Princess Tutu
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40 free Princess Tutu trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Princess Tutu looks like a magical girl show and plays like a dark storybook set to classical music. A small bird falls for a prince who cannot feel, a long-dead author keeps meddling from beyond the grave, and nearly every conflict is settled by dancing rather than fighting. It ran for just 26 episodes in 2002 and 2003, and fans have been recommending it ever since. This quiz covers the whole production: the plot and its twists, the heroes, rivals and villains, the ballets and composers the series borrows from, the opening and ending themes, the Japanese and English voice casts, and the studio and staff who made it. It is pitched at fans who have seen the series, with plenty of easier questions for anyone who half-remembers it or simply loves ballet. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you may come away wanting to watch it all over again.
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Q 01Which Hans Christian Andersen story, along with a famous ballet, inspired the plot of Princess Tutu?
The Ugly Duckling
The Ugly Duckling fits a heroine who really is a small duck, turned into a girl and then a graceful ballerina by a magical gift.
Q 02What does Mr. Cat, the ballet teacher in Princess Tutu, threaten to make misbehaving girls do?
Marry him
Marry him is the threat Mr. Cat hangs over late or distracted students, and Duck hears it most of all.
Q 03Which gift from Drosselmeyer makes Duck a girl in Princess Tutu and proves to be the last heart shard?
A pendant
A pendant makes Duck human, so returning it to complete the prince's heart means going back to being a bird for good.
Q 04Mytho's true name in Princess Tutu, Siegfried, is borrowed from the prince of which classic ballet?
Swan Lake
Swan Lake also gives the first-season finale its title, and the name Siegfried is only revealed at the very end of the series.
Q 05What did frightened townsfolk do to the storyteller Drosselmeyer in Princess Tutu to stop his stories coming true?
Cut off his hands
Cut off his hands, and yet he outwitted them: a machine he made before dying lets him keep steering the story from beyond the grave.
Q 06After a stray quack turns her back into a bird in Princess Tutu, what must Duck touch to become human again?
Water
Water restores her human shape, which is why a helpful splash from a friend so often rescues Duck at the last second.
Q 07Drosselmeyer, the storyteller of Princess Tutu, shares his name with a godfather in which classic ballet?
The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker's Drosselmeyer is the toymaker godfather who gives the heroine her nutcracker; the anime's version is a dead author still steering his story.
Q 08Which animator, best known for her work on Sailor Moon, created Princess Tutu and designed its characters?
Ikuko Itoh
Ikuko Itoh was an animation director on early Sailor Moon episodes before taking over that show's character designs in 1994.
Q 09In Princess Tutu, what would the title ballerina turn into if she ever confessed her love to Mytho?
A speck of light
A speck of light is her written fate, so in the first-season finale she declares her feelings through dance instead of words.
Q 10In which European language does Princess Tutu label its seasons as Kapitel and number each episode as an Akt?
German
German suits the storybook town, and the show also lists the classical pieces behind its episodes under their names in that language.
Q 11Fakir in Princess Tutu is the reincarnation of which figure from the old story The Prince and the Raven?
The Knight
The Knight died shielding the Prince, and Fakir was born with a scar-like birthmark exactly where the fatal wound fell.
Q 12What kind of being is Edel, who carries a tray of jewelry and advises Duck in Princess Tutu?
A wooden puppet
A wooden puppet built by Drosselmeyer to narrate in his place, Edel was meant to have no feelings but grows them through knowing Duck.
Q 13What is the name of the academy where Duck, Rue and Mytho study ballet in Princess Tutu?
Gold Crown
Gold Crown Academy is Kinkan Gakuen in the Japanese original, and it sits in a town of the same name that turns out to be sealed off by a wall.
Q 21Which instrument does Edel play as she drifts around town offering Duck advice in Princess Tutu?
A street organ
A street organ announces Edel wherever she appears, and she offers stories along with her advice.
Q 22How does Edel lead Tutu and Mytho out of the darkness at the end of Princess Tutu's first season?
By setting herself alight
By setting herself alight, Edel becomes a guiding flame, and her last request is to watch the two of them dance together.
Q 23What does Drosselmeyer do at the very end of Princess Tutu, once the story he steered ends happily?
Seeks a new tale
Q 14Which dark alter ego does Rue take on in Princess Tutu, believing she is the daughter of the Raven?
Kraehe
Princess Kraehe steals a heart shard on her first appearance, before the girl behind her even understands she has a second self.
Q 15In Princess Tutu, which part of the Raven is used to taint a heart shard and slowly corrupt Mytho?
His blood
His blood soaks the shard holding the feeling of love, and under its sway Mytho starts hunting for pure hearts to sacrifice.
Q 16Princess Tutu's first season is called the Chapter of the what?
Egg
Egg comes first and the second season follows as the Chapter of the Chick or the Fledgling, depending on which DVD release you own.
Q 17Which Russian composer wrote the music named in the subtitles of Princess Tutu's first and last episodes?
Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky towers over the soundtrack, which mixes his ballet scores with recordings of Johann Strauss II and Erik Satie.
Q 18What does Rue learn about her true origins late in Princess Tutu, after years of serving the Raven?
She was a kidnapped baby
She was a kidnapped baby, taken from her parents during an attack on the town and raised to think no one else could love her.
Q 19Which drum-playing, toddler-like doll does Charon make in the second season of Princess Tutu?
Uzura
Uzura is endlessly curious and spends the second season trying to work out what love is.
Q 20Which two ballet classmates are Duck's best friends in the Princess Tutu anime, forever meddling in her love life?
Pike and Lilie
Pike and Lilie exist only in the anime; the manga swaps them for two girls named Mai and Yuma.
Seeks a new tale: denied the tragedy he wanted, he simply wanders off to watch some other plot unfold.
Q 24Which veteran director, who launched Ojamajo Doremi at Toei, was the chief director of Princess Tutu?
Junichi Sato
Junichi Sato was also the first series director of Sailor Moon, and in 1986 had become the youngest series director in Toei's history.
Q 25Which song opens Princess Tutu, paired with an ending theme whose title translates as Although My Love Is Small?
Morning Grace
Morning Grace swaps places for the first-season finale, playing over the end credits instead of the usual closing song.
Q 26Which actress, the English voice of Ochaco in My Hero Academia, plays Duck in the Princess Tutu dub?
Luci Christian
Luci Christian is also the English voice of Nami in One Piece and of Honey in Ouran High School Host Club.
Q 27Which Houston-based distributor licensed Princess Tutu for North America and produced its English-language dub?
ADV Films
ADV Films released the dub on single DVD volumes from 2005 and as a complete collection two years later.
Q 28Which Japanese name, simply the word for her species, does the heroine keep in the English Princess Tutu manga?
Ahiru
Ahiru stays untranslated in the English manga, where the heroine also gains a surname, Arima, that the anime never gives her.
Q 29Which animals trample Femio, the self-declared prince, in the Princess Tutu episode subtitled after Carmen?
Bulls
Bulls flatten Femio because he cannot pick between two rival princesses, having vowed to love and be loved by everyone.
Q 30Which animal is the jealous ballet student who challenges Rue to a dance-off early in Princess Tutu?
An anteater
An anteater, sore at being outshone, turns out to carry the first heart shard Tutu recovers: the feeling of bitterness.