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Why go through so much trouble to show a character is staring by having her say or shout "stare"?
In several anime shows, when a character is staring at another, the character actually says "stare" (sometimes with the "stare" in written form too not unlike manga - not the subtitles).
From the context and the animation, the stare is obvious, so why go the extra mile and literally shout "stare"??
This is not about the lightning display when two characters stare into each other. It is about saying or shouting stare when staring.

I understand that in manga you have to put those things in written form, so this question is restricted to anime media.

I feel that this question may involve confirmation bias; Can you list examples with this pattern?

I believe it's for comedic effect. If they just stare like we would in the real world, it wouldn't be as funny as if they were saying "stare". It's like the oversized sweat drop or the tripping when surprised.

@Unihedro: One recent example is from Absolute Duo, episode 1 or 2, when Julie stares at Tooru during class. The word "Jiiii~~~~" is spoken.

In Japanese, there is actually an onomatopoeia/mimetic for the act of staring: じー jii (or something similar to that - mimetics don't generally have strictly prescribed spellings as far as I'm aware). To the English speaker, this seems bizarre, because staring is not an action that produces sound, so why would there be an onomatopoeia for it? Nonetheless, for whatever reason, Japanese is a language rich in mimetics, and often has mimetics for concepts that lack equivalent onomatopoeia in English.
So to the Japanese audience, it isn't terribly weird that there would be a "sound effect" accompanying someone staring at someone else. Now, I don't know that it's necessarily often the case that "the character actually says 'stare'" - certainly the character's voice actor will say jii, but I don't think that this corresponds to the character themself saying jii. I think the idea is more that using jii there as sort of a "sound effect" just emphasizes the fact that someone is staring at someone else.
Anyway, this causes a problem for subtitlers - clearly something is being spoken, but this particular utterance is something that simply does not and cannot occur in English. I don't know what a good solution to this is, and I guess that nobody else does, either, and this is how we end up with subtitles that make it look like the character is literally saying the word "stare". Which looks really stupid in English, but is there a better way to go about it? Not that I'm aware of.


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Is there any cross-reference between Aku no Hana and Inside Mari?
They supposedly share the same universe, but is there any element from one series referenced in the other?
Isao Komori is from the same region where Aku no Hana happens (and is the birthplace of both series' creator). Is it the only link, or is there anything else?

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Is Hellsalem's Lot a reference to Jerusalem?
Hellsalem's Lot, the current name of formerly New York City, immediately strikes me as a reference to Jerusalem, since they sound extremely close.
In fact, in Japanese, they only differ by one mora:

ヘルサレムズ・ロット (Hellsalem's Lot) vs. エルサレム (Jerusalem).

Is Hellsalem's Lot a reference to Jerusalem? If that is the case, what are the aspects in Hellsalem's Lot that make reference to Jerusalem?

I don't know anything about this series, but it could be the Stephen King Novel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Salem%27s_Lot + Hell

@ToshinouKyouko: That sounds feasible, though I don't know much about the novel to tell how it is similar to the anime.

either do I ¯\(ツ)/¯

In Christianity, Heaven is a city named the New Jerusalem (see the last two chapters of the Book of Revelation). The author of this manga did a twisted parody and made NYC a living hellscape, so in mockery of the heavenly Jerusalem, he named it "Hellsalem's Lot". It's more than a little sacrilegious.

Kekkai Sensen's Intended Association: Evil Living Among Humans
Both the fictional town 'Salem's Lot and the real city of Salem, Massachusetts are associated with witchcraft and evil living among regular humans. This fits the ethos of Kekkai Sensen's 「ヘルサレムズ・ロット」, which is the mystically transmogrified version of New York City after a gateway between Earth and the Beyond opened, so that extra-dimensional creatures and humans dwell in the same paranormal melting pot.
Origin of the Phrase 'Salem's Lot
Jerusalem's Lot, Maine is a fictional town created by Stephen King which he has used as the setting for a number of his novels, novellas, and short stories. Within his worldbuilding, the town is nicknamed 'Salem's Lot (including the apostrophe) and the Lot.
The town called 'Salem's Lot first appeared in his 1975 novel 'Salem's Lot, but has reappeared as recently as in his 2014 novel Revival.
According to Wikipedia, the description of the fictional town is:

The town that would become Jerusalem's Lot was founded in 1710 by a preacher named James Boon, the leader of a cult of schismatic Puritans. The cult became notorious in the region for its open embrace of witchcraft and for its amoral sexual practices, including inbreeding. Jerusalem's Lot became an incorporated town in 1765, but was abandoned in 1789 after Boon and his followers mysteriously vanished [...]
When Jerusalem's Lot was incorporated in 1765, Maine was still part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The town got its name from a myth about one of the earliest residents, Charles Belknap Tanner, who raised pigs; one of these pigs was named Jerusalem. One day, Jerusalem escaped from her confines into a nearby forest, and became aggressive and wild. Tanner began warning young children who trespassed on his property to "Keep 'ee out o' Jerusalem's wood lot," lest the pig devour them. Eventually, the phrase "Jerusalem's Lot" was adopted as the town name.
[...] Jerusalem's Lot has been identified as a residence for great and mysterious evil, particularly vampires.

Other Derivative Uses
The fictional town is also mentioned in Alan Moore's 2002-2003 comic book series The New Traveller's Almanac, in the 2002 Eminem song Lose Yourself, and in the 1993 Nirvana song Serve the Servants.
Katakana and Pronunciation
Kekkai Sensen's 「ヘルサレムズ・ロット」 (Herusaremuzu Rotto) sounds similar to both the fictional town 'Salem's Lot (「セイラムズ・ロット」 [Seiramuzu Rotto]) and the Japanese word for "Jerusalem" (「エルサレム」 [Erusaremu]).
The Japanese title for the novel 'Salem's Lot is 『呪われた町』 (Norowareta Machi, meaning "cursed town"). In the Japanese translation, the name of the town is katakana-ized as 「セイラムズ・ロット」 (Seiramuzu Rotto), using the spelling of Salem, Massachusetts (「セイラム」= Seiramu), infamous for witch trials, not the Japanese spelling of Jerusalem (「エルサレム」= Erusaremu). The place name Salem (perhaps ironically) is a hellenized form of the Hebrew word for "peace" (שָׁלוֹם = shalom).
In Hebrew, the pronunciation for "Jerusalem" is Yerushalayim:

Conclusion
「ヘルサレムズ・ロット」 is not a reference to the city of Jerusalem, but rather to a fictional town known for housing monsters and named after a pig.

+1, this is a good answer, but would you please reorganize the content here? It's quite confusing to read. The points you want to make are all over the place.

Okay, I changed the formatting.

The connection between Salem's Lot and Salem, Massachusetts is probably a coincidence, due to the fact that the pronunciation of Salem changes when stand alone. I don't see Wikipedia citing the connection between Salem's Lot and Salem, Massachusetts. Only the connection between Jerusalem's Lot, Maine and Durham, Maine.

@nhahtdh Correct, I'm not at all claiming that there was any connection in Steven King's mind whatsoever between his fictional town and the real city of Salem, MA, but rather that the Japanese translator of his novel liked that the nickname of his fictional town can be written in the katakana that matches Salem, MA. This could well have been an intentional choice to create associations for the Japanese readership on the theme of witchcraft (which the fictional town and the real city both share), since, in the novel, the name of the town was supposed to be Jerusalem's Lot, so a . . .

. . . direct, loyal translation would have been サレムズ instead of セイラムズ, which cannot be a shortening of Jerusalem, the pig’s name = エルサレム. The creator of Kekkai Sensen most likely read the novel in Japanese translation, which contains the seeming association with Salem, MA’s witchcraft invented by the translator.

That sounds feasible, though I don't know if a loyal translation would use サレムズ instead of セイラムズ. Reference.com says that the pronunciation of Salem is /ˈseɪləm/, which transliterates into katakana as セイラム. I think the translator probably sticks to how Salem's Lot is pronounced in original work, rather than the fact that it is a contraction of Jerusalem's lot.

Salem's Lot being a contraction of Jerusalem's Lot is likely explained within the novel (or that backstory would have to come from 1 of the short stories). サレムズ is the most natural way for a translator to make the contraction since it wouldn't occur to the average Japanese reader looking at the town/pig name エルサレム to abbreviate that as セイラム. Many long A sounds don't become エイ by Japanese who katakana-ize them (even though that's what a native English speaker would generally advise) so it's unlikely that the translator looked just at the novel text & came away with セイラム for the abbreviation ;-)

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Why didn't Sphinx upload a new video to evacuate the people from the airport?
I'm watching Terror in Resonance, the airport episode. Sphinx goes through a lot of trouble to find the hidden bomb - even risking their own identities. Their intention is to keep everyone away from harm.
Why don't they just upload a new video literally saying "we're gonna blow up the airport"?
At this point, Sphinx has gained so much media influence that it would instantly go viral (just like with their previous videos). The airport (and anyone else) would most certainly take such video seriously and evacuate.
This way, there would be no casualties, which is what they want. The bomb would still detonate and cause several structural damages, but that would not be anything new or surprising considering Sphinx literally blew up a skyscraper in the first episode anyway.

Announcing in a crowded space, "There is a bomb," is extraordinarily dangerous. Without a proper evacuation procedure, you'd risk more lives than you'd save. (Disclaimer: I have not seen the episode, so this may not fit the circumstances.)

@キルア that makes sense, yeah. Although it was planted by a sadistic antagonist who hid it in a plane, and then drove the plan against the airport. I feel like the risk of causing a ruckus would be worth it given the nature of the antagonist.

@キルア I would write that as an answer, it certainly fits and makes sense

If they did that, the real bomber (it's been too long, was it Five?) could easily detonate the bomb then and there to maximize casualties. Sphinx wanted to be discrete, since they didn't have control of the situation as they did with the skyscraper.


