Q 01/05

Visual kei band Nightmare's songs The World and Alumina were the first opening and ending themes of which anime?

A) Code Geass

B) Claymore

C) Death Note

D) Hellsing

Answer · why

C) Death Note

Death Note used Nightmare's The World as its first opening and Alumina as its first ending, across the first nineteen episodes. The exposure made the ...

Q 02/05

In 2009 Sanrio launched a merchandise line blending X Japan's Yoshiki with which famous mascot character?

A) Hello Kitty

B) My Melody

C) Cinnamoroll

D) Kuromi

Answer · why

A) Hello Kitty

Hello Kitty and the drummer merge in Yoshikitty, the first Sanrio character modeled on a real person. In 2018 it out-polled the original character in ...

Q 03/05

Visual kei guitarist Miyavi played a brutal prison camp corporal in which 2014 film directed by Angelina Jolie?

A) Emperor

B) Unbroken

C) Hacksaw Ridge

D) Silence

Answer · why

B) Unbroken

Unbroken cast Miyavi as Mutsuhiro Watanabe, the corporal who singles out Olympic runner Louis Zamperini for beatings. Back home he is known for a fing...

Q 04/05

Cross-dressing visual kei musicians are often likened to onnagata, the men who play women in which Japanese theatre?

A) Noh

B) Bunraku

C) Kyogen

D) Kabuki

Answer · why

D) Kabuki

Kabuki has relied on onnagata since 1629, when women were banned from its stages. In visual kei the look rose to prominence with Malice Mizer, whose g...

Q 05/05

X Japan's 2007 reunion single I.V. was the main theme of the fourth film in which horror series?

A) Saw

B) Scream

C) Alien

D) Psycho

Answer · why

A) Saw

Saw IV got its main theme after the studio asked Yoshiki to compose one, and he chose to record it with his newly reunited band. The single arrived a ...