, it suggests that the god who creates a certain world would have a control of it just like Deus does. Since cycle 2 is created by Yuno, why doesn't she have control of it? I thought the relation of cycle 1 and cycle 2 is a nested structure, in another word, the world 2 is embedded in world 1. However, world 3 seems to be parallel to world 2 rather than created in world 2, because Yuno can get into world 3 before she becomes the god of world 2 (and at this point, she doesn't have the ability to create a world). The relation between world 1, 2, 3 is so confusing.

My personal understanding is that Yuno was the God of Cycle 1, but only of Cycle 1, and her powers didn't apply to Cycle 2, where Deus was still God. It's been too long since I watched the series for me to remember or understand how Cycle 3 came to be. I agree, it is all a bit confusing.


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Why is Muzan impersonating a human?
I just watched the Demon Slayer anime and have some questions:

Has Muzan ever been a human before?
Why is Muzan impersonating a human?
When Muzan was disguised as a child in Season 2, why weren't their parents suspicious when Muzan disappeared for a few days?

I am having a hard time getting your third question? Can you clarify?

Yes you remember SS2 EP. Akaza is scolded by Muzan at library room. Muzan are child.
and What will a parent do if their child ( Muzan ) is missing for several days?

It's no problem for adults ( Muzan SS1 )  to claim to work.

I think I understand what you mean - Muzan's parents should have been concerned about their child going missing for several days, but they weren't?

Yes, Muzan was a human. He turned into a demon nearly thousand years ago. Stated by Sakonji Urokodaki in Chapter 11 Page 2

The reason Muzan disguises as Human, is to conceal his true identity from demon slayers. So Hashiras were shocked to hear that Tanjiro Muzan and had no clue on how Muzan was actually like (Chapter 46):

Well, Muzan can easily brainwash people and shapeshift into whatever he likes, he must have done the same in order to get into the child's family, and when he's done with the disguise, he might have altered the family's memory into thinking they never had a child.

Has Muzan ever been a human before?

A millennium ago, during the Heian Era, Muzan was turned into a demon during an experimental treatment trying to cure his terminal illness and his goal since then was to live without the fear of death and become truly eternal.

Why is Muzan impersonating a human?

Muzan is impersonating humans and blend in with human society to create networks for information gathering and to secure funding using the different identities he assumed, without the humans he commands and manipulates being aware he is a demon at all. He don't want to be in the demon form roaming in the streets and while in human form, he can keep his identity a secret.

When Muzan was disguised as a child in Season 2, why weren't their parents suspicious when Muzan disappeared for a few days?

In the latest cover identity, he became a sickly son to an old couple. Muzan has the ability to manipulate and erase human memories. So, he altered the memories of the parents into thinking that they had a son. Once his work is done, he can erase the memories. Even if they become suspicious, he can erase their memories or manipulate them to commit suicide (just like he did with his previous five wives) to avoid suspicion of killing. But I believe he can only move outside in the nights and he always keep his door locked, so I don't think the parents are aware of his whereabouts (they know he can't go outside without parents help).

Yes, Muzan had actually been a human before, but since then he has survived by eating humans.

Muzan is literally the leader of the demons. He has to be safe from all threats (from his perspective). He impersonates a human so that he can get adequate time for his experiments. Also, the Demon Slayers would have a hard time finding Muzan impersonating a human. Also, he has enough access to humans when he is living with them. He has enough food around him.

About this question, I'm not so sure, I will rewatch that arc of Demon Slayer and then answer your question.


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Can you write in English in the Death Note?
I'm wondering whether the Death Note would still work if you wrote in English or other languages, or if you have to write in Japanese.
For example, if I was to write "John Doe is going to die in a car accident", would I need to translate it into Japanese or would I be able to simply just write it in English?

