From the manga it emerges that they wanted to control him for as long as possible in order to grow him as a killer.
By teaching him the nen, thanks to his potential, he could have rebelled at any time, while, thanks to the fact that he did not know the nen, they were able to control it much longer.
Eventually they led him to identify himself as a killer. Basically a kind of brainwashing.
Not only that, his brother also used the nen to put a physical / psychological block directly into his brain.
And before he could get rid of it, Killua had to learn not only the basics of nen.
Moreover, the nen provides a sort of shortcut in protecting against lightning and torture. While his family wanted his body to adapt to these things regardless of the nen.
Obviously sooner or later they would teach him, also for this reason Killua's father let him go, he knew that, in any case, he would learn what he needed to be a killer.
In short, Killua was raised as a killer first of all from a psychological and physical point of view, learning the nen before all of this would have simply made Killua less strong and, consequently, less suitable to be a killer.


Is there a superstition about good anime series having character(s) that run in the ED?

I am not sure if there's a superstition in the Japanese culture or just among the animators but according here,

  In a lot of anime, a character (usually the protagonist) will show up
  in the opening or ending credits, running along while remaining on a
  fixed spot on-screen. The character could be running the whole time,
  or start out walking slowly and gradually pick up speed. The
  background is usually of the scrolling kind, but sometimes the
  character actually seems to run through a changing scenery. In any
  case, it's rare for characters to maintain a leisurely speed the whole
  time; usually, this has something to do with either the pace of the
  music, or the animators' need to keep opening and ending themes moving
  fast at all times.

  Side-on running and walking cycles are often created by animators as a
  way to get a feel for the characters, and these cycles will no doubt
  be used at some point in the show.


What are Holo's roots in Japanese tradition?

I wasn't able to find any references that state that the exact background that Horo has originates from some exact legend or myth. However, it is definitely not entirely made-up. Animals play a significant role in Japanese folktales. Two of them are also widely known to be able to transform into humans, and other objects: kitsune (狐) - fox, and tanuki (狸) - raccoon dog.

Also, the Wikipedia article "Japanese folklore" has this interesting fact:

  Marriages between humans and non-humans (irui konin tan (異類婚姻譚 "tales of heterotype marriages")) comprise a major category or motif in Japanese folklore. Japanese heterotype examples such as the crane story describes a sustained period of married life between the interspecies couple, in contrast to Western examples like Frog Prince or the Leda myth where the supernatural encounter is brief.

I believe we can say that all these definitely have some resemblance with Horo's background.


What is song played when Ken is being tortured on seaons 1 episode 12?

The name of the song in the intro and episode 12  is unravel.


Manga/Anime of two female secret/military agents featuring countless upskirt moments

Could it be Agent Aika? It features the main character (older woman) Aika and her partner Rion. There's a lot of fan service, especially panty shots and bra shots. It was released as an OVA in 1997 but was aired on several German TV channels.

The character designs practically make it impossible not to see panties

More info:

Anime News Network
Wikipedia
MyAnime List
Agent Aika Wikia


Is there a name for the art style in Gankutsuou?

According to an interview (in French) with the series creator series creator, Mahiro Maeda, the art style of the anime combines western Impressionism with Ukiyo-e, a 19th century Japanese woodblock printed art style that strongly influenced the Impressionism movement around the same time.

One of the particularly notable mini-movements within impressional is the Art Nouveau style, particularly the influence from the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, likely best known for his work The Kiss. Klimt was mentioned to be one of Maeda's most favorite artists and his works gave way to inspire the blocks of strong primary colors seen in the series.

Klimt's style applies a tension of naturalism and stylization, bridged together by turns through fairly intricate multiform and multi-patterned surfaces and bold contrasts of color with highlights of gold, silver, coral, and gems. This is all wrapped around a pervasively mystical and alluring aura brought about the the spiraling and intertwining lines juxtaposed with stark square and triangular shapes. All of this is reminiscent of a ghostly mosaic aesthetic.

For more information on the visual style, I recommend picking up the illustration art book on the series Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo Complete.


What anime is this figure of a white girl from?

That is from Kantai Collection.

  Kantai Collection (艦隊これくしょん Kantai Korekushon, lit. "Fleet Collection", subtitled as "Combined Fleet Girls Collection"), abbreviated as KanColle (艦これ KanKore), is a Japanese free-to-play web browser game developed by Kadokawa Games

The game was adapted into a TV anime series in Spring 2015 season.

The girl the figure is modeled (including her pose) after one of the Abyssal Bosses, Aircraft Carrier Princess


What is the significance of the rescue of Nagate and Shizuka by 256 Guardians?

This is speculation.

Point Number 1.
Shizuka was already past the point of no return. Which literally means she went past the point where she and Nagate would have enough fuel to return to Sidonia. This is a very real and very deadly result for all of the knights. Even so, Nagate went after her. In addition to him being a hero, his actions gained the respect of everyone, so they left to rescue him.

Point Number 2.
The guardians are supposed to guard, not leave the mother ship. By leaving to rescue them, they left Sidonia open to attack. Rescue cost resources, most obviously fuel. Rescue of people past the point of return opens up the risk to Sidonia even more because of the time the rescuers are away. The rescuers can get attacked themselves, and it takes time and resources to replace every knight. So yea, they were officially abandoned because the risk and cost outweighs promoting a new cadet.

EDIT: the number was because each squad has 4 members, so there were 64 squads present. I'm not sure if this answers your question because I'm not sure what's so strange about the number.

EDIT2: The significance of the number 256 according to @krazer:

  That's the the smallest tactical unit in the Ancient Macedonian army, which was the 256 men syntagma/speira. Take note of the parallelism structure and organization between Sidonia, it's Garde, and ancient city states


What drinks are SURELY known to affect and/or differ Franky's behaviour?

Though Cola is the known drink used to power franky himself and his body it is shown that other drinks can also affect his personality. Used as a trope by Chopper in Enies Lobby, it was used as a plot point in his stay in the Future(?) Kingdom where he becomes gentleman like when tea is used. And reverts when it fizzes.

From the wiki

  It was shown during Franky's fight with Fukuro that depending on what kind of drink Franky has, it can change his hair style and attitude when Chopper accidentally hands him vegetable juice and tea. It also shows that Franky's strength is many times greater when he has more bottles of cola in his stomach fridge, and he needs it as a fuel for certain attacks. His hair acts as a kind of meter to the amount of cola in his stomach, being tall if he is full and sagging if empty. Franky's stomach compartment can hold up to three bottles, or six liters, of cola.

So Canonically only three drinks are known through which Franky's personality alters viz. Vegetable Juice and two kinds of tea.

http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Franky/Abilities_and_Powers


Why doesn't Moeka believe the D-mail Okabe sent from her phone?

Moeka was incredibly desperate and she didn't really have a lot of leads for the IBN5100. It would have been highly possible she checked it regardless. I believe Okabe says the same thing.


Log Horizon: do some Landers know that their world used to be just a game where they were NPCs?

Can't reply to some of the other comments but we can't forget that the translation system could be shielding the Landers from the abnormal phrasing like Game, NPCs, Real Life, Other World, etc.

Translations could be:
Game = before world fraction.
NPC = Landers.
Real Life = past Life.
Etc


What is the relationship between the Byakugan, Rinnegan, and Sharingan?

The progenitor of chakra, Kaguya Otsutsuki, was the first character (historically) to have Byakugan on Earth.

After eating the Chakra Fruit, she awakens a third eye on her forehead, the Rinne Sharingan.

Now the Rinne Sharingan is completely independent of the Byakugan's influence. This is because the Rinne Sharingan is the result of the manifestation of the powers of the Chakra Fruit on a person.

  The Rinne Sharingan possesses the ocular power of the Sharingan, and can be used to cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi, an extremely powerful genjutsu which can only be countered by the Rinnegan and the chakra of the nine tailed beasts.

When her two sons, Hagoromo and Hamura were born, they had their mother's Byakugan. As time progressed, Hagoromo awakens a new dojutsu, the Sharingan. In the anime, Hagoromo awakened the Sharingan after finding the corpse of his love interest Haori.

The Sharingan is a derived form of the Rinne Sharingan, meaning, weaker. But powerful nevertheless. He goes on to attain the Mangekyou Sharingan also, but that is not shown on screen.

Hagoromo then achieves the Rinnegan, after nearly killing his brother (and thereby freeing him from his mother's control).

The Rinnegan is a much more advanced form of the Sharingan and it has a wide range of powers. The Rinnegan is stated to be something that is unique to the Sage of Six Paths, which is why, to obtain the Rinnegan, shinobi mix the chakra of Ashura and Indra (thereby getting Hagoromo's chakra).

While the Byakugan doesn't have any direct link to the Rinnegan and Sharingan, it does play a significant role in their creation, along with the Rinne Sharingan.


Songs in episode 286 of Fairy Tail when the guild members saw the young boy before the soldiers hurt him

Hope Road is what I've recently figured out through various youtube comments. I searched that title and it came right up!


What major or well-known script-writing competitions exist for anime works?

There seem to be three main anime script awards, at least in Japan.

Tokyo Anime Award includes a wide variety of anime and categories, including two for screenplays. One is for screenplays and one is for original adaptation screenplays. These seem to be all professional/aired screenwriters/anime. These categories were created in 2014, though the Award is from 2002.

Animax Taishō is for submitted rather than already aired anime, and the winners are produced and aired on Animax. It's not clear if this has been run after 2008.

Kyoto Animation Awards is also for unpublished work, though oddly they seem to not have winners every year. In the last cycle, for example, there were no winners. This is run by Kyoto Animation.


What purpose does the train, pictured in the Spirited Away movie, actually serve in the ghost world?

The train connects to different stops and I believe since it is one way it is to service people to an afterlife based on where one wants to reside.


Has there ever been official pornographic media for an anime and/or manga series?

To answer the question as posed:  largely, no.  A work will make its intentions clear up front.

An anime or manga creator typically shies away from playing both sides, and will either commit to having their work be either tame or explicit.  That is to say, on one side, you'll have a work which is largely non-sexual and then has a few fanservice scenes (for example, The Electric Tale of Pikachu), or work which is largely dedicated to pornography (examples omitted, for...reasons.)

To call some attention to a point made here:

  I wouldn't be surprised if some companies already tried to squeeze some extra bucks from the more fanatic and perverted parts of the fanbase, while those uninterested in the content never have to see it if they don't want to.

Dakimakura, and some of the designs you get with them, largely fill this void, even if the work is non-pornographic (as is the example prior with KonoSuba and Oregairu).  The same is true of other fan-oriented goods, like figurines in various poses and attire, and sales of certain articles of clothing.

