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Why is Guren's cockpit seat different from other knightmare frames?
I've been wondering when I watched code geass years ago, there were several models of knightmare frames shown in the anime and it's 2nd season.
I noticed that Kallen Kozuki's knightmare - Guren has a different seat from the other nightmare frames.
If you Zoom in , you could noticed the differences of the design in the knightmare frames' seat (at the left is Guren S.E.I.T.E.N and at the right is Lancelot, Lower right is Zero's Shinkiro)

The picture was taken from "The Original Picture of the Opening movie and installation Book" which was with the Original CD of the opening Theme Music sung by Flow.
The Guren's seat was somewhat modeled after a motorbike as seen in the picture below.

This is a screenshot from the anime were we can see how Kallen is leaning forward like riding a motorbike.

Are there any explanation on this?

The facetious reason is that the motorcycle-style seat increases the number of camera angles that prominently feature Kallen's... assets.

As a side note, all those Knightmare Frames were manufactured by various different manufacturers, so the cockpit difference between them is not surprising at all.

The closest in-universe explanation we have is that the Guren was created by an Indian Engineer, and manufactured in Japan. The key point here seems to be the Indian designer, because several other Knightmare Frames boast a similar cockpit, and are either Indian-designed, or derived from the Guren.
Specifically, the Four Holy Swords' "Gekka" model is derived from the Guren (though their power level is lower to allow for cheaper production) and has the 'motorcycle' seat.
And, in the Second Season, the Black Knights are given a new model of Mass Production Knightmares known as 'Akatsuki.' Again, Indian-designed, and they have the motorcycle seat.
Beyond that is also the Akatsuki Command Model Zikisan, the Zangetsu, and the Amanecer, which are all derived from the Akatsuki mass production model, and all have the same style of seat.
The common thread here, is that all of these Knightmare frames were designed in India or derived from a frame that was. So, based on that, one can logically assume that the 'Motorcycle seat' cockpit is simply how Indian designers build their cockpits.
Now to move away from factual, and provide a possible tactical reason for this change...if you look at the positioning of the cockpit of Britannian-designed Knightmares...

the 'base' of the cockpit is situated at the frame's center of mass, and actually protrudes through the chassis of the Knightmare. Most soldiers, when being trained, are taught to aim for center of mass when firing at an enemy. Effectively, this means that when firing at a Knightmare Frame, you are firing directly at the cockpit.
With the 'Motorcycle' design...

the entire cockpit is perched on the shoulders of the Knightmare, and situated to peek over its head. This moves the base of the cockpit somewhat away from the point that is most commonly fired upon, and actually puts the full mass of the Knightmare in between the pilot and whoever is shooting at them, improving the chances of a successful ejection.
The downside to positioning the cockpit this way is that with a Brittanian-style cockpit, everything could be spread out, because the frame sticks through the chassis of the frame. In order to perch the cockpit on the Knightmare's shoulders, and still maintain a low enough profile to not make the frame unwieldy, you need to compact the cockpit. The easiest thing to cut down on is 'space for the pilot.' So you have them hunched forward in a motorcycle-position so you can have them basically laying on top of systems that used to be mounted into the walls.
Again, the last half of this is all theorycrafting...so take that with a grain of salt, but it makes sense to me.

your theorycrafting somehow has a point, it does make it much harder to aim at something less protruding. Thanks for answering :)


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At the end of the story, could Edward learn Alkahestry?
Since Alkahestry is used via the dragon's pulse while alchemy used in Amestris was powered by the philosopher's stone, could Edward learn and use Alkahestry after he had given up his gate of truth and lost his ability to use Alchemy?

In all likelihood, he can learn it but not use it.
I say this because Alchemy and Alkahestry mainly differ in their sources of powers. As mentioned on the Wikia article on Alkahestry:

Alkahestry refers to the slightly different form of Alchemy used in the country of Xing. Alkahestry differs from Alchemy in both its practice and its goal. Whereas Amestrian Alchemy claims to have its roots in the energy of tectonic shifts and practices manipulation of matter toward scientifically practical ends, Alkahestry is centered on a concept called the "Dragon's Pulse" which speaks of the Earth itself having a constant flow of chi (life energy) which flows metaphorically from the tops of mountains down to the land, nourishing everything it passes with that energy as does blood coursing through the veins.

Although never explicitly stated, it is very likely that both Alkahestry and Alchemy make use of the Gate, and their difference lies only in their source of power and their practices. The above excerpt even mentions it as a "different form of alchemy".
It may also be noted that:1,2

Alkahestry uses energy flows of the planet to open the gate. The energy flows and has many different exit points and thus they can use ranged alchemy. The concept of Chi is that the human body has an energy flow and that it also has many different exit points.

Using this concept, Alkahestrists are capable of a higher level of medical transmutation than Amestrian alchemists - transmitting chi through the pathways of the human body to cure mild ailments as well as minor injuries - and can even project their transmutations over long distances and wide areas by accessing and guiding that current to their own means with Purification Circles and Alkahestric markers, a function of which Amestrian Alchemy is altogether incapable.

Amestrian Alchemy uses tectonic rifts as their source of power.

But really Father's Philosophers Stone is limiting that source of power. Its the reason why Father could amplify the Freezer's Alchemy (Episode 1), turn off Alchemy (but not Alkahestry) and why Scar's transmutation (after Bradley died) gave everyone increased power (it stopped the inhibitor of Father's Philosophers Stone).

Because of the country's history of war, their alchemy was developed with combat use in mind. Some medical alchemy was developed (proof being Marco and others) however it was never specialized and Alkahestry's medical alchemy was "better".

In conclusion: Since both of them make use of the same concept/power, the different lying in their sources and their specializations, it's possible for him to learn Alkahestry but not use it. It's similar to what happened with Alchemy. Ed can't use it at the end, but there's nothing stopping him from learning it. He even departs to the West to learn more about alchemy. As someone on Reddit put it:

He can still physically do the motions for both, it's his body that can't make the final connection. To draw an analogy, it's like someone who is paralyzed:  Their legs are still there and the nerves are still there, but they aren't connected anymore.

If I've understood alchemy and principles behind it correctly, then - no.
Alchemy in any of its forms is science of changing world around you. The question is - how you change it. If you remember island episode, answer is given there. Everything in world is connected. You change one thing - it changes everything connected to it in chain reaction. Obviously, human is part of this mechanism. Alchemy transmutation is basically some sort of change inside of human itself, which then leads to changes in real world. Circles, tattoos etc are just a method to concentrate on change you want to do.
Now, about gate of truth. As I see it, it is actually representation of connection between human and world. Once human undergoes change in result of transmutation, gate translates it to the world.
Edward destroyed this gate, effectively removing his own connection to the world (in terms of alchemy). So, I think, it is not possible for him to do any type of transmutation.

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Is the Merlion in Faye's childhood video a real location?
In this MAL discussion about episode 24 of Cowboy Bebop, the user merle_noir posts that they have been to the Merlion seen in Faye's video:

Faye must be Singaporean... Wouldn't think the Merlion would be anywhere but there (in Singapore), and I even know/have been to the first Merlion she saw - the one in the video.

Is this a real, visitable place? If so, what is the location?

The Merlion is often associated with Singapore, so the extrapolation that Faye is Singaporean is reasonable. However, the exact location of the Merlion in Cowboy Bebop is less immediately clear to a contemporary viewer not from Singapore. In the ep. 24 video where it appears, there is a waterfront, and a merlion at the end of a boardwalk. (Click images for bigger size.)

According to Wikipedia, there are five "official" Merlion statues in Singapore; it seems reasonable to restrict my attention to these. The only one that could fit the merlion in Cowboy Bebop is the one in Merlion Park which stands at the mouth of the Singapore River. (The others do not have waterfront views.) The Merlion Park statue is also the oldest merlion statue in Singapore, and possibly the most famous one, so it's likely that this statue would have been chosen for reference.

One might notice that the location doesn't entirely match up. In Faye's video, there is nothing to the right of the boardwalk the Merlion is on, whereas in current images, there is a set of steps and no boardwalk. However, the position in Faye's video matches up with the original position of the Merlion. (Reference) (The Merlion Park statue was moved in 2002 after construction affected the seafront views and the positioning relative to the Singapore River. Seeing that Cowboy Bebop was produced in 1999, there is no reason for Faye's video to show the merlion in anything but its former location.)

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Why does Takeshi Yamamoto have a interesting naming sense?
In Katekyo Hitman Reborn, Haru mentions that Takeshi has a interesting sense of naming.
Now I were wondering, is this only because he added the 'Ko' character to the name? Or is there a deeper, under-laying joke/reference made there?

Jirou is an Akita Inu, while Kojirou is a swallow. They are named similarly because they are two halves of Yamamoto's Vongola Box.
Kojirou is named after the swordsman Sasaki Kojirou, known as the rival of Miyamoto Musashi and for his "Tsubame Gaeshi" (Turning Swallow Cut) technique that is said to mimic the motion of a swallow's tail.
Jirou is probably named after one of the two Sakhalin Husky sled dogs that survived an ill-fated Japanese Polar expedition. While the breed is currently extinct, they are said to be one of the precursors to the modern Akita Inu.
These two animal were not only named after figures of historical origin, but also share similarities to one another as they are both two parts of a whole. The "ko" in Kojirou means "small/little."


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How did Naruto learn the Teleportation Jutsu?
I distinctly remember that scene from the anime where Naruto has just learned to control the Nine Tail's chakra. He immediately senses Kisame hiding in the sword and goes on to teleport to him and give him a good punch.
Has it ever been explained how he suddenly knows how to use this jutsu? Is it maybe just the body flicker technique that was taken to new heights because he now has all this extra chakra or is it the teleportation jutsu in the same vain his father used?

I think you are talking about Chapter 505:

Naruto Uzumaki completes his training of gaining the Nine-Tails'
  chakra inside of him. Before Yamato, Naruto, and Killer B leave,
  Naruto senses Kisame Hoshigaki inside Samehada. Samehada springs into
  action but Naruto used his right hand to smash Kisame.

There is no way that Naruto has used teleportation technique. But when someone does jinchūriki transformation, then according to wiki:

The user's physical abilities are enhanced while the mode is active,
  with greater enhancements coming from using more of the Nine-Tails'
  chakra.

So by simply doing a jinchūriki transformation, I don't think he will be able to teleport all of a sudden, and there is also nothing in wiki which states that he was able to do teleportation. So it was his greater speed!

