I recommend that you wait until the anime explains it all.

Anyway, spoiler alert!

Well it's not just one power, it's a set of powers combined together.

Master all five basic nature transformations and the capacity to use any technique.
The Rinnegan allows the user to see chakra.
Rinnegan's field of vision can be multiple due to animated body's or summons.
Grants the ability to summon and control the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
Creating corporeal shadows which are only visible to the Rinnegan.
Shift spaces within a certain range.
Control over life and death.
Transmit their chakra to black receivers as well as manifest the chakra chains (to control Tailed Beast or use a dead body as a host).
Planet creation.
Six Paths Technique.

Six Paths Technique can be divided into 6 (just like its name lol :) )

Deva Path—can be used to attract and repel targets.
Asura Path—can clad the user in mechanised armour and grant them various weapons.
Human Path—can read minds, at the cost of ripping out the victim's soul.
Animal Path—can summon various creatures.
Preta Path—can absorb any chakra-based ninjutsu and even from a person's body.
Naraka Path—can summon the King of Hell, which can be used for interrogation and restoration.

Answer is based on Anime & Manga and the naruto.wikia.com.
For more info, see naruto.wikia.com.


Did the fight between Orochi and Saitama happened in the webcomic like it just happened in the manga?

Orochi does not exist in the webcomic.  Instead Gyoro-Gyoro is the official leader of the Monster Association, rather than its "Military Advisor" and shadow leader.

The wiki's trivia section for Orochi indicates he may have originally been intended by ONE (who came up with the character for the manga) to provide a better challenge to Tatsumaki and the combined S-class, perhaps to create an opening for Gyoro-Gyoro to disable Tatsumaki.


Why is Sakurai-sensei always sweating like a sprinkler?

No matter who Sakurai-sensei is talking to (other teachers, students, etc) she has those panic bubbles/sweat drops around her.

I took this to mean she's just a naturally nervous person instead of being uncomfortable around people. I can't think of anything in the show that implied she was uncomfortable around others since she was always willing to help and talk.


From what I was able to gather, yes, she does. From a Q&A,

  Murata : Hahaha there is no such setting about no panties

Furthermore,

  According to Murata, few years ago the animation team from Madhouse asked him whether Tatsumaki is wearing any panties, to which he answered she does.

The webcomic also depicts her wearing one and King even sees them.

While the images in the manga might seem to contradict these statements from Murata himself, she could be wearing a type of underwear similar to a C-string or G-string, in which case it would make sense that it's not that visible to the point that she doesn't seem to wear any. Murata never stated what type they were, after all and even joked about planning to use ONE's 'diaper-like' depiction of her panties when he will draw that particular scene someday.


Trying to find a song from Assassination Classroom episode 19

This is track #18 from the season 1 soundtrack, titled 「エレクトリック会議」 Electric Kaigi "Electric Meeting". You can listen to an excerpt from this piece (and the rest of the OST, too) on the Amazon Japan page for the album.


What is the soundtrack playing in One Piece when god Usopp is held up by the giant?

The theme is Fuyu ni Saku, Kiseki no Sakura. It is played when the giant picked up god Usopp.


Manga volume for end of season 1 of Bleach anime

According to Wikipedia and from what I can surmise from the summaries there, the entirety of Season 1 is covered in the first eight volumes, ending at about chapter 70, just a bit before they arrive to Soul Society.

If you want to pick it up from there, Volume 9 would be where you'd want to start from.


Does Sasori control Sharingan-wielding puppets?

Can a puppet made by Sasori use abilities like Sharingan?  Yes, provided that they were actually Human Puppets.

  By removing the internal organs of a foe and preserving the body to prevent decomposition, as well as adding weapons and defences, Sasori can make powerful human puppets. These puppets are different from normal ones, as they retain their use of chakra and any kekkei genkai that the human host once had.

The likely scenario is that the chakra cost isn't incurred by Sasori himself, but rather by the puppet, so the abilities used by the puppet would be limited to the former original person's own chakra strength.  If they were actual members of the Uchiha clan before being transformed instead of shinobi which transplanted the eyes into themselves, then the likely case is that the chakra cost is negligible.

Interestingly enough, a handful of them (according to Narutopedia) are actually former Sharingan users, and are part of his Hundred Puppet Army (likely a part of what you're witnessing), although the fact that they have Sharingan isn't exploited in any media, according to any existing sources.


Could Amaterasu be used without a sharingan by sealing it like Jiraiya did?

Such a technique was never used in both anime and manga. However, judging from the way the sealing technique works, I suppose it can be used that way. The evidence for this is Tenten's usage of weaponries.

Tenten stores her weapons in a scroll by putting the said weapons on the open scroll and use a jutsu to seal it into the scroll.

Jiraiya stores the Amaterasu into a scroll too as shown in the question you mentioned.

Thus, as long as you use it within 7 days after its sealing, you can use it as a weapon. Although, to be on the safe side, you better throw the scroll away from you before you release it.

It is not clear whether time passes when being sealed in a paper scroll, thus it is not guaranteed that the scroll will work after the 7 days expiration time of Amaterasu.


Ash used a Haunter to battle Sabrina

not exactly, Ash befriended Haunter (as he was never really caught with a Pokeball) to fight against Sabrina's Kadabra but it never actually was used in battle. the first time it had wandered off and in their escape Brock and Misty were caught and turned into dolls

  Ash returned with a Haunter he had befriended. Ash challenged Sabrina to a rematch, but Haunter had wandered off in the meantime. Ash managed to escape Sabrina's wrath, rescued by the mysterious man once again, but Brock and Misty were transformed into dolls and placed into a dollhouse, where they met Sabrina's mother in the same predicament.

Source: Sabrina - In the Anime - In the Main Series (5th Paragraph)

and Haunter still didn't fight in the second re-match

  Ash returned once more, and during the match, Haunter appeared and started to playfully tease Sabrina. Haunter's antics delighted Sabrina so much, that she was no longer able to contain her emotions and started to laugh. This caused her two personalities to merge back into one. Ash was deemed the winner of the match due to the inability of Sabrina or her psychically-linked Pokémon to battle, and he won the Marsh Badge. Haunter chose to stay with Sabrina and her reunited family.

Source: Sabrina - In the Anime - In the Main Series (6th Paragraph)

as you can see after Sabrina's personalities merged back together and everyone was restored Haunter decided to remain with Sabrina and her family.


What is the name of this song from the Funimation Dub of DBZ?

That song is the SoundTrack 7 of DragonBall Z.

You can hear it here.

And for more of the DragonBall Z soundtrack album here you have a full playlist with all of them.


As far as we know it's not (or not necessarily) the chairman of the Magic Council who decides who becomes a Wizard Saint. In Erza's vision about her funeral it was stated that the vote of the entire council decided that she should be a Wizard Saint. Later Jura also states that it is the Council who appoints the members.

With that in mind, I'm pretty sure that the Council takes whatever factors they want to take into consideration when pointing out Wizard Saints. Which means there is not a single score sheet, and if you score 5 points in magical power and 4 points in teamwork then you can become a Wizard Saint.

Strength however is one factor that they definitely consider, but that' not an ultimate factor for the decision as Jellal, for example, being a Wizard Saint was defeated by Natsu and that didn't make Natsu a Wizard Saint.


Did Kino no Tabi (2017 Remake) ever release a soundtrack?

As of current writing (June 2019), no, Kino no Tabi (2017) hasn't released its OST yet.

From the anime's official site (Japanese), the only product listed in the Music category is the OP&ED CD and the limited-edition DVD (which contains the MV for here and there).


Fate/hollow ataraxia is the official sequel to Fate/stay night. It has radically different feeling to it, bringing more comical relief and tongue-in-cheek references, but it's as close to "canon" as we can get. It doesn't follow any particular route from F/SN.

I didn't read F/HA, but here's how TYPE-MOON Wiki references Sakura's development:

  In Fate/hollow ataraxia, Sakura lives a peaceful life in Fuyuki City,
  which Rin has left in Sakura's care while she is at the Mage's
  Association, and Rider comments that Sakura is now the popular new
  captain of the school archery club. Sakura's dark side still exists,
  but appears only for comic relief. Shinji reveals to Shirou that
  Sakura assumed control of the Matou household, and both he and Zouken
  are terrified of her.

  In the eclipse story The backside of Kibisis Rider and Sakura seem to
  work together to seduce Shirou and engage in a threesome with him.
  Actually this is all Rider's doing, trying to get Shirou to pursue
  Sakura more aggressively. Yet in the middle, Shirou realizes the truth
  and reverses her spell on her, in the end revealing to viewers that
  Rider herself has deep feelings for Shirou. Sakura appearing in this
  episode is only a conjecture by Rider's spell, a representation of
  Rider's true intentions of her actions.

There doesn't seem to be any canonical explanation beyond this. Personally, I think it's part of why people like Heaven's Feel so much: the thought of Sakura undergoing torments under Zouken until she dies just doesn't feel right.


In the Fate/Stay Night Visual Novel, why is Rider listed as Chaotic Good?

Fundamentally, Rider doesn't seem to shy away from evil deeds - most notably her actions at the school. She doesn't perform them with glee, but unlike, say, Saber, she doesn't resist her Master's commands when they lead her in that direction.

I tried to obtain a full transcript of the game to analyze every time she is mentioned as "evil"; however I couldn't find any. The following is from my memory: Most narration is made from the standpoint of another character, usually Emiya Shirou. And you can't blame him, or his compatriots, for labeling Rider as evil; however, most of this is more due to her Master's orders.

  In Heaven's Feel, Rider's true goal is revealed - and it is, in fact, a noble one. All of the previous events are implied to have been because of her loyalty to Sakura - disobeying Zouken or Shinji would have had direct repercussions on her. In fact, Rider is significantly more powerful in Heaven's Feel than in any other path - this is most likely due to a reluctance and half-heartedness when obeying Shinji; in other words, she was faking it and not giving her all in hopes of being defeated.


What's "an OB" in the Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru manga?

According to the Oct. 1965 issue of Black Belt magazine:

  Beginning of (the Second Sino-Japanese War) in 1940, about 30% of Japanese colleges and universities had campus karate clubs allied with one or another of four principal schools of karate, referred to as "ryu." In addition to the club on campus, each of these universities had what is referred to as an "O.B." karate club. "O.B." here stood for "Old Boys" and was made up by the particular school's alumni.

