What are the differences of Near in the manga version?

Appearance

In the manga, Near is only ever seen wearing white pajamas, while in the anime, his pants are light blue.

In L: Change the WorLd, Near is a Thai boy and the sole survivor of a village ravaged by disease. In the live action film, he has black hair, while in the novel he is described as the original Near in the series (while I haven't read the novel I would assume this means he has white hair).

Personality

Near shows much more emotion in the manga than he does in the anime, particularly his facial expressions. A quote from the wiki shows an example of this:

  When the SPK members were killed in the anime Near has a very stern look, but in the manga he is visibly upset.

His facial expressions were probably more towards his smiling when he got things right, which was used to foreshadow the end where he smiles after seeing Ryuk, confirming to himself that Light is Kira.

Source: Death Note Wikia site


Rem warned Light, but later Misa told Rem not to harm him, that she would rather die first. So Rem, in order to preserve Misa's happiness,couldn't kill him.

Light, being a genius, learned how to take advantage of the situation, and used Rem on his plans, manipulating her like any other.


Since this is material from 1990 the only way you can acquire it is second hand. I found plenty of offers for the Famicon games and manga on Ebay.


Is there more than 1 type of light novel in the Spice and Wolf series?

These are just the different cover release versions. At one point, Yen Press was printing these with a slipcover case on them that shows a more "appealing cover" for the Americanized audience. However, not everyone liked this. They're not available anymore and were a limited print only, so the versions Amazon has listed are the normal and slip covered version (plus the one they fulfill, the none slip cover one.)

You can find the original press release here.

I actually own some of these, although I usually display the original Japanese covers as I prefer them. I've attached some photos so you can get a good idea of how they look in real life.

I hope this helps.


You're looking for the soundtrack - A Mother's Love, by Norihito Sumitomo, Dragon Ball Super Original Soundtrack Vol.2, DISC 1. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1nbGqkJJgM


Was Roy Mustang ever punished for participating in a genocide?

I think this may be more a "it's the thought the counts" moment. Yes, Hawkeye mentioned a democratic trial, but after it is mentioned (as you stated in your question), it is not brought up again.

Perhaps in the universe of FMA:B a trial actually went underway, but it happened after the events that were told to the audience, and thus we did not hear about it.

In addition, you have to remember that Mustang was blinded at the end of the series during the climax fight with Father. From the wiki, it states:

  After the battle with Father is over, Roy is treated in a medical center, conversing with Dr. Knox. He informs the doctor of his disability, and states that he will have to retire. He decides to pass the title of Führer over to Grumman. Knox then informs Roy that Dr. Marcoh was looking for him and brings the doctor over to Roy. Marcoh informs Roy that he has a Philosopher's Stone which Roy could use to regain his eyesight. Roy initially refuses, but Marcoh say that he has a plan in which they and the Ishvalans (referring to the souls in the Philosopher's Stone) can work together. Marcoh says he'll hand the stone over on the condition that Roy changes the Ishval policy, allows the Ishvalans to return to their homeland, and allow him (Marcoh) to live in Ishval as a doctor. Roy agrees to Marcoh's demands.

Either Mustang can live with his new disability (blindness), or he can heal and atone for his war crimes by rebuilding the Ishval community he previously uprooted and destroyed. I think that either of these punishments are adequate enough for Mustang's war crimes, and perhaps the writers of the anime/manga felt that these would be enough to avoid an actual trial.


Why do the giants in Shingeki no Kyojin start to look like the characters that got eaten?

Because

   Titans are actually humans.

Read the manga for full explanation.


As mentioned in the comments by F1Krazy already, this information is likely wrong.
The nickname actually originates from his First-name, Shigeo. The Kanji for which can alternatively be read as "Mob" (モブ, Mobu).
This is also confirmed to be the source of his nickname in the Character guidebook as mentioned on the Mob Psycho fandom, a copy of which is included at the bottom of the post.
All though Mobu might not be wasei-eigo for "background character", it does infer such a character. Some more background on this can be found on Japanese.SE's question: Etymology of モブ


Why didn't Eren become an abnormal titan while taking the Armor serum?

First of all, Eren was a titan shifter, so he cant go abnormal after being  shifter (i believe).
Second of all, we dont know exactly if the power injection Eren uses are turning people into titans.
And third, Rod Reiss mentioned he cannot enherit Founding titan, that's why he was forcing Historia into doing it - we can assume he knew he will become abnormal after injection.
So there's something special about reiss that makes him abnormal, diferent from other people like Eren or Historia.
But how did he know that? Why he became abnormal? We can't tell right now.
Well, there's a lot of mystery around Abnormal titans and it's not yet explained. We only know some titans are more intelligent or behave in different ways or are looking very different.
There's wiki article stating that titan shifters are abnormal too.
So its possible that abnormals cant become titan shifters (cant become "double abnormals").
So Rod knew somehow he will turn abnormal and won't be able to enherit titan power.
Source
https://attackontitan.fandom.com/wiki/Abnormal


Forbidden fruit - Death Note makes many references to Christianity. The apple is popularly thought to be the forbidden fruit in Genesis, which the snake told Eve would make her smarter, open her eyes, and elevate her to the status of God. ... Eating the apple was the Original sin and the first symbol of temptation.
Here is an answer to a similar question.
Many anime use this symbolic meaning of apples.
Hopefully that answers your question :)


What does the title of the anime "K" mean?

There are two possibilities for what the "K" refers to.

The first is Adolf K. Weismann, who is the original person that became Yashiro Isana, the main character of the show.

The second is "King". The leader of each clan is its King, who controls the members of the clan.  Weismann is a King.

KINGS is also the first opening theme of the show.


Why were Nagato's Six Paths those people who Jiraiya had randomly encountered in his journeys?

I don't think a canonical reason has ever been explicitly spelled out, but the following seems the most logical to me:

Jiraiya is an old, well-traveled, highly skilled ninja.  It makes sense that he would have encountered a large number of people and built up a sizable number of memories about many of them.
Having been taught and rescued by Jiraiya, Nagato (aka Pain) would have had ample chances to build up a certain familiarity or even obsession with him: Jiraiya likely related a lot of stories to him, including the various people he had met.  So Pain is likely to have at least a second-hand association with these people, and may have had an inherent interest in those meaningfully associated to Jiraiya.
Nagato had to witness the deaths of his friends and comrades even after Jiraiya left.  Feeling that they could have been prevented if Jiraiya had stayed with them, he blames Jiraiya and wishes to inflict the same misery upon him.  In other words, he wishes to shove the ignominious deaths of Jiraiya's comrades in his face.
Nagato has a keen awareness that Jiraiya is one of the most powerful ninjas around, and expects him to be one of the biggest problems to deal with.  As such, anything that will put him mentally off-balance will be a major benefit.  He knows that Jiraiya is emotional and cares about his comrades, so what better way than to make him fight them (or their bodies, at least)?  As I recall, this worked for a brief period of time.  At the end of the fight, Nagato says that if Jiraiya had just figured out the secret of the Six Paths of Pain earlier he would have won.  So it's possible that even a matter of a few seconds spent in surprise or uncertainty about fighting (the bodies of) his comrades made exactly that difference: if he had remained calm and collected the entire time he may have figured things out sooner.


Tsumugi is a human-gauna hybrid and has the same Placenta that the gauna use as an all-purpose organ. It is capable of shapeshifting into whatever form is needed at the time, as seen when the gauna begin to have heigus, or Higgs, particle cannons of their own.

Similar to the Benisuzume, Tsumugi has a portion of her body dedicated to keeping a heigus particle engine. Heigus particles appear to exist everywhere given how energy is passively collected. Sidonia and its gardes have heigus particle collectors that can be deployed like solar sails.

So Tsumugi is using the heigus particles she collected to propel herself.


What was the meaning of the scene of Albedo at the end of Overlord season 2 episode 10

She's showing contempt over the Ainz Ooal Gown banner, and worshipping Momonga's personal banner. She was made to love Momonga through her settings, so she's not really happy with him dismissing that name. She wants him to be Momonga, not Ainz. Another factor of her discontent is the fact that the rest of the NPCs of Nazarick would obey their creators orders before Ainz' (she questions them about this), so aside from Pandora's Actor, she's the only other one that would place Ainz above any other of the 41 Supreme Beings. Ainz taking over that name was done to raise awareness of the name to lure any potential comrade that might have been transported to that world, a prospect that Albedo seems to not be too fond of since it would lower Ainz authority in her eyes.

Let's say for example Peroroncino ends up being in the new world and joins Nazarick. If he were to order something to Shalltear that would conflict with an order from Ainz, Shalltear would comply with Peroroncino's order. This is not acceptable for Albedo. Momonga's authority should be unshakable in her eyes.


A manga about a high school student couple who don't get along in real life but are lovey dovey when they chat via text messages

Mel Kano maybe? I haven't read it, but your description is pretty close to what I know of it.

  Shinjou Shouryuu is a healthy 17-year-old high-school boy. Many of his kouhai wonder why such a great guy doesn't have a girlfriend. Ask him and he'll tell you that between school, work, and saving his kouhais from bullies doesn't leave him much time to go on dates. So he instead goes online to "F.I.L. GATES". There in the chat room his alter-ego, Kakeru, is infatuated with the girl called Hal. Hal sends a message reminding him that Sunday will be the six month anniversary of when they first met (online) and that she wants to meet him in person! And let's just say it's not your typical first date.


This Japanese blog says it's a plush of "ウゴウゴルーガ" (Ugo Ugo Ru-ga).

I'm personally not familiar with the show, but the it strongly resembles おやじむし (Oyajimushi), which I think is an "insect father"? Whatever that means.

Searching further, this blog and this site agree.

Here's a picture of a plush doll that looks virtually identical, except for the nose being quite a bit longer.

And here's a Google search with multiple images for "おやじむし ウゴウゴルーガ" (Oyajimushi Ugo Ugo Ru-ga).

Among the images, there is one image from Amazon showing the manga where this character originates from:

The manga is titled おやじむしの人生 (人生いろいろウゴウゴ・ルーガ).


Is use of schools' rooftops a common thing in Japanese culture or just a cliché?

I am sorry, but they look like just a cliché....

From this Quora answer (yes Quora!):

  While many Japanese schools do have flat rooftops, they are usually off-limits and properly locked. So, eating your lunch on the roof or confessing your love at sunset up there... not gonna happen.

Source: Quora

Another source directly from our own Anime and Manga StackExchange: AM StackExchange

A quick Google search also reveals this (unfortunate) truth.


How does Beatrice remember about Subaru?