Yeah but in the anime yamato mentions that he is not yet at the 4th hokage's level which at the very least alludes to him being able to use it.

But that doesn't mean that Naruto can perform teleportation technique too. And also in case of 4th Hokage he was able to teleport himself by using that special sealed kunai. See this

@NeilMeyer Naruto's speed will never match the 4th Hokages Teleportation Jutsu because its not teleportation. Naruto however was so fast that it almost appeared as if he Teleported to the much slower Yamato. Recall that the 4th Raikage could keep up with Naruto, but had to try and Outsmart Minato

Well you see, naruto was able to use a body flicker technique after he learnt to control the kyubii or nine tails he used the teleportation jutsu twice against rikage and kisame hushigaki although it wasn't as perfect as his dads

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Asking a ninja to hide in the ceiling and get pierced by a spear?
In One Piece, Chapter 817: Raizou of the Mist, there's a scene right after Luffy and his crew first encounter Raizou, where they all start asking him to perform some stereotypical ninja techniques.
In this scene, many different characters have requests that mostly parallel Naruto and old Japanese lore, seen in this panel:

Zoro asks for a different request, asking that the ninja "hide in the ceiling and get pierced by a spear".

This is the part I'm most confused about; what kind of reference is Zoro making when he asks for the ninja to hide in the ceiling and get pierced by a spear?

This is a common trope in period dramas involving samurais and ninjas.
You see, when ninjas hide under floors or in attics, they need to be wary of spears and swords from samurai. It's routine in many dramas to stab the ceiling and walls to check for concealed ninja. If you stab and get blood, you got your ninja.
A very well-known story is of a figure called 穴九右衛門 ("Hole" Kuemon). Kuemon was a ninja sent to assassinate the Lord of a castle. In the process of infiltrating, he got stabbed in the head by a spear and almost got caught. However, he was able to lie still, wipe the blood off, and await another opportunity. Eventually, he succeeded and he returned with a scar on his head, earning him the moniker "穴" (hole).


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When is Miss Monochrome's birthday?
Title says it all. When is Miss Monochrome's birthday? Wikipedia only said that she first appeared in Horie Yui's concert in 2012 but mentioned nothing of her birthday.

FWIW, a quick bit of googling indicates that Miss Monochrome apparently appears in Girlfriend (Beta), and while some of the other girls in the game have their birthdays listed, Miss Monochrome's birthday is explictly not given.

well, in my opinion, if you take into account that miss monochrome is a character created and voiced by voice actress Yui Horie, one may argue that the character is a representation of herself, if that were the case (and taking into account that an specific birthday is unknown) their birthdays would be the same, September 20.

^ Googling "Miss Monochrome's birthday" in Japanese returns Yui Horie's birthday

Out of universe, I couldn't find anything except the Girlfriend Beta wiki page that senshin mentioned, which puts down her age and birthday as "???".
In the universe of the anime series, Miss Monochrome's birthday/activation date is probably unknown as well. As we see in Episode 9 of Series I, Miss Monochrome was created by an advanced human civilization that existed before the beginning of known prehistory. This civilization was wiped out by aliens in a human hunt.
After the death of her rival, a past-life version of Kikuko, Miss Monochrome sits at one spot and waits until her memories fade and her battery goes out and she disappears. Life evolves again on Earth, and millions of years later, she is reactivated by a pair of medieval Japanese villagers who luckily have an AA battery to put in her power stand.

The important part here is "her memory faded". Miss Monochrome would not remember her own birthday / activation date anymore, and anyone else who might have known died over 100 million years ago. Even if she did remember, it would be in the calendar system of the ancient civilization. If Miss Monochrome didn't know how to translate this into the Gregorian Calendar, no one would be able to, and I somehow don't think that learning the inner workings of the calendar was high on her list of priorities, even before she became brain-damaged.

One possibility that didn't occur to me at the time I wrote this answer is that she might remember her "birthday" in some sort of epoch time in a unit defined in terms of a natural feature, like number of cycles of the radiation produced by a cesium 133 atom since her activation, and then it would be possible to translate it into a Gregorian date. But since her memory faded, this probably isn't the case.


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Limitations on "plunder" ability?
Charlotte is a very interesting show featuring people with powerful abilities, but all of them have limitations. For example, the "time jump" ability makes the user's vision fade, and the "high speed" ability causes the user to move at an uncontrollable but very fast speed.
The "plunder" ability is introduced late in the game, and it

 allows the user to steal other ability-wielder's abilities.

However, as far as I can remember, there was never a limitation for this ability explicitly declared. Did I miss something? Are there no limitations?

There's two side effects. The first is immediately noticeable: he cannot control his own body when he is controlling someone else's. This results in his body slumping over awkwardly.
The second effect is less obvious.  The more he uses his ability, the more memories he loses. This is likely due to the sheer amount of the brain all of these abilities are taking up.
This second effect can be seen gradually increasing as he forgets his mission, his friends, and eventually everything in the last episode.
It seems reasonable that he gets two negative side-effects like this since his ability lets him control people's bodies and steal abilities.

The direct repercussion of using the plunder ability is that the user is knocked out for 5 seconds.
However, if the ability is used many times, it indirectly causes the user to lose their memory. As mentioned on the Wikia article on Yū Otosaka:

 Over the course of his journey, Yū's abilities, as well as the constant danger he faces, begin to take their toll on him. He shows signs of PTSD and is unable to sleep, and if he does sleep he sleepwalks and attacks enemy ability users as well as innocent civilians. Gaps in his memory start to form, and he finds himself unable to remember either his past or his goal. He isn't even able to remember Nao, but he is able to remember their promise.

It is also explicitly mentioned there as:

Although "Plunder" has a side effect. The more people he loots abilities from, the more memories he loses.


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How can a Dark Elf's age be determined by looking at them?
In Episode 11, Rory determines Yao's age by merely looking at her. Is there a rule on how to determine a Dark Elf's age? Besides her hair color, Yao appears to be somewhere in her twenties.
A translation of the light novel covers this part with:

At a glance, she seemed to be a Dark Elf female.
She looked to be roughly 300 years old, but on the surface she resembled a human in her late twenties.

Just like in our world, Westerners might have problems telling Asians apart, the same can be said about humans and elves.
Humans live and grow up looking at other humans. So they learn to tell them apart and categorize them much more easily. Now, this assumes that you can tell elves age from their appearance, it is just that humans don't learn that skill, because they either haven't seen an elf or haven't seen enough to create big enough sample to learn differences due to age.
Rory is over 900 years old and travels a lot. So she must have met quite a few elves in her lifetime. Also, she could have met the same elf multiple times in their lives, noting their changes in appearance.
The second thing that comes to mind is precision of her guess. Us humans are able to tell age with precision of +-5 years. It is safe to assume that elves appearance changes much slowly with age compared to humans, so the precision might be as low as +-50 years. So if Rory estimates Yao's age at 300, she could very well be between 250 to 350 years old. That is huge timespan. It is like saying  an adult 40 year old man "is around age of toddler".

Rory is over 900 years old, she said her exact age in the interview in Japan

@Ryan Sorry, I mixed her up with another loli bba.

Somewhere I saw mentioned that dark elves age at 10% the rate of humans. I wonder if that's true.

The accuracy of a +/- 50 year guess at 300 is closer to guessing a 40yr old's age at +/- 16 years accuracy.

@Quill I just made up the numbers for illustration. Also, the comparison wasn't meant to be "normalized" to the lifespan. The idea is that if someone estimates elf's age to 300 and they turn out to be 275, it would be considered "close enough". But being off by 25 years for human would be "completely off".


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Is the Golden Den Den Mushi mechanical, or a living specimen?
The Golden Den Den Mushi is used for ordering the Buster Call and seems to be made of rigid gold. It's strange and unusual for the rest of the species.
Is it an actual living being, or (unlike regular Den Den Mushis) some kind of mechanically improved, or purely mechanical device?

In Chapter 386 Spandam is holding the Golden Den Den Mushi and mentions that it is a precious species, indicating that it is in fact, a living snail.

Why do they use this precious spices for this purpose ?

Golden Den Den Mushi is the variation of normal Den Den Mushi, as stated here. However, this Den Den Mushi is immobile and entire body are made out of gold.

The Golden Den Den Mushi (ゴールデン電伝虫 Gōruden Den-den Mushi?), Golden
  Transponder Snail in the Viz Manga,  is a special kind of Den Den
  Mushi which is only held by the Marine Admirals.  It is used to
  summon the Buster Call attack.
  The Den Den Mushi is immobile and its entire body appears to be made out of gold.

It's also said that Golden Den Den Mushi is a very rare type of normal Den Den Mushi

It is a very rare type of Den Den Mushi.  After the button on its back
  is pressed, it sends a message straight to the Silver Den Den Mushi,
  which is the signal for the Marines to start the Buster Call.

So, Golden Den Den Mushi is technically is a very rare snail and not a mechanical device.
P.S.
If we're talking about "mechanically improved" the Den Den Mushi itself just a snail with can communicate with each other telepathically through radio waves.
Peoples in One Piece world attaching button and receiver to them. So you can say that Den Den Mushi are mechanically improved snails.

The Den Den Mushi are actually snails which use radiowave to communicate which each other. Here is a picture of a wild Den Den Mushi without any devices attached to it:

Here is what its wikia page has to say about it:

They have the ability to communicate with each other telepathically through radio waves. The people of the One Piece world take advantage of this ability by attaching buttons and receivers to them. Den Den Mushi thus take the place of telephones and other similar machines in the world of One Piece. They are classified as type "B" creatures, being "Small Friendly" [...]

The gold Den Den Mushi is a rare kind of Den Den Mushi.Here's its wikia's description:

It is used to summon the Buster Call attack. The Den Den Mushi is immobile and its entire body appears to be made out of gold. It is a very rare type of Den Den Mushi. After the button on its back is pressed, it sends a message straight to the Silver Den Den Mushi, which is the signal for the Marines to start the Buster Call.

Now, all Den Den Mushi are mechanically improved. However, it is not confirmed whether or not the golden Den Den Mushi is clothe in gold even in its wild form (which I doubt).

The golden snail only communicates with the silver Den Den Mushi, shown above. So far, it has been shown to be limited to alerting the Marine about a Bluster Call request from the Silver Den Den Mushi.

This answer doesn't seem to explain or stress on why the Golden Den Den Mushi has a vivid appearance and characteristics.