These OB clubs typically served as advisors for the student clubs. So "OB" here most likely refers to alumni, a graduate or elder disciple and liaison of sorts of that particular school, some of whom might later become instructors.

It would make sense, judging by the notches on Tachiyama's belt that he's a senior amongst the Judo club.

Here are the original pages for reference:


Piccolo-Gohan fusion, can it be allowed in the Universal Tournament?

With the introduction of Kefla, Fusion is definitely allowed, even with Potarra earrings.

Techniques which causes fusion are definitely allowed, as seen in the example of Aniraza.


It's how Japanese interpret phonetically the cries of foxes, the english equivalent to "woof". There's no special meaning in the title.


According to the Katanagatari wiki, the Nokogiri doesn't have any poison but has the ability to cure the effects of the poison from the other swords:

  A wooden sword that sharply contrasts its title as "King of Swords", it is in the possession of Zanki Kiguchi. Unlike the other Deviant Blades, it doesn't have any of the poison found in Kiki's blades. It is the purest blade with the ability to cure the effects of the poison the other swords have on their owners. A small floral mark and yellowish streak on the sword identifies it as Nokogiri.


As Senshin already mentions. It is never explicitly stated how Menma died exactly.

However certain events, and symbolisms do hint towards how she most likely did die. The most common one being the slipper next to the river bank, implying that she fell/drowned in the river.

During the anime there were several events hinting to this happening as well.

Poppo mentions that he saw Menma drifting away on the day she died
Jintan almost fell into the river while running to find Menma
Jintan catches Anaru as she almost slipped down this same hill

All these events together make it all the more likely that she tripped and fell down into the river. Whether she had been passed out due to the fall, just couldn't swim, or couldn't beat the river streams, is something we most likely will never know.


Makiko Itoh answered the question "Do people in Japan actually eat tanuki in hot pot?". A side information of her shows "I write about Japanese food and cooking and am Japanese".
I quote her answer below:

A long, long time ago it may have been more widely eaten, but these days it rarely is. Even when it is eaten it's limited to certain regions, and to certain seasons. Tanuki are omnivores, and the meat of omnivores is supposed to be very unpleasant.
You do see a lot of dishes that are called tanuki, e.g. tanuki udon, but that usually means it has some tenkasu (tempura batter crumbs) in it. The 'tanuki' part of such dishes has nothing to do with the animal - it comes from 'tanenuki', or 'no main ingredient/filling' - i.e. tempura batter without the shrimp or vegetable or whatever.

Another article, which writes about interesting names of food, says:

Do Japanese people eat fox and raccoon dog?
“No way!”
Don’t worry!  They are  just a name of foods and any fox and raccoon dog are NOT cooked.

(Raccoon dog = Tanuki)

Another answer by bluemoonmemory for the question "Do people really eat tanuki?":

Because raccoon dog is not cultivated but just hunting game in limited
official hunting season, the supply is scarcely limited. Most of
Japanese never eat tanuki but rabit or sort of fake instead actually.
In addition, tanuki soba or tanuki udon is just name only. It doesn't
contain any tanuki meat or tanuki extract. It is soba or udon with
topping something non-animal products deep-fried that old people long
time ago once had thought it as if tasted like tanuki or much better.
Raccoon dog meat has heavy animal smell urinal. This modern society of
Japan people prefer beef, pork and/or chicken much more to wild animal
meat. They don't need to eat tanuki anymore.

With these information, I would say that Japanese generally do not eat tanuki. Only the food is called like that, but it is actually made from other animal or even vegeratarian. But I would not deny that it is eaten in some regions, and especially a long time ago.


What's the meaning behind ZQN designation for the zombies in I Am A Hero?

In chapter 220, it is explained that, officially, "ZQN" is an acronym made up by the US military that means "Zero Qualified Nucleus," though it is almost certainly a backronymic pun on the Japanese internet slang word "DQN" (pronounced dokyun):

  [ＤＱＮ]{ドキュン} (Noun)

  dumb-ass (slang, derogatory)
  delinquent; violent person; rough-looking person (slang, derogatory)

    -adapted from jisho.org


How did Light knew that L will cause Misa's death?

He couldn't, as mentioned a number of times, Lights's ultimate plot to use Rem to kill L was a huge gamble, however things were more of less siding with him

L said to Light (with Rem present) that the Kira's will be executed
Misa was not present in the room when L said to Light that the Kira's would be executed, this means Rem could not see if Misa's life span had changed as a result of L's decision to see the Kira's executed or confirm if Light's actions caused the change (Rem had pointed out to Light before the switching of the Death Notes (i think when Misa first goes to Light's place) that Misa's lifespan was monitored )
L had explained to Light the physical evidence he had found indicating Misa as the 2nd Kira before her imprisonment, this would be enough for Misa to be imprisoned once again and now that L knew how Kira kills he would be able to find the Death Note much faster (Misa now had her original Death Note but now owned by Ryuk, because Rem would've explained its use to Misa the rules wouldn't have been written, before learning of the Death Note Light did plan on explaining that the Death Note was a log for the Kira Case which would then explain the people's names and times)

All Rem could do at the time was assume that L would cause Misa's death and because L had also noted that Misa was just about to be arrested Rem had no time to investergate


Where is Nagi Sanzenin at in this picture below from Hayate the Combat Butler?

That's from Episode 15 of the second season of Hayate no Gotoku where Hayate, Maria and Nagi all make a trip to the Shimoda Onsen. When they arrive at "Nai" station, somewhere before Shimoda station, Nagi gets off the train to get food, thinking that she'd be able to get back on because of the ticket, but the train leaves.
No idea where "Nai" station is or if it's real. Google maps doesn't appear to list any stations called "ない" anywhere near the vicinity.

Just to clarify, the station's entire name that's listed is simply "Nai". Though
as senshin suggested, it may be related to one of the two existing stations on the Shimoda line.


In Fairy Tail, are Ishigar and Alakitasia the only two continents?

As far as I remember there are currently only two continents defined, Ishgar and Alakitasia. In chapter 439 page 14 there is a map showing the original purpose of the Alvarez empire, which is inhabiting Alakitasia, is to invade Ishgar from over the sea. In this map it shows more land that has not been mentioned before, to the north/north-east of Ishgar and east of Alakitasia, which could be another continent. So yes, this does leave land for possibly another cotenant.

Here is the map that I mention above:


As far as I know, no hero that Garou defeated ever died in the manga. As noted here:

  Although Garou is a villain and considered evil by most, he possesses a sense of morality: he fights heroes in a way without killing them, but he is okay with others killing heroes.


Should I watch the K movie ("Missing Kings") before watching the second season ("Return of Kings")?

You should watch the movie, as it is related to the storyline of Return of The Kings (ROTK). If you don't, you will not know the major changes that have been made, nor the main villain of ROTK, nor will you know what happened to Shiro. These were all revealed in the movie. They would just allow Shiro to show up and you would not know what happened to him or how he was revived. Though it's just him

   using his powers to regenerate a body and being collected by the dying Golden king.

So yes, you should watch the movie before ROTK in order to avoid being confused by all the sudden changes in ROTK, since even the movie occurs after a time skip after the ending of the first season.


Spoiler alert

Quoting Volume 4 of the light novel,

  different from the usual two wings of devils, one wing was of a devil and the other one was the black wing of a fallen angel.

This is the basis for the scene you saw in High School DxD New.

Now, the background story of Akeno is that she originally possess only fallen angel wings. She was born of a Miko and a fallen angel. However, due to persecution from her mother's family, she ran away and then met Rias, who turned her into a devil, causing her to own both devil wings and fallen angel wings.

The cover of the novel shows her with demon wings. DxD BorN also shows her with devil wings.

So, a logical conclusion that we can draw is that

Akeno has both a pair of devil wings.
She can make a pair of both. For example left wing is that of a devil and right is that of a fallen angel or vice versa.


Why is Misato Tachibana always shooting Koujirou Sasahara?

That is because Tachibana is a Tsundere, she even got her own slang term of it due to her extreme tsundere attitude, called GUNdere.

Misato Tachibana is a peach haired high school girl who generally acts cold towards Koujirou whenever he does anything that reminds her of how she likes him, or simply doing anything at all. She is a member of the Kendo club.
Misato's feelings usually materialize as assault with various guns and heavy weaponry that come out of nowhere, which Koujirou miraculously survives despite being injured, and just turns white with the dust. In reality Misato has feelings for Koujirou, but due to her tsundere attitude, she constantly denies her feelings and shoots Koujirou. She somehow manages to always trace everything back to Koujirou in conversations, even when he wasn't involved in it, leading her to wildly deny accusations, such as marriage and children, that nobody said. - Wiki


Relationship between the Shin Sekai Yori manga and anime?

SeventhStyle's review (quoted in Dimitri mx's answer) touches on the major issue with the Shinsekai Yori manga. The manga has brazenly explicit visuals, unsurprisingly almost entirely of Maria and Saki3 engaging in lesbian antics.1 Sure, (homo)sexuality was a major theme of the novel, but the manga really is just in bad taste, going out of its way to have Maria and Saki fornicate whenever they get a free moment. It's pretty clear that the manga isn't targeted at the same mature demographic as the novel was.2
In any case, the plot of the manga isn't identical to the novel plot, though it is similar. For example, just from volume 1 of the manga, we have the following major differences:

 When the gang is on the excursion trip at the beginning, they don't find the false minoshiro; when the queerats attack later on, Rijin isn't there to help them; and they don't get split up or taken captive during the queerat attack, and hence all five of them are present when they meet Squealer. Also, there are 3 random sex scenes featuring Maria and Saki.

Summary: if you like lesbian antics, read the manga. If not, feel free to skip it. The novel and anime are pretty much objectively superior.

Notes
1 Why them and not, say, Satoru and Shun, or Shun and Saki? Well, who do you think is reading this? (Answer: teenage boys, for the most part)
2 The Shinsekai Yori novel was a proper novel, targeted at people with excellent reading knowledge of the Japanese language. The manga, on the other hand, is replete with furigana (phonetic reading aids), which are used primarily in works targeted at people who have not yet mastered reading Japanese, i.e. school-age children.
3 See spoiler below:

 And also Reiko when she's still around.


In Overlord, did the Slane Theocracy intentionally target Shaltear for mind control?

