Strawhat Grand Fleet's status relative to Heart Pirate

Though there are no sources, we can surmise the difference in the nature of relationships between Luffy and Law and Luffy and Straw Hat Grand Alliance.

Straw Hat-Heart Alliance was formed on Punk Hazard by their two captains in order to defeat Kaido, one of the four Yonko of the New World. According to Law, who proposed the alliance, their cooperation would give them a 30% chance to defeat the Yonko.

The Straw Hat Grand Fleet is a fleet formed by seven organizations who vowed to serve under Monkey D. Luffy and the Straw Hats. These seven organizations are represented by

  1 Cavendish - Beautiful Pirate (75)
  2 Bartolomeo - Barto Club (56)
  3 Sai - Happo Navy (1000)
  4 Ideo - XXX Gym Martial Arts Alliance (4)
  5 Leo - Tonta Corps (200)
  6 Hajrudin - New Giant Warrior Pirates (5)
  7 Orlumbus - Yonta Maria Grand Fleet (4300)

The key difference to note is the missing objective in the second. Luffy-Law alliance was formed for the purpose of defeating Kaido, one of the Yonko, so they could go closer to the title of Yonko themselves and hence the Pirate King. They are still rivals (Friends/Enemies) but while they are pursuing the same mini objective (defeat the Yonko) they are co-operating with each other. The members of Grand Fleet would support Luffy unconditionally.

Pirate Alliances in One Piece is an interesting read. Some important points

  The captains who formed the alliance are theoretically equal in status, and cannot give each other orders. They may have limited control over each other's crews, but the highest authority still lies with the respective captains.
  An alliance is usually formed with the purpose of reaching a specific, mutual goal. It may be something that neither crew could accomplish on their own
  A common problem with pirate alliances is betrayal; when one captain sees no more use of the other, it results in treason in order to reduce the needs to share glory.

Thus we can surmise Luffy and Law share the status of EQUALS, while those of the grand fleet share the status of SUBORDINATES. Also note that this objective has been extended on request of Momonosuke, since Kaido is holding the Shogun as well, dubbed as Ninja-Pirate-Mink-Samurai Alliance

Extended Question in Comments  So, the Grand Fleet are subordinate Law too?

The short answer is No. The Grand fleet is oathsworn to Luffy, but they are in no obligation to follow even when they are in alliance.

However, this often comes out to nothing since Law has the brains and judgement and the leaders of fleet have enough sense to follow those orders. The wikia however also states

  In a situation where one of the captains gets captured, the other can take charge of their remaining subordinates.

Thus in adverse scenarios, Luffy's Crew and subordinates may listen to Law because of his status as a captain of an allied crew, but they can have their own judgements.

I made a poor example of Shanks and Whitebeard, but it does help to illustrate my point. They both are Yonko, Whitebeard's Generals know that Shanks is allied to their interests (The battle with Kaido). But they do not follow Shanks after the death of Whitebeard but Marco instead. Also note they DO retreat after Whitebeard's death because what Shanks said made sense. Though he did threaten the consequences.


Koga's wolves - demons or just regular wolves?

In my opinion they were regular wolves.

Firstly, because they look like regular wolves. Since, Koga never transformed, I cannot be sure about what a wolf demon's transformation would look like. But taking the example of Sesshomaru, Inu no Taisho and even Naraku, we can say that a demon's transformation looks much different from the actual form of the being. I mean, they definitely don't look like a normal dog or a normal spider. So, a wolf demon probably couldn't transform into such a normal looking wolf. This point counters the argument that they were wolf demons transformed into their wolf form.

Secondly, as far as I can recall, there have not been any appearances of demons that look like normal beings. Here I do not include the demons that were in disguise. The weaker demons that InuYasha's group encountered in those random villages never looked like normal beings. They were bigger and looked more fierce. It wouldn't be very wise to think that those 'wolf demons' were always in disguise as normal wolves. So, they couldn't even be wolf demons that do not have the power to transform into a human-like form. This point even counters the argument that they were demons.

Thus by this reasoning, I conclude that they were just normal wolves. But then, this is just my opinion. I guess it's only Rumiko Takahashi who knows the correct answer.


How did the titan that killed Eren's mom appear inside wall Rose during season 2?

If not mistaken the shifter titans tried to go back to Wall Maria and were some where between wall Maria and Rose,  which was titan territory.

In the picture, you can see how Eren's Liberation was between Wall Maria and Wall Rose.  The smiling titan never passed Wall Rose, all that part was in between Rose and Maria.


Why do some page contain a rough sketch?

Sometimes the reason is difficult to be known unless there are interviews/official statements from the author. It might be due to author's health condition (very often), private matters, etc, but in the end, it's almost always due to the deadline of manga magazine. If they can't make it on time, then they either have to postpone until next edition, or send what they currently have.

There are steps that mangaka have to do to get a chapter done (see also What are the steps involved in making a professional manga?): storyboard, sketching, inking, finishing. While storyboard might take the longest time (according to that post), without it, there's nothing to be published. After that, they have to do sketching and inking, which also might take time depends on their skill (anecdotally, while watching live streams of mangaka, this usually takes the longest time). The finishing is usually not that critical and can be done quickly and easily.

Other examples of unfinished chapter being published:

Bastard!!: serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump. On chapter 51, the last 2 pages only consist of text inside panels due the deadline.

Cherry Gale Kin: serialized in Monthly Comic Comp On January 1991 edition, which is the last chapter, page 13 only consists of underline sketch, and there's no final tankoubon that included that chapter.

Left: Tankoubon vol. 1, page 5. Right: Monthly Comic Comp. ed. 1991-1, page 13
Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning: serialized in Monthly Shonen GanGan. On November 2005 edition, which is the last chapter, some of the panels were only drawn in pencil sketch. However, they were fixed in the tankoubon version.

Reference: Unfinished chapter published in manga magazine (in Japanese)


What causes the androids to realize their sentience?

I believe they are sentient right from the beginning. You cannot have non-sentient android do daily work, because it would be highly inefficient at it. The thing is their freedom is severely limited by rules imposed on them by humans and how humans behave towards them.

The cafe simply removes these limitations, allowing them to behave naturally.


What happened to the 98 applicants between episode 5 and 6?

The wording of the examiner of the first phase is odd, but he was saying he thought 50 would pass and then corrected his statement to only 10 would pass.
There were still 148 applicants but he was stating 2 numbers of how many he thought would pass.
(also in ep5 the narrator stated 220, but I figured that was a typo)


Maria is also known as Mary, or the holy virgin Mary. She is one of the key points in several streams of religion. The Maria in the series seems to be based on this.

  According to the Bible, Mary (מרים; c. 18 BC – c. 41 AD), also known as Saint Mary or Virgin Mary, was a Jewish woman of Nazareth in Galilee. She is identified in the New Testament[Mt 1:16,18-25][Lk 1:26-56][2:1-7] as the mother of Jesus through divine intervention. Mary (Maryam) also has a revered position in Islam, where a whole chapter of the Qur'an is devoted to her. Christians hold her son Jesus to be Christ (i.e., the messiah) and God the Son Incarnate. By contrast, Muslims regard Jesus as one of the prophets of God sent to humanity; not as God himself nor the Son of God.


Why didn't Hagoromo reincarnate dead shinobis after the Fourth Great Ninja War?

To expand on @Ōtsutsuki's comment, Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki did not manifest himself physically to Naruto since he is alread dead. The scene where they were talking happened in Naruto's mind (Chapter 670). How he was able to share his powers with Naruto and Sasuke if he's already dead was never elaborated on in the manga, as far as I know.

The Gedo Art of Rinne Rebirth requires the user's life in exchange for another's. Hagoromo is already dead, and he only manifested himself in Naruto's mind. It's quite hard to classify someone in this state as 'alive'. With this, we can say that you cannot offer your life for someone else's if you have already lost it in the first place.


When Boruto is trying to convince Sasuke to train him, he creates a small rasengan infused with wind chakra.

  Though Boruto's Rasengan is initially much smaller, he subconsciously applies wind-natured chakra to it, enabling him to hurl the Rasengan across distances. While it loses its physical form shortly after bring thrown, the wind and force continue on-course unseen, tricking the opponent to let their guard down as sufficient damage is inflicted when it makes contact. Boruto eventually becomes able to create a normal-sized Rasengan after more training. - naruto.wikia.com/


Is there a tradition behind giving people names from English words?

There can be numerous reasons justifying the usage of English names. I would divide them into two categories: plot reasons, and non-plot reasons.

The plot reasons are rather obvious, and include (but not limited to, of course)

Some characters were born in non-Japanese-speaking countries, disregarding where the story itself is happening. Note that those are not necessary English-born characters or English names. For example, most names in Code Geass, Hugh Anthony Disward from The Mystic Archives of Dantalian, Victoria Seras from Hellsing, and so on and so forth.
Sometimes the setting is a future world/alternative history/another planet/imaginary fantasy world. This can also justify such names, because the characters were born in a completely different culture that has nothing to do with Japan. For example, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Spice and Wolf, FMA characters.

The non-plot reasons would be:

The name looking/sounding cool or pretentious, for example, Zero.
The name meaning or symbolizing something, like Riza Hawkeye, who is a sniper, which her name suggests.
Some other special cases. For example in Detective Conan the names were changed in the English version to make it more attractive to the audience.


Fate/Zero and Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works - prequel vs sequel vs something else?

The answer to this question depends on whether you're talking about a literary analysis, or an analysis for data modeling purposes, which is what the post is actually asking for.

The Wikipedia page linked in the OP gives the literary definition: a prequel is a sequel whose timeline is earlier than the original work. In this sense, Fate/Zero is a sequel to Unlimited Blade Works because it expands on the original work, the VN which had UBW as one story route. In this sense, Fate/Zero is also a prequel to UBW because it takes place earlier in the timeline than UBW.

But you don't really need the literary definition: you want to model relationships between series in a database of some sort. Using a literary definition for this will be a nightmare, because literary definitions are often imprecise, sometimes vague, occasionally contradictory, and usually fuzzy around the borders. The Wikipedia page gives some good Western examples of this; I'll here list some anime examples:

Deen Fate/Stay Night and Unlimited Blade Works take place in the same universe at exactly the same time, both being adaptations of story routes from the Fate/Stay Night visual novel. You can't really say that these shows are either prequels or sequels to each other in the usual sense. In the visual novel, Unlimited Blade Works does expand on the Fate arc (adapted in Deen Fate/Stay Night), but it occurs neither before nor after Fate; it occurs instead of Fate.
Yuru Yuri and Rewrite happen in the same world, at the same school, and involve several of the same characters, but it's vague where they actually sit relative to each other in the timeline.
Owarimonogatari, despite being the most recent series, takes place after Nisemonogatari and concurrently with the first arc of Second Season.
If you include manga, then all the Madoka manga except the first one (which directly adapts the anime) occur in alternate timelines. You can sort of order them because Homura experiences them in a certain order, but it's usually impossible to tell where they go relative to each other. Also, The Different Story Volume 1 is a prequel—its events take place before the anime and hold for all the alternate timelines—but Volumes 2 and 3 are yet another alternate timeline.