(I think at one point, Sailor Moon had released a line of lingerie.  I neither judge nor ask questions.)

I do want to highlight though, that this is likely being driven largely by the companies and not necessarily the creator themselves.  I don't deny that some element of the creator's participation is necessary, though.


Why aren't characters' names in Fullmetal Alchemist Japanese?

The main setting of FMA is in Amestris, which is a pastiche of various European countries, in particular, England. (See the answers to this question for more details.) We can readily see that English is used in-universe, for instance, when Hawkeye corresponds with Roy, writing in vol. 19 of the manga:

   SELIM BRADLEY IS HOMUNCULUS

Note that many character names are not actually "English" or even German, although fans often posit Amestris to be a parallel of Germany. Some examples:

Jean Havoc's first name is French -- in English, Jean is more commonly a female name and is also pronounced differently -- and Riza is possibly a Hungarian name. Olivier might sound English, but it is not an English spelling of the name Oliver.
With regards to the suggestion that the names are German, Hughes, Bradley, and Armstrong are at most rather English in nature. Similarly, the German equivalent of Jean would presumably be Johann -- see this webpage on the name.

I remember Arakawa stating she chose names at random from a dictionary of European names for more minor characters, on some of manga bonus pages. I don't remember the specific chapter where this appeared, but this is stated in one of the answers of the question I linked to and also readily comes up in search results for arakawa european name dictionary fullmetal alchemist.

So in short: the names are not Japanese because the setting is largely in a country derived from Western Europe of the late 19th or early 20th century. However, it is incorrect to say that the names are English or necessarily German in origin. Of course, it's possible that there's so much ethnic diversity in Amestris that some variation in names isn't entirely unexpected, but well, that supports the "pastiche of Europe" view of the setting more.


Where does the One Outs anime diverge from the manga?

The anime adapts chapter 1–chapter 82 (volume 10) of the manga. While I have not read the manga yet, I've been led to believe that it is reasonably similar to the anime in terms of plot. There should be no problems in starting off from chapter 83.


Does Obito's Mangekyou Sharingan make him invincible?

No, Obito has another weakness.

He cannot keep the "Everything goes through me" mode for more than 5 minutes straight. So if they kept going at him without letting him a chance to rest, he should have been dealt with.

However, this is a very hypothetical question, and thus can't be factually answered.


Are there other ninjas aside Flashy Flash and Speed of Sound Sonic from the same village in One Punch Man?

In the webcomic, there is currently (as of the time this answer was first written) nothing that unambiguously associates Flashy Flash with Sonic in any fashion. There are some things to suggest it, though:

   When Flashy Flash fights Garou he uses a technique called "Shadow Steps" to move even faster, and that kind of sounds like the name of a ninja-based move.  He also uses "Wind Blade Kick", a technique we saw Sonic use against Saitama in Chapter 15.

On the other hand, in the manga there is Gale Wind and Hellfire Flame, members of the Monster Association.  These two are explicitly said to be from the same village as Sonic, and more recently it has been made explicit that Flashy Flash hails from this village as well.

These characters do not exist in the webcomic in this form.  They are evidently based on the monsters Gale and Hellfire, who are also brothers that team up to fight Flashy Flash. But these have radically different character designs (they're robots, for one), and are quickly dispatched by Flashy Flash without receiving any real backstory.  These monsters were originally designed by another mangaka, so they couldn't be used in the manga adapation due to copyright issues.

The situation in the webcomic has since changed, and there are at least 23 living ninjas we have now seen, not including a mysterious "him".  Flashy Flash and Sonic are now explicitly revealed to be part of the 44th Ninja Class, same as in the Manga, as well.

   The following is a list of all of the ninjas that showed up, taken from a scanlation, including their graduation class:


What is the secret behind Tobi's GPS-like technique?

That ability is explained in later episodes, so it will be enclosed in spoiler tags.

   When Obito crashed onto Madara's cave, he saved him by attaching a white Zetsu (who is a clone saturated with Hashirama Senju's cells). There are many white Zetsu clones spread across the land, and they can communicate with each other via the roots of trees in the earth. (Avatar: the Last airbender style). The Zetsu attached to Obito is no different. That way he can get immediate intelligence from practically anywhere, including the location of other people.

The teleportation is made using his normal space-time techniques.


Do all published manga originate from one-shots?

It doesn't apply to all manga. For instance there's manga that are adaptations of other works (anime, video games, light novels) which don't start off as one-shots and have, at the very least, a contractual run. Additionally, there are also manga that are used originally as promotional, as advertisement for a store or an upcoming anime.

The Evangelion manga is an odd-ball, where it was supposed to be an adaptation of the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime series, and start a month or two before its TV run as a promotion for the anime, but the TV run was delayed and didn't actually air until a year's worth of manga chapters. Additionally, there's several recent spin-off manga loosely based on the series.

There's a bunch of Gundam manga that were adapted from anime that were never one-shots. Slayers has several manga series that were adapted from the anime and light novels. Cowboy Bebop, Blade of the Immortal, etc.


Identification request for anime movie: A boy who loses his parents, fights dinosaurs/monsters and rescues a girl he falls in love with

I think it might be Shounen Kenya

  This cartoon, based on a popular manga (Japanese-style comic), centers
  on an 11-year-old boy who goes to Africa with his father in 1941.
  Because he is Japanese, the father is detained by the British. The boy
  joins up with a beautiful native girl, and the adventure begins, a
  sort of Young Indy Jones meets Tarzan.

The main character has 1/2 wooden 1/2 steel spear.
He traveled with his parent to a place with dinosaurs.
He rescue a native girl.


Which song is played in Akame ga Kill episode 12 at 20:32?

It's a song called Jaegers* by Takumi Iwasaki (イェーガーズ by 岩崎工). You can find it on Spotify here.

*Google Translated


Danzo was, in his own way, protecting the Hidden Leaf.

Danzo would normally do the "dirty work" and handle with that "black ops" of the Hidden Leaf, thus keeping the village officials clean.

They had their disagreements, and yes Danzo did act in order to dispose of the Third and have control over the Hidden Leaf, but Hiruzen always believed that all he's doing was for the best of the village, so he let it slide.


What is this symbol and does it relate to FMA?

The image represents a transmutation array, the Grand Arcanum.
A transmutation array is similar to a transmutation circle, and also has the function of allowing for the energy to circulate during a transmutation. They differ, however, in the fact that the runes (drawings) that compose the array may exceed the limits of the circle.

This array is exclusive to the 2003 anime, and is used by Scar to make a philosopher's stone using the souls of the people of Reole.


In what order should I watch Afro Samurai?

Afro Samurai movie is basically the summary of what happens in the first season with a flashback of young Afro, whereas Afro Samurai season 2 is a sequel to both.

Hence, the recommended order of watching is:

Afro Samurai
Afro Samurai: The Movie
Afro Samurai Season 2


Two different titles of Noragami manga, which one should I start?

From Wikipedia:

  Extra chapters of [Noragami]... have been compiled into one volume under the title Noragami Shūishū (ノラガミ拾遺集). Both the main series and spin-off series have been licensed in North America by Kodansha Comics USA, under the title Noragami: Stray God and Noragami: Stray Stories respectively.

Noragami: Stray God (or simply Noragami) is the main series. Noragami: Stray Stories is a spinoff from the same author, Adachitoka.


Manga about possessed child who develops a taste for people

We confirmed in chat that this is Kurozakuro. Here's the plot synopsis from MyAnimeList:

  This is the story of a wuss named Sakurai Mikito who one day swallows the creation of a creature called Zakuro and becomes an "oni", a superhuman creature with a taste for human flesh. As Mikito is horrified by this change in his once-gentle nature, he decides to leave on a journey with an oni-hunter in order to discover a way to turn back to normal.

Essentially everything matches the description in the OP. The first volume of the manga was released in English in November 2010 by Viz media. The series was finished in English at 7 volumes a year later in November 2011.

Here's the (Japanese) volume 1 cover:


Why don't Vegeta and Goku not getting along most of the times?

Vegeta and Goku have a very close relationship. I'd say they share a bond even stronger than what Goku share's with someone like Krillin. They might not be friends that hang out together, laugh and have a normal conversation but they see each other as source of motivation to help better themselves and become stronger, that makes them more ambitious.

It might look as though Vegeta hates Goku but in reality, it's just his personality and the way he is which also brings a comedic aspect to the show. Vegeta has a very cocky and arrogant personality and also him being the Saiyan prince is responsible for the same. He considers his race to be superior to all other beings and he's the kind of guy who likes to assert his dominance over all other beings by using his power. Goku on the other hand, trains purely out of love for combat and doesn't share the same motivations as Vegeta which is one big difference between their personalities.

Vegeta always had a mutual respect for Goku but I recommend you watch the fight between Kid Buu and Goku where Vegeta acknowledges Goku's superiority and has a new found respect for him. Even in Dragon Ball Super, it might appear as though Vegeta doesn't like Goku but if Goku's life were at risk, Vegeta would step in and help him. This is seen when he catches Goku after Beerus knocked him out. Also when Freiza was about to kill him, Vegeta steps in. Even during the tournament of power, we see Vegeta step in to help Goku while he was being attacked by Universe 9.

In simple words, Vegeta is jealous of Goku's strength. He has admitted this a couple of times, although his arrogance and massive ego doesn't want him to accept him being weaker than another saiyan which is why we see him display some form of anger when he sees Goku and not cause he hates him.


Nichijou's characters frequently have over-the-top reactions, this is just another one of those.

Here's a clip from later on that demonstrates my point (out of many) - http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UD95EI3zD8A (no plot spoilers, but don't watch it you want to watch everything chronologically)

Nano's explosion was a purely a manifestation of her fretting and embarrassment, She wasn't actually hurt too badly and appears uninjured in the next scene.


What are the differences between the Totoro releases?

According to the Wikipedia article, Tokuma Communications did a release in 1993, which was released on video by 20th Century Fox and dubbed again by Streamline as a special release for airlines. The Wikipedia article claims that Miyazaki would not allow any sort of editing, modification, or censorship, due to his disappointment with Warriors of the Wind, the heavily edited version of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind that was released in the US. The article offers no source, but this site supports the idea that Miyazaki hated Warriors of the Wind.

