Do you know your Japanese anime?

By: Olivia Seitz
Estimated Completion Time
5 min
Do you know your Japanese anime?
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About This Quiz

From movies to TV shows, anime has made a lasting impression on U.S. culture. Prove your anime knowledge by completing this quiz on some of the most popular anime ever made!
Which anime also became a popular trading card game and one of the first augmented reality games to hit the market?
"Pokemon"
"Case Closed"
"Magi"
"Kill la Kill"
Which Japanese anime made it big in the U.S., even being shown on Saturday morning television?
"Durarura"
"Sailor Moon"
"Maid Sama"
"Blood+"
"Fullmetal Alchemist" is an action-packed story centering on two brothers who lost more than one limb in a ritual to do what?
grow their power exponentially
close the portal to Hell
create a homonculus
bring back their dead mother

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Which of these anime features a gun-slinging bounty hunter out in the reaches of space?
"Dragon Ball Z"
"Read or Die"
"Higorashi no naku koro ni"
"Cowboy Bebop"
Which of the following anime is a shoujo classic, featuring lots of cute boys and girls and their antics at school?
"One Piece"
"Naruto"
"Black Butler"
"Ouran High School Host Club"
Which series of anime movies features a sexy cyborg and was recently rebooted to a live-action version starring Scarlett Johansson?
"Naruto"
"Soul Eater"
"Ghost in the Shell"
"Monster"

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Which anime explores what happens when you accidentally grant immortality to thieves and mafia?
"Grave of the Fireflies"
"Baccano!"
"Kiki's Delivery Service"
"Kill la Kill"
Which anime starts slow, then explodes mid-season with time travel and the butterfly effect?
"Angel Beats!"
"Blood+"
"Mushi-Shi"
"Steins;Gate"
Which popular anime produced this quote: "Your drill is the drill that will pierce the heavens"?
"Gurren Lagann"
"Samurai Champloo"
"Rurouni Kenshin"
"Fate/stay night"

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Which anime features a protagonist able to kill instantly by writing a person's name down in his notebook?
"Death Note"
"Clannad"
"Full Metal Panic"
"Hellsing"
In the popular anime "Fairy Tail," the protagonist, Lucy, wants to become what?
assassin
princess
wizard
waitress
Which anime tells the tale of a heroic gunslinger with a $60 billion dollar bounty on his head?
"Trigun"
"Naruto"
"Mushi-Shi"
"Angel Beats!"

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In "Naruto," the main character (a ninja) wears what color?
bright blue
white
muted red
bright orange
In which Miyazaki film do the characters search for an ancient floating castle?
"Porco Rosso"
"My Neighbor Totoro"
"Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind"
"Castle in the Sky"
The main character takes control of a revolution and plays people like pawns in a chess game, in which anime?
"Bleach"
"Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion"
"FLCL"
"Claymore"

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What is the premise of "Sword Art Online"?
Players are trapped in a virtual reality world.
Craftsmen compete to create the most powerful sword.
A village art contest turns deadly.
A group of teenagers builds the world's first virtual reality game.
What type of anime is "Neon Genesis Evangelion"?
romance
mecha
shoujo
magical girls
Many of the characters featured in "Bleach" are what?
dead
scientists
zombies
monsters

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"The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" is about what?
a girl who reads her grandmother's journals
a girl abducted by aliens and thrown into the future
a girl who finds a time travel device
all of the above
Which of Hayao Miyazaki's films featured a flamboyant wizard, a young girl under an old-age curse, and a smack-talking fire demon?
"Ponyo"
"Princess Mononoke"
"Spirited Away"
"Howl's Moving Castle"
"One Piece" centers around a boy who wants to become what?
a holy knight
a musician
Pirate King
the world's best businessman

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Which of these anime tells the story of a boy who sells his soul to a demon for protection (and revenge)?
"Darker Than Black"
"Black Butler"
"Hellsing"
"Magi"
The main character of "Inuyasha" is what?
a half-demon
a young school girl
both
neither
In "Blue Exorcist," what does the protagonist learn about himself?
He is descended from a long line of ninjas.
He is fated for death in one year.
He is the spawn of Satan.
He is beloved by ten different high school girls.

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"Puella Magi Madoka Magica" is all about what?
magical girls
romance
gladiator games
a war with an alien race
Which anime, with a large following focuses on the last city of humans in a post-apocalyptic future?
"Attack on Titan"
"Elfen Lied"
"Ponyo"
"Chobits"
Which Miyazaki film focuses on a girl who must work in the spirit world as she looks for a way to free her parents?
"Princess Mononoke"
"The Wind Rises"
"The Castle of Cagliostro"
"Spirited Away"

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The star of "Samurai Champloo," Mugen, has a fighting style inspired by which type of dance?
Tango
Waltz
Hip-hop
Ballet
In "Fruits Basket," the orphaned protagonist lives with seemingly normal people who turn out to be what?
a deadly team of assassins
actually just totally normal
zodiac animals
celebrity chefs
Which famous anime produced the term "Super Saiyan"?
"Toradora!"
"Berserk"
"Dragon Ball Z"
"Soul Eater"

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Around what concept is the hit show "One Punch Man" designed?
a hero who defeats his enemies with a single punch
a hero who is knocked out after taking one blow
a hero who saves the universe with his flurry of punches
a hero who only kicks his enemies to defeat them
Which show stars Gon, a young boy who becomes a powerful fighter so he can find his father?
"Lucky Star"
"Hunter x Hunter"
"Ah! My Goddess"
"Read or Die"
Virtual reality and the real world mix when a terrifying AI takes over the world of OZ, in which exciting flick?
"Summer Wars"
"No Game No Life"
"Parasyte"
"Yu Yu Hakusho"

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Which anime series is all about obtaining the Holy Grail?
"Psycho-pass"
"Fate/stay night"
"Gunslinger Girl"
"Spice and Wolf"
Which anime spawned a cult following because of the "Air King"?
"Eden of the East"
"Kill la Kill"
"High School of the Dead"
"Your Lie in April"