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Did You Know Anime #2 answers

October 26, 2026. All seven Ladder questions with answers, plus the Who's That Anime? puzzle.

The Ladder

1. Rung 1 · Easy

   What creature is sealed inside Naruto Uzumaki?

   Answer: The Nine-Tailed Fox

   Did you know? His father, Minato Namikaze, sealed half of the fox inside him on the night he was born. The fox's name is Kurama. More facts

2. Rung 2 · Easy

   What is Goku's Saiyan birth name?

   Answer: Kakarot

   Did you know? Saiyans are named after vegetables, and "Kakarot" is a pun on "carrot". More facts

3. Rung 3 · Medium

   In what year did Dragon Ball begin serialization in Weekly Shōnen Jump?

   Answer: 1984

   Did you know? Toriyama's manga ran from November 1984 to May 1995. More facts

4. Rung 4 · Medium

   Who performed "Guren no Yumiya", Attack on Titan's first opening?

   Answer: Linked Horizon

   Did you know? Its half-German chorus ("Seid ihr das Essen? Nein, wir sind der Jäger!") became a fan chant. More facts

5. Rung 5 · Hard

   Who voices Spike Spiegel in the original Japanese Cowboy Bebop?

   Answer: Kōichi Yamadera

   Did you know? Kōichi Yamadera voiced Spike; Unshō Ishizuka was Jet and Megumi Hayashibara was Faye. More facts

6. Rung 6 · Hard

   Who voices Shinji Ikari in the Japanese Evangelion?

   Answer: Megumi Ogata

   Did you know? Megumi Ogata voices Shinji. The others voice Rei, Asuka and Misato. More facts

7. Rung 7 · Legend

   Astro Boy first appeared as a supporting character in which earlier Tezuka manga?

   Answer: Ambassador Atom

   Did you know? Atom debuted in Ambassador Atom (1951) and proved so popular he got his own series in Shonen magazine the next year.

Who's That Anime?

The answer was Death Note.

1. Madhouse's 2006 adaptation was directed by Tetsurō Araki, who later directed Attack on Titan.
2. Written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata; ran in Weekly Shōnen Jump 2003–2006.
3. A brilliant yet disaffected Tokyo high school student begins secretly killing high-profile criminals.
4. Interpol calls in an enigmatic detective known only as 'L' to catch a brilliant student.
5. Ryuk, a bored shinigami, drops a book that kills anyone whose name is written in it.

Did you know? Ohba felt they couldn't create a conventional fight manga for Weekly Shōnen Jump, so they wrote a suspense story instead.

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