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Anime Movie with a floating island and robots
When I was younger (2003) I rented a movie which I believe to be an anime, though I do believe it was older.
The details I remember:
(Space Pirates aren't actually in space, they are just named that for convenience, they just fly about in airships)

In the beginning of the movie, there was a boy, who happened to come across, or see a girl falling from the sky, but she never hit the ground, she was floating. (They were young, by appearance, I would say between the ages of 7 and 14)
I remember a scene rather vividly, where the girl (from above) was climbing on the outside of an airship, trying to escape what I shall call Space Pirates as to not let them gain an amulet (not sure on whether it was an amulet or something else entirely, I just know she had it, the space pirates wanted it).
I remember the two of them (Boy and girl, from first point), found their way, somehow onto an island which had a giant tree on it, with a lot of robots which had the ability to fly, it was an old looking place with moss and other overgrowth about.
The girls amulet, (or other item), had some sort of ability here, and was special to the island.
I'm note sure, though it may have been that the amulet woke the robots.

It's Laputa: Castle in the Sky.  The story starts off with a girl on a airship that's attacked by "sky" pirates. She manage to escape both the pirates and the people who held her captive on the airship by falling out of it. The girl's amulet saves her, causing her to float to safely to ground where a young boy find her.
Ultimately they end up on the floating island Laputa, which is old, overgrown, has a giant tree and is populated by giant robots. I believe the robots can fly.

I just searched on youtube the title, as I came across a video which confirmed your answer. Thankyou so much.


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What purpose does the train, pictured in the Spirited Away movie, actually serve in the ghost world?
What purpose does the train, pictured in the movie, actually serve in the ghost world?

The train does not seem to provide service to and from Yubaba's house.
The train's purpose appears to be to transport some dark shadows one way only. Who are they, and where are they going?
Strangely, humans used it in the past (Chihiro and her parents use the remnants of the abandoned station to enter the ghost world).
It is probably not a joke to use this train, as just doing so proves the true love and earns Chihiro respect from Rin ("I take my words back").

The train is clearly the strong symbol of something. What does it represent?

I thought taking it was worthy of respect for a human because it's full of scary spirits. But you're probably right in thinking there is a deeper meaning.

The train line doesn't end at Yubaba's house, BTW.

The train connects to different stops and I believe since it is one way it is to service people to an afterlife based on where one wants to reside.

Yes may be something like Greek Charon's ferry.

Something like that would make sense.

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Is the illustrator of Shokugeki no Soma a hentai mangaka?
Whenever I saw some good art or illustration I usually try to find the artist, and when I search for "Shun Saeki" (He is Shokugeki no Soma illustrator) I came across this topic on MAL. Shun Saeki, the illustrator of this series is a H mangaka.
Is this true that Shokugeki no Soma artist is a hentai mangaka? Looking how the foodgasm is drawn I wouldn't be surprised if this is true.
NSFW Foodgasm

For a broader piece on this:  TVTropes explores "bleached underpants" and does have a list of mangaka that have either started with hentai or have done hentai during their career.

Googled "Shun Saeki" wouldn't get any satisfying result, so I tried "Saeki Shun" and found out that he really is a hentai artist under the name Tosh on circle Hikakuteki Simple na Panty.
This is one of his other manga titled Yuukai Trouble

Almost all of his work have explicit content

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Are anime OP/ED theme songs original?
Are anime OP/ED theme songs original? Is it like after creating an anime, the producer hires a singer to sing a song for the OP/ED theme for that anime, or do they just use songs that the singer already sang for his album or something like that?

The vast majority of the time (easily upwards of 95% of the time, by my estimate), OPs/EDs are produced specifically for the anime they're used in. Reuse of existing songs is rare.
There are counterexamples, though, which by their very rarity prove the rule. A few select examples:

Erased reused Asian Kung Fu Generation's 2004 song "Re:Re".
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012 version) reused Yes's 1968 song "Roundabout".
Speed Grapher reused Duran Duran's 1981 song "Girls on Film". (Thanks, @ConMan.)
One Week Friends reused Sukima Switch's 2004 song "Kanade", though in this case, it was re-recorded with Amamiya Sora (voice actor of the character Fujimiya Kaori) as the vocalist.
And, of course, Neon Genesis Evangelion uses a great many different recordings and mixes of the classic "Fly Me to the Moon" as its ending theme.

A few other notable ones include Speed Grapher, which in Japan used Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" as its opening, and if you include cover songs then there are also ones like One Week Friends whose ED was Sukima Switch's Kanade reworked as a character song for Kaori, or the thousand-and-one covers of the jazz standard "Fly Me To The Moon" on Neon Genesis Evangelion, although in all of those cases they were definitely recorded for the show, just not written for it.


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How does Yuuki talk like a boy?
In Sword Art Offline 2 episode 7, Asuna comments that Yuuki not only is a rare tomboy female player but also talks like a boy.
Now, I watched the English dub and didn't pick that up so I guess it is something you'd only hear when you watch the sub with Japanese audio, but even in Sword Art Offline which was never dubbed (only subbed with Japanese audio), I didn't get an impression that Yuuki was talking like a boy.
So how is it that Yuuki talks like a boy?

In Japanese, there are multiple words for "I", the most common being watashi, atashi, boku, and ore (I'll transliterate to romaji thoughout). Most of these pronouns are definitively gendered, and it would be quite the social faux pas to use an improperly gendered pronoun. This video does an excellent job explaining the subject.
From S02E19 Zekken

Yuuki: Boku wa kore dake, dakedo ne.
Translation: I'll just use this, though.

In SAO, Yuuki uses boku.
Boku is generally a male pronoun. However, in anime (not so often in real life) excessively tomboy type girls will use boku in an attempt to sound masculine. This is something that is generally impossible to accurately translate into English in an acceptable way, so most official translations simply ignore the distinction, but most fansub groups will add a translator's note demarking this.

Faux Pas − French for "False Step". A severe social blunder or major breach in etiquette. If the faux pas in question was unintentional it often leads to a very awkward and uncomfortable moment.

I even looked up the proper spelling before typing it in. Well, I guess that's what I get for typing French just because I would speak it.

Am I the only one who sees a slight hint of irony in the use of a French phrase to describe something about the Japanese language in a post written in English? :-)


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Who is Kouu the tyrant king?
I'm reading the manga "Reincarnation no Kaben": there, the main characters get some powers from their previous lives, and hence are named after famous people of history.
I managed to find all of them except who the main antagonist should be: he is named after "Kouu the tyrant king". Does someone knows who the historical character they are referring to is? (Or is it a made up character?)

I think is a mistranslation.
According to this site: http://tyuumokuneta.net/post-1718-1718 the original name in the manga is 項羽 / Xiang Yu, an ancient chinese warlord.

Note that the Japanese pronunciation of the name 項羽 is こうう kouu. (I agree that this is a mistranslation; in English, the name should be rendered in romanized Chinese.)


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When do you classify an AMV as an ASMV?
As the name 'Anime Story Music Video' explains, an AMV which contains a story is considered as an ASMV. But when do you declare something as a story?
Is it necessary to have speeches in the video? If yes, to what extent? Do they have to underlay the very majority of the whole AMV or is it ok if they underlay only 1/4th of it?
Do the speeches have to link each other directly or do they only have to contain the same emotions (e.g. desperation)?
Here're a few examples of AMVs which could be considered as an ASMV:

This video is definitely an ASMV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmqVruTH0E4
This one starts its speeches after 53 sec. and these speeches only deliver the same emotions (they're not directly linked to each other if I understood it correctly): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZhqrI3OGaM
This one has no speeches at all, but it tells us a story only with the compositing of anime scenes and the music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPDAZe84OJI

This seems like an awfully fuzzy thing to try to delineate. I'm going to claim that the answer to your question is "you classify an AMV as an ASMV whenever you think that sounds like the right thing to do".
See, the thing is, "ASMV" is strictly a piece of fandom jargon that sees no use outside a small sub-subcommunity of the subcommunity of AMV creators. As such, there is no authoritative prescriptive definition of this term that we can use to answer your question.
Since we cannot hope for a prescriptive answer to your question, we must instead turn to a descriptive approach - the question we now seek to answer is "what do people who use the term 'ASMV' typically mean when they use it?" rather than "what ― in some absolute sense ― does 'ASMV' mean?".
However, this question is also nigh-unanswerable. Despite this phrase seemingly having a transparent and compositional meaning (unlike, say, "floogleglorp"), people who discuss this term do not seem to arrive at a consensus about what it means. As evidence, I present this 2013 thread from AMV.org, where a number of people involved in the creation of AMVs are unable to agree on what the term means (or should mean). I can hardly find any other good discussions of the term (or even of "ASMVs" s a concept); I think that this strongly suggests that there is not a shared understanding of what is meant by the term "ASMV".
Given that we cannot identify a definition for this term, it surely is not possible to answer questions about nuanced things like "Do [speeches] have to underlay the very majority of the whole AMV or is it ok if they underlay only 1/4th of it?". Hence, you may as well use "ASMV" to mean whatever you want it to, provided that it still has some relation to the compositional meaning "an anime music video that in some way involves a story". Perhaps other speakers will coalesce around your conception of what exactly constitutes an "ASMV".
(But ― personal opinion here ― I doubt this term will ever see increased use, since it does not really serve any purpose, at least not that I can see. AMVs that tell a somewhat coherent story have been around since time immemorial, and people have gotten by just fine without a discrete term for them, which suggests to me that this neologism is unlikely to be taken up by people.)

Side note: the earliest attestation I find for "ASMV" is this YouTube video from 2011.


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How many Tanken Nichijou no Machi episodes are there?
I recently finished the Nichijou anime and I noticed there are an OVA and specials (Nichijou: Tanken Nichijou no Machi). According to MyAnimeList, there are 14 episodes under this title as you can see in the link but I only can find 3 episodes. Can someone direct me to where to find all of the specials?

Where did you find only 3 episodes?

@Hakase from nyaa ... it has all RAW episodes but its RAW :(

Sorry but we don't help people find illegal links. The best you could get would be Amazon or Ebay listing or an official streaming site.

