text:
What happens when a Marine or Pirate goes after a bounty
In One Piece notorious pirates have a bounty on their heads with Luffy getting his after defeating Arlong.
It seems obvious to me that the Marines would be the ones who do the payouts since they are the one who produce the wanted posters, but what happens when a Marine like Smoker goes after a pirate? Do they get the bounty or some other reward?
And what about other pirates such with the case when Buggy and Alvida were about to kill Luffy in Roguetown, would the Marines pay out the bounty to them if they came to claim it (considering that by killing or bringing in another pirate is doing the Marine's job for them)

case point Blackbeard runaway after defeating Bonney instead of waiting for her bounty from Marines . . . .

We haven't yet seen the details of a bounty being collected, but it seems incredibly unlikely that the marines would pay a pirate the bounty for defeating or capturing another pirate, as all pirates are by definition wanted criminals who are to be arrested on recognition, as in the world of One Piece, merely flying a black flag and declaring yourself a pirate is a crime. This seems backed up by when Blackbeard captured Jewellery Bonney and tried to exchange her with the world government, they responded by sending a warship with an angry Akainu on board.
It also seems unlikely that they would give the bounties to marines who are carrying out their duties, and would have different rewards in place, but it is perfectly possible that marines can and do earn bounty rewards.
The main groups that seem eligible to receive bounties seem to be:

Bounty Hunters
Mercenaries
Armies and soldiers who report to a single nation instead of the world government
Assassins
Warlords

Obviously for the average concerned citizen in One Piece, capturing or defeating someone with a large bounty is impossible, as bounties tend to be at least somewhat correlated with strength. A notable exception is a young Nico Robin, who had a large bounty long before she had any significant combat strength, so was always on the run and fearing being turned in.
Anyone not considered a criminal who has the luck/power to capture or kill a bounty holder while not working for the world government seems to be guaranteed the bounty, so almost anyone except for marines, revolutionaries, pirates and other criminals.

As we see Luffy first got a bounty of 30.000.000 Beli after defeating Arlong. He got this especially because he beat this marine guy who had deas with Arlong (don't remember the name) and that guy wanted Luffy Dead or Alive. So the marine checked Luffys enemys - Buggy (15 Mio), Don Creek (17 Mio), Arlong (20 Mio) - based on them he got his 30 Mio.
Sure, I think, the marine has to pay that bounty because they are obvisously the good ones and want them to imprison.
Marines guys won't get the price, the will get some promotion or a title - like we saw after defeating Crocodile with Smoker.
Since Pirates and Marines are the biggest foes and the marine want to destroy all piracy they would catch the pirates instead of being thankful.

do you have any canonical source to refute what you're saying?

So if a sichibukai kills a pirate will he get the bounty.Sichibukai aren't targeted by the marines so will they wait for the marines to come and collect the bounty.

Is this headcanon or do you have any canonical sources to refute this?

I think they did not get the bounty on pirate head. They are working under government. They must salary and get promotion on the basis of their success and the power they got like coby.
The pirate hunter get the bounty when the caught the pirate or kill the pirate.

While common sense tells me you're probably not far off, do you have any references to add to your answer to make it more convincing?


text:
What is the origin of posterior wing trope?
Before and usually, characters with wing are shown to have the wing grow from his/her upper back area. Example for angel/light-side characters that have such wing are Shidou Irina (High School DxD), Ikaros and the other angeloids (Sora no Otoshimono), and Musubi (Sekirei, only shown when she initiates an inori/prayer limit break). From the dark side we have Ulquiorra Schiffer (Bleach), Angela Blanc (Kuroshitsuji). The following picture is of the said Ikaros.

However, there are also characters who has their wing grow from the posterior area slightly above the butt, and sometimes called as balance wing. Example from the dark side are, Rias Gremory and other devils (High School DxD), and Naruse Maria (Shinmai Maou no Testament).

As far as I know, those wings are originated from European stories and depiction of angel and devils. In European classics grows from the back and not the lower back/butt area. For example the following picture is an image of Arch-Angel Michael from St. Catherine's monastery.

This is further reinforced with the fact that in Shinto gods are not depicted with wings. The following is an image of Susano-o-no-mikoto a Shinto god of storm by Utagawa Kuniyoshi.

What is the origin of those posterior wings/balance wing?

Just a guess, but: this sort of wings are located closer to the center of gravity of the human body, which theoretically makes them more practical and more stable flight control.
I'm not sure, however, that it has any relevance to the origin of this type of wing.

The two shows you mention with the lower wings are both pretty well known for fanservice.  Might allow them to play up certain shots easier.

source: Stack Exchange

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

sort: votes


text:
What happens when a human saves another one with a death note?
Since a shinigami dies when he saves a human with his death note, he dies. But when a human does it, he/she won't die. This makes me wondering what happens when a human saves another human with a death note. So here's my bad example:
Mr. X is a serial killer.
He sees a young Lady and decides to kill her. He stalks her, to know her better.
One week later, the boyfriend from the lady gets a death note from a shinigami.
On the next day, Mr. X tries to kill the lady but her boyfriend writes Mr. Xs name in his death note. Will the young Lady now get a new lifespan. Or will she get the lifespan from Mr. X?
(Just an example)

Nothing happens, humans did that all through the show.  Light, Miza, Mikami all used it for someone else at one point or another. Remember hostage/robbery in episode 1 or 2?

@Quikstryke if your talking about Kuro Otoharada's (a criminal who has held a group of children hostage), that was in Episode 1: Rebirth

"Or will she get the lifespan from Mr. X?" According to the manga transfering liefetime only works in two ways: 1) Shinigami writes the name of a human to steal his/ her lieftime. 2) Shinigami uses the death note to extend a dear human's life, dies and it's lifetime goes to the safed human (that is what Rem sais but it is likely that it is just a new lifestime beacause Misa had have a huge lifespan after two Shinigamis gave their lifes for her and so she could become some 100 years old even after 2 eye deals)

How to use LIX:

A human death caused by Death Note will indirectly lengthen some other human's original life even without a specific intention to lengthen a particular person's original life span in the human world.

The lady's life will be lengthened to a new time

Since the Death Note rules seem to be confusing to a lot of people, I want to point out that this is the correct answer.

Though we get an explanation by one of the shinigami in the show. I believe it was Rem who explicitly states that only the fact that shinigami exist to shorten humans lifetimes makes them die from saving them and adding their own lifespan to the saved human ones.

At another occasion (related to the eyeball deal), we learn that every time a name is written in a Death Note, the natural life spans of some human will change but humans with shinigami eyes don't see the "updates". So if the boyfriend had the eyeballs, saw that his girlfriend's life would end that day and killed the stalker with the note to save her, even when she was really going to die in an accident, her life span would change since she propably wouldn't taking the same rout at the same time since her stalker died right infront of her.

I disagree with Grimlock77X comment. It's stated in the rules and by Ryuk that the fundamental difference between Humans and Shinigami using the Death Note is that humans don't gain lifespans.
In How to Use: XLII

The use of the Death Note in the human world sometimes affects other humans' lives or shortens their original life span, even though their names are not actually written in the Death Note itself. In these cases, no matter the cause, the god of death sees only the original lifespan and not the shortened lifespan.

^ emphasis added by me
since the rule says it that the use of the Death Note can affect lives or shorten the original life span we can assume that the Death Note can indirectly give a human more life.
think about rape victims who are denied justice (like Yonegoro Nusumi's victim), if cop drama's like Law and Oder: SVU is anything to go by, without counseling their life deteriorates. with Light killed Yonegoro Nusumi or anyone like him the victims feel justice have been served and improve their lives (and there are no future victims for serial offenders) or wont commit suicide from the denied justice.
As for the lifespans, according to this answer Mr X's lifespan would be just wasted so this isn't distributed. there is also no way guarantee the lady would've lived longer or even shorter because of his death, I dare say also that even with Shinigami Eyes you won't see if the lady lives longer since Shinigami will only ever see the original lifespan so likewise a human with the eye deal will see the same, the only way is if you were like Beyond Birthday or L and had worked out how to read Lifespans and knew when the lady would die

yeah but how can the lifespan increase? Does the saved person get a new lifespan?

@DarkYagami not entirely sure, since the rule says it can affect others lives, as per my answer i assume they do gain new death dates but exactly where the added lifespan comes from i don't know. it may have something to do with this question i suspect

@DarkYagami: Yes. Whenever the Death Note is used, it alters the future, and everyone who it affects has their lifespan recalculated.

This rule always confused me. Supposedly the god of death would always see the original lifespan, regardless whether it had been lengthened. But Misa's lifespan was lengthened when the death god sacrificed himself for her, yet Rem still says to Light "If Misa dies before her time runs out, I will hold you responsible". Now how would she be able to see this? Misa's lifespan should have ended a long time ago already according to quoted rule, yet Rem could see the new lifespan?

@PeterRaeves I think the difference is because the death note then was used in the Shinigami Realm since the rule says "the use of the death note in the human world". So either the use of death note in the Shinigami Realm allows Shinigami to see updated lifespans or when humans use the death note Shinigami don't see the updates (since what's the likelihood of a human using the death note in the Shinigami realm)

all_licenses: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

all_licenses: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/


text:
Was "Baby Kangaroo's Birthday Surprise" the target of any censorship?
The film "Baby Kangaroo's Birthday Surprise" (カンガルーの誕生日 - Kangaroo no Tanjoubi) was released in February 1941, less than a year before the Second Sino-Japanese war became the Pacific War, involving the United States and the British Empire, which included Australia.
The film was not set in any particular country, and involved non-Australian animals as well as kangaroos. For example, the main villain was a wolf, which doesn't occur in Australia.
Was the film the target of any censorship in Japan because of its use of an Australian animal?


text:
What is the meaning behind HOMRA motto?
Every time HOMRA are about to battle, they always shouting "No Blood! No Bone! No Ash!" Does it have any meaning? Somehow I can relate "ash" to their burning power. (but it's just my assumption, and I don't know about the other)

I think the idea is that when you set a person on fire, blood or bones (or ash) could be left behind. The motto, then, expresses the idea that HOMRA should burn people so thoroughly that none of those things even remain.

HOMRA (吠舞羅, homura). It's not 炎, the spelling is different.
The Arabic word "حمرة" which means "redness" must be the origin, it is the red clan after all, and the spelling is identical. (try the speaker button on Google Translate for the pronunciation)
In season 2 episode 3, Kismet is from an Arabic origin as well.