I would just throw out the prequel/sequel jargon altogether. It's somewhat useful for literary analysis, but it's too coarse-grained to make for good data modeling. There are two important things with anime: the in-universe chronology, and the order in which to take in the various parts of a franchise. The second one usually corresponds to production order, though it gets weird when you don't have the original work to fall back on (as is the case with the Fate series). The in-universe chronology is clear: Fate/Zero is before Unlimited Blade Works. It's also clear, when you include the original work, that you were meant to experience the visual novel, then the Fate/Zero novel or anime, then the Unlimited Blade Works anime. When you take the visual novel out of the equation, there's no clear answer, as this old question of mine shows. But you will drastically simplify the data modeling by treating these two separate things as separate pieces of data.


Why, in the dub of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, were the Earthbound Gods renamed the Earthbound Immortals?

I don't really follow Yu-Gi-Oh anymore, but I think this can be explained on purely linguistic grounds.

Leaving Obelisk (and "Slifer") aside for a moment, Ra and Osiris take as their namesakes beings that we, in English, call gods. Ra is "an Egyptian god" because he was worshipped by the Egyptian people, and the same is true of Osiris. So we call their Yu-Gi-Oh counterparts "the Egyptian god cards".

Likewise, we conceptualize Loki, Odin, and Thor as "Norse gods" because they were worshipped by pre-Christian North Germanic peoples, and so we call their Yu-Gi-Oh counterparts "the Nordic god cards".

But do we call the figures drawn in the Nazca lines "gods"? No, we do not. Perhaps the Nazca people who created them did worship them (though it's difficult to tell, given that they produced no texts), but we - the target audience - think of them as "just" a spider or a bird or a tree, not as targets of worship. It would, in my opinion, be weird to use the word "god" to describe the Yu-Gi-Oh versions of these Nazca figures. I suspect that whoever made this translation decision followed a similar line of thought.

I hardly think this has anything to do with censorship. If they cared about not offending monotheists, well, that boat sailed long ago.

(It is perhaps worth noting that though the Japanese word 神 kami is typically translated as "god", there isn't a one-to-one equivalence here. The English word is heavily colored by the Christian sense of capital-G God, while the Japanese word is colored by indigenous worship practices that treat a wider variety of entities as kami. Just because the Japanese name of the Nazca figures is 地縛神 jibakushin, that doesn't mean that the "correct" translation of it must involve the word "god".)


It's supposed to be a running gag, the way my friend and I see it.
Although, an in-universe reason for Hori to treat her father badly would be because of the absence of her father for most of her childhood, which forced her to manage her stuff by herself, thus giving rise to frustration.
As the Wikia page on Hori Kyousuke states:

According to Hori, Kyousuke is rude, selfish and forceful. He jokes around on serious topics and has a knack to leave for long periods of time. He is also cheap, as when he was asked by his family to eat Beluga Caviar or Sharks's Fin Soup, he flatly denied them.

Their relationship is stated on the same page as:

Despite being Hori's father, she acts cold towards him. Hori doesn't mind physically hurting her father and performs an axe kick on him, when Kyosuke tried to act cool in front of Miyamura. Later on, when Kyosuke asks Hori to prepare him some food, she comes back with a bowl of soup and purposely jams it into the back of his head. He then apologized to Miyamura for Hori's "crazy domestic violence habits".

Hence, the way I see it, these scenes depict Hori taking out her frustration on her dad in a comedic way for the users to read.
However, she definitely doesn't hate her dad, as can be seen in this page and in few other scenes.


Is the timeline messed up in episode 27 of FMA: Brotherhood?

"Interlude Party" is a recap/clip episode designed to catch up viewers who may have missed the preceding episodes.

The episode is structured as a dream Hohenheim has in his travels, where he revisits past timeline events through interaction with a very old friend of his (Pinako). He knew her when she was much younger, so it is not unreasonable that, in a dream, he would see her as her younger self.

Nothing about the timeline is messed up; dreams, in both fiction and reality, don't necessarily maintain temporal consistency, and the same is true here. Hohenheim knew Pinako as a young woman, and he knows what his sons have done. Therefore, in a dream, a young Pinako can indeed talk about events that occur when she is an old woman, with no damage whatsoever to the timeline of the waking world's timeline.

The dream nature of the events are made clear several times throughout the episode (characters abruptly changing age, or knowing things that would not yet have come to pass at their depicted ages); furthermore, it is emphasized at the end, when Hohenheim wakes up.


It depends on what you mean by injury. Typically when a clone receives an injury - as in being struck with an attack - they will dissipate (there are a few cases where this is not true) and will put a lot of stress on the user. You read more information on Does the original jutsu user feel anything when a shadow clone is dispersed forcefully?

Now this is what happens in reverse. According to this Shadow Clone Technique wiki page, Shadow Clones will replicate the user at the time the jutsu is cast.

  The clones will be created in roughly the same condition as the original, meaning that previous injuries, such as cuts and scrapes, will appear on the clones.

The clones themselves are not actually injured, but have the appearance of being injured if the user is injured when the jutsu is cast.

As you stated, Kakashi used the jutsu after his battle with Zabuza. You can see this in this YouTube video, where the clones were summoned with torn and bloody vests.


How does Mirai's ring help her control her ability?

This answer only applies to the TV series proper. Additional information is given in Mirai-hen; see Amir's answer.

There isn't really much to be said about the exact function of her ring. It isn't discussed in the novel (though she is shown wearing the ring, cf. p004-005 of LN 1), so the best I have as far as a textual citation is this magazine scan (SFW image; NSFW site), which reads:

  自分の血を剣に変えて戦う未来。普段は包帯と小指の指輪でその能力を抑えている
  [...] For the most part, she wears a bandage as well as a ring on her little finger in order to keep her powers in check.

There isn't really any verbalized explanation of how the ring works in the show either - the best we can do is infer its function from its depiction in the show.

So, basically, it's probably just what you thought it was - a power limiter of sorts.


I would say yes.

It does not interfere with the "not letting the main character die" rule, because the main part of the story plays in the world of the dead (soul society).

So I ask if the concept of "death and alive" even does apply to bleach? He might be dead ever since he first became a Shinigami or, as you described, as soon as his chain got destroyed.

As for the time he is in his body and interacts with the world of the living, he might just go back into his body or as other Shinigami enter a Gigai (artificial body).

I sadly have no prove for this claim, it is my theory.


Why did the Black Butler anime diverge from the manga?

At the time the first season of the anime was developed, there was not enough published manga content to fill a season.

The first episode of the Black Butler anime aired on Oct 2 2008. (IMDB) At that time, the last completed arc was the Curry arc. The first chapter of the Circus arc was not published until August 18, 2008. (Kuroshitsuji Wikia)


Is it explained why Satoshi cannot create art?

As far as I know, it wasn't mentioned either in the anime or manga. But having him raised by his adoptive father Kei Hiwatari instead by the Hikari family themselves probably was the main reason. He probably lacked training from his ancestors so he can only create a copy of an artwork, and cannot create an artwork of his own.


Have characters' voice actors in Fate/ always been the same?

This will only be a partial answer addressing some of the major characters, because there's too many characters in the Fate universe for me to be bothered tracking all of them down. Broadly, though, with the exception of male characters like Shirou and Kiritsugu who are played by women when children and by men when adults, I know of only one case in which different VAs have played the same character in different entries in the Fate-universe.

This one case is that of Sapphire in Prisma Illya. The unfortunate passing of Matsuki Miyu after the airing of 2wei Herz led to her being replaced by Kakazu Yumi in 3rei.

Re: Fate/stay night - the casts of the 2006 anime, the UBW movie, Realta Nua, and the 2014 anime are all the same, at least for the major characters, so I haven't specifically made a note of that in the list below.

Saber (Arturia)

voiced by Kawasumi Ayako in Fate/Zero, Fate/stay night, Prisma Illya, Carnival Phantasm
does not appear in Fate/Extra, Fate/Extra CCC, Carnival Phantasm

Gilgamesh

voiced by Tomokazu Seki in Fate/Zero, Fate/stay night, Fate/Extra CCC
in Prisma Illya, his child form is voiced by Endo Aya, but the guttural yelling of his black form in the last few episodes of 2wei Herz are also by Tomokazu Seki
does not appear in Fate/Extra

Rin

voiced by Kana Ueda in Fate/Zero, Fate/stay night, Fate/Extra, Fate/Extra CCC, Prisma Illya, Carnival Phantasm

Illya

voiced by Kadowaki Mai in Fate/Zero, Fate/stay night, Prisma Illya, Carnival Phantasm
does not appear in Fate/Extra, Fate/Extra CCC

Archer (EMIYA)

voiced by Suwabe Junichi in Fate/stay night, Fate/Extra, Fate/Extra CCC, Carnival Phantasm
does not appear in Fate/Zero, Prisma Illya

This Crunchyroll article lists some of the voice actors for the Vita port of F/HA; all the ones that are listed are the same people that played those characters in earlier Fate entries. The Japanese Wikipedia article for F/HA also lists some more VAs for F/HA, citing Type-Moon ACE Vol. 9; all of these match up correctly too.

Besides, I don't think it would be in Type-Moon's best interest to change VAs for any of the major characters - imagine what a fit fans would throw if their waifu/husbando got a new VA!

You didn't ask about Tsukihime, but do note that the voice actors for Tsukihime in the 2003 anime all differ from their voice actors in Carnival Phantasm. If the Tsukihime remake ever happens, I suspect that they'll stick with the Carnival Phantasm VAs rather than the 2003 anime VAs.


What is negative red/positive blue chakra?

At first I found your question really confusing, but while answering another question I figured out the answer for this one.

In the manga, Yin Release, which is a type of chakra nature, was depicted as black but red in the anime.

In the manga, Yang Release, another chakra nature, was depicted as white but blue in anime.

Yin Release:

  can be used to create form out of nothingness
  genjutsu falls under the broad category of Yin Release.
  Yin chakra is also part of the tailed beasts' chakra.
  Yin Release can be used offensively when combined with senjutsu. However, it is unknown what exact role the Yin Release fulfils in said technique.

