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Did You Know Anime #3 answers
October 27, 2026. All seven Ladder questions with answers, plus the Who's That Anime? puzzle.
The Ladder
Rung 1 · Easy
Who gave Luffy his famous straw hat?
Answer: Shanks
Did you know? "Red-Haired" Shanks was Luffy's childhood idol and mentor. More facts
Rung 2 · Easy
Which Pokémon does Ash get from Professor Oak as his first partner?
Answer: Pikachu
Did you know? Ash overslept on the day he was meant to pick a starter, so Oak handed him the last one left: a rebellious Pikachu. More facts
Rung 3 · Medium
Who sang "We Are!", the first One Piece anime opening?
Answer: Hiroshi Kitadani
Did you know? It opened episodes 1 to 47 and came back as a special opening for episode 1000. More facts
Rung 4 · Medium
Which jutsu did Kakashi Hatake invent?
Answer: Chidori
Did you know? Chidori means "One Thousand Birds", and Kakashi later passed it on to Sasuke. More facts
Rung 5 · Hard
Gorō Miyazaki made his directing debut with which Ghibli film?
Answer: Tales from Earthsea
Did you know? Hayao's son debuted with Tales from Earthsea (2006), adapting Ursula K. Le Guin; Poppy Hill came five years later.
Rung 6 · Hard
Which was the first non-Ghibli anime film nominated for the Best Animated Feature Oscar?
Answer: Mirai
Did you know? Mamoru Hosoda's Mirai was nominated for the 2019 Oscars but lost to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
Rung 7 · Legend
Which two-part 1983 Akira Toriyama one-shot was the prototype for Dragon Ball?
Answer: Dragon Boy
Did you know? Dragon Boy ran in Fresh Jump to test a kung-fu manga, and many of its plot beats were reused in Dragon Ball's first chapters. More facts
Who's That Anime?
The answer was Your Name..
- J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot and Paramount announced a live-action Hollywood remake of it.
- A 2016 CoMix Wave Films production whose score and songs are by the rock band Radwimps.
- Makoto Shinkai's 2016 film, the first of what critics call his 'disaster trilogy'.
- Fragments of the comet Tiamat strike Itomori, a fictional rural town in Gifu.
- A Tokyo boy and a country girl who have never met suddenly begin swapping bodies.
Did you know? It was the highest-grossing Japanese film of all time until Demon Slayer: Mugen Train passed it in 2020.