Because the "save point" for that part of the story is not the point when Subaru wakes up for the first time, but when he wakes up for the third time. That's also when he first meets Ram and Rem. (His first waking is before the opening in episode 4, while his third is right after the opening.*)

*At the start of episode four

   Subaru wakes up, notes that it's an unfamiliar ceiling, walks around a bit, finds the library, talks with Beatrice then falls unconcious because Beatrice suck some of his mana.


Differences between the Overlord light novel and manga

Revision – I wanted to tell you that I answered another question on this site: How much does Shalltear love Ainz?

If you click on the title I just mentioned you'll be redirected there. Search for my answer and you'll see another translation example. I also included a link to my Pastebin and Google Docs where I make a long and thorough analysis of Shalltear’s love for Ainz. This includes more translation comparisons as well as lots of quotes from the light novels and side stories, so you should get plenty of the content examples that you wanted.

  What's the difference between the Overlord novel and manga? Are they
  the same?

  If they are not, is the novel illustrated like the manga with visual
  presentation?

Overlord is a Japanese light novel series written by Maruyama. A manga adaptation by Satoshi Ōshio began serialization in 2014 and an anime adaptation started running in 2015.
Both the manga and the anime are just adaptations and don’t contain as much detail as the light novels published.

Light novels and manga are quite different types of media. While light novels have some pictures, they're text for the most part and therefore have more in-depth setting descriptions. As you know, manga is basically Japanese comics.
I recommend reading the light novels over the manga as you’ll be able to read it exactly the way the original author wrote it and its quality is superb.

  If anyone has a light novel or manga, would it be possible to share
  some contents in it by taking a picture and posting it? Thanks.

  I tried some searching myself for the information, but I didn't get any clear picture!

If you want to see how they physically look, here you have an unpacking video of the English light novel and another video where the manga is displayed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwdeymjFrcE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5BIGy4otkc

About the samples of the "content" itself that you want, I own the light novels so I can transcribe the first 2 pages from volume 1. As I said, I recommend you read the light novels over the manga because of their superior quality. Now that you get to see the full "picture" I’ll also use this chance to answer your translation doubt and show you how the official translation works. I'm including the fan translation as well for reference.

So as to be completely unbiased, I made a super-literal translation without looking at the already existing translations. As far as I am aware there are no Overlord light novel Japanese PDFs, just scans, which means I had to type the Japanese text myself from my physical copy.

It is a bit long, but you can see my literal translation with the word by word breakdown if you go to these links: Pastebin: Overlord. Comparing official and fan translations and Google Docs: Overlord. Comparing official and fan translations. Right now I’m going to show you the first 2 pages from volume 1 with the fan and official translations.

Page 1

  少女とそれより幼い少女を前に、全身鎧に身を包んだ者は剣を振りかぶった。

  一撃で命を奪うのが慈悲であるとでもいわんばかりに、大きく振り上げられた剣が日差しを反射しギラギラと輝く。

  少女は目を閉じた。その下唇を嚙み締めた表情は、決して望んでの姿ではない。ただ、どうしょう もなくてそれを受け入れたに過ぎない。もし少女に何らかの力があったなら、目の前の者に叩きつけ 逃がれただろう。

  しかし⸻少女に力は無い。

  だからこそ結末は一つしか残されていなかつた。

  少女はここで死ぬ。

  剣が振り下ろされ⸻

Official translation

  Before one girl and another even younger one stood a figure in full plate armor brandishing a sword.

  The blade swung, sparkling in the sunlight as if to say that taking their lives in a single stroke would be an act of mercy.

  The girl shut her eyes. She didn’t want to be biting her lower lip. She just had no choice but to accept what was about to happen. If she had even a little power, she probably would have been able to shove the figure away and escape…

  But she was powerless.

  And so there was only one ending.

  She would die.

  The blade came down—

Fan translation

  The knight in full plate armor stood before the girl and her little sister, his sword raised high.

  His blade gleamed in the sun, and he poised himself, ready to end their lives in a single merciful stroke.

  The girl squeezed her eyes tightly shut and bit her lower lip. She had never asked for this. She had been forced into her present circumstances. If only she had some strength, she might have resisted the enemy in front of her and fled.

  However — the girl did not have that strength.

  Thus, there could only be one outcome to this situation.

  That would be the girl’s death, at this very place. The longsword fell—

Page 2

  ⸻痛みはいまだ来なかった。

  ぐっと固く閉ざしていた瞼を開く。

  少女の世界に最初に飛びこんで来たのは、振り下ろしかけて止まっている剣であった。

  次に映ったのは剣の持ち主。

  騎士はまるで凍りついたように動きを途中で止め、少女の横に注意を向けていた。その完全に無防備な姿は、騎士の内面の
  驚きを強く体現していた。

  騎士の視線に引きずられるように、少女も同じ方向に顔を向ける。

  そして⸻絶望を見た。

  そこには闇があった。

  薄っぺらな、ただ、どこまで行っても終わりが無さそうな深みある漆黒。それが下半分を切り取った楕円の形で、地面から浮かび上がっていた。神秘的であると同時に、言葉に出来ないような強い不安を感じさせる光景。

  扉？

Official translation

  …The pain still hadn’t come.

  She unscrunched her eyes.

  The first thing she saw was the sword, stopped mid-swing.

  The next was the figure holding the sword. The knight was practically frozen, looking at something off to her side. His unprotected stance manifested his internal shock.

  The girl turned to follow his line of sight…

  …and saw despair.

  It was darkness.

  A patch of raven black, ultrathin but so deep it seemed as if it went on forever. It was an oval rising up out of the ground, its bottom half cut off. It was a curious sight, but at the same time, it made her feel indescribably uneasy.

  A door?

Fan translation

  And yet there was no pain.

  The girl gingerly opened the eyes which had been squeezed shut.

  The first thing she saw was the suddenly motionless longsword.

  Then, she saw the sword’s owner.

  The knight in front of her was frozen in place, his eyes looking somewhere off to the girl’s side. His completely defenseless posture clearly displayed the fear that filled him.

  As though drawn by the knight’s gaze, the girl could not help but turn and look in the same direction as him.

  And so — the girl gazed upon despair.

  What she saw was darkness.

  It was an infinitesimally thin, yet unfathomably deep blackness. It was a half-oval of obsidian that seemed to protrude from the earth. It was a mysterious sight that filled the ones watching it with a powerful sense of unease.

  Was it a door?


Why is Kaneki's fighting ability improved when he put on his mask?

The mask covered Kaneki's nose and mouth. This helps him suppress his urge to eat the opponent by reducing his ability to smell. Remember that Kaneki's ghoul ability is originally Hanazawa Kana's...no wait...Rize's, nicknamed the Glutton for her great hunger.

By suppressing this urge to eat, he can concentrate more on the fight as he's not worried about getting carried away and going berserk.


Code Geass season 1 episode 7, there is a song playing at 16:56

It's "Stream of Consciousness" (track 4 from the first OST). Here is a thirty-second extract from the beginning of the track: https://clyp.it/qupf3tgv.


What's the thing like a giant spiral stone in the Evangelion 3.0's scenery?

In the script included with the Japanese Blu-ray release it is identified as the Black Moon of Lilith, an object that transported the angel Lilith to Earth. Originally spherical shaped much like the Earth's moon in the original anime, it appears to look more like a version of the Holy Grail in this retelling (tilt your head to the right to see its proper orientation).


What is the full timeline for the invasion of Japan?

With lots of quoting from  World history code geass

Note:
the world history of code geass mainly resolves around big changes such as wars and arrival of mysterious things such as C.C.
a.t.b stands for  "Ascension Throne Britannia"

  55 B.C. or 1 a.t.b.
      Julius Caesar attempts to invade Britain, but is met with strong resistance from the local tribes, who elect a super-leader: the Celtic King Eowyn, who summarily becomes the first member of the Britannian Imperial Family. The Julian Calendar is devised ten years later and the Anno Domini Calendar 470 years later. Either the two might be used by other countries aside from Britannia and its colonies.

  Unknown years - Middle Ages
  Sakuradite (known as the "Philosopher's Stone" at the time) is discovered near Stonehenge. The scarcity of sakuradite impedes the research to turn it into a viable energy source. However, in his travels, Marco Polo journeys further into the East, reaching Japan and discovering the nation's large deposit of sakuradite.

  17th Century a.t.b.
  Elizabeth I, who remained single throughout her life, bears a son, Henry IX. The potential fathers — Sir Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester; Sir Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex; and Sir Carl, Duke of Britannia — gain influence and power with this knowledge.
      Henry IX ascends to the throne after the death of his mother in 1603 A.D. or 1657 a.t.b., starting the Golden Age of the Tudor Dynasty.

  1820s a.t.b. / 1760s - 70s A.D. The American Revolution (also known as Washington's Rebellion) occurs. The Duke of Britannia bribes Benjamin Franklin with promises of titles and territories in the colonies, who was charged with appealing to Louis XVI for assistance in the American colonies' war for independence.
      Thereafter, Benjamin Franklin is given the title of Earl. As a result, the Continental Army suffers a decisive defeat during the Siege of Yorktown with the death of George Washington, marking a severe blow to the American movement for independence.

  Middle of the 19th Century a.t.b.    The western world enters the Age of Revolution, with numerous national revolutions taking place, except in the British Isles, under the rule of King Henry X, who continues to hold absolute monarchy. This leads to the formation of the European Union.
      After French revolutionary Napoleon Bonaparte emerges, he wins the Battle of Trafalgar, invades Great Britain, and occupies London. The British Isles are conquered and become a part of the E.U.
      In 1807 A.D./ 1861 a.t.b., Queen Elizabeth III retreats to Edinburgh, where a revolutionary militia arrests her and forces her to abdicate, ending the monarchy. This event becomes known as The Humiliation of Edinburgh. However, Sir Ricardo von Britannia, Duke of Britannia, and his friend and subordinate, Sir Richard Hector, Knight of One, bring Elizabeth III and her followers to the New World and establish a capital on the east coast of North America. The British Isles is now under control of the EU and a new government established.

  1867 a.t.b. / 1812 A.D.    Elizabeth III nominates her lover, Sir Ricardo von Britannia, as her successor upon her death. She ends her reign for being "the Queen who loved throughout her stormy life". The Britannian calendar, Ascension Throne Britannia (a.t.b.), is established, with the origin year set to the ascendancy of the first Celtic king, though the calendar's months and days are adopted from the Gregorian Calendar.

  1874 a.t.b. / 1819 A.D.    Napoleon Bonaparte dies on his way back to France, after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo; although it was never proven, it is rumored that assassins poisoned his food in accordance to Elizabeth III's will. Her last words included the famous line, "I do not forget slights to my honour."

  Unknown years - Late 19th to Early 20th Century a.t.b. A war featuring tanks and trenches is fought as seen in C.C.'s flashbacks in Episode 25 of R1, which was probably fought in the EU. Also in the flashback, C.C. was shot by possibly a German soldier (considering the silhouette).

