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Can a person killed by Death Soul Reaper be brought back to life through Reanimation?
While fighting Orochimaru, Sandaime Hokage Hiruzen stated that a person killed by Death Soul Reaper Jutsu will have his soul imprisoned in the Soul Reaper's body for eternity and will be restless there. How can they be reanimated then? And in the event that they are reanimated, what will happen when they are released from reanimation? Will they go back to the Soul Reaper or will they rest in peace?

Yes and no!
The Death Soul Reaper Jutsu (aka Dead Demon Consuming Seal) (aka Shiki Fūjin) is a sealing technique. While the soul is sealed with the Death Gods belly, it can not be resurrected using Impure World Resurrection.
However, like most sealing jutsu shown in the series, there is a way to release the seal. This is done by the using the using the releasing jutsu along with a particular mask from the Uzumaki clan. After the soul is released, it is possible to revive them using Impure World Resurection as shown by Orochimaru when he revived all the previous Hokage and his arms after the Third Hokage had sealed them using Dead Demon Consuming Seal.
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http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Dead_Demon_Consuming_Seal:_Release

Reanimation is done by using person cells and bringing back their soul. Reapers Death seal locks away the soul within reapers belly so soul cannot escape. So Souls sealed by using reaper death seal cannot be reanimated. But if the reapers belly is cut the souls sealed inside escapes and then they can be reanimated as they are not locked up. It is clearly explained in the narutos 'episode 365 : those who dance in the shadows'

Q. Sandaime Hokage Hiruzen stated that a person killed by Death Soul Reaper Jutsu will have his soul imprisoned in the Soul Reaper's body for eternity and will be restless there. How can they be reanimated then?
A. They CAN'T be reanimated because their soul is not residing in the Pure World.
It is clearly stated in the wiki page of Impure World Reincarnation(emphasis mine),

To perform this technique, the user must first acquire some of the DNA of the person they intend to reincarnate. Kabuto remarks that this basically amounts to grave-robbing, although blood stains or organs salvaged after the target's death also work. The soul of the intended reincarnated must also reside in the pure world (浄土, jōdo); for example, those whose souls have been consumed by the Death God cannot be reincarnated. However, if it is a case where the souls are freed from inside the Shinigami, then a user of this technique is free to reincarnate them once again.

Q. And in the event that they are reanimated, what will happen when they are released from reanimation? Will they go back to the Soul Reaper or will they rest in peace?
A. Since they cannot be reanimated, they can't be released from it either. Their souls stay in the Death Reaper stomach forever (or) or until they're released by someone by cutting open the Death Reaper's stomach.

Then how orochimaru was able to reanimate 4th hokage during sands attack on leaf? I know hiruzen stopped him from doing so, but if he hadn't stopped him, then he would have been able to revive him.

@berserk - If you remember properly, the 3rd coffin which Orochimaru pulled out during the Chunin exams, he was unable to summon the 4th Hokage using the Reanimation technique precisely because the soul of 4th Hokage was still inside the Death Reaper. Hiruzen did not stop him from summoning. It was just that Orochimaru couldn't summon him at all.

I don't think reanimation works like this way. To perform reanimation, he needs a host first. If he can't reanimate him, what was the point of coffin? He must have reanimated him earlier on a host if it was possible.

@berserk - Have a little read here which might clear your doubts.

Its same thing you said xD I posted my doubt there too.

@berserk - That's because that's the fact. Anyways, let's see if someone happens to address your doubt there :)

It is true that the caster and the target that is the victim of the death reaper seal cannot be reanimated. We get to know this when Kabuto explains the mechanism of the Death Reaper seal.
Please refer to this question for more information
So the only event on which a person sealed using the Death Reaper can be reanimated is if and only if the person has been released from the belly of the death reaper.
Now, what happens if they are released from the reanimation? Well they simply go back to the world of the dead where the soul of the dead resides. Since after the belly of the death reaper is cut and the souls trapped there released, the souls must go back to the world of the dead and only then can it be summoned for reanimation.

To perform reanimation, he needs a host first. If he can't reanimate him, what was the point of coffin? He must have reanimated him earlier on a host if it was possible.

@berserk Please refrain from asking new questions in comments. If you have a new question in mind, post a separate question and we can attempt at answering it. Posting it in comments only makes it liable to be lost and not turn up in search results.

Yes because you need the Shinigami Mask to undo the dead demon consuming seal.


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Reanimation of Yondaime during Chunin exams
I read everywhere that Orochimaru tried to reanimate the 4th Hokage during the Chunin exams, but he was unable to reanimate him because he was sealed inside Soul Reaper's belly. But if he can't reanimate him, what was the point of the coffin? To perform reanimation, he needs a host first. He must have reanimated him earlier on a host if it was possible. So what was the point of summoning that coffin?
According to the Naruto wikia's page on Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation (specific revision),

To perform this technique, the user must first acquire some of the DNA of the person they intend to reincarnate. Kabuto remarks that this basically amounts to grave-robbing, although blood stains or organs salvaged after the target's death also work. The soul of the intended reincarnated must also reside in the pure world (浄土, jōdo); for example, those whose souls have been consumed by the Death God cannot be reincarnated. However, if it is a case where the souls are freed from inside the Shinigami, then a user of this technique is free to reincarnate them once again.
Next, a living sacrifice is required for the soul of the reincarnated to use as a vessel.

"He must have reanimated him earlier on a host if it was possible." about this line of yours... what do you base this on? I think this was never stated or implied.

@ytg How can someone perform reanimation without a vessel? and please see my edited question.

Related: http://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3281/whos-inside-the-third-coffin-that-orochimaru-tried-to-summon

@MadaraUchiha They don't explain this thing.

@berserk: True, but that's why it's "related" and not "duplicate" :)

@MadaraUchiha Oh ok. Can you answer this please? :)

@berserk that still doesn't explain the "earlier" part. And I think that's where your logic fails.

Remember the Orochimaru did not know of the Shiki Fuujin, he didn't know about not being able to summon the fourth. The Shiki Fuujin was kept highly confidential and was only ever used twice throughout the series.
Now for a more practical explanation, the author likely didn't think that far ahead, and caused The Third to be able to "cancel" the third summon. The Shiki Fuujin explanation was later applied an implied by certain events taking place.

So, it was a mistake by author?

As I understood it, each coffin was for an attempted resurrection. The resurrection of the fourth failed as explained above. I assume that Orochimaru either didn't know it would fail, or wasn't sure it would fail, so he tried anyway. I think the coffins were not the actual coffins that the bodies were buried in, just bodies used for the jutsu, possibly generated by the jutsu.
As far as needing a host, what you copied only says that a sacrifice is needed, which was probably arranged off-screen. I'm not sure what that has to do with being able to summon the fourth hokage.

You can see in episodes how they do reanimation. Even at the naruto wikia(link above), they mentioned that they have to perform a ritual for reanimation. They first take a living person and do some marking around him. Then they use the reanimation jutsu to bring back the dead on that person's body.

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What arcs of Shingeki No Kyojin will the live-action movie cover?
The live action movie for Shingeki No Kyojin is coming out in 2015 or 2016 if I am not mistaken. Does anyone know what arcs of the anime and manga the movie will cover?

I don't think any details about this have been released. In fact, I haven't even heard anything from the rumor mill.

First off, there are a number of minor departures from the source material, such as Mikasa's general personality and the setting of the world, but this is to be expected - all adaptions have a degree of director's license, and the main bones of the series are still easily visible.

"This is not the Attack on Titan you saw on the comic book page. This is not the Attack on Titan you saw animated on television" [...]
"It takes place in the future of our world, with remnants of warplanes and weaponry peppered across the countryside. Its great walls were built by human hands..."
Taken from Anime News Network

The first movie begins at the same point as the anime series, with the breach of the outer wall, and covers the majority of the main points up to and including the first battle in the Trost District:

Eren, Mikasa and Armin's friendship and discussing what is outside the walls
Eren falling out with the Garrison soldiers in his home city
The Colossal Titan appearing and kicking a hole in the wall of the Shiganshina District (Monzen in the movie)
Signing up to the Survey Corps. with the ideals of revenge
Travelling to and fighting in the Trost District with the other graduated recruits from Eren's training squad (Omotemachi in the movie)
Eren saving Armin, but being swallowed and having his arm bitten off in the process
Eren shifting into a titan from inside the one he was eaten by, and emerging in front of Mikasa
Eren (in Titan form) fighting the Titans inside the city
An unconscious but fully healed Eren emerges from his defeated Titan form, signifying the end of the first movie

Additionally, a more detailed plot summary can be read here, along with other information on the film.

Therefore, the following arcs are covered in the first film:

The 'Fall of Shiganshina' arc
The '104th Trainees Squad' arc
And approximately half of the 'Battle for Trost' arc

With the second trailer of the first movie released on Youtube, and based on below synopses, it seems like the first movie will feature the first chapters of the manga. The wall will fall by the Colossal Titan, Eren will join the Survey Corpse and will have to transform to defend mankind. It is also confirmed that Levi will not feature in the movie, but an additional character and additional content will be created instead.
From Wikia:

That day, humanity remembered... More than one hundred years ago, Titans suddenly appeared. The majority of the human race was eaten and civilization collapsed. The survivors of the war built three walls to prevent the invasion of the Titans, and kept the peace by securing the living area inside. In one hundred years, the wall has not been broken... until this day.

From IMDB:

A teenage boy named Eren Jaeger must use his special gift to fight alongside with the military to defeat the titan race. Mankind is on the brink of extinction when these man eating monsters terrorize everybody and destroy the last of human civilization left in the world.

Read more on
Wikipedia, Asianwiki, Finalreel or their Official website.

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Does anyone know what order Tough the manga goes in?
In the story/manga called "Tough", I know that the first series when he is 17 goes first, but after that I am lost.
Also could someone tell me the names of the series and possibly state a source for credibility? I know 2 are called "Oton" and "Koukou Tekkenden Tough".

As far as I can discern from Wikipedia, Kōkō Tekken-den Tough is first, Tough is second, and Odon is a spin-off series.


