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Why are characters named Momonga named after flying squirrels?
In both One Piece and in Overlord, there is a character named Momonga (in Overlord, Momonga was his earlier name, but he goes by Ainz Ooal Gown during the series).

「モモンガ」 (momonga) is the Japanese word for "flying squirrel" and is used for the type native to Japan, as well as for the northern flying squirrel and southern flying squirrel of North America, and for the Siberian dwarf flying squirrel (in contrast, the word 「ムササビ」 [musasabi] is used to refer to giant flying squirrels native to and outside of Japan), and the marsupial sugar glider is called 「フクロモモンガ」 (fukuro momonga).
These characters both are not particularly cute, are large in size, have small eye sockets, and do not feature a patagium (a.k.a. gliding membrane-like flap of skin or fabric stretched from their wrists to their ankles). In other words, they do not feature the best-known features of flying squirrels. Why were they named Momonga?  Is there anything about them that was intentionally derived from real-life flying squirrels?

Shouldn't you take these question to the authors themselves? They must have had their reasons.

@Peter Raeves, yes, exactly; in other words, I'm asking if anyone knows of a statement given by either of the authors as to their reasoning when coming up with the character names, such as in a character profile, mentioned in a behind-the-scenes explanatory manga extra, an interview on a website or in a magazine, or the like (something along the lines of this answer). There are many mangaka who have divulged details about their process and how they came up with their naming conventions, particular character names, and character designs.

The "Momonga" are shown in the intro of Overlord as well, http://i.imgur.com/3KWMh56.png

@Alagaros In Overlord's case, does this mean that flying squirrels are a plot element? Or at least that they inhabit that world and so the character is named after animals who live there?

In One Piece, the animal name is the most typical source of the character's name. You can read how the author decided the name 'Monkey' in the manga #20 Chapter 178's SBS.
The origin novel of Overlord is written on a free novel BBS Arcadia. You can read how the author decided the name 'Momonga' on the following 1st chapter (Japanese) (I'll translate just the conclusion):

※　名前でモモンガは無いですよね。
でも、普通にネットゲームをしている社会人の方なら、基本的にちょっとおちゃらけ入った名前の方が多いような気がするんですよね。私だけですかね？
口調とか、名前とか変更するときがそのうち来る予定です。
※ Momonga is a strange name.
But many working online gamers choose the strange name, I think. Just me?
I'm planning to change his tone and name.


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Is there any anime with an overweight female protagonist?
Is there any anime with an overweight female protagonist?
A friend of mine told me that there is none. Is she right?
I just need one simple yes/no answer and, if affirmative, one example.

Not sure if it has an anime, but Buyuden has an overweight female protagonist (though she's only overweight post timeskip)

has your friend seen every anime that was ever made?

You can look at this query on anime-planet. That will list all overweight female characters, you will have to manually sort out which ones are side characters, and which aren't.

I vote to reopen because the wording of this question does not sound like a recommendation request. Rather, it sounds like the poster wants to know a basic fact about anime: does such a case exist?

Although it may not qualify for overweight in medical terms, the protagonist of Ghibli's 『かぐや姫の物語』 (The Tale of the Princess Kaguya) is chubbier than modern-day anime protagonists in accordance with historical fact. In 11th century Heian era, women were supposed to have round faces and ample softness (see examples in the famous novel Tale of Genji, in which Genji easily notices when women who are sick grow visibly thinner as a result of their health). Matsuko, arguably 1 of an ensemble of 5 fairly equal protagonists of Ghibli's 『ホーホケキョとなりの山田くん』 (My Neighbors the Yamadas) is clearly overweight.

@mivilar Anime-Planet now allows one to search characters by their roles, so we can easily filter out side characters: https://www.anime-planet.com/characters/all?gender_id=2&role_id=1&include_tags=488&sort=title&order=asc. The most famous example among the query result is probably Jane from Jungle King Tar-chan.

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Looking for manga apps which filter out mature content
My son is into manga and anime. When I look for 'kid-friendly' sources for him to read and watch, I make sure that they filter out the mature stuffs. Currently, he has the Crunchy Roll app, and it seems to be pretty kid-friendly and filtered. If I am wrong, please let me know.
He asked me to check out an app called "Manga Rock", but from the first page, the results were not the kind of stuff I want him to read due to the heavily mature content. (If you know what I mean...)
Any recommendations for a manga app that I can feel comfortable with?

1st problem - age-appropriate perception of content is quite different in Japan.  That is, whatever is targeted/considered fine for your son's age range in Japan probably doesn't match what's in the US/you want.  I don't know if the CR app has a filter on it...

I'm not sure if it has an age filter, but I checked out the Viz app for Android a while ago, and everything on there looked pretty PG-13. They have all the popular stuff like Naruto, One Piece, Death Note, etc.

CrunchyRoll also has a manga app for Android and iOS. You can also view their manga selection on their main site.
You can set a filter to block mature content in your profile settings. Unfortunately, you can't password protect this from change, so if your son found that the filter was on, he could potentially turn it off.
Access to manga is exclusively for paying members.

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Is there any reason why the race takes place on Roboworld?
Roboworld is a dangerous place for the racer. When they announced that the race was to be held in Roboworld, the President of Roboworld directly stated that they would not allow the race to be held there, and they would destroy any outsider who entered their territory by any means necessary. They know that Roboworld had many troops and weapons to stop the race. One of the racer even stated that Roboworld troops were the meanest troops in the galaxy. So why did they still decide to race there? Was there a reason behind it or did they just want an intense race?

Being attacked by the local military made the race just that much more exciting.
The racing culture seemed very counter-culture or anti-authority as well, so holding the race somewhere they were forbidden from just jived that much more with their ideals.
Anyhow, there was a nearby refugee moon where they were basing out of (if I recall correctly) so it wasn't too hard to pull off logistically... especially considering some of the race organizers literally had magic on their side.
But to answer your question, I don't think there was any single, specific, reason.


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Why was One Piece white washed?
After the two-year time skip, Zoro and Robin came back lighter skinned. I would have thought nothing of it, but after searching for "fishman racism" on Google, I ran into an article on Oda's racism towards "ethnic" people. One Piece is my favorite anime and I watch it a lot, so I don't take any "white washing" argument lightly. I don't even want to think of Oda as having racial bias, but I won't ignore the facts.
The article discusses different aspects of One Piece that can lead one to believe that the show has some racist undertones, but I won't go into detail about the article. The story about racism in One Piece mentions that Oda did tell the animators to change certain things concerned with the two-year time skip, and two of the dark-skinned characters came back way lighter. Is Oda racist? I don't know but I can't say he isn't, as the article had valid and reasonable points to prove that he at least has a racial bias.
Then after reading the article above, I am sitting around thinking about it from time to time. So was it actually white washed or did these changes happen for some other reason?

Could you reference the article? That way interested people could access it too. I would be interested in reading such an article. Also could you explain the jump you make from making a characters skin lighter to being racist. I don't see the connection there.

http://ittoryu-iai.tumblr.com/post/29321899821/racial-issues-in-one-piece

I phrased it wrong, I meant some racial bias, not racism exactly. Anyways, in the article, she mentions the lighter skin tones thing. I was thinking they were white washed out of racial bias, not full blown racism.

Related: http://anime.stackexchange.com/q/7539/6166

Whether One Piece is racist and whether Oda is racist are two entirely different questions. A work of fiction has a degree of autonomy from its author. A racist can write a non-racist work and non-racist can write a racist work (perhaps unintentionally with the latter).

Well, Zoro did spend those two years in a dark island/gloomy castle, so he probably didn't see much sun. Robin also spent her time in the mountains, I believe, which were hardly places to get sun tans (compared to her old job in a desert).
I don't think the skin pigment changes had anything to do with racism, as these kinds of changes were more associated with tans and less with race.

Ah okay, I got you. It did not mean anything to me until I read the article.

But, then that begs the question, why wasn't vivi darkskinned? If Zoro and Robin got lighter because they weren't near the sun, Vivi should have been at least pre-time skip Robins shade. Same with all of the women from Shandoria, an inherently darker people (both Shandorians and Alabastians) have pale skinned women.

Vivi spent her entirelife in the blazing sun, along with all the Alabasta people but a lot of them (almost all their women) are pale. By your thought process, they should all look like people in the middle east.

@HellionCazzy Well Vivi is a girl, so she probably put up tan reducing creams to look prettier, her servants held up sun umbrellas and she was always inside studying unlike the boys that were outside playing and tanning. These days most Japanese girls want to look lighter, because it looks prettier on them. It's a typical beauty standard for Japanese girls, nothing more to it you know.

So the beauty standard on OP is being light skinned? Firstly, being from a desert region, she should've been born dark or at least brown.

I have never heard about her always being in, nor this skin lightening thing. I did see her playing in the basking heat with boys and girls though and I do know that most men are dark skinned in alabasta. Despite the fact that men and women are out in sun, sometimes the men actually more dressed than the women (shouldn't they get the darker tan?). And if there actually is some skin lightening cream (which is never mentioned in the anime) and vivi did stay inside most of the time (which we never see, we see her in the blazing desert, fighting and sweating like the other kids)

That still would not explain her not being at least slightly brown, by birth. She and all her people should be a little dark, regardless of what they try to change. Your response to Vivi doesn't make sense to me. And that still does not make up for all the shandorian men being brown and the women pale.

I know Vivi was in a lot before she met the rebel leader but after that, she was always out.

@HellionCazzy Well I don't know if that's why Oda drew girls lighter skinned, but as far as I know the beauty standard in Japan is being light skinned. Basically like how in west-europe girls want to be tanned. They want to look darker, because it makes them look different and more exotic. The same happens in Japan where they want to be different and exotic by looking lighter.