  1944 a.t.b. / 1889 A.D.    Japan loses a major war (described in 2010 a.t.b as having taken place 65 years earlier) embracing democracy as a result (Mamoru Iwasa, Code Geass Stage-0-Entrance Light Novel, p.120-121).

  1984 a.t.b. / 1929 A.D.    1st Prince Odysseus eu Britannia is born.

  1986 a.t.b. / 1931 A.D.    1st Princess Guinevere su Britannia is born.

  1990 a.t.b. / 1935 A.D.    2nd Prince Schneizel el Britannia is born.

  1991 a.t.b. / 1936 A.D.    2nd Princess Cornelia li Britannia is born.

  1992 a.t.b. / 1937 A.D.    3rd Prince Clovis la Britannia is born.

  1998 a.t.b. / 1943 A.D.    The 97th Emperor of Britannia is overthrown, and Charles zi Britannia ascends to the Britannian throne. Charles also marries Marianne vi Britannia. With V.V. they plan to build a weapon to destroy the Gods.

  2000 a.t.b. / 1945 A.D.    11th Prince Lelouch vi Britannia is born Suzaku Kururugi, son of Japanese Prime Minister Genbu Kururugi and future Knight of Seven, Knight of Zero, and second Zero, is born.

  2001 a.t.b. / 1946 A.D.    3rd Princess Euphemia li Britannia is born.

  2003 a.t.b. / 1948 A.D.    4th Princess Nunnally vi Britannia is born.    5th Princess Carine ne Britannia is born.

  2009 a.t.b. / 1954 A.D.    Marianne vi Britannia is killed by V.V. Her children, Lelouch vi Britannia and Nunnally vi Britannia, are sent to Japan as political hostages.

  2010 a.t.b / 1955 A.D.    After the Indochinese Peninsula was conquered by Britannia and named Area 10, Japan, which was originally neutral, decided to align its policy with Chinese Federation and EU's politics and apply economic pressure upon Britannia -- an event referred to as the Oriental Incident. Both the Chinese Federation, the EU and their allies blockade the ports of Britannia in an effort to come to negotiations.

  August 10th, 2010 a.t.b / 1955 A.D.    The Second Pacific War erupts; the one-month war results in the conquering of Japan by Britannia. The end of the war signifies Japan as a formal colony of Britannia, renamed Area 11 and its citizens "Elevens".

  2017 a.t.b. / 1962 A.D.    Viceroy and Third Prince Clovis la Britannia is killed by Zero.  Second Princess Cornelia li Britannia is appointed Viceroy of Area 11, naming Third Princess Euphemia li Britannia as sub-viceroy. Cornelia immediately begins her campaign to bring Zero to justice.
      Zero forms the Order of the Black Knights. Its membership expands with each victory. All attempts to destroy the Black Knights end in failure.
      Using her power, Euphemia li Britannia tries to create a Special Administrative Zone of Japan. It is "revealed" to be a plot to massacre the Elevens, and she is killed by Zero.
      The Black Rebellion breaks out. The Black Knights ignite riots across the country as they continue to push towards the Area 11 Viceroy Palace. The rebellion is eventually pushed back and crushed, with most of the Black Knights killed or captured. Area 11 is demoted to a correctional sub-area.
      Second Princess Cornelia li Britannia is gone missing during the Black Rebellion. Her position as Viceroy of Area 11 later is taken by Calares.

  2018 a.t.b. / 1963 A.D.    The remaining members of the Black Knights incite riots in Babel Tower which kill Calares.
      Within the Chinese Federation Consulate of Area 11, Zero reappears and redeclares the United States of Japan.
      The former Knight of Princess Cornelia, Gilbert G. P. Guilford, declares himself as new Viceroy. He then announces to execute Black Knights' members, although it's failed thanks to Zero's crafty strategy.
      Princess Nunnally vi Britannia becomes Viceroy of Area 11, and reestablishes the Special Administration Zone of Japan. Zero gives his support on the condition that he be exiled. Zero, along with over a million of his supporters dressed like him, are exiled from Area 11 and seek asylum on Penglai Island located within the political borders of the Chinese Federation.
      Li Xingke and Zero disrupt the arranged political wedding between First Prince Odysseus eu Britannia and Empress Tianzi of the Chinese Federation.
      The High Eunuchs are summarily executed for lèse majesté against the Empress. An alliance between the Black Knights and the Chinese Federation is forged.
      After the fragmentation of the Chinese Federation, Second Prince Schneizel el Britannia prepares to annex many of its territories through a combination of diplomatic means, which results in failure.
      Ratification of United Federation of Nations is completed, with the Order of the Black Knights to serve as its chief military branch. Its first resolution is to take action against the occupying Britannian forces in Japan, which leads to a declaration of war between the U.F.N. and the Holy Britannian Empire.
      The U.F.N. initiates the Second Battle of Tokyo to reclaim Area 11. The first use of F.L.E.I.J.A. by the Britannians results in massive damages to the concession area of the Tokyo Settlement.
      Zero is reported to be killed during the Second Battle of Tokyo. However, there are rumors that this is falsified information for reasons unknown. In light of the alleged death of Zero, a truce is negotiated between U.F.N. and Britannia, with a peace treaty being drafted. The treaty results in the neutrality of Japan.
      A coup d'etat is enacted by Second Prince Schneizel and the Knight of Seven, Suzaku Kururugi. Meanwhile, Lelouch vi Britannia instigates his own rebellion, forcing his followers to his will with the power of Geass.
      98th Emperor, Charles zi Britannia is killed by Lelouch, the former 11th Prince.
      One month after the Second Battle of Tokyo, Lelouch vi Britannia coronates himself as the 99th Emperor of the Holy Britannian Empire and appoints the title of "Knight of Zero" to Suzaku Kururugi (heretofore the Knight of Seven). With his ascension come many changes in Britannian policies, including the destruction of the Imperial Mausoleum and the abolishment of privileges to nobles. This leads to many attempts of rebellion (one of which is led by the Knight of One, Bismarck Waldstein), each of them futile against the "Emperor of Justice".
      Britannia attempts to join the U.F.N., and negotiation takes place in Japan, now a neutral zone. However, the leaders of the U.F.N. and the Black Knights attempt to convince Emperor Lelouch to lower Britannia's voting rights as a balance for the U.F.N.. The attempt fails, and in response Britannia launches an invasion against Japan, capturing the leadership of the U.F.N..
      F.L.E.I.J.A. bomb is dropped on the Britannian capital of Pendragon from the Aerial Fortress Damocles, created by the Toromo institute, by Former 2nd Prince Schneizel resulting in the complete decimation of the capital.
      The battle of Mount Fuji begins. Both sides suffer heavy losses, but eventually Emperor Lelouch is able to take control of Damocles and ends the battle, as well as the war between Britannia and the U.F.N., with a display of power from the Damocles.
      Two months after the battle, using U.F.N. as political tool for forcing E.U. to raficate, Emperor Lelouch vi Britannia declares himself world leader. During a supervision of executions of the Black Knights and U.F.N. leaders, Zero reappears and assassinates Lelouch to complete the Zero Requiem.
      Nunnally vi Britannia succeeds her elder brother as the 100th Empress of Britannia and begins to work in cooperation with the U.F.N. to achieve peace.


Anime with guys battling each other using small cars with weapons

My guess is that you're referring to Crush Gear Turbo

From http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/92/CrushGearTurbo-Logo-DVDSrc.jpg

From http://de.crushgear.wikia.com/wiki/Datei:Crush_Gear_Turbo_2.png

  The hero's name is Kouya Marino and your description of his appearance matches to an extent.


How did Unohana kill people if her zanpaktou was a healing type?

As per your question lemme tell you something more about Unohana's katana.

  Minazuki (肉雫唼, "Flesh-Drops' Gorge"): In sealed form, Minazuki is slightly longer than an ordinary katana, and resembles a nodachi. The tsuba has an oval shape, and the handle is red. Instead of tying it to her obi, Unohana carries her Zanpakutō over her shoulder by a rope strap, or lets Isane carry it for her.

  Her shikai form is more like the image enclosed above.It's release command is unknown. When released in Shikai form, Minazuki will start to morph, turning into a green, gas-like substance before taking the solid shape of a giant, green, one eyed manta ray-like creature with the ability to fly. Minazuki can be used for transportation, and will change back into the green gas substance before returning to its sword form when its duty has been fulfilled

Her Bankai special ability is still unknown.But these are the facts that I came through

  Bankai: Minazuki (皆尽, "All Things' End"): When released the blade of Unohana's Zanpakutō liquifies into a thick, dark red substance able to surround her vicinity. Once the majority of the liquid flows off the Zanpakutō, it reveals the remainder has solidified into a shortened katana, which then can be used for combat, strong and sturdy enough to clash against Kenpachi Zaraki's blade.

We were totally oblivious about her bankai until Kenpachi fight.But her bankai is far more gore than Kenpachi.

Sources:-Link


What is the origin of shaking eyes meaning surprise or fear?

I think it might be universal as Mysticial mentioned in the comments above, your eyes waver or tremor when you express emotions such as fear, sadness, elation etc.

  "The eyes are the window to the soul…"

I don't think it has a set origin, just one of those things that anime inherits from real life. Showing emotions in anime can be hard but not as much with some of those big doleful eyes with multiple catch lights.

  And a bit more..

  Eyes are an absolutely fantastic way for having your character convey
  emotions without actually saying a word. Sometimes a scene can be much
  more powerful when no words are spoken, but a character's eyes do the
  talking. This definitely happens in anime quite a lot. While most
  people think of big, bright eyes in anime, there's actually a lot more
  to it than that.


The researchers "virtual space" and the game world of Alfheim Online are (conveniently, I'd say) hosted on the same server, but the researchers are not playing the game, nor are supposed to exit the facility (i.e get at ground level).
Apart from monitoring the SAO players, those two guys are actually experimenting with sensory expansion (as they mention it in their dialogue) and to do so they have a different model because of the mapping of the additional/expanded senses to tentacles and such.
Because of their increased sensitivity they appear easier to harm, as Asuna does after some time.


Why are most people in anime white or European-looking (instead of Japanese)?

Just like @senshin stated in his comment, for the Japanese people, their characters do look Asian.
There is a really nice article written about this on thesocietypages and as stated there:

Why do the Japanese draw themselves as white? You see that especially in manga and anime.
As it turns out, that is an American opinion, not a Japanese one. The Japanese see anime characters as being Japanese. It is Americans who think they are white. Why?  Because to them white is the Default Human Being.
[...]
Americans apply this thinking to Japanese drawings. But to the Japanese the Default Human Being is Japanese! So they feel no need to make their characters “look Asian”. They just have to make them look like people and everyone in Japan will assume they are Japanese – no matter how improbable their physical appearance.