No they where not targeting her, they had another target in mind and when they ran into her decided to target her instead because of the threat she posed to them. If I remember right it is explained in better detail in volume 3 of the light novel.

https://www.quora.com/Who-are-the-ones-who-controlled-Shalltear-in-the-Overlord-anime-How-do-they-move-behind-the-scenes-and-why

   The Slane theocracy sent the black scripture on a recon mission to the country of E Rantel to both protect and use the world item Downfall of Castle and Country to prepare for the resurrection of the Catastrophe Dragon Lord. They happened to come across Shalltear after she killed the death bringing brigade and tried to use the item on her, however she was able to fight against the effects long enough to kill lady Kaide, the one who was using DOCAC. This resulted in Shalltear being mind controlled by a dead person, meaning that she was being controlled by no one. As such, she returned to her basic “Setting” if you can call it that I.e self defence.

From what I read it was a case of bad luck for both sides

   The group was sent over behind the scenes as no one but them knew they were there. Similarly to how a country that sends an elite recon group to another country and then that country withdraws, leaving no trace. ainz knows they had to be someone powerful to have the world item, but he doesn’t know who. It could be E Rantel (unlikely cause ainz would know). Baharuth empire, (again unlikely cause ainz would know, so it is only a matter of time until Ainz finds out.


Why is Suzuha pre-destined to die in 2000?

From the wikia:

  However, she dies cause of an illness due to her time travelling in 2000 at the age of 43.

It just seems like the time traveling had a physical toll on her body which caused her death.


How could Deku hit 1000,000% One for All punch when he had no memory of it?

It was confirmed by the Author that it wasn't actually 1000,000%. Deku said that to pump himself up.

This is explained in this article, as well as the image below:


There's a manga I like and I want it published in the West. What can I do about it?

The best way to get a title licensed is to show that there is interest in the title via sending questions/tweets, e-mails, or filling out various companies' surveys. For example, Seven Seas Entertainment has a monthly reader's survey, and part of the survey asks you which Japanese manga series and which Japanese light novel series you would like to see licensed and published. They do tally the results.

Also, publishers in the west sometimes have ties to the series of a company, author, etc. (it's case by case), so it's worth looking into whether the company can legally license it at all. For example, here are some ties:

Shueisha/Shogakukan - Viz Media
Square Enix - Yen Press
Kodansha - Kodansha USA or Vertical

See also this reddit thread and Seven Seas Entertainment's ask.fm feed.


Does Dabura and Kid Buu fusion have a name?

This isn't a fusion. Buu has an ability to absorb a character if he pleases, and his power skyrockets and he takes on a modified appearance based on the character he absorbs. We have seen him do this to Gotenks, Gohan, and Picollo. These iterations of Buu have been referred to as Buutenks, Buuhan and Buucolo, which aren't canon names but just used by fans for convenience. For example, Buuhan is referred to as Super Buu(With Gohan absorbed).This here is a version of Buu with Dabura absorbed. Dabura assumes he defeated Buu and focuses his attention on Goku. He is caught off guard by Buu and absorbed. This is the result of the same you see here. So there is no official name for this iteration of Buu, (Possibly, Kid Buu(With Dabura absorbed) and Based on the pattern of some of the previous fan names, the character could possibly be referred to as Buubura.


2001 to 2010 - the manga is published.
Fall 2003 to Fall 2004 - the first anime is aired.
Spring 2009 to Summer 2010 - the second anime (Brotherhood) is aired.

As you can see, the ending of the manga was timed to coincide with the end of Brotherhood.


What does Captain Kurotsuchi do to Nemu in Bleach Episode 200?

The manga doesn't explicitly state what Mayuri did, and Uryuu makes the same remark.

However, it seems very likely that Mayuri fiddled with Nemu's "reset button"1, based on her moaning (see screenshot below), and his remark:

  You can't even understand something that simple by looking at it?

He later derides Uryuu and Renji for reaching wrong conclusions, and calls them laymen who do not understand his technology. This suggests that he might have given Nemu something like a Tantric Massage. Laymen watching it in our world would reach exactly the same wrong conclusion.

I know the above theory is a speculation, but this is as much evidence I can provide to support it. I guess we won't know any more of what he did for the reason Uryuu mentions.

1 Sorry, I cannot be more explicit than that. I hope you know what I mean.


Soundtrack for Yamada-kun to 7-nin no Majo TV anime

CDJapan seems to have the cd in stock - http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/MBR-30S

According to the webpage it was released in June.

The composer is Masaru Yokoyama who has done songs for several anime series, including Freezing and Your Lie in April


What reference is this scene involving riding a bicycle to watch the sunrise making?

It's a reference to Ghibli Studio's Whisper of the Heart.
The BGM sounds like Country Roads which also happens to be the theme song of the film.


They're not actually whiskers. They're whisker marks, just marks on his face that resemble whiskers.
Yes, this has to do with the kyuubi. When Naruto was influenced by Kurama prior to birth, he gained the whisker marks:

Naruto's most prominent physical characteristics, however, are the whisker marks on his face that he gained from Kurama's influence on him while he was in Kushina's womb.
  — Naruto Uzumaki, Naruto Wiki

The reason Naruto's mother did not have them is because these are as a result of prolonged exposure (being in the womb) rather than the beast simply being sealed within the host.

 Both of Naruto's kids, Bolt and Himawari, have two whisker marks on each cheek, neither of them is a Jinchuuriki but both are the children of Kurama's Jinchuuriki, which implies that this is an inherited trait.


The celestial entered Tiz when you started a new game, then left him as the credits were ending.

You are the Celestial occupying Tiz's body.

The Celestial realm that Ouroboros is trying to break into is the real world (the 3DS camera even turns on and blends your face into the background during the final battle after Ouroboros says that he's approaching the Celestial Realm). Ouroboros is also talking directly to you when he asks if pretending to care about the party has alleviated your boredom.

The AR movie at the start is supposed to be Anges briefly breaking into the real world (the Celestial Realm) to beg you to intervene.

The extra movie is a sneak peak of Bravely Second. He wakes up from the coma because the celestial (you) came back to him for the next game.


Why Ban's scar made by Meliodas didnt completely heal?

This is due to the technique Meliodas used to inflict the wound: HellBlaze

This abillity nullifies regenerative powers, but also the power of immortality.
Meaning this power could actually kill even the immortal Ban.
As this power also stopped his regenerative power on that spot, the wound never managed to fully heal back in accordance with his immortal regenerative power.
But instead regenerates as a normal wound would have, by scaring.

   Hellblaze is a dark and mysterious power connected to the Demon Clan.
 It allows the user to generate and control black flames that cannot be
 extinguished. In addition to its immensely devastating power, the
 flames also nullify any regenerative abilities including that of an
 immortal.


Is there an official statement about Detective Conan's ending?

There hasn't been any official announcement related to the end of the manga or the anime, but here's an interview with Aoyama Gosho which took place in 2011.

  I really didn't expect it to last this long. I thought it might end after the first volume. Also, about the name "Conan," initially the editor-in-chief told me to change it to Detective Doyle because there was already an anime called Conan, The Boy in Future (directed by Miyazaki Hayao), but I said “I'd overtake The Boy in Future!” and it finally got through. But the new serialization's announcement said Tantei Shonen Conan/Detective Boy Conan, and I thought no way, this is pretty bad (laughs). However, about 10 years ago, someone from Ghibli* said to me, “when you talk about Conan now you'd be referring to the detective,” and I thought “Yes, I did it!”

This should clear most of your questions.


The Future Trunks Arc hasn't been aired yet, the story hasn't been told, how do we know the plot?

But since I have a pretty reasonable answer to share, I might just answer it anyways. But it also contains spoilers, so... yeah.

  Based on what I know about the next arc, it's all about time travel, and yes, the game Dragon Ball Xenoverse is all about time travel too, and also the game's sequel, it both featured Future Trunks. If you played the game before, or know a bit about the game. Future Trunks from Xenoverse and Online works for Supreme Kai of Time as her assistant and the head of the Time Patrol, his job is to mainly fixing distorted timelines.Towa and Mira were the two major villains that travel through time to destroy the history. Besides that, Towa can cast dark magic on enemies which gives the user pure red eyes and a dark aura, pretty much turning them into demons.So, the evil / black Goku is probably from an alternate timeline (defeated the heart virus) and been cast by Towa's dark magic, and turn him into her pawn to assist her evil plan. Future Trunks from that timeline fought the evil Goku and was overwhelmed, he barely escaped into the main timeline to ask for help once again.

Though, it's just a theory, I might be wrong, or not even close.


So far there has been no reference to another person who can absorb the Genki Dama other than the creator, which happens accidentally in the latest Dragon Ball Super episode. Hypothetically speaking, I don't think a person with good ki can absorb it, although they aren't harmed, A Genki Dama Bomb is still an attack used to defeat foes who's ki isn't 'good', So it is safe to assume that Goku will only use it against people he knows it'll harm. Having someone with good ki absorb it would most probably make them OP so it is probable that it is introduced later in order to defeat a strong character.


Why there are many scenes in anime that take place on the roof?

There are many reasons for people to go to rooftops.
One of those reasons would be Combat.

if the characters spend all their time in a crowded school or office
building, the roof might be the only place that they feel like they have any room to maneuver for a fight. Bonus points if the building has some other reason to be up there, such as a rooftop garden, heliport, or basketball court. source

Usually the protagonist doesn't want to fight in a crowded place where people might get hurt ( there are some exceptions ). They usually move to a place where the least damage can be done to the surroundings Aka the rooftops.
Another reason would be alone time

With the usual size of homes in Japan, sometimes the only option available to a character who desperately needs to be alone is to climb up and sit on the roof of their house. There they can look up at the night sky and contemplate their place in the universe in peace and quiet. source

In allot of story's the main protagonist lives in a crowded city and as described the only place to go would be The roof top
As for schools in japan there are many different layouts. Smaller schools with less place for club activity's might actually place clubs as the gardening club on the roof. Allowing the club to exist without taking to much space away for other clubs making the roof a more pleasant place to stay for students there for preferring them to eat lunch and hangout on the roof more often.
In other scenarios the school might not use the roof for anything and there will be no attention on the roof. There for making it the perfect place for socially awkward and or weird protagonists to eat there lunch without getting disturbed.
I left my answer to these 2 specific as your pictures hint the most to these 2 scenarios. if you where to list all potential roof top scenarios this answer would become to broad/big


Why is Okosan the only one without a Human representation?

According to Moa on Saturday Hatoful Boyfriend panel Q&A with Moa and Damurushi @ AOD 2016,

The reason Okosan doesn't have a human portrait is because the real-life Okosan is family to Moa, and attaching her own "human" image to him would feel strange.
(Source)


How can Obito use his Mangekyo so often?