Fox's rights expired in 2004, and Disney acquired the license, creating a new dub. The Ghibli fan site from the link above makes the following claim about the Disney / Ghibli relationship:

  No. This will not happen [editing of or changes to the Ghibli films]. Disney can not cut even one second from the
  films, according to the contract. Ghibli has officially stated that
  "With Disney's commitment to maintain the quality of the original
  titles, there will be no changes to music and sequences in foreign
  language versions." According to Mr. Suzuki, the producer of Ghibli,
  other companies such as Fox and Time-Warner contacted Tokuma, but
  Disney was the only company willing to agree to this condition, and
  that was the main reason why Tokuma chose Disney as a partner.

The FAQ on My Neighbor Totoro also claims that nothing was cut from the Disney release, but does state that the songs were translated into English and dubbed by an American singer, as with other Ghibli releases by Disney.

It's been a long time since I watched the Disney dub, and an even longer time since I watched the Carl Macek dub, but I'm pretty sure Disney did a new translation and wrote a new dub script. The Disney DVD also includes Japanese audio with English subtitles. I never watched Totoro subbed, but I have watched other Disney releases subbed and compared them with the dub translations, and the degree of fidelity is always very high.


Why did they need to use an identikit to reproduce Makishima's face?

Actually Makishima didn't use his real name to register as a professor at Oso Academy but use his alias "Yukimori Shibata". Only one who knew the truth in the school is Rikako Oryo.


Why did Nadeko use different names for Araragi?

The difference emphasizes the extent of her love towards Araragi: she loves Araragi as a big brother figure as much as she loves Araragi as a man.

  Favorite big brother: Koyomi Oniichan

This is the love of a sister for her big brother. Sibling love.

The honorific onii-chan shows that she holds Araragi very dear and sees him as if he were her real big brother.

  In Love with: Araragi Koyomi

This is the love of a girl for a boy. Boy-girl love.

The absence of honorific, which is a stark contrast to the previous line, shows that she loves Araragi as a member of opposite sex, not just love between sibling.


Does "The Garden of Sinners" share the same world with "Fate" series?

Yes, Kara no Kyoukai, Tsukihime and Fate all take place in the same universe.
Aozaki Touko from Kara no Kyoukai is the sister of Aozaki Aoko from Tsukihime. Ciel from Tsukihime and Kotomine Kirei from Fate are part of the same organization. In Fate/Zero there's a part about Kiritsugus past relating to Dead Apostles (Vampires), that are the same as the ones from Tsukihime.
Ryougi Shiki from Kara no Kyoukai and Tohno Shiki from Tsukihime have the same type of mystic eyes.
In Kara no Kyoukai there's a magus trying to reach the origin/root by using a spiral of sorts. It's described as the main pursuit of all magi. In Fate, the Holy Grail War was designed to reach exactly this origin/root, too.
Here's an even more comprehensive relations chart:


Why Midoriya didnt get another Full Gauntlet after the one he destroyed?

Because the movies are NOT CANON. The gauntlets are so the movie can have deku use One-for-all at 100 percent.


There seem to be a couple of related issues when it comes to this.

While there are a large number of Korean animation studios (~120), a lot of those studios do largely work contracted from Western companies.

Animated Korean characters have also been becoming more popular in recent years (particularly since about 2010, when the market share was about 28%). By 2014, the market share of domestic characters was 40%, which shows a massive increase. However, that still shows less than a 50% market share of domestic characters, indicating that within the country domestic animation is not as popular as Japanese and Western animation. A few Korean animated shows did become popular in East Asia in 2011 when the animation technique was improved, meaning that if that trend continues we may start seeing more animated adaptions of manhwa when demand increases for it.

Another thing to consider is that manhwa are still being adapted, just not generally into anime/anime-like shows. Instead, K-dramas and movies have been made from manhwa, and their success likely encourages Korean companies to continue making live-action adaptations rather than attempting the riskier shift of switching to animated adaptations. Should there be some major successful animated adaptations, that may change.


While of course the word "moe" is Japanese slang with a particular meaning that doesn't really translate to English, it's for a very specific type of cute, and the entire phrase is supposed to sound sort of like cutesy nonsense (which as far as I know, not really grammatical at least according to Japanese textbook).  However, Moe moe kyun has also become somewhat of a meme - a sound to indicate something is sooooo cute. Sort of like baby talk I guess. According to Urban Dictionary, Moe moe kyun was used in the anime K-On!

I don't recall whether Moe Moe Kyun was literally used in the Japanese dialog for Disgaea 3 or not, but I do know that in general, the translators for the Disgaea series have been known to insert direct anime and video game references even when they weren't there in the original Japanese script. For example, in Disgaea 4, Fuuka yells "Objection!" in the English translation (reference to Phoenix Wright), but I'm pretty sure she did not say the equivalent in Japanese (「異議あり」　"Igiari!").  But, anyways, I would not be surprised if it were inserted in the English as an actual reference to K-On!, or perhaps it was even there in the Japanese as a K-On! reference.


As also stated in the comment's the 3 remaining races are already known and are the

dwarf
fairy
demonia

The 3 respected race's have not yet been ranked, but will most likely fill the blank spots of rank 8, 9 and 11.


In Japan or not, sites other than official sites that provides streaming for copyrighted/law protected contents are illegal and against the law. Thus, the answer to your question is no, it is not safe, it is against the law, it is a crime.

From IT (information tech) point of view, many such sites are actually crap sites that is full of ads, click baits, and links that will only redirect you around without showing the content if any. Such sites might also send adwares, malwares and the like to your computer. It might also be used to stole your identity. Thus it is also not safe from IT point of view.

If you are in Japan, however, you can watch the anime when it was broadcasted. This is perfectly legal. In fact, you can also record it if you want to watch later. AFAIK from anime that I watched, this is also legal. Some anime shows that recording a broadcasted show is okay. For example, in Futsuu no Joshikousei ga [Locodol] Yattemita., Yukari recorded a show that is being broadcasted. In Doraemon, Doraemon and Nobita would often record a show since it is being broadcasted at the same time as a baseball match that the father likes to watch.

Of course since it is limited to broad-casted anime only, you won't be able to watch older animes.


Why isn't Misaka Mikoto's face widely recognized?

Introduction

I'd like to make a few points on this matter. Firstly, even if her face isn't known by everyone in Academy City, many people do recognize Misaka Mikoto. Secondly, Academy City has the motivation and the means to keep Misaka's fame level down. These points are partially in conflict since I'm arguing on one hand that Misaka is famous, but on the other hand I'm saying she isn't. I don't think these points are irreconcilable, but my goal here is mostly just to present evidence and analysis from the light novels and manga rather than to reconcile the two points.

Analysis

In the first novel, Mikoto says this on pages 6-7:

  Hey, have you heard? They're developing some military-grade little 'sisters' for me, based on my DNA, that they can use in the army. I guess the by-products were sweeter than the ultimate goal, huh?

The Railgun manga and other works in the franchise expand on this comment, explaining that it is a rumor Mikoto has heard. Since we know from later works in the series that this rumor is actually true, it is probable that it was started (or at least helped along) by mysterious sightings of look-alikes of Mikoto Misaka. In this case, people would have to have an idea of what she looks like. The Tokiwadai uniform obviously helps a great deal at identifying her.

Now, there are some possible reasons that Mikoto Misaka wouldn't have celebrity status. First off, Academy City is a very secretive place, and Mikoto Misaka is an invaluable research subject. Touma Kamijou comments several times on how secretive and stingy the place is in protecting the secrets of its curriculum, including in volume 4 on page 2:

  Plus in consideration of its own secrets, as well as the potential threat of student kidnappings (read: theft of test samples), Academy City stubbornly disliked allowing its students outside of its walls. Gaining permission to leave required three written applications, the implanting of microscopic devices in your bloodstream, and the arrangement of a legal guardian...

So, Academy City is very secretive and might prefer to keep their top espers out of the public spotlight. They have the means to do so, too. The very reason Touma is on vacation at the beach in the fourth volume is so that the some information control can be done regarding his recent activities:

  The upper echelons of Academy City were the ones most bothered by the commotion. They said to him, "Hey, hey, Mr. Kamijou. We'll fix this up with our information control, so go away somewhere you won't cause needless chaos, stupid."

So, from these passages from the fourth novel, we know that Academy City is very secretive and that it has great influence over the information released inside and outside the city with regards to their research.

Lastly, volume 7 of the Railgun manga has a great deal to say on this issue. Chapter 43: Negotiation partly chronicles the attempts of a committee to find a public representative for the Daihasei Festival from among the level 5 espers and they mention that the Daihasei Festival will be broadcast to the world. The committee tries to get Mikoto Misaka as the representative, hailing her as "the most normal level 5". When the committee representative speaks to the headmaster of Tokiwadai, the representative comments on Misaka's past experience performing demonstrations in Russia. The headmaster refuses the committee member's request. The headmaster's reasoning is explained in thoughts and flashbacks: Based on previous incidents, the headmaster thinks putting Misaka into the limelight isn't good for her. In the flashbacks, we see these three phone calls:

  "I witnessed your Misaka kicking the vending machine."
  "A person resembling Misaka was chasing a high school boy!"
  "A person I believe to be Misaka-san was playing some sort of survival game in the backstreets."

Once again, these phone calls show that Mikoto is recognized by some people. This isn't the only point I'm trying to make here, however. The headmaster believes the public spotlight has had negative effects on Mikoto, and has been trying to keep her away from it. This attempt to get her away from the media could be a reason she isn't widely recognized. Without constant attention from the media, many people could start to forget what she looks like.

Conclusion

My conclusions are that Misaka is more widely recognized than the question indicates, but at the same time, Academy City is likely to be suppressing Misaka's fame because she is a valuable test subject and they vigilantly guard the secrets of their curriculum, so it isn't unusual that everyone in the city doesn't recognize her. If anyone disagrees with one or both of these conclusions, I hope at least the passages and analysis were useful and provided some hints as to where to look for more information.


Why is it that many anime and manga depict being a virgin male as something embarrassing?

The media depicts being a virgin as embarrassing because it reflects how teenagers feel about being a virgin. As for why authors choose to reflect this particular part of society, that would be a bigger discussion. The short answer is to evoke empathy from their audience.

This is not exclusively a Japanese thing. A study cited in Psychology Today found:

  One in three boys ages 15-17 say they feel pressure to have sex, often from male friends. Teen girls feel less pressure--only 23 percent said they felt such coercion. Researchers questioned 1,854 subjects between the ages of 13 and 24 in a national survey.

This is an American study, so it may be different in other countries, but probably not significantly so. This excludes regions where the religion/government censures sex.

