Did Luffy travel the same path that Roger took to get into Raftel?

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I can think of two reasons.But before that i would like to mention few points:

One piece is greatly linked with Joyboy, D (the will of D) and of course Laugh Tale.
On Rogers journey he had instances where he was told someone(luffy) would come and change the world. He is the person Joyboy is waiting for. Or something like that.
After conquering the grand line there wasn't much time left for him (he was sick).
He and crew came to know about the void century. But again due to point 3 they couldn't do much about it. And at the time world government had too much power and control over people.

Also, Before I compare their journeys for you. Understand this:

One piece/Laugh tale (and other things like will of D/Joyboy/Void Century/Marines )
are the real deal and the goals of the Straw hat pirates and not retracing the path of Legendary Gol D Roger. Although they do want his title and treasure(We don't know what that is) and nothing else.

Record of the Void Century 800 years ago, in the Wano Country, a clan of master stonemasons known as the Kozuki Family invented indestructible block shaped steles for the purpose of recording important history on them while preventing it from being destroyed. Those steles would become the Poneglyphs.

Poneglyphs lead to a location. It's the path that either was created to stay hidden(from enemies and people) or to preserve something(op). It's obvious but i also say this because ODA said at current level Akainu can get to one piece in a year. But  he doesn't because that's not what marines wan't or they may not like what they will get in the end. (by marines i mean the ones at the top).

Roger in ZOU said to Pedro "My time is limited.Listen,Everyone has their own turn". Most people misinterpret this as his message to Pedro. Noooooo, he just mentioned that it was his(Roger's) turn. Pedro figures out his role on his own in whole cake arc and then realizes what Roger meant. Roger isn't the kind who would tell anyone random what to do. Because he wouldn't like it himself being told what to do. Here,
 a. The scene is after reaching Laugh tale (means he knew everything and acquired everything by the time)   b. and after meeting Oda.
 c. He knew about Joyboy, his promise and that someone will come after 20 years. And change the world
So, What Roger meant was that,he needs to make sure that the man of prophecy (he has learned about via different sources) reaches the Laugh tale.

Last point: Hence, When you see the bigger picture there are 3 characters to evaluate

 1. Joyboy: The mystery man we don't know much about. Who is the origin for most of the mysteries in one piece. Was the one who created path to one piece with help of wano kuri.And apparently Roger admires him, possibly so does luffy.
2.Roger: Who traveled most of his life(13 yrs +1 year apparently before his death) connecting pieces left by Joyboy. Known as pirate king (also thought to be his highest achievement). His, highest achievement is refining the path of grandline and making sure the man of prophecy reaches Laugh tale.
3. Straw hat Monkey D Luffy: The main protagonist of the story that has been changing the world since arc I. And probably will change the fate of the world when he finds one piece.
Now, with considering all the data from above and concluding , Your answer:

Yes luffy and roger are travelling the same paths. And its because of one of the 2 reasons.

After Roger conquered the grand line which took him 13+ years. Sailed again with Oden to provide a path to the man of prophecy (yours luffy) So, that he wouldn't have to invest as much time and effort as roger did.  In order to do this Roger traveled the grand line again in his last year alive. The only things mind blowing here is, Roger didn't knew which path luffy will take, so he travel the whole grand line that took him 13 years in 1 year. I mean he might know the path, and he probably wouldn't face much resistance like the first time but 13-1 ratio is still insane. (You might think he could have just helped in one path that luffy has been taking , but thats not an option here. Roger wouldn't leave his life's work to luck. He would rather die working). So, by this point Roger must have travelled Most of the "major" kingdoms/islands twice.

We have been told that there are multiple paths that you can take on grand line. See fig below.
If you look at this clearly you'll see that there are points that are common will travelling the grand line. Hence, if not any other island, Roger and luffy would have to travel these. So, sabaodi, fishman (and probably punk hazard) are a 100% possiblily. Roger went to wano and zou for/with oden Hence similarities there too. But there will be no explaination to Skypiea other than luck by chance.
Unless for example, lets say there are 4 paths to traverse grand line. One luffy took, one for law probably, one for kid , One for others skiping the details. Roger could have chosen 1/2 islands(so unique that only few{deserving} can find the poneglyph) per route to say things like he said to luffy on the poneglyph in skypia. This would explain the one year too but still some things would be left to luck.

Edit: All in all, it was Rogers role to make it happen.


Who is the strongest hero physically after Saitama?

According to Fubuki Fubuki mentions that Blast is "the one at the top of all heroes" during her talk with Saitama in his apartment, putting Blast alongside King in terms of power.[7] She also suggests that he could defeat the whole S-Class alone. Sitch also mentions Blast would only present himself if humanity is in peril.[8]

Blast was able to bring Elder Centipede—a Dragon-level threat strong enough to combat the likes of Bang, Bomb and Genos simultaneously—to the brink of death, although he was smaller and as such presumably weaker when he first fought Blast.[9] Despite this, Psykos believed that Blast could still defeat Elder Centipede even in his current state.

Fubuki speculates in the databook that Blast is stronger than King, with a set of psychic powers, the ability to command trillions of robots, and to shoot lasers from his eyes. She hypothesizes that he could beat the rest of the S-Class all at once.

check here https://onepunchman.fandom.com/wiki/Blast

Maybe we didn't see how powerful is blast are but we should wait in the near future


Why are the episodes named after literary works?

Here's a partial answer pertaining to episodes 21-24.

Recall that the Japanese title of the anime is "Kiseijuu - Sei no Kakuritsu", or loosely, "Parasyte - the probability of sei". The title is written in Japanese with sei in katakana, which is a non-semantic syllabary, rather than in kanji. This makes it unclear what the intended meaning of the word sei is, because there are at least 30 different kanji (based on a quick look here) that can be read sei (and hence around the same number of distinct meanings for the word), and it is not possible to infer from context which one is intended.

This ties into the titles of episodes 21-23, which are all pronounced "Sei to Sei" in Japanese, but using different characters for each distinct sei. Specifically, episode 21 has 性 "sex" and 聖 "holy"; episode 22 has 静 "quietness" and 醒 "wakefulness"; and episode 23 has 生 "life" and 誓 "vowing" (生 "life" is the same sei as in "kiseijuu", incidentally).

These three titles constitute a sort of wordplay, in my opinion. This sort of homophone-based wordplay is fairly common in Japanese, since Japanese is a very homophone-rich language, owing mostly to heavy borrowing from Chinese.

I strongly suspect that it is only coincidental that the Japanese translation of the English book "Sex and Spirit" by Clifford Bishop has the same title as episode 21 of the anime (judging from the synopses of the book available, anyway). Given that the book is only a penny on Amazon, the interested reader might like to pick up a copy of it and see if there is, in fact, any thematic relationship with Parasyte.

This being the case, I do not believe that the titles of episodes 21-23 reference literary works, other than coincidentally. And, of course, there's no literary reference in the episode 24 title 寄生獣 kiseijuu "Parasyte" - unless you count a title drop as a literary reference, I guess.


How many crew members that Straw Hat should be?

What the initial quote was "about 10 people" so there is no hard and fast rule regarding the final size of Straw Hat Crew.
I'd like the theory of 4 more people joining. 4 (Zoro, Usopp, Sanji, Nami joined in East Blue), + 4 (Chopper, Franky, Robin and Brook) in the first half of grand line

Among the next 4 I am thinking Jinbei is a given. That makes 10 but I'd like to think some other allies such as Caesar, Vegapunk etc. may also join. There is this really vast theory about the following members joining which draws parallels between the previous joinees and the future recruits

   Jinbei, Smoker, Unknown Warrior probably from Elbaf and Tashigi. I liked it especially since it filled the "old enemy Smoker" and another female recruit as well as a fishman. I also agree with the theory that Luffy's garp is Coby.

About Oda's quote, Unconfirmed rumours are floating around for ages. Next recruit is an old enemy, next recruit would be a female (Cue why people wanted Monet with Logia powers or Baby5) etc. etc.

http://www.marineford.com/Thread-One-Piece-Eiichiro-Oda-Interviews-Statements
This is a compendium of Oda's interviews that I find is well researched.


Why does Trafalgar D. Law use 'Ya-や(屋)' suffix while addressing others?

From the SBS (質問を募集する, "I'm Taking Questions") question and answer column of volume 62, chapter 609, page 122:

D: Like "Mugiwara-ya", Law-san tends to call people with the "-ya" suffix, but in the case where the person's last name is "Tsuchiya", then does that become "Tsuchiya-ya"? Please tell me Law-san♡ P.N. HeartLoveWoman
O: Mr. Law—they're calling you --! ............. Aw he won't come-. Let me answer instead. A long time ago, around maybe the Edo period--. There was this thing called "Yagō". So if for instance, in the case where there were two Mr. commoners named "Tomekichi-san", things like "Dōgu-ya no Tomekichi" (Tomekichi of the Tool shop) or "Oke-ya no Tomekichi" (Tomekichi of the Bathtub maker); something with "~ya" would be used in place of a last name-. Like how you shout "Tamaya~" at the fireworks or "Nakamuraya" from Kabuki; have you heard of those? In other words, he just goes with the flow. Right, Law-san?
L: Yeah.

"D" denotes the reader (dokusha), "O" denotes Oda, the author, "L" denotes Law.
Essentially it's as as if Law is calling Luffy "Strawhatter" or "Strawhat guy." Like you would refer to a butcher (nikuya) or a baker (panya) by the shop they run. Note that no honorific is applied, so you cannot assume this to be polite. You could say it puts a bit if the distance between the speaker and the one they are speaking to. Much like in a MMO party where someone calls you by your class or your role instead of your character name.


Why do they call their Sensei by his given name?

The main reason is Naruto's Universe is different from ours.
In most of the other anime where the story takes place in Japan, Japan's mode of addressing applies. Calling your teacher and your female/male friend by family name. Calling each other by name if you are a lover or male-male or female-female friend. Respecting your seniors by calling them Senpai, etc.
However, since Naruto takes place in a different universe, the mode of addressing is different. In Naruto, you can find people not only calling by their names but also by their nicknames. Naruto has nicknames for most of his friends, sensei, and elders, like Rock Lee-Bushy Brows, Ero Sennin-Jiraya, ... which you mostly don't find in real life.

This is not limited to just Naruto. One Piece, Attack on Titan, and most of the other anime where their universe is different from ours (or Japan), the usual Japanese mode of addressing doesn't apply.


