Hello fellow puzzlers! Was anyone else board from the lack of easy puzzles while SG was down over the past 2 days? Well, I was, and thanks to a suggestion from someone in the steam group, I went so far as to make my own to pass the time!

This is a classic "Name the anime" puzzle, except with a slight twist - and that twist is the common element that all of these screenshots share (once figured out, may make things easier). In addition to that common element, there is also one other trait that they all share that will make the entire puzzle trivial. However, in order to spice things up a bit, the images have been slightly altered Don't hate me!

Puzzle: Name that Anime!
Deadline: Wednesday, October 21st, 12:00AM EST
Rules: Obviously don't give out answers, and don't share the giveaway link. If you want to help your fellow puzzlers with hints, however, you are free to do so.
Giveaway: They Bleed Pixels
Bonus reward: Anyone who makes the top 10 on the ITH leaderboard will be added to my whitelist (if your ITH name doesn't match your SG name, post what it is before solving)

Also, for those already on my whitelist, here is a little something for you ^_^

Hints:

Since I forgot to reserve the first post, I'll post hints here, should they be needed

Oct 19, 12am: Hint #1: All screenshots come from anime Ending/Openings (19 endings, 1 opening).
Oct 19, 12pm: Hint #2: All shows come from a list of exactly 101 102 TV-Anime
Oct 20, 12am: Hint #3: Individual hints have been added to ITH.


Solutions:

http://www.itstoohard.com/puzzle/kUr5qZZA/z9uJi3P9

I dropped a couple of hints in the comments, as well as on ITH, but the big hint was Hint #2, which stated that all the shows came from a list of exactly 102 TV-animes. Doing a google search for "AuthenticZac Anime" would have brought you to my own personal myanimelist profile, where, you would see that I have exactly 102 TV-anime listed (OVA/Movies not counted). Finding 20 specific anime out of a list of only 102 would have narrowed down the search considerably (And actually, the list is closer to 85 once you eliminate duplicate entries for shows like Major/Naruto/Ippo for their multiple seasons)

And it wouldn't be a proper anime-ending puzzle without sharing the theme music from which the screenshots came from, so here are all 20!

01-Super step by ammoflight The anime ED to this isn't on youtube
02-To All Tha Dreamers by SOUL'd OUT
03-Stand Up! ED by ED group The anime ED to this isn't on youtube. The closest is this parody version using Attack on Titan characters
04-Papepipu Papipepu Papepipupo by Sasaki Nozomi
05-BACCHIKOI by DEV PARADE
06-Spice By Tokyo Karankoron
07-Buchikome by Shikuramen
08-Gr8 Story by SuG
09-Hyouriittai by YUZU
10-FAITH by Ruppina
11-RunOver by Koike Joanna
12-Romatikku Ageru Yo by Ushio Hashimoto
13-Twilight Star by Megamasso
14-Stay Beautiful by Diggy-MO
15-Uso by SID
16-With You With Me by 9nine
17-Sayonara bye bye by Matsuko Mawatari
18-Namae no nai Kaibutsu by EGOIST
19-ZERO!! by Minami Kuribayashi
20-LIVE for LIFE by Aimi

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Got one! Yay! I'm an anime expert now! :D

8 years ago
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This puzzle makes me want to go finish Question #17.

8 years ago
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A couple of the characters look familiar, but that's as far as I'm going to get. Anime combined with not-Google-able is a non-starter for me :)

8 years ago
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Man this is hard, I found something they all have in common but its something they share with about a million other animes :p doesn't exactly trim it down.

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Bump for solved :3.

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8 years ago
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There are still 9 spots left on this one >_>. And I have confidence that after making 6th place in the forum sample puzzle the other day, you can solve this one easily

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Oops, I guess I ate one of the whitelist spots :v.

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I've only seen 4 of the 20.

8 years ago
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It's very hard.
I have no clue about Q3, Q7, Q9, Q10, Q14, and Q16.