炎 has an alternative reading of "homura" too. And according to Google translate, the spelling for "حمرة" is "hamra", not "homra", but the pronunciation is almost indistinguishable for non-Arabic.

"No blood, no bone, no ash" is the saying that the red king's clan yell out before battle. It is to say that they will leave no blood, no bone nor any ash behind. It is related to their burning power.

The saying "No Blood! No Bone! No Ash!" can mean a few things like the power that the red clansmen have or just the sheer strength that they have, but I think  it means that they leave nothing when they pass or that they have no regrets (I have no idea if any of these are correct)

Welcome to [anime.se], a Q&A site for anime. We're a bit different than other sites that we're not a discussion forum (you can take a quick [tour] to understand how this site works). Aside from that, personal opinion is acceptable if it can be backed up by some sources/references or more extensive explanation (if you yourself doubt your answer, how can other readers trust it). You can always [edit] your post to improve it.


text:
Is this Erza's new armor in the new chapter of the Fairy Tail manga?
I just checked out the new chapter of the Fairy Tail manga. In page 10 of chapter 372, after Erza was freed from the dungeon by Natsu, when that demon bird woman came back to check up on her, Erza shows up in front of her, and equips this new armor that I never seen before in the anime.

Did Erza just unlock a brand new suit of magic armor on page 10 in fairy tail chapter 372?

Welcome to the Anime and Manga StackExchange! I've edited what I could of your post for grammar - if I've changed the meaning of something feel free to edit that back in.

I added a picture, please remove it if I got the wrong one

Erza uses Requip:The Knight armor as mentioned here in the magic used section. This type of armor has various type. So this particular one used by erza might be another variant of it which was not mentioned.

It is called the Piercing Armor. It allows her to pierce through substances and leave an hole within them. That was actually the first time she used it within manga/anima.

Can you cite where you get the name from?


text:
How did Homura get a bow as a weapon?
In the last episode of Puella Magi Madoka Magica TV anime, Homura seems to have Madoka's bow. In earlier episodes, she only use guns and bombs, when and how did she get this weapon?

Well, this IS an alternative universe now. Maybe she adopted Madokas weapon subconsciously? If you've seen the 3rd movie, you'll realize pretty much anything goes for this series..

Homura's power was originally time manipulation, she learned how to make bombs from the internet and stole guns from the military and used these in conjunction with her powers (as we see in her fight with Walpurgisnacht), she could have very well gotten her hand on a bow in homage to Madoka

 She got her weapon from Madoka.

This is a question for Gen Urobuchi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica writer) at a Nitro+ Q&A Panel
Q: Did Homura get her weapon from Madoka?

 A: The weapon Homura got filled the hole that Madoka left when she couldn't use the bow anymore. [Note: I'm not sure if I got this right, maybe someone who still remembers the details of Madoka's ending properly could fill me in with the details of this]

but one thing I don't understand is, why he said that he wasn't sure? isn't he himself who wrote Puella Magi Madoka Magica?

I suppose `I' in the bracket signifies the person who recorded the QA panel, not Gen Urobuchi himself.

This is resolved by Wraith Arc: She arrived in the new universe with her old powers intact, however due to the same miracle that allowed her to retain memories of the old universe (her mutual love for Madoka), she was able to obtain a second wish:

 "Those are my feelings towards Madoka! That's why, once more, lend me power! Not as the shield that protects Madoka but as the power that smites anyone who threatens her!"

As such, she was given an appropriate weapon, the bow of memory manipulation.

I think it's because in the new universe, Homura didn't have to use her wish for the sake of saving Madoka. She had no need for time manipulation, so instead of that device, she now has a bow. In the Q&A answer section (as cited in the other answer), it's said the bow was to fill in the hole, being that there is no cause that would have Homura gain the Time Manipulation ability in the new universe.

By searching about this it makes me think, She probably didn't get this from Madoka or whoever it is, She got the bow through her wish as she said "Those are my feelings towards Madoka! That's why, once more, lend me power! Not as the shield that protects Madoka but as the power that smites anyone who threatens her!" since her shield was obtained by wraith.


text:
Why does Shiina always say "how shallow-minded"?
She usually says the phrase "how shallow-minded" (あさはかなり,asahaka nari). Is the fact that she came from the past (a.e Feudal Japan) and was born in Ancient Japan has something to do with it?

The suffix -なり is an ancient word.  The repeated usage of the phrase suggests that she is from the past.

As stated in the wiki page you linked to, it's most likely because she's from an earlier era.
Also, being a trained assassin, she most likely views the actions of other characters as childish and foolish, so she just gives her honest opinion on the matter.


text:
Why all the "Re" in titles?
There have been quite a number of series whose English titles use peculiar forms of Re. I don't mean normal usages like Rebirth or Requiem. Here's some I chose from an alphabetical listing at MAL:

Re Boot
Re-Kan
Re: Cutie Honey
Re:_Hamatora
Re:Creators
RE:Map
Re:Zero (and several spin-off series)
ReLIFE
Rewrite (although normal, seems to conceptually fit here)
Re:Monster
Tokyo Ghoul:re

It is likely that some of these are just using the prefix "re" as often done in English, to mean either "again" or "concerning". What makes these seem odd to me is the variety of ways they use off-kilter orthography. Is it done as a marketing ploy to attract attention?  Or is there some underlying Japanese concept that maps particularly well to English "Re"?
A Japanese student grows up learning three alphabets (two Japanese and the Latin one) plus Kanji. I wonder sometimes if this variety can lead them to think flexibly in how they choose to build titles in English.

"Re-Kan" is just a playful romanization of 霊感 reikan, meaning something like "supernatural sense". It's not related to the "Re:" in Re:Zero, etc.

In Hamatora's case, it's explicitly "Re:" as in the thing you prefix to an email subject when replying. You can tell because the recap movie is called... "Fw:Hamatora". I'm pretty sure the same is true for Re: Cutie Honey (it's also a sequel), though I have no direct evidence and am not familiar with this franchise.

ReLIFE is transparently in the sense of "life again", given that's what the premise of the narrative is. Rewrite is also just the English word "rewrite" (a key element of the plot is a certain variety of "rewriting").

@senshin What I find most odd is the number of times a title has used "re" recently. Also the variety of ways it is done. Note the underscore character in Re:_Hamatora, the capitalization of "life" in ReLIFE, and sometimes following "Re:" they include a space and sometimes not. Maybe they are all just random choices, but maybe there was a reason for each of the choices.

'Re' is a prefix for "redoing" something. Reliving, rewriting, recreating, etc.

"The Re: in Re:Monster is a uniquely used abbreviation of Reincarnated or just the English prefix re-,[1] meaning again, or one more time, as to refer to the protagonist’s reincarnation to a magic world as a “monster”. In the same fashion, Re:Zero and Re:Life also use the one-more time element, when Re:Zero involves a protagonist who is revived more than once, and Re:Life involves a protagonist who has his life reset. Perhaps Japanese authors just love this re- trend so that at least three of them use it in the titles of their works."

For the meaning of the word "Re:" in the title, depends on the Anime
(there seems to be a lot of explanation in the comment section of your answer).
But the reason on why there's an influx of it being used is the fact that it currently sells when used in a light novel, manga, or anime title.
It's like how in gaming after DayZ was out, there was an influx of zombie survival games.
or if you want an Anime comparison, it's like how after Sword Art Online, "Trapped in another world" anime popped up each season (starting the 'isekai' genre craze).
I'm not saying that everything with the word "Re:" in it is a cash grab, it's not; but it's more of a marketing strategy.
The earliest usage (that I can find) of this is in Re: Cutie Honey (2004) and later Re: Hamatora (2014) which is an OVA, and a second season respectively. The most impactful usage of "Re:" though is in Re:Zero.

SAO didn't spark the iSekai genre. It had been around for 3~4 decades before that.

@Mindwin but Isekai does increase in popularity after SAO, although I don't think it is because of SAO nor do I have any evidence of SAO directly influencing the popularity of Isekai genre.

@Mindwin yeah, I just edited my answer; what I meant is that SAO started the isekai genre craze; not sparking it in the anime industry. Thanks for the suggestion.

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/


text:
What was the first anime that uses different ending/opening songs in every episode?
After watching a few series I realised that some of them use different opening/ending songs in each episode (e.g. Oreimo). I noticed that it must've been quite expensive to do this, and some other animes like Love Live use the same song sang by different people every episode.
What was the first anime that has done this, and can you list the animes that has done this?
Clarification: If the anime has 12 episodes, there has to be 12 different endings, not less than that.

listing is probably not very productive - there are definitely a lot of series that do this. "first anime" though should be an interesting question.

@hungerartist ah, I didn't know the list was that long. But yeah, I'm still curious who's done it first.

This "trope" seems to have been around since at least 1979, probably earlier.

@hungerartist that's not what I mean, Doraemon has 5 different endings over the span of a few years, but Oreimo, for example, has 12 different endings in 12 episodes.

Ack, sorry - I just realized that I somehow managed to more or less miss read your question earlier. :P

Haha might want to bounty this. The work and research it would take to find this answer would be hell.

Maybe someone can write a script that runs through a database of anime titles (e.g. ANN) and with each, compare the number of episodes with the number of OP/ED songs to see if there's a match. Surely the animes that match this criterion should be very limited in number. On a related note, the Aria series has a unique opening animation (not song) in each episode; Bakemonogatari has 5 OP songs distributed across 15 episodes; and I think EVA has different singers for the ED.

While Lucky Star doesn't have an ending theme, in it's place it has a static image of a door where the characters are karaoke of various songs (usually anime-related).

tl;dr Shōnan Bakusōzoku, an OAV from 1986 with 12 episodes and 12 endings (ended only in 1999).
Intro
I took up Gao's suggestion and used ANN's API to create a duplicate of their database and then search for all titles that have as many OPs/EDs as they have episodes. If anyone is interested in the code for this (it's not nice :P) and all results, go here.
Assumptions
I restricted the analysis to titles that have at least 6 episodes. ANN's episode field sometimes contains additional information such as '10 (+2 Specials)', in which case I only take the first number and ignore the rest. There are no checks for the title or anything like that: if ANN lists an ending twice or if the same ending appears multiple times with different artists, those all count as separate. Most importantly, the relevant date is the start date (because that is less parsing work and because often there is no end date given).
Results for EDs
Below are the results. With the above restrictions, ANN has 30 animes that fit the bill and the oldest of them is Shōnan Bakusōzoku. Note though, that the final episode is from 1999! Among the first few, Iczer Reborn ended on February 25, 1991, already, so maybe that's your winner? See here for the full table.