Why is Midoriya considered a "True Hero" by some villains?

The disillusionment that Stain and (some) villains have of the hero society is that too many heroes are only in the business for fame, glory, or money. Supposedly, Stain saved Midoriya from the flying Nomu because he saw that Midoriya exhibited traits of being a true hero and would genuinely risk his life for anyone. Many of Stain's later copycats like Spinner would follow this ideology and also respect Midoriya since the later part of Stain's fight was recorded and streamed (making it somewhat public knowledge that Stain respected Midoriya).


It's never explained but I imagine that Akira transferred him some large amount of money from his phone. The man is clearly elated at whatever Akira offered him.


Is Dio's The World actually allowing him to move at the speed of light?

There's going to be some amount of magical hand waving in any time manipulation ability and I haven't seen Jojo or "the world" but perhaps it could be similar to a time stop from Artemis Fowl. A time stop is a finite zone in which time is stopped for the consciousness of all conscious beings inside. To those inside the only effect is that all communications and time dependent devices (clocks, TV, Phone signal, etc.) are stopped and living beings cannot fall asleep. Any natural processes happen normally, there's no wind but you can breathe but you cannot physically leave because the outside world doesn't exist in relation to a time stopped zone. When the time stop ends those affected by it instantly have their time set to normal time (e.g. if time is stopped at noon for 4 hours you experience noon for 4 hours and when it ends your time resumes normally from 4 pm). To those outside the field nothing appears wrong with the time stopped area and you can walk into it but any conscious beings who were inside are gone, trapped in past at the moment the time stop started and will only reappear when it ends. The time stop apparently only traps your consciousness in that moment and detains the body of anyone affected until it ends, this is why I guess the whole molecules/photons not moving isn't a problem.


Manga in which the protagonist can enter stories

It could be KINGDOM HEARTS, and is actually based on a PlayStation 2 game that came out first.

In the main story, Sora (the protagonist) travels among other worlds. And in each world, he transforms and blends in to resemble the world's characters.
Also in every world, there is a problem that only he could help to fix.

In the first season of this series, there are 43 chapters


Goku SSJ Berserker in Dragon Ball Heroes?

I can't read the japanese text but it appeared in the manga already


I take it to be the main character being thrust into a conflict against his will while also providing him an overpowered power he never really wanted, i.e. his Guilty Crown.

  "The right to use my friend as a weapon. That is the sinful crown I shall adorn. I accept this 'guilt.'"

EDIT: Seemed a bit of confusion and adding the detailed comment by Hikari to the answer verbatim.

  in guilty crown the protagonist is only able to wield his power by pulling the soul of another person. If he breaks that soul they die and he carries that guilt and shame of not being able to do anything alone. Just like a king may "technically" rule a country but only on top of the shoulders of the people who believe in him and the soliders who die for him. And typical of the shounen genre all of this is thrust on the shy,wallflower like boy with no confidence. That is where the title came from. It is more like an allude as to what the whole series portrays. – Hikari


At the moment it is possible, due to the Uzamaki clan being very vaguely related to Hagaromo (It has been a lot time for dilution of the bloodline). So he could end up with the Tensaigan, but it would be much more likely for the Tensaigan to appear in the theoretical children of Boruto and Sarada, due to Sasuke's bloodline having the optical powers of Hagaromo. So to sum it up, Boruto could end up with the Tensaigan some time in the foreseeable future.


She being a doctor, must have found some medicine which she drinks from her beer bottle.
Also she was the first one to mention the will of D and she knows the actual name of Gol D Roger, shows that she actually must be around 140 years of age.


What's the meaning behind all the chairs in Madoka's room?

Those chairs are a direct reference to Bokurano, understanding which actually adds depth to the scene (if you've seen Bokurano).

Bokurano huge spoilers:

   Childs sitting on the chairs are actually giving up their lives for the privilege of fighting a defence of Earth.
 Note that chairs appear before the big reveal about souls and zombies in Madoka.


Change of final bosses in SAO Season 1 and Ordinal Scale

According to an Interview with Kawahara (original author of SAO), abec (SAO's illustrator), Miki (SAO's editor) and Itou (Ordinal Scale's director), the final boss shown in the movie, "An Incarnation of the Radius" was the original boss of the 100th floor designed by Argus, but Kayaba found it so broken, he decided he'd take its place as the final boss.

Quoting certain parts of the Interview:

  Kawahara: The last boss that was present in the 《Ruby Palace》 was the one formally developed by 《Argus》 before Kayaba took over.

and later on:

  Kawahara: The reason why Kayaba changed himself to the last boss was because he saw the data for the original boss and thought "Like hell anyone can beat this thing" …or at least that's what I think he did.

Source: translation of said Interview


Does Shinigami powers transfer occur only with stabbing through the chest?

There may be two reasons for this.

The first one is less directed to the plot, so I'll start with it first. Obviously, the chest is the best part to do it for two reasons. First, it's easier not to miss (hehe :P). Second, it looks cooler. Imagine Rukia piercing Ichigo's head to five him the power. Or his left elbow. Or his knee. That wouldn't look too good, right?

Now, for the second reason, which is more important. As you can see in the very end of the anime (spoiler up to the very last episodes),

   To give him his powers back, Rukia pierces Ichigo's chest in exactly the same way as the first time:

Now, usually, this is also the place where the hollows have their holes. Why there? Because it is the place where one's Chain of Fate is connected to the body.

Although shinigami do not have the Chain, that place is as much important for them too. This place is known as Saketsu, and acts as a boost in spiritual power, the source of which is another spot, called Hakusui. If those points are pierced, one loses his Shinigami powers.

You can recall that from the episode where Byakuya first appears, and defeats Ichigo with his favorite move called Senka, which is basically a quick shunpo to move to the opponent's back and strike his Saketsu and Hakusui. So, if those points can be pierced to block one's spiritual powers, it is safe to assume that this can work the other way too, and this is the reason why Rukia pierces Ichigo's chest exactly there.


Why are the 'things' that are created from human transmutation so randomly generated?

Essentially, human transmutation was depicted to be impossible to do.

The reason why it doesn't look what they intended it to look like is because they just screwed up that hard.

What they ended up with was something kinda sorta vaguely human, but only barely.

From looking at the picture you've posted, a lot of the pieces of a human are there, but they're not all correctly done and they're not all in the right place. It really doesn't look that random to me; if anything, it looks like a predictable (while still major) screw-up.


What was Armins goal with Annie in Stohess district?

I apologize for sounding blunt, but it seems you may have missed the entire context and purpose for this event.

Was it to figure out if Annie was the FT?

As shown in the previous episodes, it was revealed that Armin already had a suspicion that Annie was the Female Titan, and revealed his theory to the rest of the company. Shortly after this, they had come up with a plan to trap Annie - hence them going to the underground tunnel.

If it's the first one, why did Armin take Annie underground?

This was a ruse to trap her in close quarters. With being in a confined placed, Annie wouldn't have been able to transform into her titan form without risking her own life in the process. As a warrior, her duty was to uphold and complete the mission at hand.

Also was there any significance as to why there were no civilians around?

This was a pre-determined route Armin and company had designed in their efforts to trap Annie. At one point, you see other scouts hiding behind counters, in homes, barrels, etc.... So  no civilians were present because they were likely cleared out ahead of time to prevent casualties in the event something went wrong.


For what I have seen/read, it is never clearly explained how the well actually transports people from the modern age to the Feudal Era. However, the Inuyasha Wikia page on it has a consolidation of observations in regards to who can pass through the well in either direction.

  The only human that is able to travel through the well is Kagome.
  Inuyasha can travel through without any need of the Shikon Jewel; it
  is mostly because of his connection to Kagome that allows him to move
  between the two eras of time.
  Neither Sōta nor Shippō are able to pass through the well; however,
  Sōta's voice could reach Inuyasha for unknown means while Shippō no
  success what so ever.
  Mistress Centipede was killed and sent to the present era without any
  need of the jewel; it is suggested that demon's bones can pass
  through the well. In this case, Mistress Centipede was revived
  because she was near the Shikon no Tama (which was still in Kagome's
  body, unbeknownst to her).
  Yura was able to send her hair to wreak havoc in the future; most
  likely because of the jewel shard she stole.
  Both Sō'unga and Saya were able to pass through without the need of
  the jewel.
  It can be presumed that only certain beings may pass through the
  well; a number of objects have the ability to as well.

Kagome is originally pulled through the well/portal into the Feudal Era by Mistress Centipede.


How many character have similar appearance with Saber (Arturia)? And who are they?

There are plenty of them actually. They're known as Saberface or like MHX said, Arturia Species.

from  Chibichuki!, Saber 4~8. Left to right: Saber Lion, Saber Lily, Saber, Red Saber, Sakura Saber, Saber of Red, Saber Alter, Master Arturia.

Among them there are only seven of Arturia in Nasuverse. They are Saber, Saber Alter, Saber Lily, Lancer, Lancer Alter, Mysterious Heroine X and Berserker Alter.

Arturia Pendragon

Saber and Archer

Saber : The main source of all Saberface. The usual blue Saber, one of the three main heroines of Fate/Stay Night visual novel. Known as the King of Knights, she is a legendary hero of Britain. She wielded the sword from the stone, Caliburn, but it was destroyed and her weapon now are Excalibur and Avalon.

Archer : Saber in swimsuit. Saber found her way to the beach and decided to play with water gun and become Archer-class servant.
Saber Alter and Santa Alter (Rider)

Saber Alter : Also known as Black Saber. She is dark hero version of Arturia Pendragon. She was corrupted by Angra Mainyu.

Santa Alter : Holiday-themed Saber Alter, Rider-class. She own a custom-made sleigh and wore santa outfit complete with a bag full of presents.
Saber Lily

Saber Lily or White Saber. She is a younger version of Saber before she obtain Excalibur and Avalon. In this state, she is known as the Knight Princess. Notice that she use similar but different sword than blue Saber. She was Arturia from after she drew out the sword of selection Caliburn, and had just began walking down the path of a king.
Lancer and Lancer Alter

Lancer : Also known as "Goddess Rhongomyniad". She's alternate version of Arturia where she used holy spear Rhongomyniad instead of Excalibur.

Lancer Alter : Violated by the curse of the Holy Grail. She rejected the Divine Spirit transformation process of Rhongomyniad. She remain known as "Artoria Pendragon" rather than be known as "Goddess Rhongomyniad"
Mysterious Heroine X (Assassin), Ultra Heroine Z, Berserker Alter, and MHXX

Mysterious Heroine X : Arturia tried to hide her identity as Assassin and tasked herself in eliminating all Saberface heroines. She wore cap to hide her identity and ahoge, although it sticks out of the cap.

