Q 01/05

Who writes and draws Hunter x Hunter?

A) Yoshihiro Togashi

B) Masashi Kishimoto

C) Eiichiro Oda

D) Tite Kubo

Answer · why

A) Yoshihiro Togashi

Togashi had already finished YuYu Hakusho and Level E before starting the series in 1998.

Q 02/05

Hunter x Hunter has been serialized since March 1998 in which magazine?

A) Weekly Shonen Magazine

B) Weekly Shonen Sunday

C) Weekly Shonen Jump

D) Monthly Shonen Gangan

Answer · why

C) Weekly Shonen Jump

The same Shueisha magazine that ran Dragon Ball, One Piece and Naruto.

Q 03/05

Togashi is married to the creator of which other famous manga?

A) Fruits Basket

B) Sailor Moon

C) Cardcaptor Sakura

D) Nana

Answer · why

B) Sailor Moon

Naoko Takeuchi married him in January 1999 and helped apply screentone to the first volume of Hunter x Hunter.

Q 04/05

Which earlier Togashi series, about a teenage spirit detective, won the Shogakukan Manga Award?

A) Level E

B) Ten de Shōwaru Cupid

C) Tende Freeze

D) YuYu Hakusho

Answer · why

D) YuYu Hakusho

It ran in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1990 to 1994; Togashi has said the stress of that serialization is one reason he guards his health now.

Q 05/05

How is the '×' in the title Hunter × Hunter pronounced?

A) Like the word 'cross'

B) Like the word 'times'

C) Like the letter X

D) It is silent

Answer · why

D) It is silent

Togashi came up with the doubled title while watching the variety show Downtown, whose hosts repeat phrases for comic effect.