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96 free Manga trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free manga trivia questions with answers. Are you a true manga fan? Put your knowledge to the test with our comprehensive Manga trivia quiz covering everything from classic series to modern masterpieces. Whether you're familiar with One Piece, Naruto, Attack on Titan, or lesser-known gems, this quiz will challenge your understanding of Japanese comic culture and the talented creators behind it.
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Q 01Most manga is traditionally printed in which colour format?
Black and white
Black and white keeps weekly manga cheap and fast: the magazines are printed on low-grade paper in a single ink colour, artists add shading with screentone, and colour is saved for a few rare pages.
Q 02In One Piece, the Devil Fruit that Monkey D. Luffy eats as a boy gives his body the properties of what?
Rubber
Rubber: the fruit lets Luffy stretch like elastic, but it also takes away his ability to swim for good, an awkward price for a boy who dreams of being King of the Pirates.
Q 03Which traditional Japanese scroll art form is often cited as manga's earliest ancestor?
Emakimono
Emakimono such as the 12th-century Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga tell stories in pictures as the scroll unrolls; its frogs and rabbits wrestling like people are why it is sometimes credited as the first manga.
Q 04Which ukiyo-e master published sketchbook volumes titled 'Manga' from 1814?
Hokusai
Hokusai's 'Manga' is not a comic at all: its fifteen volumes, the first published in 1814, are collections of thousands of sketches of people, animals and everyday life.
Q 05The early chapters of Dragon Ball were loosely modelled on which classic Chinese novel?
Journey to the West
Journey to the West gave Dragon Ball its hero: Son Goku is the Japanese name of the novel's Monkey King, Sun Wukong, which is why he starts out with a monkey's tail and a magic staff.
Q 06Manga aimed at young adult men, more mature than shōnen, falls under which demographic?
Seinen
Seinen means 'youth'. The category took shape in the late 1960s, when magazines such as Weekly Manga Action and Big Comic were launched for readers who had outgrown boys' comics.
Q 07In Naruto, which beast was sealed inside the title hero on the day he was born?
A nine-tailed fox
A nine-tailed fox was sealed inside the newborn Naruto by his father, the Fourth Hokage, to stop its attack on their village, which is why the villagers shun him throughout his childhood.
Q 08Which manga category is created primarily for adult women, often with realistic relationships?
Josei
Josei, 'women's comics', took shape in the 1980s, partly to serve readers who had grown up on girls' manga; its dramas are mostly realist stories about the lives of ordinary women.
Q 09In Fullmetal Alchemist, what does Alphonse Elric lose in the brothers' failed attempt to revive their mother?
His entire body
His entire body: Alphonse survives only because Edward, who has just lost a leg, gives up his right arm to bind his brother's soul to a suit of armour.
Q 10Which mangaka created the 'Dragon Ball' series?
Akira Toriyama
Akira Toriyama burst onto the scene in 1980 with the gag hit 'Dr. Slump' before 'Dragon Ball'; he also designed the characters for the Dragon Quest video games.
Q 11Which artist created the magical-girl manga 'Sailor Moon'?
Naoko Takeuchi
Naoko Takeuchi built 'Sailor Moon' out of her one-shot 'Codename: Sailor V'; a fan of live-action sentai team shows, she decided to make one with an all-female team.
Q 12Who created 'Galaxy Express 999' and 'Space Pirate Captain Harlock'?
Leiji Matsumoto
Leiji Matsumoto launched both space operas in 1977; decades later he supervised the animated videos for Daft Punk's album Discovery, released together as the film Interstella 5555.
Q 13Which mangaka created 'One Piece'?
Eiichiro Oda
Eiichiro Oda has said his love of pirates probably goes back to the TV cartoon Vicky the Viking, about a small Viking boy whose quick wits keep rescuing his father's crew on their voyages.
Q 21What do the Japanese call self-published works, including fan-made manga?
Dōjinshi
Dōjinshi are sold above all at Comiket, the Tokyo fair held every summer and winter: the first, in December 1975, drew about 700 people, and by 2019 attendance had reached some 750,000.
Q 22Which of these themes is most characteristic of shōnen manga?
Coming-of-age adventures and action
Coming-of-age adventures and action follow a famous formula: Weekly Shōnen Jump, launched in 1968, took 'friendship, effort, victory' as its watchwords, an idea of its first editor-in-chief.
