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Did You Know Anime #1 answers
October 25, 2026. All seven Ladder questions with answers, plus the Who's That Anime? puzzle.
The Ladder
Rung 1 · Easy
What does Monkey D. Luffy dream of becoming?
Answer: King of the Pirates
Did you know? He wants to find the legendary One Piece treasure and succeed Gold Roger as King of the Pirates. More facts
Rung 2 · Easy
What kind of animal is Tony Tony Chopper?
Answer: A reindeer
Did you know? Strangers constantly mistake him for a tanuki (raccoon dog), and he angrily corrects them every time. More facts
Rung 3 · Medium
Which studio animates the One Piece TV anime?
Answer: Toei Animation
Did you know? Toei has produced the show since it premiered on Fuji TV on October 20, 1999. More facts
Rung 4 · Medium
Which studio animated both Naruto and Naruto Shippuden?
Answer: Pierrot
Did you know? Pierrot is also the studio behind Bleach, Yu Yu Hakusho and Tokyo Ghoul. More facts
Rung 5 · Hard
Studio Ghibli's name comes from the nickname of what?
Answer: An Italian WWII plane
Did you know? Miyazaki took it from the Caproni Ca.309 'Ghibli' plane, named for a desert wind, to blow a new wind through anime.
Rung 6 · Hard
Which director was originally chosen to direct Howl's Moving Castle before quitting?
Answer: Mamoru Hosoda
Did you know? Hosoda left after Ghibli executives rejected many of his ideas, so Miyazaki took over the film.
Rung 7 · Legend
What was Toei Doga's first theatrical feature, Japan's first color feature-length anime (1958)?
Answer: Hakujaden
Did you know? Hakujaden (Panda and the Magic Serpent) took two years to make and inspired a high-school Hayao Miyazaki to pursue animation.
Who's That Anime?
The answer was Naruto.
- Its creator's 1997 one-shot for Akamaru Jump was about a boy who could transform into a fox.
- Studio Pierrot's 2002 TV adaptation ran 220 episodes on TV Tokyo before a direct sequel series.
- Masashi Kishimoto's manga ran in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1999 to 2014 across 700 chapters.
- A nine-tailed fox that attacked a village is sealed inside the Fourth Hokage's newborn son.
- A scorned young ninja of the Hidden Leaf dreams of becoming Hokage; his teammates are Sasuke and Sakura.
Did you know? The sequel series, Naruto: Shippuden, ran for 500 episodes from 2007 to 2017.