Why did the "until we graduate" provision enter into the ending of OreImo?

In an interview, FUSHIMI Tsukasa (the author of the light novels) was asked for his comments on the following:

12巻は全体的に美少女ゲーム（ギャルゲー）を意識した構成になっていて、原点に帰った印象を受けます。
I felt that volume 12 [the last volume] was written in a manner informed by galges. It felt like a return to the way it originally was.

Fushimi responded:

そうですね。狙って１巻っぽいシーンを書いています。すべてに決着をつけて禁断の道に突っ込むという痛快な物語は、電撃文庫で、直接描くのは、とても難しいですし、桐乃を幸せにするエンドにしようと決めた以上、彼女の今後には、可能な限り良いレールを敷いてやらなくてはいけないし……非常に悩みました。結果は、読んでいただいたとおりなのですが、再読する方向けに、蛇足ながらコメントさせていただくと、
・「完全なる桐乃エンド」
・「最初の人生相談と同じように、兄妹は、二人だけの秘密を抱えて終わる」
１２巻は、そんなお話です。
I guess so. I wrote so that it would have scenes that felt like those in volume 1. With Dengeki Bunko [Fushimi's publisher], it was very difficult to write a thrilling story in which they settle everything and head down a forbidden path. I was sure I would give Kirino a happy ending, so I did my best to set up as good a situation for her as possible, for the sake of her future. I found it very difficult to do so. It ended up the way you read it [in volume 12], but if I were to add a few unnecessary comments for those readers who are reading it for a second time, I would say:
"A Completely Kirino Ending"
"The story ends with the two siblings sharing a secret, the same way their first life-advice-talk [jinsei soudan] began."
That's basically what volume 12 was about.

In another interview, Fushimi was asked:

すでに最終巻を読まれた読者には既知の結末になるんですが、エンディングに向けての展開はどういう風に決めていったんですか？
The ending [of the anime] will probably come as a bit of deja vu to those who have already read the novel. How did you decide how the story would reach its end?

Excerpted from Fushimi's reply:

[...]桐乃の想いが完全に報われる結末が[...]ひとつもなかったんです。普段表には出さないし、いろいろな事情があって、分かりやすい形で書いてあげることもできないけれど、彼女がとても主人公のことを想っているのを、僕は知っていたので、何とかしてやりたかった。[...]
In the main story [as contrasted with the PSP game], I couldn't write an ending where Kirino's affection is truly and entirely rewarded. Various circumstances prevented me from plainly writing that sort of ending. Nonetheless, I realized that she cared deeply for [Kyousuke], and so I felt I had to do something for her.

Fushimi's comments strongly suggest that he wanted to write a different ending - presumably a more "taboo" one in which Kirino and Kyousuke remain in a relationship - but was prevented from doing so by his publishers. Hence the "until we graduate" provision.


What's the significance of the 'w' finger position in Elfen Lied?

It's likely to be a homage to the work of El Greco, who used this hand symbol in his various works.
Like this one titled The Gentleman with His Hand at His Breast

or Christ Carrying the Cross

The meaning of this gesture is subject to much debate...
Some hypothesis indicate that:

The hand gesture is a secret sign indicating that the gentleman is a Marrano -- a crypto-Jew who accepted Christian baptism in order to remain in Spain after the Catholic Kings' order of 1492 that all Jews leave Spain;

The gesture indicates a Loyolan/Jesuit spirituality that calls for the sinner to place his/her hand on their chest after committing a sin as a sign of moral pain. Both of these theories have been discussed at length in academic circles without, however, formal acceptance of either, though at least one academic allows that the hand "assumes the function of an important communication, a personal avowal."


Why is the kamehameha so widely used? Is it the best ki blast beam?

Well, the answer to the same would be very opinionated and not factual. Some of these may be interesting reasons why the same is popularly used.

Toriyama wasn't sure as to what to name his Kame attack and it was his wife who came up with the same and it was named after the Hawaiian King.
Also, the same attack is very iconic and it was introduced  even early in the Original Dragon Ball Series by Master Roshi which was immediately mastered by Goku in a few seconds. Unlike the other mentioned attacks.
Also, this attack has always been considered as a signature move of the main character Goku.
The Dragon Ball Franchise is indeed very popular and even those who haven't watched the franchise have an idea as to who Goku is. Hence it makes a lot more sense for people to remember the signature move of the main character.
Another fun fact is that Akira Toriyama did a lot of different poses until he finally decided on something which he considered cool and I think the hand movement made while launching this attack is also very iconic and popular and emulated by a lot of Dragon Ball fans. Hence this attack is easy to identify by simply looking at the hand movement which is probably why it is used a lot.

Source: Dragonball Wikia - Kamehameha


Based on the limited information provided, my best guess is that you are looking for Kaleido Star:

  Sora Naegino, a young Japanese girl with a great talent for acrobatics, comes to the United States in hopes of auditioning for the Kaleido Stage, a world famous circus which has mesmerized her since childhood.


Why do anime characters stand on telephone poles all the time?

The reason the characters stand on poles mostly have to do with the scene being either dramatic or to make the scene look "cool".

This trope is known as "I Have the High Ground":

  Supernatural, magical, or just plain awesome beings know there's no better place to be effortlessly standing on than tall and usually thin objects, be they pine trees, lampposts or the nearest available tall building. This is flying for people who cannot fly. Or even the ones who can.

  Less about true strategy and more about looking cool. Expect Dramatic Wind (actually, wind speed increases with altitude, so wind that seems dramatic to those on the ground is ''normal'' at high altitude). In anime and manga this has become a choice dramatic entrance for villains, introduced via a panning away of the camera from a completely every day scene (see example 1), or the aftermath of a dramatic event, to reveal that said villain was watching all along, and provide a nice segue for the next part. Example

As is mentioned on the page:

  This seems to have originated from training techniques that involved standing on bamboo; see, for example, the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Teen Titans examples. This is common in Wire Fu movies

Hence, there is no particular show which sparked the pole standing, but rather its gradual adaptation into the anime world taken from real life Martial Art practice techniques, which became ever so popular and a regular occurrence because animation tends to increase the dramatic effect and make it scenic as compared to shows/movies, where the characters would (probably) look weird rather than cool, unless it's directly related to Martial Arts.


Is it explained anything about what turned the cellphone-microphone into a time machine? (not how it is operated)

I think the original visual novel goes into more detail on this.  Basically, time travel in Steins;Gate universe requires the use of a black hole. Sern is able to create them (though very tiny ones) using their large hadron collider (this was theorized as possible in real life with CERN's LHC, though I'm not sure if that theory was ever proven or disproven.)

So basically, the explanation for the phone microwave was that by lucky accident, they created their own particle collider. Remember one of the key components of their phone microwave was the large CRT television in the downstairs shop, which they referred to as the "lifter" as in ion-propelled aircraft. Cathode ray tube televisions function by shooting a beam of electrons at the screen, and thus they handwaved it to be the same as the beams of particles used in the LHC (obviously it's not). Also, as to how this combined with the microwave to create mini Kerr blackholes was as I recall unclear.

The time-leap machine was not a separate machine, but an addition to the phone microwave, that converted memories into data that was sent instead of a normal SMS. This was even more handwave-y because there's no way all a person's memories could be contained in the small number of bytes being sent by the phone microwave. They excused it by the blackhole physically "compressing" the data, as I recall, which is a very fundamental misunderstanding of how data compression even works. The black hole's "compression" effect was also what was turning matter that went into the black hole into green goo.

Anyways, that's my recollection, since I was unable to find very good resources on it, and I'm not about to replay the visual novel right now to jog the memory.


What is the name of the song in episode 19 at roughly 12 minutes?

If you're referring to the OST that starts playing while we see a shot of schoolchildren at the swimming pool, it's まったりとした日常 (Mattari to Shita Nichijou), which you can listen to a preview of on iTunes.


Do Isaac and Miria ever get confronted by law enforcement?

Some undercover cops over hear Issac talking in the Alvaere about their various crimes (in 1934) and asks him and Miria to come see a show at a nearby building. Issac asks Miria to go fetch his wallet, and then tells the police officer to go ahead and arrest him. Due to being in the middle of Martillo territory with a lot of the gang glaring at them, they decide to only arrest Issac instead of making a scene trying to capture Miria, who is then sent to stay with Jacuzzi's crew at the Genoard vacation manor to lay low until the charges against her are dropped, where she remains until she goes to meet Issac after his release.

Victor pulls some strings and agrees to drop the charges against Miria and give Issac a reduced sentence if he'll help them with Huey at Alcatraz. Since Firo agreed to go to prison in exchange for Victor not pursuing his vendetta against Ennis for devouring his friend (and being involved with Szilard's schemes), they decided not to use Issac and he simply did his time (3 1/2 months), and was released, and then he and Miria had a clean slate.

Due to the ridiculousness of all the crimes, the only crime Issac was actually charged with was robbing the Genoard mansion.


What, if anything, was the early 90s anime creativity crisis?

I don't know where you heard about a creativity crisis but in the early 90's there was indeed a huge crisis which weakened the anime industry for a few years, along with a lot of other industries: an economic crisis.

In the world, we more-or-less refer to this crisis as the "Early 90's recession". In a few words, it was a massive and worldwide economic crisis which started after the market crash called the "Black Monday" (Monday, October 19, 1987 to be exact).

In Japan, they specifically call this period the "Lost Decade" (sounds like an anime event, right?). I don't think economics courses interest you here so I'll just show you how hard Japanese growth crashed.

So, to summarize, Japan had huge economic troubles during that time, so it's normal that both anime quality and quantity were seriously harmed.
As this article explains, even if the number of television anime gradually recovered, because of these economic issues the whole anime industry has never recovered the greatness of the 80s.

  A slump in advertising revenue, a lower birthrate and the popularity of others forms of entertainment like video games and cell phones have led to sluggish prime time ratings and a decline in the number of anime since the peak in 2006.

I add that the death of Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy) during this period could have contributed to that "creativity crisis" you were talking about.

  To go further :
  - Osamu Tezuka
  - Black Monday
  - Lost Decade
  - Japan's GDP
  - The struggle of the anime industry


Where can I find Durarara!! Vol 1 novel in Japanese language?

If you want to purchase the Japanese version of a light novel volume, manga volume, or anime disc that was released relatively recently, Amazon Japan is almost sure to have what you're looking for.