1 - In the 1st place why does Japanese work for the Death Note? 2 -  Is there some Japanese-specific about shinigami? Are all shinigami perhaps ethnically Japanese? lol

It depends which are you talking about - the names, or the death details. for each there's strict evidence, we will start for the language of the names:
First, in the first episode of Death Note, it is shown in Light's Death Note like this:

We can see that Light had written the names in the Death Note part Japanese, part in English. if we will go by the assumption that you can write in other languages, why Light would bother to write in English? only to show that he knows?
The answer for that is shown in one of rules (can't remember now which no. of it, but it is shown in ep28):

The names that you see with the eye power of a god of death are the
names needed to kill that person. You will be able to see the names
even if that person isn't registered in the family registration.

As we can see along the anime/manga through images seeing by the shinigami eyes that it depends on which language the original name was given, as we see with Mello and Near cases that the name is in english, and as the rule specifically needs you to write that name you see in the shinigami eyes, and that name is the one needs to be written and not other. from this we learn - you cannot translate names in the Death Note but to write the name with the original language.

Different languages for each name - those you need to write in the Death Note
Now this is for name language, as for the death details, it might not evidence as others here tried to say without them, but the little evidence is actually the simple fact that we see Light writing the death details in Japanese, now as Death Note is sure is a shinigami notebook you would say that only shinigami can write in it with their own language (as Misa's Death Note front written in their language) but it still can be written in human language. or you might as well come and say that since the Death Note touched the human world and belonged now to it (as clarified from the rules/Ryuk said so himself), it can be written in every human language which make sense since if not what's the point of belonging to the human world if it cannot be used in it, but in the shinigami world (according to this answer) it is have to be written in shinigami language.
Either way, Ryuk said he had written the rules in english because it is the common language in the human world, from the way he pronounced it, it is possible to every human in the world to use the Death Note or he would describe the way to use it in other language, the fact that he chose the common language states that it works in every way.
(And the logic screams it, as the user of the Death Note needs to understand what he writes, if he cannot write the language to use the Death Note, what's the point owning the Death Note?).
Evidence for this in the anime in ep5 where Light holds the pages where the FBI agents are written, you can see that the names are in English while the death details in Japanese.

The question about the last evidence is that if Ryuk knew that it doesn't matter which language to write the death details but the name language is matter, why didn't he specified the rule for the name language that it needs to be in the original language? The answer is simple as the writer needs to know the real name of the person, and it is simple as that that the writer needs to know the name of the person in original language so it's also needs to be written in that language, and the above evidences is helping the simplify of things.
Conclusion

The names of the victims needs to be written in the original language it is called, even if in the family registration he is called in another name. and this rule is both for human and shinigami (as proven couple of times in the anime and the manga).
The death details can be written in every Death Note that had fallen to earth and belonged to it. Common sense is that the writer can write and understand his writing.
There is possibility though, that even if we say that shinigami would know a human language - as he needs to so he can write the names - he won't be able to use it in the shinigami world or either in his  in the human world for death details, since the Death Note belongs to shinigami.

I love some of the names that reveals.  Bonk Rojjer, Prosciutto Salame, Camel Cratch...

There's no rule i Death Note about the language, so we can assume every language is ok.
We can be 100% about Japanese.
Also i believe there's Mello's henchman who writes down names in death note and he was an American, so he definitely used latin alphabet
Also Shinigami write down a name of person to kill them and in some languages there's names that can't be written just in hirakana or kenji if this language has a unique letters like Ź, Ć, ą etc, so it further confirm you should be able to write in death note in thids languages too, but thats just my personal assumption


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Can a sharingan be regenerated?
I remember that Naruto healed Kakashi's eye. If he did that to Sasuke if he lost his eye, would the Sharingan regenerate along with his eye, or would he be left with just a regular eye?

Naruto didn't "healed" Kakashi eye but made another from his cells, it's not good example for your question.

By "regenerated" you mean like Sasuke could get his rinnegan back after Boruto stabbed it out then no, But if you mean if kid Kakashi had a Sharingan, and then got his eye slashed then yes. What I mean is that if an eye is slashed and not stabbed out, a strong medical ninjutsu specialist could heal it.