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Did You Know Anime #5 answers
October 29, 2026. All seven Ladder questions with answers, plus the Who's That Anime? puzzle.
The Ladder
Rung 1 · Easy
What makes Team Rocket's Meowth unusual?
Answer: He speaks human language
Did you know? He taught himself to talk like a human to impress a female Meowth. More facts
Rung 2 · Easy
What is Ash Ketchum's hometown?
Answer: Pallet Town
Did you know? In Japan Ash is called Satoshi, after Pokémon creator Satoshi Tajiri. More facts
Rung 3 · Medium
Which Kodansha magazine serialized the Attack on Titan manga?
Answer: Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine
Did you know? It ran in the monthly Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine from 2009 to 2021. More facts
Rung 4 · Medium
In Naruto, Jiraiya, Tsunade and Orochimaru are together known as the...
Answer: Legendary Sannin
Did you know? They earned the title by surviving a fight with Hanzo of the Hidden Rain during the Second Great Ninja War. More facts
Rung 5 · Hard
Who directed Studio Ghibli's Whisper of the Heart (1995)?
Answer: Yoshifumi Kondō
Did you know? It was Kondō's only film as director; he died in 1998. Miyazaki wrote the screenplay and storyboards.
Rung 6 · Hard
Who suggested the name "Kamehameha" for Goku's signature attack?
Answer: Toriyama's wife
Did you know? Toriyama's wife, Nachi Mikami, suggested it, after King Kamehameha I of Hawaii. More facts
Rung 7 · Legend
In Death Note's 2003 pilot chapter, who is the boy who finds the notebook?
Answer: Taro Kagami
Did you know? Taro thought the Death Note was a diary because he only knew the English word "note", and accidentally killed two bullies. More facts
Who's That Anime?
The answer was Fullmetal Alchemist.
- Its creator grew up on a Hokkaido dairy farm and later drew the farm-school manga Silver Spoon.
- Serialized in Square Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan from 2001 to 2010, collected in 27 volumes.
- Studio Bones adapted it as a TV series twice, first in 2003 and again in 2009.
- Two brothers attempt human transmutation to revive their mother and pay a terrible price.
- A boy with an automail arm seeks the philosopher's stone; his brother's soul is bound to a suit of armor.
Did you know? Because the manga was still running, Arakawa asked Bones to give the 2003 anime its own original ending.