Since you know at least some Japanese, you can just search the site for it. Unless you want to use a proxy-shipping service, you will want to find products that ship internationally, which you can do by filtering your search down to "AmazonGlobal対象" products. Upon doing so, you will find that a print version is available here, and also that a Kindle version is available here, which may be cheaper overall. (But note that I've had issues with Kindle purchases from Amazon Japan - the various country-specific versions of Amazon don't share information about your Kindle purchases with each other, which seems to cause problems with some Kindle devices/apps.)

Depending on what country you live in, there may be other options that are cheaper, more convenient, or both. For example, if you reside in the US, Kinokuniya USA will ship basically any anime-related thing to you (more convenient), but charges a fairly hefty markup for it (not cheaper).

Durarara!! and most other light novels are generally unlikely to be found for free from any legitimate vendor, though occasionally the publishers will upload the first chapter or two online for free as a sampler.


After stopping Yami in her Darkness Mode, how long did it take for Lala to recover her teenager body?

22 manga chapters, anime unknown

In the manga, Lala uses her tail beam and becomes a child in Chapter 44, "Power and Power ~Protector and Protected~".

It was actually pretty hard to track down when she gets her sexy adult body back, because her child body bears an incredible likeness to Momo, Nana, and Yami in certain scenes, especially when they're naked, which they frequently are, because it's To-Love-Ru. This made it necessary to read a lot of the context, which slowed down a casual scan. But Lala's growth back to her usual body is the main plot of Chapter 66, "Delight ~Growth of Body and Heart~". So it takes 22 chapters.

There's no clear sense of how much time passes in-universe between these two chapters, but once Lala starts growing, it takes her about a day to grow back to her original body, as stated by Peke at the beginning of Chapter 66.

I haven't watched the anime of Darkness, but according to Wikipedia, Lala is still in her child form as of the third episode of the most recent series, the 2016 OVA To Love-Ru Darkness 2nd, so it's unclear when the anime will have her regain her adult body.


How does Killy's weapon in Blame! universe work?

This kind of weapon also appeared in Knights of Sidonia by the same author. KoS's Wikia page has slightly more information regarding Gravitational Beam Emitter a.k.a. Graviton Radiation Emitter:

   The Graviton Radiation Emitter (sometimes called the Gravitational Beam Emitter) is a futuristic technology conceived by Ochiai, and first used by the chimera Kanata.

   The first Graviton Radiation Emitter was grown into the chimera Kanata, installed as his right eye. Grown using Gauna placenta, it is strongly hinted that the structure of the emitter was grown from the second Placental Hoshijiro, and then installed into Kanata.

   After the Mizuki's shakedown cruise, construction of the second and third Graviton Radiation Emitters was completed. Made entirely from mechanical parts, they no longer relied on placenta for their construction.

But the two series are, to my knowledge, not related; Tsutomu Nihei probably just recycled the same conceptual weapon.

Since this weapon is so blue-sky theoretical, there's no way there's gonna be a scientific explanation about its workings for the coming centuries or even millennia. There is a related discussion on Physics.SE which you can peruse at your leisure.


Loss of shinobi abilities after overusage of Mangekyou Sharingan

I was also wondering for a bit as well as I do know that it eventually makes the user blind which leads them to snatching the eyes from a blood relative Sharingan user. Whether that impacts their abilities is something I wasn't sure of.

But, fret not, now I am!

Once Mangekyou Sharingan has been awakened, it grants them a lot nice extra's, but also the negative effect of turning blind over time. As far as I could find, the only negative effect is blindness, meaning that they retain their abilities from their eyes. Of course, it might be a bit difficult to cast Amaterasu accurately based on the sound of footsteps when you're blind, but that is essentially what is possible.

When they awaken the eternal variant, they can unlock eventually what they had with their original eyes. Meaning that in the end, they gain a lot more.

So in short to answer your question, no, you don't. You only lose your sight unless you have the eternal variant.

Source: Naruto Wikia - Mangekyō Sharingan


Attack on titan chapter 79: possible flaw?

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


Is there any official picture of "Ultra Blue" Vegeta?

Ultra Blue is not an official name. It's just similar to Goku's transformation being called as "Limit breaker" etc, in the early stages of the tournament of power before the Ultra Instinct was mentioned. As for pictures, one picture like you said is at the end of the DBS ending which looks different from a traditional SSJB transformation. Also, if you were to look at the final shot in the preview of Episode 123, Vegeta's hair appears to be Darker than the usual SSJB color. It was stated by Goku in the preview that Vegeta wakes up with a power beyond Super Saiyan Blue. It is very unlikely this is the supposed "Ultra Blue" transformation, however, it perhaps could be a starting point for the same.


How many alien races have a name in Dragon Ball?

The list of races is rather extremely huge, so please do have a look at the wiki which sums most of them up. Do note that "humans" are referred to as "earthlings".

A few major common ones are:

Android
Angel
Demon
Demon Realm race
Dragon
Earthling
Frieza race
Majin
Namekian
Saiyan
Shinjin
Tuffle


How closely does Rurouni Kenshin resemble real life?

Since your question is remarkably broad (historical facts, events, the art of the sword, the base for all of the characters & plot points), and since some aspects of Rurouni Kenshin's historicity have already been answered in other questions on this SE here, here, and here, and there are useful fan websites like this, this, this, and this, I will collect here some of the mangaka Nobuhiro Watsuki's own comments in a number of interviews about how historically-accurate the series is.

Interview at AnimeExpo 2002 convention in 2 different fan translations (he was speaking in Japanese):

#1:

  Hmmmmmmm, Rurouni Kenshin started as a short story, so I didn’t do much research on it, but in the year and a half between the story and the start of the series, I spent a lot of time reading [books about Meiji]. I did the manga because I wanted to draw kimono and swords, so don’t count on all of the details to be completely accurate. . . . Also, I am a big fan of the Shinsengumi. . . . The model for Kenshin was one of the old hitokiri of the Bakumatsu. This man was an assassin and slayed … He had a tough life, and in his last years he started to repent for all of the killings, but he kept his will and was executed by the government. So he is not very well respected in Japan. . . . Some moves are based on actual moves. Sanosuke’s fuwai no kuwami is just an exaggerated double punch. The other half of the moves are created by him swinging his sword around in the privacy of his own room. A third category pays homage to his favorite shows like Sunrise Showdown. Shishio’s final move is just a big-ass homoro dama.

and

  I have practiced Kendo, but I am very weak. That is where my love of sports comes from, but I am very weak. If I were good at Kendo, I wouldn’t be drawing manga.

#2:

  Kenshin started as a shot story without much research. In the year and half, he had between when the series started he read a LOT of books. He wanted to draw kimonos and swords, so its not very accurate to the Meiji period. . . . He is also a big fan of the Shinsengumi, but he couldn't do the actual revolution since he wanted to do more human drama. . . . There was a hitokiri of the revolution [name missed], who had his own mind, and never really bent to the government. He did end up repenting for his killing, however he DID get executed for never submitting to the government. . . . A lot of the moves are based on real martial arts moves, just over-exaggerated. The other half are created by him flinging a sword around in the privacy of his room. Others are homages to favorite games, like Samurai Spirits . . .

and

  Watsuki has practiced Kendo and his love of sword comes from that. He's very weak thought, and if he was a good kendo practitioner he wouldn't be drawing manga.

Interview from Kenshin Kaden guidebook in 2 different fan translations:

#1

  The sakabatou is something original that I came up with. The reason for it is very simple: I didn’t want my main character killing anyone. But a bamboo sword or wooden sword isn’t intimidating enough, so I came up with the idea of a sword that has its sharp and blunt edges on reversed sides. That way the main character is able to fight the way he always does, and still be able to refrain from killing anyone. [laughs]

#2

  It's an original idea, a weapon like that didn't exist at that time. Right before the beginning of the series, I told myself that it wasn't a good idea to have a main character who killed his opponent in every fight, but I also didn't want to give him a bokuto (wooden sword), or a takemitsu (sword with a normal hilt but a wooden blade). Then I got the idea to create a sword with a sharp back, so that it could be used effectively against opponent, but it wouldn't be lethal. And that's how the sakabatou was born!

Interview from Kenshin Hiden guidebook:

  I practiced [kendo] in jr. high but only to an elementary level. Then I stopped practicing during high school, since I was devoted to drawing manga by then. I didn’t want my time limited by extracurricular activities. . . . It started when I read the new Moeyo, Ken by Shiba Ryuutarou (another very famous and popular history in Japan).  I loved the book and decided to use the end of the Bakufu era as a historical background. Later, the story spread to the Meiji era, which is due to another book I read in that same period: Shuugata Sanshirou by Tsuneo Tomita. Designing a story set at the end of the Bakufu perid is quite a complicated job, and therefore the short history presented is inadequate. The end of the Bakufu and the beginning of Meiji is filled with chaos and instabilities, so I chose Meiji years 10 to 20, a more stable era for the background of a short story. Due to various limitations, I couldn’t draw real historical figures. So I created my own characters. . . . This is because of the Satsuma Rebellion. Before the end of the Satsuma Rebellion in the tenth year of Meiji, there was always a lot of turmoil and rioting in Japan. Most people are familiar with the end of the Bakufu and the Meiji Restoration, not recognizing that the end of the Bakufu as the exact beginning of the Meiji era. Instead, the Meiji truly began in Meiji year 10, after the Satsuma Rebellion ended. For the same reason, I chose Meiji year 11 for the background story of Rurouni Kenshin. . . . No, I didn’t take [Ookubo Toshimichi’s assassination] into consideration at that time. Initially, Rurouni Kenshin was only intended to be pubished for 30 weeks. Though I hadn’t thought of it beforehand, I thought it'd be very interesting to add this into the plot. . . . No, I wasn’t very confident [laughs], especially when the series was first published, I was really worried. . . . My interest in history began with the start of the Kenshin series. I learned all of this history along with my readers. I had to look for references at the same time as I was drawing the series; I knew very little about the Shinsengumi. I like the Shinsengumi since I created Sengoku no Mikazuki in the year that I finished Rurouni and started Rurouni Kenshin, the only book that I read was about the Shinsengumi [laughs]. . . . My favorites are Hijikata Toshizou, Okita Souji, Saitou Hajime, Harada Sanosuke, Serizawa Kamo, in fact each of the units. I also like Takeda Kanryuu and Nagaruka Shinpachi. I always want to somehow arrange an appearance of Nagakura Shinpachi in the manga. . . . Yes, I also like Ookubo Toshimichi. Things related to Katsura Kogorou have an interesting feel as well. Apart from the Ishinshishi, it's boring to study the life of Enomoto Takeai after the Battle of Hakodate. I like that. There was also a swordsman appointed in the late Bakufu period, Sakakikara Kenkichi. He was a master of the martial arts school established by the Bakufu government. His title required being the strongest swordsman of the Bakufu. He insisted on wearing a cape to his death; he was really a stubborn person. I also considered adding him into the manga. I’m interested in Sakamoto Ryoma recently, but I don’t intend to add him into the manga [laughs]. . . . Although I don’t have time to read these days, I read a lot in the beginning. The writers that I like include Shiba Ryotarou, Ikenami Shoutarou, Shibata Renzaburou, and more. Covering the Shinsengumi, Shimo Zawahiro (a writer of novels chronicling the Shinsengumi) is very famous. His writing is interesting and serves well as references and historical novels.

