Magical Girls Around the World
This Italian show premiered on Nickelodeon and featured a team of students who transformed into fairy warriors to fight villains.
A. What is Winx Club
In this 2019 anime, the main character just wanted to be a Librarian, but now, not only is she a child, but she is in a world WITHOUT BOOKS!
A. What is Ascendance of a Bookworm
This show from 1969 led to the creation of the first major fan convention featuring panels with the show's actors and eventually led to the general structure for modern fan conventions.
A. What is Star Trek
This death god appears to the new owner of a dangerous notebook he dropped into the human world out of boredom.
A. Who is Ryuk
Star Wars Episode one The Phantom Menace is actually the ___ movie to come out in the franchise.
A. What is the fourth
This cartoon may be set in France, but it follows the Magical Girl Formula to a T; having our heroes transform with the use of accessories, catchphrases and toy-like weapons.
A. What is Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir
In this reverse Isekai, the protagonist must work at a fast food restaurant after trying to conquer the world in a different universe.
A. What is The Devil is a Part-Timer!
This long-running show has been a relevant fandom since its inception back in 2005. It has also “broken” Tumblr on multiple occasions, including during the 2020 elections on nov 5th.
A. What is Supernatural
This graphic novel’s “peachy keen” Death is one of seven siblings known as the Endless.
A. What is Sandman
This was Anikan Skywalker’s Padawan before his full shift to the dark side.
A. Who is Ahsoka Tano
In Sailor Moon, Sailor Mars has many jobs such as sailor scout and this religious vocation.
A. What is A Miko (Shrine Priestess)
This Isekai about people getting trapped inside a video game, where you die if you lose, is considered both the best and the worst of the modern isekai trend. Sometimes it's best to stop after season 1
A. What is Sword Art Online
This website launched in 2007 as a nonprofit designed to monitor and preserve fan culture and works in response to fanfiction.net purging works. Today it is one of the most popular fanfiction websites on the internet.
A. What is Archive of Our Own (Ao3)
This character made Deadpool immortal to get rid of competition for Death’s affection.
A. Who is Thanos
This guiding principle preventing Starfleet from interfering with pre-warp societies, has been broken on many occasions.
A. What is The Prime Directive
In this magical girl anime, our “heroes” face off against “witches”, people who were once magical girls that either fell into despair or failed to purify their soul gems.
A. What is Madoka Magica
This Disney take on the classic isekai genre with a witchy focus was a big success in 2020 but was sadly cut short going into 2022 to the disappointment of fans.
A. What is Owl House
Fanfiction has been a controversial topic for decades, especially with copyright and fair use laws, but this hasn’t always been the case. It was only a few months after the death of this popular 1890s British character before fans were writing and publishing their own fix-it continuations of his story.
A. Who is Sherlock Holmes
This perky grim reaper flies on a floating oar while helping a spirit detective.
A. Who is Botan
Star Wars has had a lot of parody media created about it, including the Mel Brooks movie Spaceballs and this Weird al Yankovic song set to the tune of American Pie
A. What is The Saga Begins
This magical girl’s costumes are made by her best friend who also films all her battles.
A. What is Card Captor Sakura
This was one of the first anime to follow the now extremely popular trope of reincarnating as a villain, too bad our protagonist doesn’t realize she doesn’t have to become a farmer.
A. What is My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
This pop culture wiki “hangs a lampshade” on common storytelling devices.
A. What is TV Tropes
This book series’ Death speaks in all caps and has a fondness for cats.
A. What is Discworld
This Ritual is part of the Vulcan right to Purge all emotion.
A. What is Kolinahr