@Hakase if you find it in any "official" streaming site tell me coz i already have a crunchyroll account and it do not contain many specials and stuff

There's some confusion about what "Tanken Nichijou no Machi" is.
It is not the thing you've seen subtitles for. The things you've seen subtitled are a promotional video and some unaired next-episode previews. Typically, these things are not construed as "specials", but in this case, they've been incorrectly conflated with and mistaken for "Tanken Nichijou no Machi", which MAL thinks are specials.
"Tanken Nichijou no Machi" does not consist of a promotional video and some unaired next-episode previews. Rather, it is a series of ~10-minute live-action clips featuring the Nichijou cast and staff (mostly Shiraishi Minoru, really) doing things that have hardly anything to do with the actual show. Here is the first of them on YouTube (could go down at any time).
They're kind of interesting to watch, I guess, but again, they have absolutely nothing to do with Nichijou besides featuring the cast and staff from the show.
I suspect that MAL is the ultimate source of this misinformation. If somebody knows how to get an entry delisted from MAL, they should probably do that with "Tanken Nichijou no Machi".

Anyway, to answer your title question, I think there are 11 episodes of "Tanken Nichijou no Machi". YouTube appears to have episode 11, and the official website for the manga lists episode 11 being planned for inclusion in BD 13 (the last volume).
However, this is a little confusing, since BD 1 and BD 2 appear to include a thing called "Tanken Nichijou no Machi", which might be distinct from "Tanken Hakken Nichijou no Machi 1" on BD 3 (continuing through to BD 13, which lists "Tanken Hakken Nichijou no Machi 11"). So the answer might actually be 12 or 13? It almost certainly isn't 14, though.
There is something of a lack of information on the internet about Nichijou's BD content, because the discs had abysmal sales, owing to the large number of them (13 for 26 episodes; 11 or 12 is more common, I think) and the high cost of each individual volume.


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Why do anime girls have huge chests?
Today while reading "Mushoku Tensei" I once again got confronted with a character with (in my opinion) an insanely large chest. It even got mentioned that it could easily be a J size chest.
I understand that there will off course be some difference per person in their preference in size. But seeing as a D cup is already considered "big" where I live, a J size would be considered insane. Hence my question: Why are anime girls often depicted with a huge chest?
Is this just another part of the culture gap between western countries and Japan? Or does it maybe serve as an additional sales point towards a specific fandom?

Because some people like women with big breasts. As usual, anime exaggerates; it can't just have a woman with big breasts, it has to have a woman with ridiculously gigantic breasts.
This isn't purely a Japanese thing. Actually, I would argue that it came in origin from American media that were exported to Japan. In the US, large breasts are often considered more attractive. The supposed ideal of American young men's fantasies is 36D-24-36: 36 inches around the chest, cup size D, 24 inches around the waist, 36 inches around the hips (the "hourglass" shape). There are even articles using these three-sizes as a shorthand for the tyranny of societal beauty standards.
The epitome of this standard of beauty in American media is Jessica Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Women with large breasts are also common in American comics:

Anime and American comics both tend to exaggerate everything, so essentially they took a preference for large breasts and massively exaggerated it, to the point that characters have J-cup breasts. (US readers, keep in mind a Japanese J cup is an American H cup.)
Japan gets a ton of American media, so there have been ample opportunities for this American love of big boobs to seep into their culture. My theory is that it started during the US occupation with pinup posters brought over by the servicemen:

Then it was refreshed with every Hollywood movie that came in showing men lusting after women with big breasts.
Speaking of Jessica Rabbit, Cracked has an interesting theory on psychological and evolutionary reasons why animated women with ridiculously exaggerated boobs appeal to viewers. They're obviously a humor website and not a peer-reviewed scientific journal, so take it with a grain of salt.


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Name of the song that Conan played in Season 1 Episode 11: Moonlight Sonata Murder Case
What is the name of the song that Conan played in Season 1 Episode 11: Moonlight Sonata Murder Case at 08:27? Here is the link to the video.

The song is "Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits".


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Who was the One-Eyed King after all?
In the Tokyo Ghoul:re manga, I just got confused at a most critical point. Takatsuki wanted Kaneki to fulfil her wish to 'kill the One-Eyed', but in the end, as far as I can make out, Arima was the One-Eyed King (or was he?). And the next page pictured Kaneki as the One-Eyed King. Can someone explain with references from the manga?

In Ch 86 Takatsuki implies, that Arima was real One-Eyed King (explanation behind the title is glaucoma - Arima was partially blind in one eye). Also, in Ch 89, Tatara also recalls Arima in his memories, and references him as "King". So, it is no doubt, that Arima was real One-Eyed King.
Once title becomes "vacant", Kaneki decides to claim it in the end of Ch 86 (we can suppose, he has full rights for it, since he defeated Arima). I believe, not so many people will question, if he is real One-Eyed King, since only several humans and ghouls were aware of One-Eyed King previous true identity.
As for now, it is not clear, what purpose Kaneki did this for, but this title for sure has some power and influence in world of TG.

I suppose this must be it. Thank you for your reply.


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Why didn't Kurapika manipulate Uvo to tell him all the information about the Phantom Troupe?
I've just started watching Hunter x Hunter (2011) and stumbled upon a question on ep. 47. Why didn't Kurapika use the same power as that "Manipulator" woman who made a certain man become her slave by kissing him (or at least a similar technique)... once he mastered all 5 types of Nen?

Kurapika does not have the ability to use any nen skill regardless of the type. He has the ability to learn any nen skill regardless of type and use it efficiently once has learnt it as if he was that type.  He does not know Baise's nen skill so can't use it.
Her kiss is a specific manipulator skill. There are many different manpulator skills such as the guy fighting with tops you already met.

(This is an oversimplification as I ignore the specialist category and make it sound easier than it is to master these skills)

Thanks. But if he was able to master all those techniques in less than 6 months (most of the training was not controlling or creating those chains but mastering the nen)  why doesn't he learn one that resembles that kiss? I know it won't be easy but he's a prodigy once he achieved such results...

I would if I were him and could. He does have something that seems good enough (do what I say or die with the heart chain thing). Out of universe it was to show how loyal the clearly evil villan was.

Think you're right... that was what the mangaka tried to emphasize at the end of the day.  Great response. Thanks.

Kurapica does not have that kind of ability.
Although he could train to get that since nen is tied to character/personality and his nen ability(Emperor Time) gives him 100% use of every category, which means his personality/character would be able to process anything he wishes to. Which ultimately means it's possible if he spends the time.
Key Word: Time.
Kurapica does not have the time or the luxury to train for another skill. He already has 5 chains with different abilities, which speaks for his immense talent. Therefore those abilities take most of his time, polishing them, mastering them into perfection.
Although he has 100% use of manipulation, there's no indication that he trained for it. One can only assume that Kurapica deemed all the 5 chains more worthwhile than the ability to manipulate people like slaves.


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Are there any other Guinness world record holders?
Recently I stumbled upon a post mentioning that One Piece managed to get a place in the Guinness World Records for most printed comic series by one author ever.
Are there any other manga / anime that managed to place themselves in the Guinness World Records? Or is Eiichiro Oda, with One Piece, the only one so far?

I totally forgot I also mentioned a record in a previous answer of mine. Kingdom, written by most people

And Another one mentioned by zasha faith

No, One Piece is not the only record holder: as shown in this article, "Kochikame Earns Guinness World Record For Most Volumes Published For Single Manga Series" with 200 volumes.

The ones I could find are:
Most comics published by one author: Shotaro Ishinomori (Japan) known as "The King of Manga"
Most strips published for the same yonkoma manga series
Now these are just records that I could find in a short span of time. I am sure theres a section for different manga and comics related records.

There is another I'm aware of, although probably not what you were after: Kochikame for the most volumes published for a single manga series.
In a different category (interesting nonetheless), Yu-gi-oh is the highest selling trading card, and 1995 third volume of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is the highest selling comic magazine. Weird, but fun facts.


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Why didn't Kushina die when the Nine Tails was released from her?
When Tobi came to release the Nine Tails from Kushina, and successfully did, and after Kushina was stabbed by Kurama, why didn't she die?

 When Kurama was extracted from Naruto, Naruto immediately passed out, and would have died if it weren't for Sakura.

She didn't die immediately for the same reason why Kurama, Nine Tails, was put in her in the first place. She inherited her clan's, the Uzumaki, extremely big amount of chakra.

Kushina was eventually told why she had to leave her home of Uzushio and go to Konoha; because of her special chakra, she was to be the next jinchūriki of the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox.

In the statement above is indicating her special chakra.

As an Uzumaki, Kushina was blessed with a strong life-force, granting her tremendous chakra reserves and vitality. This also gave her tremendous stamina, healing powers, and longevity. Ultimately, this trait let her survive the Nine-Tails' extraction minutes after giving birth, and still provided great aid to Minato on the battlefield shortly after despite her heavy exhaustion. Likewise, while still weakened, she did not die immediately from being impaled by the Nine-Tails' claw. Even by her clan's standards, Kushina possessed a powerful and special form of chakra that made her well-suited for becoming a jinchūriki, effectively sealing the entirety of the Nine-Tails inside her and further enhancing her reserves.

The one above talks Kushina's chakra, why she survived the extraction of Kurama, why she was still alive even after Kurama's claw stabbed her, and why she was a perfect candidate to become a Jinchūriki.

The vitality inherent to the Uzumaki clan allowed her to survive the extraction, though greatly weakened by experience, the masked ninja tried to have the Nine-Tails finish Kushina off.

The one above and the second one mention her getting weaker once Kurama was extracted from her.

Uzumaki naturally possess incredibly strong life forces, granting them very long lifespans; Mito Uzumaki was born before the founding of Konoha yet lived well into the reign of the Third Hokage. This also enables them to recover from injuries and exhaustion in short periods of time, enough to survive the removal of tailed beasts, although they are still left near death afterwards. Uzumaki also have the ability to heal and rejuvenate allies by having their allies bite them and suck their chakra. It is dangerous however to use this ability too regularly. At least one member has displayed a unique sensory ability.

The one above is technically saying that the Uzumaki have special traits that let them live more than others, just like Mito, and the ability to heal others, just like Karin. They can also recover from injuries and they can even survive a Tailed Beast extraction but they will be left near death,

 just like Naruto when Kurama was extracted from him.

