Anime, COmics & Cartoons Quiz

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Q1.

Akira is a 1988 science fiction anime film which depicts a dystopian, cyberpunk-based future. It is set against the backdrop of something, which is now an assured certainty with several commentators claiming that Akira had predicted it correctly. In a trailer for the film, a sign outside a particular site reads: “147 Days Until the ______ ________.” Under that, it reads, “With everyone’s effort, let’s make this a success.”

What did Akira predict, which became a reality on September 7th, 2013?"

And the answer is…

Tokyo hosting the 2020 Olympic Games

Q2.

Coming out more than two decades later, Astra Force can be considered to be the second coming of X, a 1980’s comic series featuring Y.

ID X and Y.


X – SupremoY- Amitabh Bachchan

Q3.

A terrible car accident badly injured X in 1961 as he was driving along the Sunset Boulevard. X was almost killed and slipped into a coma. His wife and son spent two weeks at his bedside trying to revive him. They got no response. One day, one of the neurologists walked into the room and tried something completely new. He went to X's bed, and asked “____ _____, how are you doing today?" There was a pause as everyone shook their head disparagingly. Then came the response anyone would recognize. "Myeeeh. What's up doc?“

ID X and FITB.


X – Mel BlancBlank – Bugs Bunny

Q4.

One of Hollywood's most influential action movies, X, borrowed heavily from the cyberpunk anime feature, Y. In fact even when it was pitched, the directors showed Y to Producer Joel Silver, saying "We want to do a live action version of that".

The influences are evident from the green typography to ports at the back of human's necks.

ID X&Y


X – The MatrixY- Ghost in the Shell

Q5. Kim Possible parodying what?

http://www.nospoiler.com/y/CRykCGs9WxU


F.R.I.E.N.D.S

Q6.

Makoto Shinkai is a film-maker who is known for the beautiful art in his animated movies. One of his movies, titled X, tells the story of two people who fall in love but are not fated to be together. According to this movie, X is the speed at which the Sakura leaves fall from the tree and X is also the speed at which the two main leads in the movie are drifting apart.

What is X?


5 Centimeters per Second

Q7.

X claims to be a soldier from the year 2036, a member of the Florida Fighting Diamondbacks Military. He was sent in 1975 to retrieve an IBM PC which according to him was necessary to solve a big problem in the future. However, he took a detour and ended up in year 2000 for "personal reasons".

He made various random predictions about the future, some of them quite specific in nature. However none of them came out to be true. Yet, due to the widespread media attention he received, X has been mentioned in pop culture many times, most notably in a 2011 Anime.

ID X and the Anime.


X – John TitorAnime – Steins;Gate

Q8.According to Julius Schwartz, it was inspired by

acrobats, wrestlers, gymnasts and strongmen of the 1930’s, who were icons of incredible strength and athleticism.

Another reason is that paper quality was initially shoddy and printing technology primitive, necessitating the use of sharp, clean, well defined edges.

It was thus a way for artists to quickly and easily add detail to the lower half of what they were drawing.

These are possible origins of which often ridiculed motif?


Superheroes wearing their underpants outside.

Written Round

Theme :- Guitar Medley of Anime Themes

12 anime themes +4 for each. Order doesn’t matter. +12 bonus for getting more than 8, +24 bonus for all 12.

http://www.nospoiler.com/y/-PQJojg62aQ


I don’t trust Ayush…

Answers

Attack on Titan Tokyo Ghoul Digimon Adventures Noragami Death Note Code Geass FLCL Naruto Shippuden One Piece Soul Eater Cowboy Bebop Mirai Nikkit (Future Diary)

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Q9.

This is Oscar winning actress Hattie McDaniel.

She was revealed to be the inspiration for the character of Mammy Two Shoes, a partially ______ character in X.

Mammy’s appearances have often been edited out of reruns of X, as they fit an archetype of a heavyset African-American woman, which is now regarded as racist.

X?


X – Tom and Jerry

Q10.