Some reasons teens receive this peer pressure is the common belief that:

everyone their age does it

due to media
due to pressure from friends
due to pressure from partners

having sex is cool
having sex makes you popular
having sex proves "love"
having sex proves maturity
having sex proves you're not gay

Most people in the western world would proabably be very familiar being pressured with these reasons.


Did Yugi duel against a prerecorded Pegasus or the real one?

It was the real Pegasus, because later in the show, Pegasus and Yugi are in the same place they were in during the beginning of the show. I know that because the background was the same as the beginning scene.


The new girl is never shown in the novel, manga or anime. The new character is not important either, it just goes to show that Saori found another person to join their group and things are going well in the otaku circle. Also, they never said that it was a girl, they just said a new member is joining.
To your opinion of Ayase joining, it could be but it would be very unlikely because

Even though Ayase did say that she will allow Kirino to keep playing eroge, but to my memory, she did say that one day she will save Kirino from eroges and that she'll never play something as lewd as that.
If Ayase was joing the otaku circle, you would think that Kirino would know about it since they are really good friends.
Kuroneko's relationship isn't very good with Ayase.

Those are just my opinions though and I can't comment them.


Which anime did the pregnancy test meme come from?

Closest I could get to an answer.

According to knowyourmeme:

  According to archived discussions[1] [2] from the Japanese imageboard site Futaba Channel (2chan), the photoshop meme originally began as a minor fad sometime in the summer of 2014, but it didn’t take off until the blank template image was posted on Twitter[4] by @Gorxxx_[3] on October 15th, 2014."


What is the correct watching order of Fullmetal Alchemist?

The two continuities
As you may know, there are essentially two versions of the Fullmetal Alchemist anime - the 2003 version, called simply "Fullmetal Alchemist", and the 2009 version, called "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood". The 2003 version deviates from the manga part-way through, while the 2009 version sticks to the manga all the way to the end. For more details, see What's the difference between the FMA and FMA Brotherhood series?.
These two versions are unrelated to each other in the sense that it's not the case that one is a sequel to the other, or anything like that. They're just two separate continuities that happen to start in the same place.
This being the case, it's up to you which one you want to watch first. Some people believe you should watch the 2003 version and then the 2009 version; some people believe the opposite; and yet others believe that you should only watch one and not the other. All these positions have their merits and demerits; perhaps the most typical order is 2003 followed by 2009, if only because that's the order in which they were made.

Within each continuity there are multiple entries. There is a specific order in which these entries within a single continuity should be watched.
Within the 2003 continuity
You should watch in the following order:

Fullmetal Alchemist (the 51-episode 2003 TV series)
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa (a 2005 movie)

The Conqueror of Shamballa is a sequel to the 2003 TV series, so it makes no sense to watch it at any time before finishing the show.
There is also something in the 2003 continuity called Fullmetal Alchemist: Premium Collection. I have never managed to locate a copy of this, but it probably makes the most sense to watch it only after you've completed the 2003 TV series.
Within the 2009 continuity
You should watch in the following order:

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (the 64-episode 2009 TV series)
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (a 2011 movie)

Unlike The Conqueror of Shamballa, The Sacred Star of Milos isn't a sequel - rather, it's a side-story taking place somewhere around episode 20 of Brotherhood. You could, in principle, watch it at any time after episode 24 of Brotherhood, but I would recommend leaving it until the end of the series anyway.
There are also four half-episode-length specials that accompany Brotherhood. You should watch these after you have finished Brotherhood.


More than likely we will see more continuations of both The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra but these won't be animated.
In regard to The Last Airbender, there have been a number of comics that have been released since the end of the original series such as

The Promise
The Search
The Rift
Smoke and Shadow

all of these were released in 3 parts by Dark Horse Comics with the latest one being Smoke and Shadow Part 3 released in April 2016.
There is another The Last Airbender comic to be released called North and South with Part 1 expected to be released in September 2016 and the last part, Part 3, to be released in April 2017
In regard to The Legend of Korra, there isn't anything out yet however in 2015 at the San Diego's Comic-Con it was announced that The Legend of Korra would continue

According to the co-creators, they have three volumes of Korra comics planned, with DiMartino taking point on the writing. Don't worry Konietzko will be involved just with a limited role. He wrote on Tumblr:
"The Legend of Korra will continue as comics written by Michael DiMartino, published by Dark Horse! I’ve been working on the story with Mike, and I’ll be consulting on the art (once we secure an artist/artists). I made the images above for our announcement at the Dark Horse panel, which just finished up. Exciting stuff!"

Source: Latin Times
The link also showed there was artwork for these new books and a hint of what the story might be like.

Dark Horse also revealed new key art for the first volume, which you can see below drawn by Konietzko. The artwork features Korra and Asami walking back out of the Republic City Spirit Portal we saw them enter at the end of the series. "We're definitely going to focus on Korra and Asami's relationship," DiMartino said.

Like the other Avatar Comics the new Legend of Korra Comic, titled Turf Wars will be a 3 part title with Part 1 set to be released in June 20, 2017 according to the pre-order on penguinrandomhouse. As indicated by the Wikia page. Turf Wars is set after Korra's and Asami's honeymoon trip in the Spirit World which began at the end of Book 4 of the anime.

22/1/2019: after the posting of the above answer The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars has been fully released in 3 volumes and according to Wikipedia's list of Graphic Novels there is a new Korra trilogy coming out starting May 21, 2019 called Ruins of the Empire which according to Rightstuff Anime

Korra must decide who to trust as the fate of the Earth Kingdom hangs in the balance!
On the eve of its first elections, the Earth Kingdom finds its future endangered by its past. Even as Kuvira stands trial for her crimes, vestiges of her imperial ambitions threaten to undermine the nation’s democratic hopes. But when Korra, Asami, Mako, and Bolin don’t all see eye-to-eye as to the solution, drastic measures will be taken to halt a new march to war!


The most closely linked legend I can find is Shiva. Shiva is a hindu deity who has three eyes and is worshiped by people in the region that Pai is from.

  Third eye: (Trilochana) Shiva is often depicted with a third eye, with which he burned Desire (Kāma) to ashes,[98] called "Tryambakam" (Sanskrit: त्र्यम्बकम् )(Tamil :நெற்றிக்கண்), which occurs in many scriptural sources.[99] In classical Sanskrit, the word ambaka denotes "an eye", and in the Mahabharata, Shiva is depicted as three-eyed, so this name is sometimes translated as "having three eyes".[100] However, in Vedic Sanskrit, the word ambā or ambikā means "mother", and this early meaning of the word is the basis for the translation "three mothers".[101][102] These three mother-goddesses who are collectively called the Ambikās.[103] Other related translations have been based on the idea that the name actually refers to the oblations given to Rudra, which according to some traditions were shared with the goddess Ambikā.[104] It has been mentioned that when Shiva loses his temper badly, his third eye opens which can destroy most of the things to ashes.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva

This is the best three eyed deity of the correct region I could find. I think that 3x3 eyes may have taken part of the legend as inspiration and then ran with it.


Manga where a guy, whose girlfriend passed away/dumped him, is left to take care of a little girl and starts getting too attached

Could it be My Girl?

The guy had a girlfriend who had to travel abroad and she ended up having a kid but didn't tell him, deciding to dump him instead (so as to not burden him with a child). Then she died and the guy ended up taking care of the kid. The little girl is in kindergarten I think, so maybe 5 years old? I can't remember if it was specifically mentioned that the girl looked exactly like her mother, but they're drawn very similarly, and because he is still kind-of in love with his late ex-girlfriend, he decides to take care of the little girl.

There's a total of 44 chapters across 5 volumes. Later in the story, there's a sort-of love interest for the guy, and some drama between the 3 of them.


Can Minato teleport to his special kunai from Kamui's dimension?

From this page about Kamui's abilities:

  Despite not always being present, Obito could keep targets under genjutsu while they were confined inside this technique's pocket dimension, thus keeping them incapacitated for extended durations.

Tobi knew that he cannot defeat the Fourth Hokage so easily while keeping Kyuubi under his control, since controlling Kyuubi itself consumes a lot of chakra. Hence, he may have tried sending Minato to Kamui's dimension to keep him out of the equation.

Minato can teleport to his Flying Thunder God formulas (specially marked kunai), but it isn't revealed whether he can do it from a different dimension.


Does the Extra return next school year to class 3?

Yes, it can happen again as the Extra being killed has happened before.

Earlier in the series, a former class 3 student Matsunaga was questioned about what happened to his class during a field trip. During this, it was revealed that Matsunaga had accidentally killed the Extra and for a short while, he remembered this, and he made a recording about it.

At the end, Teshigawara and Mochizuki are shown to be re-recording Matsunaga's message but differently. Since killing the Extra prematurely stops the Calamity for that year, they gave caution about the actions to take against the Extra since it was learning how to stop the Calamity and the fear of losing Izumi Akazawa that made Takako Sugiura insane and rally the students to try and kill Mei.

As such, if killing the Extra was enough to permanently stop the Calamity, then the events of Another wouldn't have happened. However, since this has been the second time that the Extra has died, then we can assume that the Calamity can and will happen again considering that Another 2 was announced back in 2012.


Can SpaceTime Jutsu users do time travel?

To time travel, one needs to be faster than light. While those ninjas use Time-Space Jutsu, none of them are faster than light.

Obito

Of the three, Obito is the slowest as his space-time jutsu (kamui) has some delay, proven by Kakashi's successfully landing attack on him before he managed to disappear.

Senju Tobirama & Namikaze Minato

Both are very fast. Minato can even teleport to one of his marked kunai. I'm not sure if Tobirama can also do that, I don't remember. But the point is, although they are incredibly fast, they are not faster than light. We can safely say this, because if they are faster than light, then Minato wouldn't have his arm ripped by Madara and Tobirama won't be pinned on the ground. They would have been able to avoid Madara's attacks if they are faster than light. Thus, they cannot time travel.

Other possible ways to time travel that I know is by the use of Wormhole, which doesn't exist in Naruto universe.


Was the ufotable Touhou anime ever released?

To my knowledge, it has been released but in a theater or the like and no one was allowed to record it in any way thus no one else has seen it.

アニメ店長×東方プロジェクトとは、アニメ店長誕生10周年を記念して行われたコラボレーション企画である。
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アニメ店長誕生から10周年を記念し製作されたショートアニメーション（約10分）で、2010年11月20日に行われた”『アニメ店長』プレゼンツ!!アニメイト一押し美少女アニメまつり”にて初公開された。
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その後12月29日～31日にアニメイト一部店舗で単独イベント上映、2011年1月9日に全国アニメイト各店にて上映された。尚、DVD,BDの販売はなく（設定資料のみ販売）会場での上映限定での公開となった。


What anime is this girl kicking someone from?