Kushina didn't die immediately because of her inheritance of her clan (this is the reason why she was still alive). But she did die from Kurama's claw because she was already weakened from his extraction, and the claw opened a bigger wound that was not healed immediately.
Sources:

Kushina Uzumaki
Uzumaki Clan

Her special chairs has nothing to do with why she survived the extraction. IIRC, her special chairs was mentioned as a chairs that enables a stronger than normal sealing jutsu. She survived fully because the Uzumaki has a strong life-force.

@AyaseEri what chairs?

Sorry, chakra. Darn auto-correct.

@AyaseEri good because I was so confused. I had to reread my answer a lot of times and look up definitions of chairs thinking it was some sort of code name for something, but I was wrong.


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How do Ditto breed?
Reading the breeding page on Bulbapedia, I found that Ditto can be used as a substitute during breeding. So, for example if a trainer only has 1 male Pikachu, he can breed Pikachu with a Ditto rather than having to look for a female Pikachu. The result would be a male or a female Pikachu.
Ditto, however, can't breed with other Ditto as said in the same page. Thus, my question is, if Ditto can't breed with other Ditto, then how do Ditto breed, since when paired with non-Ditto Pokemon it resulted in the non-Ditto Pokemon's species?

The same way Mewtwos breed. Mysteriously.

Dittos seem like the sorts of things that would reproduce by binary fission.

There is no official information about how new Ditto are born. Looking at this from the perspective of the video games, Ditto is not the only Pokémon that cannot be hatched from an egg. Most legendary Pokémon, including Mewtwo, Mew, and Shaymin, are unable to breed and cannot be hatched from eggs. There is a noticeable exception: Manaphy, which can breed with a Ditto. The resulting offspring is a Phione, however, which does not evolve into Manaphy. Ditto can also breed with genderless Pokémon such as Metagross.
Now, if we look at the anime, there are some discrepancies in this information. Unfortunately, there still isn't any information on how Ditto reproduces, but if we look at examples of Latios, Latias, and Lugia in the anime, it appears that these legendary Pokémon can reproduce somehow. In the fifth movie, for instance, it is mentioned that the Soul Dew is the soul of an ancestor of Latios and Latias. A baby Lugia named Silver also appeared in the anime alongside its parent.
Concerning Ditto, nothing can be concluded from this discrepancy without conjecture. If I were to draw a conjecture, it would be that the game mechanics are not directly related to the lore, and two Dittos may be able to breed. Although  Senshin's theory that Ditto breed by binary fission also makes some sense.
In case you are interested in theories, you can read about the one that Ditto is a failed Mew clone. In this case, it could be that Dittos are made in a lab and don't need to reproduce.

Possibly useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwxIMjTLJSg


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Next episode preview song in Darker Than Black
For the life of me, I cannot find the song that plays at the end of each episode of Darker Than Black (both seasons, subbed+dubbed) during the next episode preview.
Could someone either provide the name or some way to find it?
Here's a clip of what I'm looking for - https://clyp.it/pxwptiqg.

Have you tried looking through the soundtrack? Also googling lyrics? Perhaps music recognition apps?

There are no lyrics and I spent 4 hours searching every site with soundtrack listings. I'm currently trying a music recognition app, but no luck so far.

I've added an audio clip for reference. The audio recognition app had as much luck as I've had so far.

Are you sure those are official previews? I don't think I remember hearing that, but maybe I always skipped them. Make sure it's not a dub's own thing, coz then you might need to ask the dub crew about the  track.

@Hakase they're definitely official. Both versions are voiced by the correct voice actors. They play at the end of each episode, after the credits.

This is "Water Forest", track #18 from the season 1 OST. Here is a 30-second extract from the beginning of the track: https://clyp.it/i5pumfdi

You are my new favorite person. I could never find this - even after checking the OST. Guess I was looking in all the wrong places ^_^ Thank you! I can sleep now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bAPhU9YSIE
I believe, perhaps. I only did some mild research, and you know it's in the title of the vid.

That's the ending theme song, not the next episode preview song. Thanks, though.


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What happened at the end of Tokyo Ghoul?
I am a bit confused by Tokyo Ghoul season 2's ending. Why was Hide bitten, and by who or what? Was it in that "war"? Or did Kaneki bite him?
And why did Yomo stop Touka when she was running to Kaneki (it was at the moment when he was carrying Hide)? Was it just because he did not wanted to let her be killed? Or was it something deeper?

Sadly, anime sacrifices a lots of plot details from manga in sake of 12ep seasons, so numerous things are just not explained. I've abandoned anime at around half of first season, so I will reference manga as explanation.
In a nutshell, main reason why Yomo stopped Touka was because he didn't wanted her to be killed indeed. He referenced this as "his last job in Anteiku". From all the talking of Yomo in manga Ch. 130, I assume, that main reason for Touka to say alive is that she can keep helping ghouls, who has lost their way in life, just like Anteiku crew were doing before.
Regarding Hide, it was heavily implied in chapters 136-137 of original manga, that Kaneki ate him. But Hide offered this by himself, since he knew that Arima is awaiting for Kaneki (and Kaneki was unable to resist his hunger, since he was in half-kakuja form). Maybe, in anime adaptation, events are slightly different, but outcome is same - Hide sacrificed his life to feed Kaneki, so Kaneki can heal his wounds and restore his power.

In the anime, Takizawa's ending is death by Noro. Hide witnesses that, and gasps, alerting Noro's attention to him. When we next see Hide, he is wounded, meaning Noro attacked him. Unlike the manga, Kaneki had nothing to do with Hide's wounds.
Yomo stopped Touka mostly out of paternal feeling(he is her uncle) but it is a well know fact that Kaneki has severe PTSD, and also well know to the ANtieku crew how much Hide meant to him(Kaneki). So I'm assuming that Yomo wanted Kaneki to have as much time as possible left with his friend, seeing as Hide is dead or dyeing.(Sorry to those who were in denial) It is also apparent throughout both manga and anime that Yomo feels fatherly towards Kaneki, so he may have understood that in times like these, leave him alone. I do agree with lentinant however, he definitely  wants to protect Touka, though his last job was actually the manager's last orders: If I fall, burn Antieku so that none may trace it back to you. Basically the manager had Yomo get rid of the evidence that there were ghouls at Antieku. Hope this helps.

In Root A, there's a scene where Hide walking down a street dying, but not yet dead as you can catch a glimpse of him smiling when Kaneki checking on him. Likely, Kaneki went to the CCG and gave up his life for Hide's medical treatment.

In the anime Hide gets shot. He finds Kaneki outside injured and brings him to the cafe. When Kaneki wakes up Hide and him have a talk just about regular things. Hide then falls to the ground after bleeding, but then smiles and looks up to him. The cafe starts to burn down and they escape. Kaneki then takes him and brings him to where most of the police/ ghoul investigators are and lays him on the ground. After that it looks one of the ghoul investigators (Arima) is going to try to fight him. Its clear in anime that Kaneki doesn't eat Hide, and gets killed by Arima. Thats all I remember but hopefully it helps!

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Why does Kirito have access to Sachi's inventory?
in Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment, Kirito has access to Asuna's inventory, as expected since they married before Floor 75, but also he has access to Sachi's inventory which contains a Teleport Crystal, a Health Potion and the message Sachi left for him for Christmas (can't use it to confirm the message but I assume it's the same one).
Aside from Kirito's attire, everything up until Kayaba disappearing on Floor 75 is based off the anime. So how does Kirito have access to Sachi's inventory? To my understanding, Grimlock only had access to Griselda's inventory after she died because they were already married. Is there another way for a player to share their inventory without marrying them?

I think you have to be in Kirito's room to use that message.

Players that would like to, can setup a shared inventory, separate from a guild storage and different than marriage.
In marriage, your inventories become one, they can see all your stats and inventory items, no matter what. In this, it is a tab that is in addition to your normal inventory. This tab was labeled Sachi.
From a translation of the Sword Art Online light novel:

Charging into my hotel room, I immediately opened the storage box installed in the room, taking from the item window that popped up all the restoration, detoxification crystals and potions and the like. Although these alone could count up a hefty balance sheet, I would not pity it even if all of them were used up.
As soon as I took out a single-handed sword from my collection, confirmed its durability, I took off the sword on my back that I used to fight the ants and exchanged it. Then I also exchanged my leather coat and armor and everything else for new items. When I had finished, I was about to close the window when I saw my inventory and stopped my hand.
There, in addition to the «Self» written there, my own inventory page, was another label that read the name «Sachi».
This is the result of a very good relationship between two players, but one which has not progressed to «Marriage» —such players set their own common items window. This is different from the way that all items in marriage are shared in that only items in this separate window are shared.
Sachi, who had never asked for a confession or to hold hands previously, requested shortly before her death to set up this window. When I asked for the reason, she gave an answer that was difficult to accept, that it was for easily exchanging healing potions and similar items—if this was the purpose, there was clearly already a guild open that could be used for that. But I nonetheless agreed, and set up this window to share only between Sachi and me.
Though Sachi died, this window still remained. Of course, the friend list would also still retain Sachi's name, but it would be a grey that could not be contacted. And the few remaining healing potions left in the shared inventory, these would also not be used. After half a year, even with the guild page deleted without feeling, I was unable to remove the label of Sachi's name. Of course—the reason was not that I believed she could be resurrected—I just couldn't forgive the self that would have been able to feel better after having deleted her name.
I only recovered and closed the window after looking at Sachi's name for ten minutes. It was two hours until midnight.

– Sword Art Online Volume 02: Aincrad, Chapter 4, Part 3


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Where is Maria's "Double Contract" referenced?
I read somewhere that Maria has a "double contract" with her Symphogear.
I searched on the TV episodes, but found nothing. Maybe it has to do with the fact that she can wield two different gears (Gungnir and Airgetlam).
So a few questions:

What is this "Double Contract" exactly?
Why is it special?
Where in canonical material is it talked about?