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Why didn't Chibi-usa initially recognize Sailors Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, & Venus as her friends?
In the R season of the classic anime of Sailor Moon, Chibi-usa had a flashback memory of her surprise birthday party in the 30th century Crystal Tokyo, in which Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, and Sailor Venus were present (Wiseman made use of the piece of memory of the span of time during which the secret about the surprise was being kept from her in order to turn Chibi-usa into Black Lady). Chibi-usa also had a faint memory of the same four sailor soldiers fleeing with her while Crystal Tokyo was being attacked, but in this memory, the four people are darkened silhouettes. I can understand that, due to the trauma of the attack and worry about her mom, Chibi-usa might not remember clearly who helped her escape. After these events, she time-traveled to the 20th century where she met Sailors Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus in their solider forms (as well as met them in their civilian forms).
If Chibi-usa had the clear memory of the birthday party, why didn't she immediately recognize those same four sailor soldiers when she "re-met" them in the 20th century? Didn't the party scene indicate that they were her friends and she knew their names?
Is this a plot hole?
(The manga does not feature the birthday party memory, so I am looking for answers regarding an in-universe explanation for the classic anime canon.)

i'm pretty sure Pluto was telling Chibi-usa not to trust anyone for any reason even if they looked similar, but i remember this from the original dub so the episodes may have been tampered with

@Memor-X, This sounds promising. Could you provide an episode number that I can check to see if the Japanese version contains the same dialogue?

she didnt even trust her parents despite knowing all of a sudden who they are

@Thomas Can you give an episode number for Chibi-usa knowing Mamoru and Usagi were her parents and yet didn't trust them? If I recall correctly, in the manga she knew from the beginning that Sailor Moon was her mother, whereas in the classic anime King Endymion had only told her that Sailor Moon helped people in the past without mentioning that Sailor Moon was the past form of her mother Neo Queen Serenity, and Pluto didn't mention it to her either. I believe that Chibi-usa did not find out the past identities of her parents until some time after Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen found out.

I asked a fan who is not part of this SE community this question and she responded:

. . . you found loop holes in the anime. The whole thing in R where Chibi-Usa didn't know Sailor Moon was her mom, or the four senshi were her friends, the same as in the future was in my opinion, a horrible decision on the anime creators side. In the manga she knew before she even went back into the past that Sailor Moon/Usagi Tsukino and her mother was one in the same. In the anime all she knows is stories of a senshi called Sailor Moon in the past that her dad told her. The fact that the inner senshi of the past and future look exactly the same, have the same names, etc, is completely side stepped by the anime's production. Like really? Are we supposed to believe she's so stupid she couldn't put those two things together? But alas, they try anyway.

Her interpretation is that in the 90s anime, Chibi-usa did know the names and appearances of Sailors Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus in the 30th century before she time-traveled to the 20th century, and that failing to recognize them in the past is a plot hole.

This is my hypothesis and you can pick it apart all you want. My theory is that:

Chibiusa did know who Sailor Moon was and who the Sailor scouts were, but perhaps because Chibiusa traveled in time, perhaps the shock of time travel partially wiped her memory (since she did recognize Usagi/Serena as the holder of the silver crystal). Or,

Chibiusa knows the identity of Sailor Moon and Sailor Senshi and is pretending not to for one reason or another.

On the question of whether Chibiusa knows that Usagi is Sailor Moon, check episode 65 about a dispute over love between Minako and Makoto. In that episode, after the fight is over, Chibiusa pops up in the background like she'd been there the whole time, so if she didn't know before episode 65, she knows now. (or at least is putting 2 and 2 together)


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Does D always get the special power of the dragon they vanquish?
In the series, it is shown Yuu learns how to use antigravity, and Mitsuki can make antimatter.
Since the anime ends just after they defeat Basilisk, did any of them learned to use catastrophe?
Does it happen to the other dragons they kill in the Light Novel?


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Why do the Sannoh players all have buzz cut hair?
Sannoh, the defending national champions, are a team of buzz cut hair. Here are their starters:

Even their substitute (Mikio) has the same haircut:

This gives the team a very distinctive appearance and no doubt makes them look intimidating.

Was it ever explained in the manga (or other media) why they all have this haircut?
Were they based on some real-life team or players that had this haircut?

I guess it give a serious look. Like they're really sportsmen and train alot.

Sports teams have somewhat military parallels. The idea is that by making everyone wear a uniform (and get the same haircut) it helps group cohesion and improves team work. It helps reinforce the idea that no one is special; there is no "i" in team. Like with the army, you can check your individuality and uniqueness at the door; there's a job to be done. More importantly, it doesn't just make them look serious, it makes them feel serious.


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How did Minato gain the Kyuubi Chakra mode?
During the battle against the Kyuubi, Minato split the Kyuubi's chakra into two halves, sealed the Yin-half into himself and the Yang-half into the newborn Naruto. He then dies shortly afterwards due to use of the Shiki Fujin technique, and was sealed into the Shinigami's stomach along with the Yin-Kyuubi.
17 years later, he was released from the Shinigami's stomach, and he was seen using the Kyuubi Chakra mode right away. It took Naruto nearly 17 years to achieve the same Kyuubi Chakra mode after going through a lot of trouble, so how was Minato able to use it almost instantly?

This question has perplexed many readers, who consider it either a major plot hole, or an ass pull by the author. However, on further analysis, this seems to be fridge brilliance, since a canonical explanation can be inferred from Sarutobi's explanation to Orochimaru given way back during the Konoha Invasion arc (manga chapter 124).

With this jutsu, the one whose soul is sealed will suffer for all eternity in the belly of death, never gaining release. The one who is sealed and the one who performed the seal, their souls will mingle, hating each other and battling the other for all eternity.

Later in manga chapters 496 through 499, we saw that Naruto gained control of the Yang-Kyuubi chakra by defeating it in battle and the chakra tug-of-war.
After being sealed in the Shinigami's stomach, the Yin-Kyuubi continued fighting Minato, and Minato probably defeated it in the battle thus gaining the Kyuubi Chakra mode. Minato was already at Kage-level when he died, so it is entirely reasonable to assume that he defeated the Yin-Kyuubi.
Of course, Minato could not have foreseen that he would be released from the Shinigami's stomach in future, so he did not gain the Kyuubi Chakra mode because he wanted it for use in battle. He gained it simply because the Yin-Kyuubi picked up a fight and he had no other choice but to subdue it.

I read some of the reasoning on why Minato had kyuubi chakra mode straightaway and one of them stated the yin half combined feelings with the yang half. I agree with this because Minato felt Naruto's chakra when he was reanimated. This could be kyubi sensing his other half, triggering Minato to sense Naruto as jinchuriki of the same beast, but just a yang half of it. This is only a theory though.

Welcome to [anime.se]. Could you try to provide the source where you read that reasoning?

By the Time Minato was released, Naruto had already made peace with the Kyuubi's other and the half that was inside Minato felt the same emotions and decided to help Minato...

I have another explanation of this case. As you know the Yin-Yan are two equal parts of the 9 tail's chakra so they can be tought as being one. Therefore learning the use of the one means learing the use of the other despite being sealed in different jinjuriki and even different dimensions maybe. (Compare with Obito-Kakashi's sharingan-both from one source-->mangekyou awaikened here=mangekyou awaikened there :D, you get the point)


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Is Saika also based on some old folklore?
In Ikebukuro there are two living urban legend, The "Black Rider" and The "Slasher".

The "Black Rider" Celty Sturluson is a dullahan. And The "Slasher" Saika (currently in the possession of Sonohara Anri) is an entity that manifests itself as a cursed Japanese sword.
Celty is based on Irish mythological figure, so is Saika also based on some old folklore?

Why would she be? You yourself just stated that she's a cursed Japanese sword.

well, there are Muramasa swords, but I don't know if this legend was  an inspiration for Saika.

Saika is inspired by the often used trope of souls within swords but she is not really related to any known folklore as far as we know.

In Japan folklore, there is no such thing as a cursed blade which turns people into slaves or zombies or whatever Saika turns people into.
Many of the most known cursed blades are Muramasa's, however they are rather famous for being able to cut through armor while regular blade were used on weak spots (not even close to saika's abilities) or to make their owner mad like they were controlling them (closer but not that much).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muramasa
http://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/curse-samurai-muramasa-blades-002878
I recommand reading the second one which is really interesting.
Hope that helps.

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What manga is this picture of a couple kissing from?

What manga is this image from? I found it on Tumblr, but I couldn't find the name of the manga.

My bet is that this is from a hentai manga, one that is published in hentai manga magazine.

@nhahtdh: the original post for this that I found on Tumblr seemed to be on a blog focused on ecchi, so I really wouldn't be surprised at all.

It's from a hentai manga by Otsuka Kotora. The tankoubon title is Angraecum. The story title is Phalaenopsis. It's the third story in the tankoubon.

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What was Incursio's trump card ability?
According to the definition of a trump card, it is the ultimate Teigu's ability, one that often comes with a risk to the user's life.
It is true for several Teigu, like Murasame (infecting oneself with the fatal poison and the regret of everyone slain by it), Susano-o (giving up one's life force to the Teigu, said to be usable only three times before certain death).
Wikia has on the Trump Card:

Several Teigu were shown to have a hidden ability (奥の手, oku no te, lit. secret move), often referred to as "Trump Card" or "Ace in the Hole". (...) Usually, such moves are the most powerful, last resort ones. (emphasis mine).

Wikia lists the invisibility power as Incursio trump card. It goes against the very definition, since it has no risk (exaustive, yes, but not life-threatening) and is used in almost the time.
So I have to disagree with that definition. I think that Incursio Trump card is the evolutionary power. It is shown in the Manga that Tatsumi is being consumed by Incursio due to the repeated evolutions:

However because Tatsumi forced Incursio to evolve rapidly to increase his strength, Incursio started to manifest in one of Tatsumi's eyes. After being examined by a doctor, he reveals that the armor has started to bond with him. He also states that after a few years Tatsumi could use it without overdoing it like Bulat. Now at the risk of being devoured by Incursio (...) (emphasis mine).