Ultra Heroine Z : Alter version of Mysterious Heroine X who acts as the antagonist of the "Saber Wars" event.

Berserker Alter : The Anti-Anti-Saber. She's another alter version of Mysterious Heroine X. She use Altereactor to defeat Mysterious Heroine X.

Mysterious Heroine XX : A version of Mysterious Heroine X from further in the future. She is a Foreigner-class Servant and has taken up a job in the Servant Universe that involves hunting down Foreigners. She wields the variant of Rhongomyniad, a double-ended lance Rhongomyniad LR

Arturia look alike

Red Saber, Nero Bride, and Saber Venus

Red Saber : Totally unrelated with Arturia, Red Saber is Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, she was the Fifth Roman Emperor. Also known as Emperor of Roses, she looks awfully similar to Arturia.

Nero Bride : Alternate version of Red Saber in Fate/Grand Order. She wield different Noble Phantasm. She looks similar to Saber Lily with this white wedding dress.

Saber Venus : Alternate version from Fate/Extella through Heroic Spirit Apotheosis. She's the most powerful Servant in Fate/Extella game. She wields Photon Ray.
Saber of Red and Rider

Saber of Red : She is the "son" of Arturia, Mordred, but she is actually female despite being raised as the secret male heir to the throne

Rider : Unlike Arturia, she decided to take on one of her father's treasure, named "Prydwen". It's both ship and shield. And she decided to use it as surf board
Sakura Saber and Devil Saber

Sakura Saber : Okita Souji. She was the captain of the first unit of the Shinsengumi, a special police force in Kyoto during the late shogunate period. She was one of the best swordsmen of the Shinsengumi. But unlike the historic version, this Okita Souji is a female. She resemble Arturia in a lot of ways.

Devil Saber : She is a Counter Guardian formed through Sakura Saber's spiritual foundation taking in a Holy Grail filled with Seven Servants.
Ruler, Avenger, and Joan Alter Lily (Lancer)

Ruler : Gilles de Rais mistook Saber for her. She is Jeanne d'Arc, also known as Joan of Arc, the Saint of Orleans. She is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War.

Avenger : She is a creation of the Holy Grail born from Gilles de Rais's wishes shortly after the execution of Joan in 1431.

Joan Lily : She became young because she drank Gilgamesh's Potion of youth. Named "Joan of Arc Alter Lily", she wore santa outfit.

Gray

Gray is believed to be a distant descendent of Arturia because of her striking resemblance with Saber.
Master Arturia

Unlike all other Saber, she's not a heroic spirit, she's a master from the world of Capsule Servant. She wield a katana.

Others

King Arthur (Saber)

Not exactly Saberface. But he is male version of Arturia. He's a main character of Fate/Prototype.
Saber Lion

Not a servant, nor master. She's a parody version of Saber who acts as the mascot for the Fate/tiger colosseum series. Or pet, if you will. She also appear in Carnival Phantasm.

Saber Class Card

From Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA. Arturia power was installed to Miyu with blue Saber outfit and Illya with Saber Lily outfit. When manifested, Saber takes form as Saber Alter.

Artoria Pendragon

Came from Tsukihime spin-off of Melty Blood, Hana no Miyako, Artoria in this series is a trap.


Why are most isekai happening in a medieval world?

I think you might have landed in a category of Isekai novels where Medieval influence is more prevalent. As a avid reader of Isekai's myself, I can confirm that there are also plenty of Isekai's available that do not draw from the medieval ages, but focus more on other eras or even on far more futuristic worlds.
However, as you validly point out, medieval influence can be found in in a lot of media, including video games, board games, manga, and of course novels. However, more often than not, those are not truly set in the medieval time period. They just tend to build upon the concepts of the medieval age, for example feudalism, and build their society around these concepts, all the while introducing their own mechanics such as fantasy races, magic, geo/demo-graphics etc.
This way of story writing is quite common in the the fantasy genre, and even more often so in the sub genre high-fantasy. Which, quite a lot of the Isekai's would fall under.
One of the reasons this happens is because it eases the burden on the writer but also the reader.

Rather than create an entirely different world that readers will recognize as alien, it's often simpler to revert to more primitive times, and simply add in magic when its existence doesn't require you to create a dozen centuries of magitech. It's a lot of work for the writer, and it may confuse or alienate the reader.
- Jerenda @ Worldbuilding.SE

Additionally, the introduction of factors such as magic might also reduces the need for a society to evolve beyond the Medieval era, or at least, not in the same way as our society did. Why would a magic world be stuck in medieval times?
Most of the Isekai's that I personally encounter also tend to follow the High-Fantasy medieval settings. But occasionally I see a twist of Heroic Fantasy, Low Fantasy, Dark Fantasy and sometimes even Grimdark Isekai's.
To name a few:

Youjo senki set in a world war 1/2 era (reincarnated as a war prodigy)
Mezametara saikyou sobi set in a sci-fi space setting (reincarnated in a spaceship)
Musou Kouro ~ Tensei Shite, Uchuu Senkan no AI ni Narimashita set in a sci-fi space setting (reincarnated as an spaceship AI)
A returners magic should be special set in a relatively modern magical world (reincarnated/returned in their own world/timeline)
Moshi fanren a modern day world struck by a zombie apocalypse from space (reincarnated/returned in their own world/timeline)


How does the Elementary School Principal get away with so much?

Everything I found is this:

  He is known to cause countless chaos to the academy without leaving enough proof for his actions, which explains why he has never been punished.

Source: http://gakuenalice.wikia.com/wiki/Kuonji


How does Griffith's dream have anything to do with becoming a demon lord?

If you recall in (the original run of) the anime, they call the Behelit the "Egg of the King". There are other Behelits too. In the manga, something similar happens to many other people. Typically, a demon in disguise intervenes when someone is down on their luck and gives them the Behelit. The Behelit warps their fate, giving them everything they wanted. Eventually, fate twists violently and brings them back to despair. When their blood comes in contact with the Behelit (which tends to happen at this low point), the God Hand appears and offers to grant a wish in exchange for a sacrifice. This process turns them into monsters known as Apostles. It's heavily implied that something like this previously happened to the Snake Baron in the first episode of the anime, as well as all the monsters in the last episode. It's been a while since I've read it, so the details may be off a little.

Basically the Behelits are human bait, leading people into situations where they will lust for power enough to embrace being a demon. Griffith's dreams and fate were also manipulated, or at the very least the darkness in his heart was cultivated until he chose the outcome.

The entire anime is just a small part of the entire storyline. It was canceled for obvious reasons.


What does "Elohim, Essaim... Elohim, Essaim I implore you" mean?

Both of the words "Elohim" and "Essaim" could be meaning a variety of things.   But my speculation goes as follows:
From this Reddit thread:

A similar phrase occurs in the Book of Black Magic and in the
Italian Il Grand Grimoire.   A couple translations and
transcriptions later, we end up with this.
"Eloim" is "God" or
"Powers", "Essaim" might be "Locusts" or "Swarm".
I'm thinking that
she's offering her soul to the devil/the angels/god in exchange for
being able to captivate her audience.
This isn't Faust; it's not a serious treatment of pacts. The Japanese adore Christian mythology, similar to how the West adores Eastern mythology. In effect, she's doing the same thing as someone in a Western work invoking his "chi" or whatever. (It's shōnen; teenage boys love foreign mysticism.)


What is Azula doing differently which causes her fire to be Blue?

So I'm going to get all physics-y here, but bear with me.

Thinking in terms of real world physics, some flames will burn blue depending in what it is that you're burning. Certain elements burn blue, other burn green, etc. The reason for this is a little bit long, so I won't write it here. This wouldn't be the case with Azula, since we can almost definitely inffer that she's burning the same thing every other firebender burns: the particles in the air.

So why are her flames blue? Basically, the color of something you see relates to the frequency of the light coming from the object, which is directly proportional to how much eletromagnetic energy that thing is emitting. Basically, red light has low frequency (low energy) and blue light has high frequency (high energy). So if something burns blue, it means it is being burned with lots of energy: AKA it's really fucking hot.

So to summarize: Azula's fire if blue because it burns hotter, which follows along well with the whole "she's a genius" thing.

You can also think of it from an emotional view point: since lightning is called "fire without heart", maybe you could think that Azula's fire being blue relates to that. Since she is quite heartless and mentally deranged, her emotional state is shown via her flames' colors.


Why didn't Cell teleport to Earth after his death?

When Cell was killed by Gohan, he was just that, killed. He was actually dead this time, and was sent to King Yama to be judged. Once you're dead, you can't just teleport back to Earth. You have to either be revived or given temporary rights to be in the physical world. As Cell met neither of these requirements, he had no way to go back to Earth, using Instant Transmission or otherwise, since there is concept of Heaven and Hell in the Otherworld: once a person is sent to Hell, he cannot just come out unless he is purified or the boundaries of Hell itself are broken by other means. Which is why Goku was able to bend the rules of Otherworld but the evil characters could not.


Did Saori also have feelings for Kyousuke?

IIRC, in the light novel, Saori never confessed to Kyousuke, nor in the anime. Saori did insisted that she's the best to take care of Kyousuke like you mentioned. But this seems more like she did that so that she stays true to her Saori Bajeena character, rather than a real romantic feelings towards Kyousuke.

The possible reason for this is that at that time, all the other girls insisted on taking care of Kyousuke. It fits Saori Bajeena's cheerful persona more if she were to also join the fray rather than staying quiet.

Another possibility for her behavior was that at that time there were Kuroneko and Kanako competing for the position. Saori surely knows who they are to Kirino. Were Kirino to choose either one, the other is surely to be hurt. Saori proposed herself so that Kirino won't be troubled choosing between the two (three if you count Manami, but Kirino won't choose her anyway).

It should be noted that in the end Kirino chose Ayase instead of Saori. Possibly because Kiririn felt that Saori is also attracted to Kyousuke. This is not likely though, since Ayase actually has a feeling towards Kyousuke and she still chose her.

Source: I read the novel.


What were the contents of the letter that Kirika didn't want Shirabe to read?

Well, it turns out that the B-side of Kirika's character song album for Symphogear G is a song called 手紙 "Letter". It wasn't used in-show, at least not during G - it doesn't make much sense as a battle song, and Kirika didn't do any singing outside battle (ORBITAL BEAT cover in episode 5 notwithstanding).