What you're looking for is GX Zesshoushinai 4, segment 9 「ガングニール、再び４」 "Gungnir, Once Again 4".
Segment 7 ("Gungnir, Once Again 2", two segments prior) is set during the events of episode 4 - Chris watches from SONG headquarters as Maria fends off Garie using Hibiki's Gungnir. This leads her to idly wonder whether she, too, could use other people's gears. Chris imagines up some wonderful things:

In segment 8 ("Gungnir, Once Again 3"), Chris brings this idea up with Tsubasa -or, at least, she tries to, before being shot down. (Tsubasa, too, once had the same idea, it seems.)
This brings us to segment 9. Tsubasa explains to Chris about how only certain relics will respond to any given person's song, and that in general, a person's song will match only one relic. Maria's "double contract" (she says, using the loan phrase ダブル・コントラクト daburu kontorakuto) is an exceptionally rare exception to this general principle.
As you surmise, this has to do with Maria's affinity with both Gungnir and Airgetlam, and is special simply because it's so rare. Why can Maria pull it off? Who knows - no explanation is given. I don't recall any of the keywords having anything to say about this state of affairs.
To wrap up this segment, we get a peek into Tsubasa's imagination:


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How is Maria†Holic shoujo-ai/yuri?
On Right Stuff and Anime News Network it indicates that Maria†Holic is shoujo-ai/yuri but Wikipedia doesn't say this. (For reference, Citrus on the same sites is listed as shoujo-ai/yuri.)
Also, Wikipedia, Right Stuff and Anime News Network have almost the same description which is

Maria Holic revolves around a high school girl named Kanako Miyamae, who is scared of boys and breaks out in hives if a boy touches her. During her second year of high school, she enrolls in an all-girls school hoping to find a female romantic partner. However, her ideal candidate, Mariya Shidō, turns out to be a sadistic cross-dressing boy.

Now sure, the premise might be interesting, a story about a girl getting over her fear of men through dating a cross-dressing guy (going by only what's been quoted) but if there is one thing I really, really, really really really hate it's being lied to about shoujo-ai/yuri, so how is Maria†Holic shoujo-ai/yuri? Are there actually lesbian relationships in it?
NOTE: I ask fully expecting spoilers.

because even he is cross dressing , on the first glimpse people will see 2 normal girl lovey dovey .

@NamikazeSheena but the genres and themes aren't for the benefit of the characters in the story (and unless they break the 4th wall they're not even aware), they're for the benefit of the audience who is reading/watching. it's like saying Bleach is Slice of Life because at first glimpse Ichigo and his friends are normal teenagers, but half of them fight even spirits and dead people most of the time

hmmmm,i'm not good explaining it, maybe if you read Uso Lily you will understand

I've read the manga up through Volume 5, and I would describe it as a yuri comedy. None of the girl-girl relationships are developed in real depth, but Kanako is definitely a lesbian and is only attracted to Mariya insofar as he appears to be a girl. The two of them are not dating and Kanako has no interest in getting over her fear of men; in fact, Mariya's torture probably deepens her fear of men.
Kanako actually spends most of her time in the series chasing/lusting after various cute girls who are bona-fide females, such as her tomboy sempai Ryuken, the rotini-haired student council president, and Mariya's identical twin sister Shizu, who is a girl in disguise as a boy at an all-boys school (and hates men due to her experiences there). The comedy gets steadily weirder and takes over more and more as the series goes on, but Kanako being a lesbian is pretty much her defining trait and she never shows any sign of being attracted to men or of wanting to be.
If you're looking for a deep, romantic story, it's definitely not this, but there is real girl-girl attraction in Mariya-holic, so in that sense it can be called yuri.


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Why was it the Junker that proved to Yumemi that she was "malfunctioning"?
In episode 5 of planetarian, after

 the crab mech blows the lower half of her body off,

Yumemi tells the Junker (or "kuzuya" / 屑屋; I don't know what the usual translation is) that the reason she believed she was slightly "malfunctioning" is that she kept coming to the conclusion that no people would ever come to see her again. So the Junker's arrival did indeed prove her conclusion to be "faulty".
But the Junker isn't the first person since the war to see her, is he? There's a flashback in episode 1 where we see some old guy telling the Junker about how met "a robot" who I think it is safe to say was Yumemi. Judging from his irritation, Yumemi must've been awake (not asleep/charging), so I would think that Yumemi would remember the old guy.
Is this a plot hole? Or, perhaps, a defect of the anime adaptation?
(planetarian being a small and mostly self-contained work, I think it should be possible to identify whether or not this is a plot hole with a good degree of certainty.)

Is this a plot hole? Or, perhaps, a defect of the anime adaptation?

Both. Adaptation-induced plot hole.
The flashback with the old guy is anime-only. No such scene is in the VN and Junker never heard about robot like Yumemi.


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Why could Kakashi and Obito move while Naruto, Sasuke and even Kaguya couldn't?
Spoilers if you didn't see episode 472 of the anime yet:

 In episode 472, when Kaguya changed the environment to the world with high gravity, how come Kakashi and Obito could move while Naruto, Sasuke and even Kaguya couldn't?

I know they all used a lot of chakra fighting each other, but they are on a different level totally, and besides, Obito was half dead, and used almost all of his chakra to find Sasuke and bring him back.

I'm not sure how true this is or not. But when before Obito merged with the ten-tails he used his sharingan to make himself transparent - all attacks pass through him- by transporting to another dimension. So maybe they both used that dimension to free themselves of the gravity since they share it?

The will of fire i believe

My bet is on raw muscle. Kakshi and Obito theoretically would be the physically strongest ones there (especially with Kakashi having the Gates release), being adult males in their early 30s, and extremely fit. As well, those 2 had plenty of time to rest their muscles before that event while naruto and sasuke were fighting. No one there could use chakra to enhance strength either, just simulate or supplement it.

@Ryan Obito is half dead. After using all that kamui and the previous battle.

@Vahn your right, but kamui is a chakra/stamina consumer, not something that breaks down muscle, which is all he needs to overcome gravity. Obito did little phsyical fighting, focusing instead on chakra based fighting. Kakashi did a lot more physical fighting, but also has the first gate. I bet Guy and Lee could walk around in there at an almost leisurely pace without any weights on.

Many have mentioned the plothole part, however this seems to be a case of using a writing device to

 1. Give Obito a heroic death 2. Absolve Obito of his crimes 3. Allow Kakshi to be cool by completing his Sharingan

In Universe Explanation:
This is the explanation written on the Wiki, a typical case of Eleventh Hour Superpower

Obito returns Sasuke and Sakura to the dimension where Naruto and Kakashi are. He watches as Naruto and Sasuke fight Kaguya, their combined powers the only ones capable of stopping her. Aware of this, Kaguya relocates them to a dimension with powerful gravity and pins Naruto and Sasuke down while she attacks with All-Killing Ash Bones. Obito and Kakashi, empowered by a shared memory of their past friendship, place themselves in front of Naruto and Sasuke as shields. Because his odyssey began by saving Kakashi from death by a boulder, Obito decides he must now end things by saving Kakashi's life again: he uses his left eye to teleport the attack aimed at Kakashi away, allowing the attack directed at him to connect. Obito's body begins to crumble and there is nothing anyone can do to save him. He warns Kakashi that he will not be around to save him a third time and places his faith for a better world in Naruto before dying with a smile.

This can be compared to a final push, the rush of adrenaline. Obito and Kakashi pushed themselves to the limit figuring they would die, while Naruto/Sasuke were still hoping to escape the Gravity pull so that they could continue fighting.

Logical Explanation: Naruto and Sasuke had already jumped out of the way of the quicker first shots. Not only did they just expend great energy to move, they were also in terrible positions to attempt to get up. Whereas Kakashi and Obito had not been shot at, or even looked at, they had already stood up and could run. They were also able to freely infuse their chakra while Naruto, Sasuke and Kaguya were using theirs fighting each other. And then there was the mystical BS of Rin grabbing them and pulling them into position
Likely Truth: A plot hole by the writers in order to give Obito a noble death and introduce the idea that their team can somehow briefly help each other from beyond the grave to justify when Obito posthumously gave Kakashi both Mangekyo Sharingan for a temporary amount of time

The only thing that would kinda sort of make sense is adrenaline. Like when a mother lifts a car to save her child type of thing.
Maybe there was some chakra involved, but it must have been mostly adrenaline, although Kakashi's was a bit more believable than Obito's. They are like his little brothers, plus he no longer had the Sharingan, so his energy would haven't have been drained and he is in incredible shape. I mean the way he works out is incredible; mountain climbing with one hand. But I haven't seen Obito do any physical exercising. But it needed to happen in order to get the story to go where they wanted it to, which is the real explanation for how they did it.
I actually came here looking for where the heck did Rin’s spirit come from that pulled them at the last second but with enough time for Kakashi to have a last-minute inner conversation with himself.

Chakra is internal energy; it has nothing to do with physique (muscle, bones, skin, organs, etc.). Ninjas do not train their physical mortal bodies, besides special cases like Lee and Gai. The reason why Kakashi and Obito could move is because they have superior physique compare to Sasuke and Naruto, who have never trained their bodies before. Because gravity increases the weight of everything, chakra cannot help here. The only thing that can help is pure physical strength, and Kakashi had trained with Gai many times and was even able to open the first gate, meaning he is stronger physically.
This is also called the "Container" and the "Water". A ninja's essence is chakra, which is an energy located within the stomach and runs through the chakra network. So, in this case it is the water. The container is the body/physique of the ninja. A ninja does not need a strong body to become powerful, since chakra can be used to increase speed, jumping, power, etc., but remember that chakra does not change the structure of a ninja's body, such as bones, muscle, organs, etc. This is why Gai and Lee train their bodies so that when they open the gates it does not rip them apart. Sakura, for example, uses chakra control.
Kishimoto knows this, but the viewers don't, and he indirectly already confirmed body and chakra are different when he introduced Lee and Gai. Most viewers see chakra as more physical strength and more speed, but they don't realize that chakra and physique/body are completely different categories.
Example. Suppose that one denotes the following:
Level 1: Human Adult Male
Level 2: Bodybuilder Male/Power lifter
Then, an average ninja's body is of level 1, exactly as it was since the day they became able to extract chakra. Most future ninjas learn chakra extraction by the age of 4–7, which is the time they enter ninja school. Before learning chakra extraction, they are just normal humans: no super-strength or anything.
Naruto/Sasuke's body is of level 2, slightly higher even though they have never done training for physique, just because they are talented individuals and have bloodlines/tailed beast since birth.
Continuing the analogy in a similar manner, Kakashi is of level 4, since he trained to open the first gate.
Lee is of level 20, since he trained enough to make muscles, bones and body stronger to survive gates being release up to the sixth gate.
Gai is of level 30, since he can survive without breaking bones up to the seventh gate.
All ninjas can use chakra to directly enhance power/speed depending on their chakra levels and chakra control. Some, like Tsunade and Sakura, have extremely talented control, and are thus able to create similar feats of superhuman strength when they fight. Others like Kakashi are lower tier when they fight in close combat, as seen with his fight against Obito, while Lee and Gai do have stronger bodies, but because they have bad chakra control their increase in physical attributes from chakra enhancement is not similar to Tsunade and Sakura.