So, what is the trump card of Incursio? Is there any official or canon material on the issue?

I think it might not be revealed yet, at least for the manga

I do not think that the adaption and evolution can be counted as a trump card.
Before Tatsumi, Bullat and Gensei also were users of the Teigu Incursio.
Both Bullat and Gensei did not unlock the capability of evolution in the Teigu like Tatsumi did. This might be due to them not being skilled enough to or just because Tatsumi has so much hidden potential.
With that said for most Incursio users the invisibility most likely will be the actual trump card, with the only life losing risk being

As noted, a weakness of the invisibility is that while it masks the user visually from the naked eye, it does not hide their "presence", allowing skilled opponents to sense the user despite the invisibility.

The fact that Tatsumi did manage to awaken this power from the Teigu, most likely is due to his hidden potentional, which seems to get stated by allot of characters through out the series as well

Tatsumi's name means "Sleeping Dragon", which seems to be a reference to his hidden potential, which has been noted by many different characters in the series. The first creature he was shown fighting was an Earth Dragon, and he later obtained the "Demon Dragon" Teigu.

I think the  fact that it does not render true invisibility to the user is a great weakness. In one episode, Chelsea finds tatsumi's presence in the hot springs. The fact that you enter a battle with an ability which is fallible is as great a weakness as Murasame. Because when I watched the anime, the fallible nature of invisibility seemed too much of a weakness to me to ever use the ultimate technique. This seems like an abstract reasoning. So let me explain it in comparision to murasame.
Murasame infects the person who is cut with a fatal poison and knows neither friend nor foe. The fact that akame can use it depends on her skill to handle the sword. Similarly , Incursio's invisibilty also depends on the user's abilty and strength and skill. One misstep can kill you in either case. I would believe this was the thought process in creating the weakness of incursio. Also each teigu has it's own set of weakness and strengths. You cannot expect each one to kill the user. For example the Omnipotent Five Sights teigu would make the user hear voices in the head which not necessarily kill the user. Or Mastema which has no such weakness(afaik,correct me if I am wrong). So saying incursio's trump card ability is not limited is wrong. I think we are too interested in the protagonist having the strongest ultimate and a corresponding weakness to believe that tatsumi can just make himself invisble.(To relate this to another anime, kenpachi zaraki of bleach has no bankai and is still hell of a lot stronger, this is akin to that in the sense , incursio's power lies in its ability to adapt and evolve and have almost limitless strength rather than its ultimate ability). Hope this helps :D

The question doesn't claim that Incursio has no weakness, just that it doesn't carry any risk towards its user. Weakness of the technique and the price you have to pay just for using it is different concept. (Well, that is what I feel from reading the question).

Your answer also doesn't seem to answer the question of "What is the Trump Card of Incursio?". You seem to implicitly agree that invisibility is the Trump Card and write your answer to rebut the point "Incursio has no risk", but don't explain why it is the Trump Card.

It is mentioned in the series that invisibilty is the trump card. From my memory I think it was Bulat on the ship who said it. I am just pointing to a case on why it really is the trump card. Correct me if  I am wrong on that.

Well carrying risk towards the user and it being a weakness to the user are the same aren't they. I think the concept of adding risk towards the user is a way to make the teigu look not so all powerful. I just merely explained the thought process that usually occurs in such series when it comes to adding a variability in power (being a game designer myself)

From my memory I think it was Bulat on the ship who said it. I think the question would have been answered if you can cite the chapter/episode where Bulat said it. (Regardless of the discussion about risk and weakness).

Oh! I thought the author already knew because he quoted the wiki. OK let me look that up and  edit the answer.

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Did Light Actually Like L (in a friendship way)?
When I watched episode 25 of Death Note (AKA the one when L, Watari, and Rem died), I noticed that Light was strangely kind to L. Is that because he was nice to L before he died, or because he actually thought of L as a friend? This is something I have been pondering over ever since L said that Light was his only friend.

Related from the opposite PoV: Was Light actually a friend to L?

I doubt it. While L might’ve felt maybe not a friendship exactly, but a closeness or fondness for Light, Light felt no such thing. Certainly respect, but in the end, he was L’s enemy, through and through.

This might be my personal opinion, but this does not look like the face that a person would show his friend when that friend is dying. Light had been pretending to be L's friend for a while, so by (over-)reacting he achieved two things. The first would be keeping his image and the second would be giving him a reason to go looking for the Death Note, that he knew would be laying around somewhere.

In the Chapter 32 (Vol. 4), Light was thinking if he should kill L or not, and then Ryuk said he thought that Light's doubt was because L called him his friend. Then Light answered that on the outside, Ryuuga/L is his friend, but actually L is Kira's enemy. And in various other pages, you see Light thinking about "killing L" - hardly a thing a friend would do. So, no, Light (at least with the memories of being Kira) doesn't consider L truly a friend, it's just part of his acting.

No, he only saw him as an obstacle, but I assume he respected him. Otherwise he would not have gone to such great lengths to kill him.

I'm not sure I see your reasoning. Light had to kill L because he was an obstacle to Light's plan, the greatest obstacle. Respect had nothing to do with it, unless you just meant "respect to the danger L posed to him". But I read your answer as "respect for L's intellect and skill". Please clarify.

Yes, as in he saw that he was a threat due to his potential for catching him and thus respected his skills.

I do believe so yes. Light (that being the Light who didn't realize he was Kira), did like L and considered him a friend. But Kira (that being, the Light who has Kira's memories) considered L his enemy.
What is interesting and what I feel is not really considered by fans, is that Light and Kira are the same person.
Light without his memories, is STILL Kira.
Kira WITH his memories, is STILL Light.
What I mean is, just like how Misa would still remember her feelings for Light even while losing her memory, likewise, I do believe Light would still remember considering L a friend during their investigation together (after he'd lost his memories).
His Kira self is more dominant, but based on how Light was seeing L when he looks at the empty chair, and laments on how things aren't interesting without L, and even cut scenes to Light's blank looking face when he's on a date with Misa right after his lamenting about L being gone, it gives off the idea that Light, somewhere deep down, misses L.
He misses the challenge, he misses his "friend." Even though L was Kira's enemy, Ryuuzaki was Light's friend. They had much in common, they were equals, literally no one could match up to them the way they did to each other, so no matter what, Light found something unique in his relationship with L. I do not believe he never cared at all.
It's just that he cared about being God of the New World far more, and thus was willing to throw away everything else for it.

No he did not think of L as a friend (beside when he lost his memories).Light was trying to make L think he was not kira and also light  tried killing L. i'm pretty sure he would of killed L if he would not be seen as suspicious if he did.

even if he did see light as a friend it would not be mutual   (In an interview he was asked, “Did L have any friends?” We are told, “No. When he told Light that Light was his first friend, it was a lie. L could never have a friend, as he found humans to be a very cunning species.”Dec 4, 2015) http://www.deathnotenews.com/news/nathaniel-overthinks-death-note-the-friendship-between-l-and-light#:~:text=In%20an%20interview%20he%20was,be%20a%20very%20cunning%20species.%E2%80%9D

When L confessed He thought of light as a friend I think on a conscious level it was simply a ploy, but there actually was some kindling of empathy. Also even though L admitted, ‘I think I wanted you to be Kira’ When he died he had a wide eyed expression seeing Light smile as if he had just been betrayed.
As for Light, he never seemed to portray much kinship for L. Nevertheless I think it would be wrong to assume he hated Light. In episode 36 near is wearing a mask of L, and you can hear Light thinking of how it is dishonouring L, which is really strange considering Light plotted his death.
I don’t think L and Light were really friends, but subconsciously I think they both knew that under different circumstances they could’ve been, and I think that shone through when Light first brought L in from the rain.
Also in lights last moments when he’s dying, he sees L. You’d expect him to see his dad as when people pass, they tend to have visions of those they have loved who have passed away. Instead he sees L, I think he really did care for him.

Interesting take but I'd have to disagree. Reading the manga, I don't get the feeling that Light cared for L at all.  Him seeing L at his last moments cannot be immediately interpreted that he cared for him. That was also not depicted in the manga so I don't think that was what the mangaka wanted to convey at all regarding L and Light's relationship.

There are many animes I have come across that have characters with split personalities. I think this is the case with Light. I believe Light is not truly evil, but his other persona (Kira) is. I think this is also the case for Light and L's relationship. Light does consider L as a friend whereas Kira sees L as his enemy. Although many fans think Light acted a lot, I think there were plenty of moments where Light and Kira were in conflict inside Light. As I read elsewhere, If Light had never found the death-note and became Kira, he would have become a detective alongside L and the two would be friends. I've also come across many scenes where Light seems to miss L.

original sources for your answer ?

I personally don't see them as “friends”; both are fundamentally against each other when it comes to their perspectives.
But, that doesn't really mean they hated each other. There are hints that Light and L would have been friends under any other circumstances.
But, that's beside the point, the way I see it… Light and L have respect for each other. Light and L never really had a serious “game” with others before. Light saw in L a chance to prove his worth: if he won, he would be right, and if he lost, he would be wrong. This is evident in his slow decline into insanity as soon as L was out of the picture. With L being the best the world has to offer in opposition to him, he was to be a god, right?
So, ultimately what Light felt towards L was something you or I would feel towards a boss in Dark Souls. Respect. Begrudgingly or not, Light saw his equal in L (even though L is canonically  smarter than Light…), and once he was gone, he didn't feel as much excitement when going up against his successors, ultimately leading to his defeat. He never really gave them as much effort as he did to best L.
Again, this is my take on it.

