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Did You Know Anime #4 answers

October 28, 2026. All seven Ladder questions with answers, plus the Who's That Anime? puzzle.

The Ladder

  1. Rung 1 · Easy

    Naruto shares his name with which ramen topping?

    Answer: Fish cake

    Did you know? Narutomaki, a swirled fish cake often just called "naruto", is named after the Naruto whirlpools, which also inspired the hero's name. More facts

  2. Rung 2 · Easy

    Goku is based on which legendary figure?

    Answer: Sun Wukong

    Did you know? "Son Goku" is the Japanese reading of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King of Journey to the West. More facts

  3. Rung 3 · Medium

    Who sang "Cha-La Head-Cha-La", Dragon Ball Z's first opening?

    Answer: Hironobu Kageyama

    Did you know? The song opened DBZ's first 199 episodes. More facts

  4. Rung 4 · Medium

    Which district is Eren Yeager from in Attack on Titan?

    Answer: Shiganshina

    Did you know? Shiganshina sits on the outermost wall, which is why it's the first place the Titans break through. More facts

  5. Rung 5 · Hard

    Cowboy Bebop: The Movie is set between which two TV episodes?

    Answer: Episodes 22 and 23

    Did you know? It slots in between episodes 22 and 23. Its Japanese subtitle, Knockin' on Heaven's Door, was dropped abroad. More facts

  6. Rung 6 · Hard

    Evangelion's Angels are called "shito" in Japanese. What does shito literally mean?

    Answer: Apostles

    Did you know? 使徒 (shito) means apostles; the English 'Angels' was the show's own official translation. More facts

  7. Rung 7 · Legend

    Kishimoto's original 1997 Naruto one-shot ran in which Jump magazine?

    Answer: Akamaru Jump

    Did you know? In the pilot, Naruto was a fox spirit in human form in a modern-ish setting; Kishimoto later reworked it into a ninja story. More facts

Who's That Anime?

The answer was Akira.

  1. Its dialogue was recorded before animation so lip movements could be matched, a first for anime.
  2. Funded by a committee including Kodansha, Bandai and Toho, it cost about ¥700 million in 1988.
  3. Set in 2019, after Tokyo's sudden destruction triggered a world war; an Olympic stadium is being built.
  4. A biker gains telekinetic powers after crashing his motorcycle into a child esper.
  5. Katsuhiro Otomo's 1988 cyberpunk classic about a biker gang leader and his friend in Neo-Tokyo.

Did you know? The film's famously fluid motion took more than 160,000 animation cels.

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