The lyrics for the song include three segments that are enquoted (in 「」), and have part of the structure of a formal Japanese letter, beginning with the salutation haikei. I think that it is reasonable to construe these enquoted segments as being the contents of the letter that appeared in the special episode (zoid9000, Symphogear fan extraordinaire, agrees).

Alas, it is nightmarishly difficult to render those segments into English, for the reasons zoid9000 points out in his translation of the song (tl;dr it's really Kirika-esque). His translation is a bit stolid for a song sung in Kirika's voice, but I doubt that I could really do any better, so I'm just going to mirror the enquoted segments over here, which should give you a good feel for how it plays out:

  「dear everyone, um, what should I say?
  Thanks for giving me a place to hold on to with these hands that’ve gotten chilly. ☆^(o≧∀≦)o
  I pray that one day this whole world will be happy, then let’s laugh! 」

  「Daer god, um, hello it’s nice to meet you.
  If I am to disappear, I leave everyone in your hands.ヽ(>□<)ノ
  Please plant a big garden with flowurs that spell out the words “thank you”….」

  「Dear Everyone, something like this is…well,
  This is something I’m no good at, but if I can just pass it on
  Rainbows, the wind, time, the sun, all that encompassing warmth
  I really love it…I truly loved it very much (p〃Д〃q)
  I pray that one day this whole world will be happy, then let’s laugh! 」

zoid9000 explains his translation choices in another post, though I think that it's still going to be difficult for the non-Japanese-reader to fully understand everything that's going on here.

Anyway, it is not difficult to see why Kirika might have been embarrassed if Shirabe had read this.


Which chapter of the manga version of Hyouka corresponds to the last episode of anime?

As of 26 October 2017, the manga consisted of 11 volumes and was still on-going.

Regarding the corresponding chapter to the last episode of the anime (episode 22: "The Hina Doll that Took a Detour"), as of February 2018, the answer is not yet, but possibly will be in volume 12.

As a matter of fact, Hyouka is originally a light novel series. Both the anime and the manga were based on it.

For reference, these are the current 6 volumes of the light novel (from Wikipedia):

Hyōka
Closing Credits of the Fool
The Order of Kudryavka
The Hina Doll that Took a Detour (compilation of short stories)
The Approximation of the Distance of Two
Even Though I'm Told I Now Have Wings (compilation of short stories)

The anime's order (from Japanese Wikipedia):

Episode 1:

Part A: Hyōka (1)
Part B: The Hina Doll that Took a Detour (4)

Episode 2-5: Hyōka (1)
Episode 6-7: The Hina Doll that Took a Detour (4)
Episode 8-11: Closing Credits of the Fool (2)
Episode 11.5 (OVA): anime original story
Episode 12-17: The Order of Kudryavka (3)
Episode 18: Even Though I'm Told I Now Have Wings (6)
Episode 19-22: The Hina Doll that Took a Detour (4)

And for the manga (from Japanese Wikipedia):

Volume 1: Hyōka (1), The Hina Doll that Took a Detour (4)
Volume 2: Hyōka (1), The Hina Doll that Took a Detour (4)
Volume 3: Hyōka (1), The Hina Doll that Took a Detour (4), Closing Credits of the Fool (2)
Volume 4-5: Closing Credits of the Fool (2)
Volume 6: Anime ch. 11.5 (OVA), The Order of Kudryavka (3)
Volume 7-9: The Order of Kudryavka (3)
Volume 10: The Order of Kudryavka (3), Even Though I'm Told I Now Have Wings (6), The Hina Doll that Took a Detour (4)
Volume 11: The Hina Doll that Took a Detour (4)

For comparison, volume 11 consists of:

Chapter 43: Christmas in the Box
Chapter 44: Sappy New Year (1)
Chapter 45: Sappy New Year (2)
Chapter 46: The Homemade Chocolates Case

and the last 4 episodes (from Wikipedia) are:

Episode 19: Anyone Who Knows
Episode 20: Sappy New Year
Episode 21: The Homemade Chocolates Case
Episode 22: The Hina Doll that Took a Detour


1. Can normal titans dig the ground?

Yes, they can. In Season 2 Episode 10 we see

   Ymir digging herself out of the ground as a pure titan.

2. So why none of them tried digging a tunnel in the ground to pass the walls?

In Season 1 Episode 25 at around 15 minutes the intermission cards state the following (synopsis):

   Once a miner tried to dig under wall Sheena. At some point, however,
 the ground was so hard that his shovel broke. He wondered if the
 people were surrounded by walls not only above the ground, but below
 the ground, too.

 The next day the miner disappeared and was no longer findable. Unsure
 what to do, his friend eventually went to the Garrison, and told them
 the whole Story. The Military Police and the Garrison
 organized a large-scale search party. But they never found a trace of
 the miner, nor even the pit he'd dug. And one day, his friend also
 vanished, never to be seen again.

From this we can conclude that titans cannot get past the walls through digging.


Which chapter of the manga does Season 1 of Dr Stone anime end in?

Weebchan was correct, to save you a few second it ends on middle of 60. So start from there, but starting from 61 like Weebchan said is also correct since there is not anything important in the second half of 60.


Is Fate/Apocrypha sequel of Unlimited Blade Works?

According to the MAL page, Fate/Apocrypha is set in a parallel world to the Fate/stay night series.

(First sentence of the synopsis):

   The setting is a parallel world to Fate/stay night where the Greater Grail mysteriously disappeared from Fuyuki after the Third Holy Grail War.

You only need to have watched the original series, in this case. Apocrypha is not particularly important to the series.

(Also see Senshin's answer for the full order)


Why are child pilots used in the first place?

Heavy spoilers for the original series:

But if after a decade you haven't still watched the original series, blame on you.

TL;DR:

   Because their moms' souls are what makes the EVA alive. And the EVA activates when the child (pilot) is placed inside the womb (entry plug).

Since the background story is the same for the rebuild movies, we can assume this is unchanged for rebuild.


He used both ice and fire in the last attack. However Midoriya dodged the ice attack. Also it's important to note that he never contacted with fire attack too. The impact(destruction of concrete walls with both quirks) was just so powerful to push him out of area while thanks to ice wall Todoroki was able to stay.

Also it's not asked directly but I want to tell why Todoroki's father knows about the limit. However this is a major spoiler from latest chapters.

   Todoroki's father has a limit too. He can't use too much fire since it harms his body. It's clear that he has much higher resistance to fire than normal person but there is a limit to this. That is why Todoroki is perfect for him. He can balance the effects of ice with fire and fire with ice.


What type of government structure exists in Shingeki no Kyojin?

Seeing as there are mentions of a royal family being inside Wall Sina, it's safe to assume that the government is monarchical in nature. However, I am leaning towards a monarchical-parliamentary style, rather than just pure monarchical or parliament. Reason being, even with hints at a king being the head, the actions alone of the various commanders belie an amazing level of independence. In addition, it's been seen a couple of times that they can be summoned and tried in a public court, a trait that is definitely not purely monarchical in nature (as kings alone judge in that event). The  voting system to approve a course of action mirrors a parliamentary set-up as well.


Could the Founding Titan free Annie from her hardened cocoon?

This is explained in chapter 124 of the manga, when

   Eren ―having the founding titan powers― lets out a huge roar, which was a command for all hardened titans to break their cocoon and thus Annie breaks out of her cocoon as well.

Another way for the cocoon to break was with the help of

   the Jaw Titan, as it has enough jaw power to smash open the cocoon, just like when Eren defeats the War Hammer Titan this way.


Because she is a witch. There's a lore that says witch maintaining her magical power by avoiding anything that touch her body (yes, including clothes).

From developer commentary (taken from SEGA NETWORKSの全て - 2013.12.9)

(Image courtesy of an anonymous Chain Chronicle Japanese Wiki user No.76956554)

  ファティマは魔女という存在の象徴として用意しています。
  そのため、女性の魔法使いはたくさんいても、魔女という称号を持っているのは彼女だけなんです。
  それから魔女というのは、生まれたままの姿から体を一切いじらないことで魔力を保つという話がありまして。
  そんな話をしていたら、HACCANさんから全裸のラフが来たんです。
  服を着ているものもあったのですが、魔女のバックボーンを生かす究極だなと思ったので、この姿に決定しちゃいました。

  I prepared Fatima as a symbol of witch's existential.
  For that reason, even though there are many female magic users, Fatima is the only one bearing a title of 'witch'.
  After that, regarding the witch itself, there's a story about them maintaining their magical power by avoiding anything that touch their body.
  With that background, there's a rough draft of her naked coming from HACCAN (the artist).
  There's also one with clothes on, but since I needed to specially make use of witch's backbone(?), I decided to use this (naked) one.

  (Translated by myself, feel free to improve it)

Reference: Golden Witch Fatima - Chain Chronicle Japanese Wiki


Did the girl who died 26 years ago exist in the same way as the extras?

It's a good question.

I think the class just see her ghost. In fact, the ghost of Misaki felt herself loved and so she stayed all the schoolar year. But this fact created a curse, death people (extras) came to the class the next years to feel like Misaki and when the natural numerical balance of student broke, people started to dying.

That's what I understood when I saw the anime.


Which shows predate Sword Art Online that have the same basic plot? The most similar anime show I could ever find (protagonist trapped in MMORPG world) is .hack//Sign Protagonist wakes up with slight amnesia in MMORPG world and tries to find answers as to what happened to him and why he can't log out of the game. It was released on April 4 2002 (an early version of the first volume of SAO was supposedly made around 2001, .hack//Sign started development in as early as 2000).

There are plenty of other isekai manga, anime and light novel earlier than SAO but I can't seem to find another one that is as close other than .hack//Sign as of now.

Has Reki Kawahara ever said that he drew inspiration from a particular show? It was not directly stated by him but according from a biography of him that I found, it was mentioned that Kawahara liked playing games.

  Kawahara would often head to the arcade with his fellow members to play fighting games. He also started playing online games in 1998, starting with Ultima Online. Kawahara also played Ragnarok Online, his most played game (although he stated World of Warcraft during Sakura-Con 2013), and Phantasy Star Online.

From this, we can say that his time playing these games could possibly have an influence to SAO, which is in a similar setting. It was not mentioned that he was influenced by anime shows when he wrote SAO. It was, however, mentioned, on the same biography, that he was inspired by some works when he wrote Accel World.