Yang Release:

  can be used to breathe life into form.
  Yang chakra is also part of the tailed beasts' chakra.
  Whenever Naruto is in Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, Wood Release techniques react to the Yang chakra's vitalising properties and mature into full-grown trees within a matter of seconds, either through contact or close proximity.

Positive/Negative Chakra:

It's another differentiation in chakra, but it's not the same as Yin-Yang.
Black/Red chakra, Yin Release, is negative.
White/blue chakra, Yang Release, is positive.
The Bijuu Bomb is made from combining negative and positive chakra, not Yin and Yang.

Also, there is not just one chakra type.


What's the significance of this Michelangelo reference?

Madoka's mother is drinking from a faceted glass and what your screenshot shows are two edges of it and the Michelangelo's painting behind the glass. The dialogue between two women doesn't really correspond with the painting's theme, as far as I'm concerned.

The painting seems to be part of the entourage of the bar. With studio Shaft in charge of creating this anime, you can safely assume that it's a subtle hint at one of the many existential topics raised in it. It's probably not very significant in relation to the plot, but it just may give you some food for thought.

Consider the process of Adam's creation by God a metaphor for a magical girl becoming a witch. As a more powerful entity, witches are capable of creating their own kind by corrupting magical girls. Something along those lines.


No, there's no English dub for Triage X (as of April 2019).
Anime News Network listed Sentai Filmworks as one of the English licensors for Triage X, but there's no English cast (compared to the German's which was dubbed by TNT Media).

English cast
(none)

English companies
Licensed by:

Animatsu Entertainment (UK & Ireland)
Madman Entertainment (Australia & New Zealand)
Sentai Filmworks

They release the series as a complete BD-box (Japanese audio with English subtitle)

TRIAGE X COMPLETE COLLECTION
SENTAI FILMWORKS
Language: Japanese with English Subtitles

Regarding the statement on Wikipedia, the earliest revision already stated that "In May 2015, Sentai Filmworks licensed the series for an English-language release in North America" citing Sentai Filmworks' official announcement. The announcement only stated that Sentai Filmworks licensed the series (which is correct) but didn't say anything about English dubbing.
I think the quoted statement from Wikipedia might be ambiguous and misleading since it might either mean "English-language release with English subtitle" (which is correct) or "English-language release with English dub" (which is wrong).


Are all Cowboy Bebop's episodes named after songs?

Not all episodes are named after songs but most of them are and they are all named after cultural references.

1 - Asteroid Blues

  The blues is a well known music genre

2 - Stray Dog Strut

  Stray Cat Strut is one of the most famous songs of the band Stray Cats

3 - Honky Tonk Women

  Honky Tonk Women is a song composed by the Rolling Stones

4 - Gateway Shuffle

  The Shuffle or Melbourne Shuffle is a rave and club dance

5 - Ballad of Fallen Angels

  Fallen Angels is a song composed by the band Aerosmith

6 - Sympathy for the Devil

  Sympathy for the Devil is a song made by the Rolling Stones

7 - Heavy Metal Queen

  Heavy Metal is a rock/metal music genre

8 - Waltz for Venus

  Waltz is both a music genre and a dance. For more, see this answer
  Waltz for Debbie is both a song and an album composed by Bill Evans

9 - Jamming with Edward

  Jamming with Edward is an album released in 1972 by the Rolling Stones

10 - Ganymede Elegy

  Elegy is a Dutch Power Metal band.
  An elegy is also a type poem

11 - Toy in the Attic

  Toys in the Attic is both a song and an album composed by the band Aerosmith

12 & 13 - Jupiter Jazz

  Jazz is a genre of music

14 - Bohemian Rhapsody

  Bohemian Rhapsody is a song composed by Queen.

15 - My Funny Valentine

  There are multiple possible references.

  The album by Miles Davis
  The music by Frank Sinatra
  My Bloody Valentine is an alternative rock band

16 - Black Dog Serenade

  Black Dog is a song composed by the band Led Zeppelin. A serenade is a type of song.

17 - Mushroom Samba

  Samba is a Brazilian song and dance genre

18 - Speak Like a Child

  Speak Like a Child is an album made by Herbie Hancock

19 - Wild Horses

  Wild horses is a song composed by the Rolling Stones

20 - Pierrot Le Fou

  Pierrot Le Fou is a 1965 postmodern film directed by the French and Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, who was one of the founding members of the French New Wave in cinema.

21 - Boogie Woogie Feng Shui

  Boogie Woogie is a musical genre

22 - Cowboy Funk

  Funk is a genre of music

23 - Brain Scratch

  Evil Brain Rejector is a song composed by Lee "Scratch" Perry (album Jamaican E.T.)

24 - Hard Luck Woman

  Hard Luck Woman is a song composed by the band KISS

25 & 26 - The Real Folk Blues

  The Real Folk Blues is a song composed by John Lee Hooker


Are “The Dirty Pair” actually a part of the “Crusher Joe” universe? Or are they just a film parody in that universe?

Yes, both Dirty Pair and Crusher Joe are in the same universe/continuity.
Aside from the fact that both were written by Haruka Takachiho, Dirty Pair took place around 20 years before Crusher Joe.
From Japanese Wikipedia on Dirty Pair,

This work which was also written by the same author who had written Crusher Joe shared the same universe and linked to Crusher Joe 20 years later.

Dirty Pair OVA series review by Otaku USA Magazine also states

The series was created in 1979 as a set of novels by Haruka Takachiko, starting with the publishing of Great Adventures of the Dirty Pair, released in the U.S. by Dark Horse comics. The novels were done in connection with another of his works, Crusher Joe, [...]. Crusher Joe is similar, though a bit more serious, fare about a group of galactic mercenaries who have their adventures a couple decades after the Dirty Pair.

Lastly, from TV Tropes on Dirty Pair (Warning, TV Tropes link),

Novelist Haruka Takachiho first created the Pair in 1979, in a series of stories published as Light Novels set in the same continuity as his other series Crusher Joe (which debuted 2 years earlier).

Crusher Joe article on Wikia  described the connection in more detail (in accordance with the Japanese Wikipedia counterpart):

It takes place in the same general universe as the Dirty Pair light novels with cameos between the two franchises.

 The two series officially crossover in the light novel Dirty Pair's Rough and Tumble where Kei and Yuri meet Crusher Dan, the father of the series protagonist Joe.

In the Crusher Joe: The Movie, A movie of the Dirty Pair is shown at a scene taking place at a drive-in movie theater.

 In Dirty Pair: Project Eden, the four main characters are shown briefly on the monitor in the Lovely Angel while Mughi is controlling it.

Apart from that, the drive-in Dirty Pair movie on Crusher Joe was adapted from The Great Adventure of the Dirty Pair, the first series of the light novel.
From Japanese Wikipedia on Dirty Pair,

The first appearance was in Crusher Joe movie's scene on The Great Adventure of the Dirty Pair movie.

From Japanese Wikipedia on Crusher Joe

In the middle of the movie, there's a scene where Joe watched Dirty Pair movie. It's the movie about The Great Adventure of the Dirty Pair[10].
[10] From The Great Research of the Crusher Joe, page 118 about "Drive-in theater".


I honestly don't know how much you were paying attention to the game if you didn't figure out Jun is homosexual... He has loved Tatsuya since he was a child; this game is one of few that do not shy away from exposing his orientation.

If you look at the demon contact description he has with Lisa, it says they are rivals in love (over Tatsuya). In his demon contact descriptions with Maya and Tatsuya as well as Lisa and Tatsuya, both are referred to as "love triangles" because he is after Tatsuya as well. He even flirts with Tatsuya, very obviously, and both Eikichi and Lisa acknowledge this. In fact it wouldn't be at all outrageous to suggest Tatsuya returns his affections, given his behaviour in-game and the word of the creators. In any case, Jun is homosexual and Tatsuya is bisexual, they are both explicitly attracted to men.


Song in episode 14 of Ghost in the shell SAC 2nd gig

Not sure, but is it, From the Roof Top ~ Somewhere in the Silence (Sniper’s Theme) ?

List of Albums for Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (Wiki)

Useful links for previewing the ost's,

link 1

link 2

I think YouTube also got most of the OST's from the series but, I am not sure if it is available to your location.


How much do mangaka profit from anime or merchandise sales?

This is very dependant per mangaka. And all tough there is a thriving independent market for manga, it is rarely a solo effort. Hence most of the mangaka start off as either an assistant, or manage to get a contract at a well known publisher. Now, as for how much they earn, lets take Eiichiro Oda as an example. He has been estimated to earn around 2 billion Yen($~24 million) based on royalties alone.

Now how is this amount built up?

Contract and Royalties

Most mangakas don't earn an hourly wage. Instead, they have a contract based employment with partial sales (royalties) agreement. This means that a mangaka makes XX amount of pages per month for a set price. For a starting mangaka, this is around 500$ for 20-40 pages. On top of this, they still earn their royalties, which is around 10-15% per tankobon. These tankobons sell around $5 each which would make ~$0.50 a tankobon. Given that it takes around 5 hours for a page, we can say that an average starting mangaka earn about 5$ an hour.

This brings me to the pretty well known fact that mangakas tend to have a second job. As for a starting mangaka, it is not sufficient to pay the bills.

Series becomes an anime

Lets say the given manga became a success, and became well known enough to create a anime. This would mean that our mangaka gets roughly ~$660 per episode. So a standard 1 cour anime would earn just under $8000. But they do not get royalties for the DVD/BD sales. The royalties for these go to the sponsors and publishing companies. Most of the time the mangaka does not even have a say in the production of the anime, and the anime is only made to promote the original series and earn the publishers/sponsors money.

Character goods

Now another profit factor for most mangakas is the sales of character related goods and products. Most of the time, this is also covered in the same contract as mentioned above, meaning that the mangaka also earns 10-15% of the remaining anime retail, as most of these products tend to be a lot more expensive.

  Character goods earns around 8.5 times more then sales of movies, DVD's and VHS combined based on the American market in 2009

TL;DR

It is estimated that a mangaka earns about 10% royalties over their product sales, excluding DVD/VHS/Movies/BD. Leading to  ~$0.50 per tankobon and ~$0.05 - $20 for product sales such as figurines, key chains etc,etc.
Which, for successful mangakas, can turn up as high as 2 Billion yen (1.29 Billion tankobon royalties, 749 million character good royalties).

Sources: crunchyroll, AnimeNewsNetwork, Yahoo Answers, several Wikipedia pages.