Interview at Made in Asia 3 convention (I'm translating from the French, since it took place in Brussels):

  It’s true that at the beginning of Kenshin, I wasn’t a specialist in this period, even though I liked a lot of aspects, especially the Bakufu. It’s really as I was drawing the story that I became more knowledgeable. At that time, the internet was not at developed as it is now, so I had to deepen my knowledge by finding out through old books.


What exactly was Tatsuya afraid that Mizuki could discover with her sensitive eyes?

If my understanding was correct, he was afraid that she would discover his unique constitution (the extremely high psion count he had) which allowed him to use some of his really overpowered and rarely seen spells such as Gram Demolition. Knowing that he has this specific constitution would make him a suspect when spells that require this constitution are cast.

Tatsuya tried (and failed miserably) to keep a low profile and avoid divulging any information about his powers, as some of these were national secrets (due to him being a special member of the JSDF 101 Independent Magic-Equipped Battalion) and the Yotsuba wanted his and Miyuki's identity as members of the family to remain secret.


I'll answer this with an answer I found here via a user by the name of ItalianRapscallion.

I assume, since so much is generated, its just summoned from a point inside their mouth (or whatever aperture, gem, whathaveyou). That is, it comes into being right then (not teleported from somewhere or produced by an organ -- since you cannot compress a liquid, a squirtle, say, could not store the amount of water you typically see him emitting)...
My guess is no, because if you are materializing water from thin air, would that pokemagic create minerals / salt at normal levels too? It's probably pure water, maybe a little saliva mixed in depending on the aperture from whence it came (but if so it wouldn't be enough to make a difference). In other words, drinking it would leech all the minerals and saline out of your cells, it wouldn't hydrate you, and if you drank enough you would eventually explode on a cellular level.
Edit: further mulling made me realize an easy test, (which i don't recall from the show) Do we ever see electricity travelling along water spewed from a water pokemon? If so, the water is conductive, i.e. mineralized, therefore you can probably drink it.

Given the fact that Suicune has the ability to "walk across water and purify dirty water with one touch", I believe that the fact that the water Pokemon produce is in fact not pure due to the fact that it was never stated anywhere that it was indeed pure, as well as the fact that one Pokemon out of all of them was given the phrasing of pure water. (Suicune is legendary, so you can't just choose him and forget about the water purity issues.)
In all honesty through my searches of the web, I haven't found anything conclusive on the topic, so we can put it in a grey area, in which we are never really sure of the answer until we can see it for ourselves.
That said, the fact that Water Type Pokemon are weak to Pokemon of the Electric Type, it is safe to assume that the water they produce does indeed contain the minerals and nutrients it requires.
Even with this info however, we don't know just how bad the state of the water is, as that is never discussed. So even though it does contain the minerals, we don't know if it contains any virus, or disease that would harm us. (Considering the nature of the games and anime, I think it's safe to assume they don't, but for the sake of this, we can't rule it out. It could be life or death after all.)
My conclusion is that: It should be safe, however we can't guarantee it for multiple reasons, so keeping a Squirtle would be a good idea, though try to bring a form of filter with you, for a safety precaution.
Edit 2: Thanks to Senshin I was informed that distilled water would not kill you, unless it was the only water you drink. Meaning that, if you have some other source of water coming in, from time to time, on a regular basis, you would be completely fine in that instance.
This, sadly however, still doesn't cover the fact that:

You're in an apocalypse, so water sources other than rivers, the ocean, ransacked stores, etc, is not going to be the most reliable in a city environment, though in the countryside you have more chance of finding natural bodies of water.
It might be dangerous water, rather than distilled water, coming from the Pokemon.

I say again, bring a water filter of some sort, as well as a Squirtle, to ensure your own safety.


Ussop's name is probably based on "Isoppu" which is the Japanese pronunciation of Aesop. (One Piece Wiki)

The Wiki also claims "uso" means "lie" in Japanese so Ussop is a combination of "liar" and "storyteller" (Aesop). Basically this says it is likley but the source is not at all canon. We don't know as Oda hasn't definitively said, but probably.


How come when Loki summons himself with Karen it uses her power?

It's most likely that he used her power purposely to make sure she couldn't summon Ares. With Lucy he doesn't want to make her weaker so he uses his own power.


Why Von Schicksal ordered to kill Lindow?

Because lindu had been spying on von and infiltrated the 'aigis project' (probably misspelled that) and saw what Von was really doing.


Why did Naru not want Lin to know he bent a spoon?

I think Ghost hunt is good mystery story instead of horror story.

Warn: I wrote follow part based on novel which anime version doesn't covered and contains spoiler.

   Naru has psychic power.

The scene that naru describe the trick is mislead.

The story is:

Naru cuts the spoon, Mai see it.
Mai talk about (1) to lin, monk and other member.
Lin is angry and mock asked how to do it to naru.
Naru bents the spoon by using trick.
Naru apologize to lin.

   The point is the difference between 1 and 4.
 Naru cuts the spoon at 1. but in 4, Naru just bets.
 The trick which naru describe in 4, naru can't cut the spoon.

The real story is different:

   1. Naru cuts spoon by psychic power.
 2. Mai talk naru cuts.
 3. Lin is angry because naru uses psychic power.
 4. Naru try to cheat monk using trick, because he'd like to hide his psychic power.
 5. Naru success to convince monk and mai.
 But lin know that trick doesn't work for cut which mai talked in 2, and naru know he can't convince lin by this story. Then he apologize to lin about use psychic power.


Why is Kuga Yuma's C-rank uniform black? Every single other C-rank wears white

Yuma's father Yugo worked with Border when it was founded, so he had Trigger technology from back then. So when Yuma first used a Border Trigger years ago when with his dad, the Trion body and uniform designed for him came from the Borders old days. So for him he uses the same Trion body now with the black uniform, rather than make a new Trion body with Border's current white one.

An example of what I mean is Konami Yuma's mentor, said she has been in Border even before Jin. She had short hair in her early years, so even though she has long hair now. She lets her Trion body keep the short hair she used to have, because her current real body long hair is not fit for battle. Basically unless Yuma makes a new Border's Trigger, Trion body, he will have the black uniform.


Was golden oozaru cumber's blast power what made Super Saiyan Blue Vegito defuse?

Based on how it seems to have happened i would say they run out of power, as Vegeta himeself has said it they simply have run out of energy(power). I do not think there is anything more to be said about it besides that.


What's the name of the song at 9:53 of episode 471 in Naruto: Shppuden?

I think the song you're looking for is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkbQ71K3n1M. I'm not sure what song your referring to because there is like 3 songs in this episode.


Why is Nyanko-sensei a round, chubby cat?

What is the significance of this form?

   It's not simply a round, chubby cat, it's a Maneki-neko (lit. beckoning cat). Maneki-neko is a common figurine in Japan. Shops have it displayed to beckons customers and wish bringing more fortune in.

Did he purposely choose this appearance?

   Yes and No.

 Nyankon-sensei was sealed in Maneki-neko for a long time before Takashi release it by accident, it ordinary takes on the shape and just be that way.

 Ordinary people can see it when it is in the Maneki-neko form but not in the original Madara form. Still, we don't know if Nyankon-sensei like its form so much or on other purposes.

Why does Takashi call Madara by the name "Nyanko-sensei?"

   Nyankon-sensei requests Takashi to call him sensei and as an exchange, it becomes his bodyguard.

Wikipedia actually has a well-written article about the anime & manga including characters background, in case you want more details.


Raye Penber conversation with Yagami Light following the bus incident

Light mentions that his father is a police detective when he passes a note to Yuri saying that he will try to subdue the bus hijacker:

  Don't worry, Yuri. It'll be okay. I'm going to look for a chance to grab the guy's arm and pin him down so he can't use the gun. My dad's a detective and he's taught me what to do in emergencies like this. The guy's pretty small and weak-looking. I'm sure I can restrain him. [Translation from the fan Wikia.]

Since Raye Penber sees the note, it wouldn't be suspicious for Light to assume that Penber knows that he is the son of a police detective even if he never says so directly to him.

Note also that Light's actions suggest that he has more familiarity with what to do in these situations than the average person: beyond coming up with this "plan," he also asks Raye Penber to prove that he isn't an accomplice because it's "common to have someone hidden in the back to come help if anything goes wrong" for the hijacker. Thus, even if he didn't explicitly say that his father was a detective, it'd still be reasonable for someone to assume that he has some connection to law enforcement.

As an aside, Light's comment after Raye Penber proves his identity does seem slightly unnecessary:

  Okay, I trust you, and I won't ask what an FBI agent is doing on a bus in Japan.

This indicates that he knows that Raye Penber is up to something, but then again, when he's already proved himself to be more suspicious and street-savvy than the average person, it's not that suspicious for him to say that. It's not like he's indicating that he knows that the FBI are there for the Kira investigation as opposed to something else.


Why is blood needed to sign a summoning contract and to use the summoning jutsu?

You can read in the Wikia that

The Summoning Technique is a space–time ninjutsu that allows the summoner to transport animals or people across long distances instantly and uses blood as a sacrifice.

In more detail:

The contract comes in the form of a scroll, on which the contractor uses their own blood to sign their name and place their fingerprints and once signed it is valid even after the contractors death as long as the contract itself remains intact. After this, they need only offer an additional donation of blood on the hand they signed the contract with, mould their chakra with hand seals and then plant the hand they signed the contract with at the location they wish to summon the creature.