Obito's left Sharingan is in posession of Hatake Kakashi, so let's compare Obito with Kakashi and the other known Uchihas.

Hatake Kakashi

To use Mangekyou Sharingan Kakashi needs to accumulate a lot of chakra before he can use Kamui on Deidara's arm. The size of the object determines the amount of chakra he needs as seen in the case where he tried to blow the neck of Juubi with that jutsu (thus, Sahan De Silva's comment is not very correct). Since he is not an Uchiha, he requires a lot more chakra and puts more burden on him than it should be as he himself mentioned. Kakashi also suffered the side effect of overusing the Mangekyou Sharingan which he mentioned during the fight between him and Sasuke.

Uchiha Itachi

Itachi was seen bleeding when using his Mangekyou Sharingan, especially when he use Amaterasu. This is due to the strain the jutsu puts on the eye. Itachi also suffers the other side effects of losing eyesight and is in pain when using it, although since he was dying at the time he was fighting Sasuke, it can also be said that the pain is also from him over-exerting himself.

Uchiha Sasuke

Sasuke also suffered the same side effect of losing eyesight and bleeding when using Amaterasu, much like Itachi was. Since Sasuke was healthy and not sickly like Itachi, it can be determined that overusing Mangekyou Sharingan puts the user in pain. He later recovered from it by transplanting Itachi's eyes and gained the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan.

Uchiha Madara

Uchiha Madara also suffered the same side effect and was thus forced to take his brother's eyes. He no longer get the negative side effects after awakening his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan.

Now, based on this fact, the only difference Obito has compared to the other Mangekyou Sharingan users is that he possessed the Senju DNA. The conclusion is, Obito didn't suffer the negative side effects of the Mangekyou Sharingan due to the Senju DNA he possessed.


What is the piano song playing in Sekaiichi Hatsukoi 2, episode 2 when Takano and Onodera viewed the snow scene?

I think I know which song you're talking about. Looking through the OST for season two helped me. I found out that maybe track 6 is the one you're looking for? It's called, " Shunjun suru Kimochi."

You can check for yourself here.

Although I didn't think that scene has a piano.

But if my suggestion is wrong, the link I provided has the full OST on the playlist. Also, the person's channel has other Sekaiichi Hatsukoi OSTs, you can try your luck there ^^


Bounties for Yonkos haven't been shown till now. And IMO, for someone as powerful as a Yonko, bounties doesn't matter much. Bounties are set so that some bounty hunter would be tempted to capture them. But yonkos being one of the most powerful forces in OP, no one would dare to capture a Yonko.

WhiteBeard- Not revealed.

Shanks- Not revealed.

Big Mam- Not revealed.

Kaido- Not revealed.

Blackbeard- Not given any bounty.


Since it is conventional for English-language anime-listing sites (e.g. MAL) to treat a break in airing as marking the end of one series and the start of another, you need some way to differentiate between the series that ended before the break and the one that started after.

In the case of something like Naruto, the second part had a different title ("Shippuuden"), which makes the task of naming the new season easy (i.e. just call it what it is). Since Fairy Tail was called "Fairy Tail" both before and after the break in airing, you need some way to distinguish between the two series on the anime-listing sites. Using the year in which the series started airing is as good a way as any.

I should emphasize that this is purely an artefact of the way that sites like MAL name series. As far as the people producing Fairy Tail are concerned, the episodes that started airing this month are part of the same series as the episodes that aired from 2009-2013. If, for example, you consult the timetable for TV Tokyo, which airs Fairy Tail, you will see that this week's episode is listed as:

  ＦＡＩＲＹ ＴＡＩＬ ～フェアリーテイル～「妖精軍師」

This is the same title that was used for the show before the break in airing (the last bit is the episode title "Yousei Gunshi", something like "Fairy Tactician").


Why are characters named Momonga named after flying squirrels?

In One Piece, the animal name is the most typical source of the character's name. You can read how the author decided the name 'Monkey' in the manga #20 Chapter 178's SBS.
The origin novel of Overlord is written on a free novel BBS Arcadia. You can read how the author decided the name 'Momonga' on the following 1st chapter (Japanese) (I'll translate just the conclusion):

※　名前でモモンガは無いですよね。
でも、普通にネットゲームをしている社会人の方なら、基本的にちょっとおちゃらけ入った名前の方が多いような気がするんですよね。私だけですかね？
口調とか、名前とか変更するときがそのうち来る予定です。
※ Momonga is a strange name.
But many working online gamers choose the strange name, I think. Just me?
I'm planning to change his tone and name.


Do individuals with the power of Titans posses the ability to time travel through the memories of future wielders of Titan powers?

not all titans posses this ability but it is an unique ability to Eren's titan,So therefore anyone with the Eren's titan power can do it.


Is blood necessary to perform the summoning jutsu?

Technically, yes.

Why do you need blood?

Well this answer states that:

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

So you need a "sacrifice" (in this case blood) to summon.

But, according to the Wikia, Nagato can summon without this sacrifice:

  While most summoners have only been shown capable of summoning one type of creature, Nagato (through the Animal Path) was able to summon several different animals and even people, and seemingly did not require a blood offering when performing this technique.

I suppose since the Animal Path was a dead person, then it didn't need blood. Same goes for the Second Mizukage and Madara.

Reanimations can't bleed because

  Any damage they receive will regenerate in time and, assuming the damage is not too debilitating, they can continue attacking even before their body recovers.

  - wikia


The one who appeared and killed Robo Frieza was from a different future in which the androids destroyed everything so the events of Super can never happen to him.

During the Cell Saga when Cell explains how he came from the future he states he already "disposed" of Trunks to steal the Time-Machine. I also recall him pointing out during the Cell Saga that altering the past won't change his own future or the future of the Z Warriors he was with, but will instead create an alternate timeline (I think it was after they found Dr. Gero's lab and Krillin suggested that Trunks go back in time further and destroy it before the Androids are activated)

To prove this, after Cell was discovered to be an "Android" created by Dr. Gero, Krillin and Future Trunks went back to his lab and destroyed the Laval Cell who was hidden there and it didn't cause the mature Cell they were currently fighting to disappear.

Also on the Wikia for Future Trunks

  Future Trunks (未来のトランクス), referred to in the series simply as Trunks, is the Saiyan and human hybrid son of Vegeta and Bulma from an alternate future. By the time Present Trunks was born, the timeline had been altered by Future Trunks' and Cell's trips to the past. Therefore, the two Trunks had completely different lives (as opposed to those who lived before the Time Machines arrived, they lived exactly the same lives as their counterparts until the point at which the two timelines diverge: three years before the androids arrived).

Source: Dragonball Wikia - Future Trunks

So Future Trunks (the one that killed Robo Freeza) probably didn't go beyond Super Saiyan because Goku and Vegeta, who knew of the other levels, are dead and most of his time was spent fighting the Androids.

The Trunks seen in Super probably won't go back in time because there is no need to. And anyway, if the planet is destroyed Beerus will just restore it so he can keep getting desserts.


How could a B hero class like Fubuki defeat a dragon level villain?

Well if you've read the chapters concerning the battle then you should know how she wins.  It spends most of the chapter where she wins telling you exactly how she wins, right down to the mechanics.

First, don't forget that Fubuki is intentionally remaining B-class because she doesn't want to compete with Sweet Mask in A-class or her sister in S-class.  Her class is not indicative of her true strength.  Indeed, in general the ranks of heroes and monsters are both not necessarily accurate.  The anime and manga spend a little bit of extra time pointing this out, having a low-ranked and seemingly puny-looking monster turn out to be very strong, while you are explicitly told there are cases like this where the rankings are inaccurate.  Second, as I said, the chapter spells it out for you:

   She uses the move she calls "psychic whirlwind".  It details that normally psionic powers follow the path of shortest distance.  But she learned to control the path her powers take, and creates a whirlwind of psionic power around her.  So instead of her powers clashing head-on with Psykos's and getting crushed—because Fubuki does plainly admit that Psykos is stronger than her—they instead deflect Psykos' attacks harmlessly away.  Psykos subsequently wastes her energy, exhausting herself until she's easy pickings.

In other words, Fubuki wins because a fight isn't strictly about power.  Fubuki has the superior skill and compatibility to come out the victor.


It's titled "Space Lion", and can be found on the 1st Cowboy Bebop OST, track #7.

Here's a Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKnVaDwUg5s.


Was Suiryu or Garou who defeated Saitama in Virtual Reality?

If you had observed, at the end the "female character" that beat Suiryu in an instant was infact King who comes to the Dias to collect the prize, he played with a usual Gaming controller and not a VR.

While walking either genos or king(dont remember) talks to themselves that a gaming controller is much faster compared to the VR.


As @NendoTaka has mentioned, it's pretty hard to draw a 4d object on a 2d surface.

Here's how dimensionality work:

with a single dimension, a point is sent out infinitely, creating a line (See X)

in 2d, we add a dimension perpendicular to that (See X,Y).

Then, we go perpendicular again and expand upwards to get the third dimension(See X,Y,Z).

Because 3d > 2d, we can't represent that well on paper without folding the paper or adding more sheets on top of it - all really impractical for viewing on a screen. So, instead we use perspective - how our eyes perceive 3d. Usually the angles here are ~30 degrees.

And that looks pretty okay, because our eyes don't see in this traditional 3d sense, so mimicking that works. But, when we want to represent a 4th dimension, we don't have something to compare that to. We need to go perpendicular again and this is hard for our eyes to comprehend as we don't have much of a reference.

Here's an example depiction of a 4th dimension:

This is a more correct way to display the dimension, but it still relies on perspective - also it isn't immediately obvious that it is a new dimension on first glance.

The animators probably chose to do something simple that would be easier to animate. Although, if you rotate the above image, the X and W dimensions could overlap - and this wouldn't be obvious in the image without arrow pointers.

So yeah, they are wrong - but there's also not a simple way to represent 4 dimensions on a single sheet of paper

Coordinate Image sources & a good read


Have the creators of Tokyo Mew Mew or Sailor Moon commented on the similarities?

Unfortunately the second link you provided has been removed from YouTube so I could not look at it, but based on watching the Tokyo Mew Mew link you provided I can guess which scene from Sailor Moon you’re thinking of.  The scenes are indeed similar.

