Gachas
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Anime-Adjacent Etymology
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The Ghibli Caveman
200

This gacha game's highest monthly revenue reached $103 million in April of 2025. This makes sense, as that month celebrated the game's 2nd Anniversary.

What is Honkai: Star Rail?

200

A. The Apothecary Diaries earned 17 nominations and 5 wins at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2026.

B. One Punch Man Season 3 performed notoriously badly, scoring an average rating of 3.8 across the season. 

C. Astro Boy is widely credited as the series that sparked interest for Japanese cartoons in the West.

D. Naruto holds the record for the anime with the most episodes with a >9.5/10 rating.

What is D? (Attack On Titan holds the record, with 28 episodes over 9.5 rating)

200

The word "anime" comes from this English word, used to describe the strategy that studios employ to make cartoons. 

What is "animation"?

200

Someone who excessively bleeds from their nose when they see someone attractive

Who is Master Roshi, Sanji, Jiraiya, etc.?

200

FUZZY...BEAST....WAIT FOR BUS

NAY BOAR TOTORO

400

This card-based gacha game found great success in its first year, 2025. In translating the IRL card game to mobile, many mechanics were carried over, such as the attachment of Type Energy and the frequent use of coin flips to decide the effects of cards. 

What is Pokémon TCG Pocket?

400

A. Dragon Ball Super was recently renewed for a new season. 

B. One Piece author Eiichiro Oda recently stated that One Piece is "less than 6 months from ending". 

C. The HunterXHunter manga officially returned from its hiatus in June of this year.

D. The My Hero Academia anime started airing in April 2016.

What is B? (It will continue for at least four more years)

400

This Japanese term translates to "whimsical (or random) pictures" in English, and represents the form of media that many Japanese IPs start out as. 

What is "manga"?

400

Someone who has participated in some form of tournament or competition arc

Who is Goku, Gon Freecs, Izuku Midoriya, etc.?

400

GIRL.....BROOM. GIRL..BROOM.... FLY

KEYKEY DELIVERY

600

In Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle, Categories are used to sort and distinguish characters for team building. One example is the "Wicked Bloodline" Category, which would be used to look for this character and the members of their family. 

Who is Frieza?

600

A. Pokémon won the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Cartoon in the year 2000. 

B. Spirited Away was the first anime movie to win an Academy Award. 

C. Re:Zero holds the record for highest number of industry-recognized awards won.

D. Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle is the highest earning anime movie of all time.

What is A? (Rugrats won)

600

An "OVA" is an episode/episodes of an anime that is released directly to DVD or home video instead of being aired on TV first. What does OVA stand for?

What is "Original Video Animation"?

600

An anthropomorphic animal, that talks and walks around like a human being

Who is Legoshi, Tony Tony Chopper, Hello Kitty, etc.?

600

FISH....FISH..THAT IT. FISH.

NEMO

800

In Genshin Impact, if you wanted to purchase 9,760 Genesis Crystals, how much would it cost you in USD (not including tax)?

What is $150?

800

A. The most expensive trading card ever sold was a Pokémon card, for $16.49 million. 

B. Exactly one Pokémon has the typing of Ice/Ghost.

C. Neither Ash Ketchum nor Team Rocket's Jessie and James have ever appeared in any of the Pokémon video games.

D. The design philosophy for the Ultra Beasts was to intentionally disregard the typical rules for designing Pokémon.

What is C? (Jessie and James appear in Pokémon: Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee)

800

This iconic Japanese character's name comes from the Japanese words for "gorilla" and "whale", which makes little sense given this character's reptilian appearance. 

Who is Godzilla?

800

A character that acts rude, yet has a warm and loving demeanor on the inside (Tsundere)

Who is Kaguya Shinomiya, Asuka Langley-Soryu, Taiga Aisaka, etc.?

800

OLD....WOLVES...FRIENDS :) 

MAMANOKE

1000

Performing and failing "rolls" on Gacha games has been proven to give players the "false notion that if an equal and independent probable outcome hasn't happened yet, it is more likely to happen in the future". This quoted phenomenon is also known as this variety of logical fallacy. 

What is the Gambler's fallacy?

1000

A. There are multiple Dragon Ball Z villains named after fruits. 

B. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is the highest-rated anime based on a video game.

C. The extreme Christian imagery in Neon Genesis Evangelion was chosen not to make a religious statement, but to make the show stand out to the Japanese audience. 

D. The towns in Germany that the cities in Attack on Titan were based on have been heavily vandalized by tourists who are fans of the series. 

What is B? (Steins;Gate is the highest rated video game adaptation, with a 9.1 on IMDB)

1000

The word "Nendoroid", a brand of mini video game and anime figurines, comes from the English word "android" and the Japanese word "nendo", which translates to this type of building material in English. 

What is clay?

1000

Someone that has been seen partaking in a proper beach episode

Who is Sailor Moon, Korosensei, Azula, etc.?

1000

BAT....MAN...NOW....BIRD..MAN? HELP YOUNG MAN

BOY AND HERRING