  In 2008, Kawahara decided to write again for the Dengeki Light Novel Award with Kyouzetsu Kasoku Burst Linker. He reapplied because he was inspired by all the works he read from Media Works Inc., such as Tokyo Shadow and Those who Hunt Elves.


Who is this person with four eyes in OP song?

I'm not sure how much further the anime series but he looks like this guy,

 He's Gotoh (link contain spoiler), he's the mayor's confidant and the most powerful parasite of the series


How closely does the Saiunkoku Monogatari anime series follow the light novels?

Attention! Spoilers!

   Are there differences between the novels and the anime? In a word, yes. I try to note these in the summaries. In the first season, the differences are relatively minor. Some minor subplots have been eliminated, or switched around, and some scenes added or subtracted. In the second season, although the major events and plotlines remain the same, some of the foreshadowing for later events has been cut. For this reason, I advise you to read the summaries from volume 9-10 on, if you are interested in understanding the post anime events. I have also tried to do translations of scenes that were altered or entirely cut from the anime which change our understanding of the characters and political situation.

Source: https://saiun.wordpress.com/2007/08/05/frequently-asked-questions-about-saiunkoku/


Why did the anime stop having ending songs since episode 279?

I don't think any official explanations were given (I tried to search but there are only speculations).

I think the most probable reason is the fact that when you're watching broadcasts on TV, as soon as the ending theme song pops up you change to another channel. Almost nobody watches the ending credits/openings and this is true also for other things. Think about when you go to the movies: when the credits starts rolling, is there someone that will stay sit there? Maybe, but that's quite rare. Same for movies on TV, you usually change it because... you really don't care, unless you need to look up some actor/character in those rare occasions.

For this reason, and I'm quite convinced this is the case, they cut the ending theme song, made the opening longer and put the credits there instead. More people are likely to watch it, not just those that like the song, but also once you get to the channel, you're less likely to change it just because it hasn't started yet.

Along with the recap, this makes the "opening part" much longer, even cutting from the usual ~24 minutes of actual episode time.


Who is Mizuki in SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:mizuki?

The mizuki in question is this mizuki. Her personal blogs (in Japanese) are ５６番線 on ameblo and note.mu/mizuaoi. Her Twitter handle is @mizukizuiaoi.

  Or is she just only producing music under the name SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:mizuki?

She seems to be the vocalist for the band "Itsue", where she is also known by the single name "mizuki" (but it's written in Japanese as 瑞葵 there). Their YouTube channel has a few of their songs, which have vocals by her. Their discography page has links to purchase more of their music, if you're interested.

  Or does she go by a full name that got omitted in SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:mizuki or a completely different one?

She doesn't seem to go by a full (two-part) name in any of her public appearances. This isn't terribly surprising; I get the impression that pseudonym among Japanese music artists is fairly common.

  So does the Mizuki in question go by the name "Mizuki", in which case, any tips for differentiating her from other singers with "Mizuki" in their names?

Your best bets are probably to search for things like "nzk mizuki" (for her stuff co-produced with Sawano, which at present is just the Aldnoah.Zero stuff) or "itsue mizuki" (for her band work; in Japanese, "イツエ 瑞葵").


It's possible that it may be Yume Kuonji, the pink haired girl from Kimi ga Aruji de Shitsuji ga Ore de, the other visual novel from MinatoSoft, the maker of Majikoi. There's a lot of various character designs and the character on the T-Shirt could just be a stylized version of Yume. It's hard to tell from the screenshot above, but you can see in the other screen shot the ahoge, single strand of pink hair that's part of Yume's design.


Is the description to an anime/manga copyrighted?

For legal questions such as these, it is always good to contact a copyright lawyer in your country. Laws regarding fair use, copyrights and the likes differ per country, and a copyright lawyer should be more than capable of answering your questions. And this answer should not be seen as legal advice.
As Turamarth points out in the comments, the cover image part is covered in my answer Do websites need to pay for using anime posters on their website?.
In general you are free to summarize and create synopsis. If you do so without quoting the original, in most cases you should be ok. As it is not the plot of a story that the copyright applies to, but the composition/arrangement of words.
However if these summaries do make use of original sources material, they could be tested for fair use, and ultimately considered a derivative work. Which can be considered a subsidiary right under the original copyright. Which would require you to obtain a license.
In regards to the 'copy-pasting' from 'a' source with proper mention of it's origin, you will have to look into the licensing of the particular origin you are copy pasting it from. Usually you can find this information at the footer of a page, or on their legal pages. As an example, wikipedia states the following license on the sword art online wiki page

Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.

Where the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License clearly states you are free to do things with the information under a set of conditions


Why aren't Kyuubi and Naruto real allies?

If by "Naruto Vanilla" you mean the manga, then

   Naruto and the Kyuubi actually did become allies in the later parts of the manga. As it turned out, just about all the Tailed Beasts, including Kyuubi, were mistreated and abused by humans, so they distrusted and disliked humans. That's why Kyuubi wasn't that friendly to Naruto, or at least at first.


Nightmare song (track #3)

Track #3 is "Mada Dame Yo", which you said you found lyrics for.

  "Dream world" [#25]
  "the worst ending" [#33]
  "I was waiting for this moment" [#40]

The lyrics for these are in Kajiuran (cf. this answer), which is not an actual language. Lyrics for pieces in Kajiuran are typically not released (though even if they were, you couldn't translate them, because, you know, it's not a language).

  Mami's fight scene
  Mami's remixed theme

If you can point me to the track numbers or titles for these, I can check on them (I don't remember off-hand which ones these were). Odds are, though, these are also in Kajiuran.

  "Noi!" [#32]

The lyrics for this one are also not a real language. I would hesitate to call it "Kajiuran", just because it seems a lot more Germanic-inspired and less Romance-inspired than her usual stuff, but anyway, you're not going to find lyrics for this one either.


Why are Fairy Tail and Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest separate series?

From storyline point of view, the whole Fairy Tail story was about the dragon slayers, the magic dragon Acnologia and the black mage Zeref. It has already been completed in the main story. Zeref was defeated by Natsu, so is Acnologia.

The 100 years quest has pretty much a whole different story that has nothing to do with Zeref and Acnologia. Thus, adding it to the main story as a new arc would be awkward because the bridging between the new arc and the previous arc will be very narrow.


What is this song from Episode 78 of Hunter X Hunter?

its not a OST soundtrack since in episode 78 like you said, its not in the link below for the 2011 hxh OST list. If it was, it would be in between these times
11:25-12:04 : Nowhere to Escape (O3 - T13)
and
12:57-13:38 : The Stalwart's Glaring (O1 - T12)
https://sites.google.com/site/hxh2011ostlist/arcs/6-chimera-ant-arc
so what im saying is im not sure how you could find it, but its not an original sound track for sure, so you wont be looking there


Questions about nationalities and languages in Death Note

At least for L, his official profile says that he's fluent in Japanese, Chinese, English, German, French and Russian. I wouldn't be surprised if the other high-IQ guys were multilingual as well.
The author says L is quarter Japanese, and since he has black hair and black eyes, introducing L as Japanese shouldn't be that strange, I guess.
Again, at least for L, his profile says he's British (イギリス国籍).
Dunno.


How do Celestial spirits have any time to recover while in the spirit world?

This seems like a very minor plot hole. I say plot hole because, as long a the author doesn't explain it, it's fair to assume that he didn't realize it.

On the other hand, any future explanation could be something like "Since they are spirits in the spirit world, they regenerate very quickly any loss of health or stamina when they stay there. That kind of improvised explanation would efficiently retroactively fix everything and would no longer be a plot hole because it "sounds obvious".

The author might also already have this explanation (or another similar one), but is holding it until the time seems right, because most characters in fairy tail are very dumb for the sake of comedy, so they probably wouldn't think about such matters and nobody would be surprised they didn't. As for the few smart characters, they could think it is general knowledge and never bothered mentioning it yet.


Which philosopher was Jonathan named after?

Assuming that all the chickens are related to Touko's friends, it becomes quite obvious who Jonathan is meant to represent.

Kakeru reminds Touko of Michelangelo's "David" and is often referred to by that name. In the Biblical story of David, his best friend is a man named Jonathan.

Jonathan is not a philosopher, but in the same way, Kakeru is not friends with Touko's other friends. It separates him from the others and Touko does pay more attention to that chicken.


Does Kaguya Otsutsuki have universal level power?

With the consumption of the Shinju (Divine Tree) Kaguya achieved god like powers in the matter of seconds, and was even known to her people as the "Rabbit Goddess." Although it is not stated in the manga or anime that Kaguya can create and destroy universes, it is shown that she has god-like power, and can shift dimensions at will.
According to https://naruto.fandom.com:

Kaguya has the ability to travel between any of her six dimensions as she sees fit. The dimension were noted by Obito to be very far from each other and he had a hard time believing she could join these dimensions in an instant.

Kaguya Otsutsuki has also showcased the ability to take not only herself, but multiple people to the dimension with her in an instant. She has also been able to make Gudodama (Truth-Seeking Orbs) the size of an average Planetary Devastation. She is feared as one of the strongest Otsutsuki in existence, also feared as the strongest shinobi to ever live. Even Naruto and Sasuke, one of the strongest ninja to date, had a hard time sealing her even with the power of the Sage of Six Paths.
Also do not forget she has the powers of Byakugan as well as Rinne-Sharingan. Her power is very great and she can probably destroy the Moon, or another planet. Although I don't think she can destroy a universe.


An anime from the 70's or 80's which had a scene of a large guy gunning down teddy bears

It's Space Firebird 2772 (1980). That scene made a big impression on me as a kid too! Great movie, worth re-watching as an adult.

The scene is around 15 minutes into the movie:


It is symbolic.  In this scene, he is cleaning his weapons.  In Gusseppie's mind, Ein is not human, she is a weapon.  An inanimate object, and in the same way he cares for is ruger, he cares for Ein.  While I don't think he was literally rubbing her down in weapons lubricant or copper solvent, I believe the intent was the same.


What is the song playing during Midorya and Bakugo's fight?

Its name is United States of Smash, although the one used in Bakugo and Midoriya's fight is just a small part of the complete original track.

Link


Yes, this does mirror how Japan marks the test papers of students. Let's see an example each of a marked test paper in anime and in real life Japan:

Circles and crosses indicate right and wrong answers, but you'll often see check marks used in place of crosses to save time and effort. Check marks are sometimes called reten for bearing resemblance to the katakana re, but should not be confused with the return marker reten that annotate Classical Chinese. Check marks call forth the attention of students to incorrect answers, which they should check again.