Okay thank you. That is what I was trying to get answered with my question. I assumed their beauty standard was being pale. But every time I asked people made stuff up about the conditions the character was in. At least now I got a real answer. Peace

In Japan, being white is a sign of being rich and wealthy since the working class is out in the fields so they would obviously have a darker skin tone. It's been like this for thousands of years. Oda is appealing to the wealthier class. There is a huge prejudice. You don't see many anime characters that have a darker skin shade anymore because Japan's definition of beauty is being white. There are African American characters yes but not the in between. And don't even get me started on the over-sexualization in One Piece and the RIDICULOUS reasons Oda gave for drawing Robin and Nami the way they're drawn in the timeskip. Also, go compare the straw hats timeskip to pre timeskip. It's like Luffy went from being 16 to 14 lol.

Oda does use race and culture in a lot of places and some of them may seem offensive to a group or race. One example would be underneath the Corrida Colosseum the Officer Tower has moon and stars which resembles the Turks. Earlier Ottoman's did have the control over of the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea markets. Ottoman's also had the biggest slave trade in that time and lots of slaves worked at the docks.

Is Oda racist?

This may seem offensive to some Turks cause it's clearly the bad guys which remsebles to Turks but does that make Oda a racist?
It's hard to imagine someone who doesn't have any racial bias. But if you look at Fishman Island arc you'd notice that Oda tried to explain the whole racism thing as stupid.

So was it actually white washed or did these changes happen for some other reason?

Nilone4's answered it effectively. In simple One Piece is an anime/manga series which needs to generate money by making what people want to see.


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Is "A re yo u o ver the re" a kind of hypnosis?

"anata wa soko ni imasu ka" (Are you there?)

... seems like this "magic spell" works over the radio, which the Festums have to decode and hack into.
I have always wondered if this could be a kind of hypnosis. If so, the Festums are more human like than I think.

The short answer is no, its not hypnosis - its essentially the Festums trying to find/communicate with humans. The long answer is, it has a double meaning in the show.
First of all, the most direct reason that particular phrase and voice is used is that Festums originally found out about humanity by encountering a voyager like probe - on the probe was a recording of a woman asking this question (where it was meant to be 'Is there anyone out there?' question). The Festums did not understand humanity at all and just echoed that exact recording back when trying to find humans to "save". You can see a framed copy of this record hanging up in the UN leader's office in a few scenes in Exodus.
Second, it's important to understand that Festums, at least in the first season, did not understand humanity at all. (In the movie, they learned a little... which made the situation for humanity even worse, not better). Festums do not exist in the same way that humans do. They do not understand the concept of existence as humans do. They perceive the human's state of existence as an irregularity that needs to be saved from. As they understand so little, the question becomes very literal - they are asking "Do you exist?" - and if someone answers, the Festums become fully aware of the existence of the human that answered and try to "save" them by assimilating them.
This question really is the core of the show's setting. These two races are so alien to each other that this strange roundabout question is the only way they could initially even communicate, and both sides think the other is in a horrific, incomprehensible situation. Humans see assimilation to non-existence as basically death, and Festums see human's existence as something they need to be saved from. Most of the main cast want to establish meaningful communication with the Festums, but at this point, it is unclear if it is even possible, at least without fundamentally changing the nature of the Festums or humans.


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What happened to Reiner and Bertolt after Clash of the Titans arc?
After Clash of the Titans arc (from chapter 35 to chapter 50), it was confirmed that Reiner and Bertolt survived. Since they were previously planning to go back to their village with Eren, now that Eren has been rescued, will they really go back without Eren? Or will they come back for him?

Well, we can't predict the future more than you can. We'll have to keep watching to know what happens :)

I thought I might have forgot or missed an important part! @MadaraUchiha

Ok so thats how to control the prediction questions! @MadaraUchiha. I'll keep such things in mind in future!

I am not sure whether my edit reflect the original meaning of the question, but this is the most logical way I can interpret your question. Can you check my edit?

Yes, its just what I meant @nhahtdh

After the Clash of Titans arc, we don't hear from the two again until right at the end of chapter 70, where we see Bertolt atop the defeated form of Reiner's Armored Titan:

After this, his opponent (the Beast Titan) shifts out of his Titan form and confirms their objective - that they indeed cannot return without what they came for; Eren, or the coordinate with the phrase,

"Reclaiming the coordinate should be prioritised, right?"

After this, the chapter ends with the Beast Titan's shifter gazing over the ruins of the Shiganshina district:

The trio, including Reiner and Bertolt are left lying in wait for the Survey Corps at this location, as they know that will try and retake Wall Maria and gain access to Eren's basement. Chapter 72 finishes with the Survey Corps heading back to Wall Maria, with the two shown camping atop the walls of Shiganshina. A meeting between both groups will likely occur in the next chapter, where we will be able to see exactly what they have in store for Eren.


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In the fight between Jiraiya and Pain, why didn't Fukasaku and Shima's sound genjutsu affect Nagato?
In the fight between Jiraiya and Pain, why didn't Fukasaku and Shima's sound genjutsu affect Nagato?
I asked because:

The Six Paths of Pain were dead and were only being controlled by Nagato wirelessly through the chakra rods.
Shared vision and hearing with Nagato were demonstrated during fights and talks.
I didn't see the genjutsu released, so the other Paths should never have been able to retaliate if Nagato was still in it.

(Or maybe it did, but I just missed a sequence)

I think Nagato's awareness is divided between the Pains, so unless they were all affected by sound genjutsu, he would not be.


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Where is the second season of "Danna ga Nani o Itteiru ka Wakaranai Ken", chronologically compared to the first?
In season 1 episode 13 "Me, Her, and Another" (the last episode), Kaoru learns she is pregnant.
However, the second season makes no reference to this (supposedly huge) factor in their relationship.
Is there any hint where the two seasons are chronologically (from the manga, for example)?

The second season interleaves with the events in the first season.
On the title card roughly in the middle of each episode, it shows the episode number and where it relates to the first season in parentheses below it.

Episode 1 is 7.5
Episode 2 is 9.5
Episode 3 is 8.5
Episode 4 is 11.5
Episode 5 is 12.5

Screenshot from Episode 3:

Screenshot from Episode 4:

Wow that's just weird. I think I'll rewatch the show in the right order then.


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What is this Windows Vista/7 window doing on the wall in episode 3 of Re-Kan?
Around 17 seconds into episode 3 of Re-Kan!, there is this weird window (as in GUI element) from Windows Vista or Windows 7 on the wall of the classroom.

Another screenshot at around 07:22 in episode 1, showing the window in the lower right corner.

Looking through all 3 episodes which are aired so far, the charts and the weird window are consistently animated. While the animation is consistent, the choice of article to place on the wall is still weird. The window element looks completely out of place.
Is this an animation mistake?

It's definitely Windows 7, because of the Windows Aero transparency in the top bar.

@EroSɘnnin: The context is before class, when everyone is arriving at school. And if this were a presentation, it is rather weird why the whole wall is not filled up. Note that this is set in a normal school, not futuristic or rich kids school.

@EroSɘnnin: I'm going to post another screen shot from episode 1. It is really there. While the charts being stuck on the wall may make sense, the window GUI doesn't. About the top right corner, it's for ringing a bell, though I don't know when it would actually be used.

These look like printed screenshots for students' information. The window one with red rectangle around some buttons probably serves as an instruction (very important buttons are within the red rectangle).

It's a screenshot from LMTOOLS by Flexera Software. As it's a tool for working with a software licencing management server, I think you're right and it's out place on the wall of an average Japanese highschool.  It hard to see such a specialized tool being the subject of instruction, and the screenshot alone stuck to a wall wouldn't serve any purpose.
I'm guessing the screenshot was grabbed from the Internet somewhere. Like this one I found on as part of a FAQ entry on using the tool:

How did you figure this out?

@Pranab It wasn't too hard to figure out that the fuzzy text in the in title bar said something like "??TOOLS by Xxxxxx Software". Then I just tried a few guesses on what the ?? part was.

Maybe it's an inside joke from one of the animators, the kind of joke that only a few selected crew members will get.


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Why is everyone affected by Infinite Tsukuyomi?
As we know, we can avoid Sharingan-based genjutsu just by avoiding eye contact. Can't we avoid Infinite Tsukuyomi just by not looking at the moon?

The Infinite Tsukuyomi uses the moon to reflect the user's Rinne-Sharingan. Sharingan based genjutsu can be avoided by avoiding eye contact , yes. But not all. However the working of the Infinite Tsukuyomi differs from that of normal Sharingan genjutsu. The user's eye is reflected on the moon's surface. And then the moon shines or illuminates.
From Infinite Tsukuyomi wiki article :

This technique can also be reflected off the moon, upon the technique's activation, the light from the moon's eye illuminates the entire planet, turning it bright as day and making it impossible to escape. All living things are bathed in its penetrating light and immediately placed under the genjutsu.

Remember the part where Sasuke puts up the Susanoo to protect the team from the light produced by the Infinite Tsukuyomi moon? That was because the Infinite Tsukuyomi activates when the light falls upon the individual. The Susanoo blocked the incoming light rays and prevented the genjutsu. The moment the light penetrates the body, the person falls under the genjutsu. So, in order to avoid the Infinite Tsukuyomi, the person has to avoid the light given off by the moon. That is why the others couldn't escape it. Not looking at the moon doesn't help because it's the light that induces the genjutsu and not the moon's surface.

where is it said that the light of the reflection is starting the genutsu?
any facts?

To avoid infinite the infinite Tsukuyomi, create a very deep underground bunker and do not turn the lights on. Stay in the dark for a while until everything is settled, then you can come out of the bunker, it will take years to prepare.
Another way to avoid the infinite Tsukuyomi is to hide under a Susanoo but the susanoo user must have the Rinnegan to completely avoid it
These are the only ways to avoid the infinite Tsukuyomi.
If you don’t follow these, then you’ll


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At the beginning of episode 10, why is Yumoto so happy he got a cold for the first time in his life?
The theme of episode 10 of Binan Koukou Chikyuu Boueibu Love is Yumoto catching a cold for his first time.
When his cold is confirmed, he is exhilarating that it is the first cold in his life.
Why is he so happy?

can somebody make a tag excerpt for this tag?

