Junji Ito
Food and Drink
The Life Aquatic
Extraterrestrials
Gangs and Thugs
200

An immortal girl whose beauty drives men to madness is the title character of this series.   

Tomie

200

A swordsman, a locksmith, and an elven spellcaster learn how to make exquisite cuisines out of fantastical creatures in this series.   

Delicious in Dungeon

200

This series is about an inventor and a circus performer pursued by jewel thieves and the Neo-Atlantean forces.

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water

200

Ataru Moroboshi ends up in a love triangle with his girlfriend and this alien invader after an ill-fated game of tag.   

Lum the Invader Girl

200

This former yakuza left the life behind to be a full-time househusband.  

Tatsu

400
The town of Kurouzu-cho is beset by a curse that takes on this shape.

Uzumaki

400

Soma Yukihira attends the Totsuki Culinary Academy and sets out to be the best chef at the academy.  This series is famous for combining fanservice with food.  

Food Wars!

400

The protagonist of this series tries to take over the world but ends up becoming a waitress at the Lemon Beach Shack.  

Squid Girl

400

This alien and his platoon end up living with a human family after they're deserted on planet Earth by the rest of their home planet.  

Sgt. Frog

400

An eccentric cast of criminals pursue an immortality elixir across prohibition-era America.  

Baccano!

600

This series features giant fish with metal legs emerging from the ocean and devouring humans.

Gyo

600

In the One Piece universe, if you eat this, you will gain superhuman powers but you won't be able to swim.  

Devil Fruit

600

In the far future, a spacefaring soldier and his mecha crash-land on a flooded planet Earth and live with the inhabitants on a fleet of ships.     

Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet

600

In the first episode of FLCL, protagonist Naota is run over and smashed on the head by this Vespa-riding, bass guitar-wielding alien investigator.   

Haruko Haruhara

600

The staff of the Oinky Doink Cafe are the lead characters of which anime?

Akiba Maid War

800

One of Ito's most famous stories.  In it, people find human-shaped holes in a mountain and disappear inside them.  What is the title?  

The Enigma of Amigara Fault

800

The protagonist of Cyberpunk Edgerunners only appears in Cyberpunk 2077 as the name of an alcoholic beverage.  What is his name and the name of the drink? 

David Martinez

800

This manga and film follows a teenage girl as she befriends two aquatically-gifted brothers who were raised by dugongs.     

Children of the Sea

800

In an Edo-period Japan conquered by aliens, a samurai named Gintoki and his friends do odd jobs to make ends meet.   

Gintama

800

Italian mob boss Diavolo is the antagonist of which arc of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure? 

Golden Wind

1000

In a particularly disgusting story, a girl and her family are hideously mutated by this substance infesting their barbecue restaurant that also serves as the title.     

Greased

1000

Jet Black and Spike Speigel can't afford the other important ingredient in this meal they have for lunch.  

Bell peppers and Beef

1000

In a post-apocalyptic future, a rogue scientist causes an Earth-covering flood and the only thing that can stop him is this undersea vessel that also serves as the series title.   

Blue Submarine No. 6

1000

This powerful alien is the only opponent so far that took more than one punch for Saitama to defeat.    

Boros

1000
A pair of hired guns called "The Handymen" are the protagonists of this series set in the city of Ergastulum.

Gangsta