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Why did Lancer prepare his Noble Phantasm during his first fight with Archer?
In Ufotable's adaptation of Unlimited Blade Works, when Lancer fights Archer for the first time (episode 0), near the end of the battle Lancer begins charging his Gae Bolg, but is later distracted by Shirou.
Later, on episode 5 of the second season, when Lancer fights Archer again, Lancer mentions that he wasn't fighting with his full potential back then because he was under a Command Spell telling him to not kill.
If that is true, then why did Lancer even bother charge his Gae Bolg back then? I imagine that the point of his Noble Phantasm is to finish off his target.

I believe it was more because Lancer was agitated at Archer, who was fighting with 2 sword rather than a bow and arrow (as expected of an Archer). as for the Command Spell i am unsure, i wasn't aware that he had been ordered not to kill given he killed Shirou once, tried again and even used Gae Bolg of Saber, i believed what was portrayed in Fate/Unlimited Codes and that the first Command Spell Kirei used on him was similar to Rin's and that Lancer suggested to use one to make him obey Kirei (though Kirei probably would've done this anyway to avoid Lancer rebelling to avenge Bazett)

@Memor-X well, more specifically the quote is "Sorry I had to go easy on you last time. My stupid master ordered me to return without killing you.", so I guess he was referring to not killing other servants / masters.

i don't think that implies the use of a Command Spell for "do not kill Servants/Masters". if Fate/Unlimited Codes is correct and Kirei's order was like Rin's to Archer, Lancer would be weakened if he disobeys so a command spell of "Obey all my orders" but to then going against it, as Archer put it to Rin, puts an invisible weight on him, and it gets more taxing the longer he disobeys. remember that Masters can have telepathic links with their Servants as what Tokimi had with Gilgemesh and Kirei was his apprentice so it wouldn't be a strech for Kirei to command from the temple

that all said i haven't seen the Ufotable anime and am still replaying the Fate Route in the game so i can't verify Lancer's fight with Archer in Unlimited Blade Works just yet (i might convert these to an answer when i do)

Maybe,It's just a tactic like just making archer nervous and maybe if shirou wasn't there (of course the course of the story changes) before that maybe Rin will order archer to Run or use his Reality marble or something

Lancer was specifically ordered to scout out the other masters and determine their Servants' strengths by fighting them to a draw.  He couldn't expect to get a proper measure of Saber or Archer's strength, who were going to some lengths to hide their abilities—indeed, both Saber and Archer were going on about how their "true" weapon could be anything, but they weren't going to bother revealing it—, unless he tried to force their hands.  In a battle between Servants, this pretty much always requires the use of their most powerful Noble Phantasms.  While use of his Noble Phantasm could result in the deaths of either Saber or Archer, it seems likely that either the Command limited the potency of the attack, or that the vagueness of "find out their strengths" allowed him a bit of a loophole against such secretive opponents.  A Command not to kill them would seem likely to interfere with a Noble Phantasm to some extent, perhaps giving the opponent just enough wiggle room to avoid death (but not necessarily a severe injury, such as with Saber).
According to the TypeMoon wikia:

Contrary to his legendary battle prowess, his fighting in the Fifth Holy Grail War is extremely limited. Fighting several Servants to a draw, he will never start a fight on his own. Even if he gains a full chance to kill an opponent, he is to merely observe and is given no authority to attack. He can only go all out against an opponent during their second encounter due to the Command Spell, so his first true "battle without any binds" is against Archer. Without anything binding him, his strikes are much faster and harder to see than in the previous battle. The only way Archer is able to keep up with him in direct combat compared to the previous fight is due to the experience of previously fighting him.

Recall that Lancer was initially attacking Shirou before Saber had been summoned.  Shirou was simply an outside witness, and by Rin's commentary this was strictly disallowed, and so it was completely natural that Servants would disengage from their own fights to eliminate the witness.  Once Saber is summoned, Lancer backs off and waits for Saber to come to him and force the combat (thought he doesn't seem to have problems with trying to provoke his opponents).  For the preceding fight with Archer, we do not know exactly how it was initiated.  We are introduced to the fight already in progress from Shirou's perspective.


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Why was "Vanilla Ice" localized as "Cool Ice"?
In the Stardust Crusaders series, the antagonist Vanilla Ice is localized into English as "Cool Ice". There's also the renaming of Steely Dan to "Dan of Steel". Is it due to possible copyright/trademark infringements? Or is there another reason, artistic license?

I don't have any credible source, but I'm pretty sure it's (as you said) potential copyright issues since Vanilla Ice and Steely Dan are both names known in the American music industry.

As the people below have stated not all the Names are currently trademarked. But why risk it? the distributor (for the dub) is Warner Brother so I wouldn't be surprised if people from there music division would threaten to sue. Crunchyroll is such a small company that they couldn't even keep up with the court fee to prove that its a frivolous lawsuit.

I found a page from the US Government's Patent and Trademark Office that explains when a musician can trademark a name. http://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/ip-policy/musicians-and-artists-profile, under Registering a Name:

Sometimes musicians and artists want to register their name as a
  trademark, including a stage name or pseudonym. If the mark appears to
  be a person’s name, then there are additional requirements for the
  application. If the name is an actual name (including a nickname or
  stage name) of any living individual, then the person’s consent to the
  use and registration of the name must be included in the application
  file. See TMEP 813 & 1206.03. If the mark does not refer to a living
  individual, but could be interpreted as a name (e.g., a band name that
  looks like a person’s name), then a statement that the mark is not a
  living individual must be in the application file. See TMEP 813.01(b).
  In addition to the consent requirement, applications seeking to
  register a performer’s name as a trademark must include evidence that
  the mark appears on at least two different works (e.g., multiple CD
  covers). See TMEP 1202.09(a).  Applications seeking to register a name
  as a service mark must show a use in connection with the service, and
  not merely the artist’s name or the name of the group. See TMEP
  1301.02(b).  However, an artist’s name or pseudonym affixed to an original work of art (sculptures, paintings, jewelry), need not show
  use in connection with a series. See TMEP 1202.09(b).

I couldn't find any specific source saying that Vanilla Ice and Steely Dan were trademarked, but it seems likely they are. (So we should really write Vanilla Ice™ and Steely Dan™.) The names have appeared on several CD covers, so that clause is covered; and it seems unlikely that the actual name of any living person is "Vanilla Ice" or "Steely Dan". (But even if there was a "Vanilla Thaddeus Ice" living in Gary, Indiana, the kind of money that a major record label used to be able to command could probably convince him to give permission for the trademark.)
The US fair use laws do list parodies as a protected class of work, so according to what little I know of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and fair use law, it could probably be argued in court that this is a parody and therefore a protected usage. But I imagine the translators wanted to avoid any risk of going to court to argue about this, so they voluntarily changed the names.

I don't think are there any real copyright or trademark issues that would prevent the names Vanilla Ice or Steely Dan being used in the English localization. You can't copyright a name and I don't think trademark law would apply because there's no chance a consumer would confuse these very different products. In the case of Vanilla Ice his abandoned registered trademark in the US would have only covered "Audio and video recordings featuring music and artistic performances [...] T-shirts [...] Entertainment in the nature of live MUSICAL performances by AN INDIVIDUAL [...]", and not characters in comic books and cartoons. On the other hand, Steely Dan's name is not exactly original, they took their name from a strap-on dildo in a William S. Burroughs novel. Also copyright protection is automatically world wide, and trademark protection goes wherever the product does. I don't know if Vanilla Ice ever had much of presence in Japan, but Steely Dan has toured there, so the group would be entitled to just as much protection of their name in Japan as the US.
That said, even if they don't have a leg to stand on, it's much easier for an American to cause legal trouble for an American company in the American courts, than it is for them to do the same to an Japanese company in a Japanese court. The company doing the localization might have very well changed the name to avoid a legal fight they couldn't afford even if they were certain to prevail in the end.
At least for the Vanilla Ice character there's another fairly obvious reason why the name would be been changed. Many Americans would recognize the name and be put off by the fact that the character doesn't actually resemble the rap performer. Even without the legal considerations they may have changed the names of the characters (there are quite few using names of musicians) to avoid all the baggage the names would have with American audiences.

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Why do the Horsemen attack people?
So, in Owari no Seraph, we have these weird monsters called "Horsemen of the Apocalypse" or "Horsemen of John", right?
Why do they attack people? What is their motive? Do they, for example, eat people for nutrition? Are they under the control of the vampires?

In the last episode I have seen, they say that Horsemen are not controled by vampires. They just want to kill humans.

As far as i have seen in the anime the horseman of john are basically independent creatures that just attack humans either for food or just because they want to, as (thus far) quoted in the anime they are not controlled by the vampires whatsoever.

No explanation is ever given as to why the Horsemen of the Apocalypse (also know as Horsemen of John) attack humans.
a quote -

Horsemen only attack humans. Almost as if they were sent to cull the
  world's bloated human population.

Source --Shinoa, Chapter 8, "Mitsuba's Squad
All of them attack humans and only humans, while they ignore every single other entity, they do not attack vampires or animals, with the exception of one Horseman of John, namely -
Spoiler alert -

 The special Horseman of John, summoned by Abaddon to destroy the army of vampires and humans


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How many bodies does Yuma Kuga have?
Every trigger user have two bodies: his original flesh body, and the Trion combat body. When he activates his trigger, the flesh body is stored inside the trigger, and is physically replaced by the Trion body.
But Yuma's trigger permanently stored his flesh body (black haired) inside, and he lives with a Trion body (white hair).
In ep. 1 or 2 when he crashes into a car, his face shows a crack (causing Mikumo to become certain Kuga is a neighbor) - the same kind crack Aftokrator's magnetic shard trigger user (forgot his name - the one defeated by Jin in ep.29) shows.
Also when he activates a trigger, he undergoes the same transformation as any trigger user, and have a combat body. Proof is that he seems a bit surprised in Ep.8 when he deactivates his trigger (after the Miwa Squad ambush at the abandoned train station) and his severed arm returns.
So, besides the two bodies (flesh body and Trion combat body), does Yuma Kuga have a third intermediary body from his black trigger?