In your question, you also said "Maybe it's the round eyes? And the non-black hair in some cases?"
The article above also pointed out something about that:

[...] the Default Human Being thing is so strong that lacking other clear, stereotyped signs of being either black or Asian she defaults to white.
When you think about it there is nothing particularly white about how anime characters look:

huge round eyes – no one looks like that, not even white people (even though that style of drawing eyes does go back to Betty Boop).
yellow hair – but they also have blue hair and green hair and all the rest. Therefore, hair colour is not about being true to life.
small noses – compared to the rest of the world whites have long noses that stick out.
white skin – but many Japanese have skin just as pale and white as most White Americans.

Of course, there are also exceptions. A nice example is indeed Dan Eagleman, as stated by @senshin. The moment they need to make somebody look non-Japanese, they will try to design the character more to the American/European stereotype, i.e.

Bigger noses
Blond hair/blue eyes/white
Speaks fluent English


Are there any other Leg Style combatants other than Okamas, Sanji and Zeff?

1. The Longleg Tribe uses their legs to fight.

The incredible long legs of the Longleg tribe endows them with not only height but incredible leg strength as well, and those that are hit by the legs of a Longleg fighter consider them to be like metal whips.
As acknowledged by fighters in the Corrida Colosseum, the legs are the most important part of the tribe's fighting form. Therefore, aiming for them seems to be their most vulnerable weakness. However, due to the speed a trained Longleg fighter can move their legs at, landing just a single blow is not always possible to do

This includes:
• Blue Gilly : You can see him use his legs for fighting in this video. He is also a practitioner of Jao Kun Do.

Jao Kun Do is a close range attack-based fighting style which involves leg motions so swift that foes cannot predict where a kick will land.
The only known practitioner of this art, Blue Gilly, has leg movements so rapid that they create afterimages that confuse opponents. He can then attack with force comparable to that of a steel whip.

• Baron Tamago : We haven't yet seen him fight in the anime but it's implied that his key fighting strength lies in his legs. As One Piece Wiki says:

As a member of the Longleg Tribe, his long legs are considered to be the main point of his combat strength

2. Inuppe, the zombie penguin who had Sanji's shadow uses the Black Leg Style fighting techniques as well.

In the Thriller Bark Arc, Inuppe, the zombie who had Sanji's shadow also used the Black Leg fighting style due to the Kage Kage no Mi's powers.

3. Vergo can be considered a strong leg fighter as well, although he does far from only using his legs. You can see his fight here with Sanji where he uses his legs for fighting for most of the part.


What is the song when Sinbad is attacked by a woman with a baby in her arms on episode 7?

I think it is "Sentiment actuel 02".

It's the 17th track from the album "MAGI SOUNDTRACK~Up to the volume on Balbad~"


Music in Yuri on Ice in Season 1 Episode 12

I don’t have access to the anime right now, so I’m going off my memory, but if I’m not mistaken, it’s “Stammi vicino.” For some reason, I’m having trouble finding an official recording, but this is someone’s performance of it with a piano transcription of the orchestra.


Where is the first track of Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S OST 2 first played?

this song was featured on the Railgun S OST but it first appeared in "a certain magical index", episode 14 which was actually titled the same as the song, "strongest vs weakest", viewable here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NV2fR2cdRQ
but since your post does request when it appears in relevance to the Railgun series that would be episode 4 when Touma is fighting Misaka under the bridge at night. here's a clip of it directly from funimation's official channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lEtG-CJ9IY
in the Railgun S series it was swapped for the soundtrack from OST volume 2 #16 "Ketsui to kakugo" in the Touma vs Accelerator fight which took place in episode 15.


Is Dal Dal cat ears is just hair accessory?

The answer comes from the wiki of this manga :

  Dal Dal always sports a pair of tiger ears. The tiger ears are
  actually detachable and are pinned to her hair. The author also
  sometimes adds a tail on her.


You should read the manga. His hair turned white because of the stress of being tortured 2 or 3 times everyday for 10+ days.

The anime is wrong. Why? Because Kaneki's hair didn't change in a moment, in the manga they show us his hair gradually turning white while he also  loses his mind.

They don't explain why the hair turns white or the nails black (also they are not black black, they're more like super dark blood colored), but we can assume that the hair it's because of the Marie Antoinette syndrome, and the nails are because of the constant regeneration. Like I said before the nails are like dark blood colored, they're not pure black, it's like when you hit a finger really hard, and the nail falls off in a time? Well before that, it gets really dark blood colored, Kaneki's are like that.

I know you posted this a time ago but maybe if you can read it, or other people that has the same doubt will understand.


How did Madara fake his death during his battle with Hashirama?

Spoiler alert for if you haven't finished the manga or anime

  Madara used the Izanagi to cheat death (just like I said in the comment section). The second part that I said was wrong. When he was fighting Hashirama he bit off a part of his (Hashirama's) arm, then after his "death" he vomited up the piece of flesh and implanted it into his wounds, which let him activate the Rinnegan (in both eyes).

You should remember that Hashirama is Ashura's reincarnation and Madara is Indra's (Ashura and Indra are The Sage of Six Paths' children), which is the reason why he was able to awaken it (Rinnegan) in the first place.

  The Rinnegan can typically be awakened by gaining Hagoromo's chakra either by reproducing it from combining the chakra of Hagoromo's sons, Indra and Asura, or by directly receiving chakra from Hagoromo himself.

Also,

  Madara's Sharingan did not become Rinnegan until decades later, at the end of his natural lifespan; this also seemingly restored the eyesight lost from his use of Izanagi.

So he didn't awaken the it right away. (The other part of your question is also answered above).

Sources:

Naruto volume 71: I Love You Guys
Rinnegan


How does Hōō Maniwa regain his left arm?

This is because it a transplanted arm

  Ninpō: Danzaien - This technique allows Hōō to decapitate anyone with a swing of his arm, as shown when he severs his own left arm to form an alliance with Togame, though he regains the use of said lost arm shortly after from Kawauso Maniwa's corpse. This ability was originally called Namagoroshi by the Aioi Clan, the ninja clan murdered by the Maniwa.

Source: Hōō > Maniwa > Abilities (second dot point)

now looking at Kawauso Maniwa we can see that he would more likely fit that arm

and going by what is described for Volume 6

  He is willingly killed by Hōō Maniwa in order to maintain the alliance between the Maniwa Ninja Corps and Togame.

this gives Hōō the perfect opportunity to get a new arm. also it's been a while since I've seen the series but if i recall correctly Hōō shows to have Kawauso's Kiroku Tadori Ninpō as being the reason why

   Hōō is possessed by Kiki Shikizaki, a result of the Kiroku Tadori Ninpō being used on Dokutō Mekki


The anime you're looking for is 3x3 eyes

  3X3 Eyes is the story of a young man named Yakumo Fuuji, who through a strange series of events becomes the immortal slave of the last of a race of 3 Eyed immortals. The immortal absorbs his soul to save his life, making him immortal in the process. Now, he begins a journey with the female immortal in an attempt to find a way of becoming human. Of course, there are many complications along the way, not the least of which being that the immortal is a female with a split personality, one achingly cute and the other being no-nonsense destructive power, and the romances that develop between.

The anime satisfies all of the points you mentioned except for

  It is a movie not a TV-show

I think you may have mistaken it for a movie. It's an OVA collection of 4 episodes having a sequel of 3 another OVA episodes.
The boy is Yakumo Fujii, the three eyed girl is Pai Sanjiyan and the large monster is Benares


What was the motive for kidnapping Eri in the 1st episode of Railgun season 2?

They just needed to keep Anti-Skill at bay until they could make their escape. The two thugs original intended purpose was to break the pyrokinetic esper out of custody as he was about to be transfered to an Anti-Skill hospital.

They clearly didn't need her as they tossed her from the helicopter in order to lose Mikoto who was using her powers to pin the helicopter to the ground.


Why are there censored/retracted art when there is no problem

I think the Dragon Quest thing was just a joke, supposed to look like any other anime using a protected name or trademark the anime is not licensed to use (even if it wouldn't cause problems, like in this case).

And the bugs were blurred out to let the viewers imagine for themselves how scary or disgusting they are, only giving the basic shape, color and such. This is a commonly used scare tactic in horror games and movies (though not necessarily pixellation, but some other blurring technique).

(converted from comment with 3 points, since no other answers have been posted)


In Devil May Cry 5, how does Urizen defeat Dante, Nero, Trish, and Lady in their first battle?

The answer is found in Nico's reports. She talks about how Urizen bound himself to the Qliphoth, a tree predating the Underworld itself. According to Trish, it was once used by Mundus to conquer the Underworld. Urizen, already boasting Vergil's demonic power, was now bolstered by a primordial power source as well as the Yamato.

Ive found it out from here under file section you can see Nico Enemy Report - Urizen


Nothing special happened to Kushina's soul, she died from having Kurama extracted from her body and the wounds inflicted during the battle with Kurama.

Minato used the Death Reaper on himself to seal away the half of Kurama that he had stored in himself. The other half got sealed in Naruto and Minato infused the Eight Trigrams Sealing jutsu with his own and Kushina's chakra.

Here you can find the scene where Kushina tells Naruto that Minato had infused her chakra into the seal: https://youtu.be/D3tJoGr6pp4?t=68


The specials are set inbetween or after the seasons, so in that sense for something animated it would be advisable to continue with the second season specials, with the chapter

Saitama and Those With Reasonable Abilities
Transcription: Saitama to Sokosoko no Nōryokumono-tachi

but those specials are mostly filler, meaning they add little to the general story and dont resolve cliffhangers. If you want something that resolves cliffhangers you won't find it yet in something animated, and you have to read the manga, or the webcomic, but the manga has become quite different than the webcomic, and it's going to be the manga what probably they use as original source material for the next seasons of the anime.
List of One Punch Man episodes


What is the relationship between Neon Genesis Evangelion and RahXephon?

The creator of RahXephon, Yutaka Izubuchi, admits to having heavily used Brave Raideen as the influence for RahXephon. There's a really great interview of both Izubuchi and Anno (creator of Evangelion) that's really revealing about the influences between the two. Relevant quote:

  Mr. Izubuchi said before that "Eva" was Combattler [Chōdenji Robo Combattler V] and RahXephon was Brave Raideen, didn't you?

If you read the entire interview, it never insinuates that there was any copying of Evangelion in Rahxephon. Instead, these are two contemporaries who believe they are equals that have both been influenced by the same shows, like Mazinger, Combattler V, Tokusatsu, Gowapper 5, etc.