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Do we know Kyon's real name?
I was just re-watching the anime and it seems like Kyon is only a nickname. Are we ever told what his real name is? Maybe from the light novel? And how come Kyon has such a nickname? Does it have any meaning?

No, we don't.
From quick googling, it seems that it has not been revealed yet, even in the light novel. But it seems some hints exist.
From "Kyon" on Wikipedia:

The name Kyon is actually a nickname given to him; his real name has yet to be revealed in the series. His sister is responsible for spreading its use amongst his schoolmates, much to his embarrassment and annoyance, and he misses being called Onii-chan (お兄ちゃん, Lit. "older brother") by his sister. In the ninth volume of the light novel (The Dissociation of Haruhi Suzumiya), his real name is hinted at in a conversation between himself and Sasaki, a girl who had known Kyon since middle school, who said that it was a very majestic name that didn't fit him.

His sister's name also hasn't been revealed yet.
Thread in MyAnimeList discussing this - there are many hints and guesses being discussed there.

a very majestic name, I would like to hear that

@ShinobuOshino maybe its unicorn?

All we KNOW about his name is that it's majestic/noble. As stated before, Sasaki, someone who knew Kyon before, stated this, but still referred to him as Kyon.
As well, based off what was said before, his last name could start with "Sa," or "Shi," assuming the second mora of his family name is after "Ka" so that he is seated behind Sakanaka Yoshimi. Based off Haruhi's last name "Su"zumiya, it's safe to assume that his last name also begins with "S"
On those two points, anything we conclude must fit under those two points. Though John Smith fits under the second, meaning his name in Japan would be Smith John, it does not 'fit' the first one.
Haruhi, also wouldn't know what his name is right away, as EVERYONE including the teachers refer to him as "Kyon", this means that "Kyon" must in some way be related to his actual name.
A quick look up on Bing, says Kyon is a ancient Greek word, meaning 'Dog', which certainly fits his dog-like demeanor towards Haruhi.
Speculation Based off all this info, as his name must be related to "Kyon", his name must be majestic/noble, and his family name begins with "S" it's possible his family may be Shimazu, or a similar Sengoku-era family name.
Speclation As well, his given name might simply be Kyo.

*Speculation - I am sorry it was just irritating me especially since you spelled it right the first time.

There are a lot of conversations and speculation about what his name actually is, and the reason being... we are never told what it is. The nickname Kyon came from his aunt, and his sister caused for the nickname to spread to everyone else, much to his chagrin.
If I remember correctly, logical deduction leads us to know that his last name starts with an "S", based upon where he sits at the beginning of their freshman year of high school. However, everything else beyond that is speculation.
The only other place his name gets mentioned in any detail is the spot you mentioned in your original question: when Sasaki makes a comment about it.

Well, I will provide some information for ya...

 In the light novel (chapter 10b), Tsuruya called him "Kyorosuke", and if we replace "r" with "n", Voilà! his real name is "Kyonosuke". The reason why he's being nicknamed as "Kyon" is because of his parents' economical problems.

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I saw someone's comment at haruhisuzumiya.net about this...

Kyorosuke is a nickname for Kyonosuke. Tsuruya just replaced “yono” with “yoro”, just like most of her statements with nyoro

My own thoughts

There is a theory that John Smith is his real name, but I don't think it really is. Yes, his name is not mentioned anywhere yet. Kyon's sister is also "Kyon's sister" for now ^_^.
  Not revealing name also may hint that he plays a more important role in universe than we think. He must be some kind of Kami or something <_<

I guess the theory about John Smith become his real name is rather impossible, if it really his name, then Haruhi should recognize him from the start because as his classmate she should know his real name at the first place

Well, Shinobu make sence, but John Smith may count nobel(in translation I read it was refered "Nobel", not majestic) since it is of foreign origin.


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Why wasn't Byro's magic working on the new Oracion Seis?
During the Clock Arc in Fairy Tail, when the new Oracion Seis shows up, Byro (from Legion) was not able to nullify their magic. Why was he unable to do it? I don't think the activation depends on the opponent's power, and in any case if it does, he wouldn't be able to nullify Gildart's magic.

In case no other user has an explanation: It´s filler logic :p The anime team doing something which makes no sense because they´ve got no better ideas within their time limit...

During the episode, after Byro is attacked by Midnight (or Brain II), Jackpot says that "Brain's magic refracted the range of Byro's magic and attacked him". This seems to tell us that Byro can only nullify magic within a range (it figures, as otherwise Byro would have been able to nullify all magic around him, however far apart it is, thereby preventing Natsu or Gildarts from even conjuring their powers). Thus Brain's attack lands on him as it surrounds him rather than coming in a straight line. Also, Brain attacked suddenly, catching Byro by surprise, thus giving an additional reason for Byro's inability to nullify Brain's magic. Then again, perhaps Byro may even have a limit to his ability, i.e. he can't nullify magic that is too powerful.
P.S: This particular incident happens in episode 140 'The Reborn Oracion Seis Appears!'. You may want to watch it again to see the part where Jackpot says the above quoted words. I have quoted the English translation that was shown on the screen, the perfect literal meaning may be different in different translations, so sorry if it's something else that you see there. I know only the anime version of the story, not the manga. Manga may have some other explanation.


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Why does the ground shake when titans walk?
In the latest series, an experimenter told Eren that titans are very light despite their size. Why, then, does the ground shake when they walk?

Maybe they're "light" in the regard that their weight scales with the square of height (assuming that, you can scale up anything and it won't buckle under it's own weight).  Ordinarily, the Square-Cube Law makes giant monsters impossible.  Punching, kicking, or other generated forces (like material strength) is square-law anyways.

They are not light, they are heavy. If a body part is cut, the cut-off body part becomes lighter and turns to vapor or smoke. That's what the girl experimenting on titans says to Eren.

The impression I got from Hange Zoe was that the titans were light (and that this could be concluded from the experimental data). (This is probably not the best way to comment on this, but also assuming some conservation of mass holds in the SnK universe, this doesn't really make sense.)

you say experimental data where is it in the series, i know only the conversation between eren and girl that experiments. I cant find any other.

I am referring to that conversation.

In that conversation she mentions the cut body parts are light not the whole titan body.

yes, it's reasonable to assume from that that the whole body should be lighter than expected as well.

No, she does say the titans are light when she says that normally "creatures this size shouldn't be able to lift their own weight" a fact that I actually proved wrong with my calculations about titan Eren's unnatural strength for his size.

For the same reason Antman from marvel comics is supposedly the same weight constantly, yet can be pushed away by water and lifted by a single ant. Because they need to be.

It's probably not so much that the titans are very light eventhough they are really large, but that they are light for their size. Meaning that they're still really heavy, but not nearly as heavy as their size would make it seem.
Anime vs Real physics aside, if something really large was light enough not to make the ground shake, at least a little, they're probably not heavy enough to generate the needed friction to run, or if they were to move their body really quickly they'd leave their feet, or if they jumped they'd be in the air for much longer, or if they stomped the ground hard, they'd launch themselves into the air, etc.
All the interactions of the titans make them seem like they weigh enough to interact normally with their surroundings, just that for their size, they actually weigh a lot less than expected.

The whole weight thing is rather unexplained. On the one hand, they said titans are incredibly light, on the other hand, they can dish out destruction on the level you'd expect from a humanoid this size.
Were the weight thing consistent, Titans wouldn't be able to destroy buildings or make the earth shake.
So far, it wasn't entirely explained, it's possible that they weigh enough to cause the ground shake or destroy things, but light enough for the head to be easily kicked around after it was severed.

That’s a question I’ve asked myself a lot. I’ve come to the conclusion that we shouldn’t consider titans as larger human beings as their structure is fundamentally different from ours. It has been proven that when an animal’s size increases by 10 times, the strength increases by 100 times and the weight by 1000 times. For example, I’m about 1 meter 70 tall and roughly 60 kg. If I were to be ten time bigger, I’d be a 17 meters class and have a hundred times my actual strength, but my body would weight 60 tons!
So Titans are light (as revealed by Hange Zoe), but I also think they have abnormally high strength for their size. At the end of the Trost arc, Mikasa said when she saw Eren lifting the boulder that a human that size couldn’t lift it.
Let’s try to calculate (roughly) the weight of the boulder. Eren (15 meter class) is taller than the boulder, and it seemed bigger than the hole that it is supposed to sealed, which was mentioned to be 8 meters high. So I would say it has a diameter of about 10 meters, and so a volume of approximately 525 m3. That makes it more or less 1.4 million kilograms! So of course a human that size couldn’t lift that, unless you can lift 14 tons, plus ten times your own weight with your natural size. So at that point, I understand why the earth was rumbling under Eren’s footsteps.
But I’m getting away from the subject. I’d like you note the fact that after the colossal titan’s appearance in front of the Trost gate, once Eren made him disappear, you can see step marks on the ground, which would lead you to think of an immense weight (I don’t know if you can see it in the manga).
Conclusion
Titans are both abnormally light and strong for their size. The shaking of the ground is just an effect in the anime to emphasize their size and the danger they represent.

No-no, no calculation error here. Admitting that that in titan-form you are roughly ten time bigger (100 time stronger) I divided the weigh of the boulder by 100 to take it back to human scale and divided the weight (1000 time your weight divided by 100 makes ten times your weight) so no error here, I maybe just wasn't as eloquent as I wished I'd be. As for the the size-strength-weight relation I just assumed it as a generality (it's a rule that has been proven to apply to every animal). You should find (maybe) the answers on this wiki page: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effet_d'%C3%A9chelle

Sorry for the link being in French by the way, but I couldn't find better...

Ah, you are right about the numbers. The source is still a bit problematic, though, since it doesn't say anything about strength - only metabolism and body surface. (This is just me being skeptical about the facts, but good reference helps to persuade everyone else here).

But I still can't find any explanation for the footmarks under the colossal titan, he must be very heavy considering how deep they are, even Eren with his 1.4 thousand ton boulder didn't make such marks...

I'd like to know the reasoning here, because this seems literally the complete opposite to all observed facts I've seen quoted.  It's common knowledge an ant can lift 50 times its body weight - http://insects.about.com/od/antsbeeswasps/f/ants-lift-50-times-weight.htm  All evidence I've ever seen points to the opposite being true, the bigger you are, the less proportionately strong you are.