Vintage
Type
#EP
#OP
#ED
Name

1986-09-10
OAV
12
3
12
Shōnan Bakusōzoku

1987-02-25
OAV
8
6
8
Bubblegum Crisis

1990-09-25
OAV
6
1
6
Iczer Reborn

1992-06-15
OAV
6
0
6
Blue Girl

1997-11-25
OAV
6
2
6
Saber Marionette J Again

1999-07-25
OAV
6
3
9
Ten Tokyo Warriors

1999-10-06
TV
12
1
12
Seraphim Call

1999-12-18
OAV
6
7
7
Sakura Wars 2

2002-06-15
OAV
8
8
8
Angelique: Twin Collection

2002-10-02
TV
13
1
13
Sister Princess: Re Pure

2003-05-08
TV
6
1
6
Saint Beast

2005-10-21
TV
26
1
26
Mushi-Shi

...

Huh, more endings than episodes?
You may have noticed, there are titles with more endings than episodes: They can all be considered to have as many endings as episodes. For Ten Tokyo Warriors, Sakura Wars 2 and Heaven's Lost Property those are caused by some kind of inconsistent annotation in ANN. For Akikan! they list an extra ending for a special but don't count the special towards the episodes. Katanagatari got an extra ending for the noitaminA rebroadcast. For Highschool of the Dead  and Maken-Ki! Battling Venus they count the OAV ending towards the anime.
Almost made it
I thought it would be interesting to also check which ones cut it very close. Here's an addtitional list sorted by #EPs/#EDs and then sorted by vintage. I left out all that have a quotient of 1 or less, since we already know those from above. The full list can be found here.

EP/ED
Vintage
Type
#EP
#ED
Name

...

1.04
2007-04-08
TV
24
23
Lucky Star

1.09
2010-07-07
TV
12
11
Strike Witches 2

1.09
2010-10-01
TV
12
11
Heaven's Lost Property Forte

1.11
2006-02-10
OAV
10
9
Hellsing Ultimate

1.17
1990-01-26
OAV
7
6
Be-Bop-Highschool

1.2
1990-06-15
OAV
6
5
Devil Hunter Yohko

...

As ʞɹɐzǝɹ already mentioned, Lucky Star should qualify for the previous list, having 24 episodes and endings, but ANN is missing the ED for episode 22, and so on. As you can already see, this DB isn't perfect either ;)
Overview
Finally, here's a bar plot showing the distribution of the number of endings among all animes that fit the assumptions described initially.

Results for OPs
There are only two results for #EPs = #OPs, and those are already shown in the list above (Sakura Wars 2 and Angelique: Twin Collection). The results for #EPs / #OPs are here. OPs are generally not as diverse:

More OPs than EDs and vice versa
As per Gao's second suggestion: there are 221 animes with #OP > #ED, among those 115 have no endings listed in ANN at all, which is probably a mix of the truth and missing annotations (full list). The other way around, there are 781 animes with #ED > #OP, 82 with no openings at all (full list).
Outro
This is not the definite answer either of course. ANN doens't provide an XML schema, so I might have overlooked something, and even if everything went well in my parsing, we already know they have a different opinion on the number of EDs, e.g. for NGE (see Gao's answer for that discussion), and there are several errors mentioned above. Answering a different question I realized I should have probably made sure the endings are unique, but that doesn't affect the main results here though.

I like your methodology and the way you present your method and findings, and how you explain the peculiarities arising from your analysis. I don't know if you could just reuse the code to grab data from other comprehensive anime databases to cross-validate your answer. By the way, most, if not all, of those anime with 0 OP/ED have missing info. An interesting question would be: is there an anime with #OP > #ED?

@GaoWeiwei Thanks, and good suggestion about more OPs than EDs, I added some info above. I also updated the full lists on github with better formatting I only learned about yesterday.
The main work for verifying with another database would be getting the actual data. I checked the list you linked and among those that contain song info, ANN seems to be the most batch-retrieval friendly (So I was lucky, I only checked ANN and MAL initially). No promises, but I will look into it. Most sites are probably just careful to keep their servers alive and I could get access by asking for it.

I don't know what is the first anime to have done this, but I can name one popular anime older than both Oreimo and Love Live that has done this: Neon Genesis Evangelion (2003 Renewal DVD1).
According to Fandom:

Every episode of the TV series has a different version of "Fly Me To The Moon."

Let's see if anyone can beat me to the Moon.
mivilar has done an excellent job of beating me to the Moon with his analytical answer.
Kudos to him!

1 Thanks to mivilar for the correction.
Detailed information about all the ED versions in the different releases of Neon Genesis Evangelion can be found here.

Ah, great answer, thanks. I hope this is it.

@EnricoSusatyo One thing to note here however is that (as it says on wikia) this is only true for the re-release version. For example, it seems to be true for the Platinum Edition DVDs I own, but the original airing 1995-96 apparently had less as shown on ANN

@mivilar The ANN info seems to conflict with that from Wikia. In ANN's trivia section, it says In the original japanese version and dubbed videos (But not the DVDs) there is a different version of fly me to the moon in each episode. The ADV DVD version still has multiply versions of the song but not a different one each episode.

I scanned the booklet from my version (ADV-distributed 'Platinum') and it contains the data from Wikia, so that's where that came from. I randomly checked some of the endings and they seem to line up with that listing. However, maybe there is another DVD version released by ADV that ANN is referring to? The 'Platinum' edition is apparently based on the Japanese 'Renewal' and to bring yet another site into the mix evageek's music list also claims all different endings are present only in the 'Renewal'

@GaoWeiwei was running out of characters in the previous comment. here is a listing from evageeks specific to Fly Me to the Moon. I couldn't find any other info on this, so no idea who is wrong here.

@mivilar I'm still a little bit confused: is it the Renewal OA or the Renewal DVD (NPC) that has a unique ED for each episode? Is the info in my edited answer correct?

@GaoWeiwei sorry, I'm not entirely sure either. My DVDs have an ADV copyright dated 2005, but they don't name the date for the Japanese version they are based upon.


text:
What card game are the gang playing in the hotel in "Rivals and Arrivals"?
The players appear to pick cards from each other hands, hoping to match them together and stick the other players with the joker. Apparently if you're stuck with the joker you lose.
What game is this?

The name of the card game is Old Maid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_maid_(card_game)


text:
Is the fanbook from episode 8 based on any real life doujinshi?
In episode 8, Shinichi uses a fanbook "Cure Kosette Punishment" to distract the palace guards about 15 minutes into the episode. It's clearly a doujin fanbook which is based on Precure (or Outbreak Company's equivalent). But I can't tell if this book is entirely fictional, or is based off a similar real-world work. Is there any similar real-world doujin fanbook on which this one was based?

Cure Kosette is a parody of Cure Rosetta, who was a PreCure in DokiDoki PreCure which was airing at the time. Ironically, it'd make more sense for Cure Rosetta to do the punishing, as she more or less is an ojou-sama who beat up some high school age delinquents when she was still in grade school.
As for the doujin itself, unfortunately Cure Rosetta/Yotsuba Alice (civillian form) does not have all too many doujin in which she takes the leading role. She is one of my favorite cures by far, the only doujin that seem similar to this one seem to have rather poor art. Dokidoki PreCuring A__ce Hen is the closest thing I've found, which is technically a CG set, not a doujin. So as far as I can tell, there is no real world equivalent... even though there should be, lol.
Anyway, good luck in your endeavors and all that.


text:
How many transformation does elfman have
Elfman Strauss, like his siblings, uses Take Over magic which allows all or a portion of his boby to transform into another form he knows well.  His specific type is Beast Soul which allows him to record and seal a monster's body part.
How many different forms can he turn into currently?  I suppose this would have to include separately how many arm only transformations we've seen and how many full body transformations we've seen.

For future reference, most, if not all, information regarding anime character skills and abilities are found in their respective wikia pages.
Anyway, from Elfman's wikia page:
For Partial Take Over:

Beast Arm: Reptile
Beast Arm: Bear
Beast Arm: Black Bull
Beast Arm: Iron Bull
Beast Arm: Stone Bull
Beast Arm: Jet Black Sword

For Full-Body Take Over:

Beast Soul
Beast Soul: Weretiger
Beast Soul: Lizardman
Beast Soul: Belcusas
Beast Soul: Ape
Beast Soul: Sand Beast

Therefore, Elfman have 6 variants each of both partial and full-body take over, which totals to 12 unique transformations in all.


text:
What kind of power does the new "Lucy" have?
Are the powers demonstrated by Luffy's replacement as Lucy based on a Devil Fruit or Haki?
It might be haki because the way he blocked Jesus Burgess' attack, but he didn't say armament haki, instead used some kind of technique.

Think this question right now would mainly be speculation over real facts. Also the way you ask the question teases to use speculative ways over confirmed facts. Try to rephrase your question a bit.

Can we all agree to just stop pretending that he might be anyone but Sabo?

isn't it a discussion type question. it should be closed.

I agree with @Dimitrimx. The question itself of "What power does Lucy have?" is fine, even if it isn't currently answerable. However, the current wording seems to encourage speculation and guessing rather than fact-based answers. Voting to close for now.

well guys, I think I found an answer. One piece wiki updated info about Sabo. There it's clearly mentioned it's haki. If you have some spare time(stop wasting it on deciding whether to close the question or not) go to this link: http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Sabo and read about Sabo's abilities. Thanks!

Related: http://anime.stackexchange.com/q/8450/6166

He was just using martial arts and haki, many characters fight using haki without saying it. You can tell he's using haki as his hands turn black.

Lucy uses haki ;since later on he acquires the mera mera no mi and according to the previous episodes one cannot have more than one devil fruit though blackbeard is an exception


text:
Did Mest have a guild mark?
With respect to the recent questions about guild marks, there seems to be an important piece of information missing.
A main purpose of a guild mark should be to identify who is part of a guild. When Mest infiltrated fairy tail, did he have a guild mark? Could he have faked a guild mark?
My impression is that he merely had to cover enough of his skin with cloths so they assume his mark is hidden as no one would think to check.

Note that the purpose of my phrasing the title the way it was was to not indicate the infiltration in the title.  I don't know where others are in the anime/manga.