Did Whitebeard know where the One Piece is located?

All we know about it is from Chapter 576 (Episode 485) just in the scene you mentioned:

  In a flashback Roger offered Whitebeard to reveals him how to reach Raftel (the supposed location of One Piece), but he replied he was not interested in going there.

So Whitebeard had the opportunity to know where One Piece but his reply to Roger's offer we don't know if he was told the location or not. The One Piece was probably the object of their conversation right before Roger's offer (It seems that Roger has just finished to talk about his adventure): so it seems that Whitebeard was told about One Piece directly by Roger, even if it was never shown explicitly.


In Overlord, could the Deep Darkness Dragon Lord be mind controlled considering it has a world item?

Yes, they'd need to steal it first. That said, unless the Deep Darkness Dragon Lord has inmunity against mind ailments, he could be targeted by regular mind control spells.

He's still one of the creatures of the highest levels in the New World, probably around level 100, so you'd need a really high level caster in order to pull a high-tier mind control spell able to affect him.


Is their a difference between Rurouni Kenshin & Samurai X?

No, there isn't. It called a localisation editing.

  Localisation is an essential process in releasing anime outside of Japan. It can cover a range of different processes depending on the individual title and the desired result. At its most basic level, the localisation process is responsible for deciding on romanised character and term names, as well as episode titles


Does “Aria the Scarlet Ammo” manga continue off from the anime, or does it turn into the spinoff?

Actually, there are more than 1 manga series:

Hidan no Aria: started as a light novel, got adapted into manga & anime.
Hidan no Aria AA: started as spin-off manga, got adapted into anime & light novel.
Hidan no Aria-chan: a 4-koma spin-off manga.

So, to answer the question: yes, Hidan no Aria manga continues from the anime, which is an adaptation to the original light novel. The anime ends at volume 3 of the light novel, which is around volume 8-9 of the manga.

Note: Hidan no Aria manga continues as Hidan no Aria - Shiden no Majo after volume 16.


Where does Code Geass: Boukoku no Akito fall in the story line?

In answer to your question, Code Geass: Akito of the Exiled (Code Geass: Boukoku no Akito) is set during the 1 year gap between the 2 Anime Series of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion set during the time when Britannia was putting pressure on their EU Front

Another peice of evidence to show that Code Geass: Akito of the Exiled is set in between the 2 series is Suzaku's apperance as he is a member of the Knights of the Round at this time and also

   at the end of R2 Suzaku is supposedly dead in the public and assumes the role of Zero. this ruse would be foiled if Suzaku is seen alive in puiblic

As for Julius Kingsley, he is infact a brainwashed Lelouch as revealed in Episode 3. the brainwashing however is somewhat unstable as "Lelouch" reappears briefly, also his Geass has yet to be sealed


Does hisoka die in the 2011 anime or in the manga

He did die but he came back to life.
The specifics to this ability are not yet elaborated but in Chapter 357, it was shown that Nen can be 'programmed' or 'used' even after death.
After his fight with Chrollo, he was declared dead. Suddenly, Machi notices Hisoka's aura coming back. It was then revealed that Hisoka 'begged' his Nen Gum (this is what he called his Nen, or at least in the VIZ translations) to bring him back to life after his death, which it did.


In chapter 73 there was a translator reminding readers that there was a page in chapter 44, speaking in detail about the different types of eclipses/blights. Reading this chapter again

Normal Types

Banquet for example. They are simple blights, which can be resolved by a single student. These blights are also canceled if it rains.

Fixed Types

Obon for example. They only occur on special days, such as Obon or the first day of school. These blights are also canceled if it rains.

Separation Types

Dragon for example. Separation type events occur only when the student body becomes divisible by 3. If a group fails to complete the given task, they perish. These blights are also canceled if it rains.

Special Types

Kingdom for example. Special types last several days, and get stronger each day. It won't stop till it's completed, or the student body is completely obliterated. This event won't be affected by rain.


What Gundam series should I watch/read for Dynasty Warriors Gundam?

The first game features the mechas from only the first three Gundam series (namely Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, and Mobile Suit ZZ Gundam), the OVAs published that takes place within this time frame (Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket and Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory), Mobile Fighter G Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing and Turn-A Gundam. In all, that's 6 shows and 2 OVA series total, a rather daunting task to watch through.

However, just like in Dynasty Warriors proper, the game's "official mode" follows closely to the anime's plotline, albeit a heavily condensed, somewhat inaccurate version (the first game is especially bad at this, with official modes starting in the middle of the actual show or an appearance from a character not introduced yet at that point, for instance)  and only for the first three Gundam series. Still, I would say Dynasty Warriors: Gundam is a great way to catch the basic plot of the anime. If I am not mistaken, they are done in a character-based manner ala the earlier Dynasty Warriors. To play it in chronological order, you should do it in order of Amuro Ray, Char Aznable, Kamille Bidan and finally Judau Ashta.

The "original mode" on the other hand follows an original plotline, so some knowledge of the aforementioned series may be needed to fully appreciate it.

EDIT: I've honestly only played through the PS2 version of the second game, and I realise now that it is fairly different in the first game. In the first game, Char, a major antagonist from the first series Mobile Suit Gundam, is not unlocked initially, and there are also official modes for the antagonists of the next two shows (Paptimus Scirocco and Haman Karn). In this case, I would recommend playing through all the heroes first before the villains. I also just realized that in DWG2, Char's official mode includes his Zeta Gundam role; I would say then to leave Char for last from the original four. Beating Amuro's and Char's official mode also unlocks their Char's Counterattack storylines, which should definitely be played last.


The floating ships in Last Exile use something called the Claudia Unit (see picture).

These units use a mixture of Claudia, the glowing blue ore, and water/alcohol as fuel. The Claudia Units themselves are fairly complicated devices and are provided solely by The Guild on loan to engineers of the different factions/countries. When warships become damaged, their Claudia Units detach and can fly its way back to the Guild, which usually leads to the demise of the ship. Additionally, the Guild can remotely recall Claudia Units. The exception being the Silvius which has a stolen unit that the Guild cannot recall.

The smaller Vanships also use Claudia fueled engines (called "Claudia Engines" to differentiate between ones that are used by the larger ships) that are much smaller and simpler than the units that the Guild controls. Some of these engines are so stripped down, they require external electricity to "start" the engine.

In this picture of the Silvana and Claus and Lavie's Vanship, you can see details of the Claudia Unit and Engine.

Anthony Kostabi mentions that the burning of Claudia inside the engines/units create a some kind of field (I think he uses the term "magnetic field") directed downwards to produce lift. In Episode 13, we learn that Vanship engines work by circulating near-vaporized Claudia at very high pressures through pipes at the rear of Vanships. You can see the pair of pipes in the rear of Tatiana's Vanship:

The Vespas from Last Exile - Fam, The Silver Wing are smaller than Vanships but still use Claudia engines:


Why do Chimera Ants seem to remember only one past life?

From what I read/seen in the anime/manga is that they remember the memories associated with strong emotions. I.E Colt has a strong sense of protection because in his human life he was dead set on protecting his little sister. These emotions probably cause the memories to take precedence over others. There are how ever small instances that show both sides can be remembered. There is a conversation between Killua and Ikalgo, in where Ikalgo recalls his time as an octopus and always envied the graceful squid. Later when Ikalgo is with Welfin in the control room after shooting Welfin in the legs Ikalgo makes him speak of his human memories. This conversation jogs Ikalgo's memory and he starts to remember some of his past human memories as well.


When was "Muru Muru's Melodrama" played?

It appears in a couple of the 'Mur Mur-Sensei's Future Diary Behind the Scenes' short specials that appear at the end of each episode after the credits. In particular, I have noticed this track in this section on episodes 11 and 16.

Depending on what version of Mirai Nikki you are watching, you may or may not get this extra section at the end of the episode, I think that it may only be included in BD versions of the anime.


Why is there a time limit on Tobi's dematerialization technique?

There's no definite answer yet.

The technique is about sending parts of yourself to the other dimension, to avoid being hit.

Two reasons I can think of are:

Since it's an activated mode type technique, it constantly drains his chakra. Five minutes are his limit.
He cannot keep parts of his body separated for so long, because there could be some sort of biological limitation of transferring oxygen and blood to the organs in the alternate dimension.

The first sounds more feasible to me, but since it isn't explicitly specified, we can't give you a definite answer.


This is not a world map. It's a map of Japan (tilted about 45° clockwise).


Was Shanks expected to eat the Gomu Gomu no Mi?

I don't think Shanks ever planned to eat the Gomu Gomu no Mi. I think he probably gave it to one of his crew members or sold it for some sake. With Shanks being one of the most powerful men in the world, I think if he ever wanted a Devil Fruit, he would have been able to get one pretty easily. If he wanted the Gomu Gomu no Mi specifically, then it would be a different story. However, I just can't think of any reason why he could have wanted that one Devil Fruit. There are more powerful fruits to go after which would suit him better, I think.


How is the Shadow Clone technique different from other cloning techniques?

Clone Techniques (分身術, Bunshinjutsu) are techniques that create a copy of the user or objects used by them. Each techniques differ from each other either by the usage of chakra or chakra type. I'm going to save you the trouble of comparing each article on clone jutsu by explaining them here.

The Clone Technique is the most basic cloning technique:

  It is a ninjutsu that creates an intangible copy of one's own body, without any substance. Since the clone itself doesn't have the ability to attack, and thus can only be used to confuse the enemy, it is mainly used in combination with other ninjutsu.

The Shadow Clone Technique is an advanced form of the Clone Jutsu and is one of Naruto's frequently used moves:

  Similar to the basic Clone Technique, this technique creates copies of the user. However, these clones are corporeal instead of illusions. The user's chakra is evenly distributed among every clone, giving each clone an equal fraction of the user's overall power. The clones are capable of performing techniques on their own and can even bleed, but will usually disperse after hit by a strong enough force.
  A characteristic that is unique to the Shadow Clone Technique is that any experience the clones gain during their existence is transferred to the user once they are dispersed. Because they are clones of the original, any chakra that the clone possesses will return to the original after being dispelled. Shadow clones can't be distinguished from the original with Sharingan, Byakugan, Rinnegan or Rinne Sharingan.

There are cloning techniques based on the chakra natures.

The Water Clone Technique uses water as a source for making the clone:

  The Water Clone Technique is similar to the Shadow Clone Technique except it creates clones out of water that have one-tenth of the original person's power. The range of the clone is limited however, as it can not travel very far from the original body without losing control.