Their weight comes from what they are powered by. Thinking about it, they secrete clouds of heat and "Burn out" when too much energy has been expanded (the hybrid humans after using their titan form). And being as impossibly strong, fast, quick motioned as they are (erin lifting a boulder about 50 tons heavier than his titan weights) the best possibility that they run on adrenaline more than blood. Adrenaline is the only reason fighting, sprinting, moving large objects is possible. The titans, abnormal or not, sprint instead of run, crush instead of grab, can THROW another titan, and obliterate both the section of the opponents body and the hand or limb they used. Adrenaline. The titans lack a digest system, which questions what else they have besides bone and muscle. This can give way to a major adrenal system instead of gland, and since adrenaline is activated by the components of blood, thier constant need is both give the adrenaline a power source and cool them down to avoid "burning out", adrenaline works like an acid, and a heat source in desperate times. To explain thier weight is the fact that they lack the organs that weight us down.

I probably think that Titans produce alot of energy, and some of that energy goes into the surface, creating a small quake. Objects don't need size to create large forces of energy to create a shake on the ground. You could just drop a 1 ton coin I guess and it will shake the ground. You can even drop a building around 100 meters tall constructed out of aerogel and it will create NO force at all.

The point is: density. Titans are not light, they're just not dense.  That is to say, they're light for their size or relative volume.
They still probably have a mass of thousands or tens of thousands of kilograms, but they're much lighter than normal biomechanical physics would dictate for an organism that size.
Typical flesh generally has a density of around 1000kg/m^3, where whatever a titan is made out of might have something closer to 400kg/m^3 or 300/m^3.
This does not mean titans are light, it means an equal volume piece of human would be heavier than that equal volume of a titan.
But, titans are huge. An average human male weight around has a mass of around 80kg, so we'll call that a volume of 0.08m^3  (assuming the 1000kg/m^3 density)
Now, a 15-meter titan might have a volume of (lazy guess) 8m^3
Which even with a much lower density like 400kg/m^3 that's 3,200 kilograms, or about 3 and a half US tons.

The simplest thing I can think of is when Hanji tells Eren about the titans being light, the examples she uses are:
1-A dismembered titan head.
2-A dismembered titan arm.
We also know that titans bodies quickly (or at least semi-quickly) evaporate after being killed. Considering that, we can assume that Henji's data was incorrect due to a large portion of the parts she tested with having evaporated. So the titans may possibly be heavy still, thus, the ground shakes when they move.

How does this answer the question?

@ʞɹɐzǝɹ♦ My apologies. My answer was slightly cut off. I have now edited it to a full :)


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Why are there two different openings for Nadeko in Bakemonogatari?
In Bakemonogatari, there are two different openings for Nadeko - the one with a hat and the one without it.

Is there any specific reason why that is?

Is the music also different?

@Maroon the hat is the only different between those two

@ShinobuOshino the Tiger Paw on her foot is different and the Shadows down her side including the bear and the corner of the white thing on the right. also if you look at the arm with the Pokie you can see it's been moved across though that is more of a graphical correction

Studio SHAFT has almost a custom of changing openings even after they first aired. For example currently airing Mekakucity Actors have slightly different openings for their first 3 episodes, usually changing text fonts or scenes slightly. The reason for this is simply lack of time management, where they don't put much time to "quality check" the opening with director and they keep changing it until they like it.
That is probably case with Nadeko's OP. Someone of power simply didn't like the version with hat, so they remove it.

As every character in the Monogatari series holds a metaphorical reference to the oddity he/she meets, the opening shows Nadeko's evolution.
Senjougahara has a stapler representing a crab's claw as we see in first episode.
Mayoi carries her bag as a snail shell, and her shadow itself becomes a snail - her symbol when she sticks to Koyomi as they walk with Senjougahara in episode 5 of Bakemonogatari.
Kanbaru carries her own arm as the representation of the Rainy Devil, mistaken for a monkey's paw within the arc.
Hanekawa has her ears turning into that of a cat, approaching her own symbol.
Nadeko has her jacket and hat, representing a snake's second skin. As she seems to be shedding her skin (becoming a totally opposite character in the second season, thus explaining the change of her outfit), the disappearance of those in the OP scene of her season one arc shows she's been released from the snake's bindings.
As the OP is highly subjective and reveals her inner thoughts, it might mean that she feels safe whenever she reaches Koyomi to ask for help (at the end of the first episode of the arc), revealing how deeply she trusts him.

"Hanekawa has her ears turning into cat's one, approaching Kanbaru's symbol." seems to be wrong, so I change it to the current version.


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Why didn't Fuyumi and Hydra Bell fuse like their mothers did?
From what I understand, When two opposite individuals (one from the human world and one from the demon world) touch each other, they are fused together to create one new individual that is made of the two of them.
So if Fuyumi and Hydra Bell are both the daughters of Nyen (Nene), why they didn't fuse when they touched each other?

The straightforward answer to your question is that Fuyumi and Bell aren't doppelgangers ("opposites") for each other, and so there's no reason one should expect that they would fuse with each other.
Sure, their mothers were doppelgangers, but that doesn't mean that their children - Fuyumi and Bell - should also be. For one thing, they don't look very much like one another, whereas their mothers (pre-fusion) totally did:

If the common sense said (according to this series) every "coin" has two sides, then who would be better choice to be the other side of Fuyumi than Bell?

So it means that to have a doppelgangers their parent also need to have a doppelgangers and married with same doppelgangers? Am I said it right?

@ShinobuOshino I don't think so. Because then it's canceled the linear generation of all things. Basically two individuals never be doppelgangers because their parents didn't was doppelgangers and so on...

I guess the thing is that there's no reason that doppelgangers should have anything to do with genetics and/or familial relationships - as @HashiramaSenju points out, if you required "doppelganger-ness" to be transmitted by inheritance, you'd have entire family lines of doppelgangers, which doesn't seem to be the case.

maybe the reason they didn't fuse when they were kids was because they were in the presence of another doppelganger fusion causing a energy thing.....
and why they don't fuse now is because fuyumi is a demon now so here and bell are not complete oposites anymore.... but if fuyumi is resurrected and bells in the rum they might fuse then.


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What is the name of this spirit manga?
I remember reading a manga but I don't remember the name. There were two main characters a boy and girl, they are both protectors of a spirit ground which is located under the school that they go to. All of the monsters are attracted to the ground because they can evolve there, the boy and the girl have to go around and kill them by placing magical white cubes around the ghosts and other monsters and saying "Kai" which is the destruction spell. This is all I remember please help me find the name!

It's Kekkaishi

Synopsis

By night, junior high student Yoshimori Sumimura is a "kekkaishi"--a demon-hunter who specializes in creating magical barriers around his prey. By day, Yoshimori's got some other demons to battle: an addiction to sweets and a seriously crotchety grandfather! Yoshimori's pretty 16-year-old neighbor and childhood friend, Tokine Yukimura, is also a kekkaishi, but their families are feuding over who is the true practitioner of the art.


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At the end of Deadman Wonderland, is Shiro in prison?
I just finished the manga and I get that she woke up from the coma and injuries but it looks to me that she is still under lock. Does that mean she is still in a prison and she can't be free?


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How many seasons are there of xxxHolic?
Are there more seasons of xxxHolic? The only seasons that I can find are 1 and 2 and I think 3.

Welcome to the Anime/Manga SE site. What exactly are you referring to with "more seasons"? Which have you see so far?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XxxHolic#Anime_TV_series

What country are you in and what language of the seasons are you talking about. in terms the English Release only the first season was ever released outside japan

Ok, i am unsure what you mean by a 3rd Season but here's what i've looked up, there is

xxxHOLiC (Season 1) which was saw a number of releases outside Japan, 24 Episodes
xxxHOLiC: Kei (Season 2), this hasn't see as many releases, in the link there is a French Translator and Arabic Broadcaster but no licencing or distribution companies are listed, 13 Episodes
xxxHOLiC: Shunmuki (OVA), so far only dench is listed, 2 Episodes
xxxHOLiC: Rō (OVA), only in japan, 1 Episode
xxxHOLiC: Rō Adayume (OAV), once again only in japan, 1 Episode

there is also a xxxHOLiC movie called xxxHOLiC the Movie: A Midsummer Night's Dream, numerous releases and from what i've seen in Australia gets released with Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE the Movie: The Princess in the Birdcage Kingdom aswell.
Finally, i should forget the Manga which is released in English.
the List above is i'm assuming the chronological order as the links all seem to indicate that much but i haven't seen the series myself however xxxHOLiC ties itself with Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE from my understanding.
To answer you main question How many seasons are there of xxxHolic i'd say only 2 Seasons and 4 OVA's (remember Shunmuki has 2 episodes)
Now i have no idea how long the OVA episodes go for however i accept Maria Watches Over Us OVA Season 3 is a season by itself as that has 4 episodes about 40-50 minutes each, in a sense that's about 8-10 regular episodes of a normal series or if xxxHOLiC's episodes OVA episodes are about that you can refer to them as seasons aswell

I only saw xxxholic and xxxholic Kei and one move


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Name of anime with a substitute hero
Here is the story. The hero is a boy who likes a girl that ends up being a witch. When she is in trouble he tries to rescue her but get's beamed to a spaceship by another girl who needs his help. Before he can help her he gets summoned to another planet to fight an overlord dragon who is immune to magic. He then slays the dragon with a ray gun he takes from this spaceship.
Does anyone know the name of this anime?

You're looking for the light novel and manga series, Ore ga Heroine o Tasukesugite Sekai ga Little Mokushiroku!?

You are awsome. I am sorry I said anime. You hit it right on the head.

@Eric If you feel that this helped you,  you should click the check mark on the left of the answer.


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Manga in which the protagonist can enter stories
The protagonist enters a story and becomes the replacement for the original protagonist of that story. After each arc, he uses an element of a previous story in order to solve the current story's world's problems. It's still quite new so it should be under 50 chapters.
I read it maybe a half a year ago. Does anyone what manga this might be?