The check mark as an error mark also sees usage in countries like Korea and Sweden, but as you can gather from the discussions on Reddit and Wikipedia, there really is no universal standard for marking right and wrong answers even within a country. The graders may choose whatever the mark they want. My teachers in school thought that ticking off wrong answers wastes too much ink, so they just cheaply impressed a dot by the wrong answers.

Occasionally, you might also encounter the flower circle, double circle and triangle marks, which denote, respectively, perfect, good and average (poor) work done by the students.


What happened in the final episode of the Evangelion TV series, titled "Take care of yourself"?

It's a little disguised, but the overall meaning is not too complicated.

   Thought the whole series, Shinji was struggling, because he has made a
 shell to cover himself, not to expose his feelings and fears. Shinji
 had (as we all do, probably) a lot of things that were bothering him
 inside: the relationship with his father, the desire to find a place
 in this world, and so on and so forth, questions like "who am I?",
 "what am I supposed to be?", "what do I want to become?", "how other
 people see me?".
 Finally, Shinji views the world, and himself, in thge comedic high
 school setting with other characters talking to him, trying to help
 him answer all those questions. It's something like a visit to a psychotherapist, where the role of the psychotherapist is taken by all the people he knew. Finally, they help him to destroy his
 shell. He realizes his self-worth. He realizes that he can live the
 life without Eva, and make it worth living. He manages to acquire the
 will to live, which he was lacking before.


A simple google search returns the following:

  Age

  28 (about 33 end of series)

Source: http://kenshin.wikia.com/wiki/Himura_Kenshin


What is this song in episode 2 of Tokyo Ghoul: Root A?

The song is called Kriminalbeamte by Yamada Yutaka. You can find it on the Tokyo Ghoul Original Soundtrack. (Disc 1, Track 9) If you want the soundtrack you can get it at CDJapan.co.jp.

Was not easy to track down since Investigator Takizawa wouldn't shut his mouth through the quiet music! lol


Speaking from the view of someone who completed the game and watched the original anime. Teddy is basically a walking anomaly as he's a

   Shadow who became human after interacting more with people

Because of this his ego manifested reversely. In Persona 3 the concept of a controllable ego was something that only a select few people had.

However in Persona 4 all who enter the tv world must confront their ego and accept it in order to manifest a persona. Most people are killed by their ego instead.

Teddy, as he interacted more with the protagonist and the investigation team slowly began to ask himself things he never did before:

Who am I?
What am I?
Why am I here?
Where did I come from?

He slowly but surely realized the simple fact of what he was but refused to accept it. Because of that inner conflict he discovered his own alter ego which manifested and after accepting it he learned to wield the power of persona.

Most people fight to discover their inner-self he fought because he already knew his inner self and wanted to be different.

Because of that he along with Naoto and kanji has one of the 3 most interesting inner-conflict that is portrayed marvelously in his character development in spite of him being a "joke" character.

In respect to your last comment about Izanami, because of Teddie's origination it makes sense to infer that he had a closer connection to Izanami than the other character's shadows so the wordplay by both dialogues adds credibility to that hypothesis.


Is Misa Amane's early death a plothole in Death Note?

It isn't a plothole. There's a rule in the Death Note that specifically covers this.

  The use of the Death Note in the human world sometimes affects other human's lives or shortens their original life-span, even though their names are not actually written in the Death Note itself. In these cases, no matter the cause, the god of death sees only the original life-span and not the shortened life-span.

(Source: Volume 8 of the manga)

Short Answer: It doesn't matter how much time Misa gained from the shinigami, or how much she lost from halving her lifespan. Every time someone relevant to your fate is killed by the Death Note, the future changes and your lifespan is recalculated.

Misa was living for the sake of Light. Light was killed by the Death Note. It would have been strange if her recalculated lifespan hadn't been dramatically shorter than before.

The fact she died on Valentine's Day in the year following Light's death strongly suggests she committed suicide because he was dead. This is also shown at the end of the anime.

Longer Answer: The same way killing a murderer with the Death Note can extend the lives of their future victims, killing someone with the Death Note can shorten the lives of their loved ones.

We see both of these examples take place with Misa. Her life had ended with the mugging, but she was indirectly allowed to keep living by the Death Note. Later, she had a long life ahead of her, but the Death Note indirectly gave her a premature death.

The best part of this rule is the last sentence: "In these cases, no matter the cause, the god of death sees only the original lifespan and not the shortened lifespan."

So basically, the lifespans that shinigami see aren't reliably accurate. They can only see the person's original lifespan. If the Death Note indirectly decreases someone's lifespan, that person's visible lifespan won't change.

This rule was most likely created by the author just to help ensure there wouldn't be any plotholes.

Note: This only holds true for the Death Note indirectly shortening people's lives. The user's original lifespan will still visibly decrease if they trade half their lifespan for shinigami eyes (as shown when Rem is reunited with Misa, as she is able to tell that Misa traded half her lifespan again).

The user's lifespan will also visibly increase if the Death Note indirectly lengthens someone's lifespan. Rule LIX states:

  A human death caused by the Death Note will indirectly lengthen some other human’s original length of life even without a specific intention to lengthen a particular person’s original life span in the human world.

(Source: Volume 10 of the manga)

The rule about shortened lifespans, rule XLII, is the only rule which states that "in these cases" the shinigami can't see the correct lifespan. There is never any mention of this regarding lengthened lifespans.


How much of the Yumekui Merry manga was adapted into the anime?

In this case, the manga and anime really weren't very close at all. The most reasonable place to say that the anime ended is at the end of chapter 12 (i.e. the end of volume 2). The manga volume 2 ends with Yumeji learning about Engi and Yui. Almost everything after that in the anime is original. Even before that, there are several very significant changes, so  I recommend rather than starting at volume 3, read from the beginning if you want to read the manga, or else you'll probably end up confused.


How did Yagura Karatachi / Fourth Mizukage survive Itachi's Amaterasu?

Canonically speaking, Amaterasu is not able to burn through the tailed beast's cloak (see spoiler image below). The beast's Chakra protects them from the effects. This is shown in Naruto Chapter 697
While the scene you are asking about is partially filler, we do know some elements about both Amaterasu and the beast's cloak that can provide an answer.
Beast Cloak
The tailed beast's cloak, while active, provides raid healing effects. So while Yagura is in the beast form, the beast's chakra was constantly healing while Amaterasu was burning. Eventually Amaterasu's power overtook Yagura's beast forum, thus forcing him to revert back his human state.
Amaterasu
When Amaterasu is active, there are only a handful of methods to extinguish the flames. It will eventually burn out after 7 days and nights or if the user recalls the flames; whichever comes first. So after Yagura reverted back to his human state, Itachi put out the flames to not actually kill him, but to immobilize him.


Who is the sixth girl we see on screen during Listen?

I believe it's still Mio. as you said she looks like Mio but also if we look at the cover artwork for the album

Source: K-On Wiki

we see the other girl is Mio's shadow suggesting some connection to Mio while Mio's Gallery lists her as her "doppelgänger"


Why Tsukasa didnt kill Senku and his friends in episode 3?

Tsukasa didn't kill Senku and his friends because he doesn't know how to revive humans. So otherwise he would be alone.


Who are the twins in Episode 1 of Durarara!!x2 Shou?

They're Orihara Izaya's little sisters,
 Mairu and
Kukuri

They appeared in the special in the first season.


It's Anime because it's made in Japan, and (generally) made for Japanese people.

Cartoons are animations in a broader sense, and as such, Anime is a form of Cartoon.
Made in Japan.

http://myanimelist.net/anime/4936/Ninja_Hattori-kun

It lies in the rating of the show and its targeted audience to determine what can be shown to viewers, low violence doesn't make something a Cartoon if that's what you mean.


Danzo was using Shisui's eye. Check out the episode with the 5 Kage summit where he is influencing the other Kages to vote for him as the leader of the summit.

Danzo knew about the power of Shisui's sharingan, but was also aware about its awakening period, i.e Danzo could not always use Shisui's sharingan due to the immense power of the jutsu (Kotoamatsukami) that Danzo was using.

Also, that might be the reason he took karin as hostage.


How to start the Berserk manga, should I bother with chapters 000a and 000b?

The Golden Age arc covers volume 3 to 14, starting with "Golden Age" and ending on "He who hunts Dragons."

Chapter 0 is the "draft" of what is now the main series, that the author did in college and is considered non-canon.


Why does Brad Pitt cameo in these manga?

According here, cameo/cross-over/parody of a anime character from another anime or a real celebrity is done for several reasons..

  Sometimes a character's entire shtick will be that he or she is a
  thinly disguised imitation of some celebrity somewhere. The more
  blatant examples will often have a parody of that celebrity's name.
  This can be done for various reasons, such as to serve as a homage
  and/or parody, to make a point using the character, or simply because the writers think that it would be cool.
  Though some consider it done because the writers are out of ideas.

The reasons mentioned above can be the reason why Brad Pitt appeared as a cameo in both Yakitate Japan! and Arakawa Under the Bridge. Actually, Brad Pitt isn't the only celebrity/character parodied in Yakitate, as stated in the link given above.