I don't think this is answer the question... He asking about Golden Den Den Mushi, not about the origin of Den Den Mushi

@EroSɘnnin yes, editing the question now


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Are Senri and Kaname cousins?
In the Vampire Knight anime it is revealed that Senri Shiki's father is Rido Kuran and Rido Kuran is Kaname Kuran's uncle. However, Kaname and Senri never refer each other as cousins or family.
Are Kaname and Senri cousins?
and
Why isn't Senri called Senri Kuran?

Yes, Senri is the cousin of Kaname, and with that also of Yuki. He only referred to him as a cousin once during the vampire ball. Here he tells Rima that he is going to support his cousin.
I don't remember it ever being revealed as to why they are not referring to each other as family, this might be due to the confusion the difference in last name might cause.
The reason as to why he has his mothers name and not his fathers name has not been revealed either. This usually is the choice of the parents.

When you marry you choose which name to carry on or if you'd like to keep your names separate for job purposes (like a few of my teachers did). Some families need a male heir so the man takes on the woman's last name to carry on the family business. Most of the time the woman takes the man's last name though. Children don't really have a choice in the matter and most of the time they get the father's last name (except if he was accepted into the woman's family in which case they get the woman's family name). source


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Can I watch Digimon Tri without seeing Digimon Adventure 02?
When I was young, approximately 1998–2001, I watched the original Digimon Adventure. I also later (approximately 2003) watched Digimon Tamers, but I never did watch more than a few episodes of Digimon Adventure 02.
For nostalgia's sake, I'm interested in Digimon Tri, but I have no interest right now in going back to watch Digimon Adventure 02, since it's really long and only available as an unfaithful dub. I know basically who the characters are, but I don't know any of the main plot arcs. Will I be able to understand Digimon Tri without this knowledge?

Don't quote me on this, but it seems Tri was written in mind to appeal to the nostalgia of solely 01, and perhaps subtly retcon out 02 partially; at least, that's how I see it. So far at least I don't believe any of the 2nd generation digidestined has really made an appearance.

The 2nd gen Digi-destined appeared very briefly in momentary flashbacks  at the beginning of the first Tri movie

As of the first Digimon Tri movie, you would be able to understand everything that goes on if you had only seen the very first season of Digimon Adventures, except for a couple momentary flashbacks involving vague glimpses of the Digimon Adventure 02 Digi-destined, but those flashbacks still make no sense for someone who has seen Digimon Adventure 02 anyways due to how vaguely they were shown.
Update from the second movie:

 You will need to know a little about the conflicts that happens in Digimon Adventure 02 as we see Ken Ichijouji appear, in the present day, towards the end of the second movie as the Digimon Emperor, which is quite contradictory if you have seen enough episodes of Digimon Adventures 02. Strangely however, he never speaks. The reason why he doesn't speak, or why he is even the Digimon Emperor again, is still a mystery until the third movie is released


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Why do digimon names end in 'mon'?
As above, is there a special reason why digimon names end in mon?
This thread says its for marketing but the guy also has the theory of:

Digimon are digital lifeforms, and are made up of computer data, right? As we know, every kind of data file has an extension, or file format, for example a Microsoft Word document has ".doc" as its extension, a web page has ".html" and an image has ".jpeg", ".png", ".gif" etc, so perhaps the same thing applies for Digimon.
by wildwing64

I believe is just an abbreviation of monster. pokemon = Pocket monster, digimon = digital monster

I didn't know that about pokemon :) Learn something new every day

Are you talking about the digimon names or the digimon title itself?

@MykAgustin I am talking about the names

@YuukiAsuna then saying that digimon = digital monster and pokemon as pocket monster doenst answer your question.

Its like saying that hey, I'm a digimon my name ends in mon while we know that pokemon names doesn't .

@ᙈnlḭ๓ḭtḕᕍᏰᙈᖇຮt I don't understand your point?

I'm just saying that comparing digimon to pokemon isn't right. If your asking why digimon have mon in their names (Agumon,Gabumon,Tailmon) while pokemon doesn't (i.e. bulbasaur, pikachu, charmander)Except for the fact that both their titles end in mon. you clearly stated that your talking about the names right?

@ᙈnlḭ๓ḭtḕᕍᏰᙈᖇຮt I think you  should re-read my question. At no point do i even mention pokemon let alone compare it to digimon

@YuukiAsuna there's nothing wrong about your question, I was talking about the accepted answer.

Digimon is like Pokemon where Pokemon is short for Pocket Monsters, that said Digimon is short for Digital Monsters
this is visiable in most logos for Digimon

Also in the first episode of the 4Kids dub of Digimon Adventure when the Digi-destined come back together after finding their Digimon Partners the Digimon says in unision (after Bukamon jumps off Joe's shoulder)

Bukamon: we are.....
All: Digimon! Digital Monsters

Just like what Memor-X answered:

Digimon is like Pokemon where Pokemon is short for Pocket Monsters, that said Digimon is short for Digital Monsters

The suffix -mon means monster as what the title also means.
Name

The name of a Digimon species is usually based on its form, and may be
a pun. For example, Hyokomon's name and design are derived from the
Japanese onomatopoeia for unsteady steps (「ひょこひょこ」 "Hyokohyoko"?), as
well as the Chick (Gallus gallus domesticus) (雛 Hiyoko?). The
species's name always ends in "-mon".
Digimon generally do not have individual names, and are instead simply
referred to by the name of their species. So the word "Agumon",
depending on the context it's used in, can either refer to the Digimon
species or a single individual Digimon of that species. The Centarumon
in Digimon Adventure and the Centarumon in Digimon Frontier share the
same name because they are of the same species. However, they are not
the same individual, and are different in appearance and voice.

Source: Digimon (creature) Wikia
Digital Lifeforms
As for the data file extension theory, here is a possible connection. Digimon have different attributes. We know that Digimon are digital lifeforms residing in the digital world.
From Wikia:

Attribute
Most Digimon species are classified into five attributes—Data,
Vaccine, Virus, Free, and Variable. Most Digimon fall into the first
three categories, with "Free" being rarer and "Variable" exclusive to
Hybrid Digimon. Some Digimon either have their attributed by
unidentified or lack them entirely.
The main three attributes have a Rock, Paper, Scissors arrangement
where Virus is generally advantaged against Data, Data is advantaged
against Vaccine and Vaccine is advantaged against Virus. However,
these attributes don't play a very important role in Digimon fights. A
Digimon can generally defeat an opponent regardless of attribute if it
is stronger than the opponent in Digivolution level and experience.

According to the thread you linked in withthewill:

Digimon are digital lifeforms, and are made up of computer data, right? As we know, every kind of data file has an extension, or file format, for example a Microsoft Word document has ".doc" as its extension, a web page has ".html" and an image has ".jpeg", ".png", ".gif" etc, so perhaps the same thing applies for Digimon.
Perhaps there is a file for every different Digimon (as in entire
species, rather than singular Digimon), with that file format being
".mon", for example, the Agumon species filename would be
"Agu.mon".

This theory is explained by Kira the Wanderer:

I think it is what makes the most logic, something that is not directly explained because it requires you to think. "Dra" always refers to "dragon", "devi" to "devil", "Vam" to "Vampire, "De" to "demon" and so on. All the others have names that are a reference to something, whether it be a noise (Like Koromon) or otherwise. A file type does sound best and makes sense.

and ukyouluvr's explanation:

Grani from Tamers was very obviously created as some kind of program. I wanna say that there was even a scene at some point that showed a computer display that read 'Grani.exe'.

Zero ARMS: Grani is a ZERO-ARMS whose name and design are derived from the mythological Grani, the steed of the hero Sigurd. It serves as a flying mount for Gallantmon.

If you want to explore the theory
further, that might be a good place to start looking.
It could imply what non-digimon digital lifeforms are classified as.
If they are .exe filetypes, then it would imply to me that non-digimon
digital lifeforms are literally part of the program of the Digital
World, making them something akin to forces of nature like Gravity. It
fits well with the idea of Gennai & the Digi-gnomes. The D-Reaper
and Grani were also created by programmers, and specifically referred
to as 'programs' in the anime.

AngelosTheHero posted...

It originated from Tamagotchi, which Digimon is born from; every
Tamagotchi's name ends in -tchi, a cutesy Japanese suffix. While -mon
is not a suffix, they followed the same convention of having something
at the end of every creature's name.

That explains it, but still doesn't really justify the choice. Everyone realizes they're "Digital monsters"; not every creature needs a label. Oh well, at least it's fun. Also this might be due to making it more unique that in a way when you say a name like Agumon or Greymon anyone who hears it wouldn't say "Those are Digimons, right?" but would think exactly that "Those are Digimons" due to the -mon suffix.
Furthermore, all Digimon names have an etymology/meaning. For example, Birdramon means "Bird Dragon Monster". It also helps make non-Digimon digital entities seem even more alien/bizarre to the setting. For example, Eaters feel "wrong" because they are not even Digimon but an entire different thing/monster. If Digimon didn't have the -mon suffix, the effect would be lost and Eater would be "just another Digimon".
PS
As for my previous comment. It is just stated that the OP is asking about why the names of Digimon ended with -mon. The answer of Memor-X is correct, it's just that saying that Digimon is like Pokemon is somewhat not right. We know that Digimon names end with -mon if we're talking about the names, and for Pokemon, they don't. Its just because that Digimon is named with -mon at the end because it may be a pun invented by its creator.
Trivia about Pokémon:
At first, it is titled Pocket Monsters. However they shortened it to Pokémon for a catchier name and also because the term Pocket Monsters was already coined in the U.S.

Pokémon is short for the original Japanese title of Pocket Monsters.
The name Pokémon is the romanized contraction of the Japanese brand Pocket Monsters (ポケットモンスター Poketto Monsutā?), as such contractions are very common in Japan.

source: Wikipedia-Pokemon

also Agu, Gabu, Tenta, Pal, Biyo, Gomo and Pata on their own sound more childish on their own lol. Introducing the NEW teletubbies.


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In which episode of Fairy Tail does the flashback where Erza joins Fairy Tail appear in?
In what episode of Fairy Tail does a flashback occur in, showing how Erza joined Fairy Tail, and met Gray?

You're looking for episode 37 in the anime or chapter 89 in the manga.

Wow, the side-by-side really shows how much rougher of shape she was in according to the manga...