I don't think he really need a Guild Mark, as he could easily manipulate everyone's memory's to make it seem like he had already got one.

Do to recent reveals in the manga, it was revealed that he was a member of fairy tail and has a mark on his shoulder, he erased his own memories of fairy tail so he could infiltrate the council, so at the time he was infiltrating for the council he was actually acting as a double spy without him knowing

You can improve this answer by posting the picture of him with the said guild mark. Just suggesting.

No, Mest Gryder did not have a Fairy Tail Guild mark. And neither did he need one. As his ability which allowed him to infiltrate to begin with can also cover for the lack of a guild mark. Allowing him to be a Fairy Tail member, without a Fairy Tail mark.

Doranbolt, a member of the Magic councel, used Memory Control to deceive everyone in Fairy Tail into believing he was a member of their guild named Mest Gryder.

Edit
Is it a speculation? Mainly yes but do consider the following. His power allows him to make everybody think he is a guild member. To obtain a real guild emblem he would need to go to Makarov and ask for one. Which at that time already should think that he is a member of fairy tail. Which would make it weird for him to ask for a guild mark.

I also suspect that wouldn't need one and included that in the question but that does not mean he did not have one. Is there anything supporting your conclusion or is it, like mine, speculation? Either way I think you are correct.

@kaine see edit

Uhm do to recent reveals in the manga this answer doesn't hold true meaning anymore, it was revealed that he was a member of fairy tail and has a mark on his shoulder, he erased his own memories of fairy tail so he could infiltrate the council, so at the time he was infiltrating for the council he was actually acting as a double spy without him knowing.

@Wouter If you would like, that is an appropriate answer. If you write that as an answer, I will accept it.

Yes he have guild mark, as per Wiki

After Tartaros' defeat, Fairy Tail's guild mark is given back to him
  by Makarov; it rests on his right shoulder.

And here's his guild mark


text:
Metaphor and Symbolism in The Story of "The God of Peace"
My question is about the story of "The God of peace" by Kalus Poppe in the anime "Monster". It seems that this story is full of metaphor and symbolism. I never quite understood what is metaphor and symbolism behind of this story.
In regards to the series and the story itself.
One opinion can be that Johan can change everything to evil even though he is the God of peace and the conclusion is that there is no solution for conquering him.
Another opinion is that everybody has a bad characteristic how much he or she is good.

In regards to the series or the story itself?

I am interested in both of them.

Please specify that in your question body and title.


text:
Juubi and Rikudou's brother?
From the current chapters of Naruto, it is revealed, that Rikudou Sennin has a brother who also sealed the juubi in himself. That means there are two juubis in the world. If Madara has/had control of one of them, where could the other be hidden? His presence in the world for now is speculation. But as the Rabbit Goddess had Byakugan, this could mean that this brother may have been the Hyuuga's ancestor, which would mean Senju, Uchiha, and Hyuuga are indeed related, but Hyuuga and Uchiha could never be able to use the other's doujutsu, because of difference in ancestor.
So in essence, I'm asking, where could the second Juubi presumably be, is it not possible that the brother is the Hyuuga ancestor? For now this is all speculation, but I have a feeling that Kishimoto will end this series with a few plot holes, so I want to see other users' ideas on these questions.

Please split your questions into multiple questions. This makes it easier to select a correct answer. If you ask several questions in one question you will risk having answers that are both correct and incorrect at the same time.

Kurama is the name of Kyubi (the nine-tails) only. Kurama it/himself used to be a single existance, until the fourth Hokage split it/him in two, to protect Naruto from the full power and evilness of Kurama...

@Alex-sama: Actually, the Kyuubi would not have existed if it weren't for the Sage splitting his chakra. Kurama wouldn't have existed prior to that.

@MadaraUchiha of course. I didn't think about that before! Even if his brother did split the other Juubi, it may have been 9 different creatures from the Juubi we know.

obviously as you stated in question from current chapters, maybe the answers will be given later. and considering that this was reveled so much later in the main story, either kishi will create another manga for this or will explain properly in the future. this big plot hole towards end  of series is stupid for a writer. and asking for others opinion is not valid type question as per scope of SE network. discussion type questions are not allowed i think.

@Sp0T I believe Madara has once said, that speculation is still a good assessment of a question, though. Yeah, it is pretty stupid, since the manga is supposed to end this year. I doubt he will ever answer all the questions that arise.

I don't think it was in the manga that the Juubi was also sealed inside Hamura (if so, what chapter). They sealed it together but to one place. Right?

There isn't a second Juubi.
After they defeated the Juubi and Kaguya, Hagoromo sealed the Juubi within himself.
When he neared the end of his life, Hagoromo split the Juubi into 9 creatures, and sent the empty shell to the moon with Chibaku Tensei.
Based on the fourth databook, Hamura's clan moved to the moon to safeguard the Juubi's empty shell (that worked out nicely for them, now did it?)


text:
Hyuuga and Uchiha clan family roots?
The Uchiha clan is descended from the Hyuuga, right? So then why is the Hyuuga clan not seen during the founding of the Konoha Village? How did the Uchiha awaken Sharingan, when originally they had Byakugan? How did they come into changing their name? Would an Uchiha be able to awaken Byakugan? On that note, what would happen if a person were to obtain byakugan, eternal mangekyou sharingan, and rinnegan?
EDIT (4/2/14):
So now Kaguya is shown to have Byakugan. It is evidence that Uchiha, Senju, and Hyuuga are indeed related. But how does the Hyuuga then come about?

According to the series, eternal mangekyou and Rinnegan are progressive forms i.e One comes after another. Hence you can't have both at once.

The Uchiha are not a descendant clan of the Hyuuga. That was speculated by Kakashi in the very early stages of the series.
Much more information was revealed afterwards (SPOILER! Hover to view):

 Both the Uchiha and the Senju (The clan of the First Hokage) are descendants of the Sage of Six Paths, who created ninjutsu and had the powers of a god.

Also

 A Rinnegan is the next stage of evolution after the Mangekyo Sharingan, so you can't really use them both at once on the same eye. The Byakugan has nothing to do with it and is a completely separate technique.

how about transplanting both, sharingan (ex. Kakashi) and bykugan (ex. Ao)? I would love to hear your speculations ;)

@Vogel612: Speculation is not in the scope of this site. You're welcome to join us in [chat] though :)

@MadaraUchiha But Kaguya, the Rabbit Goddess, is shown to be wielding Byakugan...

@Alex-sama: My speculation based on the latest chapter is that the Sage of Six Paths is the ancestor of the Uchiha and Senju clans, while his brother (Gamamaru?) was the ancestor of the Hyuuga clan.

@MadaraUchiha Exactly my thoughts. His brother, not Gamamaru. Gamamaru is the prophet toad sage. His brother is not named, but I have further questions towards his brother which I will write in another post.

True enough. TIL.

I don't want to say that this is fact but here is a theory. Kaguya possesses two bloodline traits the byakugan and another sharingan/rinnegan trait. Upon having her two sons she could have passed the two traits down separately (seeing that we have not seen the sage's brother this is possible). This would mean that the sage obtained his mothers sharingan/rinnegan eye which manifested as the rinnegan without the sharingan tomoe.
Upon the sage having his two sons he passed down his visual ability, albeit a weakened version (the sharingan), to his eldest and his physical energy to his youngest. It is, as we know, that only when senju and Uchiha blood mix do you acquire the rinnegan.
Pretty much what this theory states is that it is possible that the hyuuga clan originated from the sage's brother while the rinnegan and sharingan originated from the sage himself. This would mean that the byakugan and sharingan exist as two separate dojutsu from two separate bloodlines.

It is theorized that the Uchiha and Hyuga clans are related. Kyuga was the first being to have all 3 dojutsu but it is unclear how she is related to the Hyuga clan. Some people believe that the Hyuga clan also came from Indra just like Uchiha did. For all we know Hyuga can be descended from Haruma as we don't know much about him or Hyuga origins. I made a Otsutsuki Bloodline tree just click on the hyperlink to see. Otsutsuki Bloodline

As evidenced by The Last: Naruto the Movie, the Hyūga and Uchiha share a common ancestor: Kaguya Ōtsutsuki. The Uchiha are descended from the Sage of Six Paths and the Hyuga are descended from the sage's brother, Hamura Ōtsutsuki. Given that the divergence happened before either clan was founded, it would be inaccurate to say that the Uchiha are descended from the Hyūga.

The evidence that the Hyūga are descended from Hamura is both stated and implied by dialogue in the movie from Hinata; the ghost of Hamura; and Toneri Ōtsutsuki, a descendent of Hamura. Furthermore, Toneri uses Byakugan, as did the rest of his clan.

hamura his byakugan so its easy to say that he is indeed the hyuga ancestor. so this means that the hyuga are cousins to the uchiha, senju and uzumaki

Did you mean for your other answer to be part of this one? If so, you can [edit] this one to include that information and delete the other one. (While you're at it, you might want to do some edits for capitalization and so forth.)


text:
Is Plue in Fairy Tail and in Rave the same?
Plue exists on both Hiro Mashima's manga Rave Master and Fairy Tail. Is Plue the same in Fairy Tail & Rave?
Plue in Rave:

Plue in FT:

along with Plue, Elie is also in both series

I don't remember seeing Elie in FT, except in FTxRave

Oh, I am mistaken. Sorry

Plue of Rave Master is a stout, white creature, reminiscent of a snowman, that only comes up to three feet in height. Plue was born in the Kingdom of Symphonia, signifying he is a creature of some sort. (Source: Rave Master Wiki)
In contrast, Plue aka Nikora, "The Canis Minor" (ニコラ Nikora) is a Silver Key Celestial Spirit that has no obvious combat abilities. It is stated to usually be kept as a pet for low-powered Mages who is in contract with Lucy Heartfilia. (Source: Fairy Tail Wiki)
Since both series have the same author, Mashima must've decided to use his own design again. But they are different, as one of them is a creature, while the other is a celestial spirit.

It's just a returning gag :P

In the manga 'Monster Soul', it is mentioned that Plue appears in almost ALL of Hiro Mashima's mangas as camios.

Can you cite a source? A chapter number might also be helpful.


text:
Why is Plue always around?
Spoilers
Lucy get Plue's key from a shop (at least in the anime) and seems to keep Plue around with her all the time.  It is often seen hanging out with Happy, Natsu and Lucy.  However, after

 Lucy discovers that Loke is Leo the Lion, a Celestial Spirit

we learn that Celestial Spirits cannot stay in the human world too long.  So why is it that Plue can be around all the time?