Michael Schumacher doing an Initial D before going to Formula One.
Azuma mistaking Lake Iglesia with Julio Iglesias.
Kaiser's fans behaving like the Detroit Tigers fans?
One of Kuroyanagi's overblown pun-based reactions to tasting a turtle-shaped dessert has him turning into Gamera, the giant, flying, fire-breathing turtle kaiju.
Episode 68 appears to be a Lord of the Rings parody... with cooking.
One of the earlier episodes has the manager Matsushiro pulling a Kenshiro (Fist of the North Star) on Kawachi. Matsushiro Ken -> Kenshiro? It makes sense! 'Omae mo hatsuga suru' note
The Black Tri-Stars from Mobile Suit Gundam show up as three expert bakers from St. Pierre's Kyūshū branch. They tasted Kazuma's Black Ja-pan and had a reaction where they fought the Nobel Gundam from G Gundam which was piloted by Yukino (and had a caption reminding people they were still watching Yakitate!! Japan. ) They quit after the reaction.
In one episode, Pierrot eats "Alexandria" Egyptian Bread, with Kodaimai Miso flavoring and turns into Detective Conan.
In another episode, Kuroyanagi turns into Super Kuroyanagi (a parody of Super Sayain) by eating Takumi Tsubodzuka's Super Toro Aburi. He fights Kawachi in a DBZ-style fight. He turns into Super Kuroyanagi 2 (a parody of Super Sayain 2) and Super Kuroyanagi 3 (a parody of Super Sayain 3) as a result of eating Urchin-roe Chawanmushi bread.
In another episode, Kuroynagi turns into a parody of Monkey D. Luffy by eating Kazuma Azuma's Ōkuchi Wafuu (Japanese-style) Ja-pan Man.
Kawachi Kyousuke tries some kelp marinated in soda and turns into Pepmiman, a parody of Pepsiman. He rescues a girl from drowning at sea. He also beats two sharks that tried to eat the girl.
And there was yet another sequence involving Kawachi as a blond ninja in bright orange clothes.
Then there's this, done in the style of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, which gets several other shout-outs, to the point where it is hard to believe the manga-ka isn't a fan.
When Meister Kirisaki decides to train Kawaichi, he talks about making him an iron man, complete with images of Kawaichi dressed as Gigantor

I'm not that familiar however with regards to Arakawa so I can't give examples. But the bottomline is, the reasons stated above might be the reason for having Brad Pitt cameo in Yakitate Japan and Arakawa Under the Bridge.


Why does Rin Nohara have purple stripes on her cheeks?

It's most likely a sign of her clan. Kiba has the red stripes, as does the rest of his family to symbolize clan members. But, it could be just a symbol of her personality or being, as many characters, such as Chouji, Chouza, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Jiraiya, Orochimaru, Itachi Uchiha, Kankurou, Gaara, etc. have their own, which are shown not to be associated with any of the other members of their clan. So take it two ways, it's either a clan symbol, or just a way of having their own style or their beliefs.


How do you spell Marry Kozakura's name in English?

Looking at the official website for Mekakucity Actors, Marry is a valid Romanized spelling of her name. Usually when there is discrepancy over how a name is Romanized across different media it is because there is no single official version, or the else the spelling changed over time, or else there just wasn't much care taken in localizing the name (either because the translators weren't familiar with the origin or target language, or because different translators had different opinions and were allowed to do what they wanted).

So the answer to your question is that any / all spellings in official media are valid, with the more recent ones probably being the "most official". When it comes to names translations and readings are much less cut and dry. Even the Japanese spelling マリー is a non-standard way of reading the kanji in her name, which is also fairly common with Japanese names.


This song, being sung by the 3 main heroines, was especially made for the anime. The song uses the metaphor of an orange, likening the girls to an unripen, not yet matured, orange.
This blog entry offers a much in-depth look into the meaning behind the song. Though the translations may differ between people, the general meaning stays intact. The blog article mostly compares the CoalGuys and the {Words of Songs} fansubs, with the author trusting the {Words of Songs} version over the CoalGuys fansub (though he admits he likes the fansub lyrics better).
One can assume one of two things from the lyrics: the first being that it's Taiga who is the main voice narrating the lyrics, or the second, that everybody is narrating these lyrics. The following explanations will try to look at the lyrics from both perspectives.

“It’s just that I don’t know/My true self.” This line can easily be seen to be Taiga, or any of the characters. I think Toradora is special in the fact that all the characters can fit into this. It implies how all the characters have a hidden side to themselves that even they may not know.
“Into the broad earth, a single seed/Extended its roots/And bore fruit that was still unripe.” The fruit, first of all, probably symbolizes the narrator(s). This “unripe fruit” thing, I’m guessing, is a lack of maturity for the fruit and the person.
“The fruit that wants to turn orange as soon as possible.” An unripe orange is usually green, while a ripe one is... well, orange (big surprise, huh).  Basically, the person(s) want(s) to mature. This may be because if they mature, they may learn more about themselves in the process.
“by basking in your light.” I think that this light is the object of the narrator’s affection. It’s easier to see that when looking at the next reference to light: “I didn’t want to get hurt/So I fled/When I did that, not even light/Would shine upon me.” Because love is known to be painful, the narrator tries to flee from it, but realizes she cannot grow as a person without love.
“I tried to eat/An orange today, too/But it was still sour and I cried/It reminded me of myself, so I couldn’t throw away the rest.” We can see how the person and the fruit are symbols of each other, and their immaturity is also accented. If we look at the fansub version we see that eating the immature/unripe fruit shows that the person is also not mature yet, while it’s a lot harder to use the {Words of Songs} one.


Looks like the dubs are lagging a bit behind the subs, which is to be expected.  Given the rate of release, you can expect another handful of these dubs to be released every three or so months.


Shisui was one of the few members in the clan's history that was able to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan. It granted him access to a very powerful genjutsu, a unique technique noted to be of the highest caliber, Kotomatsukami. This technique allowed him to enter a person's mind and manipulate him or her by creating false experiences and illusions making it seem as though they were doing things of their own free will. The victim wouldn't be able to notice that they were being manipulated.This Mangekyō Sharingan  are noted to be the "heavenly eyes that see the truth of creation without obstruction". Hence Danzo was after Shisou's eyes.Source


In Overlord, how does Nazarick get food?

Most likely magic in some form or another, supplemented by growing, buying, and/or slaughtering.
In Volume 8 Side 2, we find out that Ainz is providing food for the Lizardmen until the fish farms could grow. "The food Cocytus had given them was made with a magic item called Dagda’s Cauldron." The population of Lizardmen after the war was closing in on 1,000. They already had some food of their own. I'd say that the single magic item was feeding about 500+ lizardmen. Considering that Nazarick had an obscene amount of every resource you can imagine, I'd say that magic, in one form or another, was providing the food. Maybe it was items, maybe it was auto generated by the facilities similar to pop monsters and basic repairs automatically done, or maybe it was something else. Either way, I don't think they really had to worry about buying it.
We also find out at some point that the dryads are helping with growing stuff, fruit I think. At some point the bar tender mentions he's using some of that newly grown fruit in an alcoholic beverage. (Sorry, I can't remember the sources for those.)
It's also worth noting that despite their large population, Nazarick doesn't need much food.
"Thanks to certain items, most of the NPCs no longer needed to eat or drink."


According to the anime and manga, Mikoto has a "muzzle velocity" of 1030 m/s:

In contrast, the US Navy's railgun has a muzzle velocity of 2520 m/s (~5600 mph or ~7.5x the speed of sound), with a muzzle energy of 10.64 megajoules (10.64 million joules). Which is probably comparable to the amount of energy in an average-sized car moving at 250 mph.

Comparatively, the an AK-47 rifle has a muzzle velocity of 715m/s (~1600 mph or ~2x the speed of sound), with a muzzle energy of ~2010 joules (assuming 7.62x39mm cartridges are used, but may vary depending on the type of ammunition).

While not very impressive stat-wise as far railguns go, since actual railguns are capable of achieving speeds of possibly more than ~5000 m/s. Take note that Mikoto is a middle-schooler that can fire eight shots of these per minute, which is on par with "typical" railguns.

Assuming the coin comparable to the size and weight of a U.S. quarter, one can assume that the coin she uses has a weight of about five grams. Using this formula we can get he muzzle energy:

  Energy = 0.5*(mass)(velocity)2 = 0.5*(0.005kg)(1030m/s)2 = ~2652.25 joules

So Mikoto outputs a bit more damage than an semi-automatic assault rifle.

But that's not what we're seeing now is it?

Not quite. But what could cause such a difference in output?

According to Page 1, Chapter 4 of the Railgun manga, she manipulates electromagnetism to achieve her results. This seems plausible since if the magnetic field were sufficiently focused, she could theoretically accelerate only the coin and/or nearby objects.

Now lets take a look at the pool test again, from the pool cleaning episode (S1, ep. 2) we have an approximate estimate of the dimensions of the pool:

Lets measure things in terms of Kuroko's height (~152cm)!

Seeing as the pool doesn't taper or either end, lets assume that the pool is about 14 Kurokos long or ~21.28 m (yes it does seem kinda small), and about 11 Kurokos wide, or ~16.72 m, by the lines on the pool floor and a bit less than ~0.9 Kuroko, or lets say 1.36m deep.

As for the displaced water, we could attempt to integrate the volume of the plume of water, assuming it's half and half air, find it's weight, etc. But we'll be lazy here and assume that 1/1000th of the pool water volume was dispersed into the air when Mikoto fires her railgun. The pool would have a volume:

  Volume = (1.36 m)*(21.28 m)*(16.72 m) = ~486.73 m3 of water

Since the "center of mass" the plume of water seems to be comparable be near the top of the gymnasium-type building, going be an eye estimate of the door compared to the building lets assume that it's 10 m tall. In order to calculate the energy needed to achieve something like this we do:

  (Energy it takes to lift an object) = (mass of object)*(acceleration due to gravity)*(lift altitude).

In this scenario let us cut a bunch of corners and assume that all the energy of the shot goes into lifting the water (by which ignore the energy spent warming the water up, creating the sounds loud explosion, any dramatic winds effect), then we have

  Energy = (1/1000)*(~486.73 m3)*(1000 kg/m3 water)*(9.8 m/s2)*(10m) = ~47699.54 joules

If we plug it backwards into the kinetic energy equation:

  √[(~47699.54 J)*2 / (0.005 kg)] = ~4368.04 m/s

So the muzzle velocity of her railgun would be ~4368.04 m/s.

One can only assume that, since we must respect the canon value of 1030 m/s, that perhaps the damage caused by Mikoto ability is due to her manipulation of electromagnetic caused as the coin moves through the air or some other factor... But then again, what do we know about the physics of this world where Science and Magic co-exist?


According to the official character databook:

  The Way of Jashin uses bodies of believers in forbidden jutsu rituals. Hidan was the first successful test case.

  As a reward for his many massacres, Hidan acquires an immortal body via the Way of Jashin. This only helps to affirm his love for the Way.

It adds:

  Thou shalt kill thy neighbor. This dogma is contradictory since it would allow devotees to kill each other. But to Hidan who is immortal, this is meaningless. That is why he is able to accept the doctrine and follow its teachings. Even if he ends up with just his head...

It also adds, regarding his motivations:

  The Way of Jashin is absolute for Hidan, the only thing worth believing in. He considers his supreme purpose to be to spread the Way of Jashin to nonbelievers throughout the world. It means to create a world that acknowledges mass killing. And Hidan feels that this is possible by being a part of the Akatsuki.

And this is about it, regarding to info on Hidan on the databook.


