1. Finals

2. The Works
Dries Clockwise
Written Round
Dries Anti-Clockwise

3. Clockwise Dries
+10/-10 on the pounce
+10 on bounce
No partial pounce.

4. Q1.
 Akira is a 1988 science fiction anime film which depicts a dystopian,
cyberpunk-based future. It is set against the backdrop of something,
which is now an assured certainty with several commentators claiming
that Akira had predicted it correctly. In a trailer for the film, a sign outside
a particular site reads: “147 Days Until the ______ ________.” Under that, it
reads, “With everyone’s effort, let’s make this a success.”
 What did Akira predict, which became a reality on September 7th, 2013?"

5. And the answer is…

6. Tokyo hosting the 2020 Olympic Games

7. Q2.
 Coming out more than two decades later,
Astra Force can be considered to be the
second coming of X, a 1980’s comic series
featuring Y.
 ID X and Y.

9. And the answer is…

10. X – Supremo
Y- Amitabh Bachchan

11. Q3.
 A terrible car accident badly injured X in 1961 as he was driving along the
Sunset Boulevard. X was almost killed and slipped into a coma. His wife
and son spent two weeks at his bedside trying to revive him. They got
no response. One day, one of the neurologists walked into the room and
tried something completely new. He went to X's bed, and asked “____
_____, how are you doing today?" There was a pause as everyone shook
their head disparagingly. Then came the response anyone would
recognize. "Myeeeh. What's up doc?“
 ID X and FITB.

12. And the answer is…

13. X – Mel Blanc
Blank – Bugs Bunny

14. Q4.
One of Hollywood's most influential action movies, X,
borrowed heavily from the cyberpunk anime feature, Y. In fact
even when it was pitched, the directors showed Y to Producer
Joel Silver, saying "We want to do a live action version of that".
The influences are evident from the green typography to
ports at the back of human's necks.
ID X&Y

15. And the answer is…

16. X – The Matrix
Y- Ghost in the Shell

17. Q5. Kim Possible parodying what?
 http://www.nospoiler.com/y/CRykCGs9WxU

18. And the answer is…

19. F.R.I.E.N.D.S

20. Q6.
Makoto Shinkai is a film-maker who is known for the beautiful
art in his animated movies. One of his movies, titled X, tells
the story of two people who fall in love but are not fated to be
together. According to this movie, X is the speed at which the
Sakura leaves fall from the tree and X is also the speed at
which the two main leads in the movie are drifting apart.
What is X?

21. And the answer is…

22. 5 Centimeters per Second

23. Q7.
 X claims to be a soldier from the year 2036, a member of the Florida
Fighting Diamondbacks Military. He was sent in 1975 to retrieve an IBM
PC which according to him was necessary to solve a big problem in the
future. However, he took a detour and ended up in year 2000 for
"personal reasons".
 He made various random predictions about the future, some of them
quite specific in nature. However none of them came out to be true. Yet,
due to the widespread media attention he received, X has been
mentioned in pop culture many times, most notably in a 2011 Anime.
 ID X and the Anime.

24. And the answer is…

25. X – John Titor
Anime – Steins;Gate

26. Q8.
According to Julius Schwartz, it was inspired by acrobats,
wrestlers, gymnasts and strongmen of the 1930’s, who were
icons of incredible strength and athleticism.
Another reason is that paper quality was initially shoddy and
printing technology primitive, necessitating the use of sharp,
clean, well defined edges.
It was thus a way for artists to quickly and easily add detail to
the lower half of what they were drawing.
These are possible origins of which often ridiculed motif?

27. And the answer is…

28. Superheroes wearing their underpants
outside.

29. Written Round

30. Theme :- Guitar Medley of Anime Themes
 12 anime themes
 +4 for each.
 Order doesn’t matter.
 +12 bonus for getting more than 8, +24 bonus for all 12.

31.  http://www.nospoiler.com/y/-PQJojg62aQ

32. And the answer is…

33. I don’t trust Ayush…

34. Answers
 Attack on Titan
 Tokyo Ghoul
 Digimon Adventures
 Noragami
 Death Note
 Code Geass
 FLCL
 Naruto Shippuden
 One Piece
 Soul Eater
 Cowboy Bebop
 Mirai Nikkit (Future Diary)

35. Anti-Clockwise Dries
+10/-10 on the pounce
+10 on bounce
No partial pounce.

36. Q9.
 This is Oscar winning actress Hattie McDaniel.
 She was revealed to be the inspiration for the
character of Mammy Two Shoes, a partially
______ character in X.
 Mammy’s appearances have often been edited
out of reruns of X, as they fit an archetype of a
heavyset African-American woman, which is
now regarded as racist.
 X?