Q 23Which 1975 shōjo manga by Kyoko Mizuki and Yumiko Igarashi follows an orphan girl?
Candy Candy
Q 14Which female mangaka created Fullmetal Alchemist?
Hiromu Arakawa
Hiromu Arakawa was born and raised on a dairy farm in Hokkaido, and she later turned that upbringing into 'Silver Spoon', a manga set at a Hokkaido agricultural high school.
Q 15Which manga, running in Big Comic since 1968, follows a professional assassin who goes by Duke Togo?
Golgo 13
Golgo 13 has outlived its creator: Takao Saito asked that the series carry on without him, so after his death in 2021 his studio, Saito Production, kept drawing it.
Q 16Which comedy manga ran in Weekly Shōnen Jump for exactly 40 years, September 1976 to 2016?
KochiKame
KochiKame is set around a police box in Tokyo's Kameari district, where more than a dozen bronze statues of its characters have gone up since 2006; the final chapter and the 200th volume came out on the same day.
Q 17Keiji Nakazawa's manga 'Barefoot Gen' is loosely based on his own survival of what event?
The Hiroshima atomic bombing
Nakazawa survived the Hiroshima atomic bombing as a six-year-old in 1945; he began writing about it after his mother's 1966 cremation left almost no bones, which he blamed on radiation.
Q 18Who created the dark fantasy manga "Berserk"?
Kentaro Miura
Kentaro Miura created 'Berserk', which began in 1989 in Hakusensha's Monthly Animal House before moving to Young Animal; after his death in 2021 it continued under his assistants with Kouji Mori.
Q 19Which mangaka created 'Inuyasha', 'Ranma ½' and 'Urusei Yatsura'?
Rumiko Takahashi
Rumiko Takahashi learned her craft at a manga school run by Kazuo Koike, the writer of Lone Wolf and Cub, while still at university, then had her first hit with 'Urusei Yatsura' in 1978.
Q 20What is the term for adult-oriented manga with complex narratives and cinematic effects, distinct from shōnen or shōjo?
Gekiga
Gekiga, 'dramatic pictures', was coined in 1957 by Yoshihiro Tatsumi, who wanted a name that set his gritty stories about everyday adults apart from children's comics.
Candy Candy ran in Nakayoshi from 1975 to 1979, then its creators fell out: in 2001 Japan's Supreme Court ruled that the illustrator could not sell goods based on it without the writer's consent.
Q 24In Sailor Moon, which talking black cat tells Usagi she is a guardian and gives her a transformation brooch?
Luna
Luna, the black cat with a crescent moon on her forehead, sends Usagi to find the other guardians and their lost princess, not knowing that the princess is Usagi herself.
Q 25Which major Japanese publisher is known for manga magazines like 'Weekly Shōnen Jump'?
Shueisha
Shueisha was set up in 1925 as the entertainment division of Shogakukan and became a separate company a year later, so the publisher of Weekly Shōnen Jump began life inside one of its main rivals.
Q 26Which American manga publisher began in 1997 as Mixx Entertainment, serializing Sailor Moon in its magazine MixxZine?
Tokyopop
Tokyopop, as Mixx renamed itself, announced in 2002 that all its manga would be printed 'unflopped' in the original Japanese page layout, the first North American publisher to commit to that.
Q 27Which 1947 work is credited with launching Japan's postwar manga boom?
New Treasure Island
New Treasure Island (Shin Takarajima), drawn by Osamu Tezuka in 1947 from Shichima Sakai's script, reportedly sold around 400,000 copies and set off the postwar 'akahon' manga boom.
Q 28In Doraemon, the robotic cat from the future is terrified of which animals?
Mice
Mice terrify Doraemon because one gnawed off his ears, which is why the cat-shaped robot has none; he was built yellow, and in the series' telling his own tears washed him blue.
Q 29Which mangaka created the Viking-themed historical manga 'Vinland Saga'?
Makoto Yukimura
Makoto Yukimura launched 'Vinland Saga' in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2005, but he could not keep up with a weekly schedule, so within months it moved to the monthly Afternoon.
Q 30Whose horror manga include 'Uzumaki', about a town cursed by spirals, and 'Tomie'?
Junji Ito
Junji Ito was working as a dental technician when he sent the first 'Tomie' story to a horror magazine's new prize, judged by his childhood favourite Kazuo Umezu; its honourable mention launched his career.