Did Kiyoshi have an injured knee even before being seriously injured by Kirisaki Daīchi High?

After watching the episode, I think Kiyoshi started having the injury on his legs for playing too much. He may have known about it because he is tall, thus he will likely to injure his legs more than average size person (I read an article about tall basketball players are more prone to injury).

So yes, he was injured before his match against Kirisaki Daīchi High, and Makoto Hanamiya made it worse by injuring him.


Which movie shows Naruto and Hinata's wedding?

The Last: Naruto the movie.

At the end of the movie in the credits, you can see the images of the wedding.

You also see the events leading up to the wedding, till the bride and groom come out to the ceremony, in the last few episodes of Naruto Shippuden. Episodes 494 to 500.

However, we cannot see the actual happenings anywhere.


What you need to understand is that Digimon are almost biologically the same throughout all the series and thus they should share the same dietary habits as each other despite being from different series. Also, do not treat food in the digital world really as food, they are data. Therefore, when a materialised Digimon eats human food, they can taste it and enjoy it, but not grow from eating it.

For a Digimon to grow/digivolve, they consume data and train, which in turn 'upgrades' their own personal data, gain experience and level up if you will, as demonstrated by Tactimon in When Worlds Collide saying that he trained in order to evolve and grow and when he absorbed the data from the human world, he grew more powerful. Keramon from Digimon Adventure also acts like Tactimon to a certain degree, consuming data until he digivolves into Chrysalimon.

  Digivolution for Digimon is similar to aging for humans—it is generally a one-way journey whereby a Digimon will grow into a new form as they age and gain battle experience and data. However, moving from one form to another becomes progressively more difficult. Therefore, very few Digimon will ever naturally digivolve into their final most powerful forms.

This establishes the premise that in order for a Digimon to grow, they need data and since their whole world is made of data, they can just eat their surroundings, but of course, this is rather useless as small bits of data does not provide any use in growing as shown by Beastmon consuming Tyutyumon but not digivolving. But of course, if you eat enough, like Lucemon from frontier, who consumed the whole digital world and all its inhabitants, you become all powerful. However, not all data are edible in Tamers as shown by Guilmon in Goliath.

Sorry if I digressed too much but in conclusion, YES, Digimon do eat other Digimon for their data in order to grow more powerful as all the data you consume from the other Digimon upgrades your own data. The reason why Digimon opt to eat other Digimon as a Digimon provides more data then eating regular, more common forms of data, such as grass.

Smaller Digimon are incapable of preying on other Digimon effectively as hatchlings contain very little data and are often protected by powerful Guardian Digimon so the most common predator species are at least Champion Level or higher. Some examples include MachineDramon and Arukadhimon from Xros Wars.


During the Greed Island arc, are "Sage's Aquamarine" and "Lonely Sapphire" cards contradictory?

Are these cards contradictory? No, they are not. Sage's Aquamarine's effect is the following:

  Its owner will have many intelligent friends and keep those friendships for their entire lives.

while Lonely Sapphire's effect is stated as follows:

  The owner of this sapphire will acquire vast wealth, but in exchange will spend a lifetime alone, forsaken by friends, family, and significant others

From what I understand here, a contradiction would occur if two things are polar inverses of each other. For it to be contradictory, Sage's Aquamarine must have an effect that, instead of acquiring vast wealth, will place you in a huge debt or anything opposite of 'acquiring vast wealth'.

What would happen if you used both cards? Sage's Aquamarine will grant him/her friends 'rich in intelligence' that will get him/her through life. Lonely Sapphire, however, will contradict this effect but in addition, will grant him/her a life of wealth.


Where to get the end-of-episode pictures?

They seem to be bundled with the limited edition Blu-Ray releases.

For example, Season 2 Volume 6 limited edition Blu-Ray comes with all these goodies, picture courtesy of the official anime site:

On the middle right, you can see two postcards. These are the endcards from episodes 11 and 12 (the episodes published on this volume) free from any text obstructions. I found screenshots of the original episode 11 and 12 endcards on a Japanese blogpost to confirm.

The limited edition Blu-Rays have a suggested sale price of 6800 yen (about 68 USD) each, and it will probably cost more to import it to another country.


Ciel and Elizabeth after episode 12 of the second season?

At the end of that episode, it was shown that Ciel went to leave his mansion along with Sebastian. Sebastian then jumped off a cliff with Ciel on his arms. Considering this, it is very likely that Ciel didn't stay together with Elizabeth. He left her (dumped her, whatever you call that) to go with Sebastian, possibly to the underworld, considering the settings of the manga and anime.

Ciel left a card saying that he died to all his friends (Prince Soma, Undertaker, Greill Sutcliffe).

He was then seen princess carried by Sebastian in a flowery field and the sound effect suggests that they jumped of the cliff.


Is there any other manga artist/s whose style is like CLAMP's?

Osamu Tezuka, perhaps ?

In his mangas, the same characters would appear in different roles. Given the ammount of work he produce, it's not a big surprise he could do that. Don't think it was intensive like CLAMP, but was well used, in specific situations.

Tezuka had his Star System, and his characters would appear in many stories, sometimes without a formal reference (not being identified as such).

Examples:

Black Jack made some apparitions in Astro Boy... Astro Boy made many apparitions in Black Jack and in other mangas.


What case is Naoto remember in Yosuke's horror story?

I believe Naoto is remembering something that occurred 2 years prior at Tatsumi Port Island in Persona 3 which Yosuke's story may actually be referring to.

Yosuke's Story in Persona 4:

A girl and her friends bullies another girl who later died. the girl's friends one by one all were found unconscious at their school and a rumor start to spread that it was the bullied girl's ghost getting revenge until only one of the bullies were left who attitude changed out of fear of being the next victim.

one night the girl's brother hears his sister scream out that she can hear the bullied girl's voice and that she is coming to get her yet the bother hears nothing.

Persona 3

Fuuka Yamagishi was bullied by Natsuki Moriyama and her friends. one day as a prank Natsuki and her friends locked Fuuka in the Gekkoukan School Gym at night but the next morning when they went to retrieve her Fuuka was gone.

The Rumor:

It was thought that Fuuka had escaped during the night and committed suicide. in the days that followed, one by one Natsuki's friends were found on school grounds when it opened unconscious and was taken to hospital. the rumor about Fuuka's death spread and it was thought her ghost was getting back at Natsuki and her friends for the bullying.

The Truth:

Before Fuuka was locked in the Gym she was at the same hospital that Akihiko Sanada was recovering in after injuries sustained from his fight with the Magician Full Moon Shadow. it was here that Mitsuru Kirijo determined that Fuuka the potential and did try to recruit her into SEES.

when Fuuka was locked in the Gekkoukan School Gym, as the school is replaced by Tartarus during the Dark Hour and Fuuka did not transmogrify (because she had the potential) she was actually transported to a random floor in Tartarus at the start of the Dark Hour, and was trapped in there after it's conclusion. because of how time works in the Dark Hour the days Fuuka was missing were only hours for her in Tartarus.

Natsuki's friends were called to Tartarus by "The Voice" and were attacked by Shadows which is why they were found unconscious at the school. it's unknown what "The Voice" really is but the coincidence of them being called and attacked after Fuuka's disappearances into Tartarus might have been just that, a coincidence, or since Shadows are born from humans and their emotions (and in lot of cases, are just untamed Persona) it's possible that Natsuki and her friends's emotional states at this time gave birth to their Shadows who called and attacked them in Tartarus.

SEES worked out the connection between the victims and kept an eye on Natsuki in order to protect her. during the Dark Hour of June 8th (the 3rd Full Moon Operation) Natsuki was called to Tartarus by The Voice (and thus didn't transmogrify) while SEES was searching for Fuuka. when the the Empress and Emperor Full Moon Shadows appear at the entrance to Tartarus Natsuki is in the cross fire and Fuuka, having been found, was able to awaken her Persona in her need to protect everyone, especially Natsuki. after the battle Natsuki apologized to Fuuka about the bullying and the 2 become close friends despite Natsuki not remembering Tartarus or that Fuuka protected her.

as the events of Persona 3 occurred 2 years before Persona 4 so it's very possible that Naoto heard about the case in her studies since Police were involved initially when Fuuka was reported missing.


Why do certain captain-level Shinigami wield small zanpakuto?

Because a shinigami's sword isn't based on their spiritual ability alone.

It also depends on the amount of control they have over their power. Ichigo's sword was larger, but it was also brittle, out of focus if you may.

   Ichigo's father stated that a huge zanpakuto means nothing, and that if they had no control, all captains would have skyscraper sized zanpakuto.


It makes perfect sense that Armament Haki can be used at different levels of intensity.  This has already been shown from early on for Observation Haki and Conqueror's Haki.  Enel could sense people over the entire sky island while his men seemed to only see the people they were fighting.  Luffy went from stunning a room with little control to thousands on Fishman island.  The fight betweeen Chinjao and Luffy seemed to indicate that Luffy's won because his Haki was stronger.  This means there are relative levels of power for any of the three types of Haki.

There is, however, no mention in the text of any measurable rating of this strength.

There is, however, a DBZ like powerlevel already in the story.  The CP9 are rated based on Doriki in the Enes Lobby Arc.  A common armed soldier has a 10 Doriki and 500 is superhuman.  Lucci was 4000.  This method explictly only counts physical strength and ignored devil fruit powers.  There is no indication (as it had not yet been introduced) as to how Haki would impact this measurement system.  If the CP9 developed a method to rate their Rokushiki, it seems guarenteed that CP0 has a way to rate Haki. We just don't know anything about it yet.


Where did Onizuka get his super human strength from?

Onizuka can be considered a strongman. This is not the "strength athlete" variant of the strongman, though he might qualify, but more of the natural type. As detailed here, a strongman is not necessarily someone who actively participates in bodybuilding. It can also be someone of perfect symmetry or size, or those who have explosive power and powerful grip strength.

In Onizuka's case, while not really huge, is a former biker who has devoted (as of timeline of GTO) almost half of his life into fighting. His experience is almost akin to a full-time MMA welterweight or middleweight fighter in that he fights and gets exposed to brutal physical activity almost every day. This makes him, at the very least, much stronger than a good percentage of the general population.

While obviously his feats are a bit over the top in that he survives them almost unscathed (this obviously needs some suspension of disbelief), humanity has shown over the top endurance and strength feats as well. Falling and point blank shots to the head have been overcome by some, but the resultant damage of course has been of varying degrees.