I'm going to take a stab at your question. You asked...

Why is Plue always around?

Initially Plue was only contracted to be around on Tuesdays and Thursdays as that was when he was available. In the Fairy Tail Wikia it says this...

...When Lucy first contracted Plue, he only agreed to be summoned on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Later, however, Plue is available anytime, often appearing at times other than his initial contracted days. Because he is not designed for combat, he serves as a cute pet for his master instead.

Plue cannot stay all the time, he uses his own magic to cross over from the Celestial World as displayed by Virgo and Loke. Also you could think of Plue as a pet in some way. He was not made for fighting and it is plausible to say that he can stay in Earth World for as long as a month or even a year, just like Loke has demonstrated in the past.
Plue is always around because he loves Lucy and being around Family. That's my answer. The Reason behind this is...

Plue enjoys sweets and shares a close friendship with Happy. Their good relationship could be accounted for the fact that they are always together during Team Natsu's missions, as well as their almost similar attitudes. Happy and Plue often tease Lucy and Loke

also unlike powerful spirits like loke, plue takes much less amount of magic from Lucy which enables her to keep him for longer duration without exhausting her magic reserve much.


text:
What does "I Ship Nalu" mean?
Just wondering on this, but is this some type of new vocab in Fairy Tail or something, Long story short: I have seen a lot of comments on Facebook and YouTube like "Do you ship Nalu" and "I ship Nalu". What does this mean though?

NaLu seems to be a portmanteau of Natsu and Lucy (note the casing). Guess these are about wanting to see them as an item. Look completely fan based though.

hmmmm you might want to add the terminology tag to this

Wait, I know what it is now based on Oded's comment. NaLu is the term fans use for wanting Lucy + Natsu to get together and based off Wikipedia it is safe to say that this is a Portmanteau.
Definition:

A combination of two (or more) words or morphemes, and their
  definitions, into one new word.

Thanks, Oded. :)

Not sure where "I ship" comes from though...

Aaaand... http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ship

@robin fair point. shouldnt post comments when sleepy ;p

"To ship" or "shipping," in fan communities is the act or pairing characters within a series together, in a romantic relationship. It's a fairly commonly used term through-out the internet, especially on fan-sites.
Often times, a "ship" (fan-based pairing) is usually called by a combination of their names. Some communities even use a term, "shipper", to refer to people who consistently "ship" a certain type of pairing ("fujoshi-shippers" being those who always ship male homosexual pairings and so one)
As has already been pointed out, "NaLu" would be the name of the "ship" of Natsu and Lucy, and people who say "I ship NaLu" basically are the part of the fandom that supports the idea of a relationship between the two.

A ship is a couple that you want to be together. Ships like Jerza, (Jellal and Erza), Gruvia, (Gray and Juvia), and Nalu (Natsu and Lucy), are all fictitious couples that fans choose. Shipping is like to make a couple out of two people, and you can make a name. Jerza, Nalu, are all ship names. Therefore, shipping Nalu basically means that you want Natsu and Lucy to be together.


text:
What is the "keeper" inside Yuji?
Can anyone tell me what the "keeper" inside Yuji Sakai is? I'm watching the anime (second season) and I'm about to finish it soon, but I still don't get the meaning of the phrase "keeper".

What are you referencing? What do you mean by "keeper?"

In contexts of Midnight Lost Child

It's the Reiji Maigo.
It's a tool that was created between the two lovers (Johann and Pheles) to grant eternal life to those that are not Flame Haze. This is because:

Johann is a Mystes, while his lover is not. They wanted their life to last forever together, so this was created to allow Johann to live forever. However, this backfires a bit later as you will discover in the series. In the end, after the defeat of Sabrac and the ending of Shakugan no Shana, this resolves itself a bit, though.

The Silver and Reiji Maigo is a powerful entity that the Ball Masque want. They attempt to use it later in Season 3 to create a gateway to another world for all the "Guze no Tomogara" (Crimson Denizens). There is nothing particularly special about Yuji having this except that he was randomly endowed with it when it was sealed away from Johann.

 This is due to Sabrac, who is later found part of Ball Masque and killed.

All in all, the keeper is a source of infinite existence that the Ball Masque want to create Xanadu.


text:
How can I quickly understand the basics of Naruto and the story without watching all 300+ episodes?
I would like to start watching Naruto as I have never attempted or tried to get into watching Naruto. The main problem I have is that I don't want to watch all 300+ episodes in Naruto or read the dozens of Mangas to understand what Naruto is about and the many plots that are involved.
I know this might be a really silly question for someone who watches anime and this may sound very far fetched but I havent watched Naruto before. I do not want to read through pages and pages of information from Naruto's Wikia and do not want to go watching through episode through episode of about 300+ to understand Naruto.
Are there any episodes in Naruto that will help me understand the story and key terms/terminology without doing this? In other words I am looking for a short cut.
Think of this scenario: Death Note created two special episodes for those who have not watched it before so they wouldn't have to go through all the episodes to understand the plot. Did Naruto do this? If so that would be extremely helpful.
Please note: I have not watched ever Naruto or Naruto Shippuden and as such have no actual knowledge of anything Naruto.

Doesn't this kind of... defeat the purpose of watching anime?

@senshin- I know it defeats the purpose, but I am not going to watch 300+ episodes. Call me lazy, but im looking for a shortcut to understand the story.

You can always check out this page, and review any particular arc you find you need more info on.

Just try watching first 5 episodes. Once you got addicted all 300+ episode would just pass by in a blink of eye. I did this for one piece 600+ epsiodes in one month. After a point I jump to manga.

Although I strongly advise against not watching/reading them, there are some shortcuts to take.

You could read episode summaries.
As one of your main options it gives a good insight on the story, though not specifically into the terms used in the story. But those aren't too hard to catch onto when watching the second season.
Watch the Naruto abridged series.
Shortens a ton of episodes to just a mere 5 minutes, but still covering a bunch of key points. But there is a lot of parody involved, causing it not to be 100% accurate. It also does not cover the key terminology in the series.
Watch the anime without the anime-only arcs.
Just go watch the season without watching all the anime-only arcs. Greatly reducing the episode count, as you can skip the following episodes, which reduces the original 220 episodes with roughly 80 episodes. On the provided site they also have a list for the Shippuuden series, also reducing the non-canon content in there.

Episodes 102—106: Naruto and Team 7 go to the Land of Tea to help Idate Morino win a race.
Episodes 136—141: Naruto, Sakura, and Jiraiya, while investigating Orochimaru's whereabouts, encounters the Fūma clan.
Episodes 142—147: Naruto helps Iruka catch the escaped convict, Mizuki.
Episodes 148—151: Naruto and Team 8 look for the bikōchū beetle in the hopes that it will lead them to Sasuke Uchiha.
Episodes 152—157: Naruto and Team Guy deal with Raiga Kurosuki and his Kurosuki family.
Episodes 159—160: Naruto, Kiba, and Hinata help Sazanami clear his name.
Episodes 162—167: Naruto, Neji, and Tenten go to the Land of Birds to deal with a mysterious ghost.
Episodes 169—173: Anko Mitarashi takes Naruto, Ino, and Shino to the Land of the Sea to find information on Orochimaru.
Episodes 175—176: Naruto is again paired up with Kiba and Hinata in order to improve their teamwork.
Episodes 178—183: Naruto and Team Guy go to Hoshigakure to help the villagers protect their sacred star.
Episodes 187—191: Naruto, Hinata, and Chōji go to the Land of Vegetables to protect some peddlers from the Criminal Brothers.
Episodes 195—196: Guy is forced to deal with Yagura's apparent attempts at revenge.
Episodes 197—201: The Konoha 11 stop Gennō from destroying Konoha.
Episodes 203—207: Kurenai temporarily leaves Team 8 to take care of some old business with Yakumo Kurama.
Episodes 209—212: Naruto, Lee, and Sakura help transfer a member of the Shinobazu to prison.
Episodes 213—215: Naruto helps Menma regain his memory.
Episodes 216—220: The Konoha 11 go to Sunagakure to help rescue Matsuri from the Four Celestial Symbols Men.

Source: Naruto Wiki: Naruto Plot

Read full episode summaries as written by fans.
Although this most definitely will take longer then just taking your time and read the manga. you could give Full Naruto Episode Summaries a shot. They describe the episode in details, and also include the key information of the episodes.

I personally think that it would be the best shortcut to just read the manga if you want to have a proper start in the series. The original Naruto is covered in a mere 238 chapters, after all, which for me only took about a week and a half to read, while the episodes took me roughly a year to watch through. Or, you could just go ahead and take the risk and jump in mid-series, just Google or take for granted the terms you do not know yet, and try to get into the story that way. Either way, its all up to you.

And for the people that land here and do decide to go watch the full series How long will it take me to watch everything from Naruto

I generally find that reading manga goes a lot more quickly than watching anime. With manga, you can read at whatever speed you want (I typically find myself speeding through a weekly-length Naruto chapter in about 4 minutes), whereas for anime, you have to go at the pace set by the studio. I seem to recall some Shippuden episodes going at the very slow pace of only ~1 manga chapter per episode.

Well let's see what I can do....
The story starts off with a fox demon attacking the fire village. The 4th hokage (which, in other words, is the leader of the village) sealed this demon inside of a newborn baby. When you watch the series you find out that the baby's name was Naruto and the 4th hokage was Naruto's dad. Now through the series you see that Naruto gets stronger with his teammates: Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi (the team leader). Later down the road Naruto and his team enter the chuunin exams, which is a set of tests to go up to the next level.
A lot of things happened though the chuunin exams. After that, a few episodes later, Naruto fights Sasuke to try to get him to stay in the village, but Naruto lost that fight even though Naruto used the demon fox's chakra. After 3 years of training with the toad sage (Jiraiya), Naruto comes back to the village. Naruto goes on a mission to save Gaara (who also had a demon inside of him). Gaara did die but was brought back from the dead by the sand village elder Chiyo (the puppet master of 10 puppets), who died to bring Gaara back from the dead. Naruto gets a new teammate (Sai) and a new squad leader (Yamato).
Now, way down the road, Sasuke kills his older brother (Itachi) for killing his whole clan. Sasuke then comes to find out that his brother didn't do it of his own free will. He was ordered to do it by the 4 elders of the hidden village of fire. Sasuke then goes on a hunt to get revenge for his brother and his clan. Sasuke then kills Danzou (one of the 4 elders that ordered Itachi to kill his clan) but ends up finding out that he needs to destroy the village to get revenge.
Naruto and Sasuke fight again after both Kakashi and Sakura run into and try to kill Sasuke. Later, Naruto unlocks the powers of the fox demon inside of him and Sasuke gets his brother's eyes. So things happened during the time Sasuke was trying to kill Danzou, which leads to the 4th great ninja war. Now I'm just going to skip a lot and I mean a lot now. Uchiha Madara (the real one) is brought back from the dead and destroys the ninja alliance between the 5 great nations. Now in the manga where it's at now, Naruto and Sasuke unlock new powers that are close to the sage of the 6 paths (the first person to be born with chakra). And now, both Naruto and Sasuke are fighting Madara to try to end this war.
P.S. Sorry if it's not talking about everything that happened, but there was so much that happened that it's hard to explain so fast. In other news you should try to catch up either by the books or by the shows, because the next chapters that are coming out for the manga are going to be epic.