Wow, this was (and is) a hard one to find but you made me curious!

TL;DR: It's Kiddy Grade.

The character pictured is indeed Éclair from Kiddy Grade. She normally looks like this.

However, this is a younger version of her, and it's really hard to find information on where she comes from - I wanted to find an episode number she appears in, but couldn't track one down, or even a proper screenshot.

This was the best I could do: via some reverse-image searching with various terms, I found this image, which has a filename equating to 'Éclair in Star Year 0318 - Kiddy Grade'.

It's pretty believable that this is the same character as in the screenshot, and you can see from the earrings that she may well have some relation to Éclair. I tried to find more pictures similar to this one that would provide more information, but though there are a few, they don't really help much.

On a whim, I went on pixiv and was able to find this in the Kiddy Grade tag:

Credit to this artist. I think you'll agree this is the same character. The picture is entitled '幼エクレール', or, in English, 'Young Éclair'.

Anyway, I think this has to be from Kiddy Grade, and hope this clears up why. She definitely doesn't look like this for most of the series though! If anybody who's actually watched the series would like to provide more details that would be great, but anyway, hope this helped.


Why didn't Fuyumi and Hydra Bell fuse like their mothers did?

The straightforward answer to your question is that Fuyumi and Bell aren't doppelgangers ("opposites") for each other, and so there's no reason one should expect that they would fuse with each other.

Sure, their mothers were doppelgangers, but that doesn't mean that their children - Fuyumi and Bell - should also be. For one thing, they don't look very much like one another, whereas their mothers (pre-fusion) totally did:


Name of hair style with one strand sticking upwards

The other answer is technically correct, but I don't think the term "idiot hair" is actually common in the English-speaking anime community apart from on TVTropes. The Japanese term for this is ahoge, which literally translates to "idiot hair", but that translated term isn't particularly frequently used. A search 'Ahoge anime' gets around 700k Google hits for me, while '"Idiot Hair" anime' only has around 10k hits. Among the translated anime I've seen, some more liberal translators will keep the term "ahoge", while others translate it to other English phrases such as "cowlick". I can't think of any cases where the term "idiot hair" itself was used.

The hair style and the use of the term were both popularized by the gag anime/manga Pani Poni Dash, specifically by the character Katagiri Himeko. Given her personality, the term "idiot hair" is justified in that case. The anime for this aired in 2005, but characters with similar hairstyles have existed for a lot longer.

However, while the hairstyle can signify a childish or idiotic personality, it does not always do so. There is no single correct meaning for it, and it's quite common nowadays for it to be used only for stylistic reasons, similar to the strange colors often used for hair in anime.


It is simply physical strength... combined with flair put in by Oda.

There are a lot of odd abilities in one piece that are not devil fruits or have any real explanation.  Sanji legs catch fire and don't burn him.  Zoro makes tornadoes. Fishmen summon water from thin air.  The king's punch is odd in our world but, there, it is just a very strong punch that takes a lot of focus, warming up, and talent to use.

There doesn't appear to be any haki, devil fruit, or weapons.


In which episode of Golden Time did Koko say "I love you" to Banri on the school staircase?

Actually it was Banri that fainted not 2D-kun. As you can see, he's still standing on the top of the staircase. This happens in episode 7 at ~7:30-7:40


Why does Bakugou drag Kaminari into the bushes and what did he do to him there?

Because he wanted to distract the class. That was bagugos money, not kaminari’s. He just overcharged kaminari because he was a good and funny distraction while bakougo paid kirishima back. This display of kindness seemed weak to bakougo and he didn’t want the rest of the class seeing it.


The Sage Mode of the slugs is somewhat related to the Sage Mode of Hashirama Senju (First Hokage). He learnt Sage Mode in Shikkotsu Woods/Forest, a legendary place that is equally famous as Mount Myōboku (toad) and Ryūchi Cave (snake). It is the home of the slug Katsuyu, parts of which are summoned by Tsunade and one of her disciples, Sakura Haruno.

Evidence:

In Hashirama's fight with Madara, it appears that he enters a Sage Mode (bottom right corner) similar to Tsunade's, with a diamond shape tatoo-like symbol in her forehead.

Though it is not explicitly said neither in the manga nor in the anime that Tsunade enters Sage Mode, it is clear that Hashirama did.


Why did Sakuta's wound start bleeding again?

I haven't read the light novel, so I can only offer speculation based on the anime. From what I can see, Sakuta's chest wounds seem to appear whenever he's faced with a really shitty situation that he can do nothing about.

It was mentioned in the anime that his wounds first showed up when Kaede was getting bullied and had bruises suddenly appear on her body. And the instance that you quote is similar, Kaede reverts to her original self, probably permanently, and there is nothing Sakuta can do about it. He thinks it's all his fault and hates himself for letting it happen.

So my best guess is that the wounds are his version of Puberty Syndrome, and are representative of his self-loathing.


Why are the numbers of Logia and Zoan Devil Fruit users lower when compared to Paramecia users?

I think the answer is pretty simple. Logia Devil Fruits give you the power to become an element, Zoan fruits give you the power to become an animal, Paramecia fruits are those which allow you to do anything else.

Imagine if you divided all cars you saw into Volvos, Peugeots, and Others. You'd expect far more of the third category because it's definition is broader. So out of all the Devil Fruits in existence, you'd expect more to be Paramecia than others.

I think Logia should be even more under reported than they are, as they are stated to be the rarest and most powerful of the three types of fruit, but at the Whitebeard War, many of the most powerful men in the world were shown, so the fruits we've seen are skewed towards the more powerful.


What is the name of the anime this pink-haired girl is from?

That is Kazumi Schlierenzauer from Gokukoku no Brynhildr. This show is currently airing this season (Spring 2014).


Are you considered a "weaboo" if you watch too much anime?

I wrote about this in more detail on my blog - Weeab.eu, here's a summary version.

A weeaboo is generally an insulting term, a weeaboo is someone who love anime and annoys others with their enjoyment. Generally things like yelling as if you're powering up, screaming when you see your anime-fan friends, etc. You can probably understand why people don't appreciate that.

As insulting terms go, it's pretty standard in that those who usually use it, don't know much about the medium - Just like how you might be labelled as as a goth if you just like shirts with skulls on them, or as a nerd if you like Star Wars - subcultures have a lot more to them than meets the eye.

And if you want to be technical, it literally means nothing - The original term was supposedly coined from the comic from the Perry Fellowship, with no context:

But you can own that term just as much as geeks and nerds can own their labels and make it a positive thing. Just like I've done by taking that blog name :P

Some people like labels, some don't - do whatever you prefer. If you enjoy something, don't let others tell you not to enjoy it! :)

To answer the question you actually asked: Sure they're related - but just as how football hooligans are related to football.


How come Luffy is not weakened during his fight in Marineford?

Yes, in practice, frozen water also would sap the power of a devil fruit user.
In the SBS of the One Piece Manga — Vol. 41 (p. 206), Oda mentions all types of Water cause weakness in Devil Fruit users. However, in this same SBS it is also mentioned that not touching the water itself will not affect the user.
Hence walking on ice with shoes or the likes, would in most cases prevent any form of power sap/weakening.


Could there be a Devil Fruit that makes you an outstanding swimmer?

There is actually a canon answer to this.  The Sui-Sui No Mi (official english name is Swim-Swim fruit) is a Paramecia Fruit eaten by Senior Pink.

As the ocean is inaccessible to Devil Fruit users, the Swim-Swim Fruit makes you an excellent swimmer... through anything else including solid material (except seastone).

Unless Oda decides to create one, no devil fruit will exist which is a loophole to allow the user to swim through water.


What is the meaning behind the titles of Tokyo Ghoul OVAs JACK & PINTO?

My guess is that "Jack" is a reference to "Jack the Ripper" because in the OVA, the main characters are chasing a serial killer. It could also be a reference to "Jack-o'-lantern" since the serial killer wears a pumpkin mask and is referred to as "Lantern". On the other hand, the only two things I can come up with for Pinto is that it's a reference to (spoilers ahead):
1

   The hidden bruises on the elderly patient which look like the spots of a piebald horse. The patient's skin was thus like a "pinto" horse.

2

   The dual personalities that the nurse had because "pinto" could mean the she had spots of white (good) and black (bad).

I think theory #1 on the elderly man is more likely to be right than the nurse theory.


How is Armament Haki obtained or learned?

As an introduction I will quote the wiki page on Haki:

  Haki is a mysterious power that is found in every living being in the world. It is not that different from the normal senses. However, most people do not notice it or fail to awaken it. Broadly, there are two types of Haki common to everyone, given the proper training

As mentioned here, everybody has the ability to learn Haki, given the proper training. We have seen lots of examples of people who had obtained Haki through training, like the girls from the Kuja tribe, Luffy during his training with Rayleigh, Cobi during his training with Garp, etc. Almost every person we have seen, that uses Haki has gone through some kind of training from a Haki expert. The problem is that none of these training sessions have been shown as of writing.

Training is not the only way to obtain Haki though. As mentioned in the introduction, Haki is not different from your normal senses and that means that you can also obtain Haki subconsciously. We have seen a handful of cases, where people had obtained Haki on their own, without any training whatsoever. Examples of this are Ace and Luffy obtaining Conqueror's Haki, Cobi and Usopp obtaining Observation Haki or Sai obtaining Armament Haki. So it does not mean you have to take training per se to obtain Haki, but it is well advised to take training to fully control your power. Ace for example was shown to have Conqueror's Haki, but it did not look like he ever learned how to control it properly.


Why did the Greater Grail fulfill Shirou's wish while the other Servants were still alive?

First thing: A common theme in the Fate franchise is "Rules?  Screw your rules.  I'm a mage/servant/noble phantasm/whatever."  The true competition is not in competing in accordance with the rules (no matter how much Ruler tries to say otherwise), but in breaking the rules better than the others.  In this vein, Shirou forcibly activates the greater grail. It is a system that was designed to be interacted with by outside forces, and he uses that to his advantage.

Second thing: The condition to granting a wish is not "only one servant remains," but rather "sufficient energy has been collected through the expiration of servants, and other servants are not currently getting in your way to stop you from activating the grail". The (greater) grail basically works as follows:

Draw magical energy from a ley line.
Use that energy and the promise of a wish to cause Servants to coalesce.
The servants have their own magical energy which is (much) greater than what you used to bring them there.
When a servant dies, they are "filtered" through the greater grail system.  The grail claims their magical energy for itself.
Grail now has way more magical energy.