Yes, he indeed has three bodies, but nonetheless he only has access to two of them at any time.

Yuma's fleshly body is safely stored in suspended animation inside the black trigger ring his father created. Inside the ring, time passes ever so slowly that Yuma's certainly fatal wounds have not yet killed him even three years after the incident. This body is black-haired.
The "civilian" trion body. The one he uses whenever a trigger is not active. This body is made of Trion (see the scene in ep.2 when he is run over by a car, leaving only a small crack on his face). This body supposedly requires nutrients (since Yuma is shown to be eating). It has white hair.
The trion combat body, that replaces the civilian body (or is morphed into) when Yuma goes "trigger on". During the fight with Miwa squad in the abandoned train station, this body has an arm cut off. When Yuma "trigger off", the combat body is dissolved and the intact civilian body is replaced.
 3.1 Also during his fight with Viza in ep. 34, Viza successfully kills Yuma combat trion body, and his black trigger restores the civilian body. Being made of Trion, Yuma uses the inertia of his movement and a seal to burst through Viza's combat body. Viza is seen remarkably surprised for all his combat experience.

It is supposed(whom?) that if and when Yuma is able to heal his flesh body, the black ring will stop mantaining the trion civilian body.

Yuma does not have a third body, he only has 2, the real body stored in the trigger and the trion body he lives with.
In ep 8, he was not surprised, he was just checking whether his arm was working fine after he regenerated it using his own trion as trion bodies can be repaired with trion if the trion was not supplied to a trigger.
In the episode when he used Osamu's trigger, a new border tigger based trion body was created based on his trion body from his black trigger as he was using that trion body when the trigger was activated.
Therefore, if he were to use another such as Osamu's trigger while in his white-haired trion body, a third trion body would be created using his white hair trion body as a base.
Prove is that in ep 23, he had to deactivate his border trigger to utilise his black trigger as the trion body he was using was not the one from his black trigger.

Ep 23 transition was very fast, and since they cut that transformation sequence for some time (the one with the sparkling "curtain" that changes the bodies), it is unsure if he really switched back and forth. But your answer has a contradiction, he indeed can have a second combat body if he uses a normal trigger, you said. Hence three bodies.

I meant to say there was a special case for him to use another trigger and get another body, but normally he would only have 2.


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Why can't the birdcage be cut?
Why does it appear that Doflamingo's Bird Cage is indestructible? What is the different between the strings used in DD's attacks and the birdcage? Why can't Zoro cut the birdcage?

At this point it is not clear, whether Zoro cannot cut the strings or whether it just wouldn't make a difference to cut them. For example, they might regrown so fast, that cutting them wont do any good. Tbh, it would be strange if Zoro couldn't cut the strings, as they aren't even clad in Haki.

That was my initial speculation. But if you recall, the birdcage was made from DD's clone. If Luffy can destroy another clone of DD(before engaging with Bellamy) then someone in the same league like Zoro should able to cut it. And how does DD has enough Haki to maintain the birdcage for so long?

In the previous manga, Zoro is shown trying to stop the birdcage, but not making any attempt to cut it.

The birdcage is not imbued with Haki though. They are just ordinary (but strong and sharp) strings. To be fair, Luffy was never shown to actually break the strings, just to unravel them. The strings were always kept intact.

It might also be, that by cutting them, the top might close faster. Zoro might escape, but when the cage closes again, the people inside will still end up dying, but I think we have to wait for next week. We saw Fujitora look up at a given point, so either something is happening with the cage, or Doffy is going to throw some strings spears or something at everyone...

I think everyone will be moved the SAD factory which is made of kairoseki. But no one knows whether the sea stones can crumble under pressure from the surrounding rubble, although it cannot be directly damaged by devil fruit powers.

Honestly, I think that the birdcage is really overpowered, and that it's very existence causes plot holes.

I don't think it is because Zoro cannot cut the cage that he is trying to push it back. In chapter 270 he was in a similar situation, where he was trapped by the White Cage during the Ordeal of Iron. At that time he says it is completely unnecessary to trap him, because he is not going to run away. Now, with the birdcage, the situation is similar in the sense that he has no intention of running away. Cutting the birdcage or running away, will not benefit anyone with Doflamingo still around. He will try to kill anyone present at the island, with or without the birdcage.
Zoro knows this and knows that the person that will defeat Doflamingo is Luffy, but he does not know how much more time Luffy will need. Therefore to buy Luffy as much time as he can and to prevent as much casualties as he can, he tries to block the cage, instead of cutting it. We have no clue what would happen if he cuts the cage and it will probably require much needed energy, which will probably just go to waste by cutting the cage over and over again, because we all know Doflamingo will keep putting it up again and again.
Now as to your question whether the birdcage is indestructible, that has not yet been revealed up until the latest chapter 787. Other than a few unknown pirates and the meteor from Fujitora, there has not been a single person that has actually tried to attack the cage, not now, nor in the flash-back. Therefore it is hard to say how strong the strings actually are.

First of all, the birdcage itself cuts. A person not possessing Haki can't even touch the cage. If they try to touch they might get injured.

 Here is a proof:

 Zoro told them to move towards the factory because the factory is made of sea-stone (Kairoseki) as mentioned in the wikia and is immune to getting cut by the threads, but is getting dragged instead. So the question of normal people cutting it is solved. But what about the people who possess Haki?

The threads created by Doflamingo are thin enough to be almost invisible but strong enough to slice rocks, trees and even meteors as per wikia.
There's no person who has attempted to cut down the Birdcage. Since no one has tried, it's probably presumed by the swordsmen like Fujitora, Zoro, Trafalgar and Bastille that it can't be cut.
It's similar to the barriers of Bartolomeo that are indestructible.

I have 2 theories on why Zoro did'nt try to cut the birdcage.

He never interferes with Luffy's fight just like Luffy will never interferes with his...he could have also chosen to attack Doffy directly now that he's weakened badly and either defeat Doffy or easily buying the 10min Luffy needs...instead he chose to delay the birdcage closing and believe in Luffy eventually defeating Doffy and making Luffy appears as the ultimate hero in stopping both Doffy and birdcage.
Doffy has COC haki and Zoro doesn't. So at this point he can't go up against Doffy nor cut his birdcage.

Personally I prefers the first theory cause it's way cooler and there is the speculation that Zoro possess COC ever since his fight with Monet.
As for Fujitora I believe he could not openly oppose Doffy due to their respective status.

What about other swordsmen like Law and Bastille?

Well I believe that zoro still not strong enough to cut the tread, as he said he cant hold much longer againts the thread, and I believe fujitora able to cut the thread but he choose not to. straw hat teams still need training and it will be time skip 2

I believe that his awakening or conquerors Haki may be directly associated to the birdcages invulnerability, even Fujitora and Zoro cannot cut it. It also may be because doffy's clone, whom he doesn't need to directly control will just continuously set up the cage. My final speculation is that the birdcages center might contract upon cutting a section out of it, making cutting it a bad option.

Definitely can't be cut. If it could have been it would have been, it was close to destroying the country n killing a lot of people Fujitora would have cut it or attempted it with all the civilians at risk. Imo it's the ultimate death trap. Uncutable razor sharp completely rigid string with titanium like tensile nobodys cutting it or bashing a konobo through it. Mihawk is the only wild card an white beard if he were alive.

(This is my summary from the evidence and speculation from the rest of this thread)The birdcage was never really a threat to the straw hat crew cause there were people in Dressrosa strong enough to deal with the situation. I think Zoro and Fujitora could cut it but there may be no point as no one knows what will happen if the cage is cut. Sabo, Fujitora and Zoro are all strong enough to not only fight Doflamingo from scratch but at least finish him off after the extensive damage he's taken. The main thing was that neither of them wanted to interfere with the fight. They all knew Luffy would beat him and it was Luffy's fight, they just had to give him the time so to minimize casualties they tried to hold the cage back. The evidence that Zoro wouldn't run from the situation anyway, that he won't interfere with the fight which also goes for Sabo and Fujitora who actually said that they wouldn't interfere at seperate times. The whole situation was shown to be quite a lot more difficult than it actually was. Physically there were a lot of solutions for the birdcage. Either 3 of them could break the cage or just kill Doflamingo.


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Can an adult be killed using the Death Note, by remembering their childhood face while writing the name?
To kill a person using the Death Note, you are required to think of their face while writing their name.
If the Death Note user last saw a person decades ago when he was a child, but has no idea what he looks like now, can he kill the person by remembering the childhood face?

I don't think it was ever explained, but I think the answer would be: "yes". The reason you have to know the face of a person is so there can't be any ambiguity when trying to kill someone who shares a name with someone else.

The answer is a clear "Yes". Light learns Mellow's name from Detective Yagami. After that, Mellow (who has studied a death note and questioned a shinigami for quite some time) visits Near to collect his childhood picture and Near mentions that he arranged for all fellow orphans who knew them to disappear so that Kira would not be able to make them write Mellow's name. No lettered detective ever drew a wrong conclusion without the reader/ viewer learning when and why so it's safe to assume that childhood faces do work. Otherwise, the entire scene would be meaningless and pure plot convenience.

This is never really explained, but according to the rules, you should be able to kill that person, if you know their name and face.

The human whose name is written in this note shall die.
This note will not take effect unless the writer has the person's face in their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected.

— Death Note, How to Use: I

According to Rule XX:

If above conditions are met, names and life spans can be seen through photos and pictures, no matter how old they are. But this is sometimes influenced by the vividness and size. Also, names and life spans cannot be seen by face drawings, however realistic they may be.

