Anime & Manga History
This website, created by UC Berkeley students in 2006, is widely considered to be the first major official website for streaming anime and Japanese animation.
What is Crunchyroll?
"Wado Ichimonji"
Who is Roronoa Zoro?
This hero shooter video game received backlash after revealing character skins for a Cowboy Bebop collaboration, the main critique being that the skins barely looked like the characters from the anime. In hindsight, at least they gave the cowboy character the Spike Spiegel skin.
What is Overwatch (2)?
This Nintendo character was named after Nintendo of America's first office landlord, who bore a striking resemblance to the character.
Who is Mario?
In 2021, this manga became the first in history to have 100 different volumes reach 1 million copies sold each. The anime for this series started airing in 1999, and recently finished its first season.
What is One Piece?
"Zangetsu"
Who is Ichigo Kurosaki?
During a 2013 Domino's Pizza promotion, scanning your pizza box using a special app would utilize augmented reality to allow customers to take pictures with and view a special concert featuring this iconic character.
Who is Hatsune Miku?
This device, released in 1995, is Nintendo's worst selling console in its history. Some critiques of this console are that it causes nausea, has poor ergonomics, and was not truly portable.
What is the Virtual Boy?
In a very rare case, this anime literally broke the internet in 2017. With the release of episodes 109 and 129 of this anime, multiple streaming sites, piracy sites, and even adult video sites completely crashed due to website traffic from users trying to find the episodes.
What is Dragon Ball Super?
"Dragon Slayer"
Who is Guts?
This anime is not one to shy away from an odd collaboration, as official razors, buckets, body sprays, credit cards, Tamagotchis (featuring Angels from the series), and many more products exist which include the series' characters.
What is Neon Genesis Evangelion?
Established in 1889, founder of Nintendo Fusajiro Yamauchi established the company to originally sell this type of product instead of video games.
What are playing cards?
A common theme of anime films in the years following World War II was the consequences that war may have on innocent people. One example would be this 1988 Studio Ghibli film.
What is Grave of the Fireflies?
"Inverted Spear of Heaven"
Who is Toji Fushiguro?
To celebrate her 50th anniversary, Hello Kitty launched a collaboration with this Puerto Rican/Filipino musician in early 2024. That same year, this musician completed a successful "Best Of" tour in Japan which included a Hello Kitty pop-up shop and café.
Who is Bruno Mars?
This late actor professed his love for Nintendo by naming his daughter Zelda, after the iconic princess from the Legend of Zelda series.
Who is Robin Williams?
On March 19th, 2008, this character was appointed as Japan's first "anime ambassador" by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This character was chosen due to their popularity across Asia and their series' depiction of Japanese lifestyle and customs.
Who is Doraemon?
"Elucidator"
Who is Kirito?
Given his cleanliness, it only makes sense that the Japanese brand "Attack" plastered Attack on Titan's Levi Ackermann all over bottles of this variety of cleaning agent in 2018.
What is laundry detergent?
This year was denoted as the "Year of Luigi" for Nintendo, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his debut.
What is 2013?
What is Battleship?