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

So basically, the blood serves as a means of identifying the summoner for the summoned and also acts as a price (sacrifice) for calling them.


What is the exact purpose of the infinite Tsukuyomi?

The infinite tsukuyomi was actually a ruse by Kaguya, executed by black Zetsu, who manipulated Madara.

Kaguya, the origin of all chakra after eating the shinju fruit, became power hungry and was subsequently sealed up by her sons, who then went to distribute/teach the usage of chakra to the rest of mankind. However, through black Zetsu, she was able to manipulate mankind (namely Madara) into recreating the infinite tsukiyomi with the Eye of the Moon plan. In doing so she then would be able hypnotize everyone and reabsorb all of the chakra in the world which she deems "rightfully hers."


Akagami no Shirayukihime letters or font?

Interestingly, the website for Hakusensha's LaLa (the magazine in which Akagami no Shirayuki-hime is serialized) has a nifty little thing where you can enter your date of birth and your name, and it invents a life for you somewhere in the world of Akagami. (For example, I am apparently a "nervous boy awaiting the incipient start of the tournament of arms in Yurikana".)

As a bonus, it also displays your name in Clarines script. I used this to extract the Clarines glyphs. Here they are:

Turning this into a genuine font is left as an exercise for the reader.

If you're looking for a name for this, there isn't really one; Japanese sites just call it クラリネス文字, meaning "Clarines letters".


Does Gogeta have a new transformation in Dragon Ball Super Broly?

The Dragon Ball Super movie has a completely different art style compared to the anime. This is similar in comparison to what was said about the Super Saiyan Blue forms used by Goku and Vegeta.  There was a lot of speculation that Goku and Vegeta were supposedly using a new version of Super Saiyan Blue, possibly Mastered Super Saiyan Blue against Broly. However, it was just the regular Super Saiyan Blue transformation with a new art style where the hair color seems to look darker.The transformation Gogeta is using here is clearly Super Saiyan Blue. We see this based on the color of his hair. The different art styles and the superior animations in the movie compared to the series, makes it appear that way. Even Xenoverse 2 just put out a trailer with Super Saiyan Blue Gogeta.  Also Note: According to new arc of DBS in the manga, Goku tells Vegeta that he hasn't been able to use Ultra Instinct even once after the tournament of power, plus, MUI has silver hair and UI Omen has the special aura with regular hair and Gogeta clearly has Blue hair here. Secondly, the hair for the SSBE transformation is a lot darker. You can look at this photograph here, of SSJB and SSBE side by side.While the manga had the concept of the "Mastered Super Saiyan Blue" being a unique transformation, the anime doesn't. However, I think it is more or less implied that Goku and Vegeta would have perfected their use of Super Saiyan Blue by now considering the fact that Goku can effortlessly stack Kaioken * 20 on top of it and has even ascended to levels far beyond SSJB. Vegeta too has broken past the limitations of SSJB to unlock a new form. It is more or less implied Goku, Vegeta would have mastered the Super Saiyan transformations by now. However, there is no indication or change in the transformation Nevertheles, there is definitely evidence according to Spoilers that Gogeta fights Broly in Base, SSJ and Super Saiyan Blue. Hence, the form being used here is Super Saiyan Blue.


Does Narcolepsy that Riki had really exist?

Riki's parents died when he was around ten years old, leaving him in a state of depression. Around the same time, he was diagnosed with narcolepsy, a disorder causing Riki to uncontrollably lose consciousness at random intervals.
New constructed worlds would be formed again and again, with Riki repeating events, becoming stronger each time.

Taken from Little Buster's Wiki.
It seems to me, that in the beginning he definitely still had narcolepsy, but he might have overcome it at the end through the process of becoming stronger.


I need a location to buy the eureka seven ao bracelet silver edition

After looking around a bit on the jam site itself and plenty of other sites that offer the bracelet. Which by the way can be browsed in English using the O so lovely google translate engine for example. I found out that most of them are out-of-stock, and marked the product as the following.

Release date 2012 SS [spring and summer release items]
The item is sold out already, and it is no longer in production. It won't become available again for orders.

leading me to believe that this is a special/limited edition collectors item by now, which is not obtainable through online stores any more.
Most likely you have to find somebody that already owns one, and wishes to sell it if you really want a original. If you just want it because of how it looks or for a cosplay, you could most likely get a jeweller nearby you to recreate the actual bracelet, after which you probably only have to rope it yourself. Unless off course the jeweller also can do this for you.


Is there a reason for the "Hair of Death" hair style?

This meme seems to be a conflation of two very different things.

First, Hyakuya Akane from Owari no Seraph (the girl on the lower part of the image) does not share the low below-the-shoulder ponytail that the women in the top of the image share; she has a loose braid. Today I was handed this event flyer by a friend (a Japanese college student involved in subculture), which features a girl with a one-sided, front-of-the-shoulder loose braid and long bangs. I mentioned this SE question to her and she said the hairstyle has no association other than looking gentle and seemed incredulous that someone would come up with such an idea.

A loose braid, or two, or a single low ponytail on one side at the neck, or two low/loose pigtails, or are fairly common for contemporary pre-teen/teen girl character designs, since this is a current fashionable style among real-life Japanese pre-teens through college students. So Akane doesn't necessarily fall within a grouping of mother figures or people fated to die any more than the following characters do:

Second, mothers can be given the low ponytail because it is one of a number of soft, gentle hairstyles (contrast this to styles such as a short page-boy clipped cut, or a long past hip-length luxurious cut, or spiky hair). Not all mother characters, but many are portrayed with a nurturing, warm personality. However, plenty of kind mother characters in anime -- both those who die and those who don't -- sport other hairstyles. (Also, the hairstyles in the pictures in the meme are not that strongly similar to one another when you look at the styles of the bangs.)

Third, there are largely no moms in classic literature (a wealth of orphan stories: Heidi, Anna of Green Gables, Tom & Huck, David Copperfield and basically all of the Dickens' boys, little princess Sara, Mary of the secret garden, etc.) or in Disney animation either.  Dads trying to marry off their daughters, yes.  Cute, plump, bumbling dads, yes.  Absentee fathers, yes.  But in many cases, we have orphan protagonists with no parents around at all.  We can feel empathy for the characters whose loved one died and a death can be a strong motivation for characters to resolve to take a stand against evil, but more importantly for drama, for suspense, for excitement: without a mom to take care of them and worry about them and discipline them and tell them which things are too dangerous to do, orphans are freed up to go on adventures.  No questions asked!  No curfew!  If you have an eccentric, sweet little papa or dad who works long hours or lives separately from you, it's also easy to slip out of the house to go on adventures.  Where are the moms?  Well, evil stepmoms are okay, since the caring mom is already dead and safely out of the way for the story to move forward.  A common plot element in stories is that kids only get an adventure if mom is already dead.  So the unfortunate message we get is, motherhood is boring, and mothers make their kids' lives boring. Mothers who exist at the start of a story, irrespective of hairstyle, will often need to be killed off in order for the protagonist to achieve the freedom to do dangerous things that a responsible mom wouldn't stand for.


Was the figure Aoba found supposed to be Madoka?

Yes it is. Pink hair in bangs, dress similar to Madoka's. It is supposed to be Madoka. You can see example of Madoka keychain which serverd as an inspiration here:

Or actual phone strap here:


How does Star Platinum get the same ability as the World?

While Star Platinum has a bad habit of pulling new abilities from underneath his loin cloth (I'm looking at you, Star Finger), I don't think it's the case here.
I think it was implied that Star Platinum had the Time Stop ability the whole time.

When Jotaro confronted Dio, he quickly figured out that their stands were very similar in terms of speed, range, strength, size and what not. And once Kakyoin figured The World's secret ability, it dawned on Jotaro that Star Platinum might have a similar skill.

Of course, he couldn't trigger it easily. At first he was merely able to see glimpses of the stopped time, then he's able to move in it for a moment and only at the very end does he finaly manage to stop time on his own.

Not all stand abilities are known to their users instinctually. Even Dio discovered the Time Stop by accident while training. He also had to train his ability to extend its length and his movement in it.

While never actually explained, the most likely reason their stands are the same type is their macabre family connection. Jotaro shares a bloodline with the body Dio currenlty posesses (through the world's first vampire to human head transplant).

To put it simply:


Why did Makarov not use Fairy Law against Tartaros?

Fairy Law didn't work that simple. Fairy Law consumes magic power as much as needed to defeat whoever the caster deemed as enemies. The sheer number of the enemies present there would made Fairy Law a sucidial move. This is evident in the final battle where Fairy Tail went to fight the Alvarez Empire. Makarov died (or at least knocked unconscious) there after casting Fairy Law to reduce the number of enemy troops.


What's the meaning of ending credit of Great Pretender that have cat on it?

This is primarily a homage to Freddy Mercury, most notably the one song with the same name as the title of the series.

Freddy Mercury also owned many cats and had a very close relationship with them on top of being influences for his works. It's a very fitting tribute.


Did that person actually fail to save Menma?

It is revealed through flashbacks that Poppo was really quiet and shy when the accident happened. According to his flashbacks (assuming that they are accurate), he actually did see Menma drown; however, he could not do anything to help her because he was scared to do anything. This guilt is the main reasons why Poppo decided to travel the world and become more outgoing and extroverted.


What is this guy with a cross scar on his left cheek reference of?

It is a reference to Himura Kenshin, from Rurouni Kenshin.

This is noted not only by the scar, but also by the way the sentences are ended.


What was the swarm of moths in the final episode of The Tatami Galaxy?

It seems we're led to believe that the moths represent Watashi, the protagonist, in a metaphorical sense. Unfortunately, this is never officially explained.
With regard to The Tatami Galaxy, reviewers and analyzers seem to pull out the fact that moths are meant to symbolize humans. One reviewer[1] called them pitiful (due to the fact that they are nocturnal, yet rely on light to survive). Another blogger[2] pointed out the metamorphosis cycle of a moth.
In both cases, these were drawn to parallels with human beings and, in particular, Watashi:

People too can be pitiful sometimes. When life gets tough and one starts losing his rose-tinted visions of life, he blinds himself from the truth and begins to see what he only wants to see.