If the Shinigami Eyes work through a picture no matter how old it is, this would seem to take into account childhood photographs. The rules for using Shinigami Eyes (actually seeing them) compared to using the Death Note (remembering their face) are much stricter, so I would assume that, as long as it was a clear memory, remembering their face would work.
Also, remember that the purpose of remembering their face is only to distinguish them from people with the same name or to check that you know who you are writing about. If the Death Note counts a child version as definitely that person, then it will work.

I think this is quite a stretch to take a rule about "see the names and life spans of humans by using the eye power of the god of death" and apply it to the condition required to pinpoint a person when writing their name in the Death Note.

If the Death Note defines "someone's face" as including a picture of them as a child in one section, it is safe to assume that this applies to all other sections unless noted.

The only difference is you have to physically see the person or a picture of them for the Eyes, but for writing their name you have to know what they look like.

This is not expanded on in the series just like many other rules regarding the Death Note. I believe Ohba has not commented on such things either.
My opinion is: No.
I think a photo of a person's face can qualify as "has the person's face in their mind" if (and only if?) that person's current appearance is not too far from how the person looks in one's memory or in a photo.
I doubt a baby picture of L accurately describes the current appearance of L.
A possibly relevant detail: I would say those drawings of Mello and Near would be far superior to photos of them when they were younger. Since those drawings do not work for inferring names with Shinigami Eyes, I guess childhood photos also won't work when used for inferring names with Shinigami Eyes and possibly the same for the scenario in the question.
However, if you were to kill someone (using a Death Note) who is about 13, and you last saw them when they were 11, that may work.
So who judges "not too far"? I guess whomever invented Death Notes and their rules in the first place or whomever is responsible for the Death Notes' working. As Death Note is fantasy and not scifi, I think such question will not have a precise answer.

So, you believe that it would depend if a person can be recognised from their childhood picture. In this case, care to upgrade your opinion to 'maybe'?

Drawings won't work, no matter how realistic they may be. There is a rule to cover that! See How to Use: XX.

@Underverse Sorry for the confusion. I misread or misinterpreted theq uestion. Thanks!

@MaskedMan Oh sorry. I think the drawings is actually irrelevant. How to Use XX is about seeing names with shinigami eyes. No one in the Japanese police knew their names. Sorry for the confusion. Editing. http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note

@Underverse Reread question. Masked Man clearly distinguishes adult and child so my opinion is no.

@BCLC Oh, you are right, I too got confused by that. Wow, the rules of Death Note are so confusing. No wonder Light had to do so many experiments to figure out the rules, and even Ryuk was impressed! :-)


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Do the class cards physically exist in the main Fate universe?
In the Prisma Illya universe, the class cards (cf. below) are physically real magical items. But what about in the "main" Fate universe, where Fate/stay night is set? Do the class cards physically exist there (even perhaps in some non-magical capacity)?

We do see a fair bit of them in the VN, but never "in-universe", per se, at least as far as I remember - we mostly see them as illustrations to accompany explanations given to Shirou, without any actual indication that they are physically present.
I would have thought that the class cards don't physically exist there, but I just had a look at the first OP for DEEN/stay night, and there's a shot there of Kirei holding the cards (cf. video). Not that DEEN/stay night should necessarily be taken at face value, but it does make me wonder.

In the Visual Novel they appear as visualization when Rin is explaining to Shirou the different Servants and if i remember correctly, in Heaven's Feel Avenger's Card appears in the same manner. however in all of these cases they aren't physical, just a visual aid in the game.

These cards only appear in the Prisma Illya universe as physical objects. In all other works in Nasuverse (Fate/stay night, etc.), these cards are only used to explain the situation of the Servants and the Holy Grail War. They never appear as physical objects, but only as visual aid to the story.

Fate/stay night is a VN consisting of 3 routes: Fate, UBW and HF. It's wrong to call them adaptation.

ah yes you are right sorry for that, that was a mistake on my part thank you for correcting me.


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Does the AUG | Akihabara Accept come from an anime? If so, which one?

In Counter-Strike: Global Offensive a new skin was released called the Akihabara Accept. The description of the skin is:

Powerful and accurate, the AUG scoped assault rifle compensates for
  its long reload times with low spread and a high rate of fire. It has
  been decorated with a heat transfer vinyl of an anime magazine cover.

So I'm curious, does this actually come from a real anime magazine cover? Or is this just some custom in-house work by Valve?  On the girl on the butt end of the gun the words "Fazik" are labelled on her uniform; perhaps it's part of the artist or something?

Here's an imgur album with closeups of the skin in question.

This was asked over on Gaming SE, and the answer was no. Check the comments: http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/221078/is-the-anime-gun-really-from-an-anime

@Matt So while it may not be from an anime, it does say it's from an anime magazine cover. But it doesn't specify it.

I suppose so - I was just going on what was discussed earlier. In any case, that other post has been deleted by the author, so an answer here will be useful.

Based from the Japanese texts on the skin itself, it's too related to CS:GO (or FPS) terms than general anime magazine: K/D (Kill/Death ratio), GET REKT, 1v5, and not to mention the title of the magazine itself: "CS:GO Accept". It looks more like a parody of (anime) magazine cover.

Also, as mentioned by Matt, it does not look like it comes from any specific manga or anime and is just some random Japanese anime character put on there by Steam, hoping to get some money from otaku fans alike willing to pay huge amounts of money for just an anime skin.

Based on comments on it at Reddit and steam itself. If it was based on something you would expected steam to promote it as such.

Do not forget that promote is not the same as has the right.

As mentioned by Aki Tanaka it is probably a parody of an anime magazine. Valve is not allowed and will never use original artwork, covers or other illustrations that have been produced by somebody else.
The Steam Workshop is the only platform where other people can upload their ideas for a skin, but before they can upload it they have to give Valve all rights for said artwork, confirming that the skin is their own work.
The Akihabara Accept is not a work from the workshop and therefore has been made by Valve.
Descriptions like the one you posted:

It has been decorated with a heat transfer vinyl of an anime magazine cover.

are only to roughly indicate how the skin has been created. It is similar to the Kami skin which has a manga page painted on it.

It has been painted using a hydrographic in a Japanese manga pattern.


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Oblivious life-threateningly terrible cooks?
There are quite a few anime, manga, and JRPGs that have a character who, at one point, offers to (or in some cases has to) cook for the other characters and is often convinced they are at least decent. They end up poisoning the others by mistake. It's often played for laughs that this person is shockingly bad, but (often) completely unaware. Usually, this person is a woman or girl. It's mildly amusing,(citation needed) but it happens in so many stories, it seems any show going long enough needs to have this joke in it.
TV Tropes page with examples here.
What is it about this joke that it is so often repeated in manga and anime (and games, I guess)? Is there some cultural thing I'm missing making it funnier? (As a sub-question, why is it nearly always women?)

most of the time women are mainly engaged in kitchen and household work from ancient time , so at least  they should know how to cook a decent meal.

man cooks very good meal where women are bad at it in most of the anime

Usually the food is a gift from a girl to a boy - for example, sharing bentos at school or making the boy chocolate for valentines day. These are pretty common occurances in both games and anime - usually in the lead up to a confession of love. When guys give gifts to girls in anime it's more often jewellery or something to remember them by.
Gift-Giving going wrong is another trope and the humour in it is that the character getting the present feels obliged to pretend that they really like the gift. For example, getting a present that you already own. This trope has been going in different media for ages, and stems from real-life experiences. I know I've gotten presents I haven't been overly thrilled by but had to express my gratitude to be polite.
So, when gift-giving going wrong is applied to food - the character has to try and eat a disgusting meal while saying it's delicious - or at least, not say it's awful. The humour comes from the conflicted emotions and the effort the character has to put in to make sure it doesn't come across on his face that it's disgusting.
I think the fact that gifting food occurs so often in anime, means that this alternative gifting has become a spinoff as it were - and has become a trope in its own right.
I'm not sure if this answers your question or not - add a comment if it doesn't :)


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What is the track listing for "selector spread WIXOSS music Particle.2"?
The second half of the soundtrack for the WIXOSS anime came on the album "selector spread WIXOSS music Particle.2". This album was released with the second spread WIXOSS box set back in April. For whatever reason, though, the track listing for this album does not appear to be available anywhere on the internet.
What is the list of tracks on this album?

There is indeed not yet any listing. Even Japanese Wikipedia doesn't have it: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selector%E3%81%AE%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3#selector_spread_WIXOSS_music_particle.2

Some nice person added the track listing to VGMdb a little while back (I assume it's correct, though there are no scans of the listing included); here is a romanized / translated† version of it:

Battle ~ I can make your wish come true
doushite naite iru no? / "Why are you crying?"
fushigi / "Strange"
Chiyori / "Chiyori"
chiyoringaa, chiyorunbaa, chorisoo
gikochinai  / "Awkward"
yukkuri to / "Slowly"
Urisu to Iona / "Ulith and Iona"
uso to yokubou, kowarete guchagucha / "Lies and desires come tumbling down"
Iona to Akira / "Iona and Akira"
iradachi to kyoufu / "Anger and fear"
kenshin to izon ~ Devotion / "Sacrifice and dependence ~ Devotion"
Conflict
atarashii katachi / "A new form"
nichijou ~ Futase / "Life ~ Futase"
mayoimichi / "Gone astray"
Fumio / "Fumio"
Battle ~ mou, genkai nan da / "Battle ~ I can't go any further"
Mayu to shiroi heya / "Mayu and the white room"
hibiware ~ Brasted piano / "A crack ~ Brasted piano"
Ulith / "Ulith"
omoikomi? / "A preconception?"
utsuro na sonzai / "A hollow existence"
minna de yarinaosou? / "Why don't we all start over?"
Battle ~ Consternation
taiji to itami / "Confrontation and pain"
kizu / "Injury"
dakedo / "But"
Yuki / "Yuki"
Profane Wish ~ Brasted piano
moshikashitara / "What if"
sorezore no yasashisa / "Kindness, each in their own way"
tobira / "The gate"
infinite Girl

† Except for track 5, because what do you even do with that? Also, because I'm lazy, I didn't pull the translations for things like tracks 22 and 23 from the simulcast subtitles, so they'll probably be sort of discrepant.