Do you have an approximate time-frame for "it's still quite new"?

Maybe half a year ago?

This question as it stands sounds a bit too broad and a bit unclear what your asking and I might even vote to close. Do you have any idea what genre it might be, when you watched it etc? :)

@user148900- Please consider editing that into your question and also adding additional details if you can remember. :)

I think it's either "lasboss x hero" or "Ore ga Heroine o Tasukesugite Sekai ga Little"

It could be KINGDOM HEARTS, and is actually based on a PlayStation 2 game that came out first.
In the main story, Sora (the protagonist) travels among other worlds. And in each world, he transforms and blends in to resemble the world's characters.
Also in every world, there is a problem that only he could help to fix.
In the first season of this series, there are 43 chapters


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What is this anime in which the main characters train to stop Satan and they all wear weird suits?
I only remember a character or two, but please help if possible! All the characters in this anime wear weird suits, and they train to stop Satan. There are 4 main characters in total that I know of.
Character 1 is one of the main characters. He has long blue hair, light blue eyes. His body is weak since he has been very sickly since birth. His dad is pretty famous. He trains diligently, and is loved and cared for by everyone in the school. His suit is blue and VERY powerful, and he is very kind.
Character 2 is the main protagonist. He has red hair. He is a big "do it now" kind of guy, and is new to learning how his suit works. In the first episode, his mom was taken by Satan. That's why he trained so hard to get his suit more powerful and stronger to help him. His dad is like a huge god or something. He is good at making enemies, leader of their "pack" (as I call it), helpful, and is not afraid to ask for help.
In the last episode I watched, they had to find some partners to pair up with. Character 1 partnered with a female protagonist and character 2 partnered with a male protagonist, who was the first character to be introduced. Character 1 fought an enemy that wanted him dead or something, and his friend got hurt in the process. The second character helped his friend pass the course and win. Same with the first character and friend. In the end, all four of them passed, then they competed with each other in a battle. That's all I know.

Do you have any pictures? I might be able to figure it out then.

It might be worth reading the (lengthy) TV Tropes Red Oni, Blue Oni page and seeing if any of the examples ring a bell.

No sadly I don't have a picture I wish I did but sorry this is all the information I have

Matt Nordhoff sorry no it wasn't there but yes it did ring a few bells.

Character 1: his name starts with R, he is sooooo nice to everyone, and I think he is first seen in episode 3

Oh and they are JUST FRIENDS, not partners or anything, nothing more. Just wanna put that out there before anyone gets the wrong idea

this sounds like Devilman

Akinator was fun to use, but with what I had to go on was kind of fruitless.  I found a neat site via Google that has an anime character database. Using the advance search option would probably be your best bet.
Here is the link: http://www.animecharactersdatabase.com/searchacdb.php

This is a quite wild guess but it could be Saint Seiya Omega:

The storyline of Omega takes place 25 years after the Holy Wars of the 20th century narrated in the original manga and its anime adaptation. The goddess Athena is still on Earth after reincarnating to continue her duty of protecting peace against several antagonistic deities. Athena and a new generation of Saints prepare to face new threats that lurks in this new era, in which Pegasus Seiya, the protagonist of Kurumada's manga, is revered as a Saint of legend and one of Athena's Gold Saints.

The two characters you are referring to could be:

Dragon Ryuhou:

Very caring of others by nature, Ryuhou suffers from a frail health. Calm and polite, he has a natural talent for becoming a formidable Saint, but he is affected by his condition. He received the Dragon Cloth from his father, the legendary Dragon Shiryu. The young Ryuhou commands the element of Water. After Genbu's death, Geki entrusts the Libra Cloth to Ryuhou so that he can give it to his father.

Pegasus Koga

The main protagonist in the series, trained since his early childhood to become a Saint, Koga is rebellious but also compassionate. He is still unaware of the purpose of having become a Saint in an era of peace, and has yet to discover his destiny. He meets Seiya, who teaches him the importance of friendship.

The other two characters you mentioned could be Aquila Yuna and Lionet Soma.

The plot will match your description even more if you replace Satan with the Greek god of war Mars, who in any case has a devilish aspect.


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Is it possible to bring back Nagato (Pain) using Edo-Tensei?
During Nagato's last fight with Itachi, Bee, and Naruto, Itachi pierced him with his Totsuka sword.
As per the Naruto wikia page on Totsuka,

It is an ethereal weapon with an enchanted blade capable of sealing anything it pierces.Those who are stabbed by the sword are drawn into the jar and trapped in a genjutsu-like "world of drunken dreams" for all eternity.

My question is, can those who were sealed by the Totsuka sword be brought back by Edo-Tensei?
Does it seal the soul permanantly like Shinigami?
The same question goes for Benihisago as well.

It seems like the only way to resurrect someone who has been sealed is to first unseal them, so presumably you would need to find wherever the sword sent them, which might be tricky as somehow the sword is in the possession of Itachi's Susanoo, and with Itachi being dead it's not obvious how to get it. But it should be possible. Maybe first you'd have to revive Itachi.

My theory:
Sealing 'someone' doesn't mean that they are going to seal the soul of that 'someone'. It is not explicitly mentioned that the Totsuka Sword includes the soul up to the extent like the Shinigami.
The body can be remained in the "world of drunken dreams" but the soul can be released. Edo-tensei only requires a body of a living person as a vessel, then a deceased person's soul and bound to it. So it is possible that a person struck by the Totsuka Sword can be brought back by Edo-Tensei.
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As per Kaguya Otsutsuki about Benihisago, It seals the soul as well. Once sucked in, releasing Edo-Tensei won't release the person. Its mentioned here Benihisago.

About Benihisago, It seals the soul as well. Once sucked in, releasing Edo-Tensei won't release the person. Its mentioned here Benihisago

I have a question here. Is dreaming possible without a mind/soul? Body cannot dream without a mind/soul. If the sword puts the person into a genjutsu world for eternity, the person's soul also must be inside. Pls clarify :)

@KaguyaOtsutsuki: It depends on how you define 'soul'. And the 'world of drunken dreams' don't mention about dreaming itself. It is, by definition, a new dimension.

Good question. So far, the Totsuka no Tsurugi's seal has a better record than the Shiki Fuujin. So it's hard to tell.
Given that when Edo Tensei was released, even though who were sealed got released, I would guess that yet. Nagato's soul has returned to the pure world, and can be revived with Edo or Rinne Tensei.

Better record? Orochimaru is back and they didn't even have to use Edo Tensei for that. :)

The sword of totsuka doesn't seal the soul.. We can say this because Orochimaru was able to comeback even though he was sealed using the sword. So it must be the body that is sealed.

@debai nah I dont think that was Orochimaru's soul at the 1st place... He sealed a part of his consciousness in Sasuke, Anko and Sound 4 + Kimimaro and many more so I think his soul is kinda special if we look it like that :)

As someone metioned in comments Orochimaru was successfully "reanimated" by Sasuke so that means his soul wasn't sealed away. Totsuka probably seals only body of a person so the answer is Yes - it should be possible to bring Nagato back

Yeah but it was only peace of his soul sealed inside of Totsuka because its only part of a soul that he gave to Sasuke (as he referred he gave in curse a part of his consciousness as he could hear what happened from Anko's seal, and also could speak to Sasuke when he drained his chakra). It seems that he sealed only his clone of something that feels like that :)

To answer this, no, they are permanently sealed.

Edo tensei needs a soul
Nagato's soul was sealed
Itachi is deceased and his weapon hasn't been said to release souls.

Do you have any proof that Itachi's sword seals the soul ? As per the above answer, his sword only absorbs the body.

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Looking for manga
I'm looking for a manga where a boy has been sentenced to death and the only way to live is to work for the church that tried him
All I remember is that a high ranking priestess took him in and he uses a gun to do his jobs

Any idea of the art style or when it's from?

It might be Juuhime - Sincerely Night. It features a main character that duel wields guns and was sentenced to 500 years of prison by the church. Here's MAL's synopsis:

Luca Athrason has been sentenced with 500 years of imprisonment – such is the price to pay for his sins. The only way for him to shorten his sentence is to accomplish his missions as the Church’s vanguard or as some might call it... The Church's Dog!

I believe you are looking for Chrno Crusade.

Isn't it Rosette that uses the gun in Chrno Crusade?


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Where can I find the Avatar The Last Airbender: The Promise & The Search comics?
Where can I read The Promise trilogy and The Search trilogy? I've been looking everywhere since last year.

I don't think you can read it legally online, which means it's off-topic here.

You can purchase the the hardcover versions here and here, respectively.

@kuwaly Isn't this question worthy of an actual answer? Some series are legal to read online and the OP didn't state whether legal or not.


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Why couldn't they make a vessel for Adam sooner?
In Evangelion, why couldn't they have made a vessel for Adam sooner or brought an angel close to have started the Human Instrumentality Project.
What was the point of Rei also then? Making a vessel for Lilith's soul hardly serves the purpose of the project, and will go to waste anyways when it occurs. How was she significant to the project and what is her significance?

Who is "they" in this context? STEELE?