In your answer, are these like key events in the series + a recap on the story so far?

If that is then I wouldn't mind accepting your answer.

Lol, "Sasuke killed Itachi"... as if.

There is very strong character development in this series. The plot is extremely involved. I'm not sure that any summary could do the show justice. For example, watching 300+ episodes of sasuke trying to avenge his clan only to find out that he has a massive misconception about the entire thing is not nearly as impactful as it would be if you watched the anime or read the manga. You grow to hate the murderer of his clan as much as he does, and feel almost the same emotions he does when he realizes there is more behind their slaughter than previously imagined. Watching Naruto meet his parents would not affect you in the slightest if you didn't experience the pain he went through as a child in their absence. Watching Naruto repeatedly recieve the approval of his peers wouldn't affect you in any way if you hadn't seen him struggle to do it. You should set aside the time. It's very good. Don't watch the filler though... I repeat: DO NOT WATCH THE FILLER.
Animefillerlist.com... I'm very serious haha. You'll get the feels by probably 20 episodes in and if you don't, you're probably made of cardboard.

It's a good story and worth reading. I don't understand why you want to be involved, but are too lazy to read the story. Being too lazy or uninterested to pay attention to a story is absolutely fine, there are far too many books/manga/tv shows for any one person to read even a tiny fraction of them.
But Naruto is not factual, you won't learn anything by finding out what's going on in the current arc. It isn't based on current events, so the older episodes aren't dated or irrelevant. I just don't know why you're in such a hurry, there are more than 300 episodes out but they aren't going anywhere. You can watch a few, then leave them for a few months and watch some more, there isn't any pressure.
You see the knowledge you get by watching Naruto as a goal, rather than a side effect of enjoying the story. The only possible reason I can think for this is that you want to discuss Naruto with your friends, or you're just insane and think it might be true. But either way, there just isn't a way to get all the knowledge without watching the show, your friends have each spent hundreds of hours getting to know Naruto and the story, you can't spend a few hours reading and get all the knowledge they have. And even if you could read descriptions of all the events, you wouldn't remember any of it, without context it's just a bunch of weird Japanese names fighting each other at random.
I realise I haven't answered your question at all, but I hope you read this and reconsider, there's nothing wrong with not caring/knowing about Naruto, and there's nothing wrong with watching a bit of Naruto every now and then, but all you're gonna guarantee is that if you do enjoy the story you'll completely ruin it for yourself with all these half remembered facts you accumulate, and if you don't like it you've just wasted your time trying to understand it.

Ive been wanting to watch Naruto for a long time, but you see the idea of watching both Naruto and Naruto Shippuden is out of the question since there is about 600+ episodes altogether. I ended up just using Dimitrix answer as a guide.

First off what is your purpose? I mean, do you just want to jump in to Shippuuden where its at now and just see Naruto at his full power? Ill tell you this, since you haven't watched any Naruto. It won't be something boring or a hassle. You won't have any idea how Naruto will progress. In other words, it would be worth watching it from scratch. Since you get to know all the characters way better if you watch everything. You get a much better understanding of the Naruto Universe as a whole. There is only benefits to start from the beginning. Look at it like this, Naruto was made to be watched from episode one, or be read from Manga Volume one. So you will find out new things about the Naruto Universe through each episodes that passes and you won't get bored. Sure it will take you a while to watch it all, but you won't think of it that way when you are watching it, its hard to explain. But I recommend you to start from the beginning.
This is how I got caught up in Naruto. A friend in School was talking day in and day out about Naruto and I wasn't sure what it real was. I didn't even know it involved Ninjas. So I just thought to myself "why don't I just watch like 10 episodes, just so I understand what this guy is talking about". it took me about 3 days to watch 50 episodes. I got caught up so quickly, and it didn't even bother me that I still had over 600 episodes left (including Shippuuden). I was just happy that I had that much left of the show. Cause I liked it so much. And I started loving the Anime when they went on their first mission, thats when I really began to love it.


text:
Is there such thing as a "Host Club" from Ouran High School Host Club?
I was recently watching Ouran Host Club and it seems to centre around, how should I describe it?

Listening to girls talking about themselves and watching the girls go distraught in love over guys

But what exactly is a host club? I have never heard of such a term in my life. Is it real?

Although it isn’t quite the same, the closest “host” club I can think of is a butler cafe, such as the Swallowtail butler cafe in Tokyo. They charge between $25 and $47 usd for an experience of being royalty by a butler who serves you tea and other luxurious food.

In Japan, a "host" (ホスト hosuto) is a male worker at a club whose job is to entertain a female clientele. The clubs at which hosts work are called "host clubs". Host clubs (and their cross-gender counterparts, hostess clubs) are not really found outside Japan or places with a large Japanese diaspora as far as I know, so it isn't surprising that you wouldn't have heard of them. See the Wikipedia article "Host and hostess clubs" for more details.
Having never actually been to a host club, I'm not in the best position to evaluate the one depicted in Ouran, but based on my secondhand understanding, the Ouran Host Club is sort of a less-seedy version of what you'd see at an actual host club.
That said, I'd bet you any amount of money that no actual high school in Japan (or anywhere else for that matter) has a host club. The very idea of a school allowing minors to do something of that sort is ludicrous, which is part of what makes Ouran so funny.

In the Manga the Mangaka, Bisco Hatori, writes some notes on the side about how she worked on the series. in the early Volumes i think i remember her saying how she came up with the idea as a joke but then learned they actually existed, was going to post this as an answer but you beat me to it with a better answer so i figured i'd add it as a comment.

Is this like Maid Sama?

@Memor-X Really, now? If that's true, that's quite interesting (and slightly startling). If you can find where she said that, that'd be a useful addition to this answer (or as a separate answer, whichever).

By the way do they only have host clubs in Japan?

@MiharuDante Misaki (from Kaichou wa Maid-sama!) works at a maid cafe, which is a much tamer sort of establishment than a host(ess) club. Host clubs are proper nightlife establishments, while maid cafes are more "daylife", if you get what I mean.

@MiharuDante I don't claim to be an expert on host clubs, but my understanding is that you'll only find host clubs outside Japan in places where there are lots of Japanese people. For example, it appears that there are hostess bars in Hawaii.

@senshin First Volume, Second Chapter, i think 32 pages in, Hatori mentions how people have been calling the manga, the scanlation i read up (cause i'm at work and the actual copies are at home) says But just in case if you talk about this manga on the train or at school, maybe you don't want to say "Host-bu" in a loud voice. your teacher or elderly person will be surprised at you!! pleas be careful!!! implying it's an actual thing that students shouldn't be talking about aloud.

Definitely a less seedy version (some of the members' antics aside), given the work they put in to fix some of their customers so that they no longer need to be customers.


text:
What is the necklace that Mirajane wears around her neck?
In Fairy Tail when Mirajane isn't in her Satans Soul form and she looks like this in the picture below-

I notice that she wears some type of necklace around her neck. What/is there a sentimental reason/value behind why she carries around this necklace on her neck?
Here are some other examples...

and another here...

Answers are appreciated. :)

seems like a normal ornament to me.. :P women like wearing them.. lol

I never see anything specific about it either, maybe debal is right. And if it's so important she will always use it, like natsu and his scarf. But when Mira change her cloth, she didn't wear it, like this

I saw that picture on the wikia. I purposely left that one out of course though because it didn't have the necklace.

@ShinobuOshino lol you spying on Mira when she's changing clothes..:P lol

I was unable to find any in canon references from official sources but based on general opinion here it appears to be used for general decoration and serves no exact purpose.
There are no exact references on the necklace, so this would be the most likely answer at this time, since no new information has been released yet.

I read somewhere that it represented her tears (after Lisanna "died") so that she would be able to smile again as her sort of "crutch", and that it was given to her by Makarov. You'll also notice that Mira stops wearing it after Lisanna comes back from Edolas, so I would say that's a pretty decent theory especially given the particular shape of this accessory.


text:
How much content is required at minimum for a manga to get anime adaptation?
How many chapters or volumes of manga is required at minimum for a manga to get anime adaptation once the decision is made?
I mean some animes start airing while their manga is still being released and sometimes the amount of material only suffices for a 12-13 episode season only.
Others wait and get adapted to make a 26-52 episode season of an anime. Who takes that decision to say "OK! Let's make that an anime NOW!"
Update
To make it somewhat clearer, I'm asking about the length of the manga it takes to be adapted to an anime. Even if a decision was made to convert a manga to an anime there is still that point in time that they say "ok. we now have enough material for a season"
The duplicate question asks in general what it takes for a manga to adapted in anime.

possible duplicate of What is required for a manga to become an anime?

@PeterRaeves I updated my question to reflect the key differences between my question and the one you posted.

You could change your question to ask specifically about how much content (number of chapters or pages or volumes) is required at minimum for a manga to get anime adaptation, otherwise it's a sub-point of the linked question and therefore it's dupe.

@user1306322 done! hope it is better now.

I think the correct answer is 'at least one page'. (because if it was zero, it wouldn't be a manga adaptation)
There is no set limit on how much content one must have in order to get an adaption. The deciding factor is instead decided by the production company, sponsors and any other involved parties that make up the committee who decide which animations to produce. It does help the management board decide on a series if it the series has significant existing fan interest from the manga.
Now, while I can't think of any one-page manga that have been adapted, it is perfectly possible if the committee agrees to it - There will just be more effort put into planning around this.
This blog post explains further about the anime production process:

This process depends on who’s pushing for an idea and who is backing it up, it can be animation studios themselves along with sponsors, but many anime are adaptations of manga or light novels, in which case, publishers front costs (including the costs of having it shown on TV stations). The production company (e.g Aniplex) gathers staff, sponsors, and looks at advertisement and merchandise. While many people describe studios as being cheap, only around half the budget is often given to the anime studio, with the rest going to broadcasters and other contributing companies.