In Japan, it is said that idiots don't get colds (one of the guys mentions this at some point in the episode). Perhaps Yumoto was thrilled because getting a cold proves that he isn't an idiot.

@Hakase I'll do it after dinner if nobody did already.


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What is "Project Tsuki-no-Me" exactly?
I know that Project Tsuki-no-Me was supposed to be "Madara's" Sharingan's reflection on the Moon itself, as Tobi declared during the Five Kage Summit. However, when he got his hands on the Nine-Tails Chakra from Lords Kinkaku and Ginkaku, the moon turned into a red one — it looks just like a regular full moon, but in red colour. So, is that the first stage of Project Tsuki-no-me?

I haven't finished Naruto yet, so, please, not spoil me. I you're willing to answer, just try to explain This to me, okay? :D.

The Sharingan has the ability to hypnotize someone just by making eye-contact with them.
From the Sharingan article:

The Sharingan's final commonly-used ability is capable of inducing a unique brand of hypnosis that involves suggesting actions and thoughts to the opponent through genjutsu cast by simple eye contact between both parties

Obito was even able to control Kurama, commonly known as the Nine-Tails (九尾, Kyūbi), so you can imagine what Madara's Sharingan hypnosis is capable of.
Again, from the Sharingan article:

[...] only Madara and Obito Uchiha have achieved this feat. It has been stated by Madara Uchiha that the beasts were slaves to those with the blessed eyes. When this was used against Manda and the Nine-Tails, their eyes took on the tomoe pattern of the users' Sharingan while under hypnotic influence

In order to hypnotize everyone, Madara needs everyone to look into his eyes. Therefore, he utilizes the moon as a reflector for his eyes so that he can apply Sharingan hypnosis on everyone who looks at the moon. The red moon is the start of his Sharingan reflection.
You might also want read this answer about Infinite Tsukuyomi:  Why is everyone affected by Infinite Tsukuyomi?

Tsuki no me, is essentially a permanent dream state, the user's body is kept alive by a certain mechanism- spoiler avoided. But the "spirit" is tricked into a "happy" dream.

Can you expand your answer and include spoiler in >!. If you can't get the formatting right, we will help.


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Real story of Hampnie Hambart?
In Sunday Without God, Ai's father takes his name from a story about a toy that continues to move for eternity after its spring breaks.
Is there an actual story on Hampnie Hambart that was pulled as a reference into the anime? Or is this simply character background information?

I'm pretty sure they made the story up specifically for the anime; notice how the toy moving after its spring stops is a metaphor for how Ai's father doesn't die. A quick Google search turns up absolutely nothing not related to Sunday Without God.

That's what I thought, however I asked just in case there was anything.


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Which episodes of Fairy Tail season 2 are anime-exclusive?
Aside from the Eclipse Celestial Spirits arc, what other episodes of Fairy Tail season 2 are anime-exclusive?

All Fairy Tail episodes are listed here. The background of the air date indicates what type of episode it is, with yellow indicating anime-exclusive episodes.
At the time of writing (The day after Pi-day 2015), the following episodes were anime-exclusive in Fairy Tail season 2:

All episodes of the Eclipse Celestial Spirits arc (204 to 226). Excluding episodes 219, 220, 222 and 226, which were Omake episodes.


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Who was this girl by Lucy in special episode 10.5?
In special episode 10.5 of Elfen Lied anime, there was a scene where Lucy was together with a girl in a school. Who was that girl? A friend? And why did she want to protect her? I thought Lucy hated all humans and wanted to kill them!

She is Aiko Takada.
Five years after murdering Kouta's family, Lucy (or Kaede as her original name was) went around killing and infecting humans. Aiko Takada was responsible for inadvertently stopping Kaede from going on another rampage when she was accidentally hit by a soccer ball.
Aiko is the second girl after the unnamed Orphanage Girl who befriended Kaede. In the anime, when Kaede revealed her horns to Aiko, Aiko found them cool, like how Kouta did back then. She is also a pivotal point in Kaede's/Lucy's life as

 Kurama shot Aiko by mistake when she tried to protect Kaede. Kaede then agreed to go with Kurama to the Diclonius Research Institute because he promised that Aiko could be saved. Later in the facility, he reported to her that Aiko died, leading to Kaede/Lucy hating Kurama for breaking his words and planning to kill all his loved ones while leaving him alive like what he did to her with Aiko (as Kaede/Lucy considers Aiko a loved one of hers).


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Where can I find (digitized version if possible) an old film called "The World of The Talisman"?
When I was little, I used to own this film on VHS:

I'm pretty sure that the version I had was called The Talisman.
I'm trying to find it again, preferably a digital version so that I can burn it to disk, but I can't seem to find it anywhere. It's also coming up with different names when I search for it: The Talisman, The World of The Talisman, and Birth.
The version I owned was an American dub, and I'd love to find it again, as it is a film my brother and I used to always watch, so it has a lot of nostalgia.

First of all, let's learn the different names and versions of the English dubs of Birth.

Two English dubs of Birth exist. The first was licensed in 1987 by Harmony Gold and released by Streamline Pictures in North America and the United Kingdom under the title The World of the Talisman. [...] The OVA was later retitled yet again to Planet Busters. [...] The second dub by ADV Films, released on DVD on July 13, 2004, is much more faithful to the original Japanese version.

While the names are different, the content and dub of both versions are entirely the same.[source]
The ADV release is titled Birth: A War of Two Worlds!, and there's a good review of the DVD.
You have two choices:

Get the VHS and digitize it yourself, or bring it to a Walgreens store (for example) and ask them to do it for you.
This is the only option if you want to reminisce about the Harmony Gold's version which you owned.
Get the DVD directly, but remember that the content and dub of the ADV release are different from what you used to watch.

I also recommend a read of this well-written post on the OVA and the animators behind it.

authors: Руслан Галимов


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Does Nyu have Vectors?
Does Nyu have Vectors? And if not, why?
I notice that when Lucy's mind switches to Nyu (looks like), there are no Vectors anymore, aren't there? And most of all, is Nyu a Diclonius?

Yes, she definitely has vectors.

Nyu is a Diclonious, she's a regressed split personality of Lucy. They share the same body
Whilst it's not explained in depth how Vectors work, it's understood that Vectors are controlled by the user's mind and are telepathic in nature.
Vectors come in several potencies depending on the frequency of the user's brainwaves:

Low frequency - Can go through objects without causing physical interference.
Medium frequency - Can lift objects and throw them, as well as disrupt blood vessels.
High frequency - Can slash through wood, flesh, bone and rock. Can carry liquid on surface.
Extremely high frequency - Highly visible and gain potentially explosive power.

Reference - Elfen Lied Wikia on Vectors
When Lucy is 'Nyu', her intellect and capabilities vastly drop. You may remember when she wet herself in Kouta's house, or the fact that she could only say Nyu when she first met Kouta. We can assume from this that her ability to manifest Vectors is inaccessible due to the decreased mental ability she has with this personality change.

I can't remember if Nana was only able to detect Lucy, rather than Nyu - I haven't watched the series in a while - but if so, that was probably based on the strong brainwaves active diclonius emit

No your right. When Nana is first sent out to find Lucy she can't sense her and when she first meets Nyu she knows she's Lucy but can understand why she can't sense her. When Lucy and Nyu switches she starts sensing Lucy again.

@Why_SE_bulling_new_users I wouldn't quite say that. They are physically the same body. But when in her Nyu state, she cannot access her vectors and can't do a lot of other things. With her personality change, she can't be sensed by other diclonius. I would say this is because whatever stimuli that the diclonius emit that is used for sensing each other, is severely lowered in her Nyu state. So you could say "she becomes more human in the physical and biological sense", but she is still biologically a diclonius.

@Why_SE_bulling_new_users. You should not think of vectors as physical features like "arms", you should think of them as mental ones, like the ability to speak. Nyu has a voice, she has vectors; she just doesn't know how to use them.


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While serving Hartgen, was Gillete brainwashed by magic or chemicals, or he was just in shock from the near death?
In episode 8 of the second season (Hitsugi no Chaika: Avenging Battle), Gillete didn't recognize his subordinates until...

 ... Vivi was forced to cut off Gillete's hand in order to prevent him from killing Nikolai. Due to the pain, he snapped out and regained his memories.

Did Guy brainwash Gillete, or was he just amnesiac?


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How did Caster find Saber?
In Fate/Zero, it seems Caster was able to find Saber far too easily. I can understand how he found her during her and Lancer's fight, as Lancer had "sent an invitation" to all servants and Masters. Rider even noted that the other servants were sneaking around watching the fight.
Before the attack on the Einzbern Castle, he intercepted Saber and Irisviel while they were driving (he was waiting ahead of them on the road), and he was able to quickly locate the Einzbern castle despite the fact that the Einzbern's wouldn't make their base of operations so easy to find, since I remember that in Fate/stay night, Ilya or Rin noted that the forest around the castle messes with people's senses and makes it hard for them to escape from it while being hunted down by Beserker.
I can understand how Medea was able to track everyone in Fate/stay night as she set up her workshop on the leyline nexus at Ryuudou Temple and was manipulating all of Fuyuki's leylines from that point (not to mention her abilities make her seem like a god to modern magi, so Einzbern would be child's play). I also assume Rin's knowledge of the castle came from the fact that by Fate/stay night, she was the second owner of Fuyuki, and as such, she would be aware of the Einzbern and Matou's locations, along with every other Magus workshops legally operating in Fuyuki.
However, in Fate/Zero, Caster had neither of these things, and both him and his Master didn't operate like proper participants in the Holy Grail War. So how did he keep finding Saber?