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what was the name of girl who gives everyone starfish in clannad?
i really cannot recall hear. what was her name again? Since this post does not meet standards i have to write that i tried to remember her but no luck in this.

Fuuko's spiritual power is stronger then that!

You forgot her? You're the worst...

The character's name is Fuko Ibuki, sometimes spelt Fuuko

You probably could have Googled 'starfish girl Clannad' to get the answer faster


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Why did humans worship Ilias?
In Chapter 1 of Monmusu Quest, it is shown that a large number of humans worshiped Ilias. Yet, not all human communities consider her as a goddess. The worship of Ilias also seems to be the root of the conflict between most humans and monster girls considering how much Alice detested Luka's worship of her. The conflict wasn't always the case either, it seems to have arisen after humans started worship Ilias.
Why did humans started worshiping Ilias? How did it get started?


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How many dragons exist in the Light Novels so far?
I tried to find a list of the dragons online, but so far only found this stub on wikia. As hecatoncheir is not even listed there, it is not complete.
Can I get a list of the dragons that appeared on the Light Novels with their alleged powers?

The list is more or less complete, except that Blue is Hecatoncheir and Gold is phoenix. There is Silver Tiamat also.


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Are Breakers the only ones able to draw on the Lost Precious' powers?
Breakers can draw on Lost Precious' powers and use them. Are they the only ones able to do so?
Are LP only antiques for the other people?


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Wouldn't Yuta destroy the world every time he takes a bath?
Yuta Iridatsu has a strange power:

If Yūta sees a girl's panties twice in a row, the Earth will be destroyed by a meteor.[1]

But also

  Yūta is biologically female [1]

Meaning that he

 always was a boy inside a girls' body for a long time, ever since the accident when they escaped the lab.

Assuming he kept proper hygiene (else the other tenants would've kicked him out a long time ago) and

 Meika seems to be the only one that knows Yuta is biologically female - until she reveals the fact to the other tenants before the new year.

Wouldn't Yuta have caused the meteor to strike several times already?

Sorry for the blocks, but it is a faint attempt at keeping the casual viewer unspoiled.

Seeing panty twice in a row causes him to Uberfy over the limit and die. The meteor just happens to fall on that date, and if he dies, no one can stop the meteor from falling. However, the question is still valid: how can he stay alive in a girl's body when he has tendency to Uberfy.

@ton.yeung I see where you are getting into, but that exposes yet another facet of Yuta personality and internal issues.

Since it is an original anime series, there is little canon material outside the videos themselves.
So lets attempt to delve into Yuuta's psyche using another strongly male-self-identifed character: Ranma Saotome.
Ranma could change back into a boys' body, but nowhere in the whole series he got turned on by his own female body. There were times when he was embarassed, but even when male and female Ranma got separated, there were no chemistry between them, at least from the male side. (chapter ref pending).
We can also bring the panty fanservice that is abundant in shonen titles.

These factors all come into play for the Japanese panty fetish. First, panties were long associated with the risque. Not only do they cover up desirable bits, but they also have a strong association with high-class prostitution. Second, panties tend to reflect a lady’s personal tastes in fabric, lace, and design. They also have connotations of wealth since originally only the wealthy could afford such luxuries. Finally, the up-skirt shot originated from when women were adapting to the less constrictive Western styles and developing feelings of shame with underwear exposure. These associations merged into the panty fetish and fan service we see in Japanese culture and anime today. (ref)

Also, Yuuta uses boxers. Maybe it gets a little loose in the front, but lets assume he is used to it.
In ep9 flashback at 15:30, Narugino and Yuuta stumble onto each other on the front porch, causing Yuuta's bag to burst open. Narugino accidentally grabs one of Yuuta's boxers.

So, from these arguments:

Yuuta is not turned on by his own female body
Yuuta has a panty fetish. We can safely assume he is more turned on by a pretty (or daring!) panty than naked female genitalia.
Yuuta does not uses female underwear. We can also consider that Chiyoko's (Narugino original body) teen body is underdeveloped, and he does not need a bra, or uses other ways of holding/hiding the breasts.

We can then add the final statement: When he returns to his body in ep7, Chiranosuke (the ghost cat) tells him that if his Uberfy goes overboard in his spirit form, the physical body (possessed by another timeline's Yuuta) dies.
So, if he bathes on his physical body, he would only drop unconscious from over Uberfy-ing if he did Uberfy from his own female body (we showed he wouldn't).
Also there is the issue if viewing the same thing twice in a short time counts as two viewings. Every time he blew up he had seen two separate sets of panties.

In the most recent episode, Yuuta changes costume and takes off his shirt revealing bandages around his chest.

This might seem kind of stupid, but maybe it doesn't work on him. Maybe he just sees himself as a male, and not a girl.


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What happens in the final battle of Underworld between the Human Army and the Dark Territory Army?
I was unfortunately unable to be a part of the group that got to read the web novels before they were taken down, but it's killing me ever since I finished LN 15.  There are so many unresolved questions that I have and I can't seem to even find a release date for the Japanese version of Volume 16, let alone the English version, so if you read the web novel, can you enlighten me on a few points that are driving me crazy?

At the end of LN 14 when the power surge hits Kirito's FL, it seems to rip a hole in his consciousness and even the crying out of Asuna only seems to bring nostalgia, but he can't seem to place why he knows that voice?  Is that what happened?
Alice seems to be following a similar train of thought to Kirito from the original SAO arc, that if the **** hit the fan, she's going to run with Kirito for the World End Altar?  What would happen if she and Kirito do make it there?  Kirito could log out, but she can't?
Not that I want to seem like a shipper, but the relationships in this storyline are frustrating because I can't decide who to root for.  It's almost like Reki is opening the chance for Kirito to stay with Alice instead of returning to the real world?
How does Kirito get his consciousness back?
Given the side stories that have been released, it seems that the battle comes to a close with a truce?  Is that true for the main storyline?
Does anyone have any info on release dates?

I'm sorry I'm asking for spoilers but I want to be spoiled, so please spoil me!!!!

There doesn't seem to be any information about vol 16 on Wikipedia Japanese, so I guess we don't really know


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Who made Medusa's Daughter pregnant?
Well... this is awkward:
First we have the literary medusa, Azami, in a nice black dress with red eyes and her partner Tsukihiko.
They have a child. That child's name is Shion, and Shion, half-meduse, half human has a child of her own. That child is Marry...
Now to the interesting part: Who the heck is the father?
I mean, it's kind of difficult to get pregnant in a tower in the middle of the forest on top of a cliff... alone...

In 4th light novels, we get the story of medusa and Tsukihiko. Shion is mentionned but nothing is told about her. All we know is that she may be related to the kagerou daze world. Also, it is not a tower but a simple house according to the light novel.

I don't think it's elaborated on, but presumably Shion found herself in a similar situation to her mother: coming across a human man who she fell in love with.


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What are the differences between the Prince of Tennis manga and anime?
I have only watched the whole anime series, but I'm not sure if I'm missing content.
I have read the American arc is anime only, but are there any other arcs that are different? Also are there any major plot points that deviate from the manga?


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Where did Nami get her Clima-tact while fighting Absalom?
During Thriller Bark Arc., when Absalom is having marriage ceremony with Nami for the second time after being interrupted by Sanji, Lola appears and once again the ceremony is interrupted and Absalom hits Lola. After that Nami brings out her Clima-tact and attacks Absalom with thunder tempo.
Now since Nami was unconscious and her dress was changed by zombies, where did she get her tact to fight Absalom?

There is no official answer but I have an idea:
She always wears a girdle around her leg where she keeps her clima-tact, the zombies probably didn't think it would be something relevant or dangerous and let her keep it on her when they changed her.

Isn't sometimes her dress too small for the girdle


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Is it shown in the Manga the moment when Watari becomes aware of "the lie"?
Watari is a big part of the romantic rectangle in the story, but he is also pivotal to "the lie".
In the anime it is only hinted that he is aware of the lie, for example

 when he in a light, teasing tone asks Kousei if he is going to steal "his" Kaori (while climbing the stairs of the hospital, during a visit - one of the last 4 episodes of S-2, i think).

Is this internal conflict of Watari explored in more depth in the manga? Is it shown that he is aware of the lie?

Well, technically the "lie" was

 Kaori liking Watari, so whether Kousei likes Kaori or not wasn't a direct indication.

Even very early on in Chapter 3 page 5:

 Watari half-jokingly boasts about Kaori and implies Kousei has intentions for her. Kousei rejects this suggestion, because "she likes Watari", thus it was "impossible". To which Kousei did give him some form of open competition by telling him only Kaori can decide what's impossible for him.

Also much later on,

 When Watari decides to encourage Kousei to visit Kaori more, he admits that Kaori always turns to Kousei and that Watari himself feels unable to help. This is also shown in the anime. At this point Watari is probably at least subconsciously aware that Kousei is probably as important to Kaori as he is (at least) (This is however my take on it)

The anime is quite filial to the manga, as the events are followed quite closely. Any variation comes from the differences in emphasis between certain scenes but is outside the scope of this question.
In summary, the manga hints as much as the anime about how much Watari knows and it is never clearly stated.

 We can only guess that perhaps that this one time, Watari "lost" a girl he really liked to Kousei, and that he probably didn't want to admit it himself as we see the parting shot where he stares at the picture of him and Kaori on his phone. Or maybe perhaps he knew all along and was lying to himself. There is no confirmation either way.

