Q 01/05

Most manga is traditionally printed in which colour format?

A) Black and white

B) Full colour

C) Sepia tone

D) Two-colour duotone

Answer · why

A) Black and white

Black and white keeps weekly manga cheap and fast: the magazines are printed on low-grade paper in a single ink colour, artists add shading with scree...

Q 02/05

In One Piece, the Devil Fruit that Monkey D. Luffy eats as a boy gives his body the properties of what?

A) Smoke

B) Rubber

C) Magma

D) Light

Answer · why

B) Rubber

Rubber: the fruit lets Luffy stretch like elastic, but it also takes away his ability to swim for good, an awkward price for a boy who dreams of being...

Q 03/05

Which traditional Japanese scroll art form is often cited as manga's earliest ancestor?

A) Sumi-e

B) Ukiyo-e

C) Emakimono

D) Kakemono

Answer · why

C) Emakimono

Emakimono such as the 12th-century Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga tell stories in pictures as the scroll unrolls; its frogs and rabbits wrestling like people are...

Q 04/05

Which ukiyo-e master published sketchbook volumes titled 'Manga' from 1814?

A) Hiroshige

B) Utamaro

C) Hokusai

D) Sharaku

Answer · why

C) Hokusai

Hokusai's 'Manga' is not a comic at all: its fifteen volumes, the first published in 1814, are collections of thousands of sketches of people, animals...

Q 05/05

Which Japanese cartoonist first used 'manga' in its modern sense, in the early 1900s?

A) Katsushika Hokusai

B) Shigeru Mizuki

C) Osamu Tezuka

D) Rakuten Kitazawa

Answer · why

D) Rakuten Kitazawa

Hokusai had used the word long before, but Kitazawa (1876–1955), working in a Western cartoon style, gave it its modern meaning.