There is probably no canon answer, but we can speculate.

and both him and his Master didn't operate like proper participants in the Holy Grail War

This is actually one of the reasons why he could track Saber. Normal servant would focus on all other masters equally. Caster on the other hand single-mindedly focused on Saber. He could invest all of his time and energy looking for her and following her. This is probably why Rider was able to enter his workshop without being noticed.
As for Einzbern's bounded field. I think it was designed against humans and low-level mages. For something like Caster, it would be child's play to break it or to ignore it. And even if it did pose problem for him, he just needed to see Saber entering the area. He doesn't need to know where exactly she is in the area. That's probably why he lured her out and not approached her directly.


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Where can I find Slam Dunk English dubbed episodes legally?
Anyone watches Slam Dunk Anime? It's a basketball anime and I wish to know where can I find English dubbed episodes of this anime. Many thanks in advance! :)

Depending on where you're at, you'll need to find your local licensor. In North America, it's currently licensed by FUnimation, and you can watch it online at Crunchyroll or ANN Video, but I think those are both subtitled. If you want the English dub you'll have to find the DVD's. I know at least Amazon still lists the English dub DVD's.


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Why doesn't the Byakugan have a second stage?
The Uchiha Clan had the Sharingan which  has a lot  of different stages:

Sharingan (Increases power with age/3 commas = maturity)
Mangekyo Sharingan (Unlock = Kill a close friend/family member) (Blindness over time)
Time Erase (Kasashi's Mangekyo Sharingan)
Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan (Perfect vision/Incredible Power)
Amaterasu (Invincible Fire Attack)
Tsukuyomi (Illusion Technique)
Mind Control (Shisui Uchiha 'Mental Genjustu')
Copying Ability (Endless library of techniques) (See opponents techniques/Mimic opponent)
Susano'o (Giant Skeleton/Invincible Sword 'Totsuka Blade'/Invincible Shield 'Yata Mirror')
The Blade and Mirror were found by Itachi, by unknown means - Teleportation
Intangibility (Madara Uchiha)
Izanagi (Dream/Illusion Technique)
Sharingan+Rinnegan Techniques
Mangekyo/Eternal Mangekyo

And it varies for each user in shape and appearances:

Sasuke Uchiha - Six-Sided Star Shape (Mangekyo) Six-Sided Cyclone (Eternal)
Itachi Uchiha - Three-Sided Cyclone
Kakashi Hatake - Bizarre Three-Sided and Curved Cyclone
Madara Uchiha - Izuna Uchiha - Stange Opened Circle with Three Squarish-Openings
Shisui Uchiha - Four Sided Throwing Star

But the Byakugan stays the same and every member has the same one.
So it makes me curious, why doesn't Byakugan have a second stage?

You can't compare the two dōjutsu in terms of stages. It is completely different eyes. But as far as I know, Byakugan has only one stage while Sharingan has 5.

It is speculated that Toneri Ootsutsuki, the main villain in The Last: Naruto the Movie, will have a second stage Byakugan dojutsu. We'll just have to wait and see.

The Next Level Byakugan

Related question

There is a "second stage" of the Byakugan, called Tenseigan. And it has its own Chakra Mode, which is said to be on par with the Naruto's Nine-Tails Chakra Mode.
When the Byakugan is combined with the chakra of an Ōtsutsuki clan member, it evolves into the Tenseigan. The only known wielders are:

Hamura Ōtsutsuki
Toneri Ōtsutsuki

The Tenseigan has abilities similar to the Rinnegan.

The Tenseigan allows the user to control both attractive and repulsive forces, similar to the Rinnegan. Additionally, it also grants the wielder Tenseigan Chakra Mode, which in turn gives the user an increase in speed, power, strength, durability, and reflexes. It also grants its user Truth-Seeking Balls, thus granting the user all five nature transformations and Yin–Yang Release.
source: Naruto Wikia

Have a look at this for a better notion on how to write a good answer. Link only answers are discouraged. Please try to include some details of what's in the link, should it go down, we'd be left with nothing but a dead link.

In the anime, before the events of Naruto the last movie, the byakugan were the origional eyes of the otsutski clan: the precursors to all supernatural powers in the narutoverse. Kaguya was able to obtain the rnnesharingan, which simultaneously gave her both the rinnegan and sharingan, as a third eye while her natural white eyes mutated into the byakugan. The byakugan, at least by my standards before the conception of the tenseigan, were evolved from the otsutski clans natural white eyes while the sharingan and rinnegan were mutations caused by consuming the chakra fruit which most likely gave the wilder greater power than they already possessed. This probrobly evolved their natural physicality, eyes, but also gave them greater ocular power only obtainable by eating the shinju fruit: sharingan and rennegan. also, the tenseigan was most likely added post the events of the main story line to elevate the powers of Hamura to be on par with his brother so they would be deamed with the same amount of power.


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Why does Orochimaru helps Sasuke in the midst of war?
Orochimaru claimed that he wanted to take over Sasuke's body, yet he announced that he would help in the war against Madara.
Why did Orochimaru helps him?

Well, Obviously, But why? I thought, he was about to kill Sasuke to get his body, but he failed.

Obito Uchiha's ultimate goal was to place everybody in the Infinite Tsukuyomi and lead people to peace through genjutsu, where one can achieve his/her dreams and wishes. That being said, Obito joined Madara because greed had driven people to achieve ultimate power. In the course, his beloved Rin died. Given this, Obito was to trying make sure the greed gets completely eliminated.
Whereas Orochimaru is driven by the greed to master all the jutsu in the world. Obito would not let that happen in the world of Tsukuyomi. Therefore he had to participate in the war to keep his greed alive, with this he was not only helping Sasuke but also himself.
One can also question why Orochimaru took this decision just after Sasuke decided to join war with the will to save.
Possibly Orochimaru still wants to take Sasuke's body, maybe this was an attempt to win back his trust. Think about it.

@Miramiel Here is a quote from narutowekia about Hiruzen Sarutobi that would elaborate this answer:
"Questioning Orochimaru of his intentions when the Alliance mobilised, the Sannin notes that he shows no interest in this war. He, however, noted that Obito's plan to conquer the world will interfere with his experiments, thus deciding to join the fray. "
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What exactly was the "lie" in April?
The title of the series is Your Lie in April (Japanese: Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso).
What was the lie? What was the reason for the lie?

I believe the lie was that Kaori lied about being in love with Watari.

 On page 13 of Chapter 44. She says in her letter "This lie was that Miyazono Kaori had feelings for Watari Ryouta". She was secretly in love with Arima but didn't want to break the relationships between Arima and Tsubaki.

There are two "lies" that I can see in the last parts:

  1. The lie is the promise between Kousei and Kaori "Let's play again together"

  2. Kaori lied that she liked Watari at the beginning of the series

The real lie is that she never got to play with him again. As a child, she fell in love with him when she saw him play, and her dream was to one day stand by his side and play along with him. She managed to achieve her dream and play on the same stage along with him. After that she promised to do it again with him, but she died before it could happen.


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Why does Kaido want to kill Whitebeard?
According to Wikia, Kaido's article:

[...] Kaido and Edward Newgate were not allies, yet would not, under normal circumstances, provoke each other. However, Kaido saw the opportunity to take down his rival prior to the impending Battle of Marineford, and did not hesitate to take advantage to attempt so.

I don't know why Kaido wants to kill Whitebeard at first place. Are there any evidences from the series that suggest so?

Pirates are pirates. If they see a chance, they will take it. Also Kaido could have gained much with Whitebeard's death.
According to the Wikia article about the Yonkou (sorry, I couldn't find the chapter where they actually say this):

[...] the Yonko stuck in a deadlock situation [...]

Ideally Whitebeard's death would have given Kaido the advantage he needed to advance in the New World and eventually become the Pirate King. He just didn't expect Shanks to help out Whitebeard, or Blackbeard to be so swift taking his place and becoming a Yonkou maintaining their deadlock.

Ideally, the answer should cite which chapter, since you are currently using secondary source and even the same source as the question.

Still working on it. But all I could find is a discussion between some random people who also want to find which chapter was this.

At the end of that paragraph the wiki refers to chapter 233, where the five elder stars mention how the world is stable now (the deadlock I presume) and if something were to happen to Shanks (or any other yonkou), the world would plunge into chaos and things will be tough.

@PeterRaeves I checked that chapter (actually any chapter that I know where somebody was talking about the Yonko) but I do remember myself somebody somewhere actually using the phrase "deadlock" or "stalemate" in the manga. I just can't find it. Maybe I'm getting old. Maybe I start to imagine things. :)

Additionally:

From what is shown, Kaido is a merciless and confident warrior who never lets an opportunity slip by, as evidenced by his plan to attack Whitebeard during the latter's attempt to save Portgas D. Ace from execution.
He is also pitiless and not open to negotiations and excuses, which makes it seemingly unwise to provoke or underestimate him. This is enforced dramatically when Donquixote Doflamingo, a Shichibukai and World Noble known for his fearless and confident attitude...

So he's very rash like Ruffy and doesn't think very much, if he sees an opportunity to get a step closer to the title "Pirate King", he takes it.
You find more information about him on http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Kaido


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Could Dita really shut down Chi with her Trans mode active?
In Chobits Episode 24 - The Person Only For Chi, Dita, the government-made persocom, attempted to shut down Chi by directly connecting with a data cable after she failed to hack into Chi.
Could Dita really shut down a Legendary Chobits series like Chi with her Trans mode active?

In theory, Dita was manufactured for that purpose.
You need to know about OS on Chi to get these response. The problem aren't if Chi are on Trans mode or not, the problem are if their OS have some backdoor for access. If these backdoor are present, there isn't important the trans mode, it's only the difference between ability of the attacker and the defender.
On real terms, think on that scene as two hacker working. One are attacking and another one defending. Probably the most important question here are the computer power itself, because Dita and Chi are AIs, the better processor can react before and do better.
Also, you need to think about the methods. Taking into account the above, probably Dita have more processing power than Chi (Because if you made a persocon for defeating another one, you need more power on them), but, Dita only have a basic AI and programming routines for doing their work, but Chi have some knowledge (Because have their learning program), and some feelings.
Probably no, Dita cannot defeat Chi, because Chi can learn about the attack, and use these knowledge for doing something.
But, there isn't any fact about this.