It is also worthy of note that many mangas themselves are adaptations from light novels or visual novels or may have other spin-off content which adds to the content that the studios can work with.
The content range of which adaptations do come to life can vary significantly. This is to do with chapter sizes, author preference, committee requests, etc. Every show will have different requirements and differing ease of adaptation.
For example; Chihayafuru's first season (of 13 episodes) covers 40 chapters & Claymore with 22 episodes covers roughly 60. Hikari lychee club is a manga adaption, but is very different in style and story.

This is probably a bit of a disappointing answer, but there is no minimal content requirement and it is something that differs from company to company.

+1, but if I'm not mistaken, the Excel Saga anime has a timeline/plot fairly distinct from the manga (not sure though since I haven't read it - but that's what's reported on Wikipedia and some other places).

alrighty, I'll just replace it with another example

How many chapters or volumes of manga is required at minimum for a manga to get anime adaptation once the decision is made?

The short answer is none.
The long answer is: Anime adaptations can be in the same universe, with different characters and plot without following the original material at all, so the reason that "there isn't enough chapters for a season" becomes moot. That's why is called an "adaptation" instead of "illustration".

authors: Димас Рязанцев


text:
Where does the big weapon battle trope in chuunibyou come from?
When Rika and the others released their chuunibyou power, they have a huge weapon and use it like it was nothing. I can't remember any anime where such a big and weird weapon is used like that, that isn't mecha. Is this a reference to anything? or is it original for Chuunibyou?
Rika fighting against Touka, her sister

Are you trying to ask if it's a parody of anything? Where the big weapon battle trope comes from? What their "powers" are inspired by?

@Krazer the big weapon thing. Like I said, I can't remember any anime that use such a big and weird weapon like that

Not everything is a "trope".

In Chuunibyou's case, the extraordinarily large weapons are used to emphasize the fact that this is in Rikku's imagination, and they are actually fighting with a ladle and an umbrella, which is much less extravagant.

Having said that, the 'small girl, big weapon' trope is common enough in anime. Take Mami's Trio Finale in Puella Magi Madoka Magica for example, or Black Rock Shooter's girls which all have gigantic weapons:

There are lots of instances of these types of battles, but I wouldn't restrict this trope to anime, with instances of 'Big F**king Guns' going back to games like Doom

Along with the '100T anvil' trope, These types of tropes are used to emphasize a scene. In this case, making battle scenes more explosive,action-packed and gripping.


text:
Explanation of Libido in anime
Seems like libido is the energy source for mechas in various series such as Star Driver, and Captain Earth. Exactly what is this libido it speaks of? Lust? Why is it that the world will supposedly end if something consumes all libido?

Good question, I found it odd too

Don't forget Gantz.

However the real definition for libido is "sexual desire" which most anime refer to when mentioning the term. So yes lust, so the anime is probably referencing sexual desire or libido as power for their machines.

See, that's what I don't get, how does lust power up anything? :|

It's anime. For all we know, lust could be generating chi, mana, chakra or something...


text:
How did emigrants survive outside in Ergo Proxy?
In episode 21, it was shown that Romdeau was in a state of disarray. Many opted to leave the city instead of staying inside. However, what I noticed is that emigrants seem to be able to leave their home cities without gas masks or any protective gear. The same applied to Vincent and emigrants from Mosk during one of his flashback, at least from what I can remember. They weren't inside a vehicle and they seem to have to walk to where they needed to go to.
Of course, it's possible that they were vaccinated before going outside, although it seems unlikely given the state of Romdeau during this time and that the city would try to keep them from going outside no matter what. Yet, Vincent was struck by disease after he went outside through the vent. Although he did survived, he either should have been immune from the conditions in the outside world, he actually wasn't exposed during his travel from Mosk to Romdeau, the vaccines keeping them healthy are temporary, or something else.
So how did emigrants survive outside without succumbing to disease? Have I missed anything?

Which do you mean, emigrants or immigrants as the answer i could post up differs if we are talking about the immigrants from Mosk or the emigrants from Romdeau

Both. I'm not really sure there's a difference in this situation. Because they both have to go outside either way. I know they both mean different things, but in this situation, it seems to be the same to me as they are both exposed to the outside world.

Mosk immigrants
Mosk was attacked by Romdeau before the series started, as we see the wreckage of several Romdeau's AutoReivs. Its desolated state would be the result of the Rapture that Raul Creed initiated.

In the first image, we see the thermonuclear bomb "Rapture" falling down outside the dome, while the second image shows the after affects. Seeing as there was only one crater (the cliffs in the back are carved to have the dome built on a flat terrain), we can assume that the Mosk wasn't destroyed earlier in the series. So why was the people of Mosk leaving? Most likely because of Romdeau's attack.
Now we're not sure how the immigrants travel to Romdeau, nor how many of the immigrants actually made it to Romdeau. However, the Commune is able to live outside (somewhat), so maybe the immigrants who made it to the dome built up a natural resistance. If the Romdeau military transported them (out of mercy, Donov Mayer only wanted Proxy One to return), they would have been treated before hand; otherwise, citizens of Mosk may have been given sort of vaccination or boost to their immune system.
Vincent and Re-L
Vincent and Re-L can be outside because of the Amrita cells in them.
Firstly, for Vincent, it's because he is Ergo Proxy, and as such, he would be naturally immune due to being near immortal.
For Re-L, when she first went outside, she was stricken with whatever virus was outside, because she wasn't in any condition to fly back to Romdeau and Vincent needing to escape, Hoody became a stand in for Vincent returning Re-L knowing full well that when Re-L get's treatment he (as Vincent) would be captured.
Daedalus was on stand by and gave Re-L treatment to save her life. It's assumed he gave her Amrita Cell (which most likely came from Monad), which would then explain why she is perfectly fine when she leaves Romdeau a second time.
Romdeau emigrants
Project ADW was an attempt to modify humans at a cellular level with an infusion of Amrita cells, the cells found inside Proxies. It occurred at some point between the launch of Rapture and Re-L, Vincent, and Pino's return to Romdeau. While it obviously used Amrita cells from Monad, Project ADW isn't touched on in any real depth, so we don't know how successful it was or how many people had the infusion.
However, at the end, I don't recall seeing any other humans outside the Dome. It's also suggested on Proxy One's Wikia Page (under Proxy One's Revenge) that Re-L and Vincent are the only 2 humans left (along with a bunch of Cagito infected AutoReivs), making them a proverbial Adam and Eve, at least until Boomerang Star returns.

On a final note, it should be noted that the ecological disaster which saw the creation of the Boomerang and Proxy Projects is subsiding, and the planet is on its way to recovery. At first, the people of the Dome may have been told it was too deadly to go outside. However, as the planet recovered, it's possible the viruses/pathogens also began to die off (the planet was in something like an ice age), and the chances of people dying from them would be less likely.
This wouldn't be a instant process, so possibly by the time the series started, the likelihood of surviving outside was greater than before when the Domes first tried to prevent people from leaving.

As usual, please check for any discrepancies (there are some changes to word so please look out for those). There is also the part "For Re-L, ...", which is a long run-on sentence that I don't get what you are trying to say.

@nhahtdh fixed up, i think, it just explains how Re-L got back to the Dome while debilitated by whatever virus she was stricken by

It may have very well been a designer virus to keep people inside the domes, working, living and building the habitable domes up. If you're using the population as is speculated, to build and maintain habitable space for the returning beings, why allow the population to roam freely?
Now that the original humans are returning the same signal to trigger the proxies to go crazy could be doing the same to a designer virus.


text:
What are the circumstances of what Obito the Sharingan used against Konan and the Kakashi's Sharingan?
Obito lost a Sharingan after using Izanagi against Konan. And now its shown that he gave Mangekyo Sharingan to Kakashi in both his eyes. What's the connection?

If you have seen the fight between Tobi (Obito) and Konan, he actually used his left eye which he had given to Kakashi. So the Sharingan he used for Izanagi was of the other (Uchiha).

Also, Obito gave Kakashi his Sharingan (the right one) and Kakashi already has the left Sharingan, so he has both and talking about Mangekyo, Kakashi has already awakened that power.


text:
What happens when Naruto is talking to the Kyuubi?
When Naruto is talking to the Kyuubi is his mind or his spirit inside the Kyuubi?
What happens while he is running? Does he have something like an autopilot?

Naruto's bit lucky not to have hit a tree trunk or a lamp post while on call with the Kyuubi.

I think when Naruto is talking to Kyuubi and running at the same time or doing something else, it's like when we are thinking of something but still conscious of what we are doing.

It's like thinking while running, or making a phone call.
His mind is there, but he's also aware of his surroundings, he's not gazing into space.
Also, it's very likely that these interactions happen much faster than we see them (in the real world), just like thoughts and dreams are experienced by the brain in a flash, while to us it seems as if it took minutes (in reality it took less then a second).

In some cases Kurama and Naruto are talking in real time. I think the stuff they're doing in Naruto's mind while they are talking is just a representation as it would look a lot interesting.

It may be like shadow clones. One of his shadow clone conscience talk to kuruma while other runs. When talk is done he simply undo jutsu and know his little conversation with kuruma.
During strong moments he cannot run and talk , since he had to concentrate all his chakra at one place.

Its more like when we talk to our Inner selves when we are hitting on a girl.
Is she looking at Me ?

Why is she looking ?

When you first learn to ride bicycle you have to think a lot and then after sometime it becomes automatic.
Naruto does not have to make conscious effort to talk to Kyuubi, he can simultaneously talk to Kyuubi and do other stuff, because its automatic now.

Sometimes Naruto is able to talk to the Kyuubi (Kurama) while not having to go inside his mind. He usually goes inside his mind when he really has to, wants to, or just needs power. But if hes not falling or standing still but he's actually running he wont really go into hi mind to see the Kyuubi or he will hit something. He would have to stop if he wants to actaully see the fox. That's why he can talk to the the Kyuubi or the Kyuubi talks to him without Naruto having to go inside his mind.
p.s: The nine tailed fox's name is Kurama.