Eventhough they never directly admit it, I'm sure there's some amount of influence that Evangelion had on Rahxephon, intended or not, simply because Evangelion was an incredibly influential show, at a time when it seemed anime in general was stagnating. So everything that came after that, for better or worse, could have had some influence from Evangelion.

With Rahxephon in particular, your mileage may vary on how similar the shows really are. If you've seen Brave Raideen, you'll instantly realize that the show is pretty much a modern spin of that old show, while a lot of that spin could be argued to be influenced by Evangelion. There's some people who believe it's a blatant rip-off, but Izubuchi doesn't say that it is, and Anno doesn't seem to think the similarities are even worth mentioning.


What is this song in My Hero Academia Season 4 Episode 12?

The track you were looking for is Hidari wa Zettai Tsukawanee from the 2nd OST.
I'm gonna assume you eventually found it, but I still thought I'd resurrect this to actually post the correct answer for anyone else who may be looking to find it, as it's an amazing, highly underrated track.


Looking for an anime with an impoverished town and abusive father

Oh! I figured it out! It took me awhile searching through a few series I thought it might have been. I thought it could have been a minor Neo-Nazi or Czech S.S. character from Monster, the Comrade “villain” from Gun X Sword, the perfectionist character from the last story arc in The Twelve Kingdoms, or one of the rich & borderline-insane old men from Kaiji or Akagi.

But then it dawned on me... Hunter X Hunter (2011)! I found in the first ten minutes of episode 80.

It was a few details off in the previous description but it’s the story of the youth of Gyro (the leader of NGL’s underground). We’re never told what happens to him but I can only assume the worst if you saw the episode. I think I had my memory lapse because his name, position, and story of youth are all that are mentioned without any sort of introduction of his character into the storyline. Seems sort of suspicious to me…

I’m sorry about answering my own question kuwaly and other people who may have been researching this. Have a good day.


Which song was played in Naruto Shippuden episode 378 at about 20:00?

There is no song around 20:00 in the episode. at that time minato's kunai was broken and he lost his one hand. however if you are referring to the ending song then it is "Never Change feat.Lyu:Lyu" (around 21:00)


In Japanese, Hikari says that Futaba's eyebrows look like tenten, the two strokes added to a kana to change the voicing value, also known as dakuten. E.g. か ka becomes が ga.

You can see the resemblance in this picture from the manga, at least if you imagine Futaba's eyebrows both pointing in the same direction:

"Dotty" came from a translation of tenten as "dot", presumably because "Periody" or "Semicolony" didn't sound good.


Why doesn't Pain have some spare dead Bodies?

Pain does have bodies in reserve in the event he needs them. During Pain's assault on Konoha, Inoichi used his clan's justu to go through the mind of Yūdachi. Yūdachi is a genin from the village in which Pain lives, whom was captured and sent to Konoha by Jiraiya.

While traversing through Yūdachi's mind, Inoichi came across a memory in which Yūdachi and another genin were transporting bodies to Pain's tower.

  He probed Yūdachi's mind, rapidly going through his memories before arriving at the revelation that Pain had requested of Yūdachi: dead bodies

The body that is seen within this memory ends up being the replacement of Animal Path that was defeated by Jiraiya. Given how it was Jiraiya who sent Yūdachi to Konoha, this memory is long before the defeat of the original Animal Path. This is why Pain was able to recover from the loss of the Animal Path so quickly.

Now... as to having backups with the black receivers. It is possible these said backup bodies have the black receivers already in them, but as they are never show otherwise, we may never know. However, there are a few likely reasons to why Pain did not attempt to summon his backup bodies during his battle with Naruto

Animal path defeated (again)
The Animal Path is shown summoning the other five paths early in the Pain Assault arc. So Pain was very well capable of calling in backups. However, Naruto defeated the Animal Path fairly early in the fight. Due to this path being defeated, Pain lost his way of summoning.

Focusing his chakra
The black receivers in the paths allow Pain to transmit his chakra over long distances in order to control the six paths. When Pain completely destroyed Konoha, he severed the connections to other paths to focus his all of chakra into performing the justu.

  Some of the Six Paths Techniques are very chakra-taxing, and in order to use them Nagato must either bring the respective body closer to his position or alternatively cut off control of the other five Paths and focus all of his chakra into the one.

Also, one of the weaknesses of the six paths is that each path has a single ability. Prior knowledge, such as facing them battle, gives you an upper hand in taking them down.

  The greatest weakness of his Six Paths of Pain is that each body has only one primary ability; if an enemy has prior knowledge of what body does what, they stand a better chance of defeating the Paths

Pain saw how strong Naruto was, and therefore needed to play his cards right. As Naruto took out the paths one-by-one, rather than calling in backup, Pain distributed the chakra he regained from defeated paths to strengthen the remaining paths.


What is the name of the song playing at 10:25?

The piece playing at 10:25 in episode 24 is track #9 "Kusaribe" from the second volume of the OST. 10:25 in the episode corresponds to roughly 0:21 in the track. Here is an excerpt (0:18–0:28): https://clyp.it/kouhf2vp.

I have not seen Kuroshitsuji, but I find it vanishingly unlikely that you would have heard this particular piece in it. (All the more so given that Kuroshitsuji's music was apparently composed by Iwasaki Taku, and this piece is stylistically very unlike most of his work.)


Can Escanor be skinny and weak during daytime?

Short answer: Escanor can remain in his (skinny) nighttime form during the day due to his glasses, a magic item given to him by Merlin which allows him to suppress his powers.

Longer answer: In regards to why Escanor would opt to stay in night form during the day we need to understand him better. Escanor's ability is called sunlight, during the night, Escanor is in his true form and has the lowest power level recorded in the series (15) with a timid and cowardly personality to match but as night turns to day he gradually bulks up and his demeanor becomes arrogant or "prideful" which continues until he reaches a peak for one minute at high noon before slowly weakening until nightfall. While his power is active his physical might and endurance is unparalleled, he can scorch enemies merely by standing near them and generate a pocket sun to fling at people. Escanor was born with this power and has made it known he has despised it his entire life because it has caused him to hurt the people he cares about and be called a monster by everyone else. The power it grants him is immense but is not without drawbacks, his nighttime personality is more or less his actual personality but he cannot suppress the change in persona that comes over him when his power activates. In addition, while the ability is powerful it was never intended for humanity to wield,

   Sunlight is the power of Mael, one of the 4 Archangels of the Goddess clan whose power somehow manifested in Escanor

as a result, Escanor drains his lifespan due to the strain put on him by the power. Finally, he's supposed to be laying low, it is made apparent in Chapter 148 when Jericho stumbles into Escanor's bar that he hasn't gotten the news that the sins' name has been cleared of their supposed crime from 10 years ago. When Garlan knocks Escanor out and his glasses off only to find his sunlight powered form the next morning it allows Meliodas and Merlin to easily track him down by detecting his overwhelming aura, a task that would've been drastically quicker if he'd been activating sunlight everyday.

I could not find the chapter the magic glasses were explained, although in chapter 162 right before Gloxinia and Dolor's tournament Gowther lands on Escanor shattering his glasses which causes him to shriek that 1. they were a gift from Merlin and 2. without them he... (he gets impaled by Gloxinia before he completes his sentence). The wiki describes his magic glasses as a gift from Merlin which when removed in daytime causes his sunlight to instantly activate. He later gets a new pair of glasses off-screen and it should be noted he only appears in nighttime form during the day while wearing his glasses.


Why are Haki attacks not effective on Marine admirals?

I think you are wrong in saying that they weren't affected. They clearly were affected as you can see from the wound on Sakazuki's shoulder. Since both questions have a different answer, I'll reply one by one.

Whitebeard vs. Kuzan

From Kuzan article:

  He then got stabbed by Whitebeard's bisento, to which pirates are seen wondering if Aokiji was stabbed with Haki and if he was dead. Aokiji told them not to spout nonsense before grabbing the bisento and using his Ice Block Partisan attack. All of a sudden, Jozu attacks him and Aokiji is caught off-guard, even bleeding from his mouth.

As you can see, Aokiji was not hit by the Partisan, which was most likely imbued by Haki. This is, because he opened up a hole, where the partisan would have hit, just before it would hit. If he hadn't he probably would have been stabbed to the heart. Marine admirals use their power smart and efficiently, but it doesn't mean they can't be harmed. This can be seen just a moment after, when Jozu attacked him with his diamond arm and he was seen bleeding from his mouth.

Marco and Vista vs. Sakazuki

From Busoshoku Haki article:

  Devil Fruit users who can use Haki can resist the effects of Haki-imbued attacks, Akainu was able to take Haki-imbued attacks while maintaining his intangibility by extending his Haki through his body in order to nullify his opponents bypass. This however depends on their level of mastery over Haki when compared to their opponent as can be seen when Akainu was in contrast harmed when attacked by Whitebeard's superior Haki and bled.

In chapter 784, it was confirmed that Haki can be bypassed. We can see how Doflamingo hits Luffy with a Haki-imbued attack, yet Luffy kept his elasticity during the whole event, bouncing Doflamingo's attack right back. The same must have happened with Sakazuki. It looks like Vista and Marco did hit Sakazuki, and he was affected, because he noticed the attack was different from that of non-Haki users. Though, despite being hit with a Haki-imbued attack, he wasn't harmed and could just reform his neck, because his Haki was superior. I guess Haki is a bit like armor. If the level of an attack is lower than the toughness of an armor, it will be unable to penetrate the armor, and unable to touch the body hiding within the armor.

The answer was updated due to wiki updates. Check the edit revision history for the old answer.


What is the strength level of Madara's Susanoo?

Let's take a look at some instances where Madara manifested his Susanoo's power:

It can summon 2 meteors simultaneously which resulted to complete chaos.
His clones can summon Susanoo with ease.
His Complete Body - Susanoo is gigantic.
It can take down 5 Kages easily.

Tengai Shinsei
Madara's Susanoo on Narutopedia

Having awakened the power of both his Mangekyō, Madara could use Susanoo. He did not need to fully manifest it to benefit from its use: with just its ribcage he can withstand an Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan, and he could perform attacks with only its upper half. [...] His Susanoo wielded up to two (four in the anime) undulating blades that could be thrown, then maintained and controlled remotely. Madara can also produce Yasaka Magatama of varying sizes.
[...]
According to Madara, the full power of his Complete Body — Susanoo was comparable to that of the tailed beasts, and no one had lived to see it a second time. Madara was able to shape his stabilised Susanoo as an armour which he equipped unto the Nine-Tails in order to complement their respective abilities.

So is there any way to break his extraordinary defense?

 Yes. The increased defensive strength of Madara's final Susanoo's form can only be destroyed or even pierced by powerful techniques like Hashirama's Top Transformed Buddha [Ch. 626].

