Quiz: Real Manga or Made-Up? (Vol. 2)

Christine Ro

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Christine writes about books for Literary Hub, VICE, and the Ploughshares blog. She occasionally writes about other topics, because someone once told her (although it seemed implausible) that there’s life outside of books. Blog: https://www.christinero.com

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Manga series can have some wacky premises…and that’s part of their charm. This quiz tests whether you can separate the wow-these-actually-exist books from the hmm-why-don’t-these-exist-yet ones. (Vol. 1 of this quiz series can be accessed here.)

The real manga titles appear below the quiz.

1. Gantz 

2. Sailor Moon 

3. Fake, unfortunately

4. Kitaro 

5. Haganai: I Don’t Have Many Friends 

6. Satan’s Secretary 

7. Fake. This is actually the plot of the excellent sci-fi film Colossal.

8. Noragami: Stray God