I've fixed the grammar on your post, but it still needs some references or citations to justify your claims.


text:
Who is it that killed Zephyr's crew and then became a warlord?
So I just watched the One Piece Movie - The Battle of Z and it left me wondering who it was that killed Zephyr's crew (while he was in the Navy) and then became a warlord? It says he was a devil fruit user and that is why he acquired that weapon on/as his arm to take out all the devil fruit users he could.
Does it get explained anywhere in the manga? Any helpful information would be appreciated!

It's very probably that is the unnamed warlord since Law now is 26 and 23 years ago he was just 3...so i'd say is impossible to be him, while Buggy was about 16/17 but still i don't think it's him neither...this leaves the option to just the unnamed warlord.

haha yeah he is, I despise him. He hurt Law :(

I can't imagine Buggy actually posing any threat to a marine Admiral, even if he was old enough

The Warlord who killed Zephyr's crew is not named even in the current chapter of the manga.
Nevertheless, it was stated that the pirate who killed Zephyr's crew became a warlord during the timeskip. Therefore, there are only three possibilities: Trafalgar Law, Buggy and the currently unnamed warlord. However, it it also not yet revealed whether the unnamed warlord is a devil fruit user.

Are you sure it was during the time skip? There is no way he would get that old in just a few years....He was much younger when his crew was killed, at least it looked like there was no way it was doable in the time skip. Add a source and I'll buy it :p

What I said is that the pirate who killed his crew became a warlord during the timeskip. You can read it on his history here: http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Zephyr . =)

That pirate who killed Zephyr's crew is not Law, Buggy, Doflamingo or any of the current warlords. First, you must consider Zephyr's age. I think it was 20 years ago when the accident happened to his crew; then, that pirate became a warlord. So it's not during the 2-year timeskip. Also, the film Z movie is non-canon, meaning it is just a filler and not related to the real story.

But consider that Oda usually has at least some minor input on non-canon to make sure they don't use things he wants to later.  Foreshadowing canon inforamtion in a non-canon movie is, therefore, still possible.

I'm pretty certain it was either Doflamanco, Jimbei, or Crocodile because all the warlords at the time who could have done it would either not have or they wouldn't have used a cutting weapon. Kuma wouldn't have because he was a double agent for Dragon and he is trying to keep his cover. Boa didn't because they would've been turned to stone not murdered. The zombie guy who is dead now would've abducted the dead crew. Mihawk who does use a cutting weapon wouldn't have because he seems to obey orders without much argument. Buggy and trafalgar weren't warlords at the time.

It can't be either one of them; As it was stated in the movie, the pîrate who cut off Z's arm only became a Warlord during the timeskip, which rules out any of the original seven as well as Blackbeard.


text:
Meaning of the symbols used in Milky Way?
In the new episode of Fairy Tail for 2014, Wendy uses a secret Dragon Slayer Art, Milky Way which grants her the power to communicate or call upon lost souls of dragons.

I couldn't help but notice the symbols. Is there some meaning behind it, are these required for this to work and is this a type of language?
What exactly are they? Are they suppose to mean anything, or are they just there for decoration?
Answers are appreciated. :)

They aren't just symbols for decoration, but actual words. You can see how Wendy said she had made a mistake while writing a certain word, thinking it was an offensive spell at first. Since Milky way isn't your average spell, it looks like you need a very specific magic circle to use it. I couldn't find what language they were written in though.


text:
Was Grimiore Heart aware that Zeref was still alive?
I was recently reading an article on Fairy Tail on the Tower of Heaven when I remembered some events that transpired during the Tenrou Tree Arc that was...

It was revealed that Zeref was still alive

And the purpose for Grimiore Heart working on the Tower of Heaven was...

To restore life to someone who is deceased at the cost of someone else's life or in this case to sacrifice Erzas life for Zerefs as what was revealed in the anime

Based on this information, does this mean that Grimiore Heart was unaware of that Zeref was still alive and if they were what would have been the most obvious motive for using the Tower of Heaven which on the Fairy Tail wikia is described as:

The Tower of Heaven (楽園の塔 Rakuen no Tō), also known as the R-System, is a taboo Magic Item that can be used to restore life to a deceased person.

I would prefer an in cannon answer preferably from reliable sources. An answer would be appreciated. :)

I don't think Grimoire Heart was involved in building the tower of heavens. At all.

I'm pretty sure they were since Ultear possessed Jellal to do it while he was under the impression that she was the "Ghost of Zeref".

Ultear controlled Jellal to build the R-System, so the Magic Council focuses on him and not on the Grimoire Heart, who could then move in the shadows to continue their search for Zeref. (Tower of Heaven Arc)
So to answer your question, Yes, Grimoire was aware Zeref was alive and used Jellal as a decoy to search for him. After finding him launching an attack on Tenrou Island (Tenrou Arc)


text:
Why did L trust the handcuff so much?
Episode 20

L: If I die, as long as I have this (handcuffs), you'll share the same fate as me

Okay, excuse my language, but what is up with that? It's just a handcuff, you'll be able to chainsaw it or something!
If L thought that far and actually made the chain indestructible (Maybe he used titanium or something!?), we would have probably been able to pick it.
IF (highly unlikely) L actually took every precaution, L's body is not going to be as strong as the metal.
So why did he trust it so much? Was it a bluff/joke?

It was indeed a bluff made by light

 He had Rem write in the death note before the following fake rules that were going to prove that Light and Misa were innocent under any accusations as being Kira, "If the owner of a Death Note does not use the notebook after 13 days time, he or she will die" and "If the Death Note is burned, torn up, or otherwise rendered useless, any people who have touched the Death Note will die". With Light and Misa having no contact with the death note for more than 13 days, since they were both confined, and neither of them had died, that would prove to L that neither of them were Kira. L agreed and he finally took the handcuffs off of Light.

Following this info it would mean as long as Light is bound to L he could not use the notebook. Meaning he would die after 13 days, this would render the book useless so L would die as well as he touched the book before hand.

Light was proven to be innocent according to this rule way before the handcuffs. It was proven due to Light and Misa's confinement. They were confined much longer than those 13 days.

What L said wasn't a bluff. He was just repeating what he said just before Light and Misa were confined.
In chapter 32, he said

Light: Didn't you say that it's scary to appear in public? Is this really okay?
L: I realized that if Yagami-kun isn't the killer, I should be fine... Since only Yagami-kun knows who I am.
L: So if I die in the next few days...
L: Yagami-san will take over the investigation and every L will know that Yagami Light is the killer.

Yagami presumed this to be a bluff, that there were no other L around and called that bluff later by using Rem.

 But we see later that this is exactly how it went down. The other L being Mello and Nero. N almost knew from the start the new L was the killer.

In chapter 33-36, Misa is confined. Light makes preparations for later and turns himself in. Both Misa and Light were confined for more than 13 days and are finally released again.
In chapter 37, L handcuffs Light, because at this point L still believes Light to be the killer. He just can't prove it due to their long confinement and the continuation of murders. So he still believes what he had said in chapter 32 and thus to repeat this in front of everybody he says that they will both share the same faith.
Later when L actually dies, Light can escape imprisonment, because of the fake rules he had put up. If the 13 day rule wouldn't have been in the Death Note he would have been captures by the NPA and L's prediction would have come true.


text:
About Face and the demons of Tartaros
So one of the goals of Tartaros was

 that they would activate Face, which would then wipe out magic all together from the world. Or at least from the continent, which would be quite helpful for them as they don't use magic, but rather curses.

However, it is clearly stated that the strongest members of Tartaros

 are all demons created by the dark mage Zeref himself. Even if they don't use magic, they are just Zeref's living magic.

Doesn't that make them vulnerable to Face? Wouldn't it kill them?

That is a good question. Perhaps Zeref's magic would be unaffected by Face. Or maybe they're suicidal. Perhaps their transformation into demons completely disregards their origins in magic. Like Minerva. She was a witch, but now a demon. She would be unaffected, because Face would only affect wizards. But my theory could be invalid, as I'm a couple chapters behind, as of right now.

Actually even if the demons are created by Zeref's magic, they will not die as they are not magic objects but actual living beings. He created these living beings using his Living Magic (Seikatsu Mahou), thus breathing life into them which means they no longer need his magic to continue living. Thus, when all magic will disappear, they will continue to live and their curses won't be affected.

As we saw in the manga, what FACE does is to absorb magic power. It's not a dispell or a counter of any type of magic, but instead its ability is to absorb magic power in a radius around each face head.
Now the demons of Zeref are all created by the Living Magic spell, or so it seems, but with the latter addition of the known as Curse Power, which doesn't have a magical nature and it's instead related to something else (humans emotions).
In short, Zeref's demons may have been created using magic power, but they do not have any magic power inside of them and thus are inmune to FACE effects.

Any comments to better improve this answer are welcome! :D

They would'nt be affected by the power of FACE , coz' it was clearly stated that ONLY MAGIC which is the Magic User , not them . Their power came from Curse not in Magic . They are planning on a revolution , that would change the world . But that is one of their goal , their main goal is to revive their Master . which is named as E.N.D , the guild master of Tartaros and the strongest demon creation of Zeref . I forgot that chapter where her/he stated that they will not be affected by the FACE Ability .

The FACE will steal all MAGIC ability from humans and usher in the age
  of us DEMON - kind .

Volume 44 - Fairy Tail 371 Tartaros Arc Part 2 - Song of the Heavenly Dragon Page 7

Actually we know for a fact that the activation of Face didn't affect only the magic abilities. It affected everything magical, even the magical train or lacryma. http://readms.com/r/fairy_tail/412/2622/12

But not Tartaros will not be affected coz they are not magical user .

A lacryma isn't magic user either. It's crystallised magic. And the demons are living magic, Zeref's magic. That's the whole point of my question.

But your question is will Tartaros be vulnerable about the FACE .

He means, whether Zeref will be affected by FACE and when Zeref is affected, shouldn't his spells be undone? Like for example if Reedus would make a carriage and if he would lose his magic, would his carriage also disappear?

Ahhh ..I do get your point . Zeref will not be affected by that "FACE"

@オレンジ Why not? Isn't Zeref a magician like any other?

Zeref is a black wizard who use dark magic which opposite to magic used by a wizard . HE who made the END that wanted to revived by the guild tartaros (demon came from the book). It was shown on manga that they will not be affected which is also Zeref will not be affected because he is the one who created them .

@オレンジ
Black magic is just a branch of The One Magic. Just saying.