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How to start the Berserk manga, should I bother with chapters 000a and 000b?
What chapters do the Berserk movies cover? And what are the chapters 000a and 000b and 000c, etc.

The Golden Age arc covers volume 3 to 14, starting with "Golden Age" and ending on "He who hunts Dragons."
Chapter 0 is the "draft" of what is now the main series, that the author did in college and is considered non-canon.

The Berserk movies cover up to Chapter 102. I don't know what "000a" and "000b" but you probably should read them because here's the content percentage in each format:
Manga = 100%
Anime = 60-65%
Movies = 40%
I've read and watched them all up to said chapters so I was able to make this comparison.


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Why are there different classes of titans?
There are 4 size classes of titans.

Taken from Shingeki no Kyoujin Wiki
Why is this so? Do they get larger when they eat?

It'll also be good to know why there is such a huge difference between 60m and 15m

This hasn't even been fully answered in the manga yet, as it turns out.

Spoiler alert!

The classes are just sizes and nothing more. However, the 60 m class is not really a class but is classified as special or abnormal much like Eren and Annie. These specials are basically one of a kind titan that have different abilities like jumping and running. We see them several times in the series.

but then there are these guys: http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Wall_Titan which makes 60m not unique.

Wow I didn't notice that... thank you. Hmm but although it would seem that way the 60 m is taller then the ones in the wall so maybe they are just another class like a 40 m one. To me it doesn't really make sense of why they are in the walls. Maybe we will later find out. But then again don't forget that the 60 m titan can apear and disappeare out of thin air like Eren and Annie so that would still make it abnormal because all the others including the ones in the wall can't do that from what I can tell

@bmrm145 It has been explained in the latest few chapters.

I forget which chapter when it happened. Spoiler alert.

 When the Marleyan army went to Paradis Island to turn the members of Eldian Restoration Movement into mindless titan, I thought they said that the serum can determine which class of titan they will be.

That is a end of anime season 3 spoiler FYI, which happened around chap 85-90


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How long can you manipulate a person with a Death Note?

If you write die of disease with a specific disease's name and the person's time of death, there must be a sufficient amount of time for the disease to progress. If the set time is too tight, the victim will die of a heart attack after 6 minutes and 40 seconds after completing the Death Note.

Let's say Y has a Death Note. He also has Shinigami Eyes, and because he's a genius he can read in Shinigami time. So he wants to kill Z.
He writes:

Z, bradykardie, dies of bradykardie at 11:59 on this date: 25.07.2062. Till he dies, he will always do whatever the person he knows as A tells him to do.

(Yes, Z is destined to die at the mentioned date.)
(A won't die, since he already wrote his own name in his Death Note.)
Would this work?

Don't forget about the 23 day rule, mentioned right after the section you quoted.

@キルア The 23 day rule only counts when you don't write the name of a disease.

@AnonymUser incorrect, it counts for anything. this answer goes into detail about the 23-day rule using examples which aren't diseases

@Memor-X Actually, chck the wiki. Rule 28 "If you write die of disease like before with a specific disease's name, but without a specific time, if it takes more than 24 days for the human to die the 23 day rule will not take effect and the human will die at an adequate time depending on the disease."

This would not work, because you can only manipulate a person for a maximum of 23 days with the Death Note. This is therefore straightforwardly called the 23 day rule.
As the 27th rule of the Death Note states:

The Death Note can only operate within 23 days (in the human calendar). This is called the 23 day rule.

As mentioned by Laiseran in the comments, there is indeed one exception to this rule. Although not directly relevant to your example, the 23 day rule can indeed be bypassed. If you write down a specific disease as the cause of death, but do not specify a specific time of death, the time of death will be unknown to the writer. The time of death will never be after the day that the victim's lifespan would run out, but if enough time remained, the Death Note will give the disease time to take effect. Since it might take more than 23 days for the specific disease to take effect, the human might thus be controlled longer than 23 days.
As the 28th rule of the Death Note states:

If you write die of disease like before with a specific disease's name, but without a specific time, if it takes more than 24 days for the human to die the 23 day rule will not take effect and the human will die at an adequate time depending on the disease.


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Which chapters are left out during in the anime of Attack on Titan?
I've recently started reading the Attack On Titan manga. I started from chapter 35 and skipped over 1-34 because that's where the anime left off and I already watched it.
I just want to know which chapters I should go back and read without having to reread all of them (because I'm lazy and I know I'll lose interest if I do)

That what i actually did. But i did check some of the chapter from 1-34, i did not find and missing part from anime so i did not bother to read from the beginning.

There is a cut seen where annie is sad about mina's death in the battle of trost. I believe it's cut in some animes but not others. Don't no why.

I have read from the beginning. From what I remember, the anime didn't leave much out if anything at all. It just stopped at a really bad point. The main difference is that the manga did not progress linearly and employed a lot of flashbacks.

One IMHO important side arc left out is about Ilse's Journal, though there is a separate OVA of that.

authors: Алексей Минькин


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What substance Tachikawa Yuko used on the Shimada Hideo's parasyte in the art club?
Yuko takes a vial from the art kit to use as a weapon against Shimada, in case he turns aggressive.

 He does turn aggressive, murdering 17 students.

The anime shows the label (in Japanese) of the vial.
What substance was that?

Due to Crunchyroll DRM features, no SS of the label available.

The Japanese label is 油彩剥離剤, which translates to paint stripper.

The principal active ingredient in historically common solvent paint strippers is dichloromethane, also called methylene chloride, which has serious health risks including death.

Symptoms of acute overexposure to dichloromethane via inhalation include: difficulty concentrating, dizziness, fatigue, nausea, headaches, numbness, weakness, and irritation of the upper respiratory tract and eyes.

DCM is also metabolized by the body to carbon monoxide potentially leading to carbon monoxide poisoning.

Prolonged skin contact can result in DCM dissolving some of the fatty tissues in skin, resulting in skin irritation or chemical burns.

That would certainly be consistent with the effects shown.


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Besides instant brain destruction, what would it take to kill Tatsuya?
Tatsuya can cast Regrowth on himself as an instinctive and reflexive measure. He did it twice in the anime (the first time when he tuned his sister Miyuki's CAD and enraged the brocon girl by not gawking at her semi-nude body, the second time when he received a lethal blast during the Monolith Code final at the Nine Schools Competition).
The wiki states (probably sourced from the novel) that his Regrowth was fast enough to be imperceptible to everyone watching the match, including Retsu Kudou, the patriarch of the 10 clans (who is probably the most perceptive and experienced magician of Japan, and the guy that could see with bare-eyed the Chinese virus Golden Electron Silkworms injected into Miyuki's CAD).
The time required to cast Regrowth into another subject using his Taurus Silver CAD (confirmed by Miyuki during the third arc) is 0.2 seconds.
Instantaneous brain destruction (like a nuclear blast primary zone, or dipping the head in lava, etc), should be enough to kill him because his magical processor would go down with it.
What else could kill him?

Be creative but stay in the same universe, please. Writing Shiba Tatsuya dies of heart attack on the DN is not acceptable.

What this comes down to is essentially the following:
Aside from instant brain destruction you mentioned, or instant entire-body destruction (which is essentially the same thing), Tatsuya can repair whatever damage has been dealt to him and survive.

The only sure way to take him down is to hit him with something that there's definitely no recovery from, such as Ichijou Masaki's Rupture. An attack like this would all but annihilate the body (including the brain, and therefore magic calculation area), meaning Tatsuya would certainly die. However, this is far easier said than done, as we know he is especially skilled at using counter-magic derived from his Decomposition ability.
Having said that, he isn't impervious to assault - he's struck by a sniper's bullet in episode 19 of the anime, and is overwhelmed by Masaki's uncontrolled Air Bullet (albeit while being under limitations) in the Monolith Code final, meaning it is potentially possible to land a lethal attack. And if the right kind of attack does hit, he's just as mortal as the next guy.

Tatsuya's Regrowth can heal major and minor wounds alike in a fraction of a second, meaning that he can maintain combat effectiveness through almost any injury he sustains. Lacerations, broken bones, and even the removal of one of his arms can be repaired without diverting his full magic calculation area to the matter at hand:

"A thin ray of light was squeezed out and grazed Tatsuya’s right arm.
Despite it only being grazed - Tatsuya’s right arm from the elbow down was carbonized and blown away.
[...]
Into that gun barrel, Tatsuya thrust his gun shaped CAD, the custom Silver Horn, Trident.
  With the right arm that was supposed to be blown away.
“That arm!?” Lina shrieked."
Volume 11 - Visitor III, Chapter 13

He does, however, reflexively heal any would-be fatal wounds that occur - and that can be exploited:
When used intentionally, as in the above quote, Tatsuya can control the magic he's wielding. When used reflexively on major wounds, that control is lost and the casting of Regrowth uses his entire magic calculation area, meaning he's left in a vulnerable state during the regeneration process. While only a short period, during this time he's completely open to attacks. Those mentioned in the first half of the answer would have no resistance, and even conventional attacks that strike the brain would be enough to kill him.
This essentially amounts to the point that Tatsuya has only two major weak spots - his brain, and his heart. This is proven during his fight with the Parasite Dolls in volume 12, where he only focuses on protecting those two points from any attacks.

"Amid the incoming superpower [...] attacks coming from all directions, Tatsuya charged forward while only protecting the vital areas of the head and heart and swiftly came into contact with the first Parasite doll.
[...]
Utilizing a full backup of Restoration could block the pain, but under those circumstances, Restoration would temporarily monopolize the entire Magic Calculation Area, crucially delaying any counterattack.
It was precisely for this reason why Tatsuya shielded the vitals that impacted life and death. So long as his Psions were not exhausted, he wouldn’t die even if suffered a fatal injury. However, if he did suffer a life threatening blow, then his survival instincts would automatically initiate a full backup and put every other magic ability on hold.
Volume 13 - Steeplechase, Chapter 7

If you can destroy the brain, that's enough to put him out permanently. If you can severely damage his heart, that would force him into automatic regeneration and therefore potentially provide enough of an opening to perform the first action.

