Quiz answers!

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The statements are in the same order they're in for the quizzes - alphabetic. :)


A character showing up suddenly in a banana suit. -- Gravitation

A disease that kills people by having their various limbs or head randomly fall off. -- Planet Ladder

A head being impaled with a sharp object, but missing the brain due to its diminished size. -- Dragon Half

A man that fights with a chainsaw sword. -- Zombie Powder (I think there's a zanpakuto in Bleach somewhere that's kinda saw-like, so I'd vaguely accept it, but Zombie Powder is the real answer.)

A necklace that throws a demon to the ground, face first, on command. -- Inu-Yasha

A sword that ejects exploding bugs. -- D. Grey-man

A warrior uses a nail from the crucifixion of Jesus to transform into a crown of thorns monster. -- Hellsing

After his hand is cut off, man sharpens his own arm bones so he can use them to stab the man who took his hand. -- Blade of the Immortal

Alternative theory for the extinction of dinosaurs: a sports move was responsible. -- Prince of Tennis PROOF!

Character has an iron cross nailed over his heart on his chest, carved with the date of another character's reincarnation. -- Immortal Rain

Cradling the decapitated head of your beloved under a giant metal cross after her brother and your best friend has suddenly turned evil, strapped you to the cross with wires, pierced your hand with glass and then licked the blood off your neck. -- X

Death-dealing parrot! Victorian loligoth kimono! 35-year-old circus performer trapped in the body of a child! -- Cain Saga/Godchild

Getting flushed down the toilet into another world -- Kyou Kara Maoh

Giant flying walrus. -- Wolf's Rain

Giant possessed talking robot chicken. -- Planet Ladder

Giant talking soldier duck. -- Suikoden III

Girl finds prince from parallel universe who changes age in the dark. -- Meripuri

Girl meets boy, girl eats boy, girl reguritages boy, girl eats boy's bird. Boy hates girl. Girl feels no remorse whatsoever. -- Hale + Guu

Highschool students write prizewinning mystery novel, man claiming to be main character shows up and solves crimes. -- Kamen Tantei

Main character has had a shapeshifting alien take over his hand. -- Parasyte

Man sews heads of beautiful women to his shoulders. -- Blade of the Immortal

Man takes up revenge for the death of his sister and periodically becomes possessed by her spirit and transforms into her. Loosely based on a real historical figure, a famous cross-dresser. -- Le Chevelier D'Eon

Men that turn into women's clothing. -- Pretear

Oda Nobunaga: Demon King -- Samurai Deeper Kyo

Possessed cockatiel. -- Bleach

Rampaging demonic mushrooms. -- Inu-Yasha

Removing shrapnel from a character's brain using a centrifuge -- Gatchaman

Sand pandas. -- Kyou Kara Maoh

Shakespearean heroine crossdresses as a superhero. -- Romeo x Juliet

Small undead crybaby toddler who heals injuries by throwing up on them. -- Bleach

Talking hand puppet on boy's hand that claims it's an alien and helps solve crimes and do errands for the dead. -- Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service

Talking hand puppet on girl's hand helps girl gain acceptance to elite club. -- Best Student Council

The main character does not truly see herself as 'female' or 'male', speaks quietly and carries a nice gun, and has a talkative motorcycle. -- Kino's Journeys

This series shows the same set of characters dying in horrifying and terrible ways in several different arcs, including, quite famously, a small girl impaling her own head several times on a kitchen knife. -- Higarashi

Tough guy wakes up to find girl attached to his hand -- Midori no Hibi

Tricking your sister so she thinks she is a vampire prostitute -- Cain Saga/Godchild

Twelve-year-old elite ninjas. -- OH WAIT. EVERY SHOUNEN SERIES EVAR.

When bug-like beings that exist at the root of life intersect with human beings, strange things happen, like voices causing objects and living beings to rust, children being unable to tolerate light or unable to hear sound, and plants giving birth to human babies. -- Mushishi

Comments

[tprjones.livejournal.com]

I knew two of those!

Well, I knew one and guessed right on another one.

Yay!

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

... how did I miss that bit of Hellsing?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming it's in book 8, which has just come out. :) (I haven't got it yet and am dying to see it.)

[chibi-nasu.livejournal.com]

I didn't do *too* badly.

And yay! You posted the link to my proof xD

[tokyoghoststory.livejournal.com]

now i gotta read that corpse delivery whatever

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It is a really fucking awesome series. I've enver seen it in the store, had to get it from Amazon. 3 volumes out so far. The basic story is a group of kids from a Buddhist college, one a hacker, one an embalmer, one the one with the alien puppet, one a dowser, and one that can talk to the dead, get together and form a company to earn money. They go around, find dead bodies, talk to them and find out what they want, then do it so the dead can rest in peace. :)

[tokyoghoststory.livejournal.com]

mhmm bn carries them (my new workplace!) so i'll have to order the first one and peep into it. i'm sure i'll like it (and the 30% discount won't hurt at all)


this was awesome, if only for that. haha

[snarp]

Somehow Nekozawa didn't make it into your hand-things litany. FIX IT RIGHT NOW

I wish the accepted name was "La Chevaliere d'Eon" instead of "Le Chevalier d'Eon." It's rude. I kind of have a problem with "la papesse Jeanne," too. (...I just realized this, there's got to be manga out there about Pope Joan. And I am going to find it.)

[octopedingenue]

3-volume series ZING! Although it is actually about a girl who has visions of Joan, so she crossdresses as a boy for great justice and goes off to save France. But it's in color!

[snarp]

Nooo, because that's Joan of Arc, not Pope Joan. And there is also another Joan of Arc manga. It is extremely historically accurate and theologically thoughtful, by which I mean that Joan of Arc is a master thief and angels fulfill all the same divine functions as Pokemon.

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

...97.5% correct.

*weeps in a corner*

[sparkylibrarian.livejournal.com]

There was a perfect confluence of cracktasticness on my friendslist today. To wit: Shaenon Garrity's OMF (http://shaenon.livejournal.com/45855.html#cutid1).

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

How could I have forgotten the flying walrus? And I love how I knew X, even though I've never watched the show.