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resolved Manga about collecting elemental people and also two brothers??? (SOLVED) Anime
So it's a manga about a girl who is like the princess of a kingdom or something. There's two brothers who vy for her affection and they're rivals. But something happens and she needs to collect a bunch of people who have elemental abilities to save the day?
There's also a plot point about, I think, the girl having a sister put in a coma and also one of the brothers did something evil but it's okay and he's forgiven. I ate that shit up when I was 14.
I think it's a 3-volume manga. I tried to find it at my local library but it wasn't there.
EDIT: I figured it out, it's Time Stranger Kyoko!
Edited by MissRobotoresolved Nazi/WW2 German Yaoi Manga/Manhwa with a Bishonen Protag? Anime
I swear blind that, in my random meanderings over this site, I stumbled across a page on a WW 2-set Boys' Love manga or manhwa that featured a Germanic Camp Gay Agent Peacock Bishonen as the protagonist - but I can't for the life of me remember what the title was. Anyone else there seen this page, or am I going nuts?
resolved mecha anime Anime
I'm looking for a mecha anime, it aired during in the Netherlands but I'm not sure how old it really is. Here is what I remember there were three pilots with individual mecha. Naturally they combined in the regular way where each robot transforms either the arms legs or torso and head but they also had something I think was unique.
There was a fourth mecha separate from the three individual ones and they basically flew into from an opening in the back and transformed into their limb modes before it closed up again. Both combined forms typically required all three pilots or at least two of them to control.
At one point the pilots of the mechs that formed the arms and legs were in trouble without mechs and were saved by the four mech combined form assuming the remaining piot did all the work. In truth a support character, who I think was being trained as an emergency replacement for any of the three and who had messed with the settings of the mechs to make it easier for him, was acting as the second pilot.
Edited by dutchguy1986resolved A student becomes a princess Anime
I've seen this anime on Animax around the late 00's, where an ordinary high school student becomes a princess after wearing a crown that can't be taken off and has to carry the burden of being the princess. Joining her is her parents as servants, the crown thieves, a foreign prince trying to woo her, and a little girl claiming to be the wearer of the crown.
resolved [Solved] Black Jack Episode Anime
I was going through the Black Jack page, when I remembered the episode where a spoiled brat crashed his car and a guy who was innocent, but was made guilty. Dr. Black Jack operated on them both by himself where the guy who was innocent had his face and hair to look like the spoiled brat, who died. In the end he meets his mother and gets his face operated again and they flee Japan as the father would be looking for his son. I tried finding it on Wikipedia and the wiki but none of the episodes listed seem to fit it. Any help to which episode it could be would be much appreciated.
Edited by Animaltamerresolved Looking for an anime title Anime
About a Canadian or American boy who died in an accident and his soul returning to earth where he has to share a body of a Japanese figure skater. One hint is that he was allergic to tomatoes.
Edited by alnair20aug93resolved An Anime about an Alien Baby Anime
I've watched this anime on Animax in the mid-2000s, and it's about an alien baby and his caretaker named Wanya crashing to a Japanese temple/dojo where two middle schoolers (a blonde girl and a brunette boy) live and take care of the house while their parents leave and do their business. Other characters include a little girl riding a training bicycle and a pink-haired girl who easily gets jealous and wrecks buildings whenever the two main characters seemingly flirt.
resolved [Solved] trio of monsters anime Anime
I remember watching this on animax, where these three monsters were born from one entity, there was a green skinned looking goblin, one wore a black trench coat and Fedora and the last was female and sorta looked like a vampire. They all want to be human, which they think they could achieve by helping humans.
Edited by Animaltamerresolved Anime with a character resembling K′ from The King of Fighters Anime
I remembered reading an article here on TV Tropes about a specific anime (which may have been based on a manga or novel) which I believe was in the '90s or early '00s. I for the life of me can't recall what it was called, but I do recall that it has a female protagonist, she is accompanied by another similar to KOF's Kyo Kusanagi, and also that one major antagonist is someone who looked very similar to K′ (and his name is G). Apologies if this is not a lot to work with, but that is all I can recall about it. I thank anyone who will offer a response.
Edited by JesseMB27resolved [Solved] Red and blue anime hero Anime
I remember this anime where there were these two guys, one smart and one strong, who were not at all friends. Then at night something from their computers started to glow, with a female voice talking to them, making them heroes. The smart one was blue and the strong one was red. They fused and became a superhero, then stopped a villain. I only manage to remember watching it on dubbed channel with lots of other animes as well.
Edited by Animaltamerresolved No Title Anime
(I am submitting 2 queries for the same reason: to write examples for a particular trope. The trope in question is Fade Around the Eyes. I was originally going to put both of my questions under the same query and label it "Not Sure", but I felt it would be better to seperate them instead.)