The only other way to take down Tatsuya is mentioned briefly in that previous quote:

"So long as his Psions were not exhausted, he wouldn’t die even if suffered a fatal injury."

As all magic requires Psions to cast, if his supply was empty, he would be unable to restore himself, reflexively or otherwise. Therefore, if it was possible to completely drain Tatsuya's supply of Psions, a fatal wound (even one not targeting the brain) would be enough to kill him.
Of course, this is practically nearly impossible, as he has such a huge Psion count - even Mayumi Saegusa comments on this after he uses Gram Demolition during the Nine Schools Competition:

"But there are very few people capable of performing this feat. I cannot do it either. Since this isn't an interference ability but a true dispersion, I am unable to create that kind of force with my psion count.
In summation, it's a super heavyweight!
[...]
There were at least ten overlapping Magic Sequences during the incident, but they were all dispelled instantly... Exactly how
  high is his psion count..?"
Volume 4 - Nine Schools Competition II, Chapter 10

If nothing else, you could always wait for him to die from old age. While he can repair any injury, he still ages, and will therefore die like anyone else after so long.

Dying of old age isn't a thing in 2015.

Agree with @MichaelMcQuade the question specifically asks for killing XD - a person that dies naturally was not killed. Still nice answer +1

Taking consideration of Tatsuya's counter magic and his "Regrowth" execution speed (stated that it is now beyond human eye perception rate - taking perception rate to be 60fps then about 16ms) -
Miyuki's Cocytus: However there is a catch - although it is stated that Miyuki's execution speed of Cocytus is much faster than any other magic she can wield and her execution speed in school practical lab was 235ms (which was actually much slower than her normal execution speed from her specialized CAD) but the actual execution speed of neither Miyuki's Cocytus not Tatsuya's Regrowth has been stated in the series.
Lina's Heavy Metal Burst (Assuming Tatsuya's Regrowth execution speed remains the same): Her execution speed is greater than Miyuki's (except for Miyuki's Cocytus).If her execution speed increases further, then maybe.
Ichijou's Rupture - Nope, will be cancelled before it can be used
Maya's Night - same
Tatsuya's Material Burst - I always thought, what if Tatsuya uses Material Burst at an object near him (or that he is in the range of the blast). He cannot create a proper shield (his other magics have low potency) to completely protect him or has freezing magic

I would like to address this question by first asking if brain damage can kill him.
It is important to understand that the series emphasizes a difference between the brain and the mind. There is also a psion body, and a spectral form (which may be the same thing as a psion body), and the idea of life force.
These concepts are related to the mind, and the body, but the author has raised a distinction between them. The exact distinction is unclear, since mind and brain are often used interchangeably. The mind is also called the "soul" at times. For a Western viewer, the soul is probably closer to what this concept represent than the word "mind".
However, A USNA scientist in the visitor arc suggests that the mind is the thinking device, and the brain is simply a communication device.
What seems to be true, however, is that the brain exists in the physical realm, while the mind/spectral body/psion body kind of don't. The latter 3 also in some senses is an existence different from whatever spells are. Tatsuya can only affect spells and the physical realm.
Let me raise some examples of this. Sakurai Honami died because she used up her psions. Tatsuya was not able to heal her because psion exhaustion is not a physical attribute.
When the female vampire/parasite attacked Leo in the visitor arc, she drained Leo's life force; Mikihiko was able to see this by looking at his spectral body.
The pure force of a parasite is a information body, which I assume is something like a mind. Tatsuya cannot affect this with Mist dispersal because it is not a physical thing.
We can conjecture that magic is done with the mind instead of the brain. I am pretty sure we know that Tatsuya can suffer minor brain injury and still regrowth himself. Furthermore, the pure parasite can cast spells.
We can also assume that death occurs with the death of the mind. I offer this conjecture because Tatsuya cannot revive the deads. I believe the reason for this is that he cannot influence the mind. He can create an identical brain, but without the mind, the person is dead, despite being fine physically.
So we have a question of whether or not total brain destruction is enough to kill off Tatsuya. Since we don't know how long the mind can survive without the brain, we are not sure of this answer.
So, what can kill Tatsuya through regrowth? Ignoring his counter magic, basically that falls under 2 categories.
1) Mental Interference Magic/Other things that affects the Mind
The obvious answer here is Miyuki's Cocytus. Miyuki's magic affects the mind, not the brain, which is how she was able to kill the pure form of the parasite. It will freeze his mind, rendering him incapable of casting further magic. Even if he could cast magic, he couldn't restore his mind.
A less obvious answer is Miya's ability to change the mind. She could simply change the structure of the mind to no longer be able to regrowth. Miya's gate could also temporarily shut off Tatsuya's regrowth, allowing any method to kill off Tatsuya. Presumably, possibly with minor variations of the Pledge spell, Miyuki could also seal away his ability to Regrowth.
In any case, any mental attack could either damage/kill off the mind directly, or control the mind to not use Regrowth, allowing conventional means to kill off Tatsuya.
2) Psion Exhaustion/Uninhabitable enivronment
Dropping him in the middle of the sun will kill him. Even if his mind can revive him once, his regrowth cannot maintain his body in the sun. As such, his brain cannot be regenerated, and his mind will eventually die. If that does not happen, psion exhaustion will eventually set in and kill him.
In short, anything which creates a persistent lethal environment will kill him. Furthermore, if you can force him to cast a self restoration in a persistent lethal environment (say, a fire), he will not be able to defend himself. When his body is healed, it will immediately be destroyed again, forcing his self restoration to activate ad infinitum until he dies of psion exhaustion.
A continuous attack after he is forced to use self restoration does the same thing.
Tl:dr
1)MI Magic
2)Put him in a bonfire, or continue shooting him with a machine gun.

"Can Tatsuya Shiba be killed?" - This question is asked a lot in various forums and more than a few people say "Yes with the use of the Spell Rupture". Except there is a general problem with this answer that no one seems to realize.
He can see the activation sequence and uses Gram Demolition (spell dismantlement). However both Gram Demolition and Rupture have the same flaw of being short range. they can't cast them long distances but Gram Demolition has a slightly wider rage then Rupture due to Tatsuyas monstrous amount of Edios.
Tatsuya can be killed with Meteor Beam as long as he does not see it coming. It’s true activation speed is near the speed of light, but he can hold his own against it (Maya fears Tatsuya because of this fact in addition to the extremely wide range casting of Material Burst) unlike Jumanji Katsuto (next head of the number 10 master clan) and his Phalanx which stands no chance against Meteor Beam, Material Burst, or Lunar Magic.


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Which Master was spying on Rin?
In Fate/Stay Night, in the 2nd Day of the Prologue, Rin takes Archer to the Fuyuki Park where the 4th Holy Grail War ended. While they are there, Rin's Command Spell acts up and because Archer can't sense any Servant, they figure out that another Master is spying on Rin.
Just using logic, I could assume it's not...

... Caster, as while she is the Master of Assassin, she is also a Servant and Archer sensed no Servants.
... Bazett, as Kotomine had told Rin that 6 of the 7 Masters are ready. While it's revealed in Fate/Hollow Ataraxia that she was Lancer's original Master, at this point, I could assume he had already attacked and stolen her Command Spells
... Shinji, as the day before Rin didn't detect the Bounded Field at the school, but the day after she does, which means while she was away from school, Shinji and/or Rider would have been setting it up then.
... Shirou, as he wasn't a Master at that point.

So that would leave Ilya or Kotomine. However, I can't be sure if Sakura had created the Book of the False Attendant at this point, or if Kotomine was actually doing his own recon, so I am wondering if there is any source indicating which Master was spying on Rin and Archer at this point?

Caster is the only viable person to be able to use such an underhanded method, via her Far Sight (i.e., her crystal ball).
Shinji is incompetent to the point where he can't even provide his servant with prana, much less do basic magecraft.
Bazett is no longer in the picture by this time do to a certain priest.
Illya has no reason to, because she has Berserker.
It's not Kirei because he is the mediator, so the identities of all the masters would be known to him sooner or later, because all the masters are expected to report in to him.
Only assasin is capable of spying,  but the Assassin of this Grail War is confined to a shrine on a mountain...

So Caster could disguise herself as a servant from Archer but not as a Master from Rin?


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Why is the title spelled as Terra Formars?
Why is it that Terra Formars is spelled as Terra Formars and not Terraformars or Terra for Mars, while the technology to transform inhabitable planet into a habitable planet is called Terraforming and the noun is terraformer (Oxford Reference)?
Was there any particular reason mentioned by the creator of the series for this way of spelling or is it just on a whim?

The "Terraformars", while the obvious breakdown being "Terra for Mars", was the name given to the evolved roaches on Mars, this label was created after the first manned mission to mars after the terraformers were sent there. They were all killed after they managed to send back a warning message. After that, people on Earth labelled them "TerraforMARS". Don't think there's any official citation for the reason for the name, but there is another story by the author named "Terra for Police"


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Ai Tenchi Muyo! episode 59 ending song
Can anyone please tell me the title of the song that starts at 3:04 of episode 59? I love the way it sounds and I want to hear the full version, but since I can't read Japanese I can't find it.
Please and thank you very much for anyone that answers.

Please don't include links to illegal anime streaming website. The episode number and the timestamp are enough. Welcome to Anime & Manga SE.

Ahh sorry about that new to the site so didn't know that D:

The song is titled キミと見た花 キミと見た空 (The flower I saw with you. The sky I saw with you), according to the credit roll of the episode:

According to the official website of Ai Tenchi Muyo, the full version of the song is included in the BD/DVD Volume 1, which is set to released on January 21st, 2015.