In the first war they only summoned three servants, one for each of the families involved in its construction, but they couldn't achieve much with only that much power; especially not their goal of reaching the root.  So they decided that to ensure that the Grail got a large enough supply they would need around 6 "average" servants to expire, so they adjusted it to summon a total of 7.

In the Apocrypha grail war, the Clock Tower is able to activate a safety routine that causes a double-scale war to be initiated.  It was designed to only need to summon 7 average servants, but now there are 14.  This then triggers another safety routine, which summons Ruler.  So in fact only 6 servants of average strength needed to be eliminated for the Greater Grail to have enough power to grant a wish, up to 14 are available (counting Ruler), and fewer will suffice if there are exceptionally powerful servants (Black Assassin would be below average, but Red Rider is well above average, etc.).  Combined with a forced activation you don't need to kill everyone, especially in a double-size war.  You just need to have enough control of the situation to not have your wish-making interfered with.


Well, it seems that Summer Rose is a Huntress in the same year and team as Qrow, Taiyang, Raven, and Summer. Each character seems to be similar to another character from TEAM RWBY. Summer seems to be very similar to Ruby at the time. She's shy, which is why she hides under her cloak, and also looks very similar to Ruby.

Identity-wise, all that is known is Summer is Ruby's birth mother, and Yang's stepmother. She died when they were young, and that's all the fans really know. Hopefully, Volume 6 gives us a little more depth.


Why did Killua kill the opponent of Leorio?

Yay, I watched this again yesterday:

He felt he had to quit the exam due to pressure from his brother (which involves literal and quite horrific mind control that is explained in more detail in the chimera ants arc).
Disqualification is a faster way to quit than waiting to the end.
He wanted to kill something as he is quite a blood thirsty individual and wanted to reaffirm his strength and control over the world.
He lost most of his self control because of his emotional state.  Note that he truely believed that Illumi would kill Gon and that his losing the match without fighting proved his was not fit to be a normal human. He was not willing to fight to protect his only friend from being killed.

While he might have considered that killing that opponent helped Leoreo that was determined not to be why he did it.  If it was why he killed him, Leoreo would have been disqualified as was explained when Leoreo (and later Killua too) wanted to step in against Hanso to protect Gon.


Was Sekai in School Days anime really pregnant?

It's not definite, and you'll hear differing opinions based on who's talking about it:

She was pregnant:

She had morning sickness
Kotonaha's attempt at searching inside Sekai is of course fruitless, as the baby would not have had enough time to develop. Maybe after several weeks something would be visible. Also it's a very crude way of doing it, so it's not surprising she wouldnt see anything, not being a trained professional
She didn't want to go to the hospital understandably, it would be a frightening and stressful experience.
She had no motive, she was clearly worried by the experience.

She was not pregnant:

Morning sickness started occuring too early
There have been several instances of fake pregnancies, where the body emulates all the symptoms of pregnancy (sickness, missed periods, etc) because of stress / belief that they are pregnant
She was scared that her lie would be revealed if she went to the doctor
Her motive could have been that a baby would tie Makoto strongly to her.

Sekai Wikia page

I doubt you'll find a conclusive answer, as many posts out there have already made up their mind. But one thing I think we can gather is at least she thought she was pregnant, regardless of if she was or not.


Do the other universes know that it was Universe 7 that wished them back using Super Dragon Balls?

Well, the answer would be yes! The angels of all the universes indeed witnessed Universe 7 winning the tournament and they would be going back to their respective universes, so it would only make sense for their respective Universe to find out irrespective of whether they knew beforehand. It would be a very obvious question asked by the gods to the angels considering they were revived all of a sudden  and witnessed the Super Dragon Balls being used.


The anime is .Hack//ROOTS

  In 2015, CC Corporation's datacenter caught on fire destroying "The World". By splicing in data from what would have been another project, CC Corp. was able to rebuild the game. In 2016, "The World R:2" was released. .hack//Roots covers the time Haseo spent with Shino and Ovan in the guild known as the Twilight Brigade, before the .hack//G.U. PS2 games.

as per the description, it's the prequel to the PS2 game Series .Hack//G.U. particular it goes though the events that occur between the scenes of the intro to the first game (from when Haseo is first saved by Ovan until his fight, defeat and re-initialization at the hands of "Tri-Edge")

the scene you refer to is Episode 17 - Painful Forest and Episode 18 - Limit

   Set during the Forest of Pain event players are tasked to reach the deepest part of the forest. upon reaching it Taihaku (the one who finds the Greatsword) and Haseo (who finds a pair of Twin Blades) are teleported to another area outside the game
 Within this area each one encounters a red figure who asks if they have seen it's Daughter. those familiar with the previous games/series will recognize this has Harald Hoerwick, the one who first developed the Beta of The World called Fragment and the "Daughter" he asks about is Aura, the AI Child he created in the previous games
 Taihaku answers that he does not know Harald's daughter but wishes that she is ok to which Harald bestows onto him the sword he found. Haseo, consumed by rage in his quest to destroy "Tri-Edge" who turned Shino into a Last One answers he doesn't care about Harald's Daughter and demands to know where "Tri-Edge" is. Harald refuses to give him the weapon and Haseo is struck by something.
 before the Forest of Pain is deleted Tabby is waiting for Haseo to return and when he does she finds that he no longer looks the same. Haseo's Class, the Adept Rouge, can be powered up by obtaining new Forms and after what struck him Haseo has gone from the original 1st Form to the 3rd Form

i can't remember the woman on a computer but i assume this would be

   Ender/Pai - Real name is Reiko Saeki, a Member of the Guild, Raven, who's members are apart of Project G.U and are Epitaph Users who wield Avatars, the manifestation of one of the 8 Phases of Morganna

i believe is her as at the time the only other female character is Tabby however i don't recall her talking a man outside the game and i believe the man is

   Naobi/Yata - Real Name is Takumi Hino and is the .hacker Wiseman from the previous series of games. he is the leader of Raven and assists Reiko as they both work for CC Corp while he has deeper knowledge in the original Project G.U which Reiko's missing brother took part in


Why does Urano Metria take double her magic the second time

The first time she casted Urano Metria, she received the spell from Hibiki of Blue Pegasus. He gave her one chance to cast the spell which she successfully did but the spell wasn't her's. Hibiki's power is "Archive" : he is able to transform a lot of things in datas that he can transfers to people. Thanks to this power, Hibiki has been able to give Lucy his knowledge about the spell and all his magic power (he gave her so much of his power that he fainted instantly right after).

After casting it, she couldn't remember anything and she had to learn the spell all by herself. The trick she found to overcome the difficulty of the spell was to combine her magic power with Gemini's, like Naruto mastered Rasengan thank to his clones.

Hope that helps

  Sources :

  Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 144, Pages 14-20
  Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter    385, Pages 14-17


Music when Izuku is summarizing the fight

That music is from My Hero Academia Soundtrack disk 2 and it is called People Always Reaching for the Top (Tsuneni toppu o nerau mono 常にトップを狙う者)

I could only find it inside a playlist so, here you have the song and all the OST.

PS: Go to 0:48 and you will hear what is in the anime


What are the added values of ecchi to a series?

(Note: I don't have any evidence or sources to back up these claims.)

The most straight-forward reason there is ecchi in some shows is simply because the animators like to draw scantily clad (or naked) girls. You see this in a lot of fan-art or random sketches by some directors, who were once animators (for example: Imaishi).

But a possible added value for ecchi scenes is sort of two fold. These are shows that are usually in the late-late-night time slots and are sometimes on satellite stations, where they can get away with a bit more. This is usually the time slot for some of the more "enthusiastic" fans of anime, the ones who spend lots of money on merchandise and physical media (DVD/BD).

Having this kind of customer base, although much smaller than some of the non-late-night popular shows, means studios are likely to hit certain sales minimums just by pandering to this demographic. Figures (often scantily clad, or with explicit nudity) are sold and the DVD/BD's with promised uncensoring (or even more graphic nudity) are bought up. So it's more or less "Sex Sells".

The added value to the viewer is probably more a matter of taste. If you don't like that kind of stuff, you're probably not going to watch these kinds of shows. Some of these kinds of shows is pure fan service, with none of the ecchi actually playing any role at all in the story or plot (e.g. "Najica", "Agent Aika", "Green Green", etc), and more recently, eventhough it can be argued whether the ecchi really does have to do with story or not, it's tied more closely to the show, where removing it actually devalues the show itself (e.g. "Queen's Blade").

There has even been quite a bit of backlash for these late-night time slot ecchi shows because a lot of them aren't very popular and it can seem that a lot of studios (at least between 2000-2010) sacrificed quality and writing to simply have ecchi and pander toward a small demographic who happens to spend a lot of money.

Just to be clear "fan service" doesn't necessarily have to be ecchi, and it's almost always inconsequential to the story or plot. It's just there to please the viewer (assuming the viewer is into the show). It doesn't add much value to the story/plot and isn't necessarily supposed to.


It is Ume sensei dressed as a Pokemon (metapod). Ume sensei is voiced by Ume Aoki, the manga artist.


What is the song used in Akame ga Kill during the Budou vs Mine fight?

It called "Adramelech" just like Budou's Imperial Arm.


Is there a specific age timeline in Detective Conan?

No I believe it is one of those shows that has years go by but they remain the same age like Pokemon ash never ages even though he should be 18 now and not 10


Was Blackbeard strong before eating the Yami Yami no Mi?

The only thing we really know about Blackbeard from before he ate the Dark fruit is that he cut Shanks and killed Thatch. The problem is that we don't know how these fights went down. The fight with Shanks was over 12 years ago, so we don't know the extent of Shanks' power at that time. After reading wayzz's comment, I reread the conversation between Whitebeard and Shanks, and it gives a pretty good idea of Blackbeard's power. If any, you should read chapter 434 again, to get a grasp of his power.

It was mentioned by Hawkeye and later by Whitebeard that, Shanks and Hawkeye used to fight many times. Despite fighting many times, there was never a clear winner, so we can deduce that Shanks' strength must have been similar to that of Hawkeye's. Now getting back to the fight between Blackbeard and Shanks, Shanks mentioned that he wasn't being careless and despite that, BB could give him the scar on his left eye. He mentions that

  Shanks: Blackbeard was waiting patiently for an opportunity... He didn't take the position of captain, nor did he become renown (by taking the position of division commander). He hid himself behind a large shadow called Whitebeard!