37. And the answer is…

38. X – Tom and Jerry

39. Q10.
The _________ principle is the tendency in films, cartoons and
television series to include one stereotypical female character
in an all-male ensemble. Princess Leia, Penny in The Big Bang
Theory, Elaine in Seinfeld, Kanga in Winnie the Pooh, April in
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and of course _________, the
little Phyrgian-cap-dorning Belgian comic character, whom
the principle is named after.

40. And the answer is…

41. Smurfette

42. Q11. X & Y?
 X is the main character of the eponymous anime X, loosely translated to Bean Bun Boy
( because X’s head is made of bread). It is one of the most popular anime series
amongst young children in Japan and has been on air since 1988. Bandai’s research in
2011 found X to be the most popular fictional character among people of ages 0 to 12
in Japan for 10 consecutive years. In 2009, Guinness verified X to have the highest
number of characters in an animated franchise with 1768 characters in the first 980
episodes. X is a superhero and a symbol of justice for the town and his weaknesses are
water & anything dirty. His super attacks are punch and kick ( with stronger variants of
both ).
 X is said to have inspired the design of Y - which is a play on the name X. Y is a viral
webcomic (surpassing 7.9 million hits in 2012) and later, manga and anime. The series
was nominated for an Eisner award in 2015. Y is also about a superhero, who is bored
of his powers, in a world full of strange monsters that mysteriously appear and cause
disaster.

43. And the answer is…

44. X – Anpanman
Y – One Punch Man (Wanpanman in Japanese)

45. Q12.
 When the creator of this character first saw
this statue, he suggested a seemingly
insignificant change to distinguish it from
most other statues.
 He felt that the change would make it a
better representation of everything this
character stood for, and its everyday trials
and tribulations.
 What change?

46. And the answer is…

47. The smooth granite pedestal was replaced
by one made of ordinary rock.

48. Q13.
 According to X’s creator Vincent Connare, John Costanza’s lettering on the
Watchmen series was his primary inspiration.
 Over the years, X has been the subject of widespread contempt, owing to its
incongruous use for writing on serious subjects.
 According to Dave Gibbons, the illustrator behind Watchmen, "I think what he
came up with was vastly inferior, certainly to John Costanza's lettering and I
think also to mine. And I'd have much rather they'd just come to John or me
and said: "Look, can you do some hand lettering for us?". I'm sure we would
have done it really, really cheaply and I'm sure that what's out there would look
a lot cleaner and a lot better.”
 What is X?

50. And the answer is…

51. Comic Sans MS

52. Q14. The following is a short description of the
main characters of SpongeBob Squarepants.
 Patrick: Lays under a rock all the time and doesn't really do anything.
 Squidward: Hates his life, hates SpongeBob, and is pretty much angry most of the time.
 Mr. Krabs: Rich and obsessed with money. Over the series he makes various plans to earn more
money, and some of the times, ends up losing them.
 Plankton: Always had a dislike for Mr. Krabs because of the fact that his restaurant isn't as successful
as "The Krusty Krab". Even tries to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula.
 Gary: Part of a running gag in the series, where different characters keep reminding SpongeBob
that he's "gotta go feed Gary". Even ran away at a time when SpongeBob forgot to feed him
 Sandy: Takes joy/satisfaction on the fact that she's from Texas, and unlike others she's a land
mammal. Even tried to prove that land critters are better than sea critters.
 SpongeBob: Always overeager to do good and help people. Behaves kindly to everyone around
him, even if they don't.

53. Give X and name the anime.
These descriptions are the reason for a popular fan theory
which states that the main characters of SpongeBob
Squarepants are representations of X.
The group of antagonists in a popular anime series are also
named on the basis of X. They also posses the same
characteristics as of those given in the previous slide, albeit on
an extreme level.

54. And the answer is…

55. X: Seven Deadly Sins from the Bible
Anime: Fullmetal Alchemist (Brotherhood)

56. Q15. Connect (Image in the next slide)

58. And the answer is…

59. Inspirations for The Kingdom Palaces in
Avatar/Legend of Korra

60. Q16.
 Before Bob the Builder could be aired in Japan, his
hands had to be altered to have five fingers instead
of the usual four.
 Similar treatment was meted out to other foreign
cartoon characters, such as Postman Pat.
 This was done because the authorities thought the
sight of hands with 4 digits would be alarming to
Japanese children, for a very particular reason.
 What reason?

61. And the answer is…

62. Because the Yakuza cut-off their pinkies as
punishment or as an induction ritual