封入特典
キャラクターソングCD壱

愛してるって叫びましょ!! -full ver.-
    歌:川流もも(CV:東山奈央)
キミのままで! -full ver.-
    歌:ハチ子(CV:優木かな)、沙流葉七(CV:M・A・O)、笛山塔里(CV:深田愛衣)
キミと見た花 キミと見た空 -full ver.-
    歌:川流もも(CV:東山奈央)、鬼ノ城紅(CV:大地葉)

Currently, the album 愛・天地無用エンディングテーマShort ver.集 Vol.1 which includes the short version of the song can be bought from Amazon, iTunes, among others.


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Why can’t Madara use Amaterasu or Kamui?
From what I've known, Madara was a legendary leader of the Uchiha clan. So, there are chances that he knew all types of techniques in terms of his eyes. His Kekkai Genkai includes:

Sharingan
Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan
Rinnegan
Wood Release
Storm Release

So, I wonder why couldn’t Madara use Amaterasu or Kamui?

Why do some Sharingan eyes have unique Mangekyou abilities?

False. Susanoo is unlocked when powers of both the eyes are mastered, regardless of what they are. The Fire Style is the Uchiha's common/signature technique, so the rivaling part is inconclusive.

Madara can't use Kamui, because that was Obito Uchiha's Mangekyou Sharingan ability, used by Kakashi after the transplant (after part I). He could only use it because he took Kakashi's Sharingan and used it to access Obito's pocket dimension to retrieve the Rinnegan.

Itachi - Tsukuyomi, Amaterasu, Susanoo
Sasuke - Blaze Release: Kagutsuchi, Amaterasu, Susanoo
Obito - Kamui, Susanoo
Madara - Susanoo
Izuna - Not mentioned in the series
Shisui -  Kotoamatsukami, Susanoo
Indra - Susanoo, Amaterasu

Madara can't use Amaterasu, because in my opinion, it's an ability that only runs in Sasuke and Itachi's family, seeing as they were the only ones to show this ability in the series.
All Mangekyou Sharingan users can use the Izanagi and Izanami ability.

Some corrections, 1. One doesn't need Mangekyou for Izanagi and Izanami 2. Obito didn't have Susanoo because he didn't have both MS eyes 3. Susanoo can be used by anyone who has both activated MS eyes

I think other uchihas may be able to use amaterasu but it put too much strain on one eyes that many decide not to use it. Itachi was crazy to use it. Sasuke uses it after getting eternal MS.

Sasuke had used the Amaterasu way before getting Itachi's eyes. He used it when retrieving Eight-Tails (Hachibi) and spammed it against Danzo. Then went blind. It was Itachi and Sasuke's specific ability, no other Uchiha can use it.

Madara cant use Amaterasu nor can Kamui since his eyes do not grant that ability.
Kamui is Obito's ability (in both eyes) and Amaterasu is Itachi's (left eye) and Sasuke could use it only because Itachi gave it to him just before he died (Sasuke left eye also). In both eyes Itachi has Tsukiyomi.
Susanoo is accessible for all Mangekyou Sharingan users who possess two of the eyes (so Obito didnt have it and neither did Kakashi - for most of the time anyway).
Izanagi and Izanami are accessible for ALL SHARINGANS not just Mangekyou (Obito used Izanagi on his left eye while fighting Konan, which was an eye transplanted from some random no-name Uchiha corpse and also Danzou had 10 Sharingans for Izanagi and none of them was Mangekyou)

Note, Sasuke did not obtain Amaterasu because Itachi gave it to him. Sasuke obtained a one time use Amaterasu from Itachi, which was automatically used against Tobi (and his eye used Itachis Mangekyou to do it). He then awakened his own Star pattern Mangekyou, and he had Amaterasu. Itachi had Tsukuyomi, but could not control Amaterasu. Sasuke did not obtain Tsukuyomi, but instead got the ability to control the Amaterasu.


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Who is the person called "professor" that is kept in the basement under Ichigaya?
There is someone/something locked in the basement of Ichigaya. He is the one who sent the message to leave the apple seedling in the inn after the raid by the agents.
He is also mentioned in the Sachi ending of the VN, and probably in the sequel VNs as well.
What is his/its identity?

This is a fair question, but it's worth pointing out that by its nature, the answer will necessarily be a spoiler for anyone who has only read the original VN (or watched the anime).

@LoganM I am aware of that, so whoever answers this question, please put a spoiler warning in it. But this site is spoiler-ridden to the core, if you think of it.

It is revealed in the third part Grisaia no Rakuen that:

 Locked away in the basement was Yuuji's sister Kazuki Kazami, but it was her brain that was left and functioning. Ichigaya was the one who retrieved her body and built a super computer with her brain.

In the anime, the corresponding scene is at the end of episode 5, and further elaborated in episode 6 of Grisaia no Rakuen.


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What's up with Nami's breast size?
Did Nami undergo a breast operation by Chopper?  ;-)

All joking aside!
How could an 18 year old girl's breasts grow so large within 2 years? After the time skip, Luffy became 19 and Nami turned 20. I know that in the world of One Piece, everything is possible, but why did the producers change her breasts?
This cannot be a coincidence:

From a comment on Facebook

TVTropes: Art Evolution. It's not uncommon for a long-running comic or animated show to change character designs over time. It can often be a result of personnel changes in the production staff, however I don't know enough about the staff of this particular show to say if this is the case here.

Oda answered this question himself in Volume 36, chapter 342. Nami's breast grew so much, because she was still young and in her growth phase. Especially with the two years timeskip, they had plenty of time to grow!

Reader: Good day, Oda-sensei. You know, that Nami-chan is so gorgeous!!! That beauty, that figure! I'm already swooning ♡ By the way, when you compare her to the Nami-chan in Volume 1, haven't her breasts grown somewhat? by Saori-chan
Oda: Yep. I get this a lot. But when you consider that she's only 18, she's still in her growth phase. She's got more room to grow! I'll give it my best!! (←?) And Robin's only 28! I'll give it my best!! (←?)

After I ended up reading more of the SBS answers, more measurements were revealed. So as we are all curious as to the question how much they have grown, I will additionally post those in the answer, Nami's sizes!
In Volume 6, chapter 49 Nami's Bust/Waist/Hip (BWH) measurements are revealed to be 86/57/86.

Reader: When the question came up about Nami's measurements, you promised to tell us sometime. So when are you going to tell us?!!
Oda: Hehe. I have made a friend that comes in quite handy for this. His eye is quite accurate. It's the "weird chef", who can tell a girl's measurements with just one look, Sanji-san!!
Sanji: Shitty guy! I'm not "weird"!! It's "love", I'm a "cook who loves"!! Oh but, you called me. I get it, leave it to me. Nami-san's cute, isn't she. She also has style to match. Now, let's take a look... B 86! W 57! H 86! No doubt about it!! But she's so cuuuuute. She's definitely a thief. But I still like her!!

Later in Volume 37, chapter 353, which was still before the timeskip, it was revealed that her bust size had grown to 95, making her new BWH measurements 95/55/85.

Reader: Hi, Oda-sensei! In Volume 36 you were saying that Nami's breasts had grown in size from years ago, so what are her 3 sizes now? I'd bet that every man in the country is dying to know this, so don't hold out on us!

Nami: Height 169 B 95 W 55 H 85. Robin: Height 188 B 99 W 59 H 89

Later, in Volume 42, chapter 406, which was again before the timeskip, Oda confirmed that Nami's and Robin's breasts were I cups.

Reader: I am "Sogeking-ko", a proponent of all healthy young boys everywhere! Healthy young boys of this country!! Remember the question in the SBS of Volume 41, asking about Nami-san's cup size?! According to my rotoscopic vision, Nami-san's under bust size is 65. So her regular bust size of 95 would make her an I cup!!! (donnn) That's HUGE!!! I'm a D cup... Boys... can you accept this answer??
Oda: Well, I must say I received a lot of answers to this question from my female readers. Thank you for your detailed and in-depth explanations. But you know, the boys aren't gonna read any of these complicated, difficult answers, so I'm just gonna report on the most common result! Nami and Robin are I cups. Wow.

Finally, in Volume 69, chapter 686, after the timeskip, her new size were revealed to be 98/58/88, J cup. It seems like she had grown a bit more. I wonder when her growth phase will end.

Reader: About the mystery of Nami-san's New World bust size from volume 66, I would like to provide my opinion as an employee at LADIES' INNER. Nami-san's bust size is most likely a "J Cup". There is a possibility that she may have even grown bigger than this. ...If my calculations are correct, her band measurement is 63cm, and her bust is 98cm. If we were to use these measurements, she would end up being a "K"; however, right now in Japan, there is no such thing as a "K" cup. She'd have to order from overseas. Oui, in other words, non-standardized!!! Well, personally, I'd say that Nami-san is a "Nami Cup". (Boiing)
P.N. Shimizu Chageburo's secret fan
(Translator's Note- LADIES' INNER is a Japanese female underwear chain store.)
Oda: Alright. Boys, the day has finally come. This fire that readers started on volume 66. Thank you all for submitting these countless letters. Sanji-kun! Has your nosebleed stopped yet!? Now, give them the presentation!
Sanji: Yeah... sorry about last time. So it's Nami-san and Robin-chan's current 3 sizes, right? They did in fact grow in size, but don't be tricked!! In these 2 years, what really improved is their "sexiness"!
Nami- B: 98 (J Cup), W: 58, H: 88
Robin- B: 100 (J Cup), W: 60, H: 90

Disclaimer: I am no expert on women's sizes and measurements, so if I had made a wrong interpretation somewhere, please forgive me.

I doubt there is a legitimate plot based reason for this, and it's more to do with giving more fanservice to the audience and perhaps the animators refining the character design over time.

Not sure if this is just a coincidence, but Nami became 20 after the time-skip. Considering that Robin had boobs from the beginning, it might be related to Japan's coming-of-age concept. Before the time-skip she was traditionally considered a minor, hence small boobs and after the became an adult, hence big boobs, like Robin-sempai.

if you actually look at the series before the timeskip they grow considerably from beginning of manga/anime to right before timeskip.  This really probably has to do with fan service for one but more importantly the target audience probably grew to include older audiences.