Quoted from old version of Madara Uchiha on Narutopedia


Who did Sue cosplay as in Genshiken Nidaime episode 9?

The outfit is almost identical to one of the outfits of Meruru (or, more properly, Princess Merururinsu Rede Arls), the titular character of the popular JRPG Atelier Meruru. Here's a comparison of the two.

Sue (ignore the fact that the background is stitched together):

Meruru in her Alchemist costume:

I don't think I need to point out the similarities, but in particular the design of the skirt, the straps on the front of the dress, the wand, the bow on the neck, the crown, the hair style, and the flowers on the outfit are all the same.

In addition, it seems that Sue's dialogue of the episode references Meruru, so there's no doubt that this is who Sue was cosplaying as.


Who is the woman in the opening cutscene of Tales of the Abyss 3DS version?

I'm pretty sure it the spirit of Yulia Jue. It's also her her spirit floating about the world in the opening scene.


In what order should I watch the Ghost in the Shell series?

Here's the order:

Ghost in the Shell (set in 2029) from 1995 or its 2008 remake Ghost in the Shell 2.0
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (set in 2030)
- The Laughing Man, a feature-length OVA summary of S.A.C.
Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG (set in 2032)
- Individual Eleven, a feature-length OVA which retells the events of S.A.C. 2nd GIG, altered to focus on both the Individual Eleven investigation and the relationship between Hideo Kuze and Motoko Kusanagi
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (set in 2032)
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex − Solid State Society (set in 2034) from 2006 or 2011 in 3D
Ghost in the Shell: Arise OVA series (set in 2027). It's a prequel telling the origin story of Section 9
- Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Alternative Architecture is a recompilation for television of Ghost in the Shell: Arise.
Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie is a movie set after Ghost in the Shell: Arise that is a continuation of the plot of the Pyrophoric Cult episode. The original movie's plot follows directly after this movie.
Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 is the next and latest anime and follows all the other seirse for this anime series

The only unclear part is about where S.A.C. 2nd GIG and Innocence go in relation to each other, because they are both set in 2032. 2nd GIG is the second season of S.A.C. and should probably be watched directly after it.

The GitS movies, SAC-series and Arise OVA are all different interpretations of the source material/manga.
Ghost in the Shell/2.0 and Innocence are set in the same universe, and I would recommend to watch them first as they have the strongest story and production values.
The SAC-series has it's own separate universe and is more of a crime series where the movies are more philosophical.
The Arise OVA-series is also completely separate from both the movies and series, but somewhat serve as a spiritual prequel to both.


Why isn't Subaru allowed to tell anyone about his "return by death" power?

The witch seems to have given him his Return by Death power and stops him when he tries to reveal it. The witch's motivations for giving him the power or keeping it secret have not been revealed yet. It seems pretty clear that there's no way for Subaru to overcome the witch and reveal the power -- when he tried to overpower the witch and reveal his ability to Emilia, the witch killed Emilia.


How many titan shifters can harden their skin?

This link explains all the abilities of every Titan :-

Titan Abilities

The titans that can Harden are :-

Beast Titan
Female Titan
Armoured Titan(dunno if you can call this hardening but he has hardened skin afterall!!).
Attack Titan


What music is playing in episode 95 of Hunter x Hunter?

The music you are searching for is a part of the HunterxHunter OST , Legend Of the Martial Artist , you can find it here.


She was turned by an unnamed jinrou (werewolf).

According to her backstory in episode 16, when she was still a normal human, her father's friend brought a guess to visit her house. He was a foreigner/westerner and turns out to be a jinrou. In the end, she was bitten and her blood was sucked by him and she died. However, after she was put into a coffin and buried, she woke up and came back to life, as a shiki.

Researching further about her attacker, there's no more insight other than "a
westerner jinrou", as shown on Wikia:

Sunako Kirishiki

  He was a Jinrou.

Jinrou

  There are of course jinrou overseas as well, such as the one that turned Sunako.

and other sources:

pixiv dictionary (Japanese)

  その正体は幼少期に西洋人の人狼に襲われ、蘇生した起き上がり。

  Her real form is that she came back to life after she was attacked by a westerner jinrou when she was in her early childhood.

Yahoo! Chiebukuro (Japanese), asking the difference between the novel, manga and anime:

  沙子は元々は人間で、（おそらく明治、大正時代と思われる）必ずしも火葬されない時代に異国から来た人狼に襲われ屍鬼になりました。

  Sunako was originally a human (probably since Meiji, Taisho period), certainly not from an era with cremation, and was turned into shiki by a jinrou coming from a foreign country.

However, it's certainly not Seishirou because he is a human, even though the attacker looks really similar to him, as noted in antiotaku's review:

  The vampire who killed Sunako all those years ago bears a striking resemblance to Seishirou Kirishiki. They even dress alike. I'm guessing this isn't a coincidence.


Is Ryuk the only one who can kill Light?

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The owner of the Death Note cannot be killed by a god of death who is living in the world of the gods of death.
Also, a god of death who comes to the human world, in the objective to kill the owner of the Death Note, will not be able to do so.
Only a god of death that has passed on their Death Note to a human is able to kill the owner of the Death Note.

As the rules are grouped together, it seems they are related.  In context, they imply that gods of death cannot kill Death Note owners with the exception of the original owner. Keep in mind that the rules seem to be a collection of observations; not the "programming language" of the Death Note.  This means some wording may not be perfect. In practice, Light was able to kill Death Note owners whose original owners were not shown to also write down their names.

Also, note that everyone already has an expiration date so they are never immortal from non-Death Note related deaths.

That being said, that interpretation sounds as if an owner who found Misa's old notebook after the Shinigami was dead would effectively be immortal or at least immune to all Death Note users.  This seems unlikely.


In the Manga near the very end Tokyo ghoul, Kaneki remembers the incident, and it was shown that

   The Ghoul Group called the clowns did it as One of them, Souta, was there.

The specific incident summary on the Wiki confirms this.

The reasons why are not clear yet in TG:RE, as there are several groups that could have been the reason why it happened, or it could have been spur of the moment.


What action is Yashiro supposed to take?

Satoru simply wanted him to do something, anything, to make sure Kaya would stay safe. He suggested calling the police and getting the counselors to check in again. Satoru wanted the teacher to speed up the process because he was planning to wait until the next school break (Spring, if I remember correctly.)


Why are Haki attacks not effective on admirals (akainu, Kizaru, aokiji) in one piece?

Obviously the admirals have logia-type fruit, check this:

Akainu fruit:  Magu_Magu_no_Mi

Aokiji fruit: Hie_Hie_no_Mi

Kizaru fruit: Pika_Pika_no_Mi

The problem here was the level of the power of the haki, this case the Busoshoku haki.

You have a lot of examples of different battles where you can see that the level difference in this type of haki allows one user hit other. A clear case is the fight of Roronoa Zoro vs Pica, where Zoro manages to hit Pica thanks to that his haki is superior.

Also the admirals are it affected for this haki, this is clear when Rayleigh used Haki to stop Kizaru and even touched his Logia body.


As far as we know Itachi was right. There is no jutsu in the Naruto universe that we know of which doesn't have limits that can be used against it. The only thing that could accomplish that would be the combined divine ability of an actual god of that universe but no such thing was ever named. The closest thing we know was Kaguya but even she had her limitations, for example she had to take a physical form that could be sealed.


How many ending does Clannad have in Visual Novel?

The regular routes in the Visual Novel are with:

Fujibayashi Kyou
Fujibayashi Ryou
Furukawa Nagisa
Hiiragi Kappei
Ichinose Kotomi
Ibuki Fuko
Miyazawa Yukine
Sagare Misae
Sakagami Tomoyo
Sunohara Mei
Toshio Koumura

There are three additional endings for the after story of the original game (therefore, routes opening up after continuing to the after story of Furukawa Nagisa). Another spin-off game is available that includes an after story for Sakagami Tomoyo, and is called "Tomoyo After: It's a Wonderful Life".


I haven't played the game, but I am up to date with the anime. So I will use that as my source.

By what we have been told so far the gods weren't forgotten. They were simply neglected. The society was aware about their existence, but simply didn't worship them anymore. It most likely became a hassle as they became more and more independent from the "gods".

Most people were aware from stories told by the elder people that there was a temple, but they didn't care enough to actually check it out.


Because Okumura was told by his grandpa that if they destroy "the other world", he and his brother can turn back to human. And to open the gate, they need a lot of blood of the devil, so he sacrifice Rin. This is revealed in episode 22.


Identifying the most common battle song in Fairy Tail 2014

It depends on which part of the battle scene you are talking about.

Towards the beginning (When Aries first arrives) is unknown to me. It is possibly one of the 2016 versions of the song that I still haven't listened to.
At the end (when Juvia smashes the coolant on the magic mobile) that song is "Titania Mau". It is also played when the returning of the dragons in the Tartaros chapters (Grandeeney (could also be spelled Grandeena), Igneel, Metalicanna, Weisslogia and Skiadram)


Does anyone know this song from Naruto Shippuden that plays in this video?

It is an unreleased OST titled (for now) as "Konoha Peace Theme".

It is said that the soundtrack will be included in the Naruto Shippūden: OST III.


That song is the nursery rhyme "London Bridge is Falling Down," or simply "My Fair Lady."

This version that is sung seems to be a variation on the one quoted by Iona and Peter Opie in 1951.

  London ba shi o chi ru, o chi ru, o chi ru
  London ba shi o chi ru, My Fair Lady
  (London Bridge is falling down / Falling down, Falling down. / London Bridge is falling down / My fair lady.)

  Tetsu to hagane de tsukure, tsukure, tsukure.
  Tetsu to hagane de tsukure, My Fair Lady
  (Build it up with iron and steel, / Iron and steel, iron and steel, / Build it up with iron and steel, / My fair lady.)

  Tetsu to hagane ja magaru, magaru, magaru.
  Tetsu to hagane ja magaru, My Fair Lady
  (Iron and steel will bend and bow, / Bend and bow, bend and bow, / Iron and steel will bend and bow, / My fair lady.)

  Kin to gin de tsukure, tsukure, tsukure.
  Kin to gin de tsukure, My Fair Lady
  (Build it up with silver and gold, / Silver and gold, silver and gold, / Build it up with silver and gold, / My fair lady.)

  Kin to gin ja nusumareru, nusumareru, nusumareru.
  Kin to gin ja nusumareru, My Fair Lady
  (Silver and gold will be stolen away, / Stolen away, stolen away, / Silver and gold will be stolen away, / My fair lady.)

  Rou to ishi de tsukure, tsukure, tsukure.
  Rou to ishi de tsukure, My Fair Lady.
  (Build it up with bricks and mortar, / Bricks and mortar, bricks and mortar, / Build it up with bricks and mortar, / My fair lady.)