Similarly,the Rock Clone Technique uses rocks as the base for the cloning jutsu:

  A clone that is created of rock, after it has been expelled from the user's mouth. Unlike other clones, ones generated by this method do not disappear when struck with sufficient force, but rather break apart.

The Earth Release Shadow Clone Technique uses mud as the source:

  This technique creates a shadow clone made of mud of the user. Since its made of mud, it can continue to reform and mould itself back to its original shape. Once reverted to mud, the clone can serve as a powerful restraint that is capable of completely halting the opponents movements.

Next is the Wood Clone Technique. It is a highly efficient technique and is a Kekkei Genkai:

  A clone that is created by using chakra to alter the user's own cells into vegetation. They have the ability to travel far from the user and are able to communicate with the original. By directly touching the wood clone with his hand, the user can absorb the information it gathered and change the shape of the clone.

Other types of cloning jutsu include:

The Beast Human Clone Technique

  Beast Human Clone is a modified and mixed version of the Transformation Technique and clone technique, which is unique to the Inuzuka clan. It allows a canine-user to transform their animal companion into a perfect copy of themselves. Like any transformation, the technique can be broken by identifying and attacking the animal, thus dispelling the transformation.

The Crow Clone Technique

  A technique that produces a clone by projecting one's own chakra towards dozens of "crows". Because it uses crows as a medium, it requires less chakra than the normal Shadow Clone Technique, while still being able to perform techniques. The dozens of crows come together to form the body of a clone.

The Haze Clone Technique
and Insect Clone Technique.

What differentiates all these clone jutsu are the chakra consumed for the technique and the chakra release required for the execution. Most of these clones can be distinguished from the original by looking at the imperfections and chakra levels. Dojutsu such as Sharingan and Byakugan can distinguish certain types of clones, but it seems that the Kage Bunshin (Shadow Clones) cannot be distinguished. Although it has been stated that the Wood clone cannot be distinguished from the original,

  Unlike other clone techniques, the wood clone doesn't disappear when hit and takes the damage to a certain degree. This according to Madara Uchiha makes it the perfect clone technique that only he with his dōjutsu, was able to see through.

This jutsu doesn't require specific chakra release and is dependent on the user's skill with the technique and the chakra levels. Combined with the ability to fight, use/mould chakra, relay information to the original and avoid detection of being a clone, the Kage Bunshin makes itself as an ideal Cloning technique.

Then comes Taju KageBunshin no Jutsu, or multiple shadow clone technique.
The difference b/w a simple Shadow Clone and Taju KageBunshin no Jutsu is just the numbers. Many hundreds to even thousands of shadow clones are possible with multiple shadow clone technique.


What is the name of the track at 17:25 in episode 764 of One Piece?

According to this website, it's "Gold and Oden" (probably the second part?). You can search for the episode and click on a entry to see more information about a track.


Can anyone in Naruto universe use all five chakra natures?

According to the Nature Transformation wiki, there are only 5 shinobi who are known to have mastered all 5 chakra elements by raw training and without the assistance of special abilities or tools.

Hashirama Senju
Tobirama Senju
Hiruzen Sarutobi
Orochimaru
Mū


Not much is known about Jack. Thus far, Jack has only been mentioned three times.

In chapter 692 during the failed experiment by Caesar
In chapter 801 during the escort of Doflamingo
In chapter 805 during the explanation of the destruction of Zou.

The only thing we seem to learn from this is that he is related to Kaidou, but we don't know the reason he was send by Kaidou to Doflamingo and why he destroyed Zou. My personal guess would be that Kaidou sent Jack to Doflamingo (as was seen in number 1) to prepare for the last battle as Kaidou said in chapter 795:

  Goddamn it, hurry the hell up, Joker! Get everything ready for our last battle! A world this mundane isn't worth keeping around! Time to light the match to the greatest war this world has ever seen!

Jack probably came by Zou and destroyed it, because that seems to be what he does. Kaidou's underling seemed to have warned Kaidou something bad would happen if they send out Jack.

Finally, he isn't one of the 7 warlords. The five remaining confirmed warlords are Mihawk, Kuma, Hancock, Buggy and Weevil after Doflamingo and Water Law were stripped of their title. There has been no mention of a new warlord ever since Fujitora apologized for such a system even being in place.

My personal guess would be that there might not even be more warlords. It seems many of the Marines dislike the system (eg: Sengoku, Fujitora, Smoker, etc) and they might want to take this opportunity to get rid of it. Especially seeing 3 out of 6 ex-warlords blatantly abused the system to get away with their evil deeds and did more harm then good by being a warlord (ie: Crocodile, Doflamingo and Teach)


Why is Homura still alive after shooting herself?

I can only think that the bullet didn't actually hit her head, but only scratch her. She point the gun on her head not to kill her self, but to distract Mami. Mami, who is Homura's friend, didn't want Homura to die, tried to save her. She pull the ribbon when Homura shot her gun and this makes her miss the shot. I believe she did it on purpose, because after this, Homura able to cut Mami's ribbon and able to stop time again. Which is of course, that's what she want to do from the beginning.

Before the battle begin, we can see that Homura tried to shoot Mami's ribbon, but failed to do so, but after she tries to shoot herself in the head. Mami get distracted and Homura finally able to free herself


How does a colossal titan come down once he is done shifting?

SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

Humans with titan abilities have some control over what parts of the body is turned into a titan and to what degree. This is shown in The first season when Eren only builds a single arm, some torso and a head to stop the cannon from hitting himself, Mikasa and Armin.
To some extent this ability can be extended to deconstruction of the parts at different rates. This can mean the colossal titan may only deconstruct the torso and then the legs to get back down on his feet. This will require practice but is certainly plausible.


Why does Satsuki address everyone using "kisama"?

My question is: why does Satsuki Kiryuin use "kisama" to address the Elite Four? They should, at least, be worthy of a bit more of respect.

Well, for the one thing, this is anime. Typical conventions governing the use of honorifics in actual spoken Japanese frequently go out the window in anime.

  [...] or is there a different meaning for "kisama" I'm not aware of?

It so happens that the "bad guys" that use kisama frequently are precisely those who typically speak in a mildly archaic-sounding register of Japanese (from memory: Satsuki, Gamagoori, Sanageyama, and Ragyou - but not Inumuta, Nonon, or Nui). The use of kisama in an archaic register of Japanese is not harsh as its use in a modern register would be - historically, kisama was in fact a polite word (roughly "honorable person"); cf. here or here for what little English-language reading about this I was able to find.

Even in modern registers of Japanese, I feel that kisama is a smidge less harsh than its typical (shoddy) English translation "you bastard", though I don't know if other people would agree.

  Was it a stylistic choice that Satsuki would address virtually everyone (with few exceptions such as the butler and Iori, for example) in such a disrespectful way [...]

I imagine the reason that Satsuki addresses Soroi (her butler) using a different pronoun (kimi) is that kimi is a more familiar term of address than kisama, and she feels that she can open up to Soroi more than anyone else.

But really, I think this is mostly down to characters using more "powerful" language for dramatic effect (e.g. to express Satsuki's general disdain for most people) since this is an anime rather than real life. You'll see this happening in many an anime; Kill la Kill is by no means unique in this respect.


Based on the Nui Harime wikia page, her eye was destroyed.

  Nui was distracted by the sound of Ryūko calling for her father, allowing Isshin to destroy her left eye with the purple Scissor Blade.

It's also worth noting that the Scissor Blades were able to

  prevent Nui's arms from regenerating when they were cut off.

The power of the Scissor Blades are known to be the one thing that can cut through Life Fibers, and this is likely what prevents the regeneration of Nui's body parts that were removed by them, as it destroys them.

As an aside, in many anime and shows, when a limb or body part is destroyed, it is not able to be regenerated. The best example I can think of is

  In Claymore, when a claymore loses a limb, they can have it heal by reattaching the severed limb. However, when Clare's arm is destroyed, she has no arm until one is given to her by Irene.


What happened to people who committed crimes (such as killing) in SAO?

From the end of the ALO arc in the novel, where Kirito thinks about his school and the policy to avoid using in-game names:

  In this special «school», the students were players who had been in middle or high school before the SAO incident. Those orange players with a serious history of murder were undergoing more than one year of counseling that included treatment and observation. People like me who attacked others for self-defense, were inquired without leaving a criminal record like theft or blackmail.


I think this question is opinion-based, but not to an extent where it cannot be reasonably answered. Anyway, that's a decision someone else can make.

Glasslip is about teenage life, but without many of the cliches that are in many shows - characters are uncertain about many things - love, friendship, future, and in general growing up.

This is why not much happens during the show - the characters are nervous about the fact that they can now date within the group, that a new person has disrupted their social circle, that they will soon be separated as they move on to new schools and new areas.

These uncertainties are shown abstractly in character's interations:

Touko feels 'invisible' in her vision of watching the fireworks where she is ignored by all her friends.
Kakeru has many internal monologues with different instances of himself, showing his internal conflicts. He also sleeps outside in a tent as it gives him a sense of safety and belonging, which he usually lacks because of his family's constant moving.
Yanagi takes up running in frustration of her unrequited love

It's interesting to note that Sachi and Hiro, who do not dwell on their friend's potential reactions to their relationship have an unwavering devotion to each other (apart from Sachi's misleading which causes a small stir).

And it is true that this was a turning point in all their lives: Touko's life was disrupted by the visiting stranger, Sachi & Hiro are now in a loving relationship, Yanagi has left for her modelling career, Yuki has stopped running and has split off from the group. Kakeru also has travelled somewhere new, but experienced the same conflicted emotions that Touko did over the summer

If one is looking for a meaning in Glasslip, I would say it is to not worry about other people's perceptions of you, that growing up is a confusing, emotional time and that you find who your true friends are during testing times.

I recommend reading these reddit analyses of the final episodes:

http://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/2grlj5/spoilers_glasslip_episode_12_discussion/cklxbkn

http://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/2hfo2a/spoilers_glasslip_episode_13_final_discussion/


This is Cosmos, who first appears in chapter 307 of the manga. She is one of the Garou Knights. The image that you have is a colored image of her from Deviantart by SeireiART.

She has plant magic, which is why the Deviantart picture of her refers to her as the Flower Executioner. In chapter 308 she creates a giant flower.


Can Accelerator be killed by a nuclear weapon?

I would assume that he would have no trouble deflecting the initial blast because it's just a straightforward shockwave (no dark matter shenanigans here). But there's more to worry about than just the initial shockwave.

During Accelerator's fight with Touma after he sets off the dust explosion, he actually does contemplate on such a scenario. He notices that the temporary lack of oxygen from the dust explosion almost killed him, and comments that he probably wouldn't be able to survive a direct nuclear blast for the same reason. In the novels, he considers the idea of oxygen tanks to remedy that problem, since some are made the size of hairspray bottles.


