Q 01/05

What does Gon use as his weapon during the Hunter Exam?

A) A fishing rod

B) A pair of yo-yos

C) A wooden sword

D) A slingshot

Answer · why

A) A fishing rod

A fishing rod is Gon's weapon: in the exam's fourth phase on Zevil Island he uses its line to snatch a rival's number badge from a distance.

Q 02/05

Hunter x Hunter began serialization in 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

Weekly Shonen Jump, Shueisha's flagship weekly, began serializing Hunter x Hunter in March 1998; the same magazine ran Dragon Ball, One Piece and Naru...

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

Sailor Moon's creator Naoko Takeuchi married Togashi in January 1999, making two of Japan's best-known manga artists a married couple.

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

YuYu Hakusho, whose hero Yusuke Urameshi works as a spirit detective, ran from 1990 to 1994 and took the Shogakukan Manga Award in the shonen category...

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

It is silent: the Japanese title ハンター×ハンター is read simply 'Hantā Hantā', so the '×' is a purely visual mark and is never voiced.