However, the creators of the series would not need to comment on the similarity because Sailor Moon pioneered the genre of team fighting mahou shoujo (magical girl) series.  The key point here is the combination of sentai (team fighting) with mahou shoujo.  To merely say Sailor Moon and Tokyo Mew Mew are from the same genre and for the same target audience doesn't nearly explain their large similarities, because neither look much at all like any of the mahou shoujo series that preceded Sailor Moon.

Before Sailor Moon, the long history of mahou shoujo series were usually EITHER one girl who could transform into a magical version of herself OR one magical girl from another world who is temporarily living in our world and uses an Earthling disguise except for when she needs to transform into her true self to use her powers.  In both cases, most of the occasions for which she transformed were for day-to-day events, NOT for trying to save the world.  (Magical girls living solely in magical worlds, such as Kero Kero Chime or Akazukin ChaCha, do not technically fall within the genre of mahou shoujo because everyone in their world is magical; a mahou shoujo is a girl with magic powers in a generally non-magical world.)  At the same time, there was a long history of live-action sentai (team fighting) series like Power Rangers.  Sailor Moon was the first series ever to combine mahou shoujo with sentai: a team of magical girls trying to save the world.

The Sailor Moon manga ran in the shoujo manga magazine Nakayoshi, published by Kodansha.  During its years-long run, Nakayoshi built off of that success by introducing more magical girl series, some of which were the more traditional style (Kaitou St. Tail), some which in the newly-minted team fighting style (Magic Knight Rayearth, which was also a parody of RPG video games), and one was even a parody of the genre itself which masqueraded as a typical mahou shoujo for months before introducing a plot twist (Card Captor Sakura).  Most of these also met with great success.  Once Sailor Moon’s run ended, Nakayoshi continued trying its luck with mahou shoujo, and met with varying success (such as Akihabara Dennougumi Pata-Pi, Cyber Idol Mink, etc.); obviously, Nakayoshi never regained thei height of popularity that Sailor Moon and Card Captor Sakura had given it.

One of the series Nakayoshi came out with in this period was Tokyo Mew Mew.  It received enough popularity to get animated, and the reasons for its particular similarities to Sailor Moon are explained by the fact that it came so soon on the heels of Sailor Moon; there were very few mahou-shoujo-mixed-with-sentai series yet made for it to draw from: Sailor Moon was the main “inspiration” for it, you could say.  In other words, Tokyo Mew Mew is a direct result of Sailor Moon; without the innovation of Sailor Moon, Tokyo Mew Mew would never have come into existence. Being published in the same manga magazine, the publishers couldn’t have cared less if it was just a copy of Sailor Moon churned out to turn a profit.  If it did anything unique, great; if it didn’t, they wouldn’t have cared.  Being from the same publisher, it didn't need to worry about copyright infringement by "stealing" any ideas. Manga magazines are growing more and more unprofitable to publish in print (evidenced by the fact that the furoku [freebies] they give away with each issue have sharply dropped in quality since the era of Sailor Moon’s run), so any hit series they can get is important.  Tokyo Mew Mew did well enough, and did not need to do much original work, it just needed to utilize what made Sailor Moon and the hits of its day work.  In summary, it would not occur to the creators of Tokyo Mew Mew to comment on the similarities, because that is basically atari mae (当り前, a given, obvious).  Creators of ensuing mahou shoujo series from other publishers, such as Ai Tenshi Densetsu Wedding Peach or Cutey Honey F (or even the newer Pretty Cure franchise), could make comments of comparison, but it would not behoove them to do so since their series are rather obviously Sailor Moon-inspired (if not knock-offs) and Sailor Moon was dreamt up by and owned by their competition, so they wouldn't want to draw attention to that fact.


What's the difference between streaming anime via Steam and Crunchyroll?

In technical terms, there is little different between the anime on the two source platforms. There are some minor encoding improvements with the steam release, but this is probably not a strict attribute of the content

I imagine it is more likely that Crunchyroll has an older version of their encoder on Steam videos in the internal rush to get the partnership out (Purely a hunch, but as a software developer myself, many companies work in a MVP "Minimal Viable Product" release environment, and do cleanup later).

Therefore, I would assume that their encoding is likely to change, even if they do not update to their site's encoder, they have a team of developers working on their encoders to try to get maximum performance out of their servers (this caused some backlash when Crunchyroll degraded quality substancially  in the past).

For comparisons of image encoding, see this Reddit thread.

There are a few licensing differences between streaming via a Crunchyroll subscription and purchasing a title to stream on Steam.

The most significant of which is that a purchased title will not expire. Often Crunchyroll will expire titles that are underperforming in exchange for newer titles. When you purchase a title on Steam, you do not have to worry about this happening.

Also of course, you do not have to pay recurring payments to keep access to your titles.

Thanks to @Peilonrayz for pointing out that Stream releases are also censored.

I believe the partnership with Steam is mostly a strategic move by Crunchyroll to develop a dual pricing model of their services. This can be seen also with the introduction of their Manga Store, for manga that are unavailable with their subscription.

Partnership with Steam also gives Crunchyroll access to a significant target market. Anime and Gaming overlaps significantly.

I imagine that this is mostly driven by growth goals set by investors and demand from publishers - Similar to the Spotify or Youtube model, streaming does not net much money for a series per view ( Crunchyroll claims counter to this, but has not provided figures to date ) - however, if titles are sold individually they can net much more. For larger series in particular, this is a much more lucrative option.

I imagine that in the future we will see this pricing model develop further.

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TLDR: There is not much difference than the way you would like to pay for the content. This move is more motivated by investors and producers


Izaya traded Celty's head from Namie Yagiri for a favor. Namie works in Yagiri Pharmaceuticals where Celty's head was stored at that time. Namie had access to the storage room and didn't need the head that much, so she gave it to Izaya.

Also see this excerpt from a Durarara wiki:

  At his apartment, Izaya meets with Namie once again. He comments on her situation, giving up all she had for her brother's love and having her company being bought out by Nebula. He agrees to help keep her in hiding in exchange for Celty's head.


Why weren't Kise and Midorima able to get in the Zone?

Kise

   has already been shown to enter the Zone in the fight against
 Jabberwock. (Read: Kuroko no Basuke: Last Game)

During his state, he can freely copy all moves including moves that he wasn't capable of using, which were moves by Generation of Miracles-tier.

   He used the Zone in conjunction with his Perfect Copy Ability amping
 up all the skills he currently has.

It is stated in the manga that those who have a passion for the game can enter the Zone. This is shown that even though it appears that Murasakibara had shown a dislike for basketball, that he also, indeed loves to play basketball too. This is one of the pre-requisite to enter the zone.

Knowing Midorima, he can't enter the Zone as he is as of now. He thinks of basketball as nothing more than just a game that he's good at. There's a probability that he can enter the Zone considering he is already is a GoM. All he has to do is to have strong passion/love for Basketball.


Is it possible to seal Opponent Ninjutsu by using scroll?

To answer it simply, YES, it is possible. However, only with mastery of sealing techniques can perform such ninjutsu and of course, with very precise timing.

In relation to Jiraiya who has been shown to seal Amaterasu, my theory is that the fourth shared his sealing skills to him which came from fourth's wife (Kushina) who is known to be skilled with fūinjutsu. An Uzumaki trait that earned them both respect and fear throughout the ninja world.

See Uzumaki Clan


Why do some characters not have surnames?

There are a lot of speculations regarding this like on this Naruto forum.

They only need a first name for story purposes, the last name doesn't matter so often.
Either they don't belong to a known clan (or just don't have one) - making it unnecessary.
Maybe its just the way Kishimoto planned it to be or to keep us in the dark or they weren't necessary.
They don't have real names.
Kishimoto just can't came up with last names to use.

All of these are speculations and opinions so there is really no definite answer for this.

In general for anime, according to TVTropes,

  A major character is never referred to by their actual or full name,
  instead being addressed by a title, nickname, or Only One Name.
  Reasons for this vary, but it often serves the function of making a
  character seem more mysterious or eccentric.

  In older (pre-1900 in North America; pre-1970 in the UK) fiction, a
  narrator may refer to a character (especially an older or more
  socially prominent character) by his or her surname. This is because
  at that time first names were much less commonly used socially than
  they are now; a young character may not even know the first name of an
  older character he or she is not related to. It was also common in
  that time to blank out the names of real people to avoid lawsuits and
  the like.

  A common joke is to do The Un Reveal on the full name.

  This trope can be somewhat justified, however, due to Nominal
  Importance: It's difficult enough for the writers to come up with good
  names for the main protagonists; it would be incredibly painstaking to
  come up with equally good names for a cast of characters who exist
  solely as part of the setting and serve no further purpose to the
  narrative.

  Another common variation is for a series where a child is the main
  character to have parents only referred to as Mom and Dad.

  Sometimes, a main protagonist will have no name to add to their
  mystique.

The link also provides more examples of anime characters who don't have names/surnames.


What type of glasses is Tsukishima wearing?

Tsukishima's seems to be a pretty common type of prescription sport glasses. It is easy to find some reasonable similar ones. See for example here, here and here.


Has it been revealed what Jugo and Sugeitsu found in the lair?

Yes, it was revealed in the manga. The scroll is a Jutsu Scroll for Shiki Fuujin: Kai, the method to unseal the Dead Reaper Seal.

It was thanks to this that Orochimaru was able to revive the 4 previous Kages, whose souls were originally sealed within the Death God.


At first, no. It is for this that he continues to injure himself so badly.

In chapter 41 after his match in the sports festival, it becomes an immediate need that he learn to control his power because Recovery Girl declares that she won't heal him anymore. In fact, this is one of the main problems in the beginning of the series, the fact that he can't control his power. Most of the second season is dedicated to his progress at controlling his power.

Later in season 2, Midoriya has an internship with Gran Torino and comes to learn that he shouldn't focus so much on trying to activate the power, as much as make the power completely part of all his actions. Always active, but at the level which he can control. Which at that point, is 5%.

So, yes he is slowly learning to control his power. That is a main struggle he faces within the story.


Why didn't Taki write his name on Mitsuha's hand?

I think it was a sweet gesture that showed a little insight into Taki's character. It shows that he is young, in love, and struggling to find a way to share his feelings with Mitsuha.

At that moment when an opportunity presented itself for him to confess without having to say it out loud (the horror! :D), he foolishly thought it was more important to tell her how he feels than what his name was.

Very frustrating, probably done on purpose by the writer but not completely baseless.


What is the color of the State alchemist pocket watch?