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IS there a connection between the Gods of Aqua and Fuero and the Holy Maidens of Metafalss?
So as i was playing Ar Tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel when someone comments that Sarapatra's name is that of the Goddess of Love, in the glossary an entry of deities appear. in it it talks about Elemental Gods such as the God of Aqua and the God of Fuero.
Considering that in Metafalss Luca and Nenesha are known as the Maidens of Fuero and Cloche and Infel are the Maidens of Aqua, is there a connection between the Gods of Aqua and Fuero and the Holy Maidens of Metafalss which was not mentioned in Ar Tonelico 2?

There isn't. "Aqua" and "Fuero" are no more than horrible mistranslations that NISA made of the words "Mio" and "Homura", which translate to "Waterway" and "Flame", and in the case of AT3, that glossary entry refers to the Gods of Fire and Water.
As for the Maidens, their names are just references to the roles they have when it comes to singing Metafalica: the Maiden of Mio is the Maiden that has the role of serving as the waterway that collects the feelings of all the IPDs into one, while the Maiden of Homura has the role of turning these feelings into a flame (energy) with the power necessary to cross the wave flow and spectrum requirements that Metafalica needs to be executed successfully.


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Attack on titan chapter 79: possible flaw?
In Shingeki No Kyojin's latest chapter (chapter 79), beast titan throws a stone like he is playing baseball. But the story takes place in a time when baseball wasn't even known. These are the pictures:

Is this a flaw or a problem in the Japanese to English conversion? (Maybe the author did not intend baseball).
Or could it mean that Reiner, Bertolt, Annie and the beast titan are from a different time-line? (I don't think it's possible. If that's the case, they could have just used nuclear bombs instead of titans).

The answers to http://anime.stackexchange.com/q/4615/7579 point out other things from our world that also exist in the world of Attack on Titan, so it's not impossible that baseball exists too, even if it's never been shown. After all, we know snooker exists in the world of Fate/Stay Night, even if we never see it.

It's also entirely possible that it's simply exageratted movements for the sake of inducing fear. Seeing this Beast-Titan doing something so deliberate conveys intelligence and a build-up of "What is it going to do?!" Additionally,  If you're going to throw something baseball-sized, it makes sense that baseball players throw it in the best way possible, so that could mean not that the Beast-Titan is throwing it like a baseball player, but that both of them are throwing it in an optimal manner.

It is heavily implied, that world where events are set is our world in distant future. Remember castle Utgard? There was tuna cans with English writings only Ymir could understand.
It is just residents inside of walls being ignorant of possible past knowledge, possibly due to memory manipulation.

That brings another doubt. Why could only Ymir read english? Did the other recognize that its a tuna can?

I forgot that part.


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How did Nunnally know that Lelouch did what he did for good?
In the last episode of Code Geass R2, after Lelouch died, Nunally touched his hand and she suddenly knew what he did and what the Zero Requiem was. Was this a power of Geass?

After the death of her mother, Nunnally is left unable to walk, and later her father casts his Geass on her causing her to believe that she is blind. She has the natural ability to know if a person is lying by touching their hand.
that's what wiki said

Related; perhaps duplicate: http://anime.stackexchange.com/q/6250/

I second the duplicate vote.

This has something to do with the Geass. In episode 11 of Code Geass, Lelouch saw C.C.'s memories when he touched her. Though it wasn't the first time that he had touched her, seeing her memories was a first. It is left unclear under what circumstances does a memory leak like this one happens.
What happened to Nunnally was something similar. She saw his memories when she touched him. It is probably some anomaly related to the Geass.


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How to summarise the whole Naruto franchise without giving a lot of spoilers?
So I've been trying to make one of my friends get into anime. My cousin and I talk about the Naruto franchise and other animes a lot, so my friends wonders a bit whats the big deal.
I would like to recommend Naruto to her, but she would want me to summarize it for her to see if it sounds interesting or not. The problem is that I don't know how to summarize it. Yes, I can summarize it, but I might get to deep into the story that I might give out some BIG spoilers.
Examples:

 Naruto has a demon inside him (which my friend is going to find out either way). Sasuke leaving the leaf village to kill his older brother. Sasuke has an older brother. Kakashi, Neji, Jiraiya, Asuma, Orochimaru, Deidara, Gaara, etc. die in Naruto Shippuden. Asuma and Kurenai have a kid. There's a war. Tobi being Obito all along. Who Obito is. Kakashi coming back from his death after Pain destroyed the Konoha (Leaf Village). Konoha getting destroyed by Pain. Who Pain is. Stuff like that.

So my question is how to summarize the whole Naruto franchise to make it sound interesting and not give a lot of spoilers out.

Trying to make someone want to watch something is rather hard especially if she isn't into anime yet. Its much better if you just show her an episode or two. She'll decide if she want to watch it or not.If she doesn't, then keep showing her different anime. Always remember that each person has different tastes when it comes to watching anime. Goodluck.

a story about a guy chasing another guy.
i bet that would make her interested.

Be sure to she watches it subtitled, or it will come across as a basic cartoon.

@ᙈnlḭ๓ḭtḕᕍᏰᙈᖇຮt she would prefer if I summarize it for her. That's why I'm asking this question. She is one of those people that like to know what to expect.

You just sit and watch a fight with her, especially in which proper chakra is used, probably of Kakashi and Zabuza.

If I wanted to summarize Naruto, I would have to summarize the ideas. You don't want to give out specifics like who dies, any identity reveals, or for that matter just about anything revealed in Shippuden.
"Naruto is a boy who, on the day he was born, coincidentally had a giant demon fox spirit attack his village. Using a special kind of energy called chakra, a powerful individual sealed this demon fox inside of Naruto to protect the village. Naruto's parents however die in this attack, and he resorts to troublemaking for attention, as well as aspires to become the Hokage, the leader of the village, for people to acknowledge him. To do so, he must become a great ninja, someone who uses their chakra to perform special techniques, such as manipulating the elements to spit fireballs, raise walls of rock, blow gusts of wind that can slice through trees, manipulate the body, or create illusions and trick the opponent. The story of Naruto is about how he grows from a 12 year old low class weak ninja with his friends/classmates and their teachers, including his training to become stronger, personal struggles as well as the ones with the other villages, and fights with strong opponents. It also has his internal conflict with the demon inside of him as well as his attempts to be acknowledged by people as he grows in strength. It constantly has you wondering how things are going to turn out as strategy in combat is critical as they often fight enemies more powerful than they are, and must come up with the strategy to get ahead. Most people find themselves rooting for Naruto as they watch him do what seems impossible as due to his life as an orphan, as well has his overall complete lack of talent in all but a few specific things, has made him vow to NEVER give up, ever, and allows him to see the truth behind his opponents. Death is there for all sides, but it is not always the only solution because of Naruto."
The idea of that kind of summary is to bring up every important idea without saying what actually happens. It's important to mention death in some way, as well as his lack of talent and how he is still able to become strong, but that his power is not his ultimate strength, in Naruto, the world is a bad place, full of wrong, and he is trying to change that in a way no one else ever could.
If it is interesting enough to consider watching a few episodes, then, unfortunately, the best summary of the entire series up until the war is the entire ordeal with Zabuza, the first real opponent they fight. It's probably quite a few episodes in, as it has been a long time since I was back there, but it really summarizes everything until the war in Shippuden. If they liked the Zabuza arc, they will most likely like everything up to at least the war, where things change a lot, because it's a war, and also really far into the series.

I went back and checked. The episode where the ordeal with Zabuza, the first opponent, ends is episode 19. at 20-25 minutes per, thats realistically 6-8 hours depending on how much you skip and how long your breaks are. I would also highly suggest looking up a listing of Filler episodes and Skip most of them. Most Filler is not that bad, its not that good either usually. Naruto is just over 40% filler of its 220 episodes, and Naruto Shippuden is also just over 40% of its current 455 episodes being filler, and is currently in filler (though its also in its final arc)

Naruto is massive. There are 220 episodes in the original broadcast franchise and over 450 episodes in Shippuden.
Naruto is in-depth.  Even with the filler episodes, there are niches and nuances about the story which take an incredible amount of time to explain.
Naruto has a lot of things to like and a lot of things to hate.  There are always going to be some parts of the anime that some people enjoy more than others.
So, the best way to see if your cousin likes it?  Let her watch Season 1.  That's enough time for them to get acquainted with the media and let her experience what's going on.
If they really don't want to go through all of that waiting, then you can show them two of the anime's openings - GO!!! and Seishun Kyousoukyoku (ironically both of these were sequential openings for seasons 4 and 5), which do a decent enough job to convey both the action, entertainment, and drama aspects of the series overall.

Naruto is a coming of age story following the main character learning to be a ninja, become stronger, and make friends along the way. Naruto grows up ostracized and accused of being a monster, the nine-tailed fox that devastated their village, Konoha, when he was born. At first the village trouble-maker, Naruto learns to be strong, makes friends, loses friends, and grows up quickly to protect everything he cares about.


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Is it possible to seal Opponent Ninjutsu by using scroll?
After seeing naruto series we have seen different scroll of various sizes which are used to summon something or to do something related seal.
In Boruto: Naruto the movie, Konohamaru used Rasengan and sealed that in the scroll. So by that sealing Ninjutsu is possible.
So my question is that, is it possible for someone to seal enemy Ninjutsu on scroll.
For example
Naruto used Rasengan and throws it towards his enemy.
So is it possible for enemy to seal that Rasengan simply by opening scroll wide enough so that it can strike right through it and then get absorbed. I mean by that enemy can seal Rasengan again and again. So is it possible ?

related: http://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/29526/why-did-itachis-amaterasu-not-burn-the-entire-inn

I'm pretty sure it would be possible, since Konohamaru was able to seal his Rasengan. But I think you would need good timing if someone through a Rasengan at you and you wanted to seal it.

isn't that how Boruto's gauntlet basically works ?

To answer it simply, YES, it is possible. However, only with mastery of sealing techniques can perform such ninjutsu and of course, with very precise timing.
In relation to Jiraiya who has been shown to seal Amaterasu, my theory is that the fourth shared his sealing skills to him which came from fourth's wife (Kushina) who is known to be skilled with fūinjutsu. An Uzumaki trait that earned them both respect and fear throughout the ninja world.
See Uzumaki Clan


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Why is Yuki surprised by the Level E vampires?
In "Vampire Knight"  ep. 3, entitled 'Fangs of Repentance', Yuki seems genuinely surprised by the Level E vampires she encounters in town. It's like she had no idea vampires could be that awful.
She never seems to want to believe that vampires are bad, and even tells Zero that she probably should start listening to him and accept that there really are some bad vampires out there, only after her attack.
Why does she seem so surprised by Level E Vamps? Her earliest memory is of Kaname killing a clearly monstrous vampire. She should know and accept how bad they can be right off the bat.