After all, moths undergo complete metamorphosis. Something Watashi goes through.

This helps us somewhat to determine the origin of the moths. Every tatami mat room contained a moth (which usually frightened Atashi); upon Watashi's escape from Shimogamo Yuusuisou, the moths escape as well, linking them somewhat to Watashi and representing his escape.

[T]he protagonist's jailbreak out of his endlessly continuing cell of individual rooms is accompanied by a mysterious swarm of moths that overwhelm the city of Kyoto. Officially unexplained, this massive swarm of moths is the simultaneous outpouring of Individual moths from the infinite number of 4.5 tatami mat rooms, each of which contained a single moth.[3]

Why did the moths help Ozu? Hard to say for sure; again, officially unexplained. One viewer I mentioned[2] suggested them as a spirit animal, though:

Then at the end, the moths come down in force as a benevolent instrument to make him possibly the only thing that could stand out more than Ozu. Why are the moths benevolent, and is there some reason why they are chosen? Is it because moths, like him undergo a complete metamorphosis and as such are sort of like his spirit animal?

I believe that in general, The Tatami Galaxy likes to leave some things for the viewer to consider upon finishing the series. There likely is not one single, genuine answer to the question you've posed, but the symbolism of the moth seems to be a good explanation for how and why they appear in the swarm.
(Sorry that reference #3 is a cached version. Its source is this page but it's not fully searchable in the "normal" format.)


How does Lelouch manage to contain his Geass?

Lelouch obtains eye contacts for his geass eye from CC in episode 3 of R2. It depends on the video, but it happens around the 12-13 minute mark in a flashback.


This sounds like Oban Star Racers.

Here are a few quotes comfirming that from Wikipedia:

Unable to tell her father who she really is, she lands a job as a mechanic in his team under the name "Molly"
Haunted by the death of her mother — a famous star-racer — and the harsh "reunion" with her father, Molly is determined to win so she can be with her parents once again.

And here's the opening sequence:
http://youtu.be/TIKQBNlwhHA


The song at 11:00 in S3E23 is called AllMight with UA Students which is basically United States of Smash. I think this is the song that your looking for


Why is Cross Game named so? What is the significance of the title?

I know jack-all about Cross Game, but I can tell you that the Japanese title (クロスゲーム kurosu geemu) is baseball lingo for "a close game" in the sense of "a game in which both teams are closely matched". Obviously, this sense of kurosu geemu is borrowed from English "close game".

When altered to fit Japanese phonotactic constraints, both "close" /kloʊs/ and "cross" /kɹɔs/ end up as クロス kurosu. So, I guess, for whatever reason, Adachi seems to have chosen to make the English/romanized title "Cross Game".


What hints were shown during the series to who was the extra person in the classroom?

Aside from the hints mentioned in the question about Kōichi having returned to the town one and a half years ago but not having a memory of it, there are other hints most of which appeared earlier chronologically, but are purposely left to the end in the anime series.

Hint 1

It's revealed afterwards that the extra desk that Countermeasures tried to account for and prevented in the classroom at the beginning

   was actually in the Teacher's Lounge,

and previous incidents seemed to imply the Extra was always a student attending the class, so no one thought to check there.

Hint 2

Near the final revelation on who the Extra was, we see the continuation of a conversation Reiko had with Kōichi earlier in the anime which was cut off when it was initially shown,

   where Reiko reminded Kōichi that she was the assistant teacher/deputy homeroom teacher of Kōichi's class and told Kōichi to refer to her by her proper name Ms. Mikami (Mikami-sensei) at school.

Along with the first hint, we see her connection with class 3-3.

Hint 3

We learn that Kōichi's mother, Ritsuko, was in class 3-3 with Misaki Yomiyama, the first Extra which sparked the Calamity. We also learn that

   Reiko was in class 3-3 in 1983 when Ritsuko, being Reiko's sister, was a victim of the Calamity, and Reiko was class 3-3's homeroom teacher in 1996 when she died. We also know that victims of the Calamity can also be teachers, given how the current Class 3-3's homeroom teacher Mr. Kubodera is listed as one of the "Deaths of July".

 Source: Characters - Yomiyama North Middle School - Faculty

There is one hint however which can easily be missed thoughout the series and this in regards to the Mikami Family Pet, Rei.

Rei is effectively a parrot who repeates phrases said around him, the 3 most common ones are

"Good morning Rei!"
"Poor Reiko, poor Ritsuko"
"Why, Rei, why?"

   We later learn that Rei was purchased after Reiko's death and thus 2 lines match up to that of grieving in the house. the 3rd line is probably the grieving questioning of Reiko's death and the point to it (as she was stabbed which lead to her drowning). the 2nd line however can be a hint to that Reiko is the Extra due to the fact it is a repeated line showing sympathy to Reiko in the same manner as Ritsuko who was already dead and there doesn't seem to be a relative to them who died before hand who Reiko and Ritsuko may have been devastated by.

This next part is speculation but whenever Rei starts talking Reiko begins to have headaches

   since Rei is just parroting lines and probably doesn't understand what it is saying the Calamity's Memory Altering effects are probably not applied to Rei whoever Reiko's headaches may be her starting to become self aware she is the Extra by understanding Rei's lines however weather by an effect by the Calamity or by her nature as the Extra Reiko headaches flare up and she seems to want to sleep them off thus stopping the process

The Calamity is designed so that it's near impossible to discover who the Extra was until after everything is over, as people's memories and official records are altered. The only difference that the current year had over all the previous years was that Mei Misaki had the power to see the Colour of Death.

During the anime, she demonstrated this power with the photos where the Extra was known. Mei could see the colour of death around the Extra, and as such she could identify the Extra, which she did at the very end to confirm to Kōichi.

Oddly enough, however, Mei had never encountered the Extra given the Extra's position in the cast, with the exceptions to when the students went insane at Sakitani Kinenkan and prepared to kill Mei (Mei saw the Extra before the final confrontation however given the deteriorating situation she would've been unable to confront the Extra or speak to Kōichi). Also, the Countermeasures was never made aware of Mei's power even after she was allowed to exist.

There is also another aberration. The Calamity normally alters memories; however, Kōichi's grandfather's memory is not altered due to him suffering from dementia.

  He is the only character who lives in Yomiyama but still remember [the Extra's] death. This is due to his dementia conflicting with his Curse-altered memories.

Source: Ryouhei Mikami - Trivia

Due to the fact that

   Ritsuko and Reiko sound similar, Kōichi could have passed it off as Ryouhei's dementia making him confuse between Ritsuko and Reiko.

For those who believed in the Calamity, particularly those in Countermeasures, this might have been a clue. However, since Kōichi had only just enrolled, the Countermeasures didn't have proper time to interview and prepare him, and thus Kōichi didn't learn about the Calamity until much later. Furthermore, the Countermeasures had already prepared the correct number of seats and had Mei play the role of "the one that does not exist" well before Kōichi's enrollment into the school.


Why did Deidara want to kill Orochimaru?

More information about Deidara can be found on this link:

  When Deidara's exploits caught the attention of the Akatsuki, Itachi
  Uchiha, Kisame Hoshigaki, and Sasori were sent to recruit him. Deidara
  refused at first but accepts a challenge from Itachi on the condition
  that the Akatsuki let him be if he won. However, Deidara was easily
  defeated by Itachi's Sharingan and begrudgingly joined the
  organisation. -> Chapter 359.

  His ego crushed since then because he admitted to himself that the
  Sharingan was a work of art, Deidara carried a murderous loathing for
  Itachi and the Sharingan for the rest of his life. Acknowledging that
  Itachi was a more powerful opponent, Deidara took steps during his
  time with the Akatsuki to get revenge on Itachi, such as training his
  left eye to counter genjutsu, and devising the means to create C4.

Now since Itachi easily defeated Orochimaru, Deidara wanted to defeat
him as well to show off and prove to Itachi that he is strong. You can
say, Itachi defeated Orochimaru, then he MUST defeat him as well.


Already answered in comments by @W. Are

Hide never died. The anime deviated from the manga and the scene where Kaneki was carrying Hide never happened in the manga. My suggestion: if you have time, read the manga (starting from Tokyo Ghoul). I tried watching the anime, too but dropped it while on Tokyo Ghoul: re. It was confusing and the manga cleared up everything.

Yes, he had never died, but lost/damaged his vocal organ since kaneki ate part of his face to regain some strength to fight. This thing doesn't actually affect the anime, so i don't think it's spoiler.

Answered this only, since it still shows 0 answers, though @W. Are already answered in comments, nor i could comment there to ask him post this answer.


How/When did Liz learn about Kirito's Duel Wield?

In the novel, after Lisbeth made the sword (and before Asuna barged in), she did ask him what he needed it for:

"Speaking of which— In the beginning, you did say, a sword equal to this one, didn't you. That white one certainly is a good sword, but I don't think there's much difference with that monster dropped one. Why would you need two swords resembling each other?"
"Aah..."
Kirito turned about, staring at me with an expression that showed that he was hesitating over something.
"Well, I can't explain everything. If you won't ask any further than that, I can tell you."
....

And then he showed his skill to Lisbeth. The anime skips this entirely.


How come Mr. Braun doesn't remember Suzuha?

As you pointed out, yes it is because of the name change. But let's look at the timeline of events after Suzuha  travels back to 1975 without changing the divergence ratio.

1975: Suzuha Amane (19 years old) arrives in Tokyo but suffers amnesia.
1978: Yugo Tennouji (aka Mr. Braun) is born.
1999: Suzuha Amane (43 years old) remembers the events from before the time travel. In this time she helped Yugo Tennouji (aka Mr. Braun), who was 21 years old at that time, as Hashida Suzu. Suzuha Amane/Hashida Suzu suicides.
2010: The 19 years old Suzuha Amane arrives in Tokyo and applies as a part-time worker at Yugo Tennouji (aka Mr. Braun) CRT store. Yugo Tennouji (aka Mr. Braun) is 32 years old in 2010.

So he only knew a 43 year-old friendly lady with the name Hashida Suzu who helped him 11 years before the events of D-Mail. It's not absurd that he doesn't connect her with a 19 year-old Suzuha Amane.

Source: Suzuha Amane Wiki, Yugo Tennouji Wiki


What was changed when Tokyo Mew Mew was translated to English?

I didn't watch it extensively, and I never had much contact with the original material, but here's what I remember.