The correct color of the watch is silver.

A popular fan scanlation of the manga (volume 1, chapter 3, page 19) incorrectly states that the pocket watch is gold in color.

Third panel down on the left: "The president's crest! The hexagram gold watch!"

The correct color is in fact silver, according to the raw version. Here is the same panel, taken from the raw manga (volume 1, page 117).

The same panel as above reads:

  大総統｛だいそうとう｝紋章｛もんしょう｝に六芒星｛ろくぼうせい｝の銀時計｛ぎんとけい｝！！

Specifically here, the term 銀時計｛ぎんとけい｝ (gintokē, lit. "silver watch") refers explicitly to 銀｛ぎん｝ (gin, lit. "silver"); as @Memor-X mentioned, it is similar to 金｛きん｝ (kin, lit. "gold"), which most likely led to the confusion.


How different are the Index light novels from the manga/anime?

I've read the first ten novels from the series and I'd say the content is pretty much the same, i.e. the anime follows the novels pretty well, but of course, the novels are much more detailed, for example more explanations during the fights, small additional scenes or more detailed explanations on certain (pseudo-scientific) concepts regarding the story. Also, in the novel you can often read what the character is thinking at the moment, which gives certain scenes a different feel than in the anime.

Personally, I found some parts of the novel rather streched-out, but on the other side, some other scenes were really fun to read. If you have time and you really like the anime, you should check out the novels, but don't expect a blast.


How do holograms damage players in Yu-gi-oh?

My best guess is immersion, like if you're playing a vr game and you're about to get attacked or something and flinch a bit, let's be honest here though it's just to make the duels dramatic. (I'm talking about the first and second series')


What is this manga that has a guy with the power to make a transparent round bubble?

The manga you're looking for is named Tanabata no Kumi. You're not mixing any mangas together, all what you've said is in that one.

Here is the synopsis:

  Basically, some humans have the ability to negate a sphere of reality, neatly removing it from existence. This gradually alters their appearance until they become a hideous alien, with a giant eye in their forehead.


Why are Chinese names in anime sometimes rendered in English using the Japanese pronunciations?

I can't yet cover all the reasons, but at least on Hitori no Shita and Cheating Craft, that's what they're using on their official sites.

Hitori no Shita - Characters (English)

Cheating Craft - Characters (English)

Changing the names from the one stated on the official site may confuse viewers when they notice the inconsistency, especially coming from official licensees (e.g. Crunchyroll). This should also explain the retconned subs of the first 2 episodes of Hitori no Shita when they diverged from the official given names. The viewer's experience could certainly be improved by adding "translator's note" though.
I can't say for Reincarnation no Kaben, because apparently it hasn't been licensed in English yet. In this case, fansub/scanlation is a different thing because they're free to translate how they want to (add "lack of research" into the factor too).


What was Naruto's chakra nature before Shippuden?

In the first series, Naruto was unaware of what his chakra nature was. It was not until episode 55, Wind, of Naruto Shippuden that Kakashi explained chakra forms and types to Naruto. This is when Kakashi helps Naruto identify what type of chakra he possesses.

He did this with a special kind of paper called Litmus paper, which is sensitive to chakra. When a ninja focuses their chakra through it, different things will happen to the paper.

When he focused his chakra into the Litmus paper it split in half, identifying his chakra as wind.

In the same same episode, we see that Kakashi's chakra nature is lightning because of the way the paper wrinkles. The fact that Kakashi can use (and has mastered) more than one chakra nature at this point shows us that the paper will only react in one way. So we can conclude that his original nature, in the Naruto series, was wind; his chakra nature was just not known until that point.


How much older are Obito and Rin than Kakashi?

That's completely wrong. If they were indeed 4 years older than Kakashi, they should have been a lot taller than him when they were part of Team Minato.

Anyway, it's not said exactly how old they are, but judging by the fact that most ninja students become a Genin or get graduated at the age of 12, and since these are the birthdays of the characters:

Rin is born on November 15
Obito is born on February 10
Kakashi is born on September 15

there are some scenarios we could come up with (imagine the world of Naruto being 2005 and 2006):

All three of them are born in the same year, making them all the same age (12) and making their age order like this: Obito>>Kakashi>>Rin, making Obito 7 months older than Kakashi and 9 months older than Rin, while Kakashi being 2 months older than Rin.
They are born in different years: making it look like if Rin is born in 2005 and the other two in 2006, then it's Rin>>Obito>>Kakashi, making Rin only 13 years old, while Kakashi and Obito are 12, and are 10 months and 3 months younger than Rin, respectively.

If you mean the current timeline, obviously Rin is dead, but Kakashi was 26-27 years old in part 1, and 29-31 years old in part 2, same for Obito. This will automatically make Rin 29-31 years as well, if she was still alive.


At the end of the story, Chat, along with Reid Hershel and Farah Oersted, prepare to travel to Celestia to visit Keele Zeibel and Meredy.

Taken from Aselia Wikia

So, it seems to me, that Chat ended up on Celestia, even if it was only for a temporary visit.

  But after his perceived victory against Balir, Max asserts himself as the de facto ruler of Celestia

Taken from Aselia Wikia

Which makes me think, that he would also end up in Celestia. Especially, since it seems his wife wanted to join him again:

  At Jini, the artist tells Reid that she completed her sketchbook and that she can finally offer it to the sea to the childhood friend of her memories. By doing so, she says she can now return to her husband to resume their lives together, revealing herself to be Max's wife, Lesitia.

Also taken from Aselia Wikia


What is the first transforming/morphing mobile suit/robot in anime?

I'm going to assume that you mean a giant robot that transforms into something else, usually a vehicle. If that's the case then you have two candidates depending on how further you want to specify them.

Brave Raideen was released in 1975 and it featured a giant robot that transformed into a bird shaped rocket ship.

Getter Robo was first released in 1974 and it featured three space ships that combined into a three different giant robots.

An honorable mention goes to Ambassador Magma which was first released in 1966. The titular character changed into a rocket ship, although there was no transforming mehcanism shown, so I (personally) wouldn't include him.


In which chapter did the Genei Ryodan fight the chimera ants?

The Spiders first make their appearance in Chapter 224 of the manga. Needless to say a fight follows shortly after (next chapter).


Why did Mitsuha's face go red when Taki told her that he drank her kuchikamizake?

As TheGamer007 mentioned, Kuchikamizake 'is a kind of rice-based alcohol produced by a process involving human saliva as a fermentation starter.'

Here, however, is where my answer differs.

Why did Mitsuha's face go red when Taki told her that he drank her kuchikamizake in Kimi No Na Wa? This was explained by Makoto Shinkai himself here. To quote from the article:

  'The film’s oddest moment comes early on, when Mitsuha, as part of her Shinto ritual, chews and spits rice into a jar to make a primitive form of sake, fermented using human saliva. Later, Taki drinks the sake. Shinkai has said that he intended the scene to represent an idea common in teen anime, the “indirect kiss,” in which one drinks from the same container as one’s crush. But the image of a teen-age girl dribbling milky liquid from her lips has raised eyebrows. Pressed during a December TV appearance, he admitted that “saliva is a fetish element for a lot of teen-age boys.'

If you have seen other anime or read other manga with romance involved, it's a common occurrence for girls to get flustered or make a big deal out of boys drinking from the cups or glass they just used with their saliva in it, for example, as they see it as an indirect kiss. This question was also asked in another forum site, that's why I found out about that news article.


Was Itachi Jiraiya's source in Akatsuki?

This is a really good question and its very possible, but you also severely underestimate jiraiya's abilities. As the Toad Sage he could literally have toads all around the 5 Great Nations listening for information for him, and the reason i have for this is he can summon almost any toad from Mt. Myuboku. And use normal toads to aid him in infiltration tactics. I mean look at the way he infiltrated the Hidden Rain Village right before his confrontation with Pain. He used a normal frog, not even a ninja frog, a normal frog. So despite the doubts you have he could have toads around the 5 great nations listening for information on the Akasuki. Like i said it is very possible for Itachi to have been the spy for Jiraiya, but at the same time i do feel you underestimate Jiraiya.


Bear in mind that there are a lot of students in E-class, and as such the author has the tendency to rotate characters in and out of focus. Ritsu has her moments in, for example, the Assassination Island Arc and the God of Death Arc (not gonna discuss in depth to keep the answer spoiler free.) The only students that have more of a consistent focus are Nagisa and Karma.

To answer your question, her necessity as a component of E-class is more or less equal to any other supporting character, for example Ryouma Terasaka.


What is the song playing in Fairy Tail episode 16 when Natsu asks Gray to handle things with Lyon?

The track is Takanashi Yasuharu - Natsu's Magic 2 ~Fire Dragon's Piercing~ (original: ナツの魔法２ ～火竜の劍角～), track 17 on Fairy Tail Original Soundtrack Vol.2

EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWGWlVTL9ms

Extended (looped) version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxV067vXT1A


What is the chibi-esque gathering at the end of each episode?

In the first episode of Ro-Kyu-Bu! SS, the girls are again shown in their chibi forms. It is then revealed that they are simply typing into their phones and computers as their conversation goes on.

Since they're doing this on flip phones, it seems unlikely that they're playing a game, despite the occasional "Now Loading" screen. The most likely conclusion is that the chibis are just a representation of each character chatting with the others, probably shown because it's more appealing than showing each girl on their personal computers.


What did Griffith mean when he said "you are mine" to Guts?

You have to remember how Guts first joined the Band of the Hawk. Guts challenged Griffin to a duel, and Guts agreed to join the band as his subordinate if he lost.

Before this Griffin even told Guts: "I want you", which Guts misinterprets as a gay thing, and Griffin explains how he views him as a military asset with an interesting willingness to risk his life.

This is the sense in which Guts is "his".  His membership is guaranteed by the conditions of the duel, and Guts has not won a release from this obligation. This is why Guts and Griffith then fight again when Guts decides to leave.

A lot could be said and debated about whether or not Griffith has sexual or romantic feelings for Guts.  It's not implausible, but you have to keep in mind that Griffin is consistently portrayed as a narcissistic sociopath.  Sex, sexuality, and personal attachments in general are just tools to him. Part of his frustration and eventual breakdown over Guts's leaving is because Griffin views it as proof that he's allowed himself to grow weaker and soft.  He does realize that somehow Guts became more important than his lifelong dream; a dream he had been willing to sacrifice anything for, and had thought this included Guts and the rest of the Band. But he doesn't seem to experience this as "love for Guts" but rather "disgust with himself", as befits his narcissism.