So being in the Whitebeard Pirates for many years, being able to scar Shanks in a real fight, being able to take down the fourth (Thatch) and second (Ace) division commander of the Whitebeard Pirates makes him a worthy opponent. Don't forget that two of the Yonkou got nervous about Ace fighting him. Both Whitebeard and Shanks wanted to stop Ace from pursuing him, because they felt like this was not going to end well, and it didn't. So it is safe to say that he didn't become the new Yonkou based just on his Devil Fruit powers alone.

I think Blackbeard's seemingly cowardly appearance might have something to do with his Dark fruit. The Dark fruit increases the amount of pain received by Blackbeard. So he might not be scared of losing the fight, but he might be scared of the pain that follows a single blow. His Dark fruit absorbs the punch even more than a regular person would, making it hurt much more. It hasn't been confirmed, but this might be the reason why he seems scared. Unless if you were talking about the Marineford Arc. At that time, I think he was honestly worried about losing, or at least getting his crew hurt or captured, because he would have never been able to fight both the Marine Admirals and one of the Yonkou at full strength. At that time, he chose wisely to retreat. This would give him more time to really master his newly absorbed Devil Fruit powers.


Are there any reasons why Light killed the FBI agent?

It was a move to try and destroy the entire investigation against him as well as prevent crucial facts from being reported.

At this point, L had used some tactics to determine a few things about Kira.  Among them that Kira lived in a certain region of Japan and that he had access to police information.  Given that, the list of suspects was short.  And given how L deduced that Kira was probably a student, given the timings of killings, etc. that list was only going to get shorter.  Light needed to eliminate L and the investigation as soon as possible so he could kill freely.

Light, through Ryuk, found out that someone was following him and investigating him.  But he was unaware who it was.  He then concocted the bus scheme to force his follower to reveal his identity, learning that he was an FBI agent.

Now knowing that the FBI agents were in Japan, Light followed a similar path in logic to what L took, that they must be investigating those close to the Japanese police.  He also correctly assumed that the police did not know about the FBI's investigation.  He then determined that if the Japanese police became aware of the FBI and thus L's investigation into them, it would cause distrust between L and the police.  This would then hopefully remove any local help L would get.  In addition, it could also scare off anyone else from the international community from interfering with Kira.  At any rate, reducing the number of people Light had to contend with increased his chances of coming out of all this alive.

Also, Light knew he would be under greater suspicion after the FBI agent revealed himself.  Those FBI agents were never supposed to reveal themselves as FBI agents at all.  It would be somewhat suspicious, especially to L, that one was forced to do so.  As such, if L were to find out that the FBI agent had to reveal himself to Light who was already a suspect, it would further increase the suspicion of Light as Kira.  Light knew this and thus needed to kill the FBI agent prior to that information being reported.

So by killing the FBI agent Light accomplished a few things.  One he put the police at odds with L.  Second he reduced the number of people investigating.  And third he was able to prevent critical information from getting reported.


Why is there no nudity in Darling in the Franxx?

Personally, I think it's because Darling in the Franxx is mainly about romance and action. They were mainly talking about the love between Hiro and Zero Two, so I don't think it's necessary for them to show nudity. Also, even if Darling in the Franxx is not for small children, it shouldn't show nudity, because the genre is not ecchi.


Is there any meaning to the rail lines in Bakemonogatari's "Tsubasa Cat" OP?

Legs

大正－（新今宮）　　　　　　　平野－八尾－志紀－－▽－－尺土－浮孔－坊城－飛鳥－吉野口－緞野／吉野
　　　　　　　　＞（道王寺）＜　　　　　　　　　道明寺
　　　　（？池）　　　　　　　布忍－－－高鷲－－－△－－貴志－川西－天見－橋本－極樂橋
　　  　　１　　　　　Ｘ　　　　　　２　　　　　　Ｙ　　　　　　　　　　　　　３
（　）= Full name not shown on the scene

These are railway lines in Osaka:

The 1st upper-leg is Osaka Loop Line: Taisho, Shin-Imamiya
The 1st lower-leg is [? Line]: [? Station]
The 1st interchange (X) is Tennoji (accessible directly from Osaka Loop Line, Yamatoji Line)
The 2nd upper-leg is Yamatoji Line: Hirano, Yao, Shiki
The 2nd lower-leg is Minami Osaka Line (from Tennoji, transfer to Osaka Abenobashi in walkable distance): Nunose, Takawashi
The 2nd interchange (Y) is Domyoji (accesible from Yamatoji Line by transfering at Kashiwara to Domyoji Line, directly accessible from Minami Osaka Line)
The 3rd upper-leg is Minami Osaka Line - Yoshino Line (transfer at Kashiharajingu-mae): Shakudo, Ukiana, Bojo | Asuka, Yoshinoguchi, Yoshino
The 3rd lower-leg is Nagano Line (from Minami Osaka Line, transfer at Furuichi) - Koya Line (transfer at Kawachinagano): Kishi1, Kawanishi | Amami, Hashimoto, Gokurakubashi*

1 Uses kanji for Kishi Station in Wakayama instead.
* Uses traditional kanji

Hands

（百合ヶ丘）　　　　南多魔－西府－立川－奥多魔
   　　    ＞登戸＜
　　　　　　　　　　狛江－喜多見－經堂－豪徳寺－下北澤
　　　１　　　Ｘ　　　　　　　　　　２
（　）= Full name not shown on the scene

These are railway lines in Kanagawa-Tokyo:

The 1st upper-leg is Odakyu Odawara Line: Yurigaoka
The interchange (X) is: Noborito (accessible directly from Odakyu Odawara Line, Nambu Line)
The 2nd upper-leg is Nambu Line - Ome Line: Minami-Tama, Nishifu, Tachikawa | Okutama
The 2nd lower-leg is Odakyu Odawara Line: Komae, Kitami, Kyodo, Gotokuji, Shimo-Kitazawa

Body

　　　　　　　　　　高田馬場－池袋－巣鴨－上野－秋葉原－神田－＼
　　　　　　　　　／　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　＼　　　　浅草－－－－▽－－－北千住－八潮－
三鷹－吉祥寺－新宿－－代々木－－千駄ヶ谷－－飯田橋－－御茶ノ水－－濱離宮＜　　　　　東京ガス
　　　　　　　　　＼　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　／　　　　新日本橋－－△－－－錦絲町－新小岩－西船橋－東京タワー－津田沼－
　　　　　　　　　　澁谷－恵比壽－水道局－五反田－品川－有樂町／
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　｜
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　不動前　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　芝公園
　　　１　　　Ｘ　　　　　　　　　　２　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Ｙ　　　　　　　　３　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Ｚ

These are railway lines in Tokyo:

The 1st leg is Chuo Main Line: Mitaka, Kichioji
The 1st interchange (X) is: Shinjuku
The 2nd upper-leg is Yamanote Line: Takadanobaba, Ikebukuro, Sugamo, Ueno, Akihabara, Kanda
The 2nd middle-leg is Chuo-Sobu Line: Yoyogi, Sendagaya, Iidabashi, Ochanomizu
The 2nd lower-leg is Yamanote Line: Shibuya*, Ebisu, Waterworks bureaux,2, Gotanda, Shinagawa, Yurakucho*
The vertical-leg (2) is Tokyo Meguro Line (transfer at Meguro): Waterworks bureaux,2, Fudomae
The 2nd interchange (Y) is: Hamarikyu Gardensx,3
The 3rd interchange (3) is: Tokyo Gasx,4
The 3rd upper-leg is Tobu Skytree Line: Asakusa, Kita-Senju, Yashio
The 3rd lower-leg is Sobu Line (Rapid) (from Tokyo) - Chuo-Sobu Line : Shin-Nihombashi, Kinshicho*, Shin-Koiwa | Nishi-Funabashi, Tokyo Towerx,5, Tsudanuma
The Z point is: Shiba Parkx

x Not a station
2 Represents Meguro on Yamanote Line. Between Ebisu and Gotanda, there's a waterworks bureau in Meguro
3 Represents Tokyo on Yamanote Line (accessible from Ochanomizu by transfering to Chuo Line)
4 Represents Higashi-Mukojima on Tobu Skytree Line and Ryogoku on Chuo-Sobu Line. Both have Tokyo Gas near them.
5 Tokyo Tower is not anywhere near the Chuo-Sobu Line
* Uses traditional kanji

Conclusion

The railway lines are real, though they don't seem to mean anything. However, the bolded places on the body seem to mean something:

Waterworks bureau near bladder
Hamarikyu Gardens near womb
Tokyo Gas near large intestine
Tokyo Tower & Shiba Park are... recreation places

Reference: a more SFW, redrawn OP by NEXIS on YouTube


Does the name Shiki have some sort of relevance to Death?

It is probably related to the fact that "shi" is death in Japanese. The kanji for death is "死", however, which does not appear in any of the names of characters you listed. The word would still be associated with death, (as shown by the tetraphobia that appears throughout Japan).

Those characters are all from Type-Moon series, also, so the connection may also come from that fact. Tsukihime and Melty Blood are directly related, existing in the same world, while Kara no Kyoukai is not.


Why didn't Tobi use Kamui when Minato used Rasengan?

In chapter 502 from page 8, Tobi fought with Minato. As nhahtdh commented, there is no reason to use the same jutsu twice when the opponent can avoid it.

The image below shows Minato's inner thoughts moments before they clashed against each other in the second image.

In the second image you posted above, if you take a closer look

You can see the kunai passing through Tobi. If you are not aware, Tobi was actually using Kamui to let the kunai pass through him. However, to attack, Tobi had to solidify his body. Tobi couldn't attack and defend at the same time with Kamui. Correct me if I am wrong here.

As you can see from the above picture, Tobi touched Minato and was going to attack. I don't know what jutsu he was going to use, but Tobi was confident that he would win, so his whole body was solid and he was not using Kamui.

Hiraishin Level 2 was faster than Tobi's attack, and Boom. Rasengan.

So the reasons why Tobi did not use Kamui to let Minato's attack pass through him:

Using the same jutsu twice against an elite shinobi is foolish, unless one has well-grounded confidence that it will work, or has another motive.
Tobi was confident that he was going to win this fight, as you can see on third picture.
He was unaware of Hiraishin Level 2. As you can see, he was surprise when Minato jumped to the kunai.


As of 2016, which has been the last Type-Moon work that's contained explicit content?

Note: this answer assumes that "graphic or deeply detailed sexual content which would be restricted to adults only" means R-18/CERO Z in Japan.