  Rou to ishi ja kuchihateru, kuchihateru, kuchihateru.
  Rou to ishi ja kuchihateru, My Fair Lady.
  (Bricks and mortar will not stay, / Will not stay, will not stay, / Bricks and mortar will not stay, / My fair lady.)


What's this anime on the DVD cover in part of this photo?

Searching for the image resulted in this title 影のセクハリスト ～孕ませ王位継承騒動～, which roughly translates to Sexual Harasser of the Dark ~ The Impregnation Mayhem for Throne Succession ~

Here is a clearer version of the cover (NSFW).

Here is the link to official website (NSFW) and its entry on vndb.

It seems to be a eroge, not an anime, though.

The site describes it as a "magic school slapstick love comedy".


How does the Sword of The Thunder God get stopped by a Kunai?

Fillers are parts of the series that are designed to give the manga time to get a larger distance from the anime.

Generally, less experienced (and less paid) writers do these fillers, not the original mangaka.

This results in inconsistencies with the general storyline, and sometimes, even inside the episodes themselves (due to the writer's lesser experience).

Now I haven't checked the credits for that specific episode, to see who was the script writer for it, but my educated guess is that this is the case. A plot hole, and nothing more.


Do the trapped souls in the Reaper/Shinigami suffer?

In the manga chapter 124, Sarutobi tells Orochimaru what happens to the souls who are sealed by the Shiki Fujin.

With this jutsu, the one whose soul is sealed will suffer for all eternity in the belly of death, never gaining release. The one who is sealed and the one who performed the seal, their souls will mingle, hating each other and battling the other for all eternity.

This would happen in the normal case, which is when a shinobi uses the Shiki Fujin to seal his enemy's soul along with his own. Naturally, their souls would continue to fight after being sealed inside the Shinigami's stomach.
However, Sarutobi used it to seal his former teachers, Hashirama and Tobirama, who were only fighting him because they were under Orochimaru's Edo Tensei control. After being sealed, there was no reason for them to continue fighting, and hence, when they were released, they don't look like they were suffering or exhausted from battle.
The Fourth Hokage was sealed with the Yin-Kyuubi, and he presumably ended his battle long ago, as described here, so he had no reason to be suffering either.


So to answer your question,

   yes, Kojou has 2 kids.

According to Wikipedia and from what I remember,

   Yukina and Kojou has a kid that looks a lot like Yukina except for a few minor differences like the eyes. Yukina's kid, Reina, has Kojou's eyes and can also summon familiars like Kojou. Not much is known about Moegi, Kojou's kid with Asagi, except that she sent Reina back in time to chase a man-made magical beast that I believe attacked Kojou and Yukina.

You can read more about it in these links:

http://strike-the-blood.wikia.com/wiki/Reina_Akatsuki
http://strike-the-blood.wikia.com/wiki/Moegi_Akatsuki


Why doesn't Trunks sense Cell when Cell uses Solar Flare just before absorbing android 18?

You are right, Cell ends up using Solar Flare.

It is hard to get a definitive answer (because the question is pretty speculative), but I will argue that:

Solar Flare has been shown to be incredibly disruptive every time it was used - in the manga, everyone affected by it was made helpless for at least ten seconds - having Trunks stop in mid-air because of it is not inconsistent with previous uses of that ability;
I do not remember any character in Dragon Ball that could fight effectively while blinded, or without using his eyes - by implication, it means that there is nothing to suggest that ki sensing could replace eyes if someone was blinded. However, even if you find an example of someone that did fight without his eyes, you would still have to find something that Trunks would be capable of doing it;
The time that Cell took to absorb Android 18 was extremely short - I mean, if you look at the sequence depicted in the manga, it goes:

Trunks blasts Vegeta to distract him;
Trunks begins flying towards Cell, who is a few steps away from Android 18;
Cell uses Solar Flare;
Everyone is blinded;
Cell gulps Android 18 down;
The cloud generated by Trunks' blast around Vegeta dissipates;

I mean, damn, how long did it take Cell to absorb Android 18 after blinding everyone? 3 seconds? The disruption from Solar Flare clearly seems to be enough for this purpose.

However, I agree that the scene, as depicted in the anime, does not really make sense, as Android 18 and Krillin attempt to fight against Cell, while Trunks and Vegeta are completely forgotten about. It could be argued that they were affected more strongly because they were closer to Cell when he used Solar Flare, but that explanation seems dodgy.


Is this supposed to be a reference to Chinese socialist posters?

While I have not seen this episode yet, let me chime in to confirm that this image looks awfully close to typical war propaganda posters. They do not have to be Chinese actually, Russians looked the same, as did those by Western countries at the time.

The drawing style was, as far as I know, mandated by the circumstance around the second world war, meaning they all look similar. The messages are also (maybe surprisingly) similar, as is the facial expression of energetically staring into the upwards, far distance.

The text in the example given is Japanese, which I sadly cannot read.

Chinese and Russian as well as other socialist propaganda made particular use of red colors:

(source)

For comparison, American propaganda from 1944 often used the same painting technique:

 (source)


Is there a way to directly donate to support a comic / light novel / animation?

Simple answer is no. Anime are created through production committees. How they come about can vary. The best way to support a commercial work is to purchase the principal media (discs) behind them or the source material (novels, manga).

The crowd funding, Patreon-type model is not very well-known or accepted in Japan, but they do exist. The most notable recent one is Nekopara. However, these happen fairly infrequently, and typically only happen for smaller or self-published work instead of bigger IPs from established.


You can purchase the Boku no Pico dvd bundles on Amazon or eBay. Due to search history at office I will be not providing urls for this.

You can also google streaming services for yaoi hentai that provide the episodes, or simply just google Boku no Pico. Once again due to search history at office I can not provide urls for this. There are plenty of legal streaming services that can be found on google for yaoi hentai. I also recommend looking up the definition of yaoi hentai incase you aren't aware about the meaning.

Incase you are an innocent one, please be advised to watch this while fully being aware that your friendship might be ruined after 5 minutes (if not less). I also do advice not watching this at public places or places with other human beings.

Incase you know what you are looking for... have a good one.


What's the song on season 2 episode 24 when Meliodas was cooking something and Elizabeth came to meet him?


Do the lyrics of Madoka Magica's two movie OPs foreshadow Rebellion's ending?

They could not be planned to foreshadow Rebelion for a very simple reason: Urobuchi (author of the story) did not plan for Rebelion when writing the series. There are actually quite a few interviews with him that bring some light to his choices about the script, and he never mentioned lyrics.
Short answer then: very unlikely.

Edit: As comments states. This does not apply to the movies' openings.


Was "archaic Japanese" used to narrate historical anime series?

Unlikely.
Probably not the answer you're looking for but I also haven't watched every single historic feudal Japan anime so I can not definitely say for certain it doesn't exist.
Authors and script writers write for a modern audience who understand best a modern, living language. So it's rather unlikely that the majority of a work be entirely or heavily in an archaic language. Even for English, how many modern TVs or cartoons can you find that make heavy use of Modern English or better, Old English? I certainly cannot think of any aside from works inspired directly from classic works (Shakespeare, as mentioned, is a prime example).
There's a limit to how much archaic dialogue you give your characters. At best, characters are given occasional language quarks to remind the viewer of the setting but any more and you would lose the audience (or at least transform a light easily readable manga into a in depth literature analysis).
While I agree it would totally cool if there existed historical correct voice acting in anime or even manga written in ancient scripts, the appeal of these works is quite limited (think of the translation work for even the native speakers !)
I would also like to point out even within modern Japanese, people of different ages and regions speak very differently (not representative of voice actors in anime). While Kyoto used to be the capital of Japan, not Edo, even the current Kansai dialect differs from a historic accent. According to a few native Kansai, anime has poorly or inaccurately represented even their accents.


Did Jiraiya teach Minato the summoning technique?

I've been searching for this, all I could find was:

It's true: "Jiraiya, who took a special interest in Minato and took him on as an apprentice, amongst other things teaching him the Summoning Technique and senjutsu."

As more: "In his youth, Jiraiya taught Minato how to use the Summoning Technique to summon toads. He was able to summon Gamabunta, showing considerably proficiency in this technique as he was one of the few people that Gamabunta would willingly cooperate without hesitation."

We also know that: "Before an animal summoning can be performed, a prospective summoner must first sign a contract with a given species."

Plus: "Not much is known about Minato's relationship with the toads but apparently he was well-respected among them. His only known summons were Gamabunta and Gerotora."

From all of this I can deduce that, or it's something tricky, and since there's no need for a contract (at the willingly cooperate part/well respected thing, or maybe just because Minato was a prodigy), or is a plot-hole, and the animators or Kishi put an accent on Jiraiya and Naruto at the scroll scene and maybe forgetting about Minato.


This is quite a downer of an answer, however there really is nothing more.

After escaping, within neither the anime nor manga, is Lupin mentioned again. I personally read Soul Eater and watched it, I don't recall any more sign of him, and this 'thesis' is backed up by the wiki:

  Debuts -
  Manga - 'Death the Kid',
  Anime - The Perfect Boy. Death the Kid’s Magnificent Mission?

As you can probably assume, this is indeed Episode 3, which I trust is the appearance you are referring to (being his only). It mustn't have ended with such a bad fate, as the use of the human souls, as we probably would have heard about a new Kishin being born.

I doubt it, as I'm not following it, however there is a possibility his name is at least mentioned in Soul-eater Not!, however I have yet to hear anything regarding that.


Why did the Queen kill Ciel's relatives?

Actually this is not the case and is a common example of where the plot falls apart between cannon and filler.

This is a long answer and took a lot of editing, but try to stay with me and feel free to comment if anything doesn't make sense. First, I will explain why your question doesn't have an answer, then I will explain why.

First off,

  The reason why the queen killed Ciel's parents

This is unknown because it is never truly revealed in the anime. In the battle it is alluded to that the queen perceived Phantomhive household as a threat to the throne and had them exterminated. As to why they became such a threat is left unclear.

Secondly,

  Why is this unanswerable?

The contract that Ciel has with Sebastian pertains specifically until Ciel satisfies his revenge. So once that enemy is listed and the conflict is resolved, the plot would end theoretically. As you probably already know, the manga for this series is still being written by Yana Toboso so naturally the main villain has yet to be revealed and we are still learning the history of Vincent's past bit by bit as Ciel goes through his adventures in service to the crown.

The concept of the queen being the killer of Ciel's parents was only explored in the anime and IMHO was a fantastic plot twist to keep the anime below 25 episodes and very enjoyable, but...

The black butler anime is only partially canon.

