Anime Trivia [Please read 1st post before posting questions]

[dwchang]

Nope, sorry Jim. I'm actually noy going to post the answer to it (if anyone really wants to know, PM me) because in thinking about it after posting it, it's something of a rather large spoiler, and I want to encourage people to watch the series, not give major plot points away :p

And soooooo...... as the inaugural question for the reborn Anime Trivia thread, something a bit different.

Who is this young woman cosplaying as, and what series is the character from? (sorry about the dark image, but I dropped the quality to get it to load faster)

Haha that's a picture from the Otakon Dealer's room. Cool, I was like 10 feet away .

BTW it appears your hosting is working. Yay!

[Ashyukun]

Yup- it was taken Sunday just minutes before they closed it down to pack up and go home. She was selling the pokute, and I couldn't resist buying one (they're one of the most amusing creatures I've seen in anime- I highly recommend to anyone to track down and watch Jungle wa Itsume Hale nochi Guu).

Still Savia's question.

[Savia]

Right, back from the horrible traffic assosciated with Reading Festival (and that's pronounced Redding, as in the place ).

Damn, Weda! I knew it was in there somewhere. By the way, Clive always makes me think of when Tsuzuki was pretending to be the school doctor in the Devil's Trill arc of Yami no Matsuei

Anyway, here's a hard one for y'all:

What relation do the mangas Marmalade Boy, Sailor Moon and Paradise Kiss have (other than being shoujo manga)?

As I'm going to be away over the weekend spending more money than is strictly necessary on Magic cards at Grand Prix London, I'll PM Ashyukun (as the previous poster with priority) with my answer and a hint if people are stuck, and if noone gets it within the mandatory 24 hour period then Ashyukun can have another crack at it in my place.

[CliffD]

Anyway, here's a hard one for y'all:

What relation do the mangas Marmalade Boy, Sailor Moon and Paradise Kiss have (other than being shoujo manga)?

I'm probably WAY off; hell, I might even be incorrect in my answer, but if I may take a guess (not 100% certain about MB and Paradise Kiss, although I KNOW they were in the same publication):

Were all three published in the magazine Nakayoshi?

[Ashyukun]

That's not the answer Savia left with me, but I was instructed to accept any reasonable answers- and from my searching around on the internet, it would appear that you are right- all three were published in <i>Nakayoshi</i>. So, I'll go ahead and accept that, since while not <b>the</b> answer, it is a correct answer.

Your question, ClifD.

[CliffD]

Hey, I've still got them!

In the Ghibli feature films that have been made so far, there are at least THREE songs (Note that I'm not technically lying; each feature film has LOTS of songs). But these three songs, all with (for the most part) Japanese lyrics, are notable because they were originally sung (and popularized -- or at least made recognizable) in ENGLISH!

Identify TWO of them. What I'm looking for is (not necessarily in this order): 1) the Name of the Song (either the Japanese title or the original English name), 2) the Name of the Ghibli film the song's used in, and 3) the Name of the performer of the original English track who popularized the song (or, at least, made it recognizable).

[Ashyukun]

I can answer this far too quickly and easily, so I'll pass on this one for now. I rather like the question though- I pretty much fell out of my seat when I realized that they were actually singing Japanese-translated lyrics to one of the songs in question.

[CliffD]

Just a little over 3 hours remaining before the 24-hour limit on this question. Still awaiting an answer.

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[InSaNe KeYbLaDeR]

Nope, sorry Jim. I'm actually noy going to post the answer to it (if anyone really wants to know, PM me) because in thinking about it after posting it, it's something of a rather large spoiler, and I want to encourage people to watch the series, not give major plot points away :p

And soooooo...... as the inaugural question for the reborn Anime Trivia thread, something a bit different.

Who is this young woman cosplaying as, and what series is the character from? (sorry about the dark image, but I dropped the quality to get it to load faster)

Haha that's a picture from the Otakon Dealer's room. Cool, I was like 10 feet away .

BTW it appears your hosting is working. Yay!

DWCHANG!!!!!! I LOVE YOU SEMPAI!!!!!!

[Ashyukun]

In the Ghibli feature films that have been made so far, there are at least THREE songs (Note that I'm not technically lying; each feature film has LOTS of songs). But these three songs, all with (for the most part) Japanese lyrics, are notable because they were originally sung (and popularized -- or at least made recognizable) in ENGLISH!

Identify TWO of them. What I'm looking for is (not necessarily in this order): 1) the Name of the Song (either the Japanese title or the original English name), 2) the Name of the Ghibli film the song's used in, and 3) the Name of the performer of the original English track who popularized the song (or, at least, made it recognizable).

OK, seeing as how it appears noone else is going to answer this...

1. Country Road(s), originally (I believe) by John Denver. Sung numerous times throughout "Mimi o Sumaseba", commonly known as "Whisper of the Heart". Two Japanese versions are used in the movie- a fairly literal translation of the lyrics, and a joking translation entitled "Concrete Road", sung by the seiyuu for several of the main characters. Generally useless trivia, Olivia Newton John sings the version at the beginning of the movie, which confused the hell out of us when we first got a fansub tape of this movie- we knew it was really new, but thought somehow we'd gotten an English dub of the movie

2. The Rose, sung or at least popularized by Bette Midler. An exceptionally beautiful Japanese rendition of this song appears at the end of "Omoide Poroporo", commonly known as "Only Yesterday", sung by Miyako Harumi if my research is correct.

Truth told, I don't off the top of my head know what the third is- I'd definitely like you to tell us what it is, CliffD.

Let's see if I can't come up with one someone new can answer.

In <i>City Hunter</i>, Umibozu is pretty much fearless and unfazed by anything that gets thrown at him- with one noteable exception (actually, technically there are to, I'm looking for the physical one). What is that exception?