Games
Surprisingly, Japanese Wikipedia mentioned this,

2005年10月28日発売の『Fate/hollow ataraxia』以降アダルトゲームの新規発表は行われていない。
Since the release of Fate/hollow ataraxia on 28 Oct 2005, there's no announcement on new adult games.

So, at least that's the answer to the last game containing explicit content: Fate/hollow ataraxia (the original PC version, not the PS Vita one).
After that, they started releasing console games only (except Mahoutsukai no Yoru for PC as mentioned on the question) with Fate/EXTRA CCC having the highest rating of CERO D (R-17, no international release).
Anime, Movie & OVA
Since almost all of them were broadcasted on the TV, then they could be considered as 一般向けアニメ (ippan muke anime, anime for the general public) even though they might include heavy ecchi scenes (e.g. Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya ).
This is also true for movies such as Kara no Kyoukai, Fate/stay night UBW, and also Carnival Phantasm OVA.
Manga & Light Novel
Some manga were published by Kadokawa, and as far as I know, Kadokawa doesn't publish adult manga (aka. hentai) although, again, they might include heavy ecchi scenes.
I can't comment on books under Type-Moon label itself though.
Music & Drama CDs
I believe all music CDs are clean, but I can't comment on drama CDs.

As a matter of fact, only Fate/stay night and Fate/hollow ataraxia games require age checking on the official Type-Moon website.
Note: Regarding "Kinoko Nasu first started Type-Moon as a doujin group, so I also include any Type-Moon released doujinshi they may have released (if there are any) which contained explicit content.", Type-Moon stopped being a doujin circle and instead became a game company in 2003. As a doujin circle, they only released Tsukihime and its extra contents. Fate/stay night was the first work as a game company.


In episode 3 of the OVA series it's revealed that Julius Kingsley is infact a brainwashed Lelouch. the brainwashing however is somewhat unstable as when Julius is seen on the train cluching his eye this is a sign that the brainwashing hasn't fully worked and "Lelouch" is trying to come back. he reappears briefly later on showing also that his Geass has yet to be sealed as it is at the start of R2


How is it possible to take 7 days to rescue the trapped survivors in the train crash?

It might appear absurd to some people (maybe it really is), but I think there is an in-universe (in-Keyverse) reason: they were forgotten. I have thought about it when answering this question that since Jun Maeda doesn't have many tricks up his sleeves, it must be explainable with the logic from his other works. And I think I've found it in One (and in Little Busters!):

  Someone about to leave to the Eternal World starts to be forgotten approximately one week before going.

Note that the mechanisms in the Eternal World are really the same as those in the Afterlife World. In One, Kouhei was banished to the Eternal World because he broke the pledge with his deceased younger sister, that he would always remember her, by going out with other girls and therefore forgetting about his younger sister. That is exactly what happened to Otonashi: his purpose in life used to be his younger sister, Hatsune, but she died of illness. After observing a fully recovered child ready to leave the hospital, he made up his mind that he would live for someone else, to save that someone from dying from illnesses. Thus, he broke the pledge with Hatsune, as his center of life was no longer his younger sister, so he would receive his punishment by being sent to the Afterlife World.

  However, he or she is remembered the moment that person returns. If a strong emotional bond is established in the real world before leaving, a person in the Eternal World can be returned after approximately one year.

He established a strong emotional bond with Kanade when he signed the organs donor card (it could be that she received her heart from Otonashi or someone else, but she didn't know whom for sure), so it ensured his return to the real world after approximately one year (so he didn't pass on with the rest because it hadn't been one year since his arrival in the Afterlife World, but this may need a separate question and answer to explain).

I surmise that his experience in the Afterlife World could be training Otonashi to cope with loss and thinking for himself for once (like being able to love a girl). Then when he comes back stronger (waking up in the real world again), then it could follow the story of Little Busters!:

   Rejecting this turn of events, Rin travels back into the artificial world again (this time created by Riki and Rin) and helps Riki overcome his weakness. Afterwards, the two of them go back to waking up at the crash site. This time, Riki and Rin work together to save everyone at the crash scene. Kyousuke, who sneaked onto the bus (as a third year he was not allowed to go), managed to block the leak hole on the gas tank to delay the explosion, despite his injuries being far greater than anyone else. Everyone in the bus recovers from their injuries, although Kyousuke's recovery takes longer due to extensive injuries. Finally, after Kyousuke returns, he rents a minibus, and the members of the Little Busters set out for a trip to the ocean.

So somehow his abdominal injuries didn't take his life and he met Kanade again.


Why can't Mirajane use magic for long periods of time?

because you see multiple people run out of magic power throughout the show and she won't want to overdo it and be so exhausted not to move like Erza in the edolas arc and she might have finished the tartaros people off fast or with help


It hasn't been told in manga yet. We can only speculate.

The Great Quincy War can't be the reason as it happened 200 years ago. We can safely presume they died of natural causes and also they were Echt Quincies (pure-blooded Quincies who refuse to marry and mate with anyone but a pure-blooded Quincy and who were almost extinct after the Great Purge).


How is Aika related to Mahiro in zetsuten no tempest?

According to the wikia, Aika is Mahiro's step-sister through her mother's remarriage to Mahiro's father and both their parents were found dead along with Aika.

http://zetsuennotempest.wikia.com/wiki/Aika_Fuwa


Using the Angel Beats Wiki heavily, Yui seems to be based off YUI the Japanese singer. This is noted in the wiki in the Trivia section:

  Her back story seems to be a reference to Taiyou no Uta, a movie that the singer YUI starred in.
  The title of the episode Yui disappeared in is "Goodbye Days" which is also the title of the main song YUI sings in Taiyou no Uta.

Since YUI is a pop rock music artist, Yui may be based off the, punk, rock dress style. This can be seen in various aspects of here cloths:

BDSM fashion, as she wears two halves of a handcuff,
Fishnet like black ribbons,
A chocker,
Black boots, and
Two cross-shaped barrettes.

Since punk rock was a rebellion against the system, and as they had transgressive sexual practices, some people wore more extreme fetish fashion, which Yui also has:

Garters on both legs,
'Demon' wings and tail, and
Cat teeth.

And so I think it's reasonable to assume she's based loosely off the punk rock style, which may be an easter egg about YUI being a rock artist.

An in-story explanation could be she wanted to dress however she wanted. This is as all, bar one, of her regrets are physical, which she couldn't do before she died (Angel Beats Wiki):

   As the series progresses, Otonashi was able to fulfill her regrets. He helps her by doing the German Suplex, playing 5-on-1 soccer game (Maradona) and playing baseball (though she doesn't hit a homerun). After telling Otonashi that her last regret was marriage, Hinata later helps her fulfill her last regret by proposing to her, and giving her a vision of what could have been had they met in the real world.

   Since she had to wear PJes since she was four till she was roughly a teenager, I think it's safe to assume she wanted a different, more expressive, change of cloths.


Are there any significant differences between Boruto the movie and the corresponding arc in the anime?

There are several differences. Especially the character design of transformed Momoshiki Otsutsuki. Kishimoto's design was used in the movie, and Ikemoto's design was used for the series.
As far as fighting Momoshiki, which had several difference between the movie and anime, The Chuunin Exam's final fight from anime also differs from the movie. Some fights were a bit more expanded like Chou Chou's fight with Shinki.
Some of Boruto's fight scenes are also different from the movie, and most of the scenes from the anime left something more for the people to talk about, especially between Shikadai and Boruto, which is not shown from the movie.
A new Otsutsuki member was also shown in that arc, Urashiki Ōtsutsuki. The fish hook guy, this one did not appear in the movie.
Mitsuki's abilities were not shown too much in the movie as much as the anime did, and Katasuke's part is also slightly different in the anime.


Why does Yubaba offer a job to Chihiro, rather than just turning her into piglet?

She cannot refuse her as long as chihiro asks. Yubaba also has a rule not to turn down anyone asking for a job and therefore has to give her the job and can't be turned into a piglet as she is under her service.


No, he can not breathe in space.

In the chapter 47 (35.2), Boros punches Saitama so hard that he is sent flying towards the moon. When he lands there, he does his best to hold his breath:


Why Goku uses all the transformations he has except Super Saiyan 3 in the tournament of power?

Because SSJ3 suppose to drag a lot of energy and it was shown when Future trunks came however I think it is not shown because we await for new form.


Yes. Killer B is still alive.

If you watch the full movie, including the credits, you'll see Gyūki (8-Tails) pulling him out of the water. As also mentioned on Wikia: Killer B: Boruto The Movie

  After they finished extracting Gyūki's chakra and throwing an unconscious B into a river to let him drown, Momoshiki commented that he was unimpressed with the tailed beast's power, as he could only produce a few small red pills with it.

The little size of chakra pills foreshadow that the attempted extraction of Gyūki failed and hence Killer B lived. This is confirmed during the credits.


Why do Killua and Gon pretend not to know Hisoka in episode 50?

If I remember correctly, Killua and Gon were kidnapped.

There are two things in play here.

The first is that they had rapport with Hisoka. This means that they could use him to their advantage later on, to break free, to take down a gang member, to get information from him, etc. If the gang was aware of this, they may intervene to stop this advantageous situation.

Second and more importantly, the gang members knowing that Hisoka knows them could be deadly for all three of them. The gang could interpret that as Hisoka being a traitor, or Killua and Gon being infiltrators. In either case, the gang would want to eliminate Hisoka, or Killua and Gon... or both.

So, due to their advantageous relationship and their potential threat to the gang's security, it was far more beneficial for all three of Hisoka, Killua, and Gon to pretend that they did not know one another.


Looking for a special Death Note chapter

Are you referring to the rumored alternate ending of Death Note?

From deathnotefanon.wikia.com:

  The Death Note alternative ending is a possible ending to show
  something else that might have happened to Light Yagami after his
  death. It is unknown if the ending is real or fake. There is a lack of
  evidence to prove the ending to be real. It has really only been seen
  on the Internet and there are mainly English versions of the ending
  circulating, but it has become popular in the Death Note fandom.

  Due to the fact that there is no proof, it’s left to fans to decide
  for themselves. The ending only exists in manga form; there is no
  anime adaptation for the ending.

But in this ending Light decides to die in old age and tell Ryuk to kill him. After his death he appears in the Shinigami Realm and starts dying again and again in the ways his victims died. Then Light tells Ryuk to take him to their king, so that he can make deal with him. He even tells that he will kill their kind if he doesn't agree. But the end just shows the start of their journey, there's no interaction with the king.


Is it known if Rimuru's magicule supply is growing rapidly?

I think there's another possibility: The more monsters he eats the more his magicule storage grows.