The deaths of Ciel's parents have yet to even be explored in the manga. For this reason (among several other inconsistencies with the manga), the anime has several plot holes. If you watch the first season to completion and then watch Book of Circus or Book of Murder (both of which are canon), then the plot clearly falls apart.

Black Butler II and everything that happened in the latter half of the anime is not canon.

Black Butler contains the following arcs, more details can be read about them here:

Kidnapping
Jack the Ripper (also called the Madame Red arc)
Houndsworth (anime only, non-canon)
Shard of Hope (anime only)
Curry Contest
Noah's Ark Circus (manga only, adopted later in the Book of Circus OVA)
Haunted Castle (anime only)
Book of Doomsday (anime only)
Conspiracy and Revenge (anime only, death of the queen and end of the anime)
Phantomhive Manor Murderds (manga only, later adopted in Book Of Murder OVA)
Luxury Liner (manga only)
Public School (manga only)
Emerald Witch (manga only)
Blue Cult (manga only, and current arc at chapter 117 released June 2016)
Black Butler II doesn't have a place in the storyline as of yet, but will be added at the end here because it does exist.

So a prime example of this is that if the queen was killed in Conspiracy and Revenge, why is Ciel still taking a mission from her in Public School which clearly occurred after?

So to sum all of this up, the manga does not support the fact that the queen killed the parents of Ciel. So if the anime did not fully flesh out why that happened then there is no answer.

PS: I can list the more major plot differences anime-wise and manga-wise, but it will take me time to look up arc names and whatnot so this answer will be getting edited.

PPS: Finally finished all my major edits. Anything else beyond this will be for style and added clarity.


The Donquixote Family ruled Dressrosa 800 years ago. Here is the  wiki article for that:-

  The Donquixote Family is a royal bloodline which ruled the Dressrosa Kingdom eight hundred years ago and one of the twenty royal families which founded the World Government.

This is reason for him saying that he is back to his own kingdom as his ancestors were the original rulers.

They were replaced by Riku Family when they shifted to Marijois. Here is the wiki article for that:-

  Dressrosa was one of the 20 Kingdoms that fought the Great Kingdom. The Donquixote family originally ruled Dressrosa but the family moved to Mariejois and were replaced by the Riku Family.

Doflamingo was a World Noble when he was born but his Father left that position when Doflamingo was young. Here is the wiki article.

  Forty-one years ago, the child Donquixote Doflamingo was born in the noble bloodline, and two years after, the second child Rosinante was born. After enjoying eight short years of the Celestial Dragons' privileged lifestyle, Doflamingo was evicted from such luxuries when his father, Donquixote Homing, abdicated their status as World Nobles in order to live a normal life with his family of four; Homing was always considered by his compatriots as blasphemous and disgrace to the title of World Nobles. However, Doflamingo was still clinging onto his heritage by asking his father to buy more slaves and demand subservience from commoners, an attitude that Homing intended to reform.

  The family took residence in a country in the North Blue, which has no ties to the World Government. As a last favor, the Government has prepared an adequate manor and financial assets for the family to live with. Although Homing wished for a humble and peaceful life with his family among humanity, away from Mariejois' spoiling nature, little did he knew at the time that the island they resided on was filled with people who bear deep grudges against the Celestial Dragons, which would, in the future, become a stepping stone to Doflamingo's descend to darkness.

  Shortly after taking residence in the country, when it became known that the Donquixote Family are former World Nobles, their manor was burned to the ground by angry victims of the Celestial Dragons, and the family was forced to hideout in a small shack in the junkyard, much to Doflamingo's disgust. Barely escaping from constant pursuit, Homing tried to contact Mariejois to save his sons and wife, but the Celestial Dragons retorted how the family cannot return from their choices and coldly hung up. Consequently, the family was stuck living in poverty and on the run, and the two children were beaten up when they tried to steal food; they resorted to eating out of trash bins, and though they brought some food for their mother, she died from illness brought by the deplorable household, much to her family's broken hearts. Eventually, the three remaining Donquixote Family members were found and caught, and then hanged onto a wall above flames, tortured and beaten. While Homing and Rosinante were screaming for mercy, Doflamingo viciously blamed his father for condemning the family to such a hellish life, and snarlingly swore to kill all the commoners in revenge, turning the citizens' hatred to horrified shock.

Doflamingo killed his own Father for doing this. Here is the wiki article for that:-

  Two years later, Doflamingo's suffering drove him over the edge, awakening his Haoshoku Haki, knocking out the citizens. Trebol, a knowledgeable 18-years old, saw this as the advent of his new king, gifted Doflamingo with a Devil Fruit and an ornate flintlock. Armed with a viable weapon, Doflamingo killed his own father, for whom he holds with contempt for condemning the family into the life of outcasts. The child then took his father's head back to Mariejois, hoping to return to the privileged life as a Celestial Dragon. Unfortunately for him, the World Nobles already considers the Donquixote Family as a "family of traitors" for fraternizing with commoners, and refused to let him return. However, armed with the knowledge of Mariejois' national treasure, Doflamingo was considered a threat and the World Nobles tried to kill him; they failed and the former Celestial Dragon escaped.

  Doflamingo became a pirate with the goal of revenge against the World Nobles who refused to reinstate his status by destroying the world they lord over, and he gathered various recruits whom became a new incarnation of the "Donquixote Family", whom he saw as his new, treasured family.


How are mangaka affected by Golden Week?

Alright! This is one question I have asked before and I will give the perspective for manga artists and such.

Golden Week is a week at the end of April and beginning of May. This week has a series of many national holidays strung together.
April 29, May 1 (Mayday), 3 (Memorial Day), 5 (Children's Day) are all holidays. In the previous decade it made no sense for the factory workers to start and stop the plant every alternate day and so the week was announced as Golden Week and observed as holiday.
However the normal offices usually keep the days which are not holidays as working days.
For manga writers, this is not a real holiday as deadlines do not take into account this Golden Week.
Also during this period all the leisure activities spike up. The film industry gets huge revenues during this period and makes major releases during this period (I am from India, people do the same for big festivals here too :D). So manga being a top entertainment source, I assume the mangaka have to work hard to keep deadlines in this week.
So for budding mangakas, this is a crucial time as most new mangas and a whole bunch of releases happen at the same time.

Some fun facts:

It seems that this time of the year is very pleasant and along summer. So people use this as their vacation period and travel a lot.
Even though offices observe working days in between the Golden Week, employees usually use their PTO (aka vacation days) and take the whole week off.
Golden Week is another holiday observed in China, but it's completely different and started in 2000.

SOURCE: Baku-man for giving insight into mangaka's life, my brain for storing some of the info, and google :D


Why do sick anime characters often are said to have a "weak body"?

It's more than likely that this so-called mysterious "weakness syndrome" is really just as a plot device to drive the story/characters along. This particular aim to draw sympathies to the particular character and is more often than not, a popular way to have character die before their time, if that's what the story demands.

So why is this mysterious weakness trope so popular, you ask? Why not always using a real illness? Typically it's because this "weakness" is a "clean" and "cute" illness, when compared to actual chronic medical conditions. Even in its lethal form the symptoms are: you are weak, you're getting weaker, you die. (coughing up blood every now and then is optional)

In contrast, an actual conditions like stomach cancer on the other hand is not "cute" at all. As soon as you specify a real-life disease/conditions a lot of questions pop up, something that might shift the perspective away from the tragic fate of a character.

Additionally, there might be some actual conditions that inspired the "weakness syndrome" since Japanese did have a lot of sick people for a long time in certain areas. Having been a country that's been devastated twice by an atomic bomb, the effects of radiation exposure was not well researched or documented back then by scientists, so a lot of the long-term from direct and indirect radiation exposure side-effects like birth defects, leukemia, anemia, cancers, thyroid disease, liver and bone marrow degeneration, and overall severely compromised immune systems, might have been attributed to other things.


What would happen if you caught a PokeBall with another PokeBall?

While it's not an ordinary Pokéball, the Mewtwo ball is capable of capturing another Pokéball inside it.

This is demonstrated in the first Pokemon movie and quoted in the synopsis section of the movie's wiki page. A gif of the event is below too:

  "Ash tries returning Bulbasaur and Squirtle (who have been fighting the balls bravely), but it's no use. Two of Mewtwo's Poké Balls fly over and capture Bulbasaur and Squirtle's Poké Balls."

Granted, this is a special kind of ball developed by Mewtwo, so I can't say for sure in this answer whether a standard Pokéball would behave similarly.

Additionally, the catch rate for the Mewtwo ball is listed as 100% on the wiki page. Therefore it's impossible to say whether it would increase the catch chance of a wild pokémon through stacking, as it's a guaranteed capture with just one.


Why did people start falling unconscious in "Futari wa Pretty Cure"?

Talking about the very first season of Pretty Cure, Nagisa and Honoka had to face Zakenna, black monsters that come out in form of shadows possessing objects and creatures. When those monsters appear, people fall unconscious while the sky become dark.

AFAIK, since Zakenna appears only in season one and season two (Max Heart), the behavior you're asking for seems to be related to Zakenna particularly.


Why is that woman considerd the woman that Rimuru is destined to be with?

@earthling gave a good answer into the importance of her role in Rimaru's destiny. Below I want to give the ways in which she was always with him.

Shizu was with Rimaru physically, forever, in his stomach.
Shizu also lived on with him when Rimaru took her physical form.
In a sense, she was also with him through the emotional connection of fulfilling her wishes. It's often said that a person lives on through their legacy and the memory of others. Rimaru fulfilled her wish and legacy of saving the Children. Shizu also lived on with him both in his memory and in Rimaru's journey to finish her quest of confronting Demon Lord Leon Cromwell.

So in many ways, she was always with him and thus was the person he was destined to and ended up being with.


The keyword is in the (Japanese) naturalization.
Kong Wenge took a Japanese nationality by mean of naturalization. After naturalization, he needed to have a Japanese legal name.
From this article,

Do you have to take a Japanese name if you naturalize?
[...]
The simple answer to this question is YES, you do need to take a Japanese name.
The reality, however, is that a "Japanese name" is not necessarily what you are thinking. You have to follow the same rules that a Japanese parent has to follow when naming a baby... [...].
[...]. As you can see, some of us (like me) choose to write our existing names in Japanese characters. Others choose a more Japanese-sounding name that is similar in either sound or meaning to their original name, and others choose something that is altogether different from the name they were born with.
You do need to write your name in Japanese characters. This can include ひらがな (hiragana), カタカナ (katakana), 常用漢字 (jōyō kanji) (kanji for everyday use), and/or 人名用漢字 (jimmeiyō kanji) (kanji designated for use in names), [...]

(Emphasis mine)
While 孔 (kō) is actually an acceptable kanji (it's inside kanji for everyday use), given the privilege to change his name, he chose 辻堂 (tsujido), probably to show his support to his high school.