Boy or Girl Anime Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. Princess Knight presents Sapphire as a prince within the kingdom. Which description best matches the central premise?
Sapphire is a girl raised publicly as a prince
Sapphire is an artificial being assigned to rule
Sapphire is a boy raised as a princess
Sapphire’s identity is permanently left unspecified
2. How is Kurapika from Hunter × Hunter canonically identified?
As a girl from Meteor City
As a genderless Chimera Ant
As a boy and later young man from the Kurta Clan
As an identity that the series never addresses
3. Which child in The Promised Neverland is a girl?
Phil
Norman
Ray
Emma
4. A canonically male anime character is voiced by a woman in the original Japanese cast. What follows from that casting choice?
The character is canonically a girl
Nothing about the character’s canonical gender changes; cross-gender voice casting is common in animation
The casting proves the character’s identity is unspecified
The character’s gender changes between spoken and silent scenes
5. In Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, which girl serves as the student council secretary?
Chika Fujiwara
Miyuki Shirogane
Tsubasa Tanuma
Yu Ishigami
6. In Demon Slayer, which boy is known for wearing a boar’s head mask while having unexpectedly delicate facial features?
Inosuke Hashibira
Zenitsu Agatsuma
Tanjiro Kamado
Genya Shinazugawa
7. In Ouran High School Host Club, the club initially reads Haruhi Fujioka as a boy because of Haruhi’s uniform and appearance. What does the story establish?
Haruhi is a boy secretly posing as a girl
Haruhi’s identity is never addressed in the story
Haruhi is a girl who is relatively unconcerned with gendered presentation
Haruhi is a supernatural character without a human identity
8. You are researching an unfamiliar anime character whose appearance is deliberately androgynous. Which evidence is most reliable for a canon-based quiz answer?
The result of an informal fandom poll
The length of the character’s hair
The gender of the Japanese voice actor
The character’s self-identification in the story supported by an official profile
9. One anime character has short hair and practical clothing; another has long hair and decorative clothing. Without canon information, what can you reliably determine about them?
The short-haired character is a boy
Their canonical genders cannot be determined from those design choices alone
The long-haired character is a girl
They must be disguising themselves as each other
10. A manga adaptation is described as shōnen anime. What can you most safely conclude from that label alone?
Every important character is a boy
The protagonist must be male
It cannot include romance or female heroes
Its traditional target demographic is adolescent boys
11. A shōjo anime has a boy as its main protagonist. What is the best interpretation?
The series has been assigned the wrong label
Shōjo describes a traditional audience category, not a requirement that the protagonist be a girl
The protagonist must later be revealed as a girl
A shōjo series cannot retain that label with a male lead
12. Which My Hero Academia Class 1-A student is a girl?
Tenya Iida
Eijiro Kirishima
Fumikage Tokoyami
Tsuyu Asui
13. In Naruto, what does Haku explicitly tell Naruto about himself?
He is Naruto’s female cousin
He is a boy
He is using a transformation to appear male
He has no stated gender in the canon
14. Which Japanese fandom term conventionally refers to a beautiful or attractive young male character?
Seinen
Bishōjo
Bishōnen
Josei
15. In Sailor Moon, which male character is the civilian identity of Tuxedo Mask?
Motoki Furuhata
Artemis
Mamoru Chiba
Helios
16. In Fullmetal Alchemist, which character is Edward Elric’s younger brother, whose soul is bound to a suit of armor?
Alphonse Elric
Roy Mustang
Maes Hughes
Van Hohenheim