However, as far as how much Watari suspects, the first real evidence of this is from the manga, Chapter 21, page 31, where they were talking after Watari played some football.

Kaori gave an affirmative to being asked if she "likes" Kousei and Watari even says that he has thought as much, meaning that he actually suspected it then. However, Kaori gave a cop out answer stretching the meaning of "like" and says that she likes everyone.
Thus Kaori never admitted to Watari, so as a technicality, Watari never knew for sure. But surely he had strong suspicions all the way.


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What's the meaning behind S.A.D. and Smiles?
From the Punk Hazard arc, we have learned that Vegapunk had created a unique substance called S.A.D., which is one of the few things needed to create Smiles, artificial Zoan Devil Fruits.
So basically we have (a joker) using sadness to create smiles. I doubt Oda named both objects that way accidentally. So does anybody know if Oda has ever mentioned what the symbolism is behind S.A.D and Smiles?

I think it might be too early to know the answer for this. The insinuations I see is that the one produced before Luffy got to the new world are going to be more relevant when they are in use later in the story.

The substance is just "SAD" not "S.A.D". Considering that Caesar Clown is the only person in the world who knows how to manufacture it, and he uses it to create artificial fruits that he calls "smiles", it was just an appropriate name to fit into the theme. Clown, smiles, sad, etc.

SAD and SMILES are named after the side effects of Artificial devil fruits
A normal devil fruit grants power and has only a side effect of unable to swim, but artificial devil fruits are different on top of unable to swim

 they also lose the ability to become SAD or angry, they can only SMILE or laugh

Source: Chapter 943: SMILE


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Is there somewhere where the Stretch exercises are compiled?
The manga Stretch is a story about two girls living together who come to love stretching.
Usually the stretches they do are introduced in a small panel with a little bit of demonstration:

However, there is some story elements in the manga and also the types of stretches are often spread out in different places (example: stretches to do before you go to bed occur interspersed in several chapters)
Is there an existing convenient way of seeing these stretches grouped together rather than having to compile them manually?
I know there are groups that will compile anime cookbooks, so I don't think it's too out-of-the-ordinary that something like this may exist

Did you look for special editions and additional merchandise like artbooks and such? They could contain all of those.

@Hakase I've had trouble finding anything of it really - search results usually turn up 'stretch' goals for 'anime' crowdfunding projects :(

I searched ストレッチ 漫画 (Stretch manga) in Japanese to help strain out some of the overloaded definitions. I got a few results that looked semi-promising in that they did actually reference the manga itself, but I can't read Japanese well enough to get an answer out of it.

Well, if you finish compiling those, could you post us a link where you would have uploaded it ? I would be interested too :)


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Is the Senran Kagura Anime/OVA related to the games plot wise?
So looking in my emails i noticed that there was a Senran Kagura Anime and a search on AniDB.net shows there is also an OVA.
I have Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus Let's Get Physical on the Vita and plan to get Senran Kagura Burst on the 3DS so i am wondering if the Anime and OVA of Senran Kagura are related to games plot wise?


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Where can I get listings of convention locations and dates?
My interest in anime and manga is largely a solitary pursuit that consists of me watching copious amounts of animated TV shows and answering questions on this site -- I don't really collect merchandise much or go to conventions . However, in the past, I've missed at least one convention that I would have liked to go to, on account of the fact that someone who had been involved with a few series I really like spoke there.
One problem, in addition to my lack of interest in looking through guest speaker lists early enough, is probably simply that I don't really know where I can learn about ongoing conventions. I might know of some small "convention" run by the anime club of a school I might be affiliated with, and, along with that, of one much larger convention in the area. However, I only know of these via word-of-mouth, and I pretty much do not know of the approximate times of any other conventions near areas I've lived in. Moreover, if I travel, it'd be nice to be able to have some approximate idea as to whether there are any conventions in the area, so I can see if I might be interested in going.
With this in mind, are there any websites that list major conventions by location and dates? (Bonus points: are there any particular websites that do not just do so for, say, the US?)

Note: I realize the thing to do would be to just look up the major anime conventions in any areas I could conceivably live in, but that feels inefficient, and I can't be the only person interested in this.

Although Jay Fubler Harvey's massive Anime Web Turnpike web directory of over 40,000 links unfortunately went offline in November 2014 after being acquired by The Anime Broadcasting Network, Inc., the classic version is still visible at archive.org. The Anime Conventions page lists all of the main anime and/or manga conventions that had come into existence by that point. There is also Wikipedia's List of Anime Conventions.
The largest anime convention in the world is AnimeExpo, which is held in July in either Los Angeles or Long Beach, California. It features what is arguably the best line-up of Japanese celebrities: mangaka, anime directors, anime producers, animators, and seiyuu. It also features a variety of options for spending your time such as anime screenings, hands-on workshops, academic lectures, competitions (cosplay, AMV, gaming, karaoke), and performances.
The largest doujinshi convention in the world is Comic Market, better known as Comiket, held twice a year in summer and winter in Tokyo. Since it is doujinshi-focused, it does not contain much in the way of anime/manga guests of honor, licensed anime/manga content, or vendors of anime merchandise, but it does include cosplay and sellers of handicrafts.
The main manga conventions in Japan are Jump Festa and Ribon Festa (this is the link for the 2015 Ribon Festa, but the URL for the convention changes every year. You can find the current one linked from the Ribon magazine official site). These conventions include exclusive anime OAV premiers, exclusive collectibles that cannot be bought elsewhere, mangaka talk shows and autograph sweepstakes, and gallery displays of real manga pages. Since they are sponsored by the publishing company, they aren't conventions that feature any titles other than Shuueisha's own series. Jamie Lynn Lano (who worked as a professional mangaka assistant) attended Ribon Festa and reported on it here, as well as on Tenipuri Festa, which represents smaller-scale Japanese conventions about specific titles (in this case, Tennis no Ouji-sama).
If you're going to shell out a lot to travel to a con, AnimeExpo is highly recommended and you'll want to be there all 4 days (there's quite a lot to do); Jump Festa and Ribon Festa are a fantastic experience but minimal Japanese language skills are required (1 day is enough, as the scale is much smaller than AnimeExpo). Comiket is about 90% explicit hentai doujinshi, so if that's not your thing, you will likely be disappointed by the experience and I would recommend against attending.

You can also find a list of anime and comic conventions on UpcomingCons.com. For just anime, click through to the anime page. I also don't collect merchandise much, and even though vendors rooms are a big part of the cons, there are also lots of guests to meet, along with a lot of cool cosplays.

Interesting site, although it seems a bit incomplete (even if we restrict our scope to the US). (e.g. I couldn't find any recent entries for ACEN for after 2014 on a quick search, but the ACEN website tells me they're running this year, and I get the impression they were in the years between too.)

I can't promise it's 100% complete, but it also lists more cons than the Wikipedia list of cons does (as each convention has to be considered Noteworthy to get a Wikipedia page). There's at least 50 or 60 upcoming cons listed at any time though, which hopefully includes one near you!

A good place to find upcoming anime conventions is animecons.com. You can choose specifically what year you would like to look at and in which area. They provide information about anime conventions all around the world, not just America. They provide the dates, name of the con, and the location. It also gives you information about the con (e.g. who runs it, how frequently this con is held, and where to register).


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What is Brioche d'Arquien's timeline in Dog Days?
I'm a bit confused about it, especially the following dates:

When was the big battle featuring the Demon King and the Hero King (and, apparently, "a young swordsman Hina Maxima")?
When was Hina knighted in Biscotti?
When did she meet Yukikaze? Was it before or after she was knighted?
How old are actually Maxima siblings and Yukikaze?

Thank you very much!

Yukikaze is normal so it should be recent. The rest, I guess, will have to be confirmed with a rewatch.

@nhahtdh I think in S2E11 they said that Yukikaze spent a lot of time as a kid, before meeting Princess Millhiore and others, and then grew up quickly.


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Gintama Sex-Change Seiyuu Change
Why is it that during the Dekoboko Arc (Anime episode 275-277) the seiyuu for Sakata Gintoki, Kagura, Okita Sougo, Kondo Isao, Sarutobi Ayame, and Tsukuyo changed?
Sakata Gintoki : Sugita Tomokazu -> Tomatsu Haruka
Kagura : Kugimiya Rie -> Ishii Kouji
Kondo Isao : Susumu Chiba -> Takahashi Chiaki
Okita Sougo : Kenichi Suzumura -> Itou Shizuka
Sarutobi Ayame : Kobayashi Yuu -> Okitsu Kazuyuki
Tsukuyo : Kaida Yuuko -> Hoshino Takanori
Yet, the seiyuu for Hijikata Toshirou was not changed. Why is that? If it was to keep cost low, then why not have everyone voiced by the usual seiyuu?
I'm not aware whether such sex change has happened before in other anime. If yes, then please state what anime and what kind of approach they were using and the reason for such approach for comparison.

Aria had an episode where one of the characters dreams about a world where everyone's sex was switched, but the voice actors didn't change; they just had the women talk in deeper, manlier voices and the men talk in higher, more effeminate voices.

My two cents: it was probably funnier this way. I haven't seen these episodes, but the very thought of a woman with Hijikata's voice is a real knee-slapper.

It was done in jest; Hijikata's female form was depicted as ugly and swinelike, so they decided to keep his original male voice actor to make it even funnier. This is the most likely explanation, although there could have been some other reason like casting issues.


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One Piece Episode 533 Music Name at 19:47
What is the music name...that plays in episode 533 at 19:47 min when Brooke runs to see Mermaid Princess

Are you sure in 19:47? because I watched it and it's the scene when Zoro comes and blocks and attack from the King.

This song from One Piece Movie 9 is called The Doctor Living in Castle (Dr no Sumu Shiro). Here's the Crunchyroll episode link and YouTube song link for reference.

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