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Does Wata no Kunihoshi manga have a continuation after chapter 6, or an anime adaptation?
The manga is called Wata no Kunihoshi (in English, "The Star of Cottonland") and it is a shōjo manga by Yumiko Ōshima.
It's about a kitten girl named Chibi NeKo. I've read all the way to chapter six, and can't seem to find a chapter seven.
Do you have any information at all, regarding the continuation of the series or any adaptations it may have had in animation?

According to Wikipedia, the manga ran for seven volumes and there was an anime film of it. Unfortunately, since this is an older series, the manga was probably never officially released in English. Here's a blog from 2011 asking for an English release, which implies there hadn't been one up to that point. According to this column on Anime News Network, the anime was never released in English.

So there are more MaNgA chapters to Wata No Kunihoshi past the chp 6 that the site MangaHere has currently available???

Yes, there are. Usually a volume contains 6-10 chapters, so seven volumes would mean there are 42-70 chapters. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any evidence the chapters had been translated. My guess is a scanlation group did the first volume and then gave up on it, which seems to happen with a lot of older manga.

I'm so happy to know that there are still chapters out there, would there be any way for me to get the series to get picked up by someone so that all 7 volumes can be completely translated???

Or if anything a place where I can read the RAWS???

You could try getting a Kickstarter going to fund an English release, like was done for Skip Beat. I don't know where you might go to find raws.

A kick starter, and how would it work?

Where can I find a group to pick it up?

I don't know. It's worth asking a separate question to see if anyone knows how these Kickstarters get going. You might also have to do some research on your own to find out.

Man, it's difficult to fully enjoy a series when it hasn't even been completely translated, because it leaves so many unanswered questions and concerns...(  T ^ T)/

Wata no Kunihoshi has a total of 24 chapters, divided in 7 volumes, which were published between 1978 and 1984. There was also a movie, released in 1984.
Fortunately, someone might have heard your request, and chapter 7 got a fan translation just a few days ago (August 10). I'm sure you can find it. Hopefully the rest gets translated too, at some point.


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Why is Seigi's tattoo described as "triggerless"?
On multiple occasions, Seigi's tattoo is described as "triggerless" (this is the wording used on Crunchyroll). The first time we hear this is near the end of episode 1, around 22:08. However, when Seigi is talking with Izzy and Tom on the school roof in episode 2, Izzy tells him that his tattoo is triggered by blood.
It hardly makes sense for a "triggerless" tattoo to have a trigger. What's the deal?
(At first glance, this seems like a translation mishap, since the Japanese word in question is mugen, and I don't know of any way to get from there to "triggerless". But perhaps there's a good reason for this - I've only seen 3 episodes of the anime to this point, so I'm not very knowledgable about Taboo Tattoo.)

The manga refers to it as 無鍵 or "keyless." The anime uses the same term (see the Ep. 3 summary).
As for what these keys refer to,

  There are actually 4 Void Makers and they are the keys to the Tattoo Ruins. It seems that every Void Maker needs a host to become a "key." So apparently Seigi's Void Maker had no compatible host prior to him,  thus making it "keyless."

His trigger however seems to be blood.

I am new to the taboo tattoo series and thus I apologize for the necro.But has this been revealed in the anime yet? Or is your answer based solely off the manga?

@KazRodgers (FYI, unlike on traditional forums, posting comments on questions/answers doesn't bump posts, so you don't need to worry about necro-ing.)

"Blood" explains this in episode 6.

Seigi's Void maker has no other compatible host(For now because of the fact that he's the only known host that is compatible with it).. So that makes it keyless. And the reason why the Void Maker looks like it has a trigger(Blood) because the Void Maker Simply loves blood.. and Seigi uses blood as a trigger(Even though it's not necessary) because he doesn't know how to activate Void Maker without it.. I think


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What is a "gal wife"?
In Ar Tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ceil, when in Tyria's route (well, more being locked into her ends than a separate route), she expresses her desire to be Aoto's gal wife.
Now she's not the first to express wanting to be with Aoto, as Saki numerous times expresses how she would want to marry Aoto in her Cosmosphere. However, in their True endings....

 Saki just has a wedding, wanting a private ceremony, while with Tyria, she's already married Aoto and is wearing something almost like a naked apron (she is wearing panties but I think that's it)

So when Tyria says she wants to be Aoto's gal wife, what does she mean exactly? How is a gal wife different from a normal wife?

My guess, Gal Wife came from Girlfriend Wife. The difference is that while she will become his wife, she will also still act like a girlfriend. Means that they will still go on lots of dates, unlike a normal wife. Normal wife usually at home taking care of things, and rarely have time to go on dates with husband. I think.

The literal translation for that is something along the lines of "young wife", as the original script uses "幼妻" instead of the "gal-wife" expression NISA made up. So she's pretty much boasting that she's going to be Aoto's wife despite being so young-looking.

@Torisuda just a simple mistranslation, because "Gal-Wife" sound better than "Young Wife"

@NamikazeSheena Well, it's not wrong, so I wouldn't call it a mistranslation. It is very weird; it sounds a lot like wasei-eigo, so it wouldn't surprise me if whoever translated the script was a native Japanese speaker and a non-native English speaker. But in the first revision of this answer, it wasn't stated that aquagon's source was the original script, so I asked for clarification. With that clarification, I've upvoted this answer.


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What links "Luluco Space Patrol" and "Kill La Kill"?
In the episode 7 of the show Luluco Space Patrol, a lot of references to the anime Kill La Kill are made:

The planet they are visiting is named KLK (initials for Kill La Kill)
The characters are talking about living fibers and how it is necessary to use special scissors to cut them
Some of the characters from Kill La Kill are present, such as the dog and the white clothes in background
The "big excessive titles" we can see in Kill La Kill are present in this episode:

At 5:20, we can hear the main theme of Kill La Kill
etc.

My question is: what links those two shows? Same editor/writer? What common points link those two anime close enough to  have an entire episode of Luluco dedicated to Kill La Kill?

My question is: what links those two shows? Same editor/writer?

Same everything, pretty much. Both shows are original IPs by Trigger (the animation studio), directed by studio founder Imaishi Hiroyuki, and I assume that many other staff members worked on both shows.
Trigger (or maybe it's just Imaishi) is known to be fond of reference humor - there were, for example, oblique references to Kill la Kill even in Inou Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka de, the latter of which was an adaptation of a non-Trigger IP. Given the opportunity to reference one of their own IPs from another of their own IPs - which means they don't have to tiptoe around copyright issues - the results are what you see in episode 7 of Space Patrol Luluco.
In addition to the Kill la Kill thing in episode 7, there's also Little Witch Academia in episode 8; Sex & Violence with Machspeed in episode 9; and Inferno Cop in episode 11. These three things are also original Trigger IPs.

I'm sorry, but I do not know what the "IP" term means...

In this context, what I mean by "an original IP" is something like "a show and its associated franchise for which intellectual property rights are held [by Trigger]". Likewise, "a non-Trigger IP" is "a show/etc for which intellectual property rights are not held by Trigger". This usage is a bit weird, I'll grant; I think it originates in discussions of video games, where something like "the Mario series" would be called "an IP" (from "intellectual property").

Ho, makes more sense! Thanks for your answer


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What does the piece of paper in chapter 222 say?
On the fourth page of Nisekoi chapter 222, there is a page that shows a stick figure drawing of a girl and boy together in the middle with other girls on top and it's in Japanese.

What does it say and is it important to the Nisekoi story line?

Yes, the piece of paper is very important to the story line. In chapter 220, you'll be able to see what is written on the piece of paper, but here is what it says.
SPOILER

 The prince puts the ring on their fingers, then two angels
 appeared.

 Angel: "Poor prince, let's reunite him with the princess."

 Original: And then, the prince and the princess were brought to heaven.
 The prince and the princess lived in heaven happily ever after.

 Raku (MC) made some changes and it is now like this: Then, the princess
 was revived by the angels. The prince and the princess lived happily
 ever after.

The translation might be a bit different because I translated it myself, but that is what it says and it's the last page of the drawing book. It made Chitoge and Kosaki remember their past. This is shown in the rest of chapters 220 and 221.
Hope this helps.


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How does Nerve Gear work?
When I watched SAO for the second time, I started to wonder: how does Nerve Gear work?
In SAO, you have all five senses with you, and also when you use the Nerve Gear, you close your eyes. So, how is it possible for the nerve gear to do all this?
Lastly, how does Nerve Gear kill someone?

i'm quite sure the NervGear works by reading and interfearing with brainwaves or something which is why the body remains still despite people using the muscles of their body. the second part to your question is explained in the first episode of season 1 in that the NervGear can emit a microwave that fries the brain

In SAO, you have all five senses with you and also when you use the nerve gear, you close your eyes so how is it possible for the nerve gear to do all this?

It connects to your brain, transmitting signals of what you do in the virtual world. You close your eyes because nerve gear transmits visual data too.

NerveGear not only simulates sight and sound, it also simulates taste, smell and even touch. In other words, it can completely immerse players in a virtual world. However, its true potential lies within the fact that it doesn't just send virtual sensations to the user. It intercepts and manipulates the signals sent by the user's brain.

When using NerveGear, all the signals sent by the brain are blocked an processed so that they only affect the avatar in the virtual world. This immobilizes the user's physical body. So there's no risk of running into walls in the real world while playing in the virtual one.
NerveGear only has one method of input. It is shaped like a helmet that covers most of the user's face. Inside, millions of signal units generate electromagnetic waves to stimulate out brains.
Nothing the user "sees" and "hears" in the virtual world actually comes from our eyes and ears. Everything is manipulated directly in the respective parts of our brain used to process each of the five senses.

