Questions in this quiz: Manga Classics

Landmark manga across genres: Akira, Dragon Ball, One Piece, Naruto, Berserk, Death Note, Fullmetal Alchemist, Attack on Titan. Mangaka, serialization, and signature arcs.

1. In which magazine was Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira originally serialized from 1982 to 1990? — Options: Weekly Shōnen Jump, Young Magazine, Afternoon, Big Comic Spirits
2. Which arc of Dragon Ball is generally considered the final one of the original manga before its 1995 conclusion? — Options: Cell Games arc, Majin Buu arc, Frieza arc, Android arc
3. What is the name of the group of five transcendent beings in Berserk who preside over the ceremony of sacrifice that creates Apostles? — Options: The Holy See Council, The Godhand, The Council of Vritannis, The Neo Band of the Hawk
4. Hiromu Arakawa has stated that the alchemy system of Fullmetal Alchemist was inspired primarily by which real-world tradition? — Options: Renaissance European alchemy and the philosopher's stone legends, Vedic ritual practices, Chinese Taoist internal alchemy, Ancient Egyptian funerary magic
5. One Piece debuted in Weekly Shōnen Jump in which year? — Options: 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001
6. How did the protagonist of Masashi Kishimoto's 1997 Naruto one-shot differ from the protagonist of the later serialized series? — Options: He was a samurai apprentice rather than a ninja, He was the Nine-Tailed Fox in human form rather than a human host, He was an adult bounty hunter rather than a child, He was a swordsman seeking revenge for his clan
7. Death Note was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 2003 to 2006. Which duo created it? — Options: Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Yoshihiro Togashi and Naoko Takeuchi, Tite Kubo and Hiroyuki Asada, Nobuhiro Watsuki and Eiichiro Oda