It's complicated.
First adam: Adam was found in the South Pole, impaled with the Lance of Longinus, which puts the sources of life (Adam and Lilith) into some sort of statis:

During the Katsuragi expedition, the experiment went haywire (episode 21, Director's cut). The aftermath resulting in Adam blowing up and Adam's soul being lost. Seele collected the soul and put it in an artificial body, Kaworu. The assumption is that Kaworu, having a birthday on Second Impact, was artificially created that day, which would seem to indicate that Seele was at least prepared for such an outcome.
The reason why Seele didn't want to bring an Angel close to Adam is believed that part of the prerequisite of their version of Instrumentality is that all of the Angels need to be killed. The final step in accomplishing that was Seele sending Kaworu, the 17th and last Angel, to Nerv to be killed by Shinji and Evangelion Unit-01. Why Kaworu would agree to this is a mystery.
Rei, on the other hand, is similar to Kaworu (Episode 24) in that she was artificially created (Episode 23) to hold Lilith's soul. Rei was created by Gendo in order to complete his version of Instrumentality, in which Gendo would be reunited with his wife Yui. How this was supposed to work, is also a mystery. At the end, Rei betrayed Gendo in order to put control of Instrumentality in Shinji's hand (End of Evangelion).
More Info: https://wiki.evageeks.org/Classified_Information_(Translation)

Gendo's own scenario for the Third Impact was "the forbidden fusion of Adam and Lilith", his goal was to be reunited with his dead wife Yui who died during the Contact experiment which lead to the Second Impact, for this he required 2 things, Adam and Lilith.
In the aftermath of the Second Impact, Adam's Soul was separated from its body which had been reduced to an embryonic state, Adam's Soul was recovered and stored in the 17th Angel Tabris (Kaworu Nagisa) which SEELE sort to use in instigate their Third Impact by having him make contact with Lilith, if it had worked the result would be an Adam Dominated Third Impact under the control of SEELE.
One reason why SEELE couldn't send Tabris could be because he wasn't ready to be used yet but the other main reason was the Lance of Longinus, so long as it was in Lilith the Third Impact couldn't start (it was placed there to stop it but in a way that they could remove it one all the components for their plan were prepared), it wasn't removed until it was used as the last ditch effort to kill an Angel which no EVA could reach. It's not known how SEELE would have acted had Gendo not ordered the lance to be used.
Rei's purpose was all Gendo's Third Impact Scenario, not SEELE's. Gendo made SEELE think he was on their side however he was working on his own plans to be reunited with Yui, who Rei is a clone of. much like with SEELE's plan, Gendo couldn't act while the lance was in Lilith however when it was removed and he could confirm that SEELE couldn't interfere with another Adam he executed his plan (which we don't see until End of Evangelion). Gendo's plan was to control Rei in a Lilith Dominated Third Impact but Rei rejected Gendo and took the embryo of Adam from him and fused with Lilith.


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What was the point of the angels?
In retrospect, what was the point of the angels at all? The goal of NERV and etc. was the Human Instrumentality Project. Why go through the effort of killing fifteen angels? And even if you could say they had to establish peace for the moment to go ahead with the project, that just makes the entire plot of the angels a waste. So what was the point?

This seems to be a lot of questions. Can you condense them down or split them up so you aren't asking this many questions in one post?

Note that, like many things in Evangelion, this answer would fall under the category of educated speculation.
The point of the Angels largely seems to be to drive other points of the plot. It seems that the plot of Instrumentality itself does not really need the Angels—and I think you're right in this respect. The Angels themselves are a Monster of the Week trope embodiment, but you'll notice that each one (except perhaps Matarael) has a large influence on the events of each episode (and often the whole series).
Consider Leliel, Arael, Armisael, and Kaworu. Each of these caused a great psychological trauma in the characters. Leliel was really the first to probe Shinji's mind and break him down to nothing; Arael and Armisael followed suit and brought forth even more trauma and, along with it, character development. Kaworu, the pinnacle of all of this, essentially brought Shinji to the verge of suicide, but then made his choices in The End of Evangelion all the more human and relatable.
The Angels also achieve one of Anno's goals of telling us that, well, humans are even worse. The fact that the Angels are actually just acting on instinct—the instinct to return to Lilith—and not actually destructive (with a couple exceptions) shows us that humans are really the strongest villains in the series. (A nice bit of grey area there.)
So, to answer your question: No, the Angels weren't strictly necessary. But the plot points they drove and the scenarios they created were critically important parts of the series.

The Angels NERV fought were the Children of Adam, who sort to instigate the Third Impact to reclaim earth back from the Children of Lilith, the Lilin (Humans).
NERV's goal all along was the preservation of humanity so stopping the Angels falls along their goals, the Human Instrumentality Project was SEELE's secret goal to force the evolution of man though creating their own Third Impact that they could control, because the Human Instrumentality Committee oversaw NERV it was also NERV's Secret Goal.
SEELE couldn't let Adam's children instigate the Third Impact because then they couldn't control it themselves so destroying the angels as they appeared was needed to ensure that SEELE's could execute their plans without interference.

In addition to the above two answers, Ner/Seele had to wait until they discovered the lost Lance of Longinus in the Antartic Ocean before they could begin Instrumentality. This did not occur until after the Angels began appearing, so they were obliged to battle at least some of them!
There was clearly some need to delay enacting Third Impact and Instrumentality until after the final Angel was dispatched, probably at the order of the Dead Sea Scrolls (which is never explained), otherwise Nerv/Seele would have simply commenced it as soon as they had the Lance (Adam, Lilith and Rei were already in their possession). For some reason, Instrumentality was only likely to work if there were no other Angels alive to prevent it.


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What is Dr. Kureha's secret?
In the Drum Island arc, Dr. Kureha always asks this:

So, what is the secret of her youthfulness? Is it because of her medicine? Her lifestyle? Maybe she found a fountain of youth?

I don't believe its mentioned anywhere yet.

She being a doctor, must have found some medicine which she drinks from her beer bottle.
Also she was the first one to mention the will of D and she knows the actual name of Gol D Roger, shows that she actually must be around 140 years of age.

There is an interesting theory about this.

In an interview Oda said that normal human can only live for 140 years in One Piece.
How old is Dr. Kureha? In a scene before the timeskip, she said that she is just 139. That means that after the time skip, she must be 141. Beyond what Oda said is the limit of a normal human!

Now let's remember this moment, when the "Ope Ope no Mi" fruit is introduced. Here it was stated that he with the powers of this devil fruit could perform the "Eternal life operation", which would provide eternal life to the patient, in exchange for the doctor's life.

So, the hypothesis emerges...

What if someone performed the "Eternal life operation" on Dr. Kureha in the past?

As you have seen, in multiple places during the manga, she asks "You want to know the secret to my youth?"

This was always thought to be a recurring joke, a comical relief, but... what if there was more behind it that it seems? Oda uses to make this kind of things A LOT.
Only time will tell... ;)


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Who is this girl dressed in an elaborate pink outfit?
Can you tell me who this anime girl is and what anime she hails from? Thank you.


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What's with the timing of the OP and ED in Minami-ke?
I've seen other anime where opening sequences are placed much later in the episode, sometimes as far as halfway through. Rarely endings begin a bit early, with a short (cliffhanger) scene following. In Minami-ke Okaeri endings are placed a good third of the episode away from the actual end, acting like a scene breaker. What's up with that? Why such odd timing?

I'd say the late opening is to grab attention and open the viewers mind as to what's going to follow in the rest of the episode without showing an opening which some people may immediately skip if it doesn't seem like their kind of show.
As to the show having more after the ending, I believe its put there as scheme or reward for sticking through the credits, and give people a bit more of the show to finish off.


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Do anime studios pre-record their voice actors before animation?
I read somewhere that anime studios do their animation work followed by voice recording. Whereas, in Western animation, they pre-record the voice before doing animation so as to accurately draw the lip movements of the characters through the voice actors.
I am wondering if it's still true, and if there are anime works which use the Western approach? I heard Natsuyuki Rendezvous pre-recorded their voice work before doing animation.

If you watch Sore ga Seiyuu! you'll pretty much know what happen when they do a recording

According to Washi's blog post from 2011 titled "Anime Production – Detailed Guide to How Anime is Made and the Talent Behind it!", all of the voice work and sound recording happens in post production. These processes are compiled from studios like Sunrise, Production I.G., AIC, etc.

I've read about certain productions where some animatics (simplified mock-up animation of storyboards) are used with voice acting. Not sure if they actually do recording there or whether it's used as part of the creative process. However, Wikipedia's Voice Acting in Japan notes that:

A voice actor's role in anime consists of reading the lines before the production is finished. In Japan, the lines are usually performed before the anime has completed. The artist then draws in every expression to the key of the voice actors reading it off. This is the most common way of prerecording in Japan.

But the passage lacks any citation.
Additionally, voice actors are paid for a chunk of work, regardless of the number of lines or how long the session takes, so it's logistically easier to do it all in one go as opposed to being linked closer to the production of the actual animation. When the animation is (mostly) done, the voice acting and sound engineering can all be done in one go.

Adding to this, I've heard the same: that Japanese voice actors record their lines before animation is done, and often do so together (in contrast to English dub actors who usually work alone, and their speech has to match mouthflaps). I read it on someone's blog however and there isn't a citation, but I'll try to see if I can hunt one down (either from them or elsewhere).


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Anime where teenage girl's growth has stopped
I watched this anime 1-2 years ago but can't remember the name. I would like to watch it again. Judging by the style of the anime it is quite new, I would say no more than 5 years old. The story is about a girl in her teens living with her father. Illness isn't quite the word for it, but her growth has stopped resulting in her looking like a 1st or 2nd grader. She falls in love, but I don't remember how that ends. As she is a teenage girl, she is very cautious of fashion and her main problem is finding clothes that she likes. In the end she start designing clothes for children and people with the same problem as her.

What kind of anime it looked like? Shoujo, shounen? Does it look similar to another anime?

Did she player a recorder?

She doesn't play any instrument. I could remember the age wrong. After thinking about it, I think she's an adult. I think I remember seeing her drink beer.
Can't say that I remember if it looked like another anime.

If it's any help, the girl had light pink hair, somewhere between her shoulders and waist. She also loves a boy living in the same block as her, but he sees her as a little girl.

Thank you for trying to help, but it is not the one I was looking for.

To my knowledge, it is as someone already mentioned, The Friendly Winter.

A 19 year old girl with a rare growth disorder that leaves her in the body of a small child meets a boy with a mental disorder, who has the mind of a small boy in a 17 year old's body. A Friendly Winter shares with us the endearing story of their day-to-day lives, joys and tribulations.

You might have mistakenly remembered it as an anime because it is fully coloured. It is actually a Korean Webtoon. Her hair is close enough to be misremembered as pink.
In the end,

she is proven a capable business woman who runs a children's apparel fashion line.


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Why does Gilgamesh's casual appearance look different in different routes?
In the actual Fate Route (after Saber is summoned) we see Gilgamesh in casual attire when he confronts Saber and Shirou before getting into his golden armour. However, in Unlimited Blade Works and before the start of the Fate Route, his casual attire is different, particularly his hair and that he's not wearing earrings.