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So close!
Q3 - It might help you to know that the main antagonist (not really a bad guy) has no balls, and whose nickname is just two letters
Q9 - One of the characters loves yoyos
Q10 - The person in this picture is potentially the best sniper, ever. 100 shots = 100 hits
Q14 - You probably have this in your household

8 years ago
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Thanks for the hints!!
I solved Q9 :D

Edit: and Q3 :)

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Finally solved! hooray!! :D

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Nice, congrats! ^_^
+Whitelist

8 years ago
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I have never watched anime, it is impossible for me :P although I did get 1 of them haha

8 years ago
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Even if you can't use google one way, there are always other ways to use it to find what you are looking for ;)

8 years ago
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and that is how I found the first one, but I just need to find one more so maybe I can find these two things they have in common that will make the others easier to find... I have not given up yet :P

8 years ago
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Q2, Q5 left. No clue about them

8 years ago
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I'd be surprised if you haven't at least heard of #5 >__>

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If you choose tricky screenshots don't blame me for not guessing it T_T
Q2 left

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Q15 is actually incredibly popular. The art style of this one may being throwing you off though ;)

8 years ago
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I tried it, but there are 10 shows I don't recognize at all. Just wanted to see which I could name anyway.

8 years ago
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Only got 8 of them right now :p (2-5-6-10-12-13-14-15)
And can't remember Q17 but I'm sure I know that one. ._.

8 years ago
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Bump for solved.Nice Puzzle :)

8 years ago
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Way to go! I knew it wasn't that tough >_>
+Whitelisted

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I only knew 11 of them because I have watched those shows, the others I havent watched so I dunno, thank you for the giveaways though :D

8 years ago
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Bump for solved

8 years ago
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Congrats, and <3hitelisted

8 years ago
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Got 3!!! And fail in the rest :|
Great puzzle, you can't google them and only people who know the animes can join
Take this, right from my facebook Like

8 years ago
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Nothing is completely safe from googling. There is still one thing, that if discovered, could make the puzzle very trivial >__>

8 years ago
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Q1,Q2,Q3,Q5

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Bump for solved

8 years ago
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Way to go! +Whitelist ^_^

8 years ago
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Halfway done, I'll solve it after some sleep. I recognize all of them but can't remember them. :(

8 years ago
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11/20 ill check it later~~

8 years ago
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The end?
You mean that sniper old man?? xD

Ahhhh
Almost
I spend 10 min until I really don't understand Q2 and Q7
I'll go cry in corner T_T
A little hint please?
One thing for sure, I'm sure I never watched those two

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Despite both Q2 and Q7 having a big muscle-bound character (who is also friendly with the main character), only one of them aims for world dominance. The other one would prefer to spend his time with those in knead

8 years ago
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I don't have time for now i got 15/20 in the first look. Nice puzzle i will come back!

8 years ago
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Bump for solved!

8 years ago
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Just dropped the first big hint. This should help those who don't know that many anime

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Nice, congrats! I knew you could do it
+whitelist ^_^

8 years ago
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24 hours left, so the 3rd hint has been dropped (set of hints, really)

8 years ago
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Q3 has been killing me since yesterday, you dont like fairy tail?

8 years ago
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Actually, I originally had 23 images, but it was one of the three I ended up cutting for the final puzzle (the SG group users got a sample puzzle that included it and two other animes when the site was down the other day)

8 years ago
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I finally resolve Q3!!!, thanks for the whitelist.
I also like Gintama maybe was one of the other two animes :)

8 years ago
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Congrats
Whitelisted you once I saw you on the leaderboard a bit earlier :)

8 years ago
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Oh I forgot this puzzle. Solved with the hint

8 years ago
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Congrats! I'd give you a +whitelist, but double-whitelisting doesn't exist yet :P

8 years ago
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Sorry again T_T I completely forgot about it until I read the comments in the giveaway

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No worries. I'm just happy you took the time to solve it

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Closed 8 years ago by AuthenticZac.