It's apart of Yuuki's denial that Vampires can be bad, don't forget her earliest memory if that of her idolized Kaname soaked in blood yet she doesn't fear him (at first). Also as a Guardian all the other Vampires she has met are in the Night Class and none of them are like the Level E she encounters.
We see later during the the first part of the series Yuuki trying to deny that the Vampires of the Night Class, particularly Kaname, and the Level E's are the same blood thirsty creatures but Kaname tries to make Yuuki understand they are the same by letting her see him drink Ruka's blood being fully aware Yuuki was peaking though the door. he did this knowing

 that if Yuuki is afraid of Vampires she wont want to return to being one

i also suspect that when Yuuki went into the Night Class Dorm during the day and almost had her blood taken by Aidou Kaname was well aware the moment Yuuki entered but also knew Aidou was awake. making sure to stop Aidou at the right moment


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How Sarada was able to awaken Sharingan?
According to definition of Sharingan:

When an Uchiha experiences a powerful emotional condition with regards
  to a person precious to them, their brain releases a special form of
  chakra that affects the optic nerves, transforming the eyes into
  Sharingan

So my question is that how Sarada Uchiha was able to awaken Sharingan? I mean is there any event occured to Sarada due which she was able to awaken Sharingan. Is it mentioned anywhere in anime or manga which tells how Sarada got his Sharingan or about any emotional event she faced?

According to the wiki,

The excitement of getting to be in the same room as him (Sasuke) causes her sharingan to awaken

So the fact she would finally get to meet her father causes such a powerful emotional response her Sharingan awakens
http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sarada_Uchiha


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Why would Warp go to the enemy headquarters?
In episode 8, Warp visits the headquarters for Issoudan in order to view Mantle's collection of clones. It seems very strange that Warp would willingly go into the Issoudan headquarters, since this is his enemy's base, especially since this fill-in Warp was not an inheritor of Warp's powers. Why would he willingly walk into enemy territory?

Pretty early on we find out that Dada, the leader of Issoudan, is actually three different clones of Warp. These clones are failed attempts at recreating Warp, and thus they do not have Warp's powers.
It seems like it would be really dangerous to walk into your enemy's base, especially without any kind of special powers or defense. However, Warp was not worried about this because this fill-in Warp was actually working with Dada to secure heaven. He didn't feel any danger because he was working with the very leaders of the organization he was marching into!
We find out that Dada is working with this fill-in Warp clone in episode 11, when it is revealed that the fill-in Warp was not killed by Dada.

Finally, Warp did not have fear of Mantle, the collector, but why?
Warp was arrogant and originally was going to kill Mantle after finding out what he had in his collection. However, even though his plan failed, Mantle did not kill Warp. The reason behind this is simple: Mantle did not want to rule. This was the case throughout. Mantle merely wanted a slice of the rewards, not to actually rule.
I've drawn this conclusion off of two events, one in episode 8, and one in episode 11.
In episode 8, Mantle says:

Don't you want this body? I want to be your helper. I can transfer your memories to this body. Once you're in this body, you'll be the true king.

We can see some more proof of this in episode 11 when Mantle has the opportunity to kill everyone but only attacks Popo and then asks Dada to make him a regent.


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Who is the Earth Bender in the OP?
In the opening of Avatar: The Last Airbender when we see Benders of each element we see that
Air = Aang
Fire = Azula
Water = Pakku
but i don't seem to recall who the Earth Bender is. they look too manly to be Toph and loo too young and sane to be Boomi. so i am wondering who is this Earth Bender

Haru, perhaps?

His name is Sud
Just compare this images

btw he was the first result in google search :)

He was Avatar Roku's earthbending teacher from the flashbacks. He was also the original inspirations for Toph.


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Using Summoning Jutsu who has blood of someone who has made a contract?
According to wiki in Summoning Technique it is written that:

It should be noted that
  anyone can summon a contracted animal as long
   as they have the blood of someone who has made a contract, the seal of
  the summoned creature and a source of sufficient chakra that the
  summon will accept

Means anyone can summon a contracted animal by having blood of someone who has made a contract. So my question is:
Is there any event mentioned in anime or manga which shows this type summoning ?

In Chapter 363, Sasuke's Death...!! (episode 125 of Shippuden), Suigetsu summons Manda using Sasuke's blood. This was right after Deidara used his C0 technique.

Shouldn't you add a spoiler alert since (I'm pretty sure) a lot of people haven't gotten to (see/read) that point of the story?

@Ms.Steel: I thought of putting spoiler blocks, but decided against it since this arc is pretty early in the Shippuden series and was, on the contrary, quite sure that majority of the followers have seen/read this part.

You can see this in episode 95 ("Long Time No See: Jiraiya Returns!") and episode 96 ("Deadlock! Sannin Showdown!") of Naruto. In this Kabuto uses Orochimaru's blood to summon Manda.


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What are the dance moves used by Mabuchi Kyōma in Dimension W's opening song (S1)?
What are the names of the dance moves used by Mabuchi Kyōma in the opening song of Season 1 of Dimension W?

You can see a bigger version of the png at this  link

My friend Chad recognized one of them as the indian step.

Dancing is a form of art where one expresses them self so not all dance move are going to be identical.
The links for each move are examples how each dance.
The first move is called Top Rocking.

The second move is a variation of the Indian Step.

The third move seems to be similar to the finger snapping in West Side Story.

The fourth move is a variation of a Kick Cross.


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Is the ending of the anime and manga the same (ERASED)
I was wondering, is the anime ending and the manga ending the same for Boku dake ga Inai Machi?
Or is there going to be a sequel for the anime version?

It is dramatically changed  as it is mentioned in What are the differences between the manga and the anime adaptation and where does the anime diverge?
⚠ The answer below contains spoilers.

The end of the anime is dramatically changed. In the manga, the story follows a bit of a longer period of time after Satoru can walk. The ending takes place in a holiday camp for patients who undergo recover such as Satoru and Kumi. There, the death match takes place between Satoru and Yashiro and is more complex as compared to the anime. Sawada and Kenya having a bigger role as well.
In the last showdown scene, Yashiro intends to kill Satoru and himself on a bridge set on fire. Satoru escapes and Kenya and Sawada save Yashiro's life, an event present only in the manga


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What does the water in the hallway represent in the Erased opening?
Most of the shots in Erased its opening are references to events events or cryptic imagery like when Satoru's refers to himself as Grim Reaper that tries to put things back the way they were, but the more he acts the more other people involved suffer (see the last bit in episode 6).

However at around 37 seconds into the opening this shot of a large amount of water in the school shows up. I don't remember this happening in the anime.

What is the meaning of this shot? Does it bear a cryptic message to something in the show?

SPOILERS:
There's no objective answer that I've encountered, however this is my interpretation;
Literal: Satoru being drowned.
Figurative: Satoru's old life being "washed away" after nearly being drowned and losing his memory.


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What does 'Guilty Crown' mean actually?
As the topic/question says, what is the meaning if the name of the anime. I want to tell you that I watched the series because of its peculiar name. But after watching the entire series, I could not decipher the relation between name and the series itself! Am I missing something? Surprise me!

I take it to be the main character being thrust into a conflict against his will while also providing him an overpowered power he never really wanted, i.e. his Guilty Crown.

"The right to use my friend as a weapon. That is the sinful crown I shall adorn. I accept this 'guilt.'"

EDIT: Seemed a bit of confusion and adding the detailed comment by Hikari to the answer verbatim.

in guilty crown the protagonist is only able to wield his power by pulling the soul of another person. If he breaks that soul they die and he carries that guilt and shame of not being able to do anything alone. Just like a king may "technically" rule a country but only on top of the shoulders of the people who believe in him and the soliders who die for him. And typical of the shounen genre all of this is thrust on the shy,wallflower like boy with no confidence. That is where the title came from. It is more like an allude as to what the whole series portrays. – Hikari

What does OP mean and is the 'crown' word there because of the "King's power" or something??

@abhishah901 Over Powered

@abhishah901 OP -> Over Powered, MC -> Main Character etc. Typical acronyms, especially for Shounen Anime

@abhishah901 in guilty crown the protagonist is only able to wield his power by pulling the soul of another person. If he breaks that soul they die and he carries that guilt and shame of not being able to do anything alone. Just like a king may "technically" rule a country but only on top of the shoulders of the people who believe in him and the soliders who die for him. And typical of the shounen genre all of this is thrust on the shy,wallflower like boy with no confidence. That is where the title came from. It is more like an allude as to what the whole series portrays.

it could be understood as 'crown' meaning the power that the main protagonist has because someone with a crown is usually the king or queen, in this case, it's a king. he has a lot of power to use and is the leader of the rebellion/survivors as well which would suggest that he is like a king ruling over his people and trying to protect it. 'guilty' is because he uses people's souls and ask people to use their souls for him without telling the people what it will do to them. the person with the glasses (forgot his name) was also hiding the fact that if the soul is destroyed, the owner dies as well and when the protagonist realizes that he feels guilty for everything he's done. and add these together can give you the name Guilty Crown.
Hope this helps


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When an Uchiha member is going to get married with another Uchiha member, are they marrying their cousin?
Like my question is asking, are they marrying their own cousin? I'm wondering this because I remember Obito telling Naruto that Sasuke was his relative in volume 71 chapter 683: I Dreamt the Same Dream. I also remember Madara saying the same thing to Sasuke and Obito, which got my attention.
So according to what I've read in the manga they are saying their blood is all connected which, therefore, makes them all relative? So if they are relatives that make them cousins or something like that? If they do end up being cousins, are they marrying their own cousin? Isn't that kind of disturbing to them or am I wrong and in the Uchiha there are still different family members but have the same last name, which makes them all "relatives"?

Everyone on earth is actually your cousin... so yeah :P

Well, the Uchiha have a common ancestor, Indra Otsutsuki. I don't suppose the Uchiha have some sort of uneasiness when marrying another Uchiha, because, basically, the roots are too deep. Also, about your aforementioned chapter citation, the copy I checked has a translation of Obito's dialogue in this manner: "[I am] an Uchiha like Sasuke..". It doesn't directly imply that they are blood relatives

In Korean tradition, it is actually forbidden to marry someone of the same last name as you. Last names had been continuously used in Korea for several millenia... do the math. (The most common one, Kim, has over a million members, including the current North Korean leader.)