(left: Unlimited Blade Works; right: Fate)
Now I can understand that in Unlimited Blade Works the reason he doesn't wear his armour when fighting Shirou in the end is in part due to his ego in thinking he won't need it on someone like Shirou. However, I don't think it's his ego which is the cause of his change in appearance.
So I am wondering, why does Gilgamesh's casual appearance look different in these two routes, considering his Unlimited Blade Works appearance was also seen when he was talking to Sakura?

My only guess is that he dresses up to invite Saber over to his side.

Gil likes to keep up with the latest fashions, and has a number of casual outfits
From a real-world perspective, my guess is just that they wanted to give him a few different looks, instead of making him look identical in every scene.
In-universe, though, the golden armor is his proper battle outfit when he takes a fight seriously. He owns quite a number of casual outfits, as the Type-Moon Wikia entry on him notes:

He normally wears golden armor that makes a heavy first impression on those he
encounters. [...]
He likes to wear casual clothes, "playing attire" to ward off boredom
from being in spirit form, when not in battle, later becoming
knowledgeable on the latest fashion trends after living in modern
society for ten years. He has collected a number of casual outfits.

Fate/Zero: The clothing he wears in during the Fourth Holy Grail War is a
fashionable white v-neck with three quarter sleeves, and python print pants.
Fate route: During Fate, he wears a white jacket with a fur collar, a black
shirt, and black pants.
Biker outfit: The "biker outfit" worn at the beginning of the game
and in the Unlimited Blade Works route and Heaven's Feel route is his
favorite outfit, liking it enough to ignore Shirou's group when
presented with the possibility of the ashes from the burning Einzbern
Castle dirtying it. It can be said Shirou's life is worth less to him
than his coat. He dons this clothing in the first Fate/stay night
Manga adaptation of both the Fate route and Unlimited Blade Works
route.

(And that's not even including Fate/hollow ataraxia.)
The article cites the entry on Gilgamesh in the Fate/side material book, p. 59 (translated by Mcjon01 on p. 39-40 of this PDF):

Perhaps because he has been living in human society for the past ten years, he seems to be hip on the latest fashions. He owns various casual clothes, but his favorite is the biker outfit he wore in the Rin route.
Well, he liked it enough to overlook Shirou's group and leave instead of letting it get dirty, at any rate. I can't believe the protagonist's life was worth less to Gil than his coat…! [...]

The entry also explains the out-of-universe reason why Gilgamesh wears golden armor:

Also, during the design stage, I selfishly insisted that "Gil absolutely has to wear full golden plate armor".
Why, you ask? Well, it might be because I was repeatedly challenging a certain 60 story tower at the time…

(This is an apparent reference to the character of Gilgamesh in the game The Tower of Druaga.)

I never play Fate/stay night until the end but know a little, I think it's more like "he has anything in his vault and willing to wear casual clothes, so let's make him stylish" sort kind of thing. Because as I know, other servants don't even wear "normal casual" clothes as much as Gilgamesh, they pretty much always use their astral dress/clothes which is very(?) strong/sturdy (in the case with Saber's dress that can block certain magical attacks).
As for the reason why Gilgamesh wear casual clothes much, I think it's to emphasize his arrogance, I mean he is a king and think himself the most powerful entity in their universe, and mostly because he is ranged-type because most of the time he just throw whatever in his vault, even his strongest weapon Ea isn't melee-type weapon like Lancer's noble phantasm Gae Bolg: barbed spear that pierces with death or even Caster's Rule Breaker or Assassin's Tsubame Gaeshi.

Except for Berserker, Assassin and True Assassin, all Servants wear casual clothes when they are not out fighting. We even get to see Lancer working as a waiter in uniform.


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Why did Menma appear as a grown up?
In Ano Hana, Menma died when she was a kid, but then a few years later when she appeared again, her ghost was a teenager. What exactly happened here?

As far as I know , there is no canoncial explanation for this. We may assume it as "meanwhile she can't go to afterlife, she grow up along with her friends".
But I don't think it will fit with eastern spiritual belief since normally physical appearance is same after dead no matter how many years is pass.

Jintan still has romantic feelings toward her, as do the other male
characters. There are also some scenes (at least one, and I think more)
where Menma is sitting on Jintan's crotch and moving around, which
naturally gives him nosebleeds and at least once causes him to pass out.
The implication is that she has no clue what kind of effect this has on
him because she died before learning about such things.
It seems likely that the creators did not want to show that kind of
scene with Menma looking like a child. Kodomo no Jikan ended up not
being adapted for the US market because of such content. The late-teen
male characters having romantic feelings toward such a young-looking
character would also tend to squick people out.

Do you mean they don't want any trouble of sexual child abuse objection coming upon them, they showed Menma as a grown up? That view seems pretty convincing!

There are two routes here:
If Menma was a ghost or spirit:

We know that she doesn't have any memory of the gap in between her death and her reappearance
Thus she was likely in some sort of stasis or limbo, but still aged
The major likelihood is that her soul was stuck in the human world because her wish wasn't fulfilled, so she kept aging
Alternatively, it's possible spirits can control their appearance and it just seemed natural to be at the age of her friends
As to explaining the memory gap, I like to think that she was unconsciously waiting for the Super Peace Busters to get back together, and when it didn't happen, she didn't have a choice but to wake up in the human world and put everyone's longing to rest herself.

If Menma was a collective hallucination:

She was grown up in their hallucinations for a reason.
The reason could be speculated as:

Everyone wanted Menma to grow up as well, still not wanting to let go of her death.
Subconsciously, it just seemed natural for Menma to grow up as well, because she wasn't dead in the characters' hearts

Personally I would like it better if Menma were a hallucination because seeing people resolve their own emotional traumas without any divine intervention (a spirit coming to make things better by meeting with their loved ones, etc.) is a lot more moving.
Absolutely none of this is canon but it can be in our hearts.

I think she appeared as a teenager because there were reasons behind it as such:

I think that she reappeared as a teenager because Jintan still likes her, and so do other male characters, even though she is dead.
She reappeared as an adult because it would seem a bit weird for older teenagers to like a 7-10 year old girl.
Plus, if you understand the outro song fully, you'd think it along the lines of it as something Menma would think/sing to Jintan.
Maybe, she also wanted to get the "Super Peace Busters" back together again, as her death made them all split apart.
People, including her mum (or mom, however you want to say it), didn't want her to die that day, and they wished she had grown up to live a lovely life.
(There's meh bein' smart ヾ(●ε●)ノ ;^; )

I would also say, that Menmas reappearance was already told to happen. I understand the outro song as something that Menma thinks or sings. And he sings that she wanted to see Jinta in August after 10 years again and, I think, that other then just seeing Jin-tan again, she also saw that the Super Peace Busters aren't real friends anymore which kept here "here". She wanted her friends to get together again, be friends. Nobody should give themself the responsi


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I'm looking for an anime/movie that involved a plot with 2 boys and 1 girl. Had a piano. Something about different dimensions?
This was either a short anime or animated movie.
3 main characters, as far as I remember. I remember that out of the 2 boys, one was a boy who was from a different planet(dimension?). He played the piano and it had strange effects on those around him. The other boy was human. The human boy and the girl were friends. This anime probably had a school setting.
I remember there being a lot of scenes involving the alien boy going into another dimension where there was always a bed(?) that he talked to. The boy's mission was probably (not sure!) to bring humans back to his home planet...
In the end, the 2 boys decided to leave earth so that alien guy could return to his home and the girl was left behind. As soon as the boys left, the girl lost all her memories about them.
Have been searching for ages now, but I always get Piano no Mori as a result back and that's not it.
Thanks for your help!

This sounds a bit like Alien Nine, though I think that features three girls. Might be worth a look for you anyway.

I found it!!! It's Nerawareta Gakuen. Man, did I get the summary wrong, haha...

Nerawareta Gakuen

Synopsis
Spring marks the start of another new school year at a junior high school in Kamakura. A new transfer student, Ryoichi Kyogoku joins the 8th grade. Kyogoku has a very special proficiency in telepathy and has been ordered by his father to use this ability to scan other people's minds and take over the school.
He instantly gains popularity at school from his good looks and charisma and he sets about taking control of the school. As people begin to fall under Kyogoku's spell, he covertly manipulates his followers and pushes aside anyone who gets in his way.
With the school almost completely under the control of Kyogoku, only one boy seems unaffected—Seki. Does Seki have what it takes to save everyone from the clutches of mind control?

Glad you found it! :) Don't forget that you can mark your own answer as the correct one (by clicking the checkmark to the left) to show that this question has been solved.


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Why didn't Accelerator get sunburned after losing his vector shield?
Why didn't Accelerator get sunburned after losing his vector shield? Albinos are very vulnerable to ultraviolet, so he must have been red all the time.

the first one looks plausible, but the choker could work only for 15 and later 30 minutes, ain't i right?

So, the collar was just in passive mode all the time?
Спасибо, товарищ

It wasn't explicitly stated, but the collar has three states: Active, Passive and Dead Battery.
In Active mode, Accelerator can use his vector transformation powers. In Dead Battery mode, Accelerator can't walk or talk, he can barely think logically, until the battery is recharged or the source of electromagnetic disruption is removed.
In Passive mode, Accelerator can think, talk and walk (although with a cane), so it isn't a stretch to think that he also has a weak enough reflection shield to keep protecting him from UV light.

Also, another possibility is that the author never thought about it.

From what I understood it's not that he can't use his power. It's just that the amount he can use is limited because his calculations ability is decreased. So he should still have enough to do some stuff. But if he wants to fight with it he needs the collar to help him calculate.


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What is the anime film called?
I watched this anime film when I was young and would really like to watch it again, I will give you as much detail of the film as possible.