Where do the American and Japanese Transformers franchises meet?

According to the Wikipedia article on Transformers:

  However, the Japanese broadcast of the series was supplemented with a newly-produced OVA, Scramble City, before creating entirely new series to continue the storyline, ignoring the 1987 end of the American series. The extended Japanese run consisted of The Headmasters, Super-God Masterforce, Victory and Zone, then in illustrated magazine form as Battlestars: Return of Convoy and Operation: Combination.

Also,

  After the first season of Beast Wars (comprising 26 episodes) aired in Japan, the Japanese were faced with a problem. The second Canadian season was only 13 episodes long, not enough to warrant airing on Japanese TV. While they waited for the third Canadian season to be completed (thereby making 26 episodes in total when added to season 2), they produced two exclusive cel-animated series of their own, Beast Wars II (also called Beast Wars Second) and Beast Wars Neo, to fill in the gap. Dreamwave retroactively revealed Beast Wars to be the future of their G1 universe, and the 2006 IDW comic book Beast Wars: The Gathering eventually confirmed the Japanese series to be canon within a story set during Season 3.

Robots in Disguise was a purely Japanese creation that was highly censored and then banned from cable TV in the U.S. because its original run in Japan ended at the end of 2001, and it had references to building destruction and terrorism.

Also,

  In Japan, the series Transformers: Cybertron showed no ties to the previous two series, telling its own story. This caused continuity problems when Hasbro sold Cybertron as a follow-up to Armada/Energon. The writers attempted to change certain plot elements from the Japanese version to remedy this, although this largely added up to nothing more than references to Unicron, Primus, Primes and Minicons.


Who was the other person the colossal titan ate?

This was an unnamed, unlucky poor individual who was at the wrong place at the wrong time. If you watch this Youtube video, they aren't entirely sure who the Colossal Titan ate either.

It got Ymir!
...
And they got somebody else, too!

Also, while reading this reddit post, people say the Colossal Titan ate him to steal his ODM Gear

Just a random person. They didn't care about the guy, only about stealing his gear.

This is confirmed by seeing the Colossal Titan wearing the ODM gear in it's human form in the scene when they were camping out in the forest


Do seniority relations among the fleet girls have any basis in properties of the actual ships?

A few points that rule out ship age as a deciding factor:

The Nagato and the Mutsu are the secretary ships of the fleet and hold highest seniority, yet the construction of the four Kongou-class battleships had all been completed at least five years beforehand. The Kongou-class were all originally battle cruisers, which is a possible reason for their lower seniority assuming it's based on ship class, as the Nagato-class were dreadnoughts, and the Nagato often served as flagship IRL.
The Ashigara and the other three Myoukou-class heavy cruisers are depicted as teachers. However, every single Mutsuki-class destroyer was completed around 4-5 years before them, and they're Ashigara's students in the show.
The Ooyodo light cruiser was completed in 1943, well after most other ships in the fleet, but works with Nagato and Mutsu, which is likely because she was originally intended as a command vessel for submarine operations and briefly served as flagship of the Combined Fleet before being sunk.
The Shimakaze was also older than the Mutsu.

Given the other references to real-life attributes of the various ships and their histories (e.g. the Sendai fought all of her battles at night, hence her character's obsession therewith), I would guess fleet seniority is handled based on ship roles in the actual Combined Fleet, which would roughly follow ship class just because of the different capabilities/stats of each.

The information of the ships are referenced from Wikipedia


What does the pink note left by Taiga say?

The text of the note is:

  竜児へ

  竜児___ね…ずっとずっと自分なんかが
  ___愛されるはずないと思ってた。
  でもそれは逃げてただけなのかも知れない。
  自身がもてないのを親のせいに…周りのせいにして…
  でも、竜児は私をそのまま愛してくれた…。
  自分に誇りをもって…

  竜児を愛したいから。

  相坂大河

There are two blanks (on the first two lines of the body) that cannot be made out because of the pen in the way. However, this turns out to be pretty much the same as the narration that Taiga does starting around 10:28, so we can fill in the blanks: the first blank is 私 and the second blank is 誰かに. Now, a rough translation:

  Ryuuji,

  Ryuuji, I... always thought that there was no way anybody would ever love me. But maybe I was just running away [from my problems?]. I blamed my lack of confidence on my parents... on my situation. But even so, you loved me the way I was. I'll be proud of myself...

  Because I want to love you, Ryuuji.

  Aisaka Taiga

The letter omits the lines to the effect of "I won't run away anymore; I'll change; I'll accept myself" which are present in her narration.


What happened to Lala in To LOVE-Ru Darkness?

Note: this answer may contain minor spoilers.

  Instead Momo (Lala's sister) becomes the primary female character.
  What influenced the author to pull Lala from center stage and replace her with Momo?

I don't know how far along the anime is, but that's not entirely correct. Momo becomes a more important character than she was in previous TLR instances, but I think that's mainly for amusement / The Harem Plan™. And Lala isn't entirely dead yet. Why she isn't as prominent anymore? I have no real answer to that, but my guess is that her specific story is over and maybe the author just got tired of her. :)

Also, let's look at the name of the anime (and manga): To LOVE-Ru Darkness.
And whose name contains "Darkness" again? Right, Konjiki no Yami, aka Golden Darkness.

It becomes apparent pretty fast that she's the new main heroine, as the story revolves around her origin, her purpose, and friends / foes she has out in the universe.

A particular example would be Mea,

   who is an artificial "transforming weapon" just like Yami,

and her mysterious master.

We also finally get to know Yami's mother. It's hard to see where exactly TLR:D is going yet, but it's not your average ecchi fanservice manga / anime anymore.


Did Rogue and Gajeel ever meet before the Tournament?

In episode 13 of Fairy Tail (2014) Gajeel implies that he was a mentor to Rogue. The fact that he knew the name Reyos proves that Gajeel knew about him while in Phantom Lord. Gajeel says that Rogue was his disciple. According to the Fairy Tail wiki, Rogue is also Gajeels sworn younger brother but the wiki doesn't say how it got this info about the brother.

From the wiki:

  At some point in time, Gajeel joined Phantom Lord. During his time in Phantom Lord, a young man named Rogue Cheney, known as Ryos, was Gajeel's sworn younger brother.


Is Kefura super saiyan 2 a regular super saiyan 2 transformation?

Kefla seems to utilize Kale's powers over Goku. Kale's initial SSJ transformation seems to have a tinge of green just like Kefla's did. Also, Kale in her SSJ state was shown to be on the same level as SSJ2 Caulifla despite the SSJ2 multiplier being a higher one. We know Kale in her mastered LSSJ form was a lot stronger than SSJ2 Caulfila. I believe the two transformations Kefla used aren't exactly the regular SSJ transformations like the one Vegito used in the Buu Saga against Buuhan.Vegito SSJ2 is weaker than SSJG Goku. We know this from the battle of gods arc where Goku stated that he couldn't defeat Beerus even if he were to fuse with Vegeta. Base Kefla was a lot stronger than SSJG Goku. So I would say, the SSJ and SSJ2 transformations used by Kefla are special variations of Kale's LSSJ Transformation which is the reason she seems to be a lot more stronger


Why does Nagato have Rinnegan when he was awakened using the reanimation jutsu?

Nagato wasn't revived with the natural attributes from birth.

Kabuto's Edo Tensei revives the person with all their abilities, including the Kekkai Genkai and Kekkai Tota. Also, the revived are actually reincarnated in the physical form that they died in (here's where Madara is an exception).

If you take Madara's case, Kabuto revived him at a much younger age than he died at, gave him enhancements and also Rinnegan which shouldn't have had at that age.

He did the same for Nagato. He combined Nagato's physical last with his best powers. Which explains the condition of his legs when he was revived (they were still damaged).


What's the reading order of the God Eater manga?

What is the reading order of these manga?

Read them in the order they were published in.

Some may not know but God Eater indeed has a manga.

It has, but the manga itself is based on the original game, so it has nothing to do with the anime. (The anime itself is different because of the MC)

AFAIK, there are 4 mangas and here is a brief description:

Return of the Messiah -> takes place in the original GE timeline

  The story takes place in Fenrir America Branch, 1 year after the events of God Eater Burst.

Spiral Fate -> takes place after the GE timeline

  a manga that offers an alternate reality to the main continuity of the God Eater series, since the protagonist is Ryo Kagami, not Yu Kannagi.

Summer Wars -> side story about romance & stuff

  Alisa Illinichina Amiella develops a feeling similar to respect for the 1st Unit leader, Yu Kannagi. Meanwhile, Alisa and Yu are dispatched to Aegis Island on a protection mission.

2nd Break-> takes place in the GE2 timeline

  The manga is a prequel to God Eater 2 in the manga continuity.

The protagonist of each manga is different though, and it seems like they only appeared exclusively on that manga.

Here are the Mangas in other of Publication:

  The game received several manga adaptations written by Namco Bandai. The first is titled God Eater: Kyūseishu no Kikan (GOD EATER - God Eater -Return of the Messaiah) was illustrated by Osan Eijii, published by Kodansha, and serialized in Rival Comics magazine. As of December 28, 2011, the series was completed and compiled into five volumes.^ The second is titled God Eater: the spiral fate and was illustrated by Saito Rokuro, published by Dengeki Comics and serialized in Side-B.N Magazine. As of November 27, 2010, the manga was completed and compiled into two volumes. A third manga titled God Eater: the summer wars was illustrated by Okiura, published by Kadokawa Shoten and serialized in Dragon Age Comics Magazine. The series was completed and compiled into a single volume on May 7, 2012.

God Eater 2nd Break

  was Published: Dec 27, 2011 to Aug 27, 2013 with 3 Volumes and 18 chapters


Who altered Δ Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground and removed Aura's Statue?

The creators of R:2 would have been the people to modify the area after the destruction of the original game. IPO I would think it was Piroshi specifically because of something he mentions about graphics the first time you meet him at the area. However... I think there's more to it than that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtBW_liXkt4


How to start the .hack series and its viewing order?

The release order of .hack is:

.hack//Sign
.hack//Liminality [OVA]
.hack//Legend of Twilight (Tasogare no Udewa Densetsu)
.hack//Gift [OVA]
.hack//Roots
.hack//G.U. Trilogy [Movie]
.hack//G.U. Returner [OVA]
.hack//Quantum [OVA]
.hack//Sekai no Mukou ni [Movie]

If you want to watch each story at a time, I would suggest:

.hack//Sign
.hack//Liminality

Because they share the same storyline. Then,

.hack//Legend of Twilight
.hack//Gift

As Gift is a side story to the other three you have now watched.