What episode did Naruto combine Nine-Tails Chakra Mode and Sage Mode?

The first part of your question...

  In which episode did Naruto combine Nine-Tails Chakra Mode and Sage Mode?

It's episode 381, or chapter 645.

And the last part...

  If possible, how did he know, or who told him to do so?

It was Kyuubi who told Naruto that he'll let him use Sage Mode while also using his, as in Kyuubi, Chakra Mode.

Sources:

Nine-Tails Chakra Mode
Two Powers...!!


Let us be reminded that the Pokemon franchise started off from video game, and its initial release was Pokemon Red and Green in Japan in 1996. So Mew's very first appearance can only be in Japanese Pokemon Red and Green.
According to Bulbapedia, in the Trivia section of Mew:

Mew was a little-known secret when Pokémon Red and Green were first released in Japan. Even Nintendo was not initially aware that Shigeki Morimoto had programmed it into the game.

In an interview with Game Freak and Creatures, Inc. in Nintendo Power issue 134, Shigeki Morimoto revealed that he created Mew two weeks before game development was finished.

Quoting from the interview which is cited in the Bulbapedia page:

Morimoto: We put Mew in right at the very end. The cartridge was really full and there wasn’t room for much more on there. Then the debug features which weren't going to be included in the final version of the game were removed, creating a miniscule 300 bytes of free space. So we thought that we could slot Mew in there. What we did would be unthinkable nowadays!
Ishihara: This is in spite of being told after debug ended that you weren’t to tamper with even a single bit! (laughs wryly)
Iwata: What’s the point of going through all the trouble of the debug process if you’re going to go and fiddle with the game afterwards…? I’d venture that this all came from Morimoto-san’s mischievous nature.
Morimoto: Well, it was a prank that everyone right up to Tajiri-san was in on. But even though Mew was in there…
Iwata: …It wasn't actually supposed to appear in the game, right?
Morimoto: Right. Unless we could think about any good opportunity to do so, the existence of Mew wouldn’t have been revealed to the public. It was left in there in case it was suitable for some post-launch activity. But if there wasn’t anyone among ourselves who wanted to use it, I thought it would be fine to just leave it as it was.
Iwata: Mew could very well have ended up never appearing in the game.
Morimoto: Right. But then due to an unforeseen bug, Mew ended up appearing in some players’ games. It looked like we planned all of this, but that wasn’t the case. So although it caused all sorts of problems to many concerned, fortunately enough it ended up having a positive effect.
[...]
Iwata: That’s how the “Legendary Pokémon Offer”8 came about.
8 The “Legendary Pokémon Offer” was announced in the April 1996 edition of CoroCoro Comic. Twenty winners would be selected who could send their game cartridge in so that the Mew data would be uploaded onto it. There were approximately 78,000 entrants.

From the quotes above, it is evident that Mew was not supposed to appear in the first generation. It was only programmed in at the last minute, occupying the space of debug feature.
The interview hinted at the fact that Mew was added after the debug process had ended, so swapping the number of Mewtwo and Mew at that point would have been disastrous, since Mewtwo had an event in the Cerulean Cave, and its stats, move set, flavor text, ... record would have to be swapped with Mew's. Appending a record at the end was safer, especially when the record was not supposed to be used at all during the normal game play.


Why did Bartholomew Kuma allow Vegapunk to turn him fully into a pacifista?

An explanation is that after rescuing straw hats at sabaody, he was defeated by Kizaru and captured in seastone cuffs. After that he probably received death penalty, but since hes a pacifista project he was probably sent to vegapunk to have his brain removed.

His capture and punishment was not mentioned somewhere in the manga/anime.

However, this is a VERY PLAUSIBLE theory on why Kuma was turned into a full pacifista. Certainly a more plausible theory than the 'he did this for dragon', or 'dragon ordered him to do so' nonsense theories that are floating around in this discussion, neither of which are mentioned anywhere in canon either.

It is highly unlikely Kuma was willingly turned into a full pacifista. Some people posted here that 'he did this for Dragon', 'Dragon ordered him to do so'. What? How would doing so benefit Dragon and revolutionaries? How would it benefit Kuma himself (obviously won't since he would be dead?) What other POSSIBLE incentive that world govt offered him or the revolutionary that could be so great, that it would outweigh the consequence of him being dead? Probably none. Therefore it leads to conclusion that the government forced that choice upon him. Straight up executing him most likely wouldn't have been an attractive option, since they would need as many shichibukai on their side to face against whitebeard. Therefore all these points toward my theory - that Kuma was punished for opposing the marines and an admiral from carrying out the order to purge the tenryuubito's attackers. Thats why world govt most likely decided to fully transform Kuma into a pacifista in order to both punish him and turn him into a fully loyal slave.

Kuma was certainly aware that this would be his punishment, thats why he stated that this will be the last time he will meet the strawhats.

Vegapunk most likely was in a good relationship with Kuma and likely did not want to turn him into a full cyborg either, but he had to do so under the pressure from the world govt. Thats why Vegapunk likely programmed in Kuma's request to protect the Sunny.


It's Track 02 Ningen... Mitai na ~Rinne no Theme from the Kyoukai no RINNE original sound track.


How did Netero manage to levitate during his fight with Meruem?

The most credible explanation is that Netero wasn't actually levitating.

It is undeniable that there are scenes where he seems to be levitating:

However, it could be that Netero was jumping up, and the entire half a minute scene of him in midair, which also includes a flashbacks, is in incredible slow motion. Because of his superhuman strength, it would not be difficult for him to jump this high (Gon and Killua did this in GI).

Netero is one of the fastest characters in HxH:

  He managed to out-speed Neferpitou and, even more remarkable, Meruem, as he was able to launch numerous attacks on Meruem with his 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva with the King unable to see the coming assault. It took him many minutes of incessant fighting to grow used to Netero's speed.

His punches are faster than the speed of sound, and this attack was so fast Meruem could not see them coming. Note that Meruem is one of the strongest characters of HxH and is also incredibly fast:

  Immense Speed and Reflexes: Meruem can rip off limbs and obliterate entire bodies in less than an instant.

However, the attacks were slow enough to be clearly visible to us. Therefore, it can be deduced that the scenes is in extreme slow motion.

He did land just afterwards. If he had been levitating, it would have been better to keep levitating to carry on his attack:


What is the full lyrics of the song Si deus me relinquit?

It seems to say

Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi
(eng: Lamb of God, you who take away the sins of the world)

recalling this other music.


How did Satoru obtain the Revival ability?

⚠ The answer below contains spoilers.

It is never stated in the anime nor in the manga how he obtained this ability. We know that after the events in the last episode, he loses it and it never occurs again.

As the Boku Dake Wiki says:

  Revival (再上映 (リバイバル), Ribaiburu, lit. "Rerun") is an involuntary special phenomenon exclusive to Satoru that allows him to jump back in time in order to rescue someone from a fatal encounter within his proximity.

  Empirically, Satoru's capable of responding to Revival, as it occurs involuntary and often at random times. Fujinuma described his experience as a deja vu.

http://bokudakegainaimachi.wikia.com/wiki/Revival


Why do anime characters have pointy chins?

The answer is because that is what is deemed beautiful by Japanese. This article posted in Wisconsin Madison University tells us what is deemed beautiful by the Japanese in general.

  First, the face.  The face obviously has many important features: lips, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.  For the Japanese, every facial feature has to be small, except the eyes.  They admire eyes that are big, and have what they call “double eyelids”.  “Double eyelids” are eyelids that have the crease.  As you may have noticed, Asians do not have that eyelid crease, and their eyes are very small.  They even have a feature to make the eyes bigger when they take pictures in photo booths (Puriga-プリ画), which is a very popular activity to do with friends.  Also, because my eyes are blue, I’ve noticed they admire eyes that aren’t dark brown.  You may have also noticed that the majority of girls (even guys) are overly petite and skinny.  They admire a small, oval face because it appears more feminine and fragile.

Other sites, (thejapanguy.com and yumitolesson.com) also agrees that the Japanese deemed small face to be beautiful, although they didn't explain it as good as the one I quoted above.

A Google search on plastic surgery shows that many of the surgeries are done to make the chin more pointy. The following is a small example of the said surgery's before and after.

This is true not only in Japan, but also in the East Asia in general. Koreans also like to have the plastic surgery to make their chin more pointy.

It is not clear who is the first to do this. The oldest anime that I can find that features pointy chin is Akazuki Chacha.

However, it should be noted that they use pointy chin only on certain angles and scenes. In other scene, the same character is shown with round face. What is clear is that when they want to show a bishoujo (pretty girl) or a bishonen (pretty boy) then they will draw her/him with a pointy chin. Once again, because that is what is deemed beautiful by Japanese standard. Had anime came from the Kayan tribe of Thailand, then the girls might have long necks instead.


80s-90s anime with a blonde main character whose mother dies

It sounds like Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair

The story begins in a small town in Pennsylvania in 1838. Jeanie MacDowell is a cheerful and beautiful girl with light brown hair (although this could be perceived as being blonde hair). Jeanie enjoys playing the piano and loves taking piano lessons from her mother.
Steven, a good harmonica player, and Bill, a boy who is very good at playing the banjo, are great friends of Jeanie's. They enjoy playing music together like a small band.
However, Jeanie's happy life changes dramatically after her mother suddenly passes away.
Experiencing many difficulties and learning the importance of life, she decides to devote her life to helping many people suffering from illness.
The series is a love story about the relationship between Steven and Jeanie


What do the Hidamari Sketch "taglines" signify?

This answer is purely speculation so if somebody else posts an answer that has an official source, please feel free to accept that answer instead.

365 (Season 2): Some of these events take place before, during, and after season 1 if I remember correctly. So basically they're saying something like "we're going back to then and showing you all 365 days of their year!" (except they aren't literally showing you all 365, just more of what you saw in season 1)
Hoshimittsu/☆☆☆ (Season 3): Three stars for season three
Honeycomb (Season 4): There are six sides on a typical honeycomb, and there are six girls living at Hidamarisou. If this is the reasoning, they could've used this title for season 3 as well though.

As Logan M said in the comments, SP just stands for "special" (as opposed to a TV series). I don't think there is any significant meaning beyond that.


A manga where the protagonist's power comes from a "mole" on his face

Possibly YAKUZA GIRL.