The main character was a school girl who for some reason who really strong if she wore certain knickers (Not a hentai haha)
It is set in a high school which was overrun by the students until the school hired a new principle who was really strong, he had a fight with the student and beat them all
The main character had long blue hair, her bestfriend was a guy and her knickers were blue
The principle was the villain, he ate fish bones, black hair and very big. When you first see him in the film, I think he is at the bus stop eating fish bones wearing a big coat and hat
One of the scenes, the main characters bestfriend tries to fight the principle with a stick, he keeps hitting the stick at his pants (apparently the principle is stronger with these certain pants too, again not hentai) but for some reason everytime he hit one off, another one was there so he kept on doing it until there was a mountain of pants haha
I watched this on video and before the year 2000, it was aged 15 or 18 but im sure 15
I remember the main character was on the front of the case
Another scene is when the principle enters a room and all the students try to ambush him but the principle beats them all
The principle dies by falling off a lift fighting against the main character

That is all i can remember, hopefully this helps.

This is the 1988 OAV "Ultimate Teacher".

Plot Summary: At a run down school the "Ultimate Teacher" Ganpachi is sent to get things back on track and prepare the delinquent
  students for the real world. But the students don't want Ganpachi
  ruining the gang they got going so their boss, Hinako, fights back
  Ganpachi aided by her secret power...her lucky kitty underwear. Things
  get more interesting when we find out Ganpachi is the result of
  genetic experiments.

Super weird anime as only the 80's could produce. You can find the whole thing on YouTube here.

THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH!!!!, ive been looking for this film for months and you finally helped me find it :D

@madtitan - Glad to be of help! When I first read your summary I knew I had seen the same movie, but couldn't remember it's name. Took a bit of surfing to jog my memory. Please don't forget to accept this answer.


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Where is "See you Space Cowboy" from?
I feel stupid not knowing, but I can't quite put my finger on where "See you space cowboy" is from. I know it's from an anime (that I think was made in the 90s?), but what anime specifically is it from?

It is perhaps worth noting that at least half the results on the first page of a Google search for see you space cowboy refer to Cowboy Bebop.

This post also further elaborates on the famous Cowboy Bebop phrase: What is the meaning of the phrase at the end of the last Cowboy Bebop episode?

If you've got your answer, you should accept one :)

It's definitely Cowboy Bebop.
The background character is Spike Spiegel:

The phrase is taken from one of the ending credits:

However, the song on that website doesn't match the song entitled "See you Space Cowboy" on the Original Soundtrack, but is in fact "Space Lion".

Spiegel not Segal

I think it resembles a lot of Cowboy Bebop.

Cowboy Bebop (カウボーイビバップ Kaubōi Bibappu?) is a 1998 Japanese anime
  series developed by Sunrise. It featured a production team led by
  director Shinichirō Watanabe, screenwriter Keiko Nobumoto, character
  designer Toshihiro Kawamoto, mechanical designer Kimitoshi Yamane, and
  composer Yoko Kanno. The twenty-six episodes (sessions) of the series
  are set in the year 2071. It follows the adventures, misadventures and
  tragedies of a bounty hunter crew travelling on the Bebop, their
  starship. Cowboy Bebop explores philosophical concepts including
  existentialism, existential ennui, loneliness, and the past's
  influence.

Crucial information point: At the end of a Cowboy Bebop episodes, there is a black screen, with a subtitle that says "See You Space Cowboy.."

Cowboy Bebop! at the end of every episode it says "See you space Cowboy" then goes to the ending.

You should try to expand your answer a bit more. We prefer a bit more detailed answers over 1 liners (even if it is correct) Check the answer above by Rikkin for a good sample


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Who will be the Noblesse after the current one dies?
When Kadis Etzamal di Raizel dies, who will take his position? I haven't found references for the Noblesse before Rai nor who will be his successor. Isn't there any information available?

I am asking the same question myself. There are already loads of lords before the previous lord, however no mention on the previous noblesse. If there's none.. WOW.. Rai is pretty damn old!

@marcdkun19 Loads? We've only seen two so far, and I don't remember a reference to previous Lords.

As mentioned by Frankenstein before, there is only one Noblesse. Also during the entire manga up till today (2016-04-15), Noblesse is always mentioned as "the" Noblesse, never "a" Noblesse like is the case with Lord. For example, in chapter 389 where Raskreia was mentioned as "a Lord". This means that there is and was only one Noblesse, and that would be Rai.
Therefore, we can't possibly tell who will be called as "the Noblesse" suppose that Rai dies, since we currently has no information on the succession pattern of the "Noblesse" title like we had on the "Lord" title.

So I think this might answer a lot of questions. I guess its only one being and after his death will be the end of Noblesse. No one can take his place
"The True Noblesse is a title given to only one person and not the entire race as a whole."
Source Noblesse:wikia

true, as of now, there has been no indication about how this works. Certainly its a title but at the same time, what about his power. He is stronger than any other Noble, so when he dies, does a new one obtain that power, or is it just gone forever, which brings up how did he get so strong in the first place if that is the case.

I have that question too. But now in the recent episodes, Rai's brother is shown who was fighting for blood stone. What do you think about him?? If there was a brother for Rai, how has he been THE NOBLESSE


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What is the name of this anime i watched in 2004?
I do not know whether is is an anime or cartoon because the channel i watched on only shows dubbed cartoons.
Here are the details

Its a robot-based show
The only robots i could remember are three of them - One was a police themed robot , Another one is an ambulance themed robot and the last one i could remember is a firetruck themed robot.
Each robot is made up of 1 main robot and 4 smaller ones( all of which could turn into vehicles ( police car , ambulance and firetruck respectively))
these 5 robots would combine into one awesome , cool-looking robots. The main bot will be the torso and the head while the 4 smaller ones would be the limbs.
All the robots are piloted by kids and together(with the help of the robots) , they became are the firefighters , policeman and the paramedics of the country

These are all the details that lingered in my mind. Sorry for the limited information . Please help me:(
Please note that it is NOT transformers. The robots are controlled by (about) 10 years old paramedics , policeman and firefighters.

Sounds like Brave Police J-Decker. Here's a summary from the wiki:

Brave Police J-Decker was the fifth anime of the Brave Series and aired in Japan during 1994 and 1995.
Brave Police J-Decker returns the series to a subtly lighter tone, focusing more on the concept of "robot as human-built AI construct" emphasized by the previous season's series, Brave Express Might Gaine. Grade schooler Yuuta Tominaga stumbles upon Deckerd, a humanoid robot under construction by the Japanese police, built to fight advanced forms of crime. Yuuta's constant contact with Deckerd gives the robot a "heart", or personality; when Yuuta is recruited as the "boss" of the "Brave Police" as a result, a true human/robot partnership occurs.

It's got mechas that are Police, Firetruck, and Ambulance themed.

Deckerd: The sentient police robot that transforms into a police cruiser.
Duke: A sentient robot that transforms into an ambulance.
Fire Roader: A massive firetruck that serves as Duke's support vehicle.

They combine in various combinations as well as the "Fire J-Decker Max Cannon Mode", a combination of all the vehicles.

This picture looks like Jubilee with the Gundams. :P


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What is this manga in which the King of Hell escapes Hell with his cat and becomes a high school student?
I think the storyline goes like this. The King of Hell escapes Hell with his cat. He assumes human bodies to start his new life as a high school student, while his cat becomes a beautiful nurse who works at the school. He is enjoying his new life with a goofy smile while people are trying to find him and bring him back to Hell. They can only recognise him by the extensive black ink tattoo on his back, which can be seen even in his human form. In his human form, he is short with whitish hair, and his cat is a beautiful black-haired beauty. However, in his demon form, he is very tall and handsome with black hair, and his cat returns to being a cat. I think it could have been yaoi-ish, but I can't remember though.

I think you are looking for Mad Love Chase (Japanese title: Harlem Beat wa Yoake made).  That's one heck of a plot.
Synopsis from Wikipedia:

A supernatural comedy about the Prince of Hell, Kaito, and his cat, Levun, who decide to run away together to escape an arranged marriage the Prince wants no part of. Somehow upon entering the human world, the Prince's appearances changes from tall, dark, and handsome to short, light and skinny, and his cat becomes a tall, busty female. Now the Prince is living life as a regular high school student and his cat is the school's nurse. Meanwhile, the King of Hell sends a womanizing vampire, a short tempered werewolf, and a kind hearted zombie to retrieve his son. Not to mention, the Prince's fiancée is not going to just wait around forever.

The main character also has the tattoo you had mentioned:

He has a distinctive, black tattoo on the whole of his back, which identifies him as the Prince of Hell.

The original Tokyopop page cited there has a dead link for it's reference.

Any evidence on why you think this is what he/she is looking for?


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What is this manga that has a guy with the power to make a transparent round bubble?
I read it more than a year ago.
A guy first has the power to make a transparent round bubble like thing and everything that goes in it or touches it disappears. As the story goes on he can make a bigger bubble.
Then something shows up in the middle of his forehead - I think it was a third eye.
I don't know if I am mixing two manga together or not but I think later on the more power he uses he turns into an ET (alien) looking guy.

the bubble like power reminds me of 6 tails jinchuriki from naruto. no idea about that third eye.

No   Naruto  to bubble was black. It was from mouth.   One I mean comes from the guy hand.

Sry, don't know, but you could take a look at TvTrops under Void Powers. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PowerOfTheVoid

The manga you're looking for is named Tanabata no Kumi. You're not mixing any mangas together, all what you've said is in that one.
Here is the synopsis:

Basically, some humans have the ability to negate a sphere of reality, neatly removing it from existence. This gradually alters their appearance until they become a hideous alien, with a giant eye in their forehead.


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How does the Angel Beats special episode connect with the main storyline?
In the special episode (Stairway to Heaven), the Battlefront has decided to commence a new mission: Operation High Tension Syndrome.
How is this story connected to the main timeline of the anime? Or do they have completely different and unrelated stories? Is this special episode considered canon?

It's pretty much just a filler episode. It's just meant to be a completely pointless, fun, yet over the top, and a little odd sort of break from the main story.

The OVA is actually set between episodes 4 and 5 of the series. It's part of the main timeline, but it doesn't really have any effect on the overarching plot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Angel_Beats!_episodes


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What anime is this GIF of a man in a suit running down the stairs from?
This anime looks kinda cool but I have no idea what it is.  Thanks in advance ^-^

That's Tobari Durandal Kumohira from Nabari no Ou.