Lastly, how does a nerve gear kill someone?

It uses electromagnetic waves to "fry" your brain.

If these things are attempted, the signal sensors in your nerve gears will emit a strong electromagnetic pulse...
Destroying your brain and stopping all of your basic bodily functions - basically, instant death.

Image sources: SAO Manga vol1 and 2

I've read the light novels that both the anime and the manga are based off of, and this same information is there as well.

the nerve gear sends fake signals to the brain at a frequency unique the brain frequency. then the nerve gear produces artificial waves to stimulate brain to provide artificial senses as said in sword art online. then the nerve gear sends a "paralyzing" agent  to immobilize the body as to not cause harm to the player. finally the nerve gear sends more waves to put you into a sleep like trance and projects your brain waves on a public database and there you have it sword art online.

Can you cite some sources for this? Some episodes where this was explained or even a wiki page?

the way the nerve gear kills you is by overloading the brain with artificial waves and then disconnecting from the brain simultaneously leaving the brain no time to react therefore overloading the brain and frying it


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Why is Legosi's fur whitish grey
I watched the second season of Beastars, and during his training with Gohin to help Legosi stop craving prey, he has white fur. All the training has to do with predators' instincts. I don't know if I missed it or not when I was watching the show or not. When watching the opening, I noticed he has white fur, specifically the scenes when he's running after Haru and when he is standing next to her in the meadow.

In episode 16, Gouhin cuts Legosi's fur incredibly short at the beginning of his training, making it appear white. The change in appearence isn't shown until the next episode, and the haircut happens halfway through the previous episode, so it's pretty easy to miss.

Ah, alright, thanks for that. Also, welcome ThreadHazard to StackExchange.

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How strong is Magellan?
He was trusted to guard the World Government's maximum-security prison from the most dangerous criminals and pirates from all over the world, he must be extremely strong. The main reason for the mass breakout success was because he was tricked but not defeated.
Is he at par with the Admiral? Or maybe somewhere lower than that?

There is no way to know as One Piece is relative, however there are a few facts that help determine this better.  Also here's a related post: Haki vs.Venom Venom Fruit
No real way to train against being poisoned at Magellan's level of poisons, while some people like Mr. 3 and Ivankov seem to have counter measures. Even Gold Roger died from disease which indicates Haki/fortitude doesn't help against physiological changes.
He jailed and kept in line the world's worst criminals:

Many of Blackbeard's crew including Shiryu, Logia users, and strong Haki users.
Blackbeard (Yonkou) and crew were completely defeated by him. It is also worth noting that Shank's scar was given by Blackbeard before he even got the Yami Yami fruit. 1 Yonkou = Marines + Piratelords per Government's assessment.
Positions are also based on intelligence, career drive and politics.
He spent most of the day in the bathroom as he ends up poisoning his own food which his stomach can't handle. This can be argued as a negative for a position like admiral which is publicly visible.
It was never established whether or not he can use Haki. A lot of fruit users, especially powerful ones, tend to rely more on their fruits like Ace and Kizaru.

You cannot go by status alone to indicate someone's actual power.

 After the great breakout out of Impel Down, he was demoted to Vice-Warden. Probably because of his pride. So based on status alone you would think Hannyabal to be stronger than Magellan, which we know he is not.

 Well he wasn't before the timeskip. We haven't seen either of them after that, so it's hard to say where they stand now.

In the One Piece power system, it is actually hard to say who is stronger in general, since it depends on lots of factors, like who you are up against. For example, Crocodile was much stronger than Luffy, but Luffy still beat him by using the water trick. In my opinion I think he wouldn't be far off the admiral's level, since he beat Blackbeard's crew with just one hydro attack. Actually Magellan's power and ability makes him the perfect guy for the job and wouldn't be a good admiral. He would have a hard time arresting someone without mortally poisoning him.

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To add to this in more government context. Garp is generally hailed as someone incredibly powerful and already noted as someone who should have been admiral and even fleet admiral but was content at Vice Admiral.  Same thing for a lot of positions revealed over time, they dont always equal the strength of the character.  Sometimes they are weaker like Captain Fullbody or Morgan.

Considering that his devil fruit is of Paramecia type, he cannot be on par with admirals. Also it is unknown whether he can change his poison's composition like Coco from Toriko. If he can change then he can be considered somewhat dangerous. If he cannot change then he seems pretty useless as Iva-san had antidote for his poison. He could guard the prison because the prison had many other supporting features to trap the convicts. But that also failed. So he cannot be on same league as Admirals but much lower than them.

it is incorrect to say that a character is powerful or not just on the basis of his/her devil fruit , even paramecia types who know haki are at times at par with those of the logia type . Whitebeard had gura gura no mi ( which is paramecia ) but he was powerful than the admirals !

absolutely correct. can't say anything about that. but magellan didn't show any inclination of having haki. And although it can't be compared on basis of type of fruit, but being intangible is an added advantage which is not there with paramecia.

I would say he is more powerful than Croc (who is a logia) or Gecko and likely some haki users.  I highly doubt he is as strong as an admiral (they are the strongest in the marines besides (sometimes) their bosses and Magellan is in the marines) but you can't just look at the devil fruit. It is strongly implied that Shanks is stronger than an admiral and he doesn't seem to have any devil fruit. Raliegh definitely doesn't and held his own against an admiral. Again, they have haki but Luffy defeated 2 cannon logias without haki.

He cannot be equal as an admiral, knowing that admirals can use Haki while Magellan cannot. He is definitely strong, the fact that he is guarding Impel Down. In comparison, I could he is as strong as a warlord neglecting Haki.

@maseru There is no evidence he doesn't know Haki.  Some fruit users simply just rely on their fruits more, like Kizaru or Ace.  Also his power makes him one of the most dangerous people in the world as even Blackbeard (Yonkou) got his butt handed to him by Magellan.

@Sp0T logia isn't necessarily the most powerful though for it automatically puts you on a higher playing field.  Also Sengoku (Fleet Admiral) was a Zoan type.

@Sp0T To answer wether he can change the poison type, he can.  It was actually stated he has different versions of poisons.  His final version of the poison is an instant kill and can infect/destroy everything it touches including the ground (akin to acid). Also Ivankov didn't have an antidote, he just made Luffy's body go into overdrive to neutralize it. However Shiryu does have an antidote to atleast some of his poisons, as he saves blackbeard with it. http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Magellan

Is he at par with the Admiral? Or maybe somewhere lower than that?

Possibly around the levels of Vice admirals but then again some of the Vice admirals are extremely strong like Issho; now an Admiral.
Again like @PeterRaeves mentioned, position alone doesn't determine the strength. Its relative.

First part is a baseless comment. Please provide support if there is any for this.  As your second part mentioned it is all relative in the one piece world.


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Is "The ravages of time" a romantic manga?
Is the manga romantic? Does it even have a female character?

First, this question lacked of any amount of research. Please consider researching before asking questions, especially for queries that Google or Wikipedia can answer in less than a minute. It increases the load on the server.
Essentially, it's not. It's: Action, Drama, Historical, and Seinen. Of course seinen stories are free to have that element, but it's not a romance-centred manga.

Not sure what kind of question you are asking, but from the plot summary it does not appear to be a romance and also appears to be a chinese comic.

Plot summary from wikipedia:

The Ravages of Time is a spinoff of Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It tells the exploits of Liu Bei, Cao Cao, the Sun family, and other people from that period, from the point of view of the two main characters, Feng and Liaoyuan Huo, whose names collectively form the Chinese title of the manhua.
Sima Yi is the young, unofficial leader of the Sima clan, a highly successful and rich merchant family with strong influence in politics and the economy. Unknown to people outside the clan, the elders have long deferred their power to Sima Yi, believing that he will bring prosperity to their clan, due to his flair for spotting profitable business ventures at a young age.

It also does not appear to have a female in 'The Ravages of Time' chinese comic/manga ever.


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Why did Sabo eat the Mera Mera no Mi fruit?
Does anybody know why Sabo ate the Mera Mera fruit?

I thought Luffy really wanted this fruit because it was the devil's fruit that his brother Ace ate.
Sabo took Luffy's spot in the Colosseum to get the fruit for him.

I believe it was because he dident want other people to have his brother's fruit. As Sabo is a brother aswell, I dont think luffy minds him eating it.

Because oda made him eat it. can there be an answer for this question? I can't find any reason except that that's how oda made his story . or I'm unable to understand the question.

Sabo never intended to get the fruit for Luffy. When he showed up in this arc, his first words were
"I'm not letting you have the Mera Mera fruit, Strawhat Luffy!"
Sabo always intended to eat it, and Luffy was fine with that. Luffy obviously can't eat it himself, he just wanted someone he liked to have it. He left the colosseum very happy, fully understanding that Sabo was going to eat it. It didn't come out of nowhere at all.

hmm yes you're right, seem logical.

Short story: Sabo wanted to eat the Mera Mera fruit because he, as Luffy's and Ace's "brother", to inherit his will(have his spirit live on).
Long story: He ate it because, before the final, he was doing it, because he said. wanted to inherit Ace's will. Well, him and Luffy, according to this statement : "We are the ones who will inherit his will!" Besides, Luffy can't obviously eat it, and who better to come along to eat Ace's fruit, then his second brother Sabo!? Seriously, once Luffy fully realized that Sabo wasn't killed, he would obviously let him have the fruit, since he is Luffy and Ace's best friend/"brother".


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Is Shanks Haki different from other users?
What is Shanks' power? If "Haoshoku Haki" then is it different from other users?
This question came to my mind after rewatching all episodes of One Piece.
Shank's Haki seemed to be different from that of others. When Shanks was going to meet White Beard before the Ace's death, he cracked the wood even though he wasn't using Haki.
Like Luffy, he too needs to use his Haki to effect someone but Shanks didn't use it and  yet everybody on board the ship was affected.

First of all, you need to know what Haoshoku Haki is. It is a rare form of Haki that cannot be attained through training. Only one in a million people have this ability. Though it cannot be attained via training but one who possesses  can master it by undergoing rigorous training.