The series name was changed to "Mew Mew Power". They did the usual character name changes; the main heroine Ichigo became "Zoey", Mint became "Corina", Lettuce became "Bridget", etc. You can see the full list here. The music was changed to American-style pop. As far as I know, there weren't extensive edits for content and the plot wasn't really changed, although some characters come off differently because of how the dialogue is written, or because of the way the American voice actors play them.


In Chimera Arc, why weren't the people infected by the bomb?

It's just an hypothesis, but, based on what is shown in the manga, the situation of these people was different than

   the ones we know that died by the radioactive poisoning:

About...

   The King and the Royal Guard: Meruem took the direct impact of the Rose Bomb; Pouf and Yupi were in the center of the explosion soon after, taking the full impact of radiation:

About

   Komugi: she stayed in direct physical contact with the King for many and many hours, maybe days (for what I remember, it's not precisely stated how much time they passed together). She even touched the hands of the King:

About common people:

   By comparison, common people had not this level of direct contact with the poisoned characters (at least they were not touching them), and only some were near the corpses of the Royal Guard:

However, as @eha1234 said in the comments, it's very possible that some people died by radiation, but, since a lot of people died for many reasons, maybe these death were not specified among the total. So, maybe the correct answer is that these people were, in fact, infected, maybe not as strong as the characters in question, due to reasons mentioned above.

   And, was stated in Chapter 318, 46,613 people had a deterioration of their condition and died after being liberated from Pouf's hypnotic abilities


Hellsing Ultimate music theme in episode 8

That will be Letzte Bataillon from the Hellsing OVA I-V Soundtrack “Nazi CD”. It's listed as song number 2.


Who is the strongest fusion, Gogeta super saiyan blue or Vegito super saiyan blue?

Based on your question, I believe you are comparing the Vegito from the Future Trunks arc and the Gogeta Blue from the Dragon Ball Super movie? Then yes! Gogeta Blue is definitely stronger. The reasons being, for one, Goku and Vegeta have gotten significantly stronger throughout the T.O.P, in comparison to the Future Trunks arc. Secondly, irrespective of whether Broly is stronger than Beerus, his power has been compared to a God of destruction. I do understand Shin made a comment in the manga about Vegito rivaling Beerus in the Future Trunks arc, however, I honestly am not going  to consider it simply on account of the number of inaccurate statements we have seen from Shin throughout the series(He thought SSJG Goku might defeat Beerus, SSJB Vegeta was winning against Jiren, Vegeta might lose against Pui Pui and the list goes on).Also in the anime, there is an alternate Corrupted version of Merged Zamasu who is significantly stronger. Beerus comments he'd be able to easily defeat Merged Zamasu(Who was going toe to toe with Vegito Blue). Jiren's power was compared to that of a G.O.D and Beerus being one of the strongest G.O.D's should rival Jiren(At least before he releases his dormant power) and Jiren even before he releases his dormant power, is in a way implied to be stronger than Vegito considering the fact that Goku and Vegeta didn't resort to fusion to challenge Jiren and it was heavily implied Goku would have to master UI to win.Now suppose we have an alternate reality where Goku and Vegeta fuse into Vegito instead of Gogeta in the movie, I believe Vegito would be stronger simply because the Potara Fusion has been stated to be more powerful. The Potara earrings are owned by the highest beings of the universe. The Supreme Kais and the traditional fusion dance was created by a bunch of mortals.


Is Erza's samurai costume considered an armor?

There really is no name for the armor, some people call it the Japanese Cloth armor but the fact is that it is not really armor. It is a completely offensive requip in which she puts all of her power into her sword for attacks. On the wiki page for her battle against Azuma it states:

  Erza decides that in order to defeat him, she has to collect all of her Magic into a single offensive attack without wasting any on defensive power. She requips into her Japanese-like clothes, previously used in her battle against Ikaruga in, stating that she has no need for armor and only her sword.

On her wiki page you can see that the requip in question is not listed.
For a complete listing of her armors you can find that here: Armors


Where can I read the original One Punch Man

The web-comic of One Punch Man is a self-published work by ONE, and are freely available, in Japanese, on their website
As far as I know there are no printed or digital versions available for purchase. Hence for offline reading I would suggest a app/browser that supports offline reading.


This scene was never actually explained as far as I'm aware.

It's possible that it was his Cantus leaving his body and returning to Heaven, as he states "the art within me is losing it's flame," which may be a reference to the ceremony when one receives their Cantus, during which they look into a flame and say their Mantra. However this explanation doesn't explain who the woman is. (but doesn't she look a bit like Saki?)

Perhaps she was a hallucination by Saki. She did have a few of them that night after all.


Is Fullmetal Alchemist based on Nazi Germany?

The FMA Wiki states that:

  When creating the fictional world of Fullmetal Alchemist, Arakawa was inspired after reading about Europe during the Industrial Revolution period; she was amazed by how different the people from different countries were, in terms of their culture, architecture and clothes. She was especially interested in England during this period and "added to it her own original flavor to turn it into a fantasy world".

"Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa" — the movie that follows the first anime series — is set in 1923 Germany, and depicts the beginning of the Nazi Party within German politics, being only an extremist group at that point.

Other than that, I know of no such inspirations. But it may well be that Arakawa has said something more concrete about that.


What is C.C.'s status after the Zero Requiem?

Actually, C.C. was only known by the main heads of the Black Knights organization, by V.V.'s organization and by the member of the royal family linked to the Geass.

On one hand, the closest person to Zero all knew he was Lelouch Vi Britannia since Schneizel told them. Based on what they knew about Zero, Lelouch and Suzaku and based on Karen's reaction when Lelouch gets killed, I believe everyone that knows C.C. on the Black Knights organization knows Lelouch was not evil.

On the other hand, the Geass organization has been slaughtered by Lelouch and V.V.'s is gone for good. I can assume no one is going to annoy her because, well, they are all dead. Same goes for Lelouch's mother and father.

Conclusion: Since only ancient members of Black Knights organisation know C.C. exists and we are sure that they have no reason to be after her, C.C. is probably wandering and travelling across the world (or maybe just Japan) with Lelouch if he is alive, alone if he is not, without anyone to disturb her.


How is Sophia going to reset history in Full Metal Panic?

The TAROS more or less is the reason the Tau waves cover the planet after the incident at Yamsk 11 that started it all on Dec. 24, 1981 (1984 in the anime). The waves exist outside time and on all planes of existence.

Sophia was present in the very first TAROS incident at Yamsk 11. She is more or less the reason why Whispered can resonate with one another.

   On that faithful day, Sophia died, but her consciousness merged with the Tau waves, somehow...

Because Tau waves exist outside time and space, there is a degree of time manipulation allowed by it.

Sophia's consciousness exists where ever and whenever Tau waves are present. Sophia can send her consciousness into the future to gain the technology that she then shares with the Whispered.

She is not a Whispered, but rather the one doing the whispering. The reason why Whispered have specializations is because her consciousness is split between them all. Only Sophia existed from the very start of it all so only she had the means and circumstances to be able to go back to when it first started.


It depends on the series.

For series who have a guided plot and who have a specific direction they're going in, like Bleach or Naruto, having a comedic episode appear once in a while serves as filler, and something light-hearted for the audience to enjoy.  For instance, non-plot-related episodes of Bleach involving Don Kanon'ji were often joke episodes at intent, and Bleach even did an Arabian Nights' episode in the middle of the major Hueco Mundo plotline.

(I would argue, though, that Kakashi's true face became an ascended meme within the Naruto franchise due to the pervasive curiosity that Naruto and Sakura have when they go to visit him in the hospital, and come this close to actually seeing it.)

Less guided shows like Hayate the Combat Butler have joke episodes embedded and running alongside actual episodes to the extent that it becomes tough to filter out the noise from the signal.  However, with it being a gag anime, and it not getting ever serious (in animation), this is not only par for the course, but to be expected.

I would say that it's not common, but it largely depends on what demographic the show is trying to hit, and how they're portraying themselves - either as a story, plot and resolution-style show, or as a gag show.


Looking for a particular Gintama episode number

I think it is Episode 67 (Season 2).

This is a clip from the episode.


How does Mavis form her strategy for the Grand Magic Games if they didn't know what the game would be?

Your question requires two answers.
  First, everyone knew that the last day would be a battle royal between all members of all teams; I don't know exactly when it was first mentioned but before it happened we saw the contestants talking about how excited they were for it a few days in advance of the episode happening.
  To answer the second part of your question I am going to have to say that they used SAW logic with Master Mavis. To explain in more detail in case you aren't familiar with the SAW franchise, it revolves around a character named John Kramer who is a civil engineer who is very talented at predicting human nature and sets up conditions and anticipates how people will react, from his deductions he creates elaborate plans and traps and watches as people make all the moves he predicted.
  Master Mavis was dubbed the "Fairy Tactician" because she was able to predict human nature giving her a very good idea of how people would react to their circumstances and then she formed her plans based on how she believed everyone would react to the battle royal and for the most part it played off; we do see, however, that she was not able to predict the 3 way battle of Erza, Kagura, and Minerva as she has a mental breakdown that she failed to predict Minerva would interfere however for the most part she predicted where the opponents would head to and when they would head to where they were going.


What happened to the other androids in Dragon Ball/Dragon Ball Z?

According to the Wikia and my memory, Androids 1-7 and 9-12 were useless due to them being faulty (design problems) and some were too emotional and the kind.
As for Android 8 a.k.a. Eighter or Hat-San, as you rightly said, he had been depicted in the Dragon Ball manga, anime and the movies.
Now, Android 13-15 were introduced in the 7th movie, Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13! and were the first few killing machines built successfully with the aim of killing Goku.
Regarding Androids 21+, I'd like to state the Wikia. They have been portrayed in Dragon Ball Fusions, Dragon Ball Heroes etc.
Android 44

An Android in Dragon Ball Fusions whose design bears resemblance to Android 20.

Android 8000

A highly advanced variant of Android 8, utilized by the Time Breakers, comes in several different models including Mk. II and MX.

Android 19000

A highly advanced variant of Android 19, built by the revived Gero and utilized by the Time Breakers.

Other than this, there's the Android A-B-C section which was in the DBZ manga if I recall correctly, which has all the information about the Androids up till Cell.

That's pretty much all there is in the manga.


In what year(s) does the Monogatari series take place?