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Manga or manhwa about a guy moving to Korea
I remember reading this, but I didn't finish it. I think there was only a few chapters at the time. This is what I remember.
There is a boy who is Japanese. However, he found out from a family member that he had Korean blood and he needed to move to Korea for some reason.
When he got to Korea, I think he shared a taxi with a Korean girl OR the girl came with someone to pick him up from the airport as he was staying with her family.
The both of them didn't like each other. I remember the boy complaining that Koreans are loud, and when they got out the car, I think the girl spat on him.
I might be wrong about his nationality and where he moves to. If so then swap the Korean parts with the Japanese parts.
Thanks a lot! I really want to read this again.

anything else you remember? like any trails how they look like?

It's Very, Very Sweet!
Or, it is if I recall correctly.
I actually had volume one, but lost it -- and I was looking it up [what you put] on google images and BAM-

the cover!

The Japanese boy, Tsuyoshi, is a restless troublemaker whose severely strict grandfather has finally been given the reins to crack down on him. His grandfather sends him on a quest to find the roots of their ancestry. The family names' roots brings him to Korea where his taxi driver, a chatty energetic girl named Very (Be-Ri), passes out on him. Despite an ugly first encounter, the two later grow close and learn to respect each other's differences...

Could you format the answer a little bit? Also a synapsis would be nice. :3


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Why are all members of the Kuja tribe born as women?
On chapter 515 they mentioned all Kuja Tribe women always give birth to females.
How is this possible? Is there any explanation about this?

The same picture you use gives you the explanation: 'mysteriously', welcome to the world of anime magic :)

In One Piece, the story revolves around Monkey D. Luffy, showing his tremendous luck with unexpected situations. This is just one of those extra details, i.e. if men too were born on the island, he would be like just another normal person to them and would not receive such favors.

I agree with @Dimitri mx: I would like to have a place on earth like this!

Maybe its because its is just happening biologically. Their bodies are like that. Also, could be the place and environment around them and the climate as well.
Thats what I think so.

well my question is how does the Kuja tribe conceive? All I know is men are not allowed in the island, and the ones that come in are killed.

So they don't bring back boys to the island. What's the big deal?

I think you guys misunderstood, with child is a common expression meaning pregnant, here it doesn't mean "with a child" and they conceive children outside the island with men from the rest of the world, but then return to give birth, without the fathers.

No explanation is ever given beyond the word "mysteriously" but it isn't as ridiculous as it sounds.
In the real world, environmental factors such as the temperature and diet of the mother during pregnancy can affect the likelihood of a boy or a girl being born. Of course it rarely gets above 55-45 one way or the other, but in the unique environment of Amazon Lily it is possible that the odds of having a baby girl is completely overwhelming, to the point where no boy has ever been born on the island.

What if "mysteriously" means that they simply returned only with the girl babies? You know, because males are not allowed, not even boy babies I presume...

Actually this might not be true. There may have kids being born as boys but due to some reasons the boys did not lived. In short, the elders are trying to prevent from boys being alive. I believe this is somewhat similar to what happened with Vincent(Hiei from Yu-yu Hakusho) wherein he was an outcast because of the tradition of having only female to live in their village.

Unless the one piece author/s clarify the existence and origin of the Kuja tribe, there would be no accurate answer for this question. It happens most of the time in any anime and one piece is not an exception, let's just wait for any episodes where this tribe will be explain even more. For the meantime the succinct explanation of the Kuja tribe are as follows:
The Amazon Lily:
http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Amazon_Lily
The Kuja Tribe:
http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Kuja

Or maybe while they're out in the world, they did give birth to boys but was like 'oop! You're a boy; orphanage for you' and just only took home the girls. Remember, them getting pregnant requires them to leave the island OF WOMEN to go into the world OF MEN. So only people who left would know for sure. Who says they have to tell anybody they had a boy? Or that they were pregnant at all?

The most simple answer would of course be "Magic" or anime logic.
However, when we look at the issue from a logical standpoint, we don't need to look at the tribe, but at the foreign countries, since the gender of the newborn is determined by the winning sperm, which either carries a female chromosome (X) or a male chromosome (Y).
Maybe the males in the foreign country only produce female sperm. Sperm production is affected by enviromental factors but this is unlikely, there'd be reports of that foreign country having female births (unless their females travel and get impregnated somewhere else as well). Keep in mind it's entirely possible that those reports could exist but the reader never gets told of any of this.
Most likely is that the tribe actually gets males born, but they are promptly killed (and no record of them is kept), much like real Amazon tribes did it.

To correct you, women have XX chromosome pairs while men have XY pairs, to my knowledge there is no such thing as "female sperm" as that would indicate that at fertilization of the egg the gender of the child is decided however as @Qiri has said there are factors during pregnancy which can sway the chance of a particular gender

Female sperm reffers to sperms carrying a X chromosom, which is one half of the female chromosom set (the other comes form the egg, guranteed to be X), which indeed determines the gender of the child at the point of fertilization.

I don't know anything about female or male chromosome work but I believe Eiichiro Oda never kill anyone for a reason like that, he hardly kill anyone for any reason.

Other ways to achieve similar results would be simply abdaboning the male babies (Leaving the nature do the dirty job) or give birth at the foreigin country and leave the male babies there. @Maroon, added a link for clarification.

Who knows? maybe some of their tribes are Hermaphrodite, and others are just born to be normal, like the Snake Princess and the previous queen. If you remember they both suffer Love Sick.


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Who is the new girl in Kirino's group?
In the last episode of Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai, there's one new member in Kirino's group: Otaku Girls Unite, and she seems to be somewhat important.
I know that this anime is already ending just like the light novel, and there won't be any further episodes. But I've been wondering, who is this new girl? Maybe they show it in the light novel?

Do you have a screenshot?

no picture of her, Kirino only said that there's a new member in their group

I think it is only to show that she makes more otaku friends, with whom she can be her-otaku-self.

Or it could be one of Kirino's friend as well or even Kuroneko little sister, afterwards his brother is also part of the group.

I personally think that it could be Ayase since she gradually accept Kirino's hobby on otaku

The new girl is never shown in the novel, manga or anime. The new character is not important either, it just goes to show that Saori found another person to join their group and things are going well in the otaku circle. Also, they never said that it was a girl, they just said a new member is joining.
To your opinion of Ayase joining, it could be but it would be very unlikely because

Even though Ayase did say that she will allow Kirino to keep playing eroge, but to my memory, she did say that one day she will save Kirino from eroges and that she'll never play something as lewd as that.
If Ayase was joing the otaku circle, you would think that Kirino would know about it since they are really good friends.
Kuroneko's relationship isn't very good with Ayase.

Those are just my opinions though and I can't comment them.

In the novels, Kuroneko and Ayase actually develop a very "special" relationship towards the end, in one of the weirder moments of the series. I agree it's unlikely that Ayase is joining the group, though; I think you're right that the new girl is just mentioned to show that things are going well for Saori's otaku circle and they're recruiting new members.


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Did Saori also have feelings for Kyousuke?
In Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai, almost all the girls confessed their feelings to Kyousuke, and

 even Kanako confessed when Kyousuke came to her concert.

In OreImo season two, when they were discussing (fighting) about who was going to accompany and support Kyousuke on his new apartment, Saori also insisted that she was supposed to do so. Did she also have feelings for him or did she only tease him? Do they explain this in the light novel?

I have not read the novel but as a watcher of the anime, it seems rather clear to me that Saori also have a crush on him but since this is my opinion I will keep it as a comment.

I think Saori think of Kyousuke as only a friend, but again it's just my opinion.

IIRC, in the light novel, Saori never confessed to Kyousuke, nor in the anime. Saori did insisted that she's the best to take care of Kyousuke like you mentioned. But this seems more like she did that so that she stays true to her Saori Bajeena character, rather than a real romantic feelings towards Kyousuke.
The possible reason for this is that at that time, all the other girls insisted on taking care of Kyousuke. It fits Saori Bajeena's cheerful persona more if she were to also join the fray rather than staying quiet.
Another possibility for her behavior was that at that time there were Kuroneko and Kanako competing for the position. Saori surely knows who they are to Kirino. Were Kirino to choose either one, the other is surely to be hurt. Saori proposed herself so that Kirino won't be troubled choosing between the two (three if you count Manami, but Kirino won't choose her anyway).
It should be noted that in the end Kirino chose Ayase instead of Saori. Possibly because Kiririn felt that Saori is also attracted to Kyousuke. This is not likely though, since Ayase actually has a feeling towards Kyousuke and she still chose her.
Source: I read the novel.

After reading the relationship between Saori and Kyousuke there seem to be some feeling but its not shown exactly what type of feeling did Saori have with Kyousuke. Yes the feeling is more toward love.

Overall their relationship with each other remained platonic at best. Despite Kyousuke's shock after discovering Saori's ojou-sama side, the two continued to act normally. In conclusion, Saori is only one of the few female characters who hasn't shown any signs of romantic attraction towards Kyousuke.

Which shows that they are more like friend but

In the game version, Happy End (PlayStation 3) and Tsuzuku Wake ga nai (PlayStation Portable), they have their own route and in the nearly end, the wedding day of Kyousuke and Saori appeared.

I cannot confirm the exact feeling of Saori towards Kyousuke. And all most every girls confessed Kyousuke, so why leave Saori alone.


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Help identifying an OLD anime - a scene where a kid is in a printing press picking metal block letters?
I watched it in the early 90s, there is only one scene that I remember and was fascinated by.  A young boy was working at a printing press, picking out individual metal stamps and filling up a tray to prepare for each page to be printed.
For a better understanding of what I mean, it is also known as "movable type" or in Japanese "活版印刷機".
Thank you very much in advance!

An anime from the early 90's is "old"? Damn, now you've made me feel ancient lol

Early nineties is TWENTY years ago. Try and remember how you felt about Disco when you were a child in the nineties, and you will get it.

@Mindwin oh I definitely understand. I don't think of 20 year old anime as old, which makes me feel prehistoric heh heh

Night on the Galactic Railroad is a classic Japanese novel from the 1920s that got an anime adaption in 1985 which has such a scene:

The only thing that makes me doubt whether it's correct is that the protagonist is in fact a cat (as are all other characters).