Q 01/05

Who wrote and illustrated the Inuyasha manga?

A) Rumiko Takahashi

B) Naoko Takeuchi

C) Akira Toriyama

D) Hiromu Arakawa

Answer · why

A) Rumiko Takahashi

She began it right after finishing Ranma ½ and wanted something darker, closer to her Mermaid Saga stories.

Q 02/05

Which magazine serialised Inuyasha from November 1996 to June 2008?

A) Weekly Shōnen Jump

B) Weekly Shōnen Sunday

C) Weekly Shōnen Magazine

D) Big Comic Spirits

Answer · why

B) Weekly Shōnen Sunday

The 558 chapters were collected in 56 volumes; the run lasted eleven years and seven months.

Q 03/05

How old is Kagome Higurashi when she is dragged into the Bone Eater's Well?

A) Thirteen

B) Sixteen

C) Fifteen

D) Twelve

Answer · why

C) Fifteen

It happens on her birthday, when a centipede demon pulls her through the well at her family's shrine.

Q 04/05

Kagome is the reincarnation of which priestess?

A) Kaede

B) Midoriko

C) Kagura

D) Kikyo

Answer · why

D) Kikyo

The priestess had pinned Inuyasha to a tree with a sacred arrow fifty years earlier, and her sister Kaede tends the village.

Q 05/05

What does "Shikon no Tama" translate to?

A) The Jewel of Four Souls

B) The Jewel of the Dog God

C) The Jewel of Endless Night

D) The Jewel of Nine Tails

Answer · why

A) The Jewel of Four Souls

It is said to grant any wish, and Kagome shatters it with an arrow so the shards scatter across Japan.

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