At this stage there are two distinct storylines you can pick from:

1:

.hack//Roots
.hack//G.U. Trilogy [Movie]
.hack//G.U. Returner [OVA]

2:

.hack//Quantum
.hack//Sekai no Mukou ni [Movie]

Finally, pick the story you didn't choose to watch in the last choice

Here's a flowchart from AniDB:


What's the OST playing in "No Regrets" OVA when Levi is fighting with Erwin?

I believe it's "So Ist Es Immer". It appears when

   Farlan and Isabel died.

It appears to be telling Levi his choice is wrong.


What are the PVP rules in the Sword Art Online MMORPGs?

Warning, there are spoilers in this answer if you haven't watched SAO completely yet.

For the SAO arc, outside of towns, you're constantly "flagged" for PvP. From the beginnings, when you're getting explained how the players are divided:

  Inside the city, or the places mostly referred to as «Safe Areas», there was protection implemented by the system and players couldn't hurt each other. But it wasn't like that outside. The stragglers made teams with other stragglers and ambushed other players —which was in many ways much more profitable than hunting monsters— out on the fields or the labyrinth areas.

Players that commit crimes are marked orange (i.e., their cursor turns orange). From when Kirito and Asuna encounter the troop from The Army in the forest:

  More importantly, whenever a player committed a crime, their cursor would turn orange and wouldn't turn back to green for a long time.

Note that attacking an orange player doesn't change your cursor to orange. From when Asuna steps in to stop Kuradeel from killing Kirito:

  Kuradeel bounced back up as if he had springs and attempted to form an excuse with his nervous voice. But before he could finish, Asuna's right hand flashed and the tip of her sword tore Kuradeel's mouth. She didn't become a criminal since her opponent already had an orange cursor.

Inside of towns, you have the town protection in place, which doesn't allow open PvP, so many new players originally stayed in town to be safe. You can attack other people in towns, but it won't do anything except for some special shiny effects and knockback.

If players engage in duels, there are several options:

First Strike Mode - from the duel against Kuradeel:

  I nodded in reply, then pressed Yes and chose the «First Strike Mode» from the options. This was a duel that could be won either by landing the first clean hit or by reducing the opponent's HP to half.
  Complete Decisive Mode - from the Inner Area PK incident:

  But unfortunately, there were still some loopholes around this rule. One of them is when the player's sleeping. There are times when players, with their energy exhausted through long durations of battle, are basically unconscious when they go into a deep sleep, and unable to wake up even with some stimulations. With that opportunity, one could raise a request to duel in «Complete Decisive Mode» and moved the sleeping opponent's finger to press on the OK button. All that was left was to literally make the opponent sleep like the dead.

The other options are not explained or mentioned as far as I can see.

For the ALO arc, there's PvP against other fairy races in your native race's (controlled) towns. From when Lyfa/Suguha shows Kirito around meeting Sigurd:

  Somehow, a circle of onlookers had already surrounded them, drawn by the signs of trouble. If this was a formal duel, or if he were an actual Spriggan spy, then fine. But it would be dishonorable if Sigurd instigated a fight with a tourist like Kirito, who can't even fight back in this area.

And in that same quote, it's mentioned that a "formal duel" is possible, but that's not further explained. Outside of towns, you can fight without restrictions. This can be seen by people just fighting about everywhere. Note that if a race's lord is killed by another race, the other race will gain control over that lord's territory. From when Lyfa explains why the Salamander want to stop the Sylphid-Cait Sith alliance:

  "Also, if they kill the Lord, they will get some amazing bonuses. They will unconditionally receive 30% of the lord's funds stored in the mansion, and for ten days, the territory that the lord rules over would become occupied, then they are free to set taxes and take that money. That is a tremendous amount of money. The reason why Salamander became the largest force in the game was because in the past, they had set a trap for Sylph's first Lord and killed him. Normally lords don't venture into neutral territory. In the history of ALO, only one lord has ever been killed."


The manga you are looking for is called "Beauty Pop".

Here is MAL's synopsis:

  Although a truly gifted hairstylist, Kiri Koshiba has no interest in using her talent to pursue fame and fortune, unlike the three popular boys in the "Scissors Project" at school. Determined to become the best makeover team in Japan, they give showy makeovers to handpicked girls. As much as Kiri tries to shy away from the Scissors Project spotlight, she finds herself responding to beauty's call


what is the song that plays 18 minutes into episode 354 of Naruto Shippuden?

I believe this is Naruto Shippuuden Soundtrack II, track 25, "Shirobae" (translated title: "The Rain Stops").
It sounds like a slower, calmer, guitar version of "Guren", the theme that appeared a lot in many of the Yuukimaru scenes back during that Three-Tails filler arc.


Can Ken Kaneki from Tokyo Ghoul self cannibalize?

In the manga, I cannot recall that Kaneki self-cannibalized to prevent starvation or save himself. However, in Volume 7 Chapter 59 of the first Tokyo Ghoul,

  when Anteiku found out that Kaneki was being held by Aogiri, Yoshimura asked for the help of Shuu Tsukiyama. When Touka asked how he (Shuu) was still alive, Shuu remarked that he just followed Touka's 'advice' and that after he did, he discovered that he 'actually tastes pretty good.' This implies that Shuu self-cannibalized after his battle with Touka. This also presents the possibility that a ghoul can self-cannibalize to heal himself/herself from injuries.

So, to answer your question, then yes, it is possible for Kaneki, and even for other ghouls, to self-cannibalize in order to save himself from starvation or death, as seen in Tsukiyama's case.


Spoiler!

  In the manga, Marley [the County that Eren's father came from and the other titan shifters] is another nation in this manga also an Asian nation from which Mikasa's ancestors come from, the Hizuru . Untill the moment, this is an alternative universe to this,  so is not really our Earth or our countries. There are also other nations, but the main nations that appears to be everyone's enemy would be Marley. Marley has tried and has ruled or is currently ruling other nations. The Hizuru are joining with Paladis/Palaris [The island where the story takes place]. The Wikipedia link has the rest of the story. I'm up to update with the manga,  and the Wikipedia has it pretty much right https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Titan


What type of chakra element does the Aburame clan possess?

I don't think it matters. The insects live under their skins in symbiosis with their host. The shinobi and the insects both benefit from this: the insects feed on their host's chakra (and I don't think they care about its type), and the host can use ninjutsu involving the insects.

Note that ninjutsu must not necessarily be bound to a specific element. For example, Shadow Clone Technique is a ninjutsu which can be used by a lot of shinobi with different chakra types. Therefore, I think that Aburame clan members can have any chakra type.


Since when Gowther become one of Ten Commandments?

It has already been 3 thousand years with respect to the current events when the 10 Commandments fought for their race and were defeated and sealed away. Meliodas himself being a demon was definitely involved and witnessed it all. He has been alive all these thousands of years.

The Seven Deadly Sins were formed much more recently. The Seven Deadly Sins were an independent group of knights serving the Kingdom of Liones. So it is obvious that they have been around for a while but only during the time of Liones.

Gowther was recently revealed to be a doll created by a great magician. Meliodas is a demon. King is a fairy. Diane is a Giant and Ban is an immortal. Those explain why they have such long life spans. But the true nature of Escanor and Merlin has not been revealed yet.

Still, the Kingdom of Liones was probably founded much later after the 10 Commandments were defeated. The back stories of some of the characters have been revealed before they joined The Seven Deadly Sins. Ban and Diane for instance. They have been shown to be in their younger years living in pretty much the same timeline as the current one with no demons. So it is safe to assume that The Seven Deadly Sins were created fairly recently as compared the thousands of years.

Gowther is revealed to be "Gowther the Selfless" of the 10 Commandments. He lost his memories because of his selflessness. By the time he joined the Sins, he had no memories of his past. That means he must have been a part of the 10 Commandments before he had joined the Sins.

It is unclear though whether he was part of the 10 Commandments back when they were defeated 3 thousand years ago or became a part of them afterwards like Fraudrin. If Gowther was a part of the 10 commandments back then, then Meliodas probably knows about him and hasn't revealed the truth to anyone thus far.

UPDATE:
Some of Gowther's past was revealed to King and Diane by Gloxinia, the former fairy king and Dolor, the former giant king. Gowther himself was a part of the 10 commandments long before the war between the clans even started. However, he had been imprisoned by the Demon King. The Gowther we know is just a doll created by the real Gowther, released into the real world to be his eyes and ears.


Why do only some anime series translate on screen text?

In some anime the additional text is there just to provide info. If context is provided, the translation usually isn't necessary. However, anime or at least their source videos that are meant to be dubbed and shown outside of Japan, are sometimes supposed to be translated, because most viewers never know nor care about the original language used in production (kids watching TV?).

Otherwise it's just about speed. Some fast-subbing groups only provide the needed dialogue, some groups take their time and translate everything to help the viewer.

Sometimes scribbles and text on walls provide additional humorous inputs (e.g. Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei) and some people like to thoroughly go through them...

Overall it's all about the target audience :)


While it's true that this manga lacks any dialogs, there are actually 2 pages at the end (pg. 196-197) that describe the whole scenes from the beginning until the end.
For page 30-31,

30-31 鞄の中にファクシミリ用感熱紙、コピー用紙、ファイルブックなどの文具又は書類が覗いている。
30-31 Thermal papers for facsimile, copy paper, filing book and other stationaries or documents are peeking through the bag.

Researching those things returned these images:

Thermal papers for facsimile by Fujifilm | Copy papers by Super Echo
Thus, I believe spiel's comment was actually right: they are standard paper size labels. The A3 thermal papers are rolled into a cylinder, and the A2 copy papers are showing their shorter side. (Which means that the filing book is also A2-size, which also exists)


Did Goku and Vegeta use god ki when fighting Freezer in Fukkatsu no F?

There isn't really an exact answer to this question. This is because, it was implied early on in the series that Goku had supposedly absorbed this God form into his base form and some might argue whether this is true or not. The only thing we know for a fact is that Goku and Vegeta grew way stronger. However, based on Whis's definition of God Ki, it is basically being able to power up without having ki leak out of your body. Goku and Vegeta were both being trained to master this skill and the Super Saiyan Blue  transformation, is basically them blending the Super Saiyan transformation with God Ki. So while mastering this power, Goku and Vegeta grew immensely powerful in their base forms, which is why we see Goku being able to easily fight Final form Freiza and overwhelm him. We also, later on, see Vegeta(Copy Vegeta) being able to easily defeat SSJ3 Gotenks without any struggle. So in a way, they were probably utilizing God ki but the two of them had become immensely stronger since the Buu Saga.