My little brother used to love watching Yu-Gi-Oh! (the original series, I think. The one with Dan Green) on Netflix, and I would sometimes sit down and watch with him a little, even though I didn't really know what was going on.
I need help remembering one episode. I think it was the episode in which Marek first appears. It was definitely one of his first episodes. Anyway, at the end of the episode, the screen fades to black around his eyes.
If anyone knows, could you please tell me:
- What the name of the episode was
- What happened in that last scene
resolved No Title Anime
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I was casually surfing through the web, going through some anime-related sites and pages, and found a collage of 18 characters, each from a different series
. I would thank you perpetually if you could tell me who is the one in picture I, right under Son Goku. The character's design reminds me of the characters from Slayers and Lost Universe, but the character herself is very unfamiliar to me (can't tell whether it's because it's a character from those series but in an episode or season I never saw, or simply because it's from another series entirely). Thanks in advance, this curiosity isn't letting me sleep!
resolved No Title Anime
A manga about a girl named Enma, sent from the Japanese Celestial Bureaucracy to various places in time to yank people's skeletons out before they cause thousands of people to die. Over here it's simply called Enma, but I can't seem to find the English name (it's not Hell Girl, though Names The Same).
resolved No Title Anime
This is a dubbed anime I saw on TV maybe 2-4 years ago. I can't remember what channel it was on, but the visual quality of the show tells me it had to have been produced sometime after 2000.
The scene I saw was a teen/young adult male on a game show that risked the lives of its contestants. I don't mean like what is described in the Deadly Game trope — it seemed pretty similar to Who Wants To Be A Millionaire with the dim environment and single hot-seat gameplay, just that the stakes were much higher for some reason I'm not aware of.
In any case, it's a trivia game show (or at least that stage of the game show was a trivia game), and the scene was framed like watching an actual game show, with the character centered facing the camera and images overlaid in the corners to show information to the home audience. Whenever the character was unable to answer a question correctly, the answer appeared in a window in one of the upper corners (I think these were actually not translated). The only question I can remember being asked is (paraphrasing) "At what temperature is water the most dense?" and I think the answer that was shown is 4 (degrees Celsius, presumably). The character performs rather mediocre at this game and gradually becomes more stressed, even yelling out "I don't know!" in response to a question at one point.
Anyone have any idea what I might have been watching?
Edited by UltramarineAlizarinresolved No Title Anime
There was an anime I saw on Australian television when I was younger (early 1990s or thereabouts).
The main thing that sticks in my head was that there was a device that allowed a person to walk through solid objects like walls, but while you were using it you couldn't breathe because the air molecules didn't interact with you any more than the wall molecules did. I think one character got around it by wearing something like scuba gear, and there was a scene where the device was given to the hero's robot buddy because breathing wasn't an issue for him. I remember when one of the characters walked through a wall, while his eyes were inside the wall he seemed to be standing in a void full of swirling colours.
Does this sound familiar to anybody?
resolved No Title Anime
I remember seeing an anime movie awhile ago, but I didn't catch the title and only watched it for a few minutes. I think there was some sort of war going on, and the pilots were mid-to-older teen boys. I think they were stuck at that age, and they had to be in order to fly the planes. There was a girl who was their boss, I'm pretty sure she was a heavy smoker. She was also the mother of a little girl who came to visit, but the girl thought she was her sister. It had a sort of CGI style combined with the anime and the CGI was more apparent in the aerial scenes.
resolved [Solved] anime-esque show about talking fishes Anime
I'm not really sure if it is an anime, but it did air in Hero TV, a channel from the Philippines that primarily aired Filipino dub anime and cartoons, and the show had an anime-esque feel to it. The main character of the show is a goldfish, his best friend is a green turtle, no flippers the normal cartoony look of turtles, and two other characters, a pink jellyfish girl, and a blue seahorse, he had arms and one episode involved him under the command of the bad guys, one of which was an evil sea dragon, and that in a park there were fish statues that turned to live fish, one of which was the jellyfish girl, and were ordered to spit out gold that they accumulated from the day when the park had visitors. Not sure how it ended, but the seahorse and jellyfish joined the goldfish and turtle, becoming friends.
One of the main plot lines that I remembered was that the four had to collect these scales to defeat the evil sea dragon, which I remember another episode where the dragon tricked the four into fighting each other by asking (while disguised) who was the best out of them. I think the title of the show involved the word "bubble", but I could have mistaken that the song is the one with "bubble" in the title.
Edited by Animaltamer

There's this rather old anime. I remember a scene where a seemingly Ordinary High-School Student is kissing a girl on a park bench. The screen fades to black and moments later unfades to a view of the bloody lower half of the girl's body. Then the guy's view pans to hos hands turned into hideous claws. Switch to a view of him now as hideous bulky creature. As he exclaims "What the hell is this?" the upper half of the girl falls out of his mouth.
Edited by sohibil