What is Shanks Power, If "Haoshoku Haki" then is it different from other user?

Now coming to your question, the difference between the 2 events you're talking about boils down to 2 points.
Superiority of Haki - Shanks has a highly superior Haki than Luffy and thus the effect/impact of his Haki would be far greater than that of Luffy's.
According to the wiki,

Oda mentioned in a SBS that Shanks could have knocked out all 100,000 pirates and fishmen opposing the Straw Hats during the Fishman Island Arc with his Haoushoku Haki (Luffy managed to overwhelm 50,000).

Usage of Haki - If you have a look at the wiki,

There have been two ways in which this Haki has been used. The first and most common way is in a quick burst that will knock out those with weaker wills relatively easily. The second method is to release it continuously, which will not only knock out those of weak wills around the user, but also put pressure on the surroundings, actually affecting other physical objects besides living beings.

Luffy happened to use the Haki in quick burst to knock out all the weak willed ones, whereas Shanks opted the second method to release it continuously, which not only knocked out the weak willed users, but all affected the physical object (the ship in this case) in the surroundings. Shanks was in Whitebeard's ship, and thus he had to be on guard always as both of them were the Yonkos at that time.

Thanks @R.J Now I understand why Shanks Haki is different from Luffy. I this case, Luffy needs more hard work...

It seems that the highest level of control of Conqueror's Haki allows the wielder to "wear" it as an aura much like Armament Haki (or maybe it involves a combination of both kinds of Haki.)
It's entirely possible that different uses for Haki exist that are bolstered by being strong in multiple types. A Conqueror who's skilled in Observation Haki could brush an opponent's mind with his aura to determine that opponent's level of willpower, for instance.

Well you're missing a third. You forget reyleigh used his to rescue those prisoners from the bomb shackles around their neck, and even his too. Haoshoku haki, if anything, can "touch" as well. Imagine what experts would be able to use it to accomplish. Could even wreck pirate fleets or cause shattering earthquakes depending on the strength of the user. Shanks already showed a little of that on whitebeard' ship, and I reckon there'd be nothing left of that ship if he were serious. Makes sense why whitebeard had to yell at him "I'm not afraid of you, shanks!"

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How did Diamond Jozu lose his arm?
I have read in the wiki that Jozu's right arm was missing after the war. But I have never seen nor notice it in the anime.
And I can't find the part where he lost it.
So when and how did he lose his arm and who was he fighting with??

Here is a video from the MarineFord War which shows that he lost his arm to Aokiji.
While fighting Aokiji, his attention goes towards Marco and Aokiji takes advantage of this and uses his devil fruit power to make him freeze.

It shows that he was frozen, but I can't see where he lost his arm. Is it when he fell down?

Yep, thats the only thing revealed. Now its upto Oda sensei to answer your question :P

We can deduce that : Jozu's Weight + His Frozen Arm + Gravity = His broken arm :P

I guess that can only be the reason for now. Thanks for the clip.

@NixR.Eyes Look carefully to his right arm instead of his left, it dislogdes the moment he hits the floor. here is the manga occurrence, where you can clearly see his right arm has been separated from his body.

He lost his arms during the Payback war,  a clash between the remnants of the Whitebeard Pirates — under Marco's leadership — and the Blackbeard Pirates about a year after the Battle of Marineford.

Do you have sources to back that up?

I'm not sure what happen in anime but on manga it was pretty clear that Aokiji freeze him and broke his arm.
On The Marineford Arc chapter 568 and 569, when Shirohige down because of his sickness, most of his crew are getting distracted and the marine took an advantage and attack both Marco and Jozu.


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Is there anyone who got their psychic power through science?
On the first episode of To Aru Majutsu No Index, Touma said

Magic is impossible, psychic powers aren't even rare at this city school. Anyone can invent it with the powers of science.

And Touma himself said that he got his power since he was born.
So, is there anyone in Index and Railgun who become an esper using science?
Note: I haven't finished watching Index, but I've watch Railgun, and I don't think there's anyone able to do this.

I don't understand what you're trying to ask here... Almost all supernatural ability users in Academic City are "artificially" created through the Power Curriculum Program of Academic City. Those rare, natural ability users are called "Gemstones."

Really? I don't know about that. Did they explain it in Index? Or am I missing something in Railgun? I only watch about 10 eps in Index

Railgun is specific to the Science Side. Index tends to skew towards the Magic Side, but there is overlap.

Most psychic powers are created by science. Normally, an Esper doesn't have a special ability and only gains it by experiments, special drugs etc. See Power Curriculum Program for more information.
There are some (at the moment 4 known of which only 3 occur in the original works) people who have esper-abilities without being part of the Power Curriculum Program, called Gemstones. The only one that occurred in the anime yet is Himegami Aisa (appeared in Index Episode 7 (Deep Blood Arc)).
Touma himself has no psychic power, his power is of unknown source.
Thanks to Krazer for mentioning the Gemstones in the comments.

Touma's power isn't considered an psychic power because he doesn't emit an AIM field which espers and gemstones  do.


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What exactly is a guild mark?
All guild members have a mark of their guild, what exactly are they? Is it just a regular tattoo or is there some kind of magic contract?

I'd go for a magic contract since, when the tatoo disappears, it becomes some kind of magic dust

Guild Mark is a kind of magic contract which is printed magically on each guild member. It helps in identifying a mage's guild.
Sometimes it can be used to perform group magic, for e.g., during the Tenrou Island Arc the members of Fairy Tail combined their power against Acnologia to defend against its attack.
Also, during the Grand Magic Tournament Mavis says only those having the Fairy Tail guild mark are able to see her.

thanks for the edit. guess still unable to form sentences properly. English isn't my first language.

debal: u seem to know a lot about anime so i was wondering if you could tell me whether fairy tail is as good as one piece, naruto or bleach?

all I can say is I like each of the mangas you mentioned along with Fairy Tail. If you look at the popularity of these manga, you will see they are all very popular, so a large audience must feel that they are good. Apart from that its completely your taste. :)

well, if the main character is an underdog who develops over time then I'm definitely gonna like it.

but be prepared for some hardcore nakama power and plenty of fan service. mashima is the only artist to not compromise on these two points.


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Where was Shukaku when Naruto was taken to the Bijuus' Deep Psyche?
At the start of Naruto's fight with Tobi during the Fourth Shinobi World War, Naruto attempted to remove the chakra stakes from the bodies of the Bijuu (tailed beasts), and was taken into the Bijuus' Deep Psyche, where Bijuus and Jinchirikis were present.
However, the following were missing:

Son Goku, whom Naruto had already met, had been absorbed by Tobi into the Gedo Mazo.
Gyūki, who was still inside Bee.
Shukaku. I have no clue of his whereabouts, and I don't remember he joined the fight. Where was he?

If he had been present there, Naruto could have taken the chakra from Shukaku, and used it for the "tug of war" that he got into later during the Juubi Revival arc.

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The images are blank, but I have a fair idea of what you are talking about, so I answered the question. Nonetheless, it would be good if you fix those images for benefit of other readers.

It would help if the number (or name) of the episode was included in the Question.

@hardmath I added some context to help identify what the question is referring to. However, I will let the OP fix the images.

May have simply not turned up due to being a complete arsehole

Shukaku remained sealed in the Gedo Mazo. It was the only Bijuu that Tobi did not reseal into its (reincarnated) former Jinchuriki, for his version of the Six Paths of Pain technique. He needed only six Jinchuriki-Bijuu pairs for this technique, while Akatsuki had sealed seven into the Gedo Mazo, so someone had to be left behind.
Moreover, Shukaku's known former Jinchuriki, Gaara, was still alive. Its previous two Jinchurikis were failed experiments according to Chiyo, so Tobi/Kabuto may have decided it was not worth the trouble trying to reincarnate them with Edo Tensei.
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Does the chunin exam ends with only one winner?
In the anime, they had a sheet where the participants' names were written for the finals of the chunin exam.

If Orochimaru along with the sand and Sound ninjas, had not attacked Konoha during the chunin finals, would the exam finish with one winner by having 2 semi finals and a final after the Gaara vs Sasuke match?

It is explained by Sandaime Hokage that, though there is one winner of the tournament, it doesn't guarantee that he will become a chunin.
He also explained that there can be more than one chunin from an exam and there can be none too.
If there was only one chunin per exam, it would have been impossible for all  of Naruto's friends to become chunin after his 3 years of training with Jiraiya.

Additionally, I am pretty sure you can become a Chuunin if the higher ups accept it (hokage + village elder). You can definitely become Jounin if your teacher suggests and the Hokage allows it (ie Minato).


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Were there ever plans for a "Bastard!" TV series in Japan?
Bastard! Is one of my favorite OVA series, and I've even read some of the manga. From what I can gather, an OVA series is either a precursor to or a result of a TV series of lower quality. Was there ever a plan to make such a series based on the manga?

http://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3806/what-happened-to-the-last-two-bastard-ovas might help

Only those involved will know if it was ever intended to have a tv release, but I imagine it probably was initially aiming for such.
After testing the waters with the OVAs, they presumably didn't move forward with any plans to that extent as the OVAs did very badly and didn't even finish production.


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Who was the Supporter of the Seleção in Eden of the East?
It seems like this was never really addressed. This piqued my curiosity primarily because the supporter was stated by Mr. Outside to be one of the Seleção, and it seemed odd that one of the Seleção would willingly facilitate the game by enforcing its rules. Furthermore, the Supporter would have nothing to fear from breaking the rules of the game, so it would seem logical for him/her to pocket the money and do with it as he/she pleases. So that would seem to indicate that the Supporter is someone in league with Mr. Outside.
But who was the Supporter? All the evidence seems to indicate that it was Number XII, but can anyone confirm this?