  Senguu Fumihiro is a young boy that made a promise to his dying grandmother to find a good wife for himself. With this intention he enrolls in a prestigious school but on the first day his world turns upside down when all the students begin to kill each other and one of them even turns into a monster. He is saved by a girl named "Akari" sent by one of the factions that rule the school to protect him.

Below is a picture of him getting said mole:


What did Kakashi/Sakura mean in this scenario? Naruto Shippuden Ep 484

Ep 484 happens after Naruto the last movie.
Prelude to which Sasuke(Sakura's husband) goes away from the village to gather info on Kaguya and help others on his way.
He's has been distant to his family, so Sakura is excited about him being back.

Because he's diligent about helping the village and he's the one with highest visual jutsu prowess, She knew he'd come to help. She's shy about reveling her excitement.


How was Kakashi Hatake able to survive and become the next Hokage after losing his Sharingan?

Very soon in anime,

  Obito will say that his gift for Kakashi was not full and will give him both Sharingans. He will manage to use Susanoo and save Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura from Kaguya's attack. I don't know why, but after war he has normal eyes, maybe he can deactivate Sharingan.

UPD.

I've read that chapter again and understood why he has normal eyes.

  Obito says that his present may expire but it's not completely useless.


When did the trend of doing a Title Drop on the last episode started, and what is the reason of doing it?

This trope's origins don't lie in anime. An early example of a title drop in film is 1929's "All Quiet on the Western Front", or even earlier in the Sherlock Holmes novel "A Study in Scarlet" (1887). Generally title drops are done near the end of a work in order to give the desired effect of new understanding of the title with the context of the story.

The first known japanese animation ever created was in 1907's 13 second long "Katsudo Shashin", so the trope pre-dates anime history.

By the time anime was being televised (1960s), this trope was a staple feature in many media formats, so it's not a surprise that it transferred itself into anime also.

Bear in mind that many anime are adaptions from light novels, manga and other formats, so the title drops may be transferred from there.


Title of an anime with children quarantined in a city block?

I think you are looking for Guilty Crown


What happens to the drones at the end of episode 6?

Okay, I was a bit confused as well, but I think I know what happened at the end. So that Pion and Oyage could stay on Earth instead of going back into space, the main character (Watashi) destroys the electric generator, their only source of power. Near the end, Pion and Oyage are at about 15% power. So, Watashi converts their batteries into wind-up batteries to get past the electricity problem. As said on the sign, 1 hour of winding= 1 minute. They're still okay. :)

And, if it helps, Chris Seibenmann on https://cks.mef.org/space/rtblog/anime/JinruiChronologicalOrder provided an explanation on the timeline of Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita, and the episodes go: 12, 7-8, 5-6, 1-2, 9, and ending with 3-4. This explains why you don't see them anymore, because the later episodes are flashbacks, albeit episode 9.


Why didn't Madara use Izanagi to counter Kaguya?

First, Madara always believed himself to be completely invincible. When Black Zetsu stabbed him, he could not even realise that he was being betrayed; it was completely out of his expectation. And it only took a very short period of time for Zetsu to gain complete control of his body.

Second, a huge weakness of Izanagi is that, it has be activated first. It is not a reset jutsu. It only can manipulate everything that happens between its activation and Sharingan going blind


Biologically speaking, is it true that there are no parasites in Parasyte?

I will use "parasite" (lower case, with an "i") to refer to the ecological relationship, and "Parasyte" (upper case, with an "y") to refer to the manga creatures.

From Wikipedia on parasitism:

  Parasitism is a non-mutual symbiotic relationship between species, where one species, the parasite, benefits at the expense of the other, the host. (...) Unlike predators, parasites typically do not kill their host (...)

Then, on decapitation:

  This form of injury invariably results in death (...)

So, on the three kinds of Parasytes:

The ones that "eat" the brain and take over the head, they already killed their hosts upon infection. So they are not parasites because they first kill the host, then inhabit the corpse. Parasitism is a kind of symbiosis, meaning that both organisms must be alive.

From Livescience:

  A person is considered brain-dead when he or she no longer has any neurological activity in the brain or brain stem — meaning no electrical impulses are being sent between brain cells.

The head of those bodies is the Parasyte, the original human head long gone, consumed by the Parasyte larvae. So there is no ecological relationship between living organisms. The Parasyte simply took over the corpse of the human they killed. Such is the case when a Parasyte changes bodies too, like when

   Shinichi's mom is beheaded by the car crash Parasyte, because it needed a female body to inhabit.

We can then infer that these head-Parasytes are not parasites. The relationship between them is called Metabiosis.

The co-inhabiting Parasytes, like Migi and Joe, they are really either mutualist symbiotes because the Parasyte provides his host with augmented abilities and protection from a predator (other Parasytes), and even if we think of a co-inhabiting Parasyte that stays dormant on his host, it would still be a case of phoresis or inquilinism commensalism.

The human in the case of a commensalist symbiote would not be harmed or hindered, because the Parasyte emulates the body part it "ate" and the commensalist Parasytes are not too eager to kill their host since their primary drive is survival, and as Migi states, without eating the brain they do not know how to control a whole human body.

The colony Parasytes, like

   Miki and Gotou

are a colony of same-species organisms mimicking a human body. They are also not parasites.

From the bullet points above, we can say that none of the Parasytes shown in the manga or the anime (so far) are not really parasites.


What does it mean to have "powerful" chakra?

I believe it's much like "The Force is strong with this one" :P

From Naruto wiki, we can learn that

  Normal chakra is a form of energy all living individuals naturally
  produce to some degree. Contained in the "chakra coils" that mainly
  surround and connect to each chakra-producing organ, the energy
  circulates throughout the body in a network called the "chakra
  circulatory system" (similar to the cardiovascular system).

And, later in the same article, it is stated:

  Chakra is the resulting form of energy when two other forms of energy
  are mixed together. The two energies are referred to as "physical
  energy" and "spiritual energy". Physical energy is collected from the
  body's cells and can be increased through training, stimulants, and
  exercise. Spiritual energy is derived from the mind's consciousness
  (i.e. the soul) and can be increased through studying, meditation, and
  experience. Having these two energies become more powerful will
  in-turn make the created chakra more powerful. Therefore, practising a
  technique repeatedly will build-up experience, building up one's
  spiritual energy, and thus allowing more chakra to be created. As a
  result, the ninja is able to do that same technique with more power.
  This same cycle applies for physical energy, except this time, instead
  of doing things like meditation, the ninja could, say, do push-ups.

emphasis mine.

So, I think that saying that someone is born with "strong chakra" means that the physical part of that person's chakra (the one that he has from birth) is better... developed (or maybe advanced), comparing to other people. Whether this individual will further develop this natural...boon, depends on him.

This estimation of chakra strength can also be different depending on who to compare with. For example, one can be compared with other members of the same clan, or shinobi of the same village, or maybe all shinobi in general.


Is the anime adaptation of Tokyo Ghoul:re faithful to the manga?

Having watched all the anime episodes so far, except maybe the one released today, and all the Re manga chapters, they do match up very closely. There might be some minor events missing, but it seems like everything is being included.

Thus, of the 3 anime seasons of Tokyo Ghoul, it seems Re is the most faithful to the manga. Even season 1 mixed up the order and changed some events, but I have yet to see any such thing in Re.


What is this anime that was shown in Akira?

It's almost certainly an outright reference to the well-known live-action show Mito Komon.

  The title character is the historic Tokugawa Mitsukuni, former vice-shogun and retired second daimyo of the Mito Domain. In the guise of Mitsuemon, a retired crêpe merchant from Echigo, he roams the realm with two samurai retainers, fun-loving Sasaki Sukesaburō (Suke-san) and studious Atsumi Kakunoshin (Kaku-san). An episode typically starts with some injustice perpetrated by a corrupt official, wealthy merchant or gangster; the travelers arrive incognito, discover the injustice and quietly investigate it; and the episode concludes with a brawl in which the unarmed, disguised protagonists better a crowd of samurai and gangsters, culminating with the presentation of the inrō that reveals the hero's identity.

I wasn't aware there was an animated version.  Mito Komon has been around for decades (1969-2011, over 1200 episodes), like their own version of Doctor Who.

Since it's a well-known part of pop-culture, the show is often referenced or outright parodied, like in Samurai Champloo (Mugen, it'll be our little secret....).


What OST is played in episode 2 when Shinichi catches three rocks?

The song is called "Kill the Puppets" and the excerpt from your youtube link probably starts about a minute and 10 seconds into the song.


What manga chapter does the Hunter x Hunter 2011 anime end on?

According to the Hunter x Hunter wiki, the corresponding manga chapter for episode 148 is chapter 338 and 339. Some specific plot points to consider:

Gon's friends Killua and Alluka have already departed Gon from the previous episode, 147. This happens in chapter 338.
Gon climbs up the World Tree and meets Ging. This happens in chapter 338.
Ging explains where the Chimera Ants are from, that they're not from this world. This happens in chapter 338.
In chapter 339, in the Zoldyck's estate, Canary and Amane makes a grave for Gotoh.
At the very end of chapter 339, in East Gorteau, Komugi and Meruem are shown holding hands. This corresponds to the end of episode 148.

http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Chapter_338

http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Chapter_339


Where did Itsuwa`s sweater go? (Continuity issue)

It's glossed over in the anime, but in the novels, she was using a spell that diverted damage onto her clothes. When they took that attack, it was enough to burn up the sweater.


Is there any jutsu that Naruto won't be able to master without the Kyuubi?

Well, here are some of the jutsu Naruto probably can't (or will be near impossible) to learn without Kurama:

Techniques from elements other than Wind - Naruto's natural chakra affinity is towards wind, while he can train in other elements, he probably won't be able to learn some of the other elements. (Actually has nothing to do with the Bijuu, that's kinda what happens to everyone)
The Bijuu Dama - a Bijuu specific technique (the nuclear-warhead like black sphere).
It's possible that using Kurama's Yang element chakra (sealed within Naruto), he'll be able to do something.
Tajuu Kage Bunshin - Even though Naruto naturally has massive chakra reserves, he wouldn't be able to make as much copies without the Kyuubi Chakra Pool.


Why can't Naruto transform into the Nine Tails?

I do not know for sure, but I think Kurama cannot appear in that statue because Naruto has half of his power. If we retrieve when Minato sealed the Kyuubi (on the early incident of the masked man, Obito), Minato sealed the Kyuubi twice: once in himself and another in Naruto.