Q 01/05

What one-word command does Kagome use to slam Inuyasha to the ground through his prayer beads?

A) Heel

B) Down

C) Sit

D) Stay

Answer · why

C) Sit

Sit, osuwari in Japanese, is the word Kagome blurted after Kaede put the beads on him, and it has flattened him ever since.

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

Weekly Shōnen Sunday printed the last chapter in June 2008, and in 2009 the anime returned as The Final Act to adapt the rest of the manga.

Q 03/05

What drags Kagome Higurashi into the Bone Eater's Well on her fifteenth birthday?

A) A crow demon

B) A centipede demon

C) A snake demon

D) A toad demon

Answer · why

B) A centipede demon

A centipede demon wants the Shikon Jewel hidden inside her body, so Kagome frees Inuyasha from his tree to kill it.

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

The Jewel of Four Souls is said to grant any wish; after Kagome's arrow shatters it, the shards scatter across Japan to demons and humans alike.

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