The _________ principle is the tendency in films, cartoons and television series to include one stereotypical female character in an all-male ensemble. Princess Leia, Penny in The Big Bang Theory, Elaine in Seinfeld, Kanga in Winnie the Pooh, April in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and of course _________, the little Phyrgian-cap-dorning Belgian comic character, whom the principle is named after.


Smurfette

Q11. X & Y?

X is the main character of the eponymous anime X, loosely translated to Bean Bun Boy ( because X’s head is made of bread). It is one of the most popular anime series amongst young children in Japan and has been on air since 1988. Bandai’s research in 2011 found X to be the most popular fictional character among people of ages 0 to 12 in Japan for 10 consecutive years. In 2009, Guinness verified X to have the highest number of characters in an animated franchise with 1768 characters in the first 980 episodes. X is a superhero and a symbol of justice for the town and his weaknesses are water & anything dirty. His super attacks are punch and kick ( with stronger variants of both ).

X is said to have inspired the design of Y - which is a play on the name X. Y is a viral webcomic (surpassing 7.9 million hits in 2012) and later, manga and anime. The series was nominated for an Eisner award in 2015. Y is also about a superhero, who is bored of his powers, in a world full of strange monsters that mysteriously appear and cause disaster.


X – AnpanmanY – One Punch Man (Wanpanman in Japanese)

Q12.

When the creator of this character first saw this statue, he suggested a seemingly insignificant change to distinguish it from most other statues.

He felt that the change would make it a better representation of everything this character stood for, and its everyday trials and tribulations.

What change?


The smooth granite pedestal was replaced by one made of ordinary rock.

Q13.

According to X’s creator Vincent Connare, John Costanza’s lettering on the Watchmen series was his primary inspiration.

Over the years, X has been the subject of widespread contempt, owing to its incongruous use for writing on serious subjects.

According to Dave Gibbons, the illustrator behind Watchmen, "I think what he came up with was vastly inferior, certainly to John Costanza's lettering and I think also to mine. And I'd have much rather they'd just come to John or me and said: "Look, can you do some hand lettering for us?". I'm sure we would have done it really, really cheaply and I'm sure that what's out there would look a lot cleaner and a lot better.”

What is X?


Comic Sans MS

Q14. The following is a short description of the main characters of SpongeBob Squarepants.

Patrick: Lays under a rock all the time and doesn't really do anything. Squidward: Hates his life, hates SpongeBob, and is pretty much angry most of the time. Mr. Krabs: Rich and obsessed with money. Over the series he makes various plans to earn

more money, and some of the times, ends up losing them. Plankton: Always had a dislike for Mr. Krabs because of the fact that his restaurant isn't as

successful as "The Krusty Krab". Even tries to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula. Gary: Part of a running gag in the series, where different characters keep reminding

SpongeBob that he's "gotta go feed Gary". Even ran away at a time when SpongeBob forgot to feed him

Sandy: Takes joy/satisfaction on the fact that she's from Texas, and unlike others she's a land mammal. Even tried to prove that land critters are better than sea critters.

SpongeBob: Always overeager to do good and help people. Behaves kindly to everyone around him, even if they don't.

Give X and name the anime.

These descriptions are the reason for a popular fan theory which states that the main characters of SpongeBob Squarepants are representations of X.

The group of antagonists in a popular anime series are also named on the basis of X. They also posses the same characteristics as of those given in the previous slide, albeit on an extreme level.


X: Seven Deadly Sins from the BibleAnime: Fullmetal Alchemist (Brotherhood)

Q15. Connect (Image in the next slide)


Inspirations for The Kingdom Palaces in Avatar/Legend of Korra

Q16.

Before Bob the Builder could be aired in Japan, his hands had to be altered to have five fingers instead of the usual four.

Similar treatment was meted out to other foreign cartoon characters, such as Postman Pat.

This was done because the authorities thought the sight of hands with 4 digits would be alarming to Japanese children, for a very particular reason.

What reason?


Because the Yakuza cut-off their pinkies as punishment or as an induction ritual

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