Technically, every player in the game is the supporter, and every player is not.  Because the concept that a player may be officially designated the supporter would create a situation of impunity (who watches the watcher?), and players are told that even the supporter may not know that is there role, it makes much more sense that the players all can fulfill this purpose.
There is a point at which one player will look at the actions of another and feel they are self-serving, and decide they need to put an end to them.  They may try to confront the other party, use their funds to hinder or redirect them, or destroy their efforts.  But in the end, if they come to believe they have a moral out in the role of the supporter, and virtually unlimited funds to get them out of the legal trouble, the societal justice impulse could kick in, and they may kill the player.
There is also a possibility, based on the nature of Juiz, that Juiz may also help fulfill this role.  There may be certain conditions or thresholds that will trigger actions by the long arm of the concierge to take actions against misguided players.  This is not evidenced (that I can remember), but it is also possible that Juiz may indirectly responsible for a player acting in the role of the supporter, by ensuring that actions that would trigger them to retaliate will come to their attention.
Alternatively, self-serving players may be fed information that will cause them to act offensively to another, instigating retaliation from the offended by the information they, in turn, are delivered.
Also, keep in mind that a player overtly acting as the supporter would be seen as a threat to every other player, and would almost certainly become a target themselves, since transactional data becomes public upon use.
All theoretical, but there may be something there.  Pleasure to serve.  Nobelesse oblige.

Nice theory. Paranoia is the best the threat to keep the players in check.

Sadly I don't think we'll ever have an official answer, but this theory is so well-thought out I have to accept it! I never even considered the possibility of Seleçao being coerced by Juiz into taking others out, but it makes perfect sense.

The supporter is never revealed because there might not have even been one. When No.9 was given a phone he is told by Mr. Outside that "the supporter might not even know he is the supporter".

It's not confirmed who the Supporter is, it's left open to interpretation. It's possible that it's Seleção No. 8, since we don't know much about him (or No. 7) but at least No. 8 seems to be familiar with Mr. Outside. It's possible that Mr. Outside is the Supporter, being the one who judges is the money was used correctly or not.
But seeing as how it was revealed that Hajime Hiura actually wasn't killed by the Supporter in the The King of Eden movie and that the "proper" use of the money can seem to be anything (including covering up murder or firing missiles at Japan), it's possible that there is no Supporter and it was just something Mr. Outside made up in order to keep all the Seleção in check and suspicious enough of each other so there would be no collusion.

The supporter could be 7 or 8 as they are never seen doing anything or Mr. Outside AKA no. 12 (AKA Ato Saizo) could be the supporter. Most likely he just would wipe the memory of the person. At the end of the game he does wipe all the other alive player memories but 9 keeps his possibly due to him already having wiped it twice. Then he asks the next person he picks up the question he uses to select them. Then 9 hits him with a slipper (lol)

It is Juiz. No. IV, in episode 3 was sabotaged by juiz making sure the text message went to his wife instead of his mistress.


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What is the gender of Chrona of Soul Eater?
Well, I picked this manga when I saw that its publication ended, but after few chapters I noticed that Chrona gender changed! (No, not the litteral) So, is this intended of the author, or I just missed some translator note somewhere?

I know certain translators had notes or note pages at the end of their chapter stating they're only going to refer to Chrona in a specific pronoun since there was no foreseeable sign of knowing. Others simply stuck with "it."

Chrona's gender was never revealed in the Japanese Soul Eater manga. There is evidence for both genders but not enough for either to make any conclusive statement. The creator has been asked what Chrona's gender is, but never answered.
In Japanese, this isn't hard to do. Most pronouns aren't gender-specific. While Chrona does use boku (僕) to refer to him/herself, which is a fairly masculine pronoun, it is sometimes used by females as well. However, in English (and many other languages), it's awkward to try to avoid using any gender-specific pronouns. The various different versions of Soul Eater in English use different pronouns, but all of these were added by translators and not present in the original version.
The official Japanese Soul Eater site confirms that this is not known:

性別は不詳。

which literally translates to "Gender is unknown".

@Braiam I don't see what you consider a spoiler in the above. It certainly doesn't reveal any future plot points from the story. In any case, you may want to read our policy on spoilers.

@Braiam its not a spoiler, crona's gender holds no specific plot points (maybe some jokes will be less funny) but dont see it as a spoiler

In the anime Crona is exclusively referred to as a "he."  However, in the manga "his" gender is purposefully kept unsaid.

Could you state if this is from the original Japanese, official English-translated (if exists), or fansub/scanlation?


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What is the technology level in the Naruto universe?
I think I will poke a plot inconsistency here.
Since the first chapter, you can see Naruto using what seems to be plastic googles, his clothes are made of seems to be synthetic fiber clothes. You can see that the village have video tapes (which also suggest the knowledge of electricity) and radios. They know the internal combustion engine, going by the mission to protect the bridge designer, in which they prefer not using the engine because it makes noise.
But later, or more like in all the plot, there seems to be instances where this technology could be used, like sending messages between villages/members, or setting up vigilance, but are not used.
Why is that?

technological inconsistency are almost similar to all mangas. also some things are added by anime team to make more authentic which are not present in manga.

It's over 9000.

@Sp0T that's a gross generalization

Hayenn's answer is pretty much definitive, but I'd say Naruto falls into the category of schizo tech.  It picks up and uses modern/advanced technologies seemingly at random, or avoids them simply for the sake of the plot (as the interview in Hayenn's answer indicates, military techs were avoided so that Ninjas were still relevant) and blends it with older techs.

Here's an extract of Kishimoto's interview

Konohagakure no Sato Guns and vehicles shouldn't be drawn.
A: Well, well, we reach the final keyword. The main stage of "Naruto", "Konohagakure no Sato". To you, what image do you have of this
  place? For example, was it modeled on the scenery around your parents'
  home in Okayama?
Masashi Kishimoto: That's right. To be honest, I didn't think much about this, and got
  a lot on my inspiration there. Maybe it was subconsciously modeled on
  Okayama's scenery.
A: What kind of time period did you set it in? If it was in the distant past, then covenience stores wouldn't be there...
Masashi Kishimoto: It's not really any different to present-time. Though possibly a
  little in the past, maybe?
A: What kind of place is it? Is it Japan? If so, what prefecture...?
Masashi Kishimoto: It's a completely original place. I didn't set it anywhere. A place
  inside my own head... If anything, the climate and topography resemble
  that around Kyoto. As I've never been to Kyoto, it's my own image of
  it. (laugh)
A: What material did you use for it?
Masashi Kishimoto: I like Japanese culture, and since I studied it, I used a lot of
  material from that. Crests and folding fans... I often look at
  Japanese-style gardens and watch Kabuki.
A: Do you have any rules about what is definitely not allowed to be drawn in the "Naruto" world?
Masashi Kishimoto: Firstly, projectile weapons such as guns aren't allowed. (The one
  exception is Inari's bowgun.) Guns aren't suited to ninja. Gunpowder
  is used in the anime, though I don't think it should be there. And,
  vehicles such as aeroplanes are not allowed. I try to restrain
  technology that can be used for war... For example, if missiles were
  in it, it'd be the end. (laughs)
A: Well, thank you very much for everything today.
Masashi Kishimoto: Thank you very much!

And from Shonen Jump

Shonen Jump:Your work seems to have a science fiction influence.
  Approximately speaking what is the technology level in the world of
  Naruto?
Masashi Kishimoto: Actually, the world of Naruto doesn’t differ very
  much from our present time. TV, refrigerators and air conditioners
  exist in the world. The only exceptions are weapons and explosives,
  which I’ve decided to set in a much earlier era. That’s why you don’t
  see firearms.

So, everything that would pose a military advantage over the enemy is restricted, noted.

The only exception is the fifth movie, when suddenly ninjas from the land of the sky fly over konoha and fire from their kunai-guns.

For example, if missiles were in it, it'd be the end., well, one of Nagato's path, the cyborg, uses missiles during the invasion of Konoha.

Given they have walkie talkies and motion pictures and the level of engineering to build relatively modern bridges, as well as the tools Orichimaru uses I would argue they have a level of technology equivalent to the early 1900s roughly before the space race.

For sending messages between villages, they will be needing a satellite for communication, but this level of technology doesn't exist in their world.
From how much I have read and watched Naruto, their technology is somewhere around 1940s of our world. Short range radio devices, basic combustion engine, but not that advanced.
It is because there is a difference in their world and ours. In our world when wars (World War I and II) happened, we concentrated on developing science and technology, whereas they developed ninja manpower and ninjutsu for the war.

I feel like we can’t really judge it from our standards. They’re a completely different universe with different needs and knowledge. Something we think is necessary in our world, they might not need. Things like bridges and transportation might be necessary, but things like phones might not if there are other ways to communicate (trained birds, or using different kinds of abilities that don’t exist in our world.) We also don’t really see the daily lives of normal civilians, mostly ninjas who are all about tradition and heritage, so what they have in their houses might not be what common people have.

I believe that the Naruto series is set in a post-apocalyptic world, where nuclear weapons and the influence of a re-created Soviet Union destroyed the world's economy and led to World War 3. That's why the Hidden Rain looks like a destroyed version of an American city (actually, it is all that remains of New York).

Do you have any credible sources to back this assumption up? Fact based answers are preferred here, instead of  fan based theory's


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If the "Truth" didn't exist, would that mean that feats such as Human Transmutation would work?
In FMA Brotherhood, It is said that Truth watches over all alchemic exchanges in the world.
The entity at the Gate calling itself Truth:

My question is if Truth didn't exist would impossible feats such as Human Transmutation be possible? Would such a thing be possible?

I am nowhere close to 100% sure on this, but Truth, I think, while overseeing all alchemical exchanges, punishes those who attempt human transmutation, by dragging them through the gate and taking from them something they value (Ed's leg, Al's body and so on). Since a human's soul is still priceless in Alchemy, it will still not work, but without Truth, the one who attempts it will not be severely punished. All my humble opinion, though, don't hold me to it.

Probably the anime/manga itself wouldn't exist :P

Resurrections, a method of human transmutation, only has a problem with the soul. Since it is gone, you cannot call it back. Think of it like a chemical change, e.g. burning paper, you cannot restore it. The only real successful attempts of human transmutations are the homunculi though, but they still need souls too. To make up for the lack thereof, they run on Philosopher's Stones, which incidentally is made from trapped souls.
So Human Transmutation is possible. Just not all methods will achieve desired intent.
This is really simplified from memory of the show but should get the point across.
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Alchemy is still used medicinally. You could argue that without Truth punishing people attempting to reclaim souls that at best they would just craft human shells or fresh corpses (as weird as that sounds). Remember, this is basically high-speed 3D printing.

Your answer is perfect. Just the answer I was looking for.