"Incest is Wincest" - Some Random Greek Guy :v

Yes, they are. They probably know it. And they aren't that closely related, anyway.
It had often been the case, historically, in noble and especially royal families to marry within the family (often to fairly close relatives) - either because marriage to a lower class was too low in status and there just wasn't much of the higher class, or simply to keep the money in the family. (A particularly silly example is the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt.)
It even happened in non-noble families too; somewhat famously, the maiden name of Franklin Roosevelt's wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, was also Roosevelt (she was Theodore Roosevelt's daughter), though their common ancestor was six generations away.
In the case of the Uchiha clan, it actually makes sense - they want to maximize the chance of their bloodline manifesting in the progeny. And given how large the clan is (or, at least, how large it was before Itachi wrecked it all up), chances are that, in many cases, there are quite a few generations to the nearest common ancestor.
I suspect that the Uchiha elders actually did try to make sure not to marry especially close relatives, to minimize inbreeding problems; given how crazy many of the Uchiha members ended up being... for all we know, they still failed, and the last few Uchihas did suffer from inbreeding in their ancestry.

In a way, but not necessarily. All 3 of them, Obito, Madara, and Sasuke, Are Uchiha after all, so they are somewhat closely related, but that does not mean their parents or grandparents were the same people. It only means that when you go way back they have some lineage to Indra, but that was dozens of generations earlier. It is entirely possible for Indras kids to spread out enough that you could have groups of families whos only connection between them and any other uchiha is Indra. They probably did also sometimes marry outside of the Uchiha which would help diversify the gene pool.
Really though, so long as you avoid your siblings and your Cousins, the problem of inbreeding is nearly nonexistent anyway. Based on what was shown, the clan was probably a few hundred strong before the massacre, so there would most likely be plenty of uchiha to choose from without inbreeding being a real problem. Certainly it would occasionally happen, but When it comes to those 3 specifically, there is likely no major relation. Madara might be a great great uncle to them, and Obito and Sasuke might be direct cousins, but that is the closest we can speculate considering we know Obitos parents are not Sasukes, but not the relationship between either set of parents, And Madara and his brothers had no known children, ending his direct family bloodline.

Technically yes, but not really anymore than if two British people with the surname "Smith" got married. They were a clan (and likely a large one) so as long as they avoided marriages with anyone more closely related than a third cousin, they shouldn't have had to worry too much about inbreeding.

Pretty much all Uchiha except for the women that marry into the clan are related. So when an Uchiha marries another Uchiha then he or she is marrying a relative. But take note that since the Uchiha clan and other clans in the Naruto universe are quite large many of the clan members are distantly related, with the most recent ancestor or ancestral pair being generations and generations before their time, so it's most probably the case that the clans from Naruto don't suffer the issues of inbreeding since in most cases the closest relative an Uchiha or Hyuga is marrying is a second or third cousin, with more distant relatives being more common marruage partners, which doesn't cause the problems of sibling or first cousin inbreeding but does continue the progeny at an almost as steady rate.

Yes,  a family is a unit consisting of parents and children, a clan is a group of interrelated families who share a common ancestor and common goals. before Boruto the clan system in naruto was based around feudal japan. in feudal japan women marrying into a clan didn't take the clan name. as such before boruto anyone with the name Uchiha was Uchiha by blood.
the Uchiha like all clans with a Kekkei Genkai married almost exclusively with other Uchiha this was to preserve the Sharingan from not only getting outside of the Uchiha clan but to preserve its power
and interbreeding with cousins isn't against the law in most places because the chances of producing a child with a birth defect with a 1st cousin is at max about 3 or 4%

I'm pretty sure the clans are inbred. When Itachi massacred the whole clan we don't see the sharingan in anyone but people who's names are Uchiha (expect Kakashi, but he got his from Obito). Females can inherit the Sharingan, as seen with Sarada so it's safe to assume they can pass it down to their descendants. Since females tend to take their husband's name and their children too, those hypothetical non-Uchihas can inherit the Sharingan but there aren't any. Not to mention Itachi's girlfriend was also an Uchiha. They may not be closely related, but they still share common ancestors. It doesn't mean that Uchihas only marry in their clan, but likely most do.
Same with the Hyuuga clan, everyone's eyes are blank and pupil-less, but Hinata's kids with Naruto have blue eyes. Their kids also have the Byakugan, so eye techniques can likely passed down from females. This also proves the Sharingan can be passed down by females too.


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Did Trisha Elric know about Hohenheim's condition?
So I've watched FMA: Brotherhood (in quite a rush), and I can't seem to find an answer to whether Trisha Elric knew about Hohenheim's immortality and his past. Had he revealed it to her? Or was she aware of it somehow?

Trisha certainly knew.
In the beginning few minutes of episode 36 "Family Portrait", Hohenheim is speaking with Trisha.  He calls himself a monster, reminisces about all the things he has seen, how he never grows old, etc. and Trisha seems to understand what he is talking about.  Then Trisha arranges to have their family picture taken so they can remember them all together before she and the boys grow old.  She also comments to Hohenheim that he isn't a monster, obviously knowing why he called himself that.  Finally, Hohenheim prepares to leave his family and is about to walk out the door and Trisha asks if she should wake the boys.  Hohenheim responds with a no, telling her he didn't want them to know about his body.  So Trisha obviously knew what was going on.

If I remember correctly, I don't think it was shown that Hohenhiem had told her about it, however, I think it was implied. Every time he would leave their home to go on his quests, she seemed to know where and why he was leaving and completely understood his situation.


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What is the relationship between Hattori and Yuujirou?
In Season 1 Episode 22, during the KOOGY complaint scene, their full name was mentioned. Hattori Yuujirou and Hattori Akira. Are they siblings or mere coincidence that they share a surname?

It is not stated in neither  Yuujirou's or Akira's Bakuman Wiki pages nor MAL pages   that they are siblings, the conclusion being that they are not. It may be a pure coincidence. I am not very informed regarding this anime though.
Akira Hattori wiki page
Yuujirou Hattori wiki page
also
Akira Hattori MAL page
Yuujirou Hattori MAL page
As you can see their biographies do not say anything about them being blood-related in any way.
Also in Akira Hattori's wikipage it says:

Personal Status:
Marital Status Single
Relatives Unknown
Education  Unknown

If one of his relatives would have been mentioned (including Yuujiro) they would have been written in the wiki. Thus we conclude that they are not blood-related.
Moreover this quote:

The editors in Bakuman are based off of real editors, so the names used just relate to the editors real names. The two aren't related.
http://bakuman.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Yujiro_Hattori

shows that they are based on real editors and is a common thing in real life for 2 individuals to have the same family name and to not be blood-related.

Don't just post links. Summarize and quote key parts to make your point. How are we supposed to know what you're referring to if one or all of the links break?

@ʞɹɐzǝɹ I always check the links I post in answers to be functioning but  they may break after I post them so I think it was  carelessly of me to base my answer only on them. I hope that my improved answer will be considered satisfactory by you and if it still has  flaws please feel free to tell me, in order to improve myself and my answers in the future.


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Why Saitama doesn't want to unleash his full power?
So far my impression of Saitama is him holding back his power.
Even when the "Strongest" Alien in the universe attacked him, he easily finished him with NORMAL punches. He hasn't unleash his full power and I'd like to know why.

Why would he if normal punches suffice? How would you even tell? It's one punch either way. Apart from that it's also a plot device to keep people watching of course.

He hasn't found any opponents that are worth it.

Saitama wants to find an opponent worthy of his power.
He commonly fights enemies, killing them with one-punch, hence the name. He has found that launching a full punch kills almost everything he face. There's no challenge in that.
So yes, he is pulling his punches. There will be multiple times where he can easily destroy his opponent, but does not "try" until it has shown to be strong enough.
He is a hero for fun. Not to save people, but to enjoy the thrill and be himself.
I've avoided spoilers the best I can, especially since I'm not sure how far you are.

remember you can hide spoilers with >! if they are relevant to the answer

He mentioned the "strongest alien" so I assume he's finished the anime. I don't think I did any spoilers though. Did I miss something? Feel free to edit for me!

i havnt seen it myself so i wouldn't know but just by reading the last line thought i'd just remind you of the spoiler block's existsnce incase if you didn't know about that

Ah. I appreciate the mention. I was saying that I don't believe anything to be a spoiler and that I didn't want to even include possible spoilers. And they shouldn't be necessary since most of the information is evident in the first episode. Thanks for looking out though!

The manga is slow :(

Also because his normal punches can split mountains and the clouds behind them. If he just goes around randomly using max-power punches on every enemy, there isn't going to be a lot of Earth left.

Saitama is a one punch wonder so he often beats monsters with only One Punch so till now he is finding an opponent who is worthy of his caliber to bring out his 100% of his power until then he feels his normal punches would be used for best to kill any type of human or monster


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Why was Araragi unable to understand Dramaturgie / Episode / Guillotine Cutter when they first met?
Somewhere around forty minutes into Kizumonogatari: Tekketsu-hen, Araragi is set upon by the three exorcists who earlier dismembered Kiss-Shot: Dramaturgie, Episode, and Guillotine Cutter.
As they advance upon him, they speak to one another - but all we (the viewers) hear is a sort of guttural grumbling. Araragi presumably hears the same thing (non-speech sounds), given that he says something about trying to get them - as fellow human beings - to communicate with him rather than kill him.
What's the deal? On the one hand, this was certainly an incredibly stressful situation for Araragi, so he could well just have been on an adrenaline rush that was interfering with his hearing. But then again, this being Monogatari, it's not implausible that maybe they were speaking some sort of secret exorcist tongue.

Comment for now since I don't have the book handy to turn this into a referenced answer, but I believe that's just the film's way of representing their speaking a non-Japanese language (most likely English given their backgrounds) which Araragi doesn't understand.

He was speaking another language.
Going off the English version of the Kizumonogatari novel, page 81 shows that Dramaturgy spoke something that Araragi didn't understand. Vertical displayed this by just having a bunch of black boxes in quotations (dunno how Nisioisin did it in the Japanese novel, but I'm sure it's something similar). Page 82 starts with Guillotine Cutter reprimanding Dramaturgy for not using "the language of the land you're in", meaning that Dramaturgy was speaking a language other than Japanese.