I don't recall an exact year, but there's evidence that the series takes place in the modern day, between 2007 and 2018.

The strongest piece of evidence comes from the novels. In Kabukimonogatari Chapter 7, after Koyomi travels back in time 11 years, he notes that the money is different and has Natsume Souseki on it. These would have been the series D bills issued from 1984 to 2007 and suspended April 2007. This puts the series no more than 11 years after 2007, or no later than 2018. The novel version of Otorimonogatari has Nadeko make a reference to K-On, also putting it after May 2007, when the K-On manga started.

Maroon notes in the comments that the dates line up better for 2006. The phasing out of the Souseki notes began in 2004, so 2006 is a plausible year as well. The novels began their run in August 2005, so it's possible that Nisio Isin looked to March 2006 as the starting point for the series.

Smartphones do exist in the world of Monogatari; in the preview on Episode 7 of Nisemonogatari, Kaiki complains that after Hitagi smashed his phone, he went to buy a new one and could only find smartphones, which he dislikes. Here's a hard-to-see picture of my television screen that shows it:

Flip phones are actually still pretty common in Japan; see this Answerman column.

As a side note, the male protagonist hiding porn books in his room is a time-honored tradition of the genres that Monogatari draws on, harem and school action. Suruga also fills her room up with cheap BL books instead of going on the Internet and reading slash fiction. Monogatari is a mixture of real and hyper-real, so sometimes it just plays by the rules of fiction.


Horror anime about vampires hunted down by humans

It sounds like Shiki:

  When citizens of a secluded village begin dying off in alarming numbers, the sole hospital's head doctor tries desperately to save his patients—but his efforts are in vain. Entire families are wiped out while others desert their homes. All hell breaks loose as the villagers discover their loved ones' corpses are rising from the grave with an insatiable thirst for human blood. Who is safe when the urge to kill in order to survive blurs the line between man and monster?

It is pretty gruesome especially in showing humans killing vampires
In the beginning of the series vampires kills humans without letting them realize they were actually killed (they just considered theirs as unexplained deaths)... When humans realize the existence of vampires they begin to hunt them down.
I think the scene you described is taken from Episode 20.5: here is a clip from that episode.


Do the events of the Dragon Ball movies happen to some extent in the series?

Besides the dragonball super movies everything else in Z is considered non cannon as in it had nothing to do with the actual series. I don't think toriyama was involved in any of the Z movies so they are kind of fanfiction by other authors.

An easy rule to follow is anything that did not happened in the manga is not considered to be a part of the series. If you take the a look a latest super manga you will see similarities with the last two movies so they are considered to be cannon.


Is the 2013 Rozen Maiden "Zurückspulen" anime part of the same original storyline?

From my understanding it's based off the Manga which is canon and it combines the first Manga which focuses on Jun having wound and the second manga in which Jun didn't wind and grew up but is contacted by his younger "wound" self to help stop Kirakishou.

The original anime isn't canon since it has Barasuishou who was created by Enju, Rozen's apprentice as a means to prove his superiority as a doll maker over Rozen by having Barasuishou beat the other Maidens and becoming the strongest doll rather than becoming Alice. At the end, the Rozen Maidens defeated by Barasuishou are taken to Kirakishou by Laplace's Demon, Suigintou comes back to life but keeps the Rozen Mysticas she won while Hina Ichigo remains inside Shinku and Shinku is told by Rozen that there is a way to bring her back and another way to become Alice without the Alice Game.

This is different to the manga as Kirakishou devours Hina Ichigo from the inside to assume her physical form and there is no Barasuishou.


Shouldn't Naruto's RasenShuriken be a forbidden Jutsu if it's so powerful?

It's not typical of strong techniques to be forbidden. Forbidden jutsu are often techniques that either damage the user, require a sacrifice (other than just Chakra), or is generally immoral.

Incidentally, Tsunade did declare Fuuton: Rasenshuriken as a forbidden jutsu after seeing the damage it caused Naruto's arm. Whether or not it's still forbidden after Naruto perfected it and managed to throw it (thus, nullifying the damage to himself).

Other examples of forbidden jutsu:

Izanagi - Because it sacrifices an eye.
Tajuu Kage Bunshin (Massive Shadow Clone) - Because the user might die from chakra loss
Edo Tensei - Because of living sacrifice and immorality.


What is the song from Naruto Shippuden episode 48 - Bonds at 3:10?

it's this song here

Naruto Shippuden OST 1 - Track 28 - Shippuu Kumikyoku ( Hurricane Suite )

the singing starts at 0:40


What's the name of the insert song in Charlotte episode 5?

The song you're after is called 'Clouded Sky', and is performed by the band 'ZHIEND'. It is an insert song in episode 5 of the anime.

The scene where the song in question plays is viewable here.

The full song can be listened to here.


What was the first anime to have a "please notice me senpai" moment?

In real-life Japanese culture, many people do hope to get and attempt to get the attention of their love interest without ever voicing it or being direct, so this is not an anime/manga-specific trope but rather works of anime/manga are incorporating a very standard experience of elementary/jr. high/high schoolers in Japan past and through to the present. In other words, a particular anime did not start the meme, but rather some particular anime was simply the first to document the real-life occurrence of such moments. Shoujo manga magazines such as Ribon often feature color page spreads of advice and instructions on what hairstyles, fashion, and accessories could help you be noticed by the guy you like (I personally find this very dubious, having taught in 5th~6th grade in Japanese public schools... I'd be surprised if any of the boys are paying attention to how darling a girl's pencil case is and thereby thinking, "Oh, she's good at being cute. I like her now," but I digress), so from a young age, Japanese girls are encouraged in this practice of trying to attract a love interest without needing to confess her feelings to him directly (so that he will get interested in her before he realized she's interested in him).

Sempai (「先輩」) are upperclassmen in some sense to whom a Japanese person will always be kouhai (「後輩」, underclassmen) throughout their lives after graduation. There is no analogous system to the sempai/kouhai system in Western culture.  Sempai are often older, but not always: more important than age is the person’s year in school or number of years in the shared bukkatsu (student club), company, etc. at the time that the kouhai enters said school, club, or company. This is true of both males and females, so we cannot say that a meme developed out of only girls in romance-focused series thinking secretly about their sempai; in shounen action anime, boys pine away for girls who they think might be out of their league too, whether older or the same age. For example, I'm a member of the manga student group at my university in Japan, and we all call each other by “-san.”  Even though they're all younger than me (since I'm a grad student and they're undergrads), it would be totally inappropriate for me to start calling them in yobisute (that is, without a respectful name suffix) because they either 1) are my sempai in terms of number of years of membership in the club, or 2) they entered the club at the same time as me. If you enter university as a freshman and meet a sophomore who is your own age, he/she is automatically your sempai by virtue of being a grade ahead of you.  Then, even if you have not seen your sempai in decades and you are now both middle-aged and working at different companies of equal repute, when you meet again he/she is still your superior to whom you must look up to, defer to, and serve; there is no evening-out of level in Japanese sempai/kouhai culture.

You write,

  "it seems to be made up and not really existent in anime. . . . it doesn't seem like this particular line could have come from an anime."

If you are asking, which anime first featured this exact line of inner monologue where the seiyuu voices it, you might be correct in that the exact wording cannot be found; however, that would be hard to confirm. Since the sempai/kouhai relationship and the don't-confess-feelings-directly cultural element are both so standard in Japanese culture, it would be hard to pin-point and verify the earliest case of this moment documented in the anime medium, because you would need to be looking at the earliest anime TV films and series produced in the 60s that contain school settings, or possibly you would even need to check through the older propaganda films and shorts of the previous decades (which are difficult to get ahold of, even for anime scholars). That would entail investigating all the genres ranging from shounen sci-fi to shoujo sports series. Though I am not very familiar with 60s anime, I can say, at the least, that you can find this "notice me, senpai" moment, though not the exact phrasing, in many anime produced in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Such an English phrase would be summarizing the moment that we do often see occur in anime.

See also my answer to this question:

  . . . a major format of Japanese romance is to like someone who you are not friends with for a long time, and finally "confess" your feelings in a sudden love letter, on St. Valentine's Day, or on graduation day, in which the recipient must abruptly decide whether or not he/she has romantic interest in the other person -- who might not have been on the recipient's radar whatsoever. This can result in either being turned down on the spot ("I don't even know you"), a willingness to try to go on a couple dates ("Maybe I could get interested in you"), or the first-choice being the recipient is overjoyed ("I secretly pined away for you for years too!"). A lot of romantic feelings and sexual desire are never confessed, but some that are get rejected due to the format in which the potential couple does not get to know each other through friendship or casual dating before a major DTR (defining the relationship) event takes place, or reciprocal feelings are confessed right after the graduation ceremony and the respective parties part ways to go to different schools for high school or university, so the mutual interest doesn't lead anywhere.


What does "K-On!" refer to in the series?

"K-On" is pronounced the same as the word 軽音 keion, which means "light music" (in the Japanese sense, not the classical sense). The main characters are, of course, part of the light music club, which is the 軽音部 keion-bu. The "K-On club", if you will.

If you had watched it with Japanese audio, you would have probably noticed the word sprinkled all over the place (since they talk about the club a lot, obviously). The eyecatches (I forget for which season) also have audio of Yui saying "K-On". I suppose they must have changed the eyecatches to something else for the English dub.


What are the anime/manga references in Gintama

There are hardly any lists around that list them by episode, but if you want the lists, there is one on the wikia, though it is complete, it just lists them.

However, a better one, albeit being a little incomplete is available on tvtropes. This list is incomplete but it lists them in order according to the references.


How can Goku sense King Kai and Supreme Kai(s), but not Lord Beerus?