How was Aku no Hana's rotoscoping received by other animators?

There's not much information out there, perhaps because it is bad practise to criticise fellow animators. But there is information from the people who were involved:

Firstly, The mangaka was satisfied with the way the anime was animated, and the studio itself was happy with the outcome, wanting realism without making it completely live action and wouldn't be opposed to doing it again with another series, mentioning that Mushishi would be a good candidate for the style.

Vertical Inc., who publish the manga in English, have also stated their support for the stylistic adaption - Vertical Inc. Tumblr

The industry as a whole isn't opposed to rotoscoping in the industry, Kuuchu Baranko also implemented it for one character's appearance and there was little outroar on the internet

Kids on the Slope also used the technique for animating the characters playing instruments, most notably the drums;

It also wasn't the target of much negative feedback either.

Personally, I think that if a large unconvential stylistic choice was made for an entire anime, there will always be negative feedback, and that makes a lot more noise than positive ones.


Accuracy of the translation of English manga?

Given a source material in language A, a translation to language B isn't going to be the same. For starters, the person translating is usually a different one, so they may not know the original intent the author had. Also, the language is different, so things may not carry over.

But this applies to translations of anything, not just manga.

Now, a decent translator should be able to minimize the loss. One could:

translate the text to something that results in an equivalent reaction to the reader (e.g. the original text had a pun, so translating it literally would make it so the reader won't laugh at it, so instead we make a different pun, and the reader still laughs)
put in notes that explains why the source language text is written the way it is
rewrite the text a bit
...possibly other tricks
combination of above

Regarding the example of the first one: there's this text that I'm translating that relies on that "おっぱ" means both "breast milk" and "breasts". If I were to translate it literally, the pun would be lost. So instead I make the text vague with "they" about what a person is actually referring to, and not revealing it until the last moment. But this, again, loses something on what was in the source text. On the other hand, if I were to put in a translator note instead of that, that would have killed the pun (and therefore, the intended effect on the reader would be lost in translation), but would have preserved the meaning of the text.

Another example that often is problematic wrt translations to English is the matter of pronouns: there are different first person pronouns depending on the gender, or whether it's formal or informal situation. One could make it hard to translate without putting in a translator note if a character in the source material uses a different first person pronoun that the social protocol would expect, and other characters notice that.


What is the language of the lyrics in "Replica" from Ghost in the Shell?

I was puzzled by this question as well and I asked Ilaria Graziano herself if the song's language was real or made up, and she told me it's made up.

Check out the screenshot for proof.


Is the uniform worn by Tatsuya during the Nine Schools Competition banquet a mistake or formal wear?

It is intentional and is emphasized in the light novel. As representatives of First High to the Nine Schools Competition, all participants wore school uniform with the school's emblem to the competition.
From Volume 3 - Chapter 3, right before the ceremony to send off the representatives to the Nine Schools Competition, Tatsuya was handed the uniform for the technician team, which was to be worn during the ceremony and for the full length of the Nine Schools Competition:

"This is the uniform for the technician team. Please put that on during the ceremony in place of the actual uniform."
The one who answered was Mayumi.
[...]
Tatsuya was largely aware of why his sister was in such a fantastic mood.
Her happiness was likely caused by the school emblem embroidered over the jacket's left breast.
The emblem was styled after a flower with eight petals.
[...]
The emblem of First High.
And not a replacement either, but the symbol of a Course 1 student.
[...]
The intramural competition uniforms were largely the same as the normal ones, which was natural since it was only intended to identify which school the contestants belonged to.


According to the Robotech Saga wikia, "SDF" in the "SDF-#" stands for Super Dimensional Fortress.


From the wiki,

  The coin used is custom-made, the heads side sporting the group's signature twelve-legged spider, and the tails side depicting a spider's web.

An example is seen in Chapter 92, when Feitan and Nobunaga had a slight disagreement on what to do with Gon and Killua and settled it with a coin toss. Nobunaga won with a heads and the coin is then shown where the twelve-legged spider is facing up.


What's this anime with talking monsters?

The show you are looking for is called "Monster Rancher".

The name of the wolf you are probably referring to is "Tiger" and the rabbit's name is "Hare".


Is Blackbeard ever shown having Whitebeard's jolly roger on his back?

Whitebeard's pirates got the tattoo of Jolly Roger out of respect or to prove their association to the pirate crew. It is safe to assume that Blackbeard didn't sport the tattoo as it wasn't compulsory for everyone to get the tattoo. So that would mean Blackbeard hasn't been seen with Whitebeard tattoo.

  Whitebeard's flag is that of a standard Jolly Roger with a large mustache and a cross behind it. Many high-ranked crew members bear the Whitebeard flag symbol on them, including Ace who is seen having it tattooed on his back and being extraordinarily proud of it.


Do Claymore manga and anime have different endings?

Disclaimer: although strictly not spoiler info (they're all details that were mentioned before), reading the answers kind of spoils the excitement and all the built-ups that lead to the grand conclusion. I advise you to just continue reading chapter 151, which would clear your confusion.

The Claymore anime storyline is indeed different from that in the Claymore manga, albeit only substantially different for the ending. As the manga was still ongoing, the anime had to end at the conclusion of the Northern Campaign arc, but they somehow made the ending different.

Before the final chapters in the manga, Priscilla remained undefeated since she slew Teresa. What's more, she never met Clare and her comrades in the Northern Campaign arc, and would not have been defeated by Clare were she to meet her at that time. This was different in the anime, as you said, Priscilla was defeated by Clare, and seemingly more by her desire for revenge than by Teresa's flesh and soul, and therefore talent and power, that resided within Clare.

Teresa was killed for sure, in both the anime and the manga, but she still lived within Clare because Clare took up her flesh and blood (from her severed head) to become an unusual Claymore who is 1/4 yoma and 3/4 human. The Teresa that appears in chapter 150 is Clare's awakened form.


How was Vegeta able to be revived by the Dragon Balls?

I'm not sure if I understand your question, but are you asking why he was revived because he was supposed to be erased? They explicitly mention in the series that Enma Daio Sama decided not to erase Vegeta's soul just in case he needed him for a battle. So what Vegeta said in the screencapture you posted didnt apply to him due to an Enma Daio Sama decision
Enma Daio Sama decides to keep Vegeta soul intact in case he was needed for a battle
(Sorry, I couldnt find an english version for this video, only a spanish one, but you can use the english subtitles feature of Youtube to add them)


Why does Sora no otoshimono have different ending themes per episode?

It has different endings because they are after scenes for each respective episode and shows what is happening after each episodes misadventure.


Can Uchihas get Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan by exchanging their eyes?

In the Manga, only:

Uchiha Madara,
Uchiha Izuna (Madara's brother),
Uchiha Shinsui,
Uchiha Itachi(Sasuke's brother),
Uchiha Sasuke,
Uchiha Fugaku(Itachi's and Sasuke's father)
Uchiha Obito,

Is shown to have awakened Mangekyou Sharingan (henceforth the MS). Of those 7 only 2 is confirmed to have an Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan (henceforth the EMS), that is Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Sasuke.

Uchiha Madara

Madara gained his EMS after taking his brother's MS. Note that he claimed that his brother gave it to him. Madara did not take it from him by force. When Madara told this story, his brother was shown to be on his deathbed. By the time Madara gained his EMS, his original eyes has lost its light, he is practically blind.

Uchiha Sasuke

Sasuke gained his EMS from Uchiha Itachi. At first he hesitated in transplanting Itachi's eyes into his. After his eyes got worse from the extensive use of MS techniques, he agreed to the transplantation and thus gained his EMS. Itachi's eyes were also near blind.

There are 4 points that is similar between the two.

One is that they have their original eyes evolved into MS.
Two, they transplanted the other eyes from their brother.
Three they transplanted their brother's eyes when their original eyes are blind or near blind.
Four both's brothers are dead when they transplanted the eyes.

IIRC it was told in the manga that transplantation is better done between close relative since they are more compatible.

If, only the first two conditions are necessary for the EMS then yes, any close relative that has awakened MS can simply exchange eyes for both to awaken EMS. If point 3 is also need to be met then they still can exchange eyes after exhausting their eyes, making it near blind. If point 4 is also necessary then they can't simply exchange eyes as one needs to die before the other can transplant their eyes and awaken EMS.


Can someone identify this girl in Nurarihyon no Mago?

She is...

   young Yamabuki Otome (Hagoromo Gitsune's host).

who is actually...

   Rihan first wife.
 Abe no Seimei and Sanmoto Gorōzaemon brought her back to life in her younger form to become Hagoromo Gitsune's host.


TaiYang Xiao Long is both Yang & Ruby's father.

Yang's mother is unnamed as of Season 2. Ruby's mother is Summer Rose, who is Yang's step-mother.

I have two theories as to why Ruby is Ruby Rose not Ruby Xiao Long.

Theory 1

Summer Rose was insistent that her name be carried on, and so Ruby was given the surname Rose. As Memor-X has said in the comment, a husband taking a wife's surname isn't all that rare nowadays.

Theory 2

It was a convenient choice for the writers - Ruby and Rose are both very vividly red items, whereas Yang Xiao Long can be translated as Small Dragon of the Sunshine or Little Sun-Dragon, reflecting Yang's powerful, fiery personality & battle ability quite well.

Theming the characters with their colour seems to be quite important in RWBY - For instance, check out their pajamas below - Yang has a fiery heart on her tank top, whilst Ruby has rose-patterned bottoms.

I suspect we may find out more if/when Yang's mother's identity is revealed.


How can Itachi use his Mangekyō Sharingan after death?

As it comes straight from the Naruto wikia:

Edo Tensei

  The Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation binds the soul of a deceased
  person to a living vessel, restoring them as they were when they were
  alive in order to do their summoner's bidding.

So that's why Itachi had both of his eyes, because he was restored in the state before he died, which he had both of his eyes.


It seems only Saitama does. We don't know about other heroes Genos envisioned all the heroes including King fighting together so it seems that he doesn't think of King as a weakling. King asked to train under Bang and it does seem that Bang had got suspicious of King but it still seems like nobody knows of King's weakness.


Who is this character in a green shirt swinging a flagpole?

This is actually just HEIWAJIMA Shizuo when he was younger. There's a flashback in episode 7, lasting from roughly 06:48 to 11:12, that shows how Shizuo got to be so strong in the first place. Your screencap occurs around 07:55.