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Is it possbile for a ninja to have larger chakra supply by training?
In Naruto we know that many Ninjas have different chakra supply. So by that every ninja varies from each other by the amount of chakra supply they have.
So my question is that, Is it possible for someone to have larger chakra supply by doing training, I mean by having intense training is it possible that any ninja can increase their chakra supply or it comes naturally by birth with fixed amount?

Well, I think its a bit of both, but if you can dominate nature chakra well, that's a pretty immense chakra supply.

The wikia says yes, but I don't know where they got that information. I recall them talking about it when Naruto was training with Kakashi. And maybe when Choji first went butterfly mode?

You can but there is a cap on how much you can increase your supply. For instance when Naruto is training with Kakashi and even when he fights reincarnated Zabuza he says "I don't have as much chakra as you". Characters with tailed beasts have a damn near endless supply because the creatures they have in them have damn near limitless supplies.

Yes, the chakra supply for each individual can grow through training. But will be limited by genetics.
Let's take a look at what chakra is.

Chakra is created when two other forms of energy, known collectively as one's "stamina", are molded together. ~ Naruto-wiki

With the first form being Physical energy (身体エネルギー, shintai enerugī) and the second one being Spiritual energy (精神エネルギー, seishin enerugī)
By training ones Physical body and Mental strength, the chakra pool can be increased.
Genetics however does play a mayor role. As some people, such as Naruto for example, just have a very large pool from the get go. And even with a lot of training, somebody like Ino would never be able to reach the same chakra pool size.
This limit is best observed with Rock Lee, as his genetics limited his growth on Spiritual energy, he tries to overcome it through Physical energy.
It is also possible to indirectly improve one's chakra pool, through Chakra control. It does not directly expand the chakra pool itself, but allows for a user to do more with the same amount of chakra.


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What's up with Mioko's speech pattern?
Mioko (voiced by Kana Hanazawa) uses some kind of unusual speech pattern which the subtitles translate into vaguely US Southern dialectal English:

Specifically, I can hear her using ora to refer to herself and ending her sentences with de gasu instead of desu. Wikipedia says ora is an informal pronoun with rural connotations, and this Google Books result says de gasu is a contraction of de gozarimasu, a very polite form of de aru.
You can hear it for yourself in Episode 7 starting around 24 seconds in.
Is Mioko's accent a specific regional accent, or is it just one of those made up bizarre speech patterns that anime specializes in?

The dreaded TV Tropes has some pretty good notes on Japanese dialects.  The use of ora instead of ore and being used by women in particular is an element of the Tohoku dialect.  It also compares the dialect to US English 'hillbilly' accents, which matches with the subtitling.
It does not list the use of de gasu in place of desu, but the notes are hardly comprehensive.  Or it could be a personal thing for Mio5.


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When did Kuradeel join Laughing Coffin?
In Episode 10 - Crimson Killing Intent it is revealed that Kuradeel is a member of Laughing Coffin.
In Episode 8 - The Sword Dance of Black and White during Kuradeel's and Kirito's Duel there was a member of Laughing Coffin in the crowd watching the the fight.
I am wondering if Kuradeel joined Laughing Coffin before or after this Duel. if it was after was there any other reason for him to join aside from him wanting to get back at Kirito?
If it was before what purpose was there to have a member of Laughing Coffin inside the Knights of the Blood Oath?

Based off of the Chronological timeline, Laughing Coffin recruited Kuradeel after his dual with Kirito. Aside from Kuradeel wishing to kill Kirito, no other reason for joining Laughing Coffin is mentioned.

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Although the guild was vanquished during the crusade, PoH, who avoided the crusade, watched Kirito and Kuradeel's duel on the 74th Floor. After hearing that Kuradeel wished to kill Kirito, PoH approached Kuradeel some time prior to Kirito's mandatory training session with Kuradeel and Godfree. PoH then invited Kuradeel to his guild and taught him how to make paralysis poison.


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How does Rin's "Demon Fire" work?
He can use it to hurt people sometimes but, conveniently it doesn't hurt people when he does it on accident. Do they explain how this works at all?

Rin can control the fire at will. He has used it multiple times throughout the series at will, burning only the things he wants and not burning the things he doesn't. If I remember correctly, it was shown both in anime and in the manga that Shura started training Rin to control his fire. The training was that he was given three candles and he was supposed to burn only the middle one. Rin continuously trained with the candles and eventually learned to control his fire.
After undergoing this training, I believe it was in chapter 26 of the manga when his fire was shown to be completely under his control in the Impure King Arc. This arc was not included in the anime.
Simply put, after some training, Rin can choose what he wants to burn with his fire and what he doesn't.

this is a good answer but I mean before the training like when he burned the clothes off of shura and yukio.

I suppose he wasn't really focusing on burning their clothes. But his fire got out of control anyway. It still showed that his fire only burned away their clothes very precisely and didn't did any damage to any of them. You can say it's just Rin's subconscious control of the fire.

Oh okay, thank you! I had been confused to how that works for a little while now.

You should read the manga if you haven't. It's a lot more detailed than the anime.


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Why do the names of the Sankakusu sites match the surnames of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto?
In ep. 2 of season 3 of Sailor Moon Crystal, Mamoru says that the amusement park Chibi-Usa is going to is in Sankakusu, which is on reclaimed land. Later, Artemis tells Luna that there are three reclaimed sites that comprise Sankakusu: Tenohzu, Kaiohzu, and Meiohzu.
It struck me that the romanised forms of these three sites can be produced by appending "-zu" to each of the surnames of the Outer Senshi (excluding Saturn). (The civilian names of the Guardians concerned are Haruka Tenoh, Michiru Kaioh, and Setsuna Meioh.) After some experimenting with romanization schemes (tenohzu, which is the official romanisation, does not produce useful search results, but tenouzu produced a lead) and running some searches, I found someone who claims that these three sites have the kanji 天王洲, 海王洲, and 冥王洲 respectively. In each case, the first two characters correspond to the surnames of the Senshi that I named earlier.
Is there any in-universe reason for this correspondence between the names of the sites and these Senshi's surnames? (I might shrug away "Kaiohzu Park", which appears in ep. 7 of Sailor Moon S as a one-off coincidence, but it would be unlikely if all three names matched up by chance.)

It makes sense that Haruka and Michiru have helicopters that are named Tenohmaru and Kaiohmaru, since they own these helicopters, but it seems doubtful that they would have plots of land named after them.
Perhaps their identities are completely made-up, and the surnames came after the sites were named? (Perhaps they chose their new identities based on the names of the sites?) However, at least in Sailor Moon S, the identity "Haruka Tenoh" seems to have existed even before Haruka became Sailor Uranus (per the characterisation in the flashback of ep. 17 of Sailor Moon S), even if it makes sense that Sailor Pluto would need a new identity (not being from the present).

As an aside, with slight spoilers for Sailor Moon S:

 It makes sense that Saturn is excluded. Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto consistently work together in Sailor Moon S, whereas Saturn only appears towards the end of that season. I imagine that this might also be the case in the manga and SMC. Moreover, it's clear that at least Saturn has a  real-life identity that has not been falsified.

I'm aware that SMC is still on-going, but I suspect that answers might be found from the manga. (The post suggests that the site names are also found there. I watched Sailor Moon S a while ago, and do not recall anything similar, but my memory could be shaky.) As my post might suggest, I have not been able to find anything particularly promising for the purposes of answering this question so far.

I'm not familiar with Sailor Moon almost at all, but the glosses the linked blog post uses ("Dark King Sandbank, Sky King Sandbank and Sea King Sandbank") are weird. 海王 is, I guess, 海 "Sea" and 王 "King", but it's more idiomatically "Neptune" as in the Roman deity who is god of the seas, who is the namesake of Neptune-the-planet (海王星 kaiousei, with characters meaning "sea king star"), which is in turn presumably the namesake of the sailors and also the three Sankakusu things. So a better gloss is "Neptune Sandbank", etc. I don't know if that's useful information for you.

Only Tenouzu (天王洲) appears to be based on a real place, Tennouzu Isle (天王洲アイル), officially called Tennoz Isle in English). It was reclaimed from Tokyo Bay in the 1920's and 30's and then redeveloped in the early 1990's. The other places appear to be derived from the other outer senshi's names by extension.
Both Sailor Uranus's (セーラーウラヌス) name and her alternate identity's family name, Tenou (天王), are taken from the planet Uranus, which in Japanese is called Tenousei (天王星). Similarly the names of the other two outer senshi are also taken from the names of planets, Neptune (kaiousei, 海王星) and Pluto (meiousei, 冥王星).
The name of reclaimed island and the Japanese name of the planet Uransus  being similar seems to be a coincidence. The planet name, tenousei, literally means sky god star, referring to the Greek god Uranus's role as god of the sky. Tennouzu Isle is named after the Shinto/Buddhist god of disease Gozu Tennou.
I doubt there's any in universe explanation of why these sites happen to have similar names as the three new sailor senshi, just as there isn't any explanation on how all of the senshi's family names coincidentally reflected the sailor senshi identities that most of them would only acquire later. I think its simply a case of taking a real world place name that happened to be similar and extending it, only implying some sort of connection. For example, while Sailor Moon's family name Tsukino (月野, literally "moon field"), suggests a mystical connection to her role as Sailor Moon and her being a reincarnation of a moon princess, it's really just a pun. Her full name in Japanese is pronounced "tsukino usagi" which could also interpreted as "tsuki-no usagi". That translates to "Moon Rabbit", the Eastern equivalent to what we in the West call the "Man in the Moon".
Here's a screenshot of the map shown of the "Sankakusu Delta" in episode 28 of Sailor Moon Crystal and scan of the same scene from the Sailor Moon manga. If you compare that to what Tennouzu Isle looks like on Google Maps, you'll see that they placed the fictional Sankakusu and it's Tenohzu, Kaiohzu and Meiohzu districts smack dab in the middle of the real Tennouzu Isle.

FWIW Usagi makes the same observation as I did in ch. 31 of the manga, but I'm not sure if it'll come to anything. (n.b. I'm basing this on the chapter divisions of the copy of the manga; there's a discrepancy between them and, say, the chapter list on Wikipedia for some reason.)