According to Dragon Ball Wikia, being a God (Divine Being/Non Mortal) and having Godly Ki are two different things. Goku and Vegeta are normal mortals but they still can harness God-Ki because of training with Whis.
Now on to your second question. As I explained above God-Ki can be obtained through training. Currently Goku and Vegeta has both the ki (Normal ki and God-ki). It is totally dependent on the characters which to use, if Goku decides to use only god-ki then his friends like Krillin would never be able to sense his power (ki). He uses both forms of ki. Even Supreme Kai have both ki, that's the reason Goku could sense him. As for proof you can visit Dragon Ball Wikia: http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Ki#Deities.
It states:

Deities use a rare form of ki, known as God Ki (神の気, Kami no Ki), which is referenced as early as the Majin Buu Saga, but fully introduced in the movie Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods. It has been shown to be far above the normal usage of ki. Despite this type of energy dwelling specifically within gods and other high-level deities, god ki can be obtained by mortals via various means, including special rituals passed down through legends, and highly intense training under the supervision of an angel.
Godly ki is a more powerful version of ki. As seen during the God of Destruction Beerus Saga, Goku is unable to be on par with Beerus until he absorbs the power of Super Saiyan God. Goku is able to briefly fight on the same level after having lost his Super Saiyan God form when his mind was adjusted to Beerus's level of power and speed. However, it is implied to have been a temporary instance. After Goku and Vegeta train with Whis, they are able to use the god power in their base and Super Saiyan forms, making the transformations more powerful at will.
The God of Destruction Beerus, his mentor Whis, their siblings, and Saiyans who obtain the power of a god are able to use this form of ki, all of them vastly surpassing almost everyone else. The Supreme Kais also possess both normal ki and godly ki as they are "Gods of Creation", the opposite of Gods of Destruction, and both Kibito Kai and Old Kai are able to sense Beerus as well. It is implied that, since they possess both normal and godly ki, they lack the strength of those with purely godly ki. Kibito also appears to have godly ki, as Dabura states that neither his or the Eastern Supreme Kai's energy can be used to release Majin Buu from the Sealed Ball.[6]
Several beings who do not possess godly ki are capable of sensing it: Dende possesses the ability to sense godly ki due to the fact he is Guardian of Earth (which would imply that Kami and the other Guardians of Earth also possess the ability to sense it as well when they held the position) and is able to sense Beerus's ki.[7] After greatly powering up to the level of the gods, both Goku and Vegeta also possess the ability to sense godly ki. Objects like scouters are unable to scan the power level of a user of godly ki. In Dragon Ball Super, Frieza gains the ability to sense godly ki after his four months of training as he can sense Super Saiyan Blue Goku's ki and feels that it is less powerful than the normal ki of his Golden Frieza form, certain beings with power or strength that surpassed Super Saiyan God (such as Future Trunks' power increase after his transformation into Super Saiyan Rage, and Frieza's clan members' power increase after achieving their Golden forms) can sense Godly ki.
Due to Goku's body being taken over by the Supreme Kai apprentice of Universe 10, Zamasu, and then engraving Goku's fighting power into his own, Goku Black possess godly ki. Every time Black transforms into his Super Saiyan Rosé form he covers himself with Godly ki.


This is not defined in the manga itself, because Hazama is a known Japanese word, not something that they made up for the story.

Hazama (狭間) doesn't translate perfectly to English, but the closest word we have for it used in that context is Interstice. But, since that is a word that very few people actually know, I can understand why they may not have bothered translating it.

Expanding out to a multi-word translation, we can look at the definition of Interstice. Interstice is a term for the space between two things, particularly when said space is very small.

The other place I found this term in the Berserk manga was all the way back in chapter 114. The Japanese title of the chapter is 魔と人の狭間 (Ma to hito no hazama) translated as "The space between Demon and Man." Here again, hazama carries the implication that the space in question is very small...considering the content of that chapter.

So, when the manga says that Guts lives in the 'World of the Hazama' it is saying that he lives in the 'World Between,' likely referring to the world of humans and the world of demons. To put it in an English phrasing: Guts is standing on the fence between the world of demons and humans.


They are not easy to beat, Ash isn't just your average trainer. He might seem stupid/have really weak pokemon sometimes, but he is kind of world class when you look at some of his greatest accomplishments. And many gym leaders do beat him, and he eventually comes back to win. Gym masters do beat most challengers, just beating all of a region's gyms is qualification enough to take on the Elite four.

Also, gym masters are normally trainers who work within the rules of the gym, a fighting master tends to mainly have fighting pokemon, so will always be at a disadvantage to a trainer who wanders in with a bunch of psychic/flying pokemon. They are never portrayed as invincible or easy, just a bunch of tough trainers, well above the average guy wandering around with a bunch of pokemon.


How do Japanese viewers watch the Japanese dub of RWBY?

According to Wikipedia:

  A local Japanese dub is being developed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Japan, with plans for release on Blu-ray and DVD in 2015, marking the first time an American-produced anime-inspired series has been marketed in Japan.

So it appears that the Japanese release is limited to those media.


Was there ever a reason for why becoming a super saiyan became easy for the trunks and goten?

The mixture of races is the answer. Gohan also become very young, but had more difficulties to release its power.

In the anime it is said that Goten and Trunks had fighting each other for fun, it probably gave them the skills needed to become.


How did Shouko initially feel about Ishida?

Introduction

We don't get to see Shoko's thoughts and feelings about anything; this is an important theme of the story. We get other characters' perspectives and thus we can be relatively certain of what they're thinking, but we only get to see Shoko through the lens of these viewpoint characters. Even when the story is told through Shoko's perspective later on, it is murky and jumbled, making it hard to understand exactly what she's thinking. Thus, we can only ascertain how she initially felt about Shoya through her actions and by what she says.

With this in mind, I believe there is enough evidence to indicate she did not initially have romantic feelings towards Shoya. Firstly, let us keep in mind that Shoko is not an oblivious idiot, as Shoya first suspected (see page 95 of first volume). When Shoko asks Shoya for Miyoko's contact info, it becomes apparent to both Shoya and readers that Shoko is acutely aware of what was going on.

Shoko's Reaction When Shoya Appears Again

At the beginning of Volume 2, we see that Shoko's initial reaction to Shoya reappearing in her life is to run away. She decides to hear him out after he trips, but her expressions throughout the chapter seem to indicate displeasure or perhaps uncertainty), at least until Shoya shows that he knows sign language. This doesn't tell us how she initially felt about him, but it does tell us that at the end of their time together in elementary school, she didn't like him.

Shoko's Initial Reaction to Shoya

Just from reading Shoya's facial expressions, it seems that Shoko grows to distrust Shoya, and perhaps even to dislike him. In greeting, she gives Shoya the same cheery smile she gives everyone else, but this soon changes. In Chapter 2: Just One Of Those Things, there are three interactions (identical in terms of structure) between Shoko and Shoya on pages 75, 81, and 83. In each one, Shoko's expression becomes more and more wary. In the final one, her eyebrows slant downward ever so slightly when she notices Shoya, perhaps conveying a hint of anger. And this is all before Shoya begins his bullying in earnest. Getting told not to sing, having dust poured on her, and getting her hearing aids thrown out windows is unlikely to make Shoko develop a crush on Shoya. The normal reaction to such incidents would be a growing fear or hatred of the perpetrator.

This was not the first time Shoko was bullied, and she caught on very quickly to Shoya's mockery. Far from having a crush on Shoya, I think we can conclude that Shoko didn't like him.

Shoko Asks to Be Friends

There is an incident, just after Shoya injures Shoko by pulling on the apparatus in her right ear, where Shoko uses sign language to ask to be friends. This might be a singular piece of evidence supporting the idea that Shoko has a crush on Shoya, however, the timing doesn't really make sense for this; getting injured as she did should make this a low point in their relationship. But this incident can also be interpreted another way. Initially, Shoko apologizes to Shoya with her notebook, even though Shoya should be the one apologizing to her. This may just be Shoko's attempt to resolve her bullying situation. Her initial apology might indicate Shoko thinks she did something to upset Shoya, and this is why he's bullying her. In this desperate attempt, Shoko hopes to make amends and become friends so she won't be bullied anymore.

After Shoya Starts Getting Bullied

Which brings us to the point where Shoya starts getting bullied and why Shoko tried to help him. As previously stated, Shoko was aware of what was happening. She also blamed herself (we see Yuzuru speculate on this in Volume 2, page 138). She knew that her presence and her disability created a disruption in the class. Just as in the case of Miyoko, Shoko blamed herself for the bullying that happened to Shoya, and this is why she cleans off the messages on his desk, and why she tries to make things right by helping him out.

Conclusion

Later in the series, Naoka comments on how boys pick on girls they like, speaking as though this proves Shoko liked Shoya in elementary school, but I believe this reflects more on Naoka's jealousy than it does on how Shoko felt about the situation. I think it is reasonable to assume that Shoko disliked Shoya in elementary school, and that she only grew to like him after seeing the effort he made to correct his past mistakes.

All references are to Kodansha Comic's English version of the manga.


Apparently, it's a parody from a popular Monty Python sketch titled "Spam". It's about two customers who order a breakfast from a menu that includes Spam in almost every dish.

As usual, a lot of other shows also have to censored some brand or replace it with similar names to the real-life brand, so that the producers can avoid copyright issues. Some other show also tend to censored part of the show if it's a parody to other show for same reason.

This is a video from Girls und Panzer OVA 2 and Monty Python - Spam

And this is a picture for comparison in case if the video is removed:

Spam is actually used as military food in World War II.

  Spam is a brand of several canned precooked meat products made by the Hormel Foods Corporation. It was first introduced in 1937 and gained popularity worldwide after its use during World War II.(1)

Spam was used by U.S. military occupation after World War II into Guam, Hawaii, Okinawa, the Philippine Islands, and other islands in the Pacific as one of their military food.

  The term spam in the context of electronic communications is derived from this sketch.(2)

Sources:

(1) - Wikipedia: "Spam (food)"
(2) - Wikipedia: "Spam (Monty Python)"


How did the Female Titan manage to get out of her titan form and escape while surrounded by a horde of titans?

You may have missed this, but it was actually explained near the end of the episode.
Whilst riding on horseback

Zoe: Erwin, why did you order Levi to resupply? There's no time to waste.
Erwin: The female-form Titan was eaten. But did you see the person inside get eaten? I didn't.
Zoe: You can't mean...
Erwin: Ah, yes. If your original hypothesis was correct, they can still move to a degree after regaining human form. If they'd prepared 3D Maneuver Gear in advance...

Major spoiler for those who have not finished watching Attack on Titans
After this we see (unbeknownst to the audience yet), Annie zooming through the trees using already prepared 3D Maneuver Gear
Then we head back to Erwin talking again...

Erwin: The person inside the female-form titan is wearing our uniform right now... The enemy is now camouflaged as one of the troops.

Annie was able to escape her titan form because you can still move to a degree even after regaining human form, which would explain why she was able to escape before getting eaten herself.