For body size her breasts are far too large to have not been enhanced. They get so large due to maturity, but usually only going up a cup and a half to two cups in size, and a lot of this is also determined by body mass. With her body size and figure she would have not naturally grown breasts that large without outside aid.
Granted I am speaking from a real life perspective, and with a toon you can do all sorts of illogical body proportions. I think this is mainly to attract male readers who for the most part don't care unless it has boobs and a tight butt. XD

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Is Avatar: the Last Airbender an anime?
Valid points are stated in this video.

In Western countries, anime is thought of as Eastern animation. In Eastern countries, all animation are thought of as anime.

So this question kind of leads to what is an anime? Does having a published manga a requirement to become an anime? Let's settle this once and for all, is Avatar: the Last Airbender an anime or not?

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There is no right answer to this. Call it what you will. The fact remains Anime == Cartoons. In Japan all cartoons are anime. In Korea, aeni, in China, donghua. People call it by the word from their respective nation because it distinguishes. It's what makes a Deep-Dish pizza different form a Sicilian pizza. Both are pizza, but quite different from one another. There is a designation, Avatar is simply an anime-style of animation. If I made a Turkish lamb hamburger with walnut-based sauce. All the spices and ingredients might taste Turkish, but you know a hamburger is not at all Turkish.

Strictly speaking: No. In practice: Yes, basically. In depth analysis: Is Avatar: The Last Airbender Anime?

This question is extremely dangerous! Also it is based on opinion!

http://meta.anime.stackexchange.com/questions/2295/is-this-really-opinion-based closure discussion on this question

Anime basically translates to animation, so the Japanese don't really have a distinction. Claymation for example could qualify as 'anime' in the East.

From a Western perspective, 'anime' is a looser term, generally meaning animations from Japan, but sometimes it's applied to Western shows with the anime 'look', like RWBY or Avatar.
There's no strict guideline on what qualifies as anime and what doesn't, and arguments arise frequently online by people with different opinions on this.
It's safest to say Avatar is anime-styled.
In regards to the 'manga' of Avatar, it seems to be commonly referred to as a comic rather than a manga. But the format of this should have no bearing on the animated production.

also on Wikipedia at the end of 4th paragraph of Production it says "The show's character designs are influenced by anime; but the show is not considered an example of such."

The other answers are being unnecessarily noncommittal. The meaning of the word anime has different connotations in the West and in Japan. No, Avatar is not an anime, speaking in English.
In the West - more specifically, in English - animation is a general term that means all animated media, yes including claymation and cartoons. In Japanese, anime is a borrowed word derived from animation, and it means the same thing as the original word.
After Japanese animated works crossed over to Western audiences, the word anime was then borrowed back to refer to animated works from that country, especially those with the style we would naturally describe as "anime".
Avatar is a show created in the west that was heavily influenced by asian culture and anime. It was designed and created in the West. It was not created in Japan, and it does not have the style that English-speakers would call "anime" -- it has influences, but would never be identified as anime if placed next to a show like Baccano! or Sailor Moon. The show's style is distinct from other western cartoons because of the Asian influence, but the incredible variety in animation style among Western cartoons is also a distinct flavor of American-designed animation. And animation includes everything already. Avatar doesn't match any criteria - I use that word loosely, since it's more a mass understanding than a checklist - to be called anime.
Saying that there's ambiguity in what is and is not anime is like saying that there is no style that an English-speaker would recognize specifically as "anime" at all, which is untrue. And I don't want to read any mentions of Avatar being animated in Korea, because no-one will ever call Family Guy and most other American cartoon TV shows "anime."
--Edit because I forgot to address the manga part--
Also no, the comics are not manga, speaking in English, for the same reasons as above. There are plenty of anime that don't have manga, so it's not any kind of requirement, to begin with.
Like anime, the word manga was borrowed by Western audiences to refer specifically to Japanese comics. In Japanese, the word manga is equivalent to the English comic. So someone speaking Japanese would call The Promise "manga" because that's the Japanese word for such works, like Calvin & Hobbes or X-Men. As with Family Guy, there are no English speakers who would describe X-Men with the Japanese word unless they were speaking Japanese.

great answer, but this location of origin doesn't sound right to me. a pizza produced in usa and italy are both called pizza right? and avatar animation, story style is so close to japanese animes that it couldn't be told apart from japanese anime without a trained eye

The word pizza would be like the word animation in that analogy, not the loanword anime. In fact, pizza is of American origin and was borrowed by Italy. Also, yes, American pizza and Italian pizza do differ.
Further, Avatar departs from the anime that inspired its aesthetic. It would not be confused for anime based on stills.

Even in Japan, most people would probably refer to X-Men as amekomi rather than manga.

The term comes from Japanese, and in that language, yes: Avatar is anime. As used in Japanese, the term simply refers to animation, and does not distinguish it by nation of origin. But as a loanword in other languages, however, Avatar usually doesn't qualify. Most languages other than Japanese have borrowed the term anime to refer specifically to animation of Japanese origin.
Anime-as-loanword is a somewhat fuzzy term, but generally refers specifically to the animation's origin, and not necessarily where it is produced. Much of what we would call anime is actually produced outside of Japan: it originates there, but the production is outsourced to studios in other countries. Kaleido Star is an example of this: its origin is Japanese, but much of the work was done as a collaboration between Japanese studio GONZO and Korean studio G&G Animation.
Likewise, a surprising amount of animation that we wouldn't call anime originates outside Japan, but the animation work is outsourced to a Japanese company. ThunderCats is an example in both its incarnations: few people outside of Japan would call it anime, but the animation work was done there (the 1980s TV series was done by Pacific Animation, while the recent series was done by Studio 4C).
Avatar: The Last Airbender represents a third category: it is neither of Japanese origin nor production, but is so heavily influenced by anime tropes that it can be difficult to tell the difference without researching the show's credits. The creators are American. The animation work on the original series was outsourced to a number of Korean companies. A few episodes of its sequel series, The Legend of Korra actually were animated in Japan (by Studio Pierrot), but most of the animation work on this series was done by a Korean company: Studio Mir. But despite the franchise's origin and production, the influence of anime on it is extremely strong, as its own creators admit. Anime's influence can be seen in virtually every aspect of the franchise, from its visual styling to its world-building to its character depictions.
Whether this makes it count as anime, or at least as "close enough", is a subject of debate among some fans. In the strictest sense, it doesn't qualify unless you're speaking Japanese. But if it's indistinguishable from anime without closely examining the credits, then perhaps there isn't much sense in insisting on the distinction. So, at least, say the people who would include it. There are also fans who agree that it's "not technically anime," but consider it close enough that it should be included in anime fandom anyway ("honorary anime" is a term you hear from this camp sometimes).
Even in Japan there is some debate, in a case of what can only be described as linguistic ping-pong. It's common knowledge that the term anime was borrowed (in abbreviated form) from English, to mean animation. English then re-imported the term, referring specifically to anime of Japanese origin. And although it has yet to really hit the mainstream, some Japanese fans have taken to re-re-importing the term, this time in the unabbreviated form animation, to refer to animation of non-Japanese origin.

There really isn't much point in arguing about whether Avatar or whatever is an anime or not.
Really, all you're doing is looking at the definition of the word anime, and there is no authority on that.
Depending who you ask, it's a style of animation, probably including shows such as Avatar and RWBY but not the Simpsons, or it just means cartoons from Japan, in which case Avatar is definitely excluded.
Because of this ambiguity, there isn't a simple, accepted answer to your question.


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Do Zoro, Nami and Robin suffer from bad eyesight?
Although I never noticed in the main story of the anime, there are scenes in some of the openings where Zoro, Nami and Robin are shown wearing eyeglasses:

Zoro in opening 11
Robin in opening 13
Nami in opening 16

Is the fact that they all have bad eyesight canon? Or is it just some filler that the author probably wanted to mix into the series?

Robin and Nami May be.Robin reads lots of book and Name draws maps. But wearing eyeglasses doesn't mean of bad eye sight. It may be for character's looks, appearance.

In the videos Robin is reading and Nami is charting. they may not have bad eye-sight but they may want their sight enhanced for those tasks. in the video for Zoro he's just lounging about however the glasses may be a throw back to that Marine Swordswoman who was with Smoker who didn't like the fact that a Pirate had a Legendary Sword (or after that, 3) and looked like that swordswoman Zoro admired when he was a kid

@mirroroftruth I don't recall any character in any series that wear an eyeglasses (not sunglasses) just for the sake of appearance.

may be for appearance like appearance while reading. Zorro is reading book and like some people use glasses to reduce the side effect while using computer and other thing which may damage the eye sight.

Considering they don't wear glasses normally or even while reading, it's fair to say that their eyesight is just fine. They simply like to wear those glasses from time to time for the sake of appearance. Even Sanji wore glasses for a moment in One Piece Film Z, for that same reason.

Do you have any reference that prove it?
How can you know for sure it was for the sake of the appearance alone?

Not only are there no references that prove that their eyesight is bad either, but if they really did suffer from bad eyesight, they'd wear glasses all the time (like Tashigi does, for example), or at least when working or reading. As far as I know, they don't, and only wear glasses from time to time, which proves that they don't need them.

Don't forget Sanji wore glasses as "The prince" in Alabasta :P

Well. Guys. I recall Nami wore glasses in Sky Island arc and she was working on the map of the island at that time or something. Therefore I think Nami has and ocasionally wears glasses for her work. For Robin, I think she might also have them because reading so many books.. but I am not sure about her. For Zoro and Sanji, I have a feeling they were more for appearance - like in Film Z, Zoro had glasses and other clothes and Brook commented something like how did he like the way Brook dressed him up xD ok I know it sounds strange but I hope you get what I mean.