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What happens if a dragon lacrima of another element is implanted?
In fairy tail, we know that the third generation dragon slayers have been taught dragon slayer magic by dragons and also that they have dragon lacrimas implanted.
If a dragon lacrima of an element of different type is implanted what will happen?  Will they gain two types of dragon slayer magic?
( For example if Sting is implanted with a fire element type dragon lacrima will he gain two types of dragon slayer magic? i.e. holy light type magic taught by Vicelogia and fire type magic gained from the lacrima)

Probably. You can be taught two different kinds of magic, so why wouldn't two dragons be able to teach you two different kinds of dragon slayer magic? The same would probably go for the lacrimas, but I don't think there is any proof of a dragon slayer having two elements other than Natsu who is somehow magically able to keep using Laxus' magic, but it was never explained why this is the case.

Spoilers to recent Manga chapters, But to be put simply they gain the ability to use and presumably eat that element. This is shown by

 One of the Elite Members of the Alvarez Empire,God Serena, who used to be a wizard saint, rank 1, who had 8 Dragon Lacrima implanted into his body.

This is shown when (Even Bigger Spoiler):

 he uses the Cavern, Purgatory, and Sea King Dragon slayer magics in rapid succession to beat down four wizard saints ranked 2,3,4,and 5. Draculos Hyberion, Wolfheim, Warrod Sequen, and Jura Neekis were all incapacitated by his 3 attacks of those 3 dragon slayer magics. He then prepared to finish them off with Gale Dragon Slayer Magic, but was interrupted before he used that one.

I believe it is dependent on the Dragon Slayer. Natsu has done this multiple times (Laxus, Zancrow) and Gajeel has accomplished it once. It could be a similar process like when people take small amounts of poison to build a tolerance to it. As was seen, Natsu became sick after using lighting, but over time it seems he has been accustomed to it as it doesn't have such an adverse effect on him when he uses it.

The lacramas shouldnt hold restrictions since there is a character with 8 dragon slayer elements from them. But for dragon slayers to gain dual elemental modes like Natsus Lightning Flame Dragon mode or Gajeels Iron Shadow Dragon mode, i personally believe it can only be taken from 2nd or 3rd generation dragon slayers. Laxus gave Natsu his lightning in a similar way to how Natsu had consumed the ethernano and other flames, but only the lightning has stayed with him without being a fire based attack. I like to believe that since Laxus has a lightning Lacrama, his lightning was shared by having enough energy consumed to create a new lacrama in Natsu. Gajeel then did the same with Rouges shadow by absorbing the power from the lacrama half of Rouge instead of the shadow magic taught by his dragon. The final example i could think of was future Rouge saying he "took" Stings magic after killing him. The only possible way for that is through his lacrama, turning Rouges future self into a White Shadow Dragon


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Can anyone be a wizard?
In Fairy Tail, the anime, do you have to be born a wizard in order to learn to summon and wield magic? Or is summoning and wielding magic energy something anyone has the potential to do if they choose to learn how?
It states that people use it for everyday life.

Recall that thanks to Lacrima, A person does not need to be the source of the magic that is used for everyday life. Someone else could have made it, or nature could have.

It is said that if one stays virgin until his 30s he/she will become a wizard.

It says that Training and Competence is needed.
The competence of a mage defines if they can use a magic or not.
this manga excerpt somehow explains this.
In fairy Tail Volume 28 chapter 233,

"Those who are atuned to the flow of magic can process and use any magic in existence."

Fairy Tail's Plot entry in Wikipedia says that:

The fictional world of Earth-land is populated by wizards who coalesce into guilds to hone their magical abilities and apply them to paid job requests.

However this might be due to the status of Wizards in the Land, as we can also see townspeople who can't or maybe doesn't use magic
According to FairyTail Wikia: http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Mage

Mages (Madōshi), also known as Wizards, are individuals who can wield Magic of any kind.
Mages are wielders of Magic, using their Magic Power to cast spells and employ magical objects. They comprise only 10% of the living population of Earth Land, with the remaining 90% being either incapable or unwilling to use Magic.

Also, There is a note in the end of Fairytail's Wikipedia Entry:
In the references section, it is stated that,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_Tail#References

According to the Fairy Tail Volume 2 Del Rey edition Translation Notes, General Notes, Wizard: So this translation has taken that as its inspiration and translated the word madôshi as "wizard". But madôshi's meaning is similar to certain Japanese words that have been borrowed by the English language, such as judo (the soft way) and kendo (the way of the sword). Madô is the way of magic, and madôshi are those who follow the way of magic. So although the word "wizard" is used in the original dialogue, a Japanese reader would be likely to think not of traditional Western wizards such as Merlin or Gandalf, but of martial artists.

Anyone Can learn Martial arts, but those who continue to learn and train can practically use it. There are also people who doens't want to.
In this answer to the question "What dictates who can use what magic in Fairy Tail?"

I think to be able to use a type of magic, one has to learn it. There are no requirements as to who can learn which magic.
In one particular episode, Mirajane teaches Natsu, Lucy and Happy the transformation magic and Natsu was able to transform into Lucy (even though that was not perfect, but that shows that you need to practice a particular type of magic).
And as have been mentioned in other answers that many characters are able to use more than one kind of magic.

And also Learning and WillPower

Magic has to be learned. When Erza was still a child, she was able to learn magic without actually practicing it. If you have knowledge of how to use a certain magic, you can use it. I guess it may depend on the user's willpower, or it may actually be inside them all along. By the way, there are a few characters who can use more than one type of magic like Ultear, Jellal, Zero/Brain, and Hades.

So to sum it up, one person might be able to learn Magic thru extensive training and practice of a certain particular kind of magic, has knowledge and understanding of it, Competence or Either he chooses to learn Magic or Not even if he/she is capable of it.

Yes, you have to be born with the ability, although there seem to be a few exceptions thanks to Lacrima infusions with the body.
From the Fairy Tail Wikia

Every Mage has a container inside their body that determines the limits of their Magic Power. In the case that it becomes empty, Ethernano comes from the atmosphere and enters the Mages' body and, after a while, their Magic Power is returned to normal.

Whether you realize you have the magic within you is a different story. You may be magical and not know until you tap into it, such as in the Tower of Heaven arc where many characters realized their magical abilities (Erza, Milliana etc). Similarly, mages can also realize their Second Origin to increase their power further, but it must already exist within themselves.

To the person who down-voted: Please leave a comment as to why my answer was insufficient so I can improve it. I would love to know what was missing so I can make my answer better.

In the Fairy Tail ZER0 Arc, Zeref said to Mavis and her friends that you need to concentrate to get Ethernanos (magic particles) in your body, then you can train and eventually be able to wield magic! That's how Yuri, Warrod, Precht, and Mavis can proform magic!

I'd say yes because clearly if you have magic you can enter a guild, but saying you can also use magical weapons. So it depends on what type of wizard you would want to be. Of course, you can get trained by a dragon like the dragon slayers, but also you can also get the weapon to your liking.
Lucy had gotten her powers from her dad or from her mom even with a bit of training. Of course, since she's a celestial wizard, she needs her keys.
So yes, I'm pretty sure everybody is able to become a wizard.


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In parasyte the maxim, what is the name of end song and the name of the conflict song in the middle of the show?
I am talking about the song that happens whenever shinichi and migi fight a parasyte. In episode 17, the organ song name at 6:35. Thanks

Be more specific. If possible (and it should be possible), specify an episode number and timestamp.

Would you happen to be looking for the track called "Full Moon"?
Click here to listen to it.

That is exactly what I was looking for thank you very much


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Who cut off Zephyr's arm?
After watching One Piece Film: Z it was stated during the movie that a pirate cut off Zephry's arm and killed most of his crew of Marines in trainging. This pirate was later invited to be one of the Shichibukai. Is there any source that states which one of the Shichibukai that it was? I was unable to find anything on his wiki page I thought that maybe Oda might have stated it somewhere else.

The answer hasn't been officially stated, but we do have elements that allow us to narrow the Shichibukai down.
According to Volume 1000, the pirate who cut off Z's arm was promoted to a Shichibukai "one year ago", which means during the timeskip. This rules out any of the original seven as well as Blackbeard, and only leaves Buggy, Trafalgar Law, and Edward Weevil.
From there, only speculation can be used, as no further official details have been revealed. Since Buggy is relatively weak even in the present day, compared to Z who was already Admiral-level when his arm was cut, it can be assumed he didn't do it, unless he got extremely lucky.
Still according to Volume 1000:

Zephyr became an Admiral at age 38, during Gol D. Roger and Edward
  Newgate's golden age. By this time, he had become very popular with
  his subordinates. He got married, and a year later, his son was born.
Zephyr's happiness was ended prematurely when a pirate murdered his
  wife and son three years later. Zephyr wanted to resign from the
  Marines, but he was eventually persuaded to stay as an instructor. He
  trained many cadets, most of whom would ascend the Marines bureaucracy
  in both power and status.
Twenty-three years after the death of his loved ones, Zephyr's arm was
  cut off by a pirate who had a Devil Fruit power, and his entire
  division was massacred with only Ain and Binz surviving.

(Source: One Piece Wikia article on Zephyr)
This means Z's arm was cut off nine years ago, which means in turn that Law was around 17 years old. While it is likely Law was strong even back then, it is unlikely that he was the one who did it, as Z was already a former Admiral, and Law couldn't defeat Vergo until present day, after Vergo became Vice-Admiral.
This leaves Weevil, whose past is still largely unknown and whose strength is immense, as the most likely man to have cut off Z's arm, but until there is official proof to confirm or deny anything, it can only remain speculation at this point.

unless he got extremely lucky... Buggy is always lucky I think...

We haven't met the Warlord that took Zephyr's arm yet. These are the Warlords after the time skip:

Dracule Mihawk
Donquixote Doflamingo
Boa Hancock
Trafalgar D. Water Law
Buggy The Clown
Edward Weevil
???

However, as of chapter 908, it's revealed that,

 Bartholomew Kuma lost his Shichibukai title during the time skip and became a slave to the Celestial Dragons. Since Doflamingo & Law have both lost their titles as well, there are only 4 Warlords we know of.

I'm guessing Oda did things this way so that no one can narrow down the answer once we meet the 3 remaining Shichibukai.

I think it should be Doflamingo. Doflamingo's powers can easily cut of Z's hand and the government wouldn't want someone who cut off an admiral's hand to become a shichibukai. And Doflamingo had threatened the